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3 0 : B V O V This New York Times bestseller unlocks the secrets of true living. Discover the 10 keys God taught Gloria Copeland that will deliver you from sickness, poverty, distress and trouble of every kind. Find out how you can live a successful and prosperous life by practicing the same biblical principles. God's Master Plan for Your Life by Gloria Copeland speak by faith, their faith never bears fruit. It dies unborn! Remember this: Faith comes by hearing, but faith goes into action by saying! It is applied to the situation by words of faith. "Well, I just don't think my faith is big enough to get the job done," someone might say. "I think that's my problem." If so, that's no problem at all because Jesus told us what to do about that. When the apostles came to Him and said, "Lord, increase our faith," He answered: If you had faith (trust and confi dence in God) even [so small] like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, Be pulled up by the roots, and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you. Will any man of you who has a servant plowing or tending sheep say to him when he has come in from the fi eld, Come at once and take your place at the table? Will he not instead tell him, Get my supper ready and gird yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; then afterward you yourself shall eat and drink? (Luke 17:6-8, Amplifi ed Bible, Classic Edition). According to Jesus, it doesn't matter how small our faith is, if we'll plant it by speaking out what we are believing, it will grow up and get the job done. When we release our faith with the words of our mouth, it goes to work for us like a servant and does what we send it to do. That's one of the fi rst principles Ken and I learned when we began to study faith. I'll never forget the day the revelation of it fully dawned on me. I had been listening to Kenneth E. Hagin's tape You Can Have What You Say on an old, 6-inch, reel-to-reel tape recorder. I had taken copious notes and was excited about what I was hearing. Revelation was coming to my heart and mind. In Mark 11:22-24, Jesus clearly put a great emphasis on the words we say. As I took notes and listened to Brother Hagin preaching from this scripture about faith and the power of our words those many years ago, suddenly, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart. He said, In consistency lies the power. That's when it hit me. It's not just what we say in prayer or in church, but what we say continually that makes the di erence. What we say consistently will come to pass in our lives because that's what we really believe in our hearts. Jesus said, "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12:34, NKJV). What you say continually is what is abiding in your heart. If you want to know what is in your heart, listen to your mouth. It's very revealing. Most of the time, it's too revealing for comfort. At that moment, sitting in our shabby, little rented house back in 1967, I decided I had to take control over my words. I made up my mind to start speaking words of faith not just in church or when reading my Bible, but all the time. I saw it wouldn't work for Ken and me to speak faith words for a while, then quit when results didn't come right away and we felt discouraged. We couldn't a ord to lie in bed and murmur to each other about our problems at times like that. We couldn't declare a faith timeout and say, "Why isn't the Word of God working for us?" "Why aren't we getting any results?" "What is going to happen to us?" "How will we make it?" "What are we going to do now?" Those negative words would undermine the whole faith process. We literally could not a ord to say them at any time. Every word we said was important. I'm absolutely convinced that had Ken and I not followed Jesus' example and begun confessing God's Word over our lives, rather than words of unbelief, we could never have connected with God's Master Plan. We would have remained stuck in our old patterns of defeat and inadequacy. Instead of stepping into the bright, new future God had planned for us, we would have continued walking around and around the paths of the past. The same is true for you. To successfully walk out God's Master Plan for your life, you must start saying what God says about you. You must come into agreement with God. That will put you where you need to be! (This article was adapted from Gloria Copeland's New York Times bestseller, God's Master Plan for Your Life.) KCM.ORG/MAG 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid until March. 31, 2023 paperback $ 12 99 reg. $14.99 #B230102

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