BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

8 : B V O V We didn't get in this shape in 30 minutes, or even in 30 days. But we started in 30 seconds. As soon as we realized God's creative power is in His WORD, we committed to put it fi rst place and make it fi nal authority in our lives. We made up our minds and hearts to start saying what God said and not anything else. Did we slip up sometimes? Yes, especially in the beginning. But when we did, we just repented and got right back on The WORD again. Over time, speaking The WORD became the norm for me. You could follow me from now until Jesus returns and you will never hear me say, "I am sick." It doesn't matter how my body may feel or how raggedy I might look. What you will hear me say is, "Thank God, I am healed!" Today, those words are a manifest physical reality in my life. But I had to learn to say them when I still had symptoms of sickness in my body. I had to learn to say, "My God [meets all my needs] according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19, NKJV), when I was still struggling fi nancially. From the world's perspective it sounds strange, but that's God's operating system. He said in Joel 3:10, "Let the weak say, I am strong" (NKJV). He didn't say, "Let the weak say, 'Oh, I'm so weak. I'm so tired. What are we going to do? We're going down the drain. The Democrats are at it again. The Republicans are at it again. There's another wave of COVID coming and we're all going to get sick. Blah, blah, blah.'" Nowhere in the Bible did God tell us to say what we have. He told us we have what we believe in our heart, and say with our mouth. As Jesus put it: "A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh" (Luke 6:45). Faith-fi lled words dominate the laws of sin and death. This is a word-created planet. It is also a planet subject to authority, and authority is imposed by words. So, make your words work for you. While you're on your way to heaven, believe and speak The WORD of God and enjoy some days of heaven upon the earth! say it, that person does have the authority to believe it. He has the right to say I will pay his rent because he has my word on it. Words matter! Romans 10:17 says, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Belief is created by words. Authority is transferred by words. The LORD said to me that day, Son, why don't you just go to My WORD and believe what I've already said? That makes faith simple. I like it when things are simple! So, I opened my Bible and looked up all the scriptures I could fi nd on healing and realized there were dozens of them. For example, "I am the LORD who heals you" (Exodus 15:26, New King James Version). "…I will take sickness away from the midst of you" (Exodus 23:25, NKJV). "He sent His word and healed them" (Psalm 107:20, NKJV). "And He…healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfi lled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: 'He Himself took our infi rmities and bore our sicknesses'" (Matthew 8:16-17, NKJV). Every time I saw one of those verses, and others like them, in The WORD, I said, "I believe that!" I released the creative power of God's WORD by saying about myself what He says. What happened? I was well before I fi nished fi nding all the scriptures! God intends for us to do this in every area of our lives. For us to take the exceedingly great and precious promises in His WORD and use them not just to go to heaven someday but to create a little heaven on earth to go to heaven in. I can testify that it's possible! Gloria and I are enjoying some heaven on earth right now. Our family isn't fi ghting with one another. We all love each other. Our children are not o© in the world going wild somewhere. Our family isn't plagued by sickness and disease. We're all prospering. This ministry has no debts. Gloria and I owe no man on this earth anything but to love him. B V O V : 8 New Year's Eve with Kenneth Copeland Dec. 31 | Newark, Texas 2024 Branson Victory Campaign April 4-6 | Branson, Mo. Southwest Believers' Convention July 29-Aug. 3 | Fort Worth, Texas Kenneth Copeland is also speaking here: Holy Ghost Meetings World Harvest Church Jan. 5-6 | Murrieta, Calif. dufresneministries.org/events Word of His Power Conference 2024 Words of Life Fellowship Church March 1-3 | North Miami Beach, Fla. wordsofl ife.com Schedule is subject to change without notice. For updated event information visit: KCM.ORG/EVENTS events Join us!

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