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Share this issueKENNETH with a friend! COPELAND MINISTRIES ® April 2016 DeadDon West for 40 Minutes! When Jill West arrived where her husband, Don, had been found dead and slumped over the steering wheel of his truck, she boldly declared to his A lifeless body: “You will live and not die!” P.10 Picture of God’s Grace Kenneth Copeland The Best Investment You’ll Ever Make Gloria Copeland digital issue kcm.org.uk/magazine “God Is my source” is what you can boldly decree GOD in every situation. IS OUR SOURCE No matter what you’re facing – Begin to see yourself as God’s Package contains: whether it’s a bill, lawsuit, sickness, or distribution centre. God is My Source 4 CD or 2 DVD set any other kind of lack – Jesus is your God is My Source Study Notes source! And the Word of God is your Find the true source of supply for all God is My Source minibook God Our Source 4 CD set by Jerry Savelle supply. 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BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY and the JESUS IS LORD globe logo are registered trademarks of Eagle Mountain International Church Inc./Kenneth Copeland Ministries. Printing and distribution costs are paid for by donations from KCM Partners and Friends. Printed in the United Kingdom. Because all BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY issues are preplanned, we are on to a friend. unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts. Director of Marketing/Leah Herrington Communications Manager/Cindy Hames Managing Editor/Ronald C. Jordan Assistant Editor/Debby Ide Writers/ Gina Lynnes Christopher P.N. Maselli Proofreaders/Jean DeLong Michelle Harris Eileen Hooley Senior Designer/Michael Augustat Project Manager/Deborah Brister Type Coordinator/Joyce Glasgow It’s a great way to recycle! “Grace...My overwhelming desire to treat you like sin never happened.” 4 : BVOV by Kenneth Copeland A Picture of GOD’s GRACE One night Gloria and I were in the kitchen with the television on and a commercial caught my attention. You’ve probably seen it. It’s an advertisement for some kind of restoration company. It begins with images of a house that’s been gutted by a flood or a fire. Kitchen cabinets are destroyed. Carpet and furniture are ruined. The place is a mess. Then the scene changes. reminded me of what The Restoration crews in green LORD said to me a few years uniforms show up at the house in ago when I asked Him to give green cars and trucks and go to me a working definition of the work making things right again. word grace. Grace, He’d said, is In the final scene, the house My overwhelming desire to treat looks brand new inside and the you like sin never happened. announcer says, “Like it never When I saw that commercial, even happened!” those words went off in me like TV commercials don’t usually fireworks. I pointed to the TV excite me. But when I saw that and said to Gloria, “That’s a one, I jumped straight up. It picture of grace!” When you walk in the fullness of God’s grace, you can live in such BLESSING it’s like sin never even happened. Here are some points to get you there: Grace doesn’t Faith is the secret If we walk in faith Abraham developed Think thoughts work in our lives to walking in THE like Abraham strong, unstaggering based on God’s 1 automatically; we 2 BLESSING God’s 3 did we will be 4 faith by meditating 5 WORD and you’ll only experience grace makes BLESSED with on and confessing grow stronger in its benefits when available to us. him. Galatians 3:9 God’s WORD. faith and in grace. we receive it by Romans 1:17 Romans 4:20 Isaiah 55:8-9 faith. Romans 5:2 BVOV : 5 Grace completely redeems us from is written, The just shall live by faith” citizens of the kingdom of God, and His the gutting the devil and sin have done (Romans 1:17). written WORD is the Constitution of on us. It doesn’t just cover sin over and our government. His WORD—not the put us back under some legalistic law. It “Cast not away therefore your world—tells us who we are, what we doesn’t just halfway redeem us. It turns confidence› [or faith], which hath great have, what we can do. us into new creations and makes us the recompence of reward” (Hebrews 10:35). Walking in the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. It opens the door for us to live so fully in “So then they which be of faith Steps of Abraham God’s BLESSING, it’s like sin never are› blessed with faithful Abraham” What does The WORD tell us to even happened. (Galatians 3:9). do about living by faith? It says we’re to “Brother Copeland, that sounds like a be those who “walk in the steps of the wonderful way to live. But if that kind of “Christ hath redeemed us from the faith which our father Abraham had…” grace is available, how come I don’t seem curse› of the law, being made a curse (Romans 4:12, New King James Version). to be experiencing the full effects of it?” for us: for it is written, Cursed is every It says, if we function in faith the way he Because grace doesn’t just fall on us one that hangeth on a tree: that the did, we’ll be BLESSED with him. automatically, like a ripe apple off a tree. blessing of Abraham might come on the Although it’s been freely provided for Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we For the promise, that he should be UNSTAGGERING FAITH IS ALWAYS FOUNDED ON WHAT GOD HAS SAID. IT’S ALWAYS GROUNDED ON THE WORD. us in abundance through the plan of might receive the promise of the Spirit the heir of the world, was not to Redemption, grace only goes to work in through faith” (Galatians 3:13-14). Abraham, or to his seed, through the our lives when we receive it. How do we law, but through the righteousness of receive it? By faith! As Romans 5:2 says, Look again at those last two verses.