BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

The God who moved into you when you received Jesus as Lord, the God who filled you with His power when He baptized you in the Holy Spirit, is the same God who worked all the signs and wonders in the Bible. He’s the One who delivered the Israelites out of bondage and poured out fire and hail on their enemies. He’s the One who engulfed the land of Egypt in so much darkness that no one dared move for three days. He’s the God who dried a path through the Red Sea so the children of Israel didn’t even get their feet muddy as they walked through, and then He drowned Pharaoh’s army behind them. This same awesome, all-powerful God has made you His mobile temple! And He’s saying to you every single day, “Come fellowship with Me. Spend time in prayer, talking to Me and receiving from Me so I can help you. I want to strengthen you and give you divine wisdom about that problem you’ve been having. I want to apply My supernatural power to it so that it disappears and gets out of your life.” Talk about having what it takes to be an overcomer! All you have to do is spend time with God every day, obey Him and your victory is guaranteed. “But I’m so busy right now,” you might say, “I just can’t seem to fit time with God into my schedule. My days are absolutely packed.” That may be true. But let me ask you this: If Jesus physically came into your house and offered to talk to you, do you think you could make time for Him? Sure you would! If you got up one morning and found Him sitting at your kitchen table, you wouldn’t just rush past Him. You wouldn’t just wave goodbye to Him on your way out the door and say, “I sure wish I could visit with You awhile, Jesus, but I have to get to the office. I’ll just have to catch You later.” f you got home from work tonight and found Jesus there waiting for you, it wouldn’t matter what you had on your schedule, you wouldn’t just ignore Him. You wouldn’t say, “Lord, I appreciate Your stopping by but I’ve had a really hard day and I’m just too tired to talk to You tonight. I’m just going to lie down here on the couch and watch TV for a while.” No! If Jesus was physically sitting there in your living room so you could literally see Him with your own eyes, you know what you’d do? You’d fall on your face before Him. You’d forget about work and television and your hard day, and you’d worship Him. You’d enjoy times of refreshing in His presence and you’d pay attention to what He had to say. This is the opportunity you have as a believer. Although Jesus may not be visibly sitting at your kitchen table every day, the Holy Spirit is with you and in you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He’s ready and waiting to commune with you anytime, day or night, and He has some things He wants to show you. Things you’ve been beating your head against the wall trying to figure out. Things that will enable you to live like the overcomer God has created you to be. How to Pray the Perfect Prayer “But Gloria, sometimes I feel so overwhelmed by the situations I’m facing I don’t even know how to pray about them. Sometimes I want to fellowship with God but I don’t know what to say.” Then take advantage of the ability to pray in other tongues that God gave you when He filled you with His Holy Spirit. That ability is a tremendous blessing! As Romans 8:26-27 says, when we pray in tongues “the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” The word infirmities in that passage actually means “weaknesses.” It refers to the inabilities of our flesh. It speaks of the fact that although we as believers are spiritually unlimited, we still live in a natural body that has a lot of limitations. One of those limitations is we don’t always know what God’s will is in every situation, other than what His written Word tells us—which, of course, is vitally important. The Holy Spirit, however, knows everything! He not only understands what we need, He knows our hearts and the heart of God. If we’ll give Him place and pray in other tongues, He’ll take hold together with us against the weaknesses of our flesh and help us with the circumstances we’re facing. He’ll pray through us the perfect will of God and bring us to the place where, as Romans 8:28, "The Amplified Bible, Classic Edition," puts it, “We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.” BVOV : 29

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