BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

would be obedient to Him. He has dealt with people, pleading His case, endeavoring to get someone to believe His Word and to walk in it. Why? So He could bless them and pour out His love upon them. Our Victory Is According To Our Obedience "O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!" (Deuteronomy 5:29). Do you hear the yearning of God's heart here? God desires us to do what He says because He wants it "to be well" with us. He yearns to be our God. He wants to set us high above all nations. He wants to make a di‡ erence between His children and the rest of the world—but the only way He can do that is through our obedience to His Word. Jeremiah 7:23 says, "But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you." We stop the power of God from being ministered to us when we don't obey His Spirit. Right now, in this dispensation, the Holy Spirit lives in us. He teaches us. He trains and counsels us. We must be sensitive to His teaching. To obey God's command we fi rst have to hear it. What can God do for you if you won't obey Him? If we don't understand the ways of God we can be deaf to His calling, ignorant of His will and, eventually, callous to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says Moses knew the ways of God. The Father revealed Himself. He revealed His ways to Moses and His acts to the children of Israel. If Moses had not known God's ways, the children of Israel would never have seen His acts. If we, today, will turn toward Him with our whole hearts and seek His face and obey His voice, even though we may have been disobedient in the past, we will fi nd Him ready to get involved. We will begin to experience His delivering power the way we have desired. His mercy endures forever. It is never too late with God. B V O V : 2 3 UNSTOPPABLE Grace "When you were saved, you didn't simply change categories, going from sinner to sinless. The Holy Ghost came in and created a new you by Keith A. Butler The word of faith. The Apostle Paul referenced it in Romans 10:8 when he said, "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach." The word of faith is a powerful revelation, but—if we're not cautious—we may think it's the only topic Paul covered. It isn't. He addressed something else that works with the word of faith…and together, these two revelations make believers unstoppable. In Acts 20:24, he wrote, "… neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might fi nish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel ."

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