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********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** Turn your children’s church into Superkid Academy! Superkid Academy Children’s Church Curriculum Vol. 2: The Fruit of the Spirit in You #S170902 Vol. 3: Sweet Life: Living in God’s BLESSING #S170903 Vol. 4: The Heart of a Superkid: God’s Character in You #S170904 Vol. 5: The Superkid Creed #S170905 Vol. 6: The Superkid Creed II #S170906 Vol. 7: The Superkid Creed III #S170907 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! $159.99 each reg $249, $229 or $199 superkidacademy.com 1-800-606-4190 Risk-Free, 60-Day Guarantee Visit SuperkidAcademy.com for free samples. FREE standard shipping included. Offer prices valid until Sept. 30, 2017 ******************************************* * * * * * * * article continues * * * * * * * No, but He has called you to do something—and whatever He calls you to do will have to be done by faith. It’s that way with all God’s supernatural assignments. You don’t hear from God about them one day and then wake up the next morning to find everything falling automatically into place. You don’t start on day one with your bank account full of all the money you need and with everyone wanting to help you. On the contrary, when you first begin to walk out God’s plan, the natural odds will almost certainly be stacked against you. You’ll usually be facing big obstacles and dealing with skeptics who are eager to tell you that the disease you’re believing to be healed of is incurable…or the business God has called you to start is sure to fail…or you’re never going to make it in the ministry because you can’t preach your way out of a paper sack. What do you do when you’re facing that kind of negativity? You do what Abraham and Noah did. You keep believing God. You believe Him when there is no reason out there in the natural to believe. You believe Him when everyone else tells you it can’t be done. You keep walking by faith in what God has said to you in His Word, and by the voice of His Holy Spirit. Of course, to do that you must keep your heart full of the Word. You can’t be satisfied just to hear it once a week in church on Sunday. You have to spend time in it every day. You must continually feed your spirit on anointed, faith-filled preaching and meditate daily on scriptures that speak to your situation. Otherwise, you’ll begin to slip back into the natural. You’ll start to be influenced by the voice of the world and your faith will begin to weaken. You’ll start to stagger at the promise of God and before long, instead of calling things that are not as though they are, you’ll be thinking and talking unbelief. That’s not what you want to do! You want to make progress in faith, not slip back. You want to keep yourself on such a healthy diet of the Word, that you develop the attitude the Apostle Paul talked about in 2 Corinthians 4, where he wrote: “We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (verses 13, 18). Ken and I adopted those verses as our own in those early years of our faith walk when we were so broke and covered up in debt. Back then we couldn’t look at our financial situation with our physical eyes and say, “Our needs are met.” But we could stay in the Word, look through the eyes of faith, and say what God said about our situation. We could agree with Philippians 4:19 and say, “Our God supplies all of our need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” As soon as we started to do that, our situation began to turn around. Within 11 months, our debts were paid off and we had money enough to live. Praise the Lord, we’ve come a long way since then! We’ve been debt-free for many years now, and we’re more prosperous than we could have imagined in those days. Yet, we’re still doing the same thing today we did in the beginning. We’re still looking at impossible situations through the eyes of faith and saying what God says about them. We’re still standing on the Word, seeing it come to pass in our lives, and doing by faith in God what unbelievers say can’t be done. If you’ll stick with God’s Word, you can do the same! You can keep growing stronger in faith and see His plans and His promises come to pass in your life. You can bring testimonies into the earth and bring God lots of glory. I can assure you, the devil won’t be laughing then! V 30 : BVOV

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