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A Subfl oor Worth Millions This is where a lot of Christians miss it where fi nancial prosperity is concerned. They don't pray and listen to God. They don't listen to Him about where and how much fi nancial seed they're to sow; and once they've sown, they don't listen to Him to tell them how to connect with their harvest. They just plunk their o ering in the bucket in church on Sunday and hope fi nancial BLESSINGS will somehow fall on them. "Well, Brother Copeland, Jesus did say in Luke 6:38, 'Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom….'" Yes, but that's not all He said in Luke 6. If you keep reading, you'll fi nd He also said, "Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (verse 46). Just as you're not fi nished praying until you listen for His instructions, you're not fi nished giving until you've listened to Him and done what He said. My friend Andre Roeber can testify to this. Some years back he was in need of a building to serve as his ministry headquarters in South Africa, so he bought an old warehouse, intending to renovate it. I saw it not long after he got it. It was huge and it was a mess! As he drove me through the building on a golf cart, he pointed out di erent areas and described his plans for them. Clearly, the project was going to be expensive, and initially he had no idea how he was going to pay for it. He had, however, planted a substantial fi nancial seed toward it. At the leading of The LORD, He'd given very generously into something we were doing here at KCM, and was believing that God would BLESS him in return with enough to complete his building. In the meantime, he kept praying about it and listening to The LORD. As he did, he kept hearing the same thing. When he would ask The LORD where the money for the building was going to come from, The LORD would say, The money is in the fl oor. What did that mean? He didn't know. But as he proceeded by faith with the renovation process, it became clear. They ripped out the building's old fl oors and discovered the subfl ooring was made from a very precious kind of wood. The trees it comes from are so rare now, it's against the law to cut them down. Perfect for making guitars and fi ne furniture, companies will pay outrageous prices for it. The wood from those subfl oors turned out to be worth millions of dollars. After it was sold, Andre told me, it provided "more than enough" to pay for the completion of the building. The money was in the fl oor—and he found it because he listened! Sons and Daughters, Not Slaves "But Brother Copeland," somebody might say, "I just don't feel like I deserve that kind of BLESSING." So? God's BLESSINGS aren't based on how you feel or what you deserve. They're based on what Jesus did for you and on the goodness of God. God is a good, GOOD Father! He's the kind of father we see in Luke 15 in the story we often think of as being about the prodigal son. Actually, it's about a loving father and his two sons—neither of whom had listened to him enough to understand his heart—you may remember what happened between them. In the beginning of the story, the younger son said to his father, "Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me" (verse 12). The father responded by not only giving the younger son his part of the inheritance but by giving the elder son his as well. In other words, the father held nothing back from either of them. The younger son took his portion, went to a far-o country, and wasted his entire inheritance on riotous living. So, when a famine hit the land, he found himself in danger of starving to death. To survive, he took a job slopping another man's hogs, which, as a Jew, meant he had to violate his covenant with God. Even then, he ran out of food and couldn't get anyone to give him any. (Why wouldn't 8 : B V O V 3 Messages on CD Hearing Wisdom's Voice by Kenneth Copeland When you operate in God's wisdom, what you understand about circumstances and how you respond to them will change lives— yours and others around you! Operating in this kind of wisdom will: Bring peace to whatever is going on around you. Bring God on the scene in every kind of chaos. Bring glory to God as you learn to live responsibly. 3 Messages on CD Hearing Wisdom's Voice by Kenneth Copeland as you learn to live responsibly. KCM.ORG/MAG 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid until Feb 28, 2023 $ 9 99 reg. $15 #B230201

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