BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Personally, I put the healing scriptures in front of my eyes every morning. I have them written down and taped to my bathroom mirror. As I get ready for the day, I look at them and declare them over myself and my family. By looking at those scriptures while I’m saying them, I’m putting them into me through my eye gates and my ear gates—the two main avenues through which things get into our hearts. Seeing and hearing The WORD renews your mind, affects the senses of your body, and most importantly, it causes faith to come (Romans 10:17). I’ll never forget the first time I received faith for healing simply by reading a scripture. I was just beginning to learn how to live by The WORD, and I’d been hit with the flu. Oh, I was miserable! It seemed like my whole body hurt. Even my eyebrows hurt! I’d managed to drive Gloria to the dry cleaners, and while she was in there I opened my Bible to 1 Peter 2:24 where it says that Jesus “bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” At the time, I’d never heard of anyone doing this, but I put my finger on that verse, read it aloud, and prayed a very short prayer: “LORD, I choose to believe this.” That’s all I said. I’d planned on asking Gloria to drive us home because I felt so sick. But by the time she got back in the car a few minutes later, I was already feeling a little better, so I drove us home. When we got there Gloria fixed us a nice supper and I ate. After that I went to bed and the next morning when I woke up, I was fine. Healed from head to foot, just because I chose to believe God’s written WORD. That’s how simple it can be to believe for healing. Anyone who has a Bible can do it! “Not me, Brother Copeland. I don’t have that kind of faith.” You do if you’re a Christian. God gave you the measure of His very own faith as a gift when you were born again (see Romans 12:3; Ephesians 2:8). You just need to put it to work by finding out what God’s WORD says, believing it in your heart and saying it with your mouth. In Mark 11, Jesus taught us how to do this. He said: "Have faith in God. [Or ‘Have the God kind of faith.’] For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any (verses 22-25)." Looking for a Receiver Notice Jesus didn’t tell us just to pray and hope something happens. He said, “When ye pray, believe that ye receive.” That’s something you must remember to do if you want God to be able to get healing to you (or anything else you need to enjoy a life worth living, for that matter). Otherwise, your prayer won’t be complete. BVOV : 7

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