BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

God’s Covenant of BLESSING is infinitely more thrilling than the best piece of property anyone could ever buy! So if you aren’t shouting yet, just start spending more time in that Covenant. Instead of getting discouraged, put The WORD first place in your life and your schedule. Keep going over it and over it until faith comes. If you’ve been struggling with sickness or lack, find healing or prosperity scriptures and write them all down in a little notebook. Then carry that notebook with you and read from it throughout the day as you have opportunity. Read it at night before you go to sleep and again in the morning when you wake up. In other words, do what God said in Proverbs 4: “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh” (verses 20-22). The word health in the last phrase of that passage can also be translated medicine. I like that particular translation because it reflects a vital spiritual truth. God’s WORD really is supernatural, spiritual medicine, and when taken according to prescription, it releases His healing, miracle-working power not only in your body, but in any area of your life. Just the healing scriptures you write down in your little notebook would be enough to heal every sickness and disease in existence. Just the little pocket-sized list of verses you put together for your own use could cure every suffering person in the world. One WORD from God can change anyone’s life forever, so just think what a whole book full of scriptures can do! They can connect anyone anywhere to God’s healing power because that power is present all over this planet. It’s been present here 24/7 since the day of Pentecost. Right now God is present to heal in every hospital on earth. He’s present in every hotel and every business, in every home and on every street corner. Wherever anyone may be, the living God Himself is there! He’s less than a breath away; and anyone, in any place, at anytime can receive from Him. All it takes is faith. Get It Into Your System Although you can open the door for faith to come by assembling a notebook full of scriptures (or list of scriptures on your cellphone or tablet) I want to reemphasize that’s just the beginning. You’ll also want to make it a practice to go over those scriptures again and again. Even if you get to where you have them memorized, keep looking at them. Keep reading them and meditating on them. Don’t make the mistake of just leaving them tucked in your pocket or sitting on your nightstand. That doesn’t do any good. It’s like getting a prescription filled and then neglecting to take the medicine. You can imagine how a doctor would respond to your making such a mistake. If you filled a prescription he gave you and never bothered to open the little pill bottle, when you went back for your next appointment, he’d say, “You haven’t improved at all! Have you been taking your medicine?” “No, but I keep it right next to my bed so I’ll always know where it is.” *** this article continues on page 7 *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Did You Know? ONE WORD FROM GOD CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER Long before Kenneth and Gloria Copeland began speaking the phrase “One Word From God Can Change Your Life Forever” into the lives of the thousands they minister to each day, Kenneth had seen his own life completely revolutionized by “one word” he heard in a teaching by Kenneth E. Hagin titled, “You Can Have What You Say.” In his quest for faith, Kenneth knew he needed to know more of what Brother Hagin preached, but he didn’t have the money to pay for it. “What I needed next was every tape by Brother Hagin that I could get my hands on,” Kenneth recalled, looking back on that time in the late 1960s. “I drove my old car over to Brother Hagin’s headquarters. His son-in-law, Buddy Harrison, was his general manager. I’d never met him, but I introduced myself and told him I’d been called to preach. “I need Brother Hagin’s tapes,” Kenneth told Harrison. “Here is the title to my car. I’ll send you every offering I get until I pay for them.” Recognizing the hunger of this young preacher for the Word of God, Harrison did something unexpected. He refused to accept Kenneth’s car as collateral, but graciously gave him copies of all Brother Hagin’s teaching tapes. Soon after, Kenneth locked himself away for a solid week to study his newfound treasure—determined to hear from God. “I knew my heart needed to be filled to overflowing with the Word,” he remembers. “I took my Bible and my tape player to the garage and made myself available to God. I stayed out there for seven days. The first day, I listened to tapes for 13 hours. The second day, I was out there for close to 15 hours. From then on I averaged 18 hours a day.” What followed was the beginning of a transformation in Kenneth’s life—a transformation that would be the catalyst for change in his and Gloria’s lives, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of souls for the Kingdom. Only eternity will reveal the abundance of that harvest, which began with a single gift, and “one word from God.” V 6 : BVOV

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