BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

their lives. All the while, God has been waiting for us to realize why He told us over and over, at the risk of being monotonous, that in the beginning God said: "Let there be light: and there was light" (verse 3). "Let there be a fi rmament…. and it was so" (verses 6-7). "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together…and it was so" (verse 9). "Let the earth bring forth grass…and it was so" (verse 11). "Let there be lights in the fi rmament of the heaven…and it was so" (verses 14-15). "Let the waters bring forth…and fowl that may fl y" (verse 20). "Let the earth bring forth the living creature… and it was so" (verse 24). "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion…over all the earth" (verse 26). Those verses repeatedly reveal God's way of creating and bringing things into line with His will. He takes words that paint the exact picture of what He desires to come into existence, fi lls them with His faith, and says them. Then the Holy Spirit uses the substance of the faith, in God's words, to cause the picture they painted to come into physical manifestation. The WORD of God is full of His creative power. It is a living thing, and it will never pass away. He created this physical universe with words of faith…He brought Jesus into the earth through faith-fi lled words He spoke through the mouths of the prophets… and He is still "upholding all things [ALL things!] by the word of his power" (Hebrews 1:3). If you want to get upheld, get on The WORD! The WORD says in 1 Peter 2:24 that by Jesus' stripes "ye were healed." That's not just information. Those words contain God's healing power. So, when symptoms of sickness try to come on you, what do you do? You take those words and keep saying them until they create the picture inside you that was inside God when He said them. His image of you isn't that of a broken-down person su¥ ering from sickness, pain and disease. He sees you healed, well and whole. How do you know? Because that's the picture He framed of you in His WORD. Words Matter James 1:23 (Amplifi ed Bible, Classic Edition) calls God's written WORD a "mirror." When we see, in that mirror, that we were healed by Jesus' stripes, we're to believe it. We're to start seeing ourselves that way and saying what God said—that we are healed! You must know what The WORD says, however, before you can believe it. I remember the fi rst time that became clear to me. It was many years ago when I was very young in The LORD. I was trying to believe for my healing when He spoke to my spirit. What are you believing? He asked. "I'm believing You're going to heal me," I replied. How would you know I'm going to do that? "I don't. I just fi gured maybe You would." He then asked me what I would think if somebody said they were believing I would pay their rent. I told Him that I'd wonder where they got the idea I would do that. I'd think, I never said I'd pay that person's rent! Then I saw the point The LORD was making: If I didn't say it, that person doesn't have the authority to believe it. If, on the other hand, I did Get Get Get your digital your digital your digital magazine magazine magazine their lives. All the while, God has been waiting for us to realize why He told us over and over, at the risk of being monotonous, that in the "Let there be light: and there was light" "Let there be a fi rmament…. and it was so" try to come on you, what do you do? You take those words and keep saying them until they create the picture inside you that was inside God when He said them. His image of you isn't that of a broken-down person su¥ ering from sickness, pain and disease. He sees you healed, well and whole. How do you know? Because that's the picture He framed of you in His WORD. magazine magazine magazine magazine B V O V : 7 B V O V : 7 "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." magazine.kcm.org

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