BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Living Continually In The Blessing "Well," you might say, "I like to pray for other people to receive miracles, all right. But, really, what I need right now are more miracles in my own life!" Maybe so, but what you need even more is to keep sowing to the spirit so that you can walk consistently in the blessing. Why? Because although miracles are wonderful, you can't sustain your life on them. You can't go to a Benny Hinn meeting or a Kenneth Copeland meeting, for example, and receive a miracle every time you get sick. You might get healed that way a few times, but one of these days sickness will come knocking on your door in the middle of the night and Brother Benny and Brother Kenneth won't be there. It will just be you, your Bible and God. This is the reason God said, "The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17). If you cultivate faith by attending to the Word, it will be there whenever you need it. You won't have to wait for somebody to come pray that you get a miracle. You'll be able to tap into the supernatural power of heaven yourself, and receive healing (or whatever else you need from God) anytime, anywhere. To get to that place, though, you must keep growing up spiritually. You must develop your faith so that instead of going from crisis to crisis and always needing a miracle, you can live all the time on the harvest you're reaping from the spiritual seed you've sown. Ken and I rst learned to do this in our lives in the area of nances. When we rst started walking with God, that was our biggest problem. Our nances were a disaster! We were in so much debt we couldn't see any natural way we could ever pay it o , and our income was literally below the poverty line, us here on earth. If we know and believe the truth the Bible tells us about healing, for example, and the doctor diagnoses us with a disease for which there's no medical cure, we don't have to be limited by that diagnosis. We can rise above it because we aren't bound to this natural realm. We're living in the supernatural realm of God's kingdom, and He can heal anything, no matter how serious or terminal the world thinks it is. Personally, after living in God's kingdom for over 60 years now, I can't even imagine living anymore just according to what I can see in the natural or within the limits of what the world says is possible. That would be a very boring, low kind of existence. I like living in the kingdom of God where all things are possible! I like releasing heaven on earth, not only into my life, but also into the lives of others around me, by going out and doing what Jesus told His rst disciples to do. He told them to go out in His Name: "And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give" (Matthew 10:7-8). As believers today, we've received the same mandate! Jesus has said to us almost exactly what He said to those rst disciples. "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature…. And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils…they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover" (Mark 16:15, 17-18). How will the sick recover? Not through natural means, but by the supernatural power of God. By the kingdom of heaven breaking through into this natural realm to miraculously change their bodies and drive out sickness and disease. POINTS TO GET YOU THERE: 1 You don't have to wait until you get to heaven to operate in the power of God's kingdom; it's available to you now. (Mark 1:15) 2 When you were born again into God's kingdom you inherited all its blessings. (Eph. 1:3) 3 In God's kingdom there's no such thing as an impossible situation. (Matt. 19:26) 4 The kingdom of God bears fruit in your life by the law of sowing and reaping. (Gal. 6:8) 5 When you sow God's promises into your heart in time, they will come to pass in your life. (Gal. 6:7, 9) B V O V : 2 9

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