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“That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Thy wondrous works.” (Psalm 26:7) WaTcH oUr BroadcasT THIs monTH The How To’s of Believing the Unbelievable and Getting It Jan 30 - FEB 12 I’ve Fallen in Love With the World FEB 13 - FEB 26 our TV outreach is growing and the number of stations we’re on is increasing! Please visit jdm.org for our complete updated listing. 2 • VOTC • February 2011 CON Dear Friends, Welcome to this month’s issue of Voice of the Covenant! Here we are, already in February, and moving forward gOd REsPONDS tO with great expectation and great faith to reach people and WORDS Of fAITH change lives with the love of Christ. Our determination PARt 2 and passion to “Go ye into all the world and preach the Jesse Duplantis TE Gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15), has reached a new 4 intensity and we won’t stop until every soul has heard the Good News! n Voice of the Covenant magazine has been successfully bringing the Gospel to people for over 30 years. It has gOd’s Will is T taken great faith and love to grow this anointed magazine outreach from only 200 Hidden for you, s households in our first mailing in 1981 to the now 380,000 going into 160 nations not from you every month. Praise God! This ministry tool is effectively reaching and transforming Cathy Duplantis lives all over the world. And as this outreach grows, so does God’s family! 12 We pray this issue will encourage your walk with Christ and that you will share it with someone you love. Together, we can love more people than we could on our own. Remember, God so loved the world, that He gave up His only Son so we could live with Him forever (John 3:16). Let’s join hands and love the world for God—we CAN YOU can get this world saved! HEAR ME NOW? Corey Naquin We love you, 20 – Jesse and Cathy Mean giRls need lOvE, too Jodi Duplantis 22 saLVaTIon prayEr visionary LeadersHiP: If you don’t know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, I would like to take this IncreasE the opportunity to introduce you to the greatest Friend you’ll ever have. As you say these kiNgdom, words, if you’ll believe them with your heart, you will be born again (Romans 10:9-10). lOvE Always! Jesse Duplantis Jesus, come into my life. Forgive me of all my sins. I ask You to cleanse my 30 heart, and make me a new person in You right now. I believe that You are the Son of God and that You died on the cross for me. ALSO... Jesus, I want to thank You for loving me enough to die for me. I accept all that • MEETING SCHEDULE 10 Your shed blood bought for me on the cross, and I receive You as my Savior • PRODUCT SPECIALS 16 and Lord. In Your name I pray. Amen. • COVENANT PRAISE 18 If you just prayed this prayer, congratulations! You are a “new creature” in Christ and, as 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “…old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” All of Heaven is celebrating! You have a brand new life with Vol. 33 No. 2 FEBRUARY 2011 Jesus and a bright future filled with faith and hope. Publisher Editorial Staff Graphic Design Jesse Duplantis Jodi Duplantis & Production Michael Wright II Jorge Gomez Jr It is important that you let someone know of your decision to follow Christ and we Editor Corey Naquin Victor Gonzalez would love to hear from you! You can use the top portion of the envelope/order form Cathy Duplantis Christine Bartley Josue Gomez Mary Holten in the center of this magazine to do so. We would also like to send you a free copy Jo Ann Freeney Dondra DeSalvo of our booklet, Understanding Salvation, to help you begin your new life with Jesus Christ. Just let us know if you would like the English or Spanish version. Remember, Voice of the Covenant is published monthly by Jesse Duplantis Ministries, a non-profit corporation, PO Box 1089, Destrehan, LA 70047. Christ is thinking about you and He only wants the best for your life. God bless you! Phone: 985.764.2000 Fax: 985.764.0044 E-mail: [email protected]. Voice of the Covenant has no subscription or newsstand price in the United States and is supported through contributions from readers worldwide. All donations to this ministry are tax-deductible. – Jesse Duplantis Visit our website at www.jdm.org ©2011 Jesse Duplantis Ministries, all rights reserved. May not be reproduced without written permission from the Publisher. jdm.org • 3 God Responds To Words of FaithPart 2 by Jesse Duplantis avid had a woman on kicked up real high that he is going backside of the mountain tending his mind when he threw to get a woman if he slays a giant sheep and playing his own psalmic down the cheese and and not expect him to rise to the version of “Stairway to Heaven” Dstarted mouthing off at a giant. occasion. while his big, bad brothers talked “What’ll I get if I kill ‘em?” he “You mean to tell me that I’m of slaying giants, marrying the asked his brothers. Like a typical gonna get a woman? Me?” king’s daughter, and wearing a teenager, David was interested in “The king’s daughter, yeah. But crown. Sure, Samuel had anointed making a little something on the you? No. Stop gawking and go him with enough oil to grease an side. home.” engine, but his father and brothers “The king’s daughter, you fool. David started daydreaming…A couldn’t have cared less. They Now give us the cheese and bread woman? Man, I’d kick a giant’s tail were happy to keep him on the Dad sent you here with and get out for one of those—and the king’s girl at mountain working with the sheep of here. You just came to see the that? Take a look at that! Whew! where they didn’t have to hear his battle.” David was the youngest of the baaaallads. Now, you don’t tell a seventeen- family—the red-haired teenage But that day, David wasn’t on a year-old boy with his hormones musician who stayed on the mission to simply bring food to his 4 • VOTC • February 2011 brothers; he was on a mission from God, and he had Now, his motive was wrong on one hand—the no idea that Israel’s adversity was about to crown him boy wanted a woman and was willing to die at the king. chance of getting one. He was probably already “Come over here and whip me if you can, you contemplating lyrics for his next song, “Ohhhh, my bunch of wimps!” the Philistine giant roared. David love, my darling, I’ve hungered for your touch...” and watched as the giant wagged his big, microwave-sized imagining her response, “Sing to me David. Sing to head at the Israelites. About a hundred and twenty- me David. You want to kiss me? Yeah, you want to five pounds of metal gleamed in the sun as the giant kiss me. Come over here, David!” waved his arms around and cussed everything from But God noticed the anointing that was on David God to the ground. and said, “Here is somebody that will stand in the David was appalled at his brother’s lack of gap. Here is somebody that is not trembling back in enthusiasm. “Are you going to sit there and let him the tent. Here is somebody that is aggravated that pop off like that?” he asked his brothers, “Are you someone is cussing Me!” gonna let that uncircumcised Philistine defile the All of a sudden, the anointing of God that was armies of God and cuss us like that?” poured on David by Samuel rose up. Courage swelled He could see it in their eyes, “He’s a giant, David! in him and although he couldn’t fit the armor, he Now get out of here so we can figure out what we’re didn’t care. He was willing to go out as he was because going to do.” he knew without a shadow of doubt that God was on But David wouldn’t leave. He couldn’t believe that his side. From his spirit came courage so fierce that his brothers didn’t have the guts to walk out there and it bypassed his mind, and David shouted out to the kick the tar out of Goliath. He started scanning the giant, “You come against me with a spear, but I come ground for a decent rock. against you in the name of the Lord God Jehovah!” “You blankety-blank, no-good, trashy bunch of To the others, it was a threat, but to David it was Israelites!” he heard the giant go on, “I defy your a promise. He grabbed a rock from the dirt, put it in blankety-blank God and you! I curse your blankety- his slingshot, and started swirling it in the air. David blank, too!” had been rocking on the mountain for years, now he He looked at his brothers and the nearby soldiers was about to rock out a giant in front of all his big, and could read their mind. Uh, that’s okay.