BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

It doesn’t matter whether you’re called to preach the gospel from behind a pulpit, to work in an office, to stay home and raise your children, or something else, God has a supernatural plan for your life. He’s called you to light up the world around you with His love and His power: To live out the dreams He’s given you. To experience the fulfillment of His promises. To be a veritable billboard of His goodness, so that people in your sphere of influence will see what a wonderful Father He is, and start wanting to know more about your covenant with God and this Jesus you keep talking about! A Covenant of Peace The Bible calls the new covenant we, as believers, have with God a “covenant of peace” (Isaiah 54:10). The word peace in Hebrew is shalom. It means “to be whole, with nothing missing and nothing broken; to have not only peace of mind but wholeness or soundness in every area of life—spiritual, relational, physical and financial.” It includes healing and health, prosperity, fruitfulness and success in all endeavors. All those things are included in God’s plan for you. While the details of what He’s called you to do are unique, His plan is for you to be blessed and a blessing, in everything you do and everywhere you go. How can you be sure that’s true? Look again at what God told Abraham: “I will… bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others]…. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee” (Genesis 12:1-2, "AMPC"; 17:7, "KJV"). “But Gloria, God was referring to the Israelites there. The Jews are Abraham’s seed.” Yes, and as a believer so are you. Galatians 3:29 says it very plainly: “If ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” In other words, through Jesus, you’ve inherited THE BLESSING of Abraham. So, the covenant promises God made to him and his seed now belong to you. Take, for example, what God said to the Israelites in Deuteronomy 28. He told them if they’d hearken to His Word, ALL His blessings would overcome them and overtake them. He said: “You’ll be blessed in the city and in the country. You’ll be blessed coming in and going out. Your children will be blessed. Your storehouses will be blessed, and you’ll be plenteous in goods. You’ll be the head and not the tail, above and not beneath. The works of your hands will be so richly blessed that all the people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord.” (See verses 1-14.) Notice God didn’t say He’d just do those things for priests and prophets (or as we’d say today, for preachers). No, those blessings were for all God’s people back then, and they’re for all His people today, including you. So take them for yourself. Apply them to the dream God has put in your heart and the things He’s uniquely called you to do. Don’t try to figure out how they’re going to come to pass. Bringing them to pass is God’s responsibility, not yours. Your part is to keep going back to what God said: to find scriptures in the Bible that promise you what you’re believing for. To keep them before your eyes and in your ears so that they get down in your heart. It’s the Word of God in your heart that brings the supernatural on the scene. It’s not just the scriptures you know with your head. It’s the Word that’s living in you—that you’re believing, speaking, acting on and expecting by faith to come to pass—that opens the door for God to do the seemingly impossible in your life. He can change everything for you in a single day if necessary. He did it for His people in the Bible time and again. David went from being an unknown shepherd boy to being anointed to be king of Israel in less than 24 hours. Jericho was a fortified city with walls so thick they couldn’t be breached and in a moment of time, those walls crumbled before God’s people, and they took possession of the city. You may have been waiting for years for some God-given dreams and promises to come to pass. It may look to you like time is growing short. But don’t give up. Look to God, think about Abraham, and remember: It’s not too late. You haven’t blown it. God always has a plan, and He always has a way. He can do anything! He Is GOD! V POINTS TO GET YOU THERE: 1) God told Abraham to keep believing when he was tempted to give up on the promise. (Rom. 4:17) 2) When circumstances are shouting, “It’s impossible!” follow the faith of Abraham. (Rom. 4:18, "AMPC") 3) Abraham turned his attention to God and His Word. (Rom. 4:19–20) 4) Abraham focused on the fact that God is GOD; He’s all-powerful and can do anything. (Rom. 4:21, "NLT") 5) Abraham and Sarah found themselves standing in the fulfillment of their God-given dreams. 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