BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Read Through the Bible APRIL Old Testament/New Testament Fri 1 Deut. 34; Josh. 1 / Acts 15 Sat 2 Josh. 2-4 / Acts 16-17 Sun 3 Josh. 5-6 / Acts 18 Mon 4 Josh. 7-8 / Acts 19 Tue 5 Josh. 9-10 / Acts 20 Wed 6 Josh. 11-12 / Acts 21 Thu 7 Josh. 13-14 / Acts 22 Fri 8 Josh. 15 / Acts 23 Sat 9 Josh. 16-18 / Acts 24-25 Sun 10 Josh. 19-20 / Acts 26 Mon 11 Josh. 21-22 / Acts 27 Tue 12 Josh. 23-24 / Acts 28 Wed 13 Jdgs. 1-2 / Rom. 1 Thu 14 Jdgs. 3-4 / Rom. 2 Fri 15 Jdgs. 5-6 / Rom. 3 Sat 16 Jdgs. 7-9 / Rom. 4-5 Sun 17 Jdgs. 10-11 / Rom. 6 Mon 18 Jdgs. 12-13 / Rom. 7 Tue 19 Jdgs. 14-15 / Rom. 8 Wed 20 Jdgs. 16-17 / Rom. 9 Thu 21 Jdgs. 18-19 / Rom. 10 Fri 22 Jdgs. 20-21 / Rom. 11 Sat 23 Ruth 1-3 / Rom. 12-13 Sun 24 Ruth 4; 1 Sam. 1 / Rom. 14 Mon 25 1 Sam. 2-3 / Rom. 15 Tue 26 1 Sam. 4-5 / Rom. 16 Wed 27 1 Sam. 6-7 / 1 Cor. 1 Thu 28 1 Sam. 8-9 / 1 Cor. 2 Fri 29 1 Sam. 10-11 / 1 Cor. 3 Sat 30 1 Sam. 12-14 / 1 Cor. 4-5 “Read Through the Bible in a Year Plan” written by Marilyn Hickey, and used by permission. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Don left the bar and went home where he fell into a deep sleep, dreaming in Technicolor. Once again he was partying at the lake with his friends. The embers from a bonfire popped and crackled against the night sky. Don stood at the end of a dock, one foot on the pier and the other in a boat with Jesus. He looked back at the people partying around the bonfire. Then Jesus spoke. 'Are you coming or staying?' Don sat up in bed, wide-awake, aware that Jesus had asked him a question and wanted an answer. “I’m going with You, Lord,” he said. “But I pray that You send me someone who knows Your Word.” Divine Connections “Three days later I met Jill,” Don remembers. “We’d both been married before and Jill had no interest in ever marrying again. However, we met in October 1993 and married in January 1994. We both loved God but Jill had received something more from Him. She’d been baptized in the Holy Spirit. I wanted what she had but the enemy kept reminding me of past mistakes. He assured me that I’d already blown it. It was too late for me. “After our wedding, I felt someone touch my feet and the presence of the Holy Spirit moved all the way up my body. My hands were in the air and I tried to tell the Lord that I loved Him, but another language poured out of me—I was baptized in His Spirit! Even as it happened, I knew the Lord wanted us to start our marriage equally yoked.” During the mid-70s, long before Don and Jill had met, Jill’s parents had given her some materials by Kenneth E. Hagin and Kenneth and Gloria Copeland. Their teachings had shocked her! They taught about the goodness of God, His faithfulness and His promises. Working from home where she hand-engraved trophies, Jill listened to cassette tapes for eight to 10 hours a day. She spent years meditating on God’s Word, allowing it to form so deeply within that when circumstances pressed her, faith spoke. Jill’s life had shifted again when she was called out of an audience by Nora Lam who said, “You’re supposed to go to China with me.” Before fleeing Shanghai in 1958, Nora had refused to deny Christ while being tortured under Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Her book, "China Cry," was later made into a movie. God in a Box On their way to China in 1985, they’d stopped to minister in Taipei, Taiwan, where hundreds of people had gathered to hear Nora’s story. Jill had been handing out Bibles when Nora announced, “Americans, administer healing!” “I was shocked,” Jill recalls. “Then it seemed as if the throng of people disappeared and I only saw one woman. I thought she was crippled and was about to pray for her when, in the spirit, I saw Jesus walk up and clear His throat.” 'She’s blind,' Jesus said. Jill looked into the woman’s eyes and tried not to recoil. She didn’t have any pupils. 'Spit in her eyes.' “What?” 'Would you just spit in her eyes?' Jill spit in her hands and then laid them over the woman’s closed eyes. “I loosed her from the spirit of blindness and from all generational curses.” Moments later, the woman screamed. She described everything she saw to an interpreter, but she still didn’t have any pupils. As Jill watched, a dot appeared in the center of each eye, circling like a computer processing, until a pupil had been formed. I don’t get it, Jill thought. I’m the same person from Henrietta, Texas, but all I’ve done there is pray for headaches. 'You’re all so civilized,' Jesus said. 'You have Me in a little box and if I don’t perform the way you think I should, you say it’s not Me. I’m not allowed to do what I want.' “I’ll let You out of the box!” Jill insisted. “I’m not into flakey but if You’ll let me know it’s You, I’ll say or do whatever You tell me!” 12 : BVOV

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