BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

No matter what situation you may be facing, if you’ll go to God’s Word in faith, the Word will become what you need. The Word Is Alive How can God’s Word become one thing for one person and something else for another? Because it is alive! For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart (Hebrews 4:12, AMPC). The Word of God is full of life. Full! Therefore, it administers life wherever it is applied. It doesn’t matter how dark and deadly your circumstances may be. There is enough life in God’s Word to totally overwhelm all the death that the world, the devil or circumstances can bring you. First Peter 1:23 says the Word is incorruptible seed which liveth and abideth forever! For example, every seed has within it all the DNA required to produce the kind of seed it is. If it’s a peach seed, all that is required to be a peach tree is in the seed. In the same way, the Word of God has the supernatural life within it to fulfill the promises of God in your life. You plant it in your heart as a seed, but when it comes up, it produces salvation, prosperity, healing, deliverance—whatever God has said belongs to you! But when the Word comes out of your mouth, in faith, it will be the final word. When you speak and believe God’s Word about healing, you’ll be healed. If it’s His Word about prosperity, you’ll be prosperous. If it’s His Word about deliverance, you’ll be delivered. God has given you His contract. When you do your part by believing, speaking and acting with a heart full of faith, God’s Word will come to pass. No circumstance on earth and no demon in hell can stop it. So forget the past failures and press into a new level of confidence once and for all. God is not a liar. People will lie. People will change. They’ll say one thing today and another tomorrow. People will often fail to keep their promises. But God is the same yesterday, today and forever—and He keeps His Word. Always. Every time. Without fail. He’s the One to trust. V Terri Copeland Pearsons, the eldest daughter of Kenneth Copeland, is chief of staff of Kenneth Copeland Ministries and president of Kenneth Copeland Bible College™. Along with her husband, George Pearsons, she is also senior pastor of Eagle Mountain International Church at KCM in Fort Worth. ****************************************** ****************************************** ****************************************** Jesus: The Final Sacrificial Lamb by Pastor George Pearsons Last year, I was praying about the message I wanted to share at Christmas with the congregation at Eagle Mountain International Church. I’ve preached a lot of Christmas services, and I didn’t want to preach another traditional message. I wanted fresh revelation. I had been praying and asking The LORD to “show me something about the birth of Jesus that I haven’t seen before.” The answer came one day as my wife, Terri, and I were riding in the car, listening to Christmas music our church had produced. A song Terri had written called “Ode to the Holy Child”* came on. Before the music started, a brief introduction played where Terri explained the song’s inspiration and its meaning. I was hanging on every word. I went home, typed out the words from her introduction and began to study them. Those words eventually became the inspiration for the Christmas message I had asked The LORD for, and it’s the message I want to convey in this article. _____________________________ *Words and music by Terri Pearsons and Geoff Bowman 1999 TopCat Productions _____________________________ BVOV : 23

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