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6 : B V O V Talk about a tough situation! Joshua didn't just need one miracle; he needed a lot of them to lead the Israelites into the prosperity God had promised. So, God told him how to set those miracles in motion. He reminded Joshua of The WORD (which He called "the Book of the Law") that He had given through Moses and said: This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success (Joshua 1:8). Notice, God did not tell Joshua to go oŒ into a cave somewhere and wait on Him for a couple hundred days. He didn't tell Joshua to spend hours crying and begging Him to release His miracle-working power. No, 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. Why? Because His WORD works! It works in situations where nothing else will. It will do what can't be done in the natural. It will succeed when all human ideas, eŒ orts and plans have failed. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (Isaiah 55:8–11). I'm so glad God didn't just say in those verses that He is higher than us, and then stop. I'm glad He went on to let us know that although His thoughts and ways are higher than ours, they're not out of our reach. Through His WORD, we can come up to His level. We can think His thoughts, walk in His ways, and get His supernatural results. Like Joshua, by observing to do all that's written in The WORD, we can release in our lives the miracle action of God. Put The WORD Out There and Stick With It The WORD of God "is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and eŒ ective]…" (Hebrews 4:12, Amplifi ed Bible, Classic Edition). When you put The WORD to work it always produces exactly what it says, because it contains within it the supernatural ability to bring itself to pass. That's why wherever you fi nd believers releasing the power of God's WORD, you fi nd miracles in action around them. You see the kinds of things that I so often saw happening, for example, around Jerry Savelle. I remember when Jerry, my dear friend and preaching partner for over 50 years, fi rst started learning to walk by faith in The WORD. One of the verses he caught hold of was Mark 16:18. It says that believers "shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." So, Jerry began praying for the sick. He went to the hospital to pray for one of his relatives and somebody else heard him; they asked if he would come and pray for them. He did, and as he started to leave the hospital, somebody else asked him for prayer. He ended up praying for four or fi ve people before he got out of that hospital, and every one of them got healed. Jerry also took hold of the fact early in his faith walk that "the gospel of Christ… Schedule is subject to change without notice. 2025 Branson Victory Campaign April 3-5 | Branson, Mo. Southwest Believers' Convention July 28 - Aug. 2 | Fort Worth, Texas For updated event information visit: KCM.ORG/EVENTS events Join us!

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