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No matter how many defeats you’ve experienced in some area of your life—you can believe God in that area. You can take Him at His WORD, conquer every challenge, and become a living testimony to 1 John 5:4: “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” “But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “I’ve tried to believe God in the past for some things and just couldn’t seem to do it. Maybe I just don’t have what it takes.” Certainly you do! First, you have God’s very own faith that He gave you as a gift the instant you received Jesus as your LORD (Ephesians 2:8). Second, you have abundant access to His WORD. Anytime you choose, you can open your Bible and read the Covenant of BLESSING that’s yours in Christ Jesus. Anytime, day or night, you can turn on your CD or DVD player, or tune in to the BVOV Network, and hear the Anointed WORD of God being preached. Talk about having what it takes to believe God! You’ve got it made. God’s WORD is more available right now than it’s ever been before in all of human history—and, as Romans 10:17 says, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Notice that verse doesn’t say faith might come. It doesn’t say that faith sometimes comes. No, it says if you keep hearing and hearing The WORD of God, faith cometh! Period. It cometh every time, all the time, because it’s a spiritual law; and spiritual laws are even more powerful and exact than natural laws. They never fail to work. Not long ago, I was fellowshiping with The LORD and He said to me, 'Kenneth, think about it this way. When you put water in a teakettle, if you put the fire under it and keep the heat on, the result is certain. You don’t have to keep feeling the water to see if it’s getting warmer. You don’t have to confirm with sensory evidence that the law of thermodynamics is still in force. You know what’s coming. If you’re at sea level, when the water gets to be 212 degrees Fahrenheit (or 100 degrees Celsius) it’s going to start bubbling because there’s no such thing as water that won’t boil.' The same principle applies in the realm of the spirit: There’s no such thing as faith that won’t come! If you keep the fire of The WORD burning in you, faith is eventually going to bubble up in your spirit. You won’t necessarily feel it because faith isn’t detectable to the natural body. But nevertheless, if you keep the scriptural heat on, one day your faith is going to boil. When it does, it will go off inside you like the whistle on a teakettle. Even though nothing on the outside may appear to have changed, in your heart you’ll know that you know that you have believed God. You’ll be able to shout with joyful assurance, “The victory is mine! I have it now!” How to Get to the Shouting Place “But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “can I really be assured I have the victory even before my circumstances have changed?” You can when you have faith because, as Hebrews 11:1 says, “Faith is the substance [or the assurance] of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith causes you to respond to God’s WORD in much the same way I responded some years ago to some natural news I received about a property that Gloria and I wanted to buy. We’d made an offer on it and, after waiting several days to hear a response, the realtor called us and said, “They’ve accepted your offer!” At that point, not one piece of paper had been signed. I didn’t have a shred of physical evidence that the deal had been made. But I believed it anyway. I didn’t wring my hands and say to Gloria, “Let’s hope, hope, hope this is actually true.” I didn’t say, “Well, he said they accepted our offer, but let’s hope they don’t change their minds.” On the contrary, I immediately started rejoicing. I turned to Gloria and shouted with confidence, “It’s ours, girl! We got it!” In that situation, the only assurance I had was what some fellow said to me on the phone. But I believed him so that was enough. How much more should it be enough when we have God’s WORD about something? How much more should we shout over what He said? ***** article continues on next page ***** Points to Get You There: You can believe anything God said in His WORD! Here are some points to get you there: 1) God gave you His very own faith as a gift the moment you were born again. Ephesians 2:8 2) You can develop your faith in any area of life by attending to God’s WORD. Proverbs 4:20-21 3) Hearing and hearing God’s WORD always causes faith to come; it’s a spiritual law. Romans 10:17 4) When faith comes you know the victory is yours even if the facts of your circumstances haven’t yet changed. Hebrews 11:1 5) Facts are temporary; spiritual truth is eternal; if you stick with the truth it will change the facts. John 8:32 BVOV : 5

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