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JUNE Read Through the Bible Old Testament / New Testament Fri 1 1 Kgs. 3-5 / Acts 21 Sat 2 1 Kgs. 6-7 Sun 3 Ps. 69-70; Prov. 14:15-35 Mon 4 1 Kgs. 8-9 / Acts 22 Tue 5 1 Kgs. 10-11 / Acts 23 Wed 6 1 Kgs. 12 / Acts 24 Thu 7 1 Kgs. 13 / Acts 25 Fri 8 1 Kgs. 14 / Acts 26 Sat 9 1 Kgs. 15 Sun 10 Ps. 71-72; Prov. 15:1-15 Mon 11 1 Kgs. 16-17 / Acts 27 Tue 12 1 Kgs. 18-19 / Acts 28 Wed 13 1 Kgs. 20-21 / Rom. 1 Thu 14 1 Kgs. 22 / Rom. 2 Fri 15 2 Kgs. 1-3 / Rom. 3 Sat 16 2 Kgs. 4-6 Sun 17 Ps. 73-74; Prov. 15:16-33 Mon 18 2 Kgs. 7-8 / Rom. 4 Tue 19 2 Kgs. 9-11 / Rom. 5 Wed 20 2 Kgs. 12-13 / Rom. 6 Thu 21 2 Kgs. 14-15 / Rom. 7 Fri 22 2 Kgs. 16-17 / Rom. 8 Sat 23 2 Kgs. 18-19 Sun 24 Ps. 75-77; Prov. 16:1-17 Mon 25 2 Kgs. 20-21 / Rom. 9 Tue 26 2 Kgs. 22-23 / Rom. 10 Wed 27 2 Kgs. 24-25 / Rom. 11 Thu 28 1 Chr. 1-2 / Rom. 12 Fri 29 1 Chr. 3-4 / Rom. 13 Sat 30 1 Chr. 5-6 ******************************************** ******** article concludes below ******** “Well, Brother Copeland, I just don’t think it’s God’s will for everyone to prosper at that level. Some believers are born into such bad economic situations they just have to put up with being poor. They have to accept it as God’s plan for them.” No, they don’t. There’s not a child of God on this planet who has to put up with living in poverty. According to Deuteronomy 28, poverty is part of the curse of the law, and Jesus redeemed us from that curse (Galatians 3:13). He bore our poverty just as surely as He bore our sins and sicknesses. Jesus is the only Person ever born who had to accept poverty as God’s plan for Him—and even He wasn’t poor for very long. During His earthly ministry, He had so much money coming in, He needed a treasurer to keep track of it. It was only when He went to the Cross that the curse of poverty came on Him—and the only reason it did then was so we could be set free from it. “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9). If you put your faith in Jesus and get with God’s program, it doesn’t matter what the economic conditions are in the natural, you can rise above them. You can come out of poverty and prosper. I’ve seen it happen in the most impossible situations. Take what’s happened over the years at White Post Church, for example. It’s located on a Navajo Indian reservation that’s long been home to one of the poorest tribes in the U.S. The church got started sometime around 1970 when a pastor painted the words “White Post Church” on a sign and stuck it in a patch of bare ground. At the time, there wasn’t a building in sight. It was just empty desert. But he believed God and started going from hogan to hogan winning people to Jesus. In 1972, when I first went to preach there, the church had grown to about 200 people, all of whom had come from a background of poverty. Explaining the situation to me, the pastor said, “Brother Copeland, when I first started preaching the Word of Faith to these people, none of them owned a car or a truck. They all walked or rode a horse or drove a wagon. After they found out what the Bible says, though, they began to tithe and sow and believe God for increase. Most of them didn’t have any money to give, so they’d go out and find colorful stones, polish them until they were beautiful, and bring them to church on Sunday as an offering. Now,” he said, “no one is walking anymore. No one is riding a horse or driving a wagon anymore. Every family in the church has either a car or a truck.” Think of it: Out there in the middle of nowhere, God prospered those people! I preached there again not long ago, and they’re still prospering. Even better, they’ve become God’s prosperity agents, and as a result, the church isn’t out in the middle of nowhere anymore. The community has grown up around it and become a town: White Post, Arizona. Amazing? Yes, it is. Some might even have considered it impossible. But then, the impossible can happen many times over when you get with God’s financial plan! V 10 : BVOV

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