BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

listened. My, how our spirits leapt! Redeemed from the curse of the law? We've never heard anything like this! It was through Kenneth Copeland Ministries and those teachings that we were first introduced to Kenneth E. Hagin. That God-connection set the course of Moore Life Ministries and Faith Life Church. God-connections are precious for all believers. But the enemy is out to sever them. He wants to stop the combining of anointings that cause something bigger to happen than what we can achieve on our own. We must make up our minds to keep that from happening and instead honor what God has done. Man-Joined Versus God-Joined Mark 10:9 says, "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Yes, Jesus was talking about marriage, but the principle of being God-joined versus man- joined is the same. There's a temptation to join ourselves to people and things that God didn't put together. Second Chronicles 20 provides an example of this. Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, joined himself with Ahaziah, the wicked king of Israel: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, theŸ LORDŸ hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish (verses 36-37). Jehoshaphat had joined with an ungodly king, something God didn't ordain, and the results were devastating. God wasn't in it, so it didn't succeed. We see the same principle in the parable of the prodigal son. The story tells us of a young man who took his portion of inheritance and squandered it on riotous living. When he was out of money, Luke 15:15 says, "He went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine." The story's lesson was that God hadn't planned for that young man to even be there, much less go through all of that. The young man had made the decision to join himself to someone outside of God's best. There's a di¥erence between being man- joined and God-joined. Man-joined is not blessed. God-joined is! What God joins together should be honored and protected because it's powerful. When We Come Together God never planned for believers to be lone wolves. None of us have all the anointings we need for navigating through life. God intended for us to appreciate the giftings in each other. Many times, I have been in meetings when the Spirit of God moved, my brothers and sisters in Christ yielded to the Spirit, and their anointings manifested. It was beautiful and without each of them there, it wouldn't have been possible. None of us will ever produce that kind of corporate anointing on our own. Never, no matter how much we pray or fast. The enemy knows this, and he fears it. That's why when we resist the devil in faith and stand on our authority in Christ, the anointing manifests and the enemy flees. The devil is always working to instigate some kind of strife and division in the Body of Christ. His greatest nightmare is when believers unite in faith, because when we quit trying to build our individual kingdoms and instead pool our resources and faith, nothing that God has told us can be kept from us. Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that all things work together for good.…" Many people stop reading that verse right there, but that's not all it says. Paul was talking to a specific group of people. He finished by saying, "to them that love 1 8 : B V O V When we quit trying to build our individual kingdoms and instead pool our resources and faith, nothing that God has told us can be kept from us.

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