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We still have light today, thousands of years later, because God’s words are eternal. Once they come out of His mouth, they’re like a blood-sworn oath. They’re true forever. Hebrews 4:12 says, “The Word that God speaks is alive and full of power…active, operative, energizing, and effective” ("AMPC"), and it never loses that power. So, when we get His words on the inside of us in such abundance that they come out of our mouths by faith, they work for us just like they do for Him. They change our circumstances. They change our relationships. They drive sickness out of our bodies. They overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in our lives. Ken and I can testify to this! When we first heard about living by faith in God’s Word, we were in pitiful shape. Financially broke and in debt, we’d done everything we knew to make the world’s system work for us and had failed miserably. As soon as we got on God’s system, however, things started to change. We started believing and saying what Jesus says about us in the Bible, and even before anything changed outwardly, on the inside we began to see ourselves with our needs met. We replaced what had been in our hearts, minds and mouths with what the Word says belongs to us. So we began to envision ourselves moving out of that dumpy, little house we were living in and moving into something better. With the eye of faith, we saw ourselves driving a car that wouldn’t quit on us, instead of driving an old clunker. It didn’t happen overnight, but in a surprisingly short span of time, what we’d seen in our hearts became a physical reality. We literally saw, in the natural, the Word come to pass in our lives. Praise God, we’ve come a long way since those early days! Back then, we were believing for food on our table and money to pay the light bill; now we’re believing for millions of dollars to broadcast the gospel around the world. Yet we’re still doing it the same way—by believing, speaking and obeying God’s Word. That’s God’s system, and it always works. No matter what challenges you may be facing or what your situation, if you put God first and do things His way, He can get you whatever you need. He isn’t confined by natural constraints like the world is. His ways are supernatural. What the world sees as impossible, He is well able to do. Isaiah 55:8-11 says: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." BVOV : 29