BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

3 0 : B V O V SEPT BVOV BROADCAST CALENDAR July 31-Aug. 4 Covenant In Blood Kenneth Copeland and Professor Greg Stephens Sun., Aug. 6 God's Words Are Filled With Life Kenneth Copeland Aug. 7-11 The Covenant vs. the Contradiction Kenneth Copeland and Professor Greg Stephens Sun., Aug. 13 Listen to What God's WORD Says to You Kenneth Copeland Aug. 14-18 Practicing His Presence Kenneth Copeland Sun., Aug. 20 Words of Faith Are Found In God's WORD Kenneth Copeland Aug. 21-25 Covenant Access to Healing Kenneth Copeland Sun., Aug. 27 Faith Works When You Believe In God's WORD Kenneth Copeland Aug. 28-Sept. 1 Listening to God In Prayer Kenneth Copeland Watch the Spanish broadcast Enlace or es.kcm.org WATCH ON Broadcasts subject to change without notice Daily broadcast: Mon. - Fri. 3 a.m. | 7 a.m. 11 a.m. | 7:30 p.m. | 10:30 p.m. Weekly broadcast: Sun. 6 a.m. | 8 p.m. also Mon. 4:30 p.m. | Sat. 7:30 a.m. | 8:30 p.m. ET C H A N N E L WATCH ON WATCH ON Daily broadcast: Mon. - Fri. 3 a.m. | 7 a.m. C H A N N E L away by their enemies into Babylonian captivity. Beforehand, however, the prophet Jeremiah said to them, "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters…that ye may be increased there, and not diminished" (Jeremiah 29:4–6). See how good God is? He told His people He had places for them and plans for them to increase and prosper even while they were living in a foreign land! "Yes, but God made those promises to the Jews," you might say, "and I'm not Jewish." You may not be of Jewish descent in the natural, but Galatians 3:29 says, "If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." That means all the promises God made in the Bible to Abraham's seed belong to you—including those about the Promised Land. Your promised land probably isn't in Israel, but God has one for you somewhere. You just need to believe it, seek God in prayer and in the Word, and get with His plan. The plan and the place God has for you are connected! After Ken and I got with God's plan and started preaching His Word, we found out the place God had for us was on Eagle Mountain Lake. God spoke to Ken about it back in the 1970s one night when he was fl ying over the property. Priced at $5 million, we knew there was no way in the natural for us to ever buy it. Yet God had said it was ours. So, we received it by faith and went on doing what He had told us to do. As we waited on God's timing, He continually provided good places for us to live. Then, after 11 years, the Eagle Mountain property came into our hands. God had kept it for us! He even made a way for us to buy it one piece at a time, so we were able to purchase the whole property without going into any debt. God has a plan for you that's just as wonderful! So, if you haven't discovered it yet, keep going after Him. He'll not only help you fi nd the plan, He'll help you fi nd your place as well. And I can guarantee you from the Bible, and from personal experience, they will both be GOOD! God assured the Israelites He would give them victory over those giants, but they didn't believe Him. So, they spent 40 years wandering around in the wilderness. The generation of Israelites who came after them, however, decided to believe God and go with His plan. When they did, they discovered the place God had prepared for them was every bit as good as He had promised. Before they went into it, He had told them it was a "land that fl oweth with milk and honey." He had said that when they got there He would give them "great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, and houses full of all good things, which thou fi lledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not" (Deuteronomy 6:3, 10–11). God had also told them this: Thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fi g trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day (Deuteronomy 8:6–11). God always wanted His people to prosper and live in a good place! That's the reason He told them over and over to keep His commandments and heed His Word. His Word is His wisdom. And when you operate according to the wisdom of God, you can't help but prosper. The Lord didn't want His people to forget that! He loved them and desired to see them BLESSED…and for a while they were. But before too long, the Israelites started doing things their own way instead of walking in God's ways. As a result, like Adam and Eve, they had to leave the good place God had given them. They were carried Kenneth Copeland Greg Stephens

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