BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

That’s what happened with Ken and me back in 1967, when we first heard the Word of faith and began to believe God for finances. We started out just believing God for enough money to put food on our table. That doesn’t sound very impressive. It doesn’t seem like our believing God for groceries would be a very big deal. Yet the devil fought us over it, and before long we saw why. We saw that the same faith in God’s Word that caused our personal needs to be met works in other areas too. It works to bring in the money to preach the gospel around the world. It works to buy television airtime and get the Word of God out on the airwaves. It works to build ministry headquarters and church buildings, and finance missions overseas. Over the years, Ken and I have continued to believe God’s promises of financial prosperity and they’ve continued to come to pass in our lives. We’ve shared with others how God has blessed us and enabled us to be a blessing, and they’ve been inspired to dig into the Word and step up to new levels of financial faith and blessing themselves. As a result of the integrity of God’s Word, more and more testimonies of God’s faithfulness are being brought into the earth. The devil is losing more ground (not only financially but in many other ways) and the Body of Christ is gaining ground because increasing numbers of believers are standing on God’s Word—growing strong in faith, and giving glory to God. The devil hates it when God gets glory! He hates it when, instead of caving in under the pressure of contrary circumstances and people, you resist him and say, “Devil, I believe God! I believe Him more than anything you can show me with my natural eyes or cause me to hear with my natural ears. I believe Him and stand fast on His Word because He cannot lie. His Word is the truth and I’ll not let it go!” You can’t be defeated when you have that kind of attitude. No matter how hard the devil tries to stop you, you just keep winning and advancing God’s kingdom. You keep receiving what you’re believing for, fulfilling the assignments God gives you, and walking out His marvelous plans for your life. Mission Seemingly Impossible God does have marvelous plans for your life, you know. He has things for you to achieve that are far beyond your own natural abilities. He has missions for you that are so seemingly impossible that, to fulfill them, you’ll have to rely daily on His supernatural power. You’ll have to live by faith in the fact that He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that you ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). That’s a thrilling way to live! Even though it brings with it some persecutions; even though it causes the world to label you as one of those “peculiar faith people,” it puts you in good company. It puts you in there not only with Abraham, but with faith heroes like Noah. Talk about someone who had to deal with being persecuted and labeled peculiar! Think about what Noah must have had to put up with. No one outside of his own family understood what God told him to do. When he set out to build the Ark, the earth was still being watered from underneath. No one had ever even seen rain before, much less a massive, worldwide flood. So, everyone thought he’d lost his mind when they saw Noah building a humongous boat, the size of a football stadium. “Crazy old Noah, preacher of righteousness!” his friends and neighbors must have said. “He doesn’t have any sense at all! He’s spending all his time and energy building that thing and he’s never even going to need it.” While they laughed at him, however, Noah kept believing and acting on God’s Word. He stuck with his building program, and when it started to rain, his faith paid off. While the rest of the world was in the dark, he was in the ark! “But Gloria,” you might say, “I’m not anything like Noah. God hasn’t called me to build an ark!” * * * * article continues on p. 30 * * * * BVOV : 29

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