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by Gloria Copeland
This article
was adapted
from Gloria
Copeland's
New York Times
bestseller
God's Master
Plan for Your Life.
This article
was adapted
from Gloria
Not only does the Word of God equip
you with the divine wisdom and
direction you need to live according to
His Master Plan, it supplies you with
something else you need—something
positively vital to your success. It
provides you with faith. As Romans 10:17
says, "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God."
If you want to see just how essential faith
is to connecting with God's Master Plan for
your life, consider once again our example—
the Israelites. It was lack of faith that initially
stopped them from taking the Promised
Land. It was lack of faith that robbed an entire
generation of God's people of their divine
inheritance and the glorious blessings He had
in store for them.
What a tragic moment when that happened!
There they were, camped on the border of two
very di erent kinds of land. Behind
them was a desert wilderness, a place
so barren even their food and water
had to be supernaturally supplied. It
was a place so devoid of resources God
had to wring water from a rock to keep
them from dying of thirst.
In front of them was a land that fl owed with
milk and honey, so fertile it took two of the
Israelite spies to carry back one cluster of the
grapes that grew there. It was "a good land,
a land of brooks of water, of fountains and
springs, that fl ow out of valleys and hills; a land
of wheat and barley, of vines and fi g trees and
pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
a land in which you will eat bread without
scarcity, in which you will lack nothing "
(Deuteronomy 8:7-9). It was a land where
the Israelites could build houses, have herds,
fl ocks, silver, and gold.
Foot
Water
Put Your
In
the
"God's Word...and the next step.
If you will act in faith on those two things, you will
always connect with the Master Plan."
