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That’s what happened with Abram in his relationship with Lot. He had to draw on the resources the Lord had BLESSSED him with, shortly after Lot moved to Sodom, when a devastating situation arose: The city was attacked and plundered by the combined armies of four kings, and Lot and his family, along with many other citizens of Sodom, were taken captive. Abram heard about it and went after the invaders himself. He defeated them with the trained servants from his own household, liberated Lot and all the other captives, and retrieved everything that had been stolen. Afterward, he brought all the people and the goods back to Sodom and the city’s king tried to reward him by giving him the riches he’d recovered. But Abram declined the offer and said: “I have solemnly promised the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, that I will not take so much as a single thread or sandal thong from you. Otherwise you might say, 'I am the one who made Abram rich!'” (Genesis 14: 22-23, "NLT"-96). I love that, don’t you? Abraham didn’t turn down the king’s offer because he thought God wouldn’t want him to be that wealthy. He turned it down because he knew who his Source was. “God is the One who makes me rich,” he said, “and I want Him to get all the glory for it.” Your Shield, Abundant Compensation and Reward Right after that, in Genesis 15:1, God spoke to Abraham yet again and told him something else about his covenant. Appearing to him in a vision, he said: “Fear not, Abram, I am your Shield, your abundant compensation, and your reward shall be exceedingly great” ("AMPC"). That was one of the first scriptures I put on my confession list many years ago when I was first learning about prosperity! I wrote it down and put my name in it, so that it read, Fear not, Gloria. God is your Shield, your abundant compensation, and your reward shall be exceedingly great. Then I put it in my Bible and declared it over myself every day. Why did I do that? Because God said that verse belongs to me! He gave me the scriptural right to claim it for myself when He said to Abram, just two chapters later, in Genesis 17:7, “I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.” According to that verse, as Abraham’s seed under the New Covenant, I can expect God to be for me everything He was both to Abraham himself and to his natural descendants. I can believe Him, for instance, to do for me the same kind of things He did for Isaac. Do you remember what happened to him? Genesis 26 says that after his father died (very rich and at a very old age), he found himself facing an impossible situation. A drought-induced famine hit the land of Canaan where he was living and no one in the country had enough to eat. Canaan was Isaac’s homeland and his covenant inheritance! But it looked like he and his family would starve if they stayed there, so he decided he’d have to move to Egypt. * * * * article continues on p. 30 * * * * ********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** 2018 EVENTS IGNITE THE FIRE OF FAITH Aug. 30-Sept. 1 ORLANDO Victory Campaign Rosen Shingle Creek, Florida Sept. 20-22 CHARLOTTE Victory Campaign Charlotte Convention Center North Carolina FREE EVENTS Services & Healing School with Kenneth Copeland REGISTER NOW kcm.org/Orlando #OVC18 kcm.org/Charlotte #CVC18 Schedule is subject to change without notice. ********************************************** BVOV : 29

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