BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

words on thanksgiving The time has come to unashamedly praise and give thanks to the living God—our provider of life everlasting. Psalm 100:4 says, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” When you enter into God's presence and begin to praise Him, sickness and disease can't stay on your body. Poverty can't stay in your house. The devil can't keep aggravating you. ******article continues******** Then follow the Master’s example. Release your faith by speaking God’s Word to the storm, and change things. Get Your Engines Roaring “Brother Copeland, are you saying I can do the same thing Jesus did in that story?” Yes. But if you’re going to do His works, you have to do them His way: by hearing, believing and speaking The WORD of God. “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith” (Mark 11:23). This is a major key to the Kingdom: Faith that changes things believes what it says comes to pass! Why? Because words do more than just communicate. Words are tools of power release. They’re much like the fuel in an airplane. They supply the power to get us where we’re going. As a pilot, when I get into the Citation X and load it to the gills, there’s 13,000 pounds of fuel on it. I have only 6,000 feet of runway to get the whole thing off the ground. So if I’m lined up to take off with a plane full of people, I don’t want that fuel to be contaminated. I need all the power coming out of it that I can get. I’m planning on pushing the throttles forward, pinning everyone to their seats and taking off. That’s what the plane is designed to do. Like one of my first instructors told me, “Copeland, when you push the power up on this thing you better have it pointed in the right direction because something is going to happen.” The same is true for us as believers. We have the power of life eternal inside us and we don’t want it to be crippled and contaminated by bad fuel. We want to be able to push the faith throttles forward with full confidence, knowing our words are going to come to pass. The secret to having such confidence is revealed in Hebrews 3:1. It says: “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.” The word translated 'profession' there literally means “to say exactly the same thing as.” It indicates that when we say the same thing Jesus said, when we speak The WORD of God, He backs it. As our High Priest, He brings to pass what we say. Just think: Jesus Himself is waiting to hear what you have to say! If you’ll consider that fact, your respect for Him will mix with your faith and your spiritual engines will begin to roar. You’ll start shouting, “Greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world! By His stripes I am healed, debt free and BLESSED!” Before long, mountains will be moving, storm clouds will be scattering, and things in your life will be changing. Your faith will take off like a jet and do exactly what God designed it to do. V 8 : BVOV

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