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It’s actually revealed throughout the Bible. But personally I think it was Mary, the mother of Jesus, who summed it up most concisely. At the wedding in Cana, after informing Jesus that the host had run out of wine, she turned to the servants of the household and said these seven words: “Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it” (John 2:5). Those are, without question, some of the wisest words ever spoken. When the servants at the wedding acted on them, they stepped out of the natural realm and into the supernatural plan of God. They obeyed Jesus’ command and filled the waterpots with water. He turned it into wine and transformed a disastrous situation into a divine success. “Yeah, I know it,” you might say. “That’s the kind of thing that always happened in the Bible when Jesus got involved in a situation. I just can’t figure out how to get it to happen for me.” It’s simple: Whatever He says to you, do it. That’s the key to getting Jesus to manifest Himself and release the power of God—anytime, anyplace, in any area of your life. Jesus Himself confirmed it. In John 14:21, He said, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” If you haven’t already, you ought to underline that verse in your Bible. Put little stars around it. Make it stand out because it’s extremely important and you need to be paying attention to it. Most Christians aren’t. They’re just trying to figure out on their own how to get Jesus to manifest Himself to them. They’re crying, they’re fasting, they’re lying on the floor begging Him to move in their circumstances, their families, their finances and their churches. They’re sincere about it, too. Yet nothing is happening for them because Jesus didn’t say, “I’ll manifest Myself to the person who cries the longest.” He didn’t say, “I’ll manifest Myself to those who go the longest without eating.” He said, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them…I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” God Has a Plan With Your Name on It Exactly how do you go about having and keeping Jesus’ commandments? You do it by putting His WORD first place in your life and making it your final authority. You do it by listening all the time to what He’s saying to you in the Scriptures and in your spirit, by continually inquiring of Him about everything in your life and obeying every command He gives you. “But Brother Copeland, I don’t have time for that,” you might say. “I have too many other things to do.” No, you’ve got it turned around. You don’t have time to do anything else until you’ve inquired of The LORD. If you haven’t inquired of Him, the things you’re doing might be taking you in the wrong direction. You might be working the wrong job, living in the wrong place and coming up with the wrong plans. You might just be doing what makes sense to you in the natural. That’s not how believers are supposed to live! That’s how worldly people live—and if you live like the world does, you’ll get the world’s results. To get supernatural results, God’s results, you have to find out what His plan is. He does have a plan for you, you know. He has one for every believer. The Bible leaves no doubt about it. It says: “We are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]” (Ephesians 2:10, "The Amplified Bible"). BVOV : 5

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