BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

No matter what your circumstances, no matter how big or small your bank balance, everything you could ever need or want is already yours. It’s not up in heaven waiting to be sent down to you one of these days. It’s already been released into the earth. It’s here right now; and it will respond to faith in God. It will respond to your believing, speaking and acting on His WORD because that’s what it was originally created to do. Ever since the beginning, this earth and all of its abundance has been on assignment to serve and prosper mankind. Everything on this planet was created for our benefit. God didn’t make this earth and fill it with everything good just for His own sake. He made it with His children in mind. You can see that’s true in the first chapter of the Bible. The first thing God did there after creating the earth was turn around and give it to Adam. As soon as He breathed life into him, God BLESSED him and said: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and…have dominion” (Genesis 1:28). Just think! Those were the first words any human being ever heard and they settled forever the question of whether or not we’re supposed to prosper. The answer will always be, “Yes!” God never had the idea that we should go without any of our needs or wants being met. It was never His plan for us to just barely scrape by. His plan has always been for us to “be fruitful and multiply” on the earth, and to do so by the power of the same force that created it—THE BLESSING of The LORD. “But Brother Copeland, you have to remember, in the Garden of Eden Adam bowed his knee to the devil. So now everything on earth belongs to him.” No, it doesn’t. Nothing has ever belonged to him. He’s been a thief from the start. Everything he’s ever gotten his hands on was stolen from God and man. The Bible confirms this time and again. God not only created everything on this planet, He still owns it. As He said in Psalm 50: “Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof” (verses 10-12). God is pretty blunt in those verses. He basically says, “If I decide I want to use some of the earth’s resources, I don’t have to come begging to you for them. If I’m hungry and I want to dine there, I’ll eat whatever I want. I own it all!” First Corinthians 10 says this again, not just once but twice: “The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof” (verses 26, 28)! One thing in particular that’s included in this fullness is all the money on earth. God says very specifically in Haggai 2:8, “The silver is mine, and the gold is mine.” You can forget what you’ve heard about money being the devil’s “filthy lucre.” All the wealth in the whole world belongs to God, and His intention is for us to exercise dominion over it. His will is for us to prosper and experience the fulfillment of what the Bible says in Psalm 115:14-16: “The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children. Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.” ****** article continues on p. 8 ****** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Points to Get You There As a joint heir with Jesus, everything you could ever need or want on this earth is already yours. Here are some points to get you there: 1) God’s plan has always been for His children to prosper on the earth. Genesis 1:28 2) God owns all the earth’s resources, including all the world’s wealth. Haggai 2:8 3) The devil stole those resources through sin but Jesus got them back again. Hebrews 1:2 4) As a joint heir with Jesus, you too have inherited all things. Romans 8:16-17 5) God doesn’t just give you things to meet your needs, He gives you things to enjoy. 1 Timothy 6:17 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BVOV : 7

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