BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

God promises that if you’ll keep His Word in front of you, if you’ll put it first place in your life, you’ll know how to prosper and succeed in all you do. Do you realize what a timesaver that would be? Just think about how much time it takes to correct a mistake. Think how much time you might spend in a lawyer’s office trying to straighten out a legal problem. Or how much time you might spend sitting in the doctor’s office because you’re sick—not to mention the hospital. If you’ll put the Word first, you can save yourself all that wasted time. Instead of having to redo things, the wisdom of the Word can enable you to do them right the first time. It can keep you out of the lawyer’s office by guiding you around those legal problems. It can keep you out of the doctor’s office by providing you with divine health. Proverbs 4:7-8 says it this way: “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.” 30 Remarkable Days I saw that scripture proven out in my own life many years ago. It was back in 1967 when Ken was a student at Oral Roberts University. We had just moved to Tulsa. Nearly everything we had was still in boxes. Our children were small so they required almost constant attention. It was a tremendously busy time for me. Yet, in the midst of it all, I heard Oral Roberts tell how the Lord instructed him during the early days of his ministry to read the Gospels and the book of Acts four times in 30 days. And I felt impressed of the Lord to do the same thing. Naturally speaking, it didn’t look like a good time for me to commit to spending so many hours in the Word, but I knew God had instructed me to do it. I warned Ken, “Now if I take on this commitment, I may not be able to cook. I may not be able to do the ironing or unpack all these boxes. I’ll just have to put the Word of God first and let the other things wait.” Ken said that was fine with him. So in spite of the fact that I generally like to get things done quickly, I reconciled myself to putting my other work off for 30 days. After figuring out how many pages I had to read to accomplish my goal, I set aside three specific times during the day to read. I got up at 5:30 in the morning and read until everyone else woke up. Then, at noon when I put the children to sleep I read again as long as I could. And at night, after the dishes were done and the kids were in bed, I finished my daily quota. The very first day, something miraculous happened. At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, even though I had already spent hours in the Word, I had finished all my work for that day. The second day went equally as well. By the end of the first week, I had done everything I needed to do. I even got caught up on my ironing and antiqued four pieces of furniture from start to finish—all in one week! And I did it all while spending almost four to five hours a day in the Word! How did that happen? I did what Proverbs 4:8 said to do. I exalted wisdom (God’s Word) and it exalted me. ******************************** twitter.com/CopelandNetwork Follow Us on Twitter for timely words from Kenneth & Gloria *********************************** BVOV : 19

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