BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

“Well,” someone might say, “I planted the Word in my heart concerning some things I’m believing for and nothing has come of it.” Don’t let that discourage you. When Ken and I first got hold of God’s Word about prosperity, we had to get a lot of seed in the ground before we even began to break even financially. We had to go over and over the scriptures that said the blessing is ours and we’ve been redeemed from the curse. It took us 11 months of sowing the Word just to get out of the red and into the black. But praise God, we got there—and then we kept planting. We continued to give God’s Word authority in our lives. We continued to grow in our revelation of it and we’re still growing in it today. You never get to a place where you can quit growing! If you want to keep increasing, you must keep doing spiritually what farmers do in the natural. They go out every year, plant more seed, and get a new crop. They do it over and over, season after season. As believers we get to do that with the Word! We get to keep sowing it into our hearts and getting one new crop after another. Only, we have it better than natural farmers do. They just have a limited amount of ground to cultivate—maybe 50, 100 or 1,000 acres. As believers, our spirit man is limitless. There are no fences in your spirit. You can plant…and plant…and however much you plant of the Word of God, that’s the size your harvest is going to be. It’s up to you! If you want to be a spiritual giant, be the man who casts the Word into his heart continually and you’ll live in a continual feast! You might be just starting out right now believing for food on the table. Or you might be believing for a fleet of jet airplanes to take the gospel to the world. Either way, the process of manifesting God’s kingdom is the same. You can have any crop you want if you’ll put seed in the ground. It doesn’t matter how big a harvest you need, El Shaddai—the God of abundant supply—is up to the job. He knows how to deliver. He’s only limited by your honor of Him and His Word. Of course, it takes time for a harvest to mature. It doesn’t usually spring up out of the ground overnight. So, in addition to sowing the Word you must “keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience” (Luke 8:15). If you’ll do that; if you’ll continue to get up every day in faith and go to bed every night in faith expecting your crop to come up, even though you don’t know how it’s going to happen, one of these days you’ll get what you’ve been believing for—and you’ll be thrilled. “But Gloria, you don’t know the huge problems I’m facing.” Maybe not, but I know this: When the Word is planted it becomes greater than any problem anyone anywhere has ever had. As Jesus said: “It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all seeds upon the earth; yet after it is sown, it grows up and becomes the greatest of all garden herbs and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air are able to make nests and dwell in its shade” (Mark 4:31-32, AMPC). All those years ago when Ken and I first learned about this, compared to the impossibilities all around us, God’s Word really did look small in the natural. It looked smaller even than the words of this world. Not only were we facing a mountain of debt, we didn’t have the clothes we needed. We didn’t have a decent house or a decent car. We were surrounded by problems that were yelling at us telling us we weren’t going to make it, that there was no way. But in the midst of that sea of trouble, we started sowing the seed of the Word in our hearts. We watered it, tended to it, talked it, depended on it and kept mixing it with faith. And look at what’s happened! The seed of God’s Word has produced so much fruit that not only are our own needs met, we’re able to preach the gospel to people worldwide and be part of a ministry that gives millions of dollars to help meet the needs of others! Every ministry that has ever been born into the earth started with the seed of God’s Word that went into a person’s heart, grew up and brought the kingdom of God into manifestation. So, keep thinking about how blessed and how much of a blessing to others you desire to be, and keep planting the seed of the Word. It will grow up and manifest the kingdom of God in your life! V ********* ADVERTISEMENT ********* Unmovable! Gloria Copeland gives specific scriptural instruction on how to use the promises of God to make you unmovable when trouble heads your way. "Standing on the Word" 1 message on single CD $5 #B220102 kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) FREE standard shipping included. 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