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8 : B V O V Totally Protected Living in this world can be hazardous to your health. But God has already planned for and provided your protection. Find out how to take cover inside God's fortress—and stay there! Totally Protected by Gloria Copeland sake. So, storm, in Jesus' Name, you have no place in my life. Peace, be still!" Financial lack is a manifestation of the curse, and Jesus "redeemed us from the curse" that "the blessing of Abraham might come" on us (Galatians 3:13-14). If you're a born-again child of God, fi nancial blessing belong to you. They're yours, regardless of what's going on in this world. So don't settle for anything less. Stand unwavering on God's Word. Be aggressive to take hold, by faith, of the things of the kingdom of God. The Violent Take It by Force Jesus said about the kingdom of God that "the violent take it by force" (Matthew 11). Why do we have to take the things of the Kingdom by force? If the blessings of God's kingdom already belong to us, why do we have to aggressively lay hold of them? Because on this earth we have an enemy. His name is Satan. And due to his infl uence in this world, the law of sin and death is still functioning very profi ciently here. I lived under that law before I got born again and I despise it! Under that law, I didn't have any choice about whether I experienced the BLESSING or the curse. Financially, and in every other way, the curse was my only option, and the only choices it o ered me were between bad or worse. But, thank God, when I received Jesus as my Lord, my life changed dramatically. "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus…made me free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:2), and once I got free, I determined I was going to stay free. I decided, I'm not coming back under the law of sin and death! I could come back under it if I chose. Because that law is still functioning all around us in the darkness of this world, I could get over in that darkness and fool around. But then I would become subject again to the law of sin and death just like people in the world are and wouldn't have any real security. If, on the other hand, I continue to live according to the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus that has been revealed to me by the Word of God, I won't be living under a false sense of security. I'll be secure in the kingdom of God where His will can be done in my life on earth as in heaven. Really, that's the only safe way to live these days. The sin-darkened system of this world is getting increasingly crazy. We're already seeing things happen in it that we never could have imagined, and before the end comes the world is going to get even crazier. It's downright dangerous to be a lazy Christian in this day and age! Financially, and in every other way, we can't a ord just to be hearers of the Word. In these perilous times, we can't a ord to be like the people in Luke 6 who Jesus asked, "Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (verse 46). No, if we truly want to be secure and prosper in life, we must do the three things He told those people to do: Come to Him. In other words, believe on Jesus, and get born again. (If you haven't yet done that, do it now. It's the fi rst step.) Hear His Word. (For, according to Romans 10:17, faith comes by hearing the Word of God.) Act on what He says. That's the only way to live secure in this crazy, mixed-up world. For as Jesus went on to say in Luke 6: Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you stay there! Totally Protected by Gloria Copeland death is still functioning very profi ciently here. I lived under that law before I got born again and I despise it! Under that law, I didn't have any choice about whether I experienced the BLESSING or the curse. Financially, and in every other way, the curse was my only option, and the only choices it o ered me were between bad or worse. But, thank God, when I received Jesus as my Lord, my life changed dramatically. "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus…made me free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:2), and once I got Notice, the man who built his house on a rock built it himself.... He was the one who spent the time it takes to get solidly grounded in the Scriptures. KCM.ORG/MAG 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid through May 31, 2023 2 messages on 2 CDs $ 5 99 reg. $10 #B230501

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