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Contact the host church for details! ****************************************************** ******** article continues ******** You can see the same principle in operation in 1 Samuel 30. It tells about a time God sent out David and his army to pursue and defeat the Amalekites. Some of David’s soldiers who’d already been marching for days were too weary to make the journey, so David left them at the brook Basor and gave them the job of guarding the supplies. Later, when David’s forces returned from the battle, some of his soldiers argued that the soldiers who’d served as guards shouldn’t share in the spoils of victory because they hadn’t been involved in the actual fight. David, however, overruled them. He said: “Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us…. As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike. And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day” (verses 23-25). Why did David make that decision? He understood what it means to be partners in THE BLESSING of God and he considered it so important he actually turned it into a national law. Earthquake-Sparking, Miracle-Working Grace! “Yeah, but Brother Copeland, those things happened in the Old Testament. What about in the New Testament? Are there any examples of spiritual partnership there?” Certainly. Just look at the disciples who helped in the earthly ministry of Jesus. They became partakers of His Anointing. They did the same works He did, exercised the same authority in His Name, and walked in the power of THE BLESSING on the same level with Him. As Jesus’ disciples today we’re following in their footsteps. We’ve become partakers of His Anointing and we’re walking in the promise He made in Mark 16:17-18, “These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” As we do those things, we’re actually carrying out the assignment God gave to Abraham—we’re taking THE BLESSING of The LORD to all the families of the earth. As believers, that’s our primary job. “Well,” someone might say, “I think our job, as believers, is to spread the gospel.” It is! We just haven’t fully understood what that means. We’ve thought of the gospel as being simply the good news that Jesus purchased forgiveness for our sins and made the way for us to be born again. But it includes more than that. The full gospel is the good news that through Jesus THE BLESSING is back! That God has brought to pass in our day what He began in Genesis 13 when He “preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed” (Galatians 3:8). That BLESSING is released and spread abroad in our day just as it was in Abraham’s day—through divine partnerships. It’s manifested first as we enter into “the fellowship [or partnership] of…Jesus Christ our Lord” (1 Corinthians 1:9) and become partakers with Him in the anointing that belongs to every believer. Then it’s further multiplied as we partner with other ministers of the gospel, and become partakers of the anointing and grace God has given them to equip them for the specific work to which He has called them. You can see what I mean in Philippians 1. There, the Apostle Paul was writing to some of his ministry partners. Expressing his appreciation for them, he said: "I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, for your fellowship [or partnership] in the gospel from the first day until now; being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace" (verses 3-7, emphasis mine). 8 : BVOV

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