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********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** BOGO Sale! Superkid Academy Children’s Church Curriculum Turn your children’s church into Superkid Academy! Vol. 2: The Fruit of the Spirit in You #S170802 Vol. 3: Sweet Life: Living in God’s BLESSING #S170803 Vol. 4: The Heart of a Superkid: God’s Character in You #S170804 Vol. 5: The Superkid Creed #S170805 Vol. 6: The Superkid Creed II #S170806 Vol. 7: The Superkid Creed III #S170807 Each 13-week volume includes: ● Weekly, progressive lessons ● DVD with video messages ● Complete teacher preparation CD ● Original praise & worship CD ● CD-ROM full of resources and more! Visit SuperkidAcademy.com for free samples. Risk-Free, 60-Day Guarantee $189 each reg $249 Buy one volume, get a second one free. Not available online, call for this special offer! 1-800-606-4190 FREE standard shipping included. Offer prices valid until Aug. 31, 2017 ********************************************** That’s how simple it is to live free! Believe God’s Word in your heart and confess it with your mouth. “Well,” someone might say, “I just don’t see how it could be that easy.” I didn’t say it was easy. The process itself is simple, but sticking with it takes effort. You can’t do it by just sitting around watching sitcoms on TV and hanging out with all the naysayers at the coffee shop. To keep faith in your heart and mouth, you have to continually feed your spirit on God’s Word and put that Word first place in your life. You have to keep saying what God says. Even when you have to stand for a while in the face of contrary evidence, you have to keep agreeing with God and fight the good fight of faith. That’s what Abraham had to do. When he started calling himself the “Father of Many Nations,” he saw contrary evidence every time he looked at his 100-year-old body. He saw contrary evidence every time he looked at his 90-year-old barren wife. But he refused to consider that evidence. He refused to let it discourage him. Instead, he followed God’s plan of dominion. He kept believing and speaking God’s Word, and the longer he did it the stronger his faith became. You can have the same experience. You can be just as strong in faith as Abraham was. All you have to do is follow his example and consider not your negative circumstances. Keep putting the Word in your heart and in your mouth, and look past your hurting body, your natural inabilities and your inadequate bank account, and stay focused on God. Over the past 50 years, as Ken and I have learned to do that, we’ve come through negative circumstances in victory time and again. We’ve overcome obstacles that looked insurmountable and seen the fulfillment of faith visions that, when the Lord first spoke to us about them, appeared to be absolutely impossible. We can testify from experience, God has no problem thinking big! He isn’t limited by your negative circumstances. He might tell you to do something that costs a million dollars when you don’t even have $200 in the bank. He won’t look at your checking account before He shows you what He wants done, because He doesn’t expect you to do it. He expects to do it Himself. All He needs for you to do is keep believing and speaking until the whole picture He has in mind for you is fulfilled. I remember back when God first told us to go on television, Ken and I could hardly wrap our minds around such a thing. We didn’t even know where to start. We didn’t have the money or the know-how. But as we kept fellowshiping with the Lord about it and staying in the Word, faith began to come. One day we were on a ministry trip and we stopped at Denny’s to have breakfast. We started talking about our television ministry, and the faith in our hearts started coming out of our mouths. “We can do this!” we said, and suddenly it seemed like the easiest thing in the world. Had our circumstances changed? Did we have any more money or equipment or staff at that point? No. But a faith picture had formed on the inside of us and we declared it would come to pass. Sure enough, shortly thereafter, we were ministering on TV. That’s how we, as believers, are called to live. It’s God’s plan of dominion. So keep putting it to work. Keep feeding the Word of God into your heart, believing it and speaking it with your mouth. Rise up over the negative circumstances that have been trying to get you down and live free! V 30 : BVOV

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