BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

think about His Word once a week on Sunday morning, while you'll still eventually get to heaven, you're going to have a miserable trip. To live well now and experience victory on this earth, you must be diligent about the things of God. You must give Him and His Word their rightful place in your life. What's their rightful place? First place! When God is fi rst place in your life, His Word is your top priority and fi nal authority. You spend time reading it, and whatever it says, that's the way it's going to be in your life. You don't read the Bible as many people do— just for historical information. You read it as God speaking directly to you. You ask, "What is God saying to me in this Word? What is He promising to do for me? What is He telling me to believe and do?" "Well," someone might say, "I think it's just the believing part that God cares about, and not the doing part. He's interested in our faith not our works." Actually, He's interested in both, because the two can't be separated. As James 2:17 says, faith without works is dead, so believing and doing always go together. In Joshua 1:8, God said to keep the Word in your mouth, meditate on it day and night so that you do it! "For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success" (AMPC). Believing and doing what God says is the key to your healing. It's the key to your fi nancial increase. It's the key to walking in the fullness of God's good plans for you and receiving all the wonderful things He has promised and provided. That's why He says in Isaiah 55: Hearken diligently to Me…. Incline your ear… and come to Me…. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any e ect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which B V O V : 2 9 Get Get Get your digital your digital your digital your digital your digital your digital magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it (verses 2-3, 8–11, AMPC). Those verses sum up the secret to living a supernaturally blessed life on this earth. They tell you exactly how to open the door for Him to move on your behalf in some area of your life. You fi nd out what He said in His Word about it and put that Word in your heart like you'd plant seed into the ground. God's words truly are supernatural seed! They're alive and active (Hebrews 4:12). The Bible is like a seed packet. It contains God's words but they don't do anything for you just in the Book. To release their creative power, God's words must be in your heart, in your mouth and be acted upon. Then, over time, they produce whatever it is you're believing for. They grow from a spiritual seed into something you can touch and see and wear and drive! Notice, I didn't say God's words will produce results instantly. Spiritual things don't usually change natural things overnight. Normally, for God's Word to bear fruit in your life you must persevere in it. You must continue to feed on it and live like it's true, even in the face of contrary circumstances. As the Lord said to me many years ago when I was fi rst learning to walk by faith, In consistency lies the power. So to see results, you must be like Abraham, who through "faith and patience" inherited God's promises. Seed Grows Best in Good Ground Jesus taught about this in Mark 4. There, much like in Isaiah 55, He referred to the Word as seed and talked about what happens when For God's Word to bear fruit in your life you must persevere in it. You must continue to feed on it and live like it's true, even in the face of contrary circumstances. magazine.kcm.org

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