BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Why financially? Because our financial prosperity is important to God. He made a lot of promises to us about it in His Word. And because in Christ all those promises are yes and amen, before Jesus returns God intends for us to walk in the fulfillment of them. He intends for people to be able to read our lives like they read the Bible and see that God really meant it when He said: • “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it” (Proverbs 10:22). • “Our Lord Jesus Christ…though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9). • “The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just” (Proverbs 13:22). “But Gloria,” someone might say, “isn’t God referring in those verses to the riches we’ll enjoy when we get to heaven?” No. Look again at that last verse. The wealth of the sinner isn’t in heaven! It’s on earth. So for God to put it into our hands He has to do it while we’re still here—and that’s exactly what He has planned. Brother Charles Capps, one of the most outstanding ministers Ken and I have had the privilege of knowing, prophesied about this years ago. In a word he delivered in 1978 he said a supernatural wealth transfer will take place in the last days: 'For you see, it is My desire to move in the realm of your financial prosperity,' the Lord said. 'For yes, yes, there shall be in this hour financial distress here and there. The economy shall go up and it will go down; but those who learn to walk in the Word, they shall see the prosperity of the Word come forth in this hour in a way that has not been seen by men in days past. 'Yes, there's coming a FINANCIAL INVERSION in the world's system. It has been held in reservoirs of wicked men for days on end. But the end is nigh. Those reservoirs shall be tapped and shall be drained into the gospel of Jesus Christ. It shall be done,' saith the Lord. 'It shall be done in the time allotted and so it shall be that the word of the Lord shall come to pass that the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.' God has every right to give the wealth of the world to His people! He created this earth with all its resources for His own family to enjoy. He didn’t create it to give to the devil and his followers. Adam and Eve put it in the devil’s hands when they bowed their knee to him in the Garden of Eden. Through their act of high treason, they basically shut God out of His own creation. It still belongs to Him, of course. (As Psalm 24:1 says, “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof.”) But because He gave authority over it to mankind, until man’s lease on it runs out, God only has the portion of it that’s possessed by His people. Whatever His people don’t have, He doesn’t have either. And because His people have been backward about taking possession of all He’s promised to them throughout human history, God hasn’t had possession of much of this world’s wealth. Come to the Table I remember one time when Ken got a powerful revelation of this. It was in the late 1990s, right after we’d just bought a brand-new ministry airplane. We hadn’t owned a new one since the early days of our ministry, when we’d bought a little twin-engine plane. But after more than 20 years of buying older, used airplanes, the Lord told Ken He wanted him to break the “Second Hand Rose” syndrome for the Church. So, Ken had bought a new one. 28 : BVOV

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