BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

is the power of God unto salvation" (Romans 1:16). So, taking God at His WORD, he went out witnessing to people. When he began helping me in my meetings, in between services he would roam the streets and share the gospel with anyone he could find. One time when we were holding meetings in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., he led as many people to The LORD on the streets as we did in the services. We won 500 in the meetings, and he won 500 on the streets. On another occasion, in Omaha, Neb., Jerry was out witnessing on the street and saw a crowd of people standing around a man who was on the ground having a hard seizure. Nobody else was doing anything to help the man, so Jerry pushed through the crowd, cast the devil out of him, and got him born again. By the time the ambulance arrived, the man didn't need it anymore. He was healed and praising God. "But Brother Copeland, I'm not Jerry Savelle! Those kinds of things don't happen around me." They didn't always happen around Jerry either. There was a time when all he was doing was going broke running a paint and body shop. What made the di'erence? What caused the miracle action of God to go to work around him in such a mighty way? He found out God's WORD is alive and real. He found out God said, "I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it" (Jeremiah 1:12, AMPC), and began putting The WORD out there. He began releasing its power to go to work wherever he went. What's more, he stuck with it. He kept taking God at His WORD year after year, decade after decade, and what happened? He wound up prospering and having good success, not only in ministry but in every area of life! Outside the Realm of Argument God's WORD will produce the same results in your life. Jesus Himself will make sure of it. He is the living WORD! He came B V O V : 7 to earth as a Man, became The WORD made flesh. He qualified on our behalf for all the Covenant benefits and promises laid out in God's WORD, then gave His life for us and left all those Covenant benefits and promises to us in His Will. The book we call the Bible is His Will! That's why we refer to the two parts of the Scriptures as the Old Testament and the New Testament. A testament is "a document by which a person determines the disposition of his or her property after death." As with all wills, Jesus' Will became valid when He died. Only, in His case, He came back from the dead and now oversees the administration of His own Will to ensure it is carried out as written. Imagine if some other man did that! Imagine Joe Smith died and left a will naming his wife as his sole beneficiary, and cousin Fred showed up claiming Joe's Last Will and Testament didn't mean what it said. Fred could declare himself the beneficiary and take the wife to court, and things could get messy. If Joe Smith came walking into the courtroom, back from the dead, however, that mess would be resolved fast! Joe would say, "Cousin Fred, get out of here!" He would make sure At the most crucial moment in Joshua's life, God pointed him to The WORD and told him to meditate on it, speak it and do what it says.

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