BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." Does everybody love God? No, a lot of people hate God. Is everything working for their good? No, the promise isn't for them. It's for us, those whom He loved and called. Prospering Together Two months after I was accepted into Rhema Bible Training College in Broken Arrow, Okla., the Lord gave me three words: Help Brother Hagin. I thought I'd be there a year, but those three words were my ministry directive for the next 20 years! Brother Hagin didn't know me personally. There were thousands of students on the campus. I didn't know how to help him, but whenever the school or church asked for volunteers, I signed up. Every time they said, "We need this," I'd think, Brother Hagin needs help. One thing led to another and eventually the leaders let me help in Healing School. Then they asked me to teach at the school. I felt so inadequate. I didn't have a lot of higher education, so I started reading big theology books to prepare. I needed a dictionary just to get through them. Still, that didn't set well with me. I was paddling upstream and getting more frustrated. When I fi nally started seeking the Lord, He spoke to my heart and said, Keith, I have many good ministries all over this world. I could have sent you to any one of those. I sent you here. Get this. Those fi nal two words, Get this, rang in my ears. I went back to basics. I put the big theology books away and got out Brother Hagin's book What Faith Is. That taught me a valuable lesson: We are limited in our time, scope and contacts. If we try to do things He didn't direct and connect us to, we'll spread ourselves too thin. Instead, we each need to focus on what we personally are supposed to be doing, and connect with other believers who we can come alongside. That's what God provided for Lot when He connected him with Abram (Genesis 12: 1-4). Together, the two prospered. Genesis 13 tells us they had so much that the land wasn't able to bear them. Lot was blessed with the same things that Abram had because he had connected to his uncle. B V O V : 1 9 Remember and Appreciate The Lord made it clear to me that He blesses God-connections when He connected me with KCM. He said, Kenneth Copeland Ministries has an abundance of resources, and they're reaching multiple countries. In the beginning, when we fi rst connected with KCM, our ministry couldn't a‹ ord to buy a TV for our house, let alone equipment for a TV studio. We were using our faith just to get a used car. Believing for an airplane hadn't even crossed our minds. Today our ministry has its own television studios. We're part of KCM's VICTORY Channel and other networks. We have our own aviation department and fl y internationally. Why did all this happen? God connected us to Kenneth Copeland Ministries. That connection helped us reach people and fulfi ll what God called us to do. We refuse to let our connection with this ministry to be severed. That's what eventually happened with Lot and Abram. Genesis 13:8 says, "And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren." Lot didn't know that when he separated from Abram, he moved away from his protection. It was only the mercy of God that he and his daughters were saved out of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24-25). But even that didn't save him. He ended up losing everything—his family, his honor and his prosperity—when he severed what God had joined him to. The Bible says, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth" (Isaiah 52:7)! We must remember and appreciate those who fi rst preached the gospel to us, those who have invested in us, those who helped us grow and mature, and those who made it possible for us to fulfi ll what God has called us to. They are our God-connections, not chance encounters. God ordained and blessed them, and what "God has joined together, let not man put asunder!" Keith Moore is founder and president of Moore Life Ministries and Faith Life Church in both Branson, Mo., and Sarasota, Fla. For more information or ministry materials visit moorelife.org. Watch Keith Moore on C H A N N E L Watch Keith Moore on C H A N N E L Sun. 7a.m. | Tues. 9 a.m. Fri. 11:30 p.m.. | Sat. 8:30 a.m. | 5 p.m. ET i Watch B V O V : 1 9

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