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Read Through the Bible June Old Testament / New Testament Sun 1 2 Kgs. 4-5 / Eph. 6 Mon 2 2 Kgs. 6-7 / Phil. 1 Tue 3 2 Kgs. 8-9 / Phil. 2 Wed 4 2 Kgs. 10-12 / Phil. 3-4 Thu 5 2 Kgs. 13-14 / Col. 1 Fri 6 2 Kgs. 15-16 / Col. 2 Sat 7 2 Kgs. 17-18 / Col. 3 Sun 8 2 Kgs. 19-20 / Col. 4 Mon 9 2 Kgs. 21-22 / 1 Thess. 1 Tue 10 2 Kgs. 23-24 / 1 Thess. 2 Wed 11 2 Kgs. 25; 1 Chr. 1-2 / 1 Thess. 3-4 Thu 12 1 Chr. 3-4 / 1 Thess. 5 Fri 13 1 Chr. 5-6 / 2 Thess. 1 Sat 14 1 Chr. 7-8 / 2 Thess. 2 Sun 15 1 Chr. 9-10 / 2 Thess. 3 Mon 16 1 Chr. 11-12 / 1 Tim. 1 Tue 17 1 Chr. 13-14 / 1 Tim. 2 Wed 18 1 Chr. 15-17 / 1 Tim. 3-4 Thu 19 1 Chr. 18-19 / 1 Tim. 5 Fri 20 1 Chr. 20-21 / 1 Tim. 6 Sat 21 1 Chr. 22-23 / 2 Tim. 1 Sun 22 1 Chr. 24-25 / 2 Tim. 2 Mon 23 1 Chr. 26-27 / 2 Tim. 3 Tue 24 1 Chr. 28-29 / 2 Tim. 4 Wed 25 2 Chr. 1-3 / Titus 1-2 Thu 26 2 Chr. 4-5 / Titus 3 Fri 27 2 Chr. 6-7 / Philem. Sat 28 2 Chr. 8-9 / Heb. 1 Sun 29 2 Chr. 10-11 / Heb. 2 Mon 30 2 Chr. 12-13 / Heb. 3 “Read Through the Bible in a Year Plan” written by Marilyn Hickey, and used by permission. ********************************* After a temporary duty assignment to Korea for jungle survival school, Bill had been deployed to Vietnam. He had returned home one year later having been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for acts of heroism in aerial combat. Bill Winston had grown up believing anything was possible. The African American pilots, entrepreneurs, scholars, professors and leaders who had surrounded him for years on a daily basis had left him with no doubt. That’s why he had succeeded at almost everything he’d ever attempted to do. Until now. In his first nonmilitary position, Bill had joined IBM, gone through computer sales training and was put on the IBM sales team where he was paid primarily on commission...and he wasn’t making many sales. Pulling his paycheck out of his pocket, he opened the envelope and groaned. He wasn’t earning enough to survive, and the stress was giving him stomach problems. What’s worse, he felt anger simmering below the surface of his soul remembering the experiences he’d had while growing up in Tuskegee, when he hadn’t been allowed to swim in white men’s pools and couldn’t attend their schools. While his white friends walked through the front door of a restaurant, he’d had to slip through the screen door in back. This lifetime of swallowed injustices was eating him alive. Bill looked up to the wide blue sky where the jet’s contrail faded into oblivion, much like the success he’d hoped to achieve at IBM. There was nothing better than being 40,000 feet above the earth. If only he could be there now. Tapping in to God’s Power “It was one of the lowest points of my life,” Bill recalls. “I’d been raised in a Christian home, but never accepted Jesus as my personal Savior. When everything in my life started falling apart, I thought about going back to church but I had no idea where to go. “I met a Catholic charismatic woman who invited me to a meeting on the north side of Chicago. I got born again at that meeting. When I did, the love of God renewed my heart and all the anger disappeared. “Another woman prophesied, ‘You’re going to preach!’” Bill recalls. “I didn’t want any part of that so whenever I saw her I ran in the other direction.” Even so, Bill’s spiritual appetite had been whetted. One day he tuned the radio to a Christian station while he was driving to a sales call and heard a voice say, “Hello, this is Charles Capps....” Listening to the man preach, Bill was hooked. From then on, he listened to Charles every chance he got. On the radio he also discovered Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, Fred Price and Lester Sumrall. From them, he learned about the integrity of God’s Word, the laws of faith and the power of his own words. At home he watched Kenneth Copeland’s Believer’s Voice of Victory broadcast, and became a Partner with KCM. He listened to messages by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, and read their books. Little by little, he learned to handle problems in his life by faith. The Word Works! Soon, Bill’s sales began to take off, and before he knew it, he was the top salesman in the office. Then, he was promoted to a first-level sales manager. The Word of God was working in his life! Things rocked along until an economic drought dried up sales for the whole company. Toward the end of the month the manager was desperate to see some revenue come in. From God’s Word, Bill had learned that when you’re working the law of faith, you have to say something. So early in the morning on the last day of the month, when his sister phoned to ask how he was doing, Bill chose his words with care. “I’m doing fine, thank you,” he replied. “If you call me back this afternoon at 5, I’ll have more business than I can put on the books.” 12 : JUNE '14

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