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3 0 : B V O V NOV BVOV BROADCAST CALENDAR Oct. 30-Nov. 3 See Yourself Well Kenneth Copeland Sun., Nov. 5 God's Healing Power Is for You Now Kenneth Copeland Nov. 6-10 First Words Matter Kenneth Copeland Sun., Nov.12 A Long, Satisfied Life Is God's Promise to You Kenneth Copeland Nov. 13-17 Faith Makes Prayer Work Kenneth Copeland Sun., Nov. 19 Standing On God's WORD Leads to the BLESSED Life Kenneth Copeland Nov. 20-24 A Heart of Thanksgiving Kenneth Copeland Sun., Nov. 26 Healing Comes When You Follow God's Commandments Kenneth Copeland Nov. 27-Dec. 1 Step Across the Faith Line 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 Kenneth Copeland bookshelf, it's just a book. But when you put it in your heart and in your mouth, it becomes the creative power of God to change your body or your bank account or your family—or do anything else God promised in His Word He would do. For the Word to produce results for you, though, you can't just speak it when you're in church. You can't just get excited when you hear the pastor preach about healing or prosperity, shout amen, and then go home and talk about how sick and broke you are. No, to keep the law of receiving in operation, you must keep the Word in your mouth all the time. "But Gloria," you might say, "that's hard to do when I'm facing trouble. Sometimes the pressure gets to me, and negative words just slip out." That means you need to get more of the Word in your heart. You need to keep listening to it and reading it and meditating on it. You can't control your tongue just by willpower alone. But you can control what goes in your heart. And if you keep your heart full of God and His Word, your mouth will fall in line, for as Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things" (Matthew 12:34–35). Look at those verses again. Who determined what those two men got? They did! How did they determine it? By what they put in their hearts. Whatever they put in their hearts came out of their mouths and manifested in their lives. This is the law of receiving, and it works on the positive side and on the negative. You can give your attention to negative things—like sin, sickness and lack—and those things will take you over. They'll get you into trouble and you won't be able to get out. That's the bad news. The good news is you can give your attention to God's Word and it will take you over! You can keep it in front of your eyes and in your ears until it gets in your heart and your mouth; and it will not only bring you out of trouble, but it will cause you to triumph continually in every area of life! it. We devoted ourselves to it completely because we were desperate. Did you know desperation can be a good thing? If Ken and I had started out rich, I don't know what might have happened. We might not have pursued God as vigorously as we did. But being rich was not our problem. Being poor was our problem. So, once we realized we could solve it by getting God's Word about it in our hearts and mouths, it was easy for us to do that! God is so good. He will meet you wherever you are. He won't hold against you the fact that you waited until you got into trouble to start seeking Him. He won't turn His back on you just because you didn't think much about Him until you were in dire straits. He's just glad you fi nally turned to Him. God loves you! He desires to bless you as much as you desire to be blessed. That's why He gave you His Word. It's through His Word that faith comes and enables you to receive from Him salvation, healing, deliverance, fi nancial prosperity and everything else you need to live the abundant life Jesus has provided. God declares it in the Bible time and again: "The Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and eœ ective]" (Hebrews 4:12, AMPC). "So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any eœ ect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it" (Isaiah 55:11, AMPC). "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that fi nd them, and health to all their fl esh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life" (Proverbs 4:20-23). God's Word contains His creative power! As long as it's just on your table or your

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