BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

This is not the time to ignore Jesus’ words by saying things like, “I’m just so sick. I’m so worried.” When you say things like that, you’re not agreeing with heaven—you’re agreeing with torment and trouble. You’re opening the door for those things to manifest in your life. Jesus specifically told us not to do that. He said, “See that you be not troubled.” That wasn’t just some kind of Sunday school suggestion! It was a command from the Son of the living God instructing His disciples who would live in the last days. It was Jesus Himself speaking personally and emphatically to us! Take Your Heritage Now more than ever before, we must pay attention to His instructions. We must obey that command, take hold of The WORD of God and refuse to let go of it. We must be like the writer of Psalm 119 who said: “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments…. The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart” (verses 105-106, 110-111). It’s not enough for us to just lie back and say, “Well, if it’s God’s will for me to have victory, I guess He’ll just give it to me. If it’s His will for me to be healed, He’ll just heal me.” No! It is His will. He did give it to you. By His stripes you were healed. Now you must take God’s WORD as your heritage. You have to aggressively pursue it and get it in your heart and mouth. You have to fight off every unbelieving devil and every troublesome circumstance that comes to steal that WORD and say, “Bless God, I have taken God’s promise as my heritage. It’s my future. It’s my life. I refuse to be troubled by the temporary troubles of this world. They’ll pass away, but God’s WORD will never pass away. God upholds all things by The WORD of His power and that WORD will come to pass in my life!” Then just stay with The WORD all the way to the end. No matter what happens around you, don’t turn back. Don’t change. Fear not. Only believe. And you will see your way through these troubled times in triumph as the end-time overcomer God destined you to be. V ******************************************** ******************************************** ******************************************** These Amazing Days by Dennis Burke The days we live in are amazing! These days are not unlike the days of John the Baptist. His were days of anxiety because of political unrest, but they were also days of expectation because of Israel’s hope of deliverance. Little did the people realize that their hope was on the brink of fulfillment when John the Baptist showed up. We are introduced to John the Baptist, and God’s plan for him, in Luke 1:14-17, when the angel of the Lord appeared to Zacharias, John’s father, and made the following announcement: "And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.... He will also go before Him (referring to Jesus) in the spirit and power of Elijah, “to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,” and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord" ("New King James Version"). Ready On the Inside When John’s ministry began, the nation was in a dark place, living under the consequences of weak leadership and the rule of another nation. Israel was in need of her Savior—the Savior they had been anticipating for centuries. God anointed John to “make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” John’s God-ordained job was to turn the nation’s attention back to the Lord and get them ready to realize their hope. BVOV : 35

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