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****continued from page 4**** Sure you can. All you have to do is love Jesus and obey His commands. 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” (John 14:21). When Jesus manifests Himself to you it’s not hard at all to get back in the plan of God. You simply follow wherever He leads you and do whatever He tells you to do. The moment you start doing that, you’re right back on track. “But you don’t know what kind of sins I’ve committed and what kind of mistakes I’ve made! They’re BIG! It would take years to overcome them and get back into the place of God’s BLESSING.” That would be true if you had to do it yourself, but you don’t. Jesus has done it for you. When He went to the cross, He wiped out every sinful act of disobedience and every dumb mistake you ever made. He redeemed you and me and everyone else in the world from the curse so that, with one step of faith, we can receive Him as LORD of our lives, inherit His BLESSING, and start walking out the plan He designed for us before the foundation of the world. BLESSED on Credit I know what you might be thinking. That sounds too good to be true! I agree. From a natural, human perspective, it does sound that way. But it’s true nevertheless. No matter what blunders you might have made or how far away from God you may have wandered, you can get right back in God’s will by simply putting your faith in Jesus and making a commitment to obey Him. You can change the course of your life from this time forward just by praying this simple prayer every day: “LORD Jesus, I commit myself to love You and keep Your commands. Today, all day long, I will attend to both Your written WORD and the voice of Your Spirit within me. I open my ears, Sir, to hear Your instructions. Whatever I hear You tell me to do, I will do. I trust You to manifest Yourself to me and I thank You for it. Amen.” The instant you step over the line of faith by praying that prayer, what you did five minutes ago, or five years ago, is in the past. It’s gone. You’re immediately BLESSED and in the plan of God. “But Brother Copeland, doesn’t God require me to go through some kind of probationary period before He starts BLESSING me? Doesn’t He wait for me to prove to Him for a while that I’m going to keep my commitment?” No, He doesn’t. He does for you the same thing He did for Abraham. God BLESSED Abraham on credit! The moment Abraham believed God, “it was accounted to him for righteousness” (Galatians 3:6). God didn’t say to him, “You act righteous long enough and then I’ll BLESS you.” He BLESSED Abraham as soon as he believed; then Abraham acted on his faith and did what God said. Some of us, as believers, have twisted it around the other way. We’ve thought that if we hear God’s commands and keep them, eventually He’ll see how well we’re behaving and BLESS us. But that’s not what the Bible teaches. It says in Romans 4:16, that “it is of faith, [so] that it might be by grace; to the end the promise [of THE BLESSING] might be sure to all the seed…which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all.” ****continues on next page**** ****ADVERTISEMENT****** “Before the foundation of the world, God made man wealthy beyond his wildest imagination.” —Kenneth Copeland Before sin, sickness, debt and lack ever came into this world, God designed a place for you where the answers to your every need are provided in abundance. Psalm 66:12 calls it your “wealthy place.” God saw you rich from before the beginning. He has a plan all laid out for you. Get on the path to your wealthy place today! Your Wealthy Place in God by Kenneth Copeland 4 CDs #B151202 sale $14.99* reg $20 kcm.org/mag 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) +1-817-852-6000 *FREE standard shipping included. Offer price valid until Dec. 31, 2015 ************************************ 6 : BVOV

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