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*****ADVERTISEMENT******** Discover God’s Way to True Prosperity God desires that you live a happy and prosperous life—with every need met. And His Word can help you learn to live in the abundance that only He can provide. In this powerful series and study guide, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland share how to activate God’s principles of prosperity. The world may define prosperity as financial, political or military power, but true prosperity is the ability to use God’s power and resources to meet your needs—spirit, soul and body. Discover God’s way to "Living in Prosperity" today! "Living in Prosperity" 10 CDs and study guide sale $29.99* reg $44.99 #B141201 Order online and save an additional 10% kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 U.S. only +1-817-852-6000 *Plus shipping. Offer price valid until Dec. 31, 2014 ************************************** ****article continues********* Although we’ve done this to a certain extent, we haven’t yet scratched the surface of God’s plans for us, and here’s why: We have vastly underestimated our spiritual capacity. With some help from the devil and traditional religious ideas, we’ve continued to think of ourselves as “only human.” “Well, aren’t we human?” you might ask. Yes, but we aren’t just human. We’re joint heirs with Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He is both human and divine. He is fully man and fully God. As believers, born again in His image, we’re just like Him. We have his spiritual DNA and His spiritual capacity because “as he is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17). Once we realize this and start following His example, we can do what He did and get the same results. So let’s look at exactly what He told us in the New Testament about His method of operation. He said: • “I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.” (John 8:28) • “I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.” (John 12:49) • “The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” (John 14:10) One day when I was praying over these verses, meditating on the fact that we have the capacity to hear and speak God’s WORD just like Jesus did, it hit me that He said we live by “every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Every word! Suddenly, I started thinking about how many words that might include. I’d read somewhere there are well over a million words in the English language. About 175,000 of them are currently in use. The conversational vocabulary of the average person is between 75,000 and 80,000 words. How many words does God know? I wondered. As I pondered the question, The LORD spoke to me. 'Kenneth, I could speak continually one word right after the other throughout eternity and never say the same word twice.' That’s amazing, isn’t it? Our God is BIG and He has a lot to say! But what’s even more amazing is this: We’re created in His image, so if He can say it, we can hear it. If we can hear it, it will build faith in us. If we’ll release that faith by speaking His words, He can bring them to pass and we can have whatever He says. We’re only one word behind God! A Glorious Heritage I realize that to many Christians this sounds like some kind of far-out idea we faith folks came up with, but it’s not. This was God’s plan for mankind from the beginning. In fact, if you’ll go back and really read Genesis 1, you’ll see this is how man was created. “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion...” (verse 26). A lot of people read that verse with the idea that God was simply describing what He planned to do. They have the impression He was just saying, “I have an idea. I think we should make a man.” But that’s not accurate. What God was doing was continuing the same process He’d already begun in Genesis 1:3 where He said, “Light be!” and light was (which is literally how the verse reads in the Hebrew language). He was continuing with the method He had used in verses 6-7 and 11 where He said, “Let there be a firmament…and it was so,” and “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed…and it was so.” 6 : BVOV

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