BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

But then, who cares about persecution? It doesn’t really hurt us. Especially when we consider the sources the devil uses to deliver it. For the most part, the people who say bad things about us are either ignorant or they’ve been misled by false reports about us carried by the secular media. Talk about ridiculous! Sometimes I’m amazed at secular reporters’ inability to even get basic facts straight. One described Ken as being 5’3” and weighing 130 pounds. (Bless that reporter’s heart! Maybe he just couldn’t see very well, because what would be the point in lying about someone’s height and weight?) Another report we saw recently that was carried by an online encyclopedia said that Ken and I personally have a net worth of $300 million. When Ken read that, he said, “I sure don’t know where that $300 million has been hiding!” If we sold everything we own and all the ministry’s property and equipment, we wouldn’t come close to having anywhere near that amount. Rather than getting upset over the inaccuracy of the report though, we decided to rejoice and just agree with it by faith. “Hallelujah, we receive it!” we said. “Just think about the impact that $300 million put to work preaching the gospel could have for the kingdom of God.” No Limits We don’t care what people say about us, we’re not backing off where prosperity is concerned. On the contrary, our faith in that area is growing exceedingly, and we want yours to keep growing too. We want you to keep believing for the Lord to “increase you more and more, you and your children” (Psalm 115:14). After all, there is no limit to God’s ability to prosper you. As 2 Corinthians 9:8 says: “God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation]” ("Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). Even if you start out in a place where you can’t pay your own bills, according to the Word, “[God] Who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating will also provide and multiply your [resources for] sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness.… Thus you will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that you can be generous, and…bring forth thanksgiving to God” (verses 10-11, "AMPC"). “But Gloria, believing God for finances just doesn’t come that easily to me. I grew up in a situation where money was hard to come by.” I understand. Money was tight in my family when I was growing up as well. So when Ken and I first started learning to live by faith, my thinking in that area was very limited. For years I’d thought in terms of not having enough, so my natural tendency was to hold on tight to every dollar we got. Ken, on the other hand, seemed to have been born with a different mindset. To him money wasn’t good for anything except to be used, and he was always eager to use it. So once we learned what the Word says about financial sowing and reaping, Ken would give every dollar we had in a heartbeat if God told him to. He wouldn’t worry about it at all. He’d just trust God to BLESS us in return. It didn’t take me long, back then, to realize that if I wanted to keep up with Ken, I had to break out of my old, financial-lack mindset. I had to get free from the mental limitations that had been imposed on me by my past and adjust my thinking. So, I set myself to do it. How? By following God’s instructions. He said in the Bible, if we continue in His Word, the truth in that Word will make us free (John 8:32). He said if we attend to His Word, believe it and act on it, then we shall make our way “prosperous, and then [we] will have good success” (Joshua 1:8, "NKJV"). God also warned us that if we don’t pay attention to His Word, we’ll stay in bondage. Rather than enjoying all the benefits of THE BLESSING of God, we’ll find ourselves living like the world does, in subjection to the curse. 28 : BVOV

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