BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

So, make sure you do that! Once you’ve believed you receive, keep going back over the scriptures you based your stand of faith on. Keep refreshing yourself on what the Bible says about believing God. Even if you’ve been a Word person for decades like Ken and I have, keep going over the basics. Dig out your old cassette tapes and listen to the messages that got you fired up 20 years ago about believing God. Those tapes have a long shelf life! They’ll get you fired up all over again. They’ll strengthen your faith today just like they did in times past. Even if you don’t learn anything new from them, they’ll remind you to keep doing what you already know to do—and that’s really one of the most important things you can learn about victory. It comes when you activate the basic principles you learned when you first began to live by faith. It comes when you act on the Word you already know and continue to keep fresh Word going into your eyes and ears. That’s certainly been the case for Ken and me. Although we’re always looking to receive more light from God’s Word, over the years when we’ve encountered major tests or trials, it’s not always been some big new revelation that has gotten us through. It’s been something we had let slip that turned out to be the key to our victory. No, time and again what’s enabled us to overcome were the simple basics of believing God. Time and again, in seemingly impossible situations, what caused us to triumph was doing what we learned to do 50 years ago—speak God’s Word, exercise faith and patience, and resist doubt and unbelief, holding fast to the truth we already knew. I remember one financial trial we went through that threatened to be the end of our ministry. It hit us not long after we launched our daily television broadcast and took us almost $6 million into the red. In the natural, the only way we could possibly come up with that much money was by selling everything we had—ministry headquarters and equipment included—and even then we’d just about come out even. It was a serious situation! So, what did we do? We got out the old reel-to-reel tapes we listened to when we first began living by faith. We went back and listened to Brother Kenneth E. Hagin preach the same messages that got us out of financial bondage back in 1967: seemingly elementary messages like "You Can Have What You Say;" "Confession Brings Possession;" and "Doubt, the Thief of God’s Greater Blessings.' It doesn’t matter whether you need $100 or $6 million, the Word works! When you get it in your heart and in your mouth, it produces faith. And faith, based on the Word mixed with patience, always gets results. And sure enough that’s what happened. Not only did the money come in and all our bills get paid, we ended up with a victorious testimony. And we’ve never been in that kind of financial shape again! That’s the chance the devil takes when he pushes believers too far. He takes the chance that the test he puts us through will wind up making us stronger. He runs the risk that we’ll exercise our patience and that, instead of being defeated by that trial, we’ll come out of it perfect and entire, wanting nothing. That’s the devil’s worst nightmare. So, go ahead and bring it to pass. Take your stand on the Word of God. Pray the prayer of faith, believe you receive, and mix your faith with the force that never quits. Become one of those “who through faith and patience inherit the promises” (Hebrews 6:12), and make the devil sorry he ever messed with you! V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NOV Read Through the Bible Old Testament / Psalms Wed 1 Jer. 50-51 / Ps. 88 Thu 2 Jer. 52; Lam. 1 / Ps. 89 Fri 3 Lam. 2-3 / Ps. 90 Sat 4 Lam. 4-5 / Ps. 91 Sun 5 Ezek. 1-3 / Ps. 92-93 Mon 6 Ezek. 4-5 / Ps. 94 Tue 7 Ezek. 6-7 / Ps. 95 Wed 8 Ezek. 8-9 / Ps. 96 Thu 9 Ezek. 10-11 / Ps. 97 Fri 10 Ezek. 12-13 / Ps. 98 Sat 11 Ezek. 14-15 / Ps. 99 Sun 12 Ezek. 16-18 / Ps. 100-101 Mon 13 Ezek. 19-20 / Ps. 102 Tue 14 Ezek. 21-22 / Ps. 103 Wed 15 Ezek. 23-24 / Ps. 104 Thu 16 Ezek. 25-26 / Ps. 105 Fri 17 Ezek. 27-28 / Ps. 106 Sat 18 Ezek. 29-30 / Ps. 107 Sun 19 Ezek. 31-33 / Ps. 108-109 Mon 20 Ezek. 34-35 / Ps. 110 Tue 21 Ezek. 36-37 / Ps. 111 Wed 22 Ezek. 38-39 / Ps. 112 Thu 23 Ezek. 40-41 / Ps. 113 Fri 24 Ezek. 42-43 / Ps. 114 Sat 25 Ezek. 44-45 / Ps. 115 Sun 26 Ezek. 46-48 / Ps. 116-117 Mon 27 Dan. 1-2 / Ps. 118 Tue 28 Dan. 3-4 / Ps. 119:1-24 Wed 29 Dan. 5-6 / Ps. 119:25-49 Thu 30 Dan. 7-8 / Ps. 119:50-72 “Read Through the Bible in a Year Plan” written by Marilyn Hickey, and used by permission. BVOV : 31

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