BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

As Keith Moore says, “We can be ignorant and get healed” (miraculously through the gifts of the Holy Spirit). “But if we want to live healed and in the continual BLESSING of God, we must know some things.” We must learn to think like God thinks and cooperate with Him. His desire is for us to “prosper in all things and be in health,” but we can only do that as our “soul prospers” (3 John 2, "New King James Version"). And our soul can only prosper to the degree we know God’s thoughts and ways, because His thoughts and ways are right. If we’re not thinking and acting like He says, we’re wrong, and that puts us out of alignment with THE BLESSING. That’s why God gave us His written Word. It’s also why Jesus said in Matthew 4:4, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” God’s Word is what teaches us how to walk in THE BLESSING. It’s as essential to our life as food is. Everything God said in the Bible has been written for our good and advantage. Not just a few of His words but all of them “are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh” (Proverbs 4:22). Feeding God’s Word into our hearts, believing it and obeying it are the keys to living the kind of life Jesus came to give us. God’s “word is truth,” He said. “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 17:17, 8:31-32). The truth of God’s Word is good news! Apart from it there’s nothing to feed on in this dark world but bad news—and when you eat bad news, you get bad results. You wind up in trouble, turmoil, sickness and lack because you’re operating in the world’s system instead of God’s, so He can’t manifest Himself in your life the way He desires. That’s the situation the people in Proverbs 1 got themselves into. “They…did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would [have] none of my counsel,” God said. “They despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil” (verses 29-33). Notice, according to those verses we get to choose the fruit we eat in our lives. We can choose to eat bad fruit by remaining simple (which means ignorant of God’s Word) or being foolish (which is to be knowingly disobedient to Him). Or we can choose to eat good fruit by honoring God and hearkening to what He said. Personally, I like to live in a good place, enjoy a good life, and be free from the fear of evil, so I’ve made up my mind to eat good fruit. I’ve determined to put His Word first place in my life and follow the instructions He gave us in Isaiah 55: "Come ye, buy, and eat…hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live…. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts…. 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" (verses 1-3, 9, 11). BVOV : 27

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