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8 : B V O V This is how our homeplace came to exist: God, the Father (the eternal Creator), gave words of His power to His Son, Jesus. Then, Jesus, God the Son (the eternal WORD) gave utterance to those words. Then, God, the Holy Spirit (the eternal Power), executed those spoken words and brought them to pass. When He did, instantly God's light energy became physical matter. Spiritual substance and material substance fl owed together. The light of God's goodness and mercy expressed through His words released a form of His glory that framed the worlds. And the eternal power of His WORD is still holding it all together today (verses 2-3). God's Crowning Work The crowning glory of God's creation, of course, was to be His precious family. So, once He completed the home He'd prepared for us— God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fi sh of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God BLESSED them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fi sh of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth (Genesis 1:26–28). When we talk about God making man in His own likeness, we're not talking about the kind of likeness we see between people in the natural. We're not talking about when all the family gets together and Aunt So- and-So looks at one of the kids and says, "Doesn't he look just like his daddy…. Isn't she just the spittin' image of her mama?" No, we're talking here about the Most High God. We're talking about the ever- present, past and future "I AM," the Three- in-One (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), in whom, by whom, through whom all things were made. The Eternal One, Elohim created man exactly like Himself. In essence, He said, "Let man rule as We rule, BLESS as We BLESS, multiply as We multiply, be fruitful as We are fruitful, fi ll as We fi ll, subdue as We subdue, give as We give, possess as We possess!" And with that, He breathed man into being. Just as God made all the hosts of heaven "by the breath of his mouth" (Psalm 33:6), with His mighty words of Faith and dominion God breathed into man the very Spirit and power of His own eternal life and being. He conferred on him the same power and authority in the earth realm that God Himself has in the spirit realm. One day while I was studying these things, The LORD gave me a vision of the Father creating Adam. I saw a lifeless, grayish body God had formed from the dust of the earth. The LORD was holding up the body by its shoulders. It was just hanging there, but it was the exact same size and the exact image of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The lifeless body was as much a copy of the Father as Jesus was. Adam was an exact copy of Jesus! As I watched, God spoke the eternal words of everlasting life into that lifeless body (Daniel 12:2), nose-to-nose and mouth-to-mouth. As the breath and Spirit of God fl owed into its nostrils, that perfectly formed body was fl ooded with the glory, power and life force of God Himself, and that lifeless body came alive. What I saw in that vision lines up with Genesis 2:7: "And The LORDGod formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." The Jewish sages commenting on the creation of man note that though the animals were also created living souls only man was given the gift of articulate speech. Only man was made a "speaking spirit" like God. The royal gift of speech was the ultimate tool of dominion God gave to His sons and daughters. Having used His words—the power containers of His Faith—to release His life and power into the earth, He equipped His family with the ability to do the same. He authorized us to set in motion the destiny of our own environment (this planet) with Faith-fi lled words. So, like our heavenly Father, "we having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak" (2 Corinthians 4:13). B V O V : 8 Southwest Believers' Convention July 31-Aug. 5 | Fort Worth, Texas St. Louis Victory Campaign Oct. 26-28 | St. Louis, Mo. Omaha Victory Campaign Nov. 9-11 | Omaha, Neb. Kenneth Copeland is also speaking here: Healing of the Nations Motorcycle Rally July 9-16 | Hidden Springs, Ariz. cofaz.org/hon Word of Faith Convention Aug. 9-11 | Southfi eld, Mich. wordoffaith.cc Upper Midwest Faith Explosion Aug. 18 | Brooklyn Park, Minn. lwcc.org Deeper Life Fall Conference Sept. 22-24 | New York, N.Y. faithexchange.org FlashPoint LIVE July 30 | Fort Worth, Texas Sept. 14 | Council Bluffs, Iowa Oct. 5-6 | Brooklyn Park, Minn. Schedule is subject to change without notice. For updated event information visit: KCM.ORG/EVENTS events 2023 Join us!

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