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********** ADVERTISMENT ********** Watch Bill Winston on bvovn® BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY NETWORK REAL. LIFE. FAITH.® Watch on: dish® CHANNEL 265 apple tv® 4th Generation Roku® bvovn.com YouTube® amazon fire TV facebook Apple® logo android ********************************************** * * * * * * * * *article continues * * * * * * * To win against the devil, we need God on our side. Remember when Moses went down to Egypt? Pharaoh pulled out his sorcerers (Exodus 7), but Moses won because he was using faith and the power of God. You see that time and again in the Bible. Likewise, we need to be strong in faith because there are spiritual principalities and powers that want to manipulate and govern the Church—and it’s time for us to put a stop to it. God Is Restoring Our Years The Church is getting this revelation. As we do, God is restoring our years. Talking about these end times, Joel 2:25-26 states, “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed” (emphasis mine). You might think, Restore the years! Oh, God is going to give me more years in my life. But look at this in terms of the Church as a whole. This verse is promising that God is going to restore the years of humanity. He’s going to restore us all the way back to the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 1:26, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (emphasis mine). Dominion means “sovereign or supreme authority.” Having dominion means you have the power to govern, direct, control or use to dispose of at your pleasure. Jesus had dominion like that, didn’t He? Remember when He told His disciples, “Go into town. You will see a donkey tied up. Untie him and bring him to Me. And if anybody asks what you’re doing with the donkey, just tell them the Lord has need of it” (see Luke 19:30-31). That’s dominion. Before it’s over, God is going to restore dominion to the Church. In John 17:15, Jesus said, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” God isn’t going to beam us up out of this place. No. He wants us here, directing the action. Adam had dominion, but where did he go wrong? In Genesis 2:18-19, God put him in the Garden with an assignment to name all the animals. He named them what God named them because he was on the same mental frequency as God. He was dominating this earth. But then Eve was tempted, and Adam and Eve both ate of the tree God told them to avoid. Next thing you know, God is calling to Adam, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9, "New King James Version"). God wasn’t inquiring about Adam’s location. He was talking about his position in the earth, his headship over everything. But Adam had fallen, and Satan took control. Adam Messed Up Adam lost his fellowship with God. He lost his ability to receive from God. He lost his glory. He lost the ability for God to provide for him. And last, but certainly not least, he was no longer on the same frequency with God. He even went out and tried to clothe himself with a fig-leaf suit—evidence enough that he was out of his mind! He lost everything, for all of mankind. But right away God started working on a plan of Redemption. He made plans for Christ: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us...that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Galatians 3:13-14). 24 : BVOV

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