BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

B V O V : 2 9 Jesus used the same system when He was on earth. He said to Jairus' daughter (Mark 5:41), "I say unto thee, arise," and she was raised from the dead. He said to the storm on the Sea of Galilee, "Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm" (Mark 4:39). He declared the blessing over the five loaves and two fish and they multiplied until they'd fed thousands. Time and again, just like God, Jesus said… He saw…and it was good. As a believer, you can apply that in your own life. After all, you're a new creature in Christ Jesus. You've been given authority in His Name. You have the power and Spirit of God in you. Therefore, if you agree with Him and say what He says over your life, you'll see it come to pass, and it will be good! Romans 4 calls that walking "in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham" (verse 12). You've probably heard about him. He was told by God, in his old age, that he and his barren wife, Sarah, were going to have a baby. In the natural, such a thing was impossible. Not only was Abraham 99 years old, Sarah was 90 and she hadn't been able to have a baby even when she was young. Even so, Abraham believed God and began to say about himself what God said. He didn't focus on his circumstances and shrink back from declaring the Word of God because it didn't make sense to him. He kept faith in his heart and in his mouth like God told him to do. He started going around calling himself what God called him—the father of many nations. Before very long the supernatural happened: Abraham and Sarah's baby boy, Isaac, was born! You can see something just as supernatural happen in your life. You may not miraculously have a baby because that may not be what you're believing for. But if you'll believe and confess God's Word like Abraham did, you can take whatever bad situation you may be facing and turn it around. You can come from defeat into victory…from sickness into health…from poverty into prosperity. Why? Because God's Word always works. When you keep it in your heart and speak it out your mouth, it always comes to pass. That's why Jesus could say in John 15:7, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." You Will Have What You Say Before Ken and I learned this, even though we were born again, we experienced very little victory in our lives. We'd been born again and filled with the Holy Spirit for five years, yet we were still in pitiful shape. When we found out how faith works, however, we started making changes. We immersed ourselves in God's Word, quit talking about how bad things looked in the natural, and began to say about ourselves and our circumstances what God said in the Bible. It wasn't easy, especially at first, but we knew we wouldn't get anywhere if we spoke faith one moment and unbelief the next, so we agreed to hold each other accountable. If one of us said something contrary to what the Word says, the other would point it out. "That's your confession," we'd say, "and I believe every word of it." Because Ken did most of the talking back then, I got to correct him more than he did me. But we both slipped up sometimes and said things we didn't want to come to pass. When we did, we'd immediately repent and get right back on faith words. In those days, our biggest problems were financial. We were facing a mountain of debt and had very little income, so that's the first area we tackled. We put together a list of scriptures about God's will for our prosperity and diligently read and confessed them. We stopped saying things like, "We can't pay these bills," and started saying things like, "My God supplies all my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Sure enough, before long, those words came to pass. God's will manifested in our lives and in less than a year, what seemed to be a mountain of debt was gone! We began to prosper, and we've been prospering ever since. "But my situation is di‰erent," someone might say. "I don't have a Christian spouse like

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