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This is what happened through Jesus’ ministry. It wasn’t by His own power that He did signs and wonders, He did them by the power of God who was in Him. “The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works” (John 14:10), He said. In other words, Jesus operated as God’s kingdom representative. He told people about that kingdom and then showed them what it looks like when a human being, in a flesh and blood body, lives and operates in the power of God. As believers, you and I get to do the same thing! We get to tell people the good news that Jesus Christ paid the price for sin so that mankind could be made right with God and walk in His perfect will. Then we get to show them what His will looks like. We get to live in the power and goodness of God and manifest His kingdom before people so they can see it. When unbelievers look at us they ought to see victory. They ought to see health. They ought to see wealth and all the other promises of God in manifestation. For us to put the blessings of God’s kingdom on display for all the world to see, however, we must learn His ways. We must find out how to live in accordance with His kingdom principles and renew our minds with His Word so we can cooperate with Him and His power can flow freely through us. Is it really possible for us to learn God’s ways? you might wonder. Yes! He’s given us everything we need to do it. Even under the old covenant, He went to great lengths to teach His people how to think, talk and act like kingdom-of-God people. He gave them His written Word and wrote down His commandments for them so they’d know how to live in His blessings and enjoy “days of heaven upon the earth” (Deuteronomy 11:21). Today, we, as new covenant believers, have everything they had—and more! We have God’s written Word, PLUS we have God’s Spirit in us to help us understand and apply it. Talk about being blessed people! We have the King Himself living in us—teaching us and gracing us to operate in the power of His Word. God’s Word is the key to experiencing His kingdom breakthroughs! Jesus 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 8:31-32). So if there’s any place in our lives where we’re not free it’s either because there’s a truth from the Word we don’t know or because there’s a truth we know but are not doing. Being doers of the Word and not just hearers only is how we live in victory. Ken and I can testify to it. Before we got turned on to God’s Word, our lives were a mess. Although we were born again and loved the Lord, we knew next to nothing about how He operates. So we kept failing at pretty much everything we tried to do. Then we heard someone preach about living by faith in the Word, and that changed everything. Tired of failure, poverty and defeat we immediately started putting the Word first place in our lives. We were so thrilled to find out that the Word would make us free, we went all-out to find out what it says and live accordingly. BVOV : 29