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********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** Superkid Academy Home Bible Studies Perfect for family devotions! Each 13-week Home Bible Study includes a lesson book and a praise & worship CD: • Easy to use • Covers topics from personal integrity to living for God • Filled with fun, hands-on activities • Adaptable to any schedule • Great for bringing the whole family together • Ready for home-school use Order any Home Bible Study Package and you’ll also receive the new "We Are Superkids" music CD. Sweet Life Package #S171001 The Heart of a Superkid Package #S171002 The Fruit of the Spirit Package #S171003 My Father Loves Me Package #S171004 The Superkid Creed Package #S171005 The Superkid Creed II Package #S171006 each $32 reg $47.95 superkidacademy.com 1-800-606-4190 U.S. only FREE standard shipping included. Offer prices valid until Oct. 31, 2017 ******************************************** ******* article continues below ******* That’s why God tells us time and again in the Scriptures to continually renew our minds to His way of thinking. He doesn’t want us to be dominated by the conditions in the world! He wants us to rise above them by coming up to His way of thinking. As Isaiah 55:8-11 says: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Notice those verses don’t say that God’s Word goes forth so it can sit in a book on your nightstand, or so you can carry it to church on Sunday. It says that His Word goes forth to accomplish things. IT GOES FORTH AND RETURNS TO HIM, HAVING DONE WHAT HE SENT IT TO DO. God’s Word is “alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]” (Hebrews 4:12, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). It actually contains within it the supernatural ability to bring itself to pass. So, when you take it into your heart and return it to Him by speaking it out in faith, it works for you just like it works for God. It releases the same supernatural ability and produces the same result. After all, even when you’re the one speaking it, it is still God’s Word. It started with Him, went into you, and you returned it again. So really, it’s God talking the whole time! This is what Jesus was telling us in Mark 11. It’s what He was getting at when He said, “Have faith in God…. Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith” (verses 22-23). I’ll never forget the first time I really saw what Jesus was saying there! It was back all those years ago when Ken and I were facing that mountain of debt. I was studying those verses and I suddenly realized that to operate in faith like God does, I not only had to have faith in His Word; I HAD TO HAVE FAITH IN MY WORDS. I had to believe and speak all the time as if the things I say are going to come to pass. Ken got the same revelation on the very same day. So, we agreed to act on it together. We committed to God to quit talking about how deep in debt we were, and say only what God said about the situation. It was a challenge, but we kept helping one another. If one of us got to talking unbelief, the other one would point it out by saying, “That’s your confession and I believe every word of it!” or “You shouldn’t say that. You don’t want it to come to pass.” Over time, as we stuck with it, we got our mouths increasingly in line. We began to consistently speak the Word of God, and one day we looked around and that mountain of debt was gone. It had been cast into the sea of faith! The same thing will happen for you! So, determine to speak the Word only over the challenges in your life and believe what you say comes to pass. Keep God’s Word in your heart and in your mouth, and although it may take a little while, eventually it will produce His results: The things you’ve been believing for will manifest. The mountains that have hindered you will move out of your way. The darkness of this world will flee before you and the victory will be yours—because this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith! V 30 : BVOV

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