BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

3 0 : B V O V you do—and I don't want to talk faith in front of unbelievers. They'll think I'm crazy." Then make your confessions of faith to the Lord. Speak the Word to yourself when no one else is around, or talk about it to people at your church. Just be sure if you choose not to make your declarations of faith around people who won't understand that you don't end up joining in with them when they start talking unbelief. Even if you're just going along with the conversation to be sociable, speaking words of unbelief will hinder the operation of your faith. The Lord spoke to a pastor friend of ours about this a number of years ago after he engaged in a casual conversation with a man at the grocery store. The man had been in front of him in the checkout line. He'd paid for his groceries with the last few dollars in his wallet and then turned to the pastor and said with a chuckle, "Money goeth!" Just to be cordial, the pastor laughed and agreed. "Yeah, that's right," he said. "Money goeth." Afterward, the Lord reprimanded him. You ought not be saying, "Money goeth," He said. You should be saying, "Money cometh." Why would the Lord tell him to say, "Money cometh"? Because that agrees with the Word. It says in Proverbs 10:22, "The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." Psalm 112:3 says about the righteous man that "wealth and riches shall be in his house." Second Corinthians 8:9 says that Jesus Christ, "though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." All through the Bible, God tells us He wants His people to prosper and increase. In scripture after scripture, He says it is His will for money to come to us. So that's what we ought to be saying, too. We ought to be operating according to God's plan of dominion. We ought to be speaking words of faith that open the door for Him to carry out His good will in our lives! Jesus spoke personally about this to Brother Kenneth E. Hagin one time many years ago. Pointing out that in Mark 11:23, He used the word believe only one time and used the word say three times, He told Brother Hagin, You'll have to preach three times more about saying than you will about believing, because the saying part is primarily where My people are missing it. Jesus said something very similar one time when He was talking to Brother Charles Capps about the subject. I told you that you can have what you say, He said, but My people are saying what they have. That, right there, is the bottom line. If you have a problem, and you say what you have, you're perpetuating that problem. If you go around saying things like, "I don't have enough money to pay my bills. I just can't make ends meet," you're establishing those conditions in your life. Don't make that mistake! Follow God's plan of dominion. Fill your heart with His Word and say what He says. If you'll do that, no matter how bad things might look right now in the natural, you'll be on your way to victory. You'll be calling things that be not as though they were, and because you're operating like your heavenly Father, you'll get His results. You'll say it…you'll see it…and it will be good! For God's will to come to pass for you, you have to speak it. You have to say about yourself what God says." " kcm.org /bvovwatch kcm.org /bvovwatch Scan the QR Code to watch the BVOV broadcast.

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