Bulldog faith is determined—it has an unwavering resolve. When you’re operating in it, absolutely nothing can stand in your way or even try to deter you from achieving your end result. Take the first step in developing your bulldog faith by deciding to live a life of determined faith today!
Bulldog Faith—Part 2
July 10-14, 2023 Take it, claim it, possess it! This week, on Believer’s Voice of Victory, Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons continue their discussion of bulldog faith, in Part 2 of their series. Develop faith that is determined, focused and fully persuaded by God’s WORD, so you can receive what is rightfully yours today!
Bulldog Faith Is Determined
July 10, 2023 – Monday How determined is your faith? Join Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they equip you with everything necessary to develop bulldog faith. Develop an unwavering resolve that will see you through to your desired result every time!
Bulldog Faith Is Focused
July 11, 2023 – Tuesday Get focused! Watch Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they encourage you to ditch the distractions. Learn how to always keep your eyes fixed on the desired result from God’s WORD rather than the dreaded outcome!
Fully Persuaded Faith
July 12, 2023 – Wednesday
Do you dare believe God? Join Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they talk about fully persuaded faith. Find out how to take your faith from little to GREAT!
Bulldog Faith Commands
July 13, 2023 – Thursday Give the faith command! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons share how bulldog faith commands. Discover your God-given authority to command desired things from out of the spirit realm—into the natural!
Bulldog Faith Takes
July 14, 2023 – Friday Take it, claim it, possess it! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons discuss how bulldog faith takes. Learn to claim what is rightfully yours with an aggressive force, and become unstoppable against the enemy!
Have you ever wondered what happened from the time Jesus was on the cross to when He sat down on the throne? More importantly, have you ever fully comprehended what He did for you personally in that span of time? His actions forever defined your identity as a believer—something many people wrestle with today.
For example, Galatians 2:20 tells us, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (NKJV).
Jesus died on our behalf, but this verse shows us that when we made Jesus our Lord, we partook of what He did for us. When He was crucified, spiritually speaking, we were crucified with Him; we died with Him; we were buried and made alive with Him; we were raised up together with Him, and we were seated in heavenly places together with Him.
“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:4-6, NKJV).
What’s more, 2 Corinthians 5:17 assures us that “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (KJV).
Becoming A New Creature in Christ
To illustrate the reality of this, Mark and Trina Hankins recently shared with Brother Copeland the testimony of their grandson Dylan who had a bone marrow transplant (stem cell transplant) a few years ago. Dylan’s brother Gavin was his donor. For four days they took blood from Gavin and gave it to Dylan. For the next three months, as Gavin’s stem cells were grafted into Dylan’s, he became a different person. At three weeks, medically in his blood, Dylan was 50% himself, and 50% Gavin. At three months, Dylan was 75% Gavin and only 25% himself. Today, Dylan is 100% Gavin. There’s nothing left of the cells that had leukemia and if you tested both boys’ blood for DNA, they would appear to be the same person.
So imagine what happens spiritually when you make Jesus the Lord of your life? You are transformed to being a new creature in Christ. And think about who your donor is—Jesus Himself! His blood doesn’t flow through your veins literally, but this is what people mean when they say we have Jesus’ blood flowing through our veins. Spiritually, we do! It’s part of our identity in Christ, something we find in God’s Word.
Imagine finding your identity in the Word of God and never wrestling with who you are or why God put you on this earth. Imagine the peace this would bring. It’s possible if we’ll go to God and find our identity in Him. In fact, one of the best ways to discover and study our identity in Christ is to read through Paul’s letters to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians and Colossians; and every time you see two-word phrases such as…
in Christ.
in Him.
in whom.
in the beloved.
…highlight, circle or underline those phrases, because those two-word phrases describe who you are and what you have as a born-again believer. They describe who He is in us. There are more than 130 such occurrences, though 35 of them are the most significant, and they describe what God has already done for you and in you,in Christ. If you’ll do this, you will discover who you are in Him—and you will discover one of the most powerful ways to develop strong faith. [For more on how to do this, click here.]
Find Yourself in Him
Jesus modeled this for us when He stood up in the synagogue in Nazareth to read. The Scripture says:
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears (Luke 4:17-21, KJV).
As Gloria Copeland has said, Jesus found Himself in the book! He found Himself in Isaiah 61—and He declared it. When we give voice to who we are in Christ, our identification with Christ is activated by our confession of faith. Declaring what the Word says is equivalent to us saying, “I am agreeing with God that I am who God says I am; I can have what God says I can have; and I can do what God says I can do.”
Be Transformed by Your Identity in Christ
Who better to get into agreement with than God?
Romans 10:9-10 (KJV) shows us “that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
In the same way Jesus found Himself in the book, when we find ourselves in the Book, it will make the Word come alive to us. The spirit of wisdom and revelation will take those two-word phrases from just being information and intellectual knowledge to becoming spiritual power in our lives. The spirit of wisdom and revelation will cause the words to become revelation, and revelation in our lives is transformative. Isn’t being transformed into the image of Christ what we want more than anything?
Kenneth Copeland has said that if you want all the “in Him, in Christ, in whom, etc.” scriptures to come alive for you, then take the “Ephesians 1 Prayer” and pray it every day. The Ephesians 1 Prayer comes from making a declaration of faith based on verses from Ephesians 1:17-23.
Father God,
I’m asking you to give to me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. I pray that the eyes of my understanding would be flooded with light, that I may know the hope of Your calling, what is the riches of the glory of Your inheritance in the saints, what is the exceeding greatness of Your power toward us who believe, according to the working of Your mighty power which You worked in Christ, when You raised Him from the dead and sat Him at Your own right hand in heavenly places, far above all principality, power, might, dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also that which is to come.
For You put all things under His feet, gave Him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is His body the fullness of Him that fills all in all.
In Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Embrace Your Identity in Christ
The greatest need we will ever have is the spirit of wisdom and revelation, and according to the Scripture, this is what Paul prayed for the Ephesians—and it’s something we should pray for ourselves.
Paul wrote this to the Colossians as well saying, “For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” (Colossians 1:9, KJV).
And Proverbs 4:7 tells us, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
Mark Hankins has said that every breakthrough in faith will come from a breakthrough in the spirit of wisdom and revelation. In other words, for your faith to grow and to go forward, there must be a breakthrough in revelation knowledge. And praying the Ephesians 1 prayer daily will unlock that for you.
Do you know who you are in Christ? Do you walk in the confidence He’s given to us? Or do you wrestle with knowing who you are, what God’s called you to do, and why you’re here on this earth? For practical help in discovering such truth in the New Testament, click here for an article showing you how to find your identity in God’s Word today.
Are the pressures of life and this world causing you to spiral? That’s exactly what the devil wants. He wants you in a weakened place—a place where your faith is being buried by the care and worry of your circumstances. But God is calling you to get hold of yourself. He wants you to get more aggressive with your faith, so you can receive what is rightfully yours in Christ!
Bulldog Faith
July 3-7, 2023 It’s time to get aggressive! This week on Believer’s Voice of Victory, Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons discuss the birth and nature of bulldog faith. Learn how to develop a faith that is aggressive and persistent, and you’ll be sure to overcome anything the enemy throws your way!
Birth of Bulldog Faith
July 3, 2023 – Monday It’s time to get aggressive! Join Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they share about the birth of bulldog faith. Open your eyes to the true attitude of faith, and receive what is rightfully yours in Christ!
The Nature of Faith
July 4, 2023 – Tuesday Faith is always first! Watch Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they discuss the nature of faith. Learn all about its powerful force and how to walk in it with the aggressiveness of a bulldog!
Bulldog Faith Is Aggressive
July 5, 2023 – Wednesday Hold on tight! Join Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they teach you how bulldog faith is aggressive. Discover how to seize God’s WORD with a grip that will never be shaken!
Bulldog Faith Is Persistent—Part 1
July 6, 2023 – Thursday Feeling under pressure? Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons share Part 1 of how bulldog faith is persistent. Find out how to develop persistent faith that will outlast the devil under any circumstance!
Bulldog Faith Is Persistent—Part 2
July 7, 2023 – Friday Don’t give up! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Pastors George and Terri Copeland Pearsons go deeper with Part 2 of how bulldog faith is persistent. Learn to feed your faith with God’s WORD, so it never loses its bite!
Faith requires corresponding action to be released. Put your faith to work by being a doer and acting on God’s WORD. Declare this: “My faith must have corresponding action or it’s dead. Therefore, I choose to act on The WORD and what I believe. I will express my faith through my actions, so it can be released!”
Exploring the Fundamentals of Faith
June 26-30, 2023 Faith has a voice! This week on Believer’s Voice of Victory, join Kenneth Copeland as he takes you exploring the fundamentals of faith. Develop a faith that works and responds to The WORD of God, so you can receive your healing today!
The Four Fundamentals of Faith
June 26, 2023 – Monday Be led by faith! Join Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he reveals the four fundamentals of faith. Find out what faith is and how to let it—not your flesh—lead you in every area of your life!
Faith Responds to The WORD of God
June 27, 2023 – Tuesday Faith responds to The WORD of God! Watch Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he helps you live a life sustained by faith in God. Discover that when your words and actions line up with faith—you’ll prosper in the good times and the bad!
Faith Has a Voice
June 28, 2023 – Wednesday Every believer has a voice, and it is the voice of VICTORY! Join Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he shares how faith has a voice, and we must use it. Find out how to connect to God’s promises through simply believing AND speaking!
Love Makes Faith Work
June 29, 2023 – Thursday God’s Love changes everything! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland reminds you that Love is what makes faith work. Allow God’s Love to transform you, so you can always walk in it and pass its transforming power on to others!
Have Faith To Receive Your Healing
June 30, 2023 – Friday Say NO to unbelief! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland encourages you to have faith to receive your healing. Jesus is your Healer—learn to put an end to fear and doubt by only believing!
Do you want to see the supernatural in your life? Here is how you can experience signs, wonders and miracles where you need them most.
The supernatural. People the world over desire to experience the miraculous—to see and experience those things that are over and above, beyond, higher, surpassing and outside the natural realm. But for most, particularly nonbelievers, life is limited to the earthly realm, conforming to the ordinary course of nature and those things that can be deduced by human reasoning alone.
As born-again believers, that is not where we are meant to reside! We are created to walk and live in the supernatural and to experience supernatural healing, provision, favor, deliverance and protection. We are living in a time right now when we need to know how to live in the supernatural—to experience signs, wonder and miracles.
Bill Winston has declared that this is the Year of the Supernatural, and Kenneth Copeland has prophesied, “Rejoice! And renew your faith in the supernatural!”
If you need a miracle in your life—your victory is waiting for you in the supernatural. Here is how you can experience signs, wonders and miracles where you need them most.
1. Believe the Love of God
“We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.” –1 John 4:16 (NASB)
Do you need a miracle? Love is the answer. You may be thinking money is the answer, healing is the answer, or deliverance is the answer. But those are just the manifestations of the real power behind every miracle—the love of God.
You see, you will never walk in the realm of the miraculous until you understand the love of God for you and for all people. We’re not just talking about any love, but THE LOVE. Because God IS LOVE. He doesn’t have love. HE IS LOVE!
First John 4:16 says, “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him” (NKJV).
Notice in this verse it says, “We have known and believed the love.” To believe is to have faith in His love. Most Christians don’t have faith in His love. If you were to ask them if God loves them, most would say yes, but they don’t really believe it. They just mentally agree with John 3:16.
Consider Mark 4:37-38: “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” (NKJV).
Love Himself was asleep in that boat—the same One who was moved with compassion and healed their sick. Compassion is not a feeling; it’s a Person. Jesus said, “The Father who dwells in me does the work” (John 14:10, NKJV). It’s the Father, who is LOVE, who does the work.
People today often think and say the same thing Jesus’ disciples said in that boat: “How come You let this come on me, Lord? Don’t You care?” What is that? It’s unbelief! In what? THE LOVE—WHO IS GOD—WHO IS LOVE.
To have faith in God is to have faith in love itself. Faith works by love. Without believing in the love of God for YOU, you will not be able to fuel the kind of faith it takes to experience signs, wonders and miracles in your life.
To develop your faith in God’s love, or in anything else from God, you have to learn what the Word says about it. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17, NKJV).
For instance, Psalm 23:6, NKJV, says, “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.” Put that verse from the Word first place. Don’t ever go by how you feel about the love of God. Don’t confess anything else. Be confident in the fact that God’s mercy and goodness will follow you all the days of your life.
If you have the idea today that God is not willing to get in your deal with you—you aren’t believing the love of God. Maybe you’re saying, “Well, I just don’t know what to do.”
Well, it’s praising time when you don’t know what to do. Start by praising. Then, fill up on the Word!
Ask yourself this: Are you spending enough time with God? Which are you spending the most time on? The television or Him? You’re going to have to ask yourself that question, because if you’re not spending any time with Him, sickness is coming; trouble is coming.
Start by reading 1 John every day for two weeks. Meditate on the scriptures concerning God’s love—it will develop your capacity for faith. As your faith grows, your understanding of God’s love will expand until Satan’s tactics begin to shrink and lose their grip over your life. Then, you’ll become a prime candidate for experiencing signs, wonders and miracles.
Settle this forever—healing belongs to you, deliverance belongs to you, victory is your inheritance. However, the ball is in your court. You don’t have to try to get God to manifest a miracle in your life. Love already provided everything for you. But it starts with believing. Say this:
“I believe the love is in me now. I believe it never fails. I believe God is Love.”
2. Receive the Love of God
“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” –Ephesians 3:17-19 (NIV)
Believing is the foundation, but so many people stop short of receiving the love of God. They don’t feel worthy, they fear He won’t come through for them, or they fear He is able but maybe not willing—at least not for them. They camp out on past failures and they put themselves in the position of judge and jury—rather than God who declared them innocent with the blood of Jesus.
Unworthiness, guilt and shame all stem from fear, and the enemy is lingering, waiting to use your fear as a back door to steal the inventory outlined in the Word of God that belongs to you. That’s why healing, prosperity and deliverance always come, but they aren’t always received. But there’s one way to keep what God has given to you—and it’s to receive the love of God without fear.
Fear is a thief. Fear will block the miraculous in your life. In the Gospel of Luke, we get an up-close view of how Jesus dealt with fear when a man was facing a serious trial:
Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to come to his housebecause his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying…. While Jesus was still speaking, someone came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” he said. “Don’t bother the teacher anymore.” Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed” (Luke 8:41-42, 49-50, NIV).
Why was Jesus so quick to tell Jairus not to fear? Because He knew fear would hinder Jairus from receiving. Fear tolerated is faith contaminated—that’s a spiritual fact. Fear will prevent your miracle from taking place. And if you couldn’t do something about fear, Jesus wouldn’t have told Jairus to stop it.
What gets rid of fear? Love-filled faith will cast it out.
Focusing on receiving the love of God will stop fear in its tracks. Believing and receiving the love of God will put your focus in the right place to experience signs, wonders and miracles.
Kenneth Copeland experienced this when he twisted his ankle and nearly broken it. It was swollen and painful. He was attending a Kenneth E. Hagin meeting, and he wondered how he was going to make it through. Gloria laid hands on him before the meeting started. Then, as Kenneth locked in on the Word of God being preached by Brother Hagin, his focus shifted from his problem to the love of God.
By the end of the meeting, he was completely healed! He had received his healing without knowing when or how—he had just been completely focused on the Word instead of his problem. The love of God had driven out fear about his situation.
If you’re believing for healing today, one thing is true—God has done all He’s going to do about healing you. Maybe you’re thinking, Well, then how come I’m not healed if I’m healed? Because you keep saying you’re not, and you have what you say. If you want to experience signs, wonders and miracles, you have to receive the love of God with your words. Change your words, change your outcome.
Make it official today—receive the love of God—gather the scriptures you’re standing on to receive the miracle you need. If it is healing, for example, gather those scriptures, and speak them over your situation by faith. Then, rejoice as you receive!
When you get to that point, where you’re rejoicing before you receive, there’s no going back. It doesn’t matter what pain or what demon comes at you. You have received love and faith will boil over. You just stay in the Word, and it’ll boil because faith is coming. Faith is coming. You can’t feel it, but it’s coming. You keep the water on the heat, and it’ll boil. Amen. That’s believing in and receiving the love of God.
Watch Kenneth Copeland, as he reveals from Jesus’ own words the key to working miracles.
3. Release the Love of God
“Love never fails.” –1 Corinthians 13:5 (NKJV)
If you aren’t experiencing signs, wonders and miracles—it’s time to check your love walk to be sure you are releasing the love of God that you have believed and received.
When you walk in love, you release a force to work on your behalf—a force that has all the appearance of weakness, but is stronger than any force in existence.
A critical part of experiencing signs, wonders and miracles is acting on the Word concerning the love of God. To walk in love is to step aside and allow the power of the love of God to come between you and the situation with which you are dealing.
First John 4:11-12 says, “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us” (NKJV).
The Word perfected means “allowed to run its full course.” By practicing this love on one another, the love of God is perfected, or allowed to run its full course, in us.
By acting on the Word of God and allowing the love of God, which is perfect, to run its full course in our lives, we keep the gates open for signs, miracles and wonders.
There are two ways to perfect the love of God in your life:
By keeping the Word of God in your eyes, heart and mouth.
By practicing love on others.
Love takes practice, and we can practice on each other. You won’t operate perfectly in love at the very beginning; but as you persist, you will get increasingly better at it. If you fail, simply confess it as sin, receive your forgiveness and go on. Keep loving. Keep overlooking the shortcomings of other people. Look for Jesus in them. Forgive immediately and stay out of offense. Decide to live the love life. Make the quality decision to live by love, and you’ll keep the door open to the miracle you need. In conclusion, believing, receiving and releasing the love of God is the ticket to signs, wonders and miracles—there’s no way around it. No amount of prayer, serving, pleading or Scripture memorization can take its place. Love has always been the answer. If you’ve been believing for healing, financial breakthrough or deliverance for a long time, put your focus on love. It NEVER fails.
God loves you. Do you believe that? If you ever sat through Sunday school as a child, you probably believe that on a simple level. However, now that you’re an adult, ask yourself that question again, considering all your life experiences and religious training: Do you believe, truly believe, that God loves you? Do you trust the love of God when you get up in the morning and lay down at night? Do you know it when you’re at work and when you’re at home, when you’re surrounded by fellow believers and when you’re all alone?
This is important, because how you answer that question affects so much. It will change the way you interact with your heavenly Father, your family and even yourself. First John 4:7-10 explains the depth of God’s love this way:
Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
God’s love for you—and every other person—is the reason He sacrificed His Son for mankind. It is also why He sent the Holy Spirit as a gift to the Body of Christ. Need more proof? Just read 1 John 4:13-16: “And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.”
You can never get away from God’s love. No matter what you have or haven’t done in your life, His love is always with you. However, you can greatly hinder the effect of His love in your life by living and acting like you don’t trust in His love. Below are six telltale signs that you are not really trusting in the love of God.
1. When You Blame God During Challenges
It’s easy to profess that God loves you when everything is going well, but what about when challenges come? That’s when you may find yourself turning on God and asking, “Why did You let this happen to me?”
That isn’t a new response. It’s the same one the disciples had when a storm threatened to topple their boat. “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to drown?” they asked (Mark 4:38).
If they had truly understood God’s love for them, they would have recognized that: 1) Jesus, the Messiah, was with them, and 2) The storm was no problem for Him to handle.
James 1:2-8 tells us to handle crises like this:
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask Him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.
When challenges come, you don’t want to have divided loyalty, or as the King James Version puts it, be “double minded.” You want to trust in the love of God’to help you overcome every obstacle.
2. When You Blame Your Lack of Faith on Your Humanity
You’ve heard believers say, “We’re only human.” What a false statement! You may have been “only human” before you were born again, but as a born-again believer in the Most High God, you are more than “only human.” Ephesians 2:10 calls you “God’s masterpiece…. created anew.” You are a new creation, and the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead now lives in you.
Right before His death, Jesus prayed this for every believer:
I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began! (John 17:20-24)
Never again consider yourself “only human.” You are a born-again human, and there’s a difference. God now lives in you with all of His power and glory, and that is anything but normal. It is a miracle!
Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8, NKJV). Think about that: God’s love for you—His provision for you, His care for you, His interest in you—never fails. However, if you allow fear into your life, then you are denying that love. And when you deny that love, you open the door for the enemy to wreak havoc. Fear can create the double-mindedness we talked about earlier. It’s the double-mindedness that says, “Sure, God loves me,” and then thinks, but maybe He wants me sick. It’s also the double-mindedness that says, “Yes, God loves me, but maybe He’s mad at me because I haven’t done (fill in the blank).”
However, if you’ll turn away from fear and toward God and His Word, you won’t just manage fear (i.e., keep it at bay); you’ll expel it (1 John 4:18).
4. When You Deny Your Right
You probably know Jesus as your Savior, but have you considered that He is your advocate, too? First John tells you that when you fall short—and everyone falls short—that you have an advocate with the Father. Jesus doesn’t fill that position grudgingly or resentfully. No, He paid the ultimate price to hold that position for you and every other believer. That’s the right—your right—that He made possible. So, when you need forgiveness, you can simply and earnestly ask for it in Jesus’ Name, and you will receive it. Praise God!
5. When You Embrace Hate and Unforgiveness
First John 2:9-11 tells us just how important it is to walk in forgiveness: “If anyone claims, ‘I am living in the light,’ but hates a fellow believer, that person is still living in darkness. Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.”
Jesus paid the price needed to free you from the enemy’s hold on your life, but there are instances when you can invite the enemy back into your life. We covered one way above—by embracing fear—but there is another way—by entertaining hate and unforgiveness. It’s only when we walk in love with others that we can enjoy the peace and security of the love of God.
6. When You Give in to Reckless Words
Jesus implied just how important the words we speak are when He said, “The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me” (John 14:10b). He only spoke what the Father told Him to speak. Being fully God and fully human, He could have chosen to give in to human urgings and speak without faith, but He didn’t…and neither should you. Reckless words often lead to double-mindedness, fear, unforgiveness and turning against God.
If you find yourself doing anyone of these six things, take a moment to repent before God, and ask Him to give you a deeper revelation of His love for you. You must do more than simply will yourself not to give into these tendencies. You must first accept God’s unparalleled and all-encompassing love. He loves you. Period. As His child, He is on your side 100 percent of the time. By clinging to His Word, you can build your faith and change your life to reflect the love of God and be a beacon of light to a hurting and disillusioned world.
“But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship Him that way.” –John 4:23
As believers, we’re called to worship God “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23). But you may wonder, “How can I worship God daily? How can I worship God at home? How can I worship God wherever I am?” The good news is, you can—and worship is a powerful spiritual exercise in any believer’s life. It played a vital role in the Israelites’ winning their first battle after entering the Promise Land (Joshua 6). It was instrumental in Paul and Silas’ release from prison (Acts 16:24-26). It reflected the thanksgiving and heartfelt praise of God’s people throughout all 150 psalms, repeatedly allowing them to express their nagging fears, their miraculous feats and their enduring faith in the Him. These examples and more show just what can happen when God’s people worship Him “in spirit and in truth.”
What Does Worshiping ‘in Truth’ Mean?
“Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ” (Colossians 2:8, NKJV). The first step in understanding how to worship is recognizing whom to worship. We worship the Father in spirit and in truth (John 4:23). When we worship in truth, we don’t worship empty philosophies that come from the world’s way of thinking (Colossians 2:8). Instead, we focus on the message and the truth of Jesus Christ. “Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts” (Colossians 3:16).
Man’s way of thinking is not God’s way of thinking (Isaiah 55:8). In order to worship in truth, we must know the truth, which is found in the Bible. We must continually renew our minds to the Word of God by spending time studying every day (Romans 12:2). When our minds are renewed to what He says is truth (and not the world), we will be able to come to Him and worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Why Preparing for Worship Is Important
“Well, my brothers and sisters, let’s summarize. When you meet together, one will sing, another will teach, another will tell some special revelation God has given, one will speak in tongues, and another will interpret what is said. But everything that is done must strengthen all of you” (1 Corinthians 14:26).
The beauty of worship occurs in community with other like-minded believers. There is a depth and strength that comes when believers join together in worship, much like the Israelites did around Jericho and like Paul and Silas did in prison. In 1 Corinthians 14:26, Paul explains aspects of orderly worship. While orderly worship is not the immediate topic here, this scripture shows the importance of preparing for worship. The one singing needs to select the song, practice and prepare his or her heart before the service begins. Likewise, the one teaching needs to prepare to receive and deliver the message before the service.
The responsibility to prepare for worship doesn’t just fall to the worship team and the pastor. We should all come to the house of worship prepared—whether you are singing, teaching, preaching, speaking, prophesying, serving or receiving. Sunday worship is not a time to be entertained and expecting to be served, but it’s a time when God’s children gather to give Him honor and praise and to be strengthened.
So, how do you prepare for worship on Sunday? You prepare by getting your heart ready. Use the night before or early morning before the service to seek the Lord by practicing private worship, reading the Bible and praying. Fix your thoughts on the truth of Jesus and all He has done for you. Pray for the service and ask the Lord to help you receive from Him. You may even want to set aside a special time in your schedule to prepare for weekly worship.
7 Ways to Express Worship
For some, expressing themselves in worship can be uncomfortable, especially if they are new Christians. You go to some churches, and the congregation never stands up. They don’t sing, but they just sit and listen to the worship music. Others may sing but they don’t play instruments. Still others will be waving their hands, shouting and running around as the band plays every kind of instrument. Which way to worship is correct?
Well, the Bible outlines seven different types of worship, and they are all appropriate, with each having its place. Let’s examine them:
1. Barak–To kneel, to bless God, to bow down
“He will rescue the poor when they cry to him; he will help the oppressed, who have no one to defend them…. Long live the king! May the gold of Sheba be given to him, may the people always pray for him and bless him all day long.” –Psalm 72:12-15
Barak means to bow down to, or kneel before, the Lord. It communicates that the Lord holds a place of importance and helps us remember just how great He is. Barak is not done out of a begging attitude but rather an expectant attitude, because the Lord is more than willing and able to move on our behalf.
2. Halal–To be clear, to shine, to boast, to show, to rave, to celebrate, to be clamorously foolish
“David appointed the following Levites to lead the people in worship before the Ark of the Lord—to invoke his blessings, to give thanks, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel.” –1 Chronicles 16:4
Halal appears more than 110 times in the Old Testament. It translates as to shine, boast, rave about, celebrate or even to be clamorously foolish. Can you imagine a more wondrous noise raving about about all the Lord is and all He has done?
3. Shabach–To shout loudly, to command
“Come, everyone! Clap your hands! Shout to God with joyful praise!” –Psalm 47:1
Shabach means to shout loudly or command. Of course, it isn’t simply about being loud. Its focus is to worship the Lord with one’s whole being.
4. Tehillah–To sing praises, singing out of the spirit spontaneously
“But you are holy, O You Who dwell in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered].” –Psalm 22:3, AMPC
Tehillah means to sing unrehearsed, unplanned praises to the Lord. It can include adding words to an existing song or even singing in the spirit to the Lord.
5. Towdah–Extending hands, acting out of thanksgiving for what has or will be done
“But giving thanks is a sacrifice that truly honors me. If you keep to my path, I will reveal to you the salvation of God.” –Psalm 50:23
Towdah is a type of worship that includes extending your hands or raising them in thanksgiving for something that has been done or will be done.
6. Yadah– Extending the hands vigorously
“After consulting the people, the king appointed singers to walk ahead of the army, singing to the Lord and praising him for his holy splendor. This is what they sang: ‘Give thanks to the Lord; his faithful love endures forever!’” –2 Chronicles 20:21
Yadah means to extend your hands vigorously as in complete surrender.
7. Zamar – To touch the strings, to make music with instruments, mostly rejoicing
“Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn; praise him with the lyre and harp! Praise him with the tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flutes! Praise him with a clash of cymbals; praise him with loud clanging cymbals. Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord! Praise the Lord!” –Psalm 150:3-6
Zamar means to touch the strings. It involves rejoicing and making music to the Lord.
Allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you about the seven ways to worship in spirit and in truth. How can you incorporate them into your personal and corporate worship? Remember, praising God is to be on our lips, or spoken (Isaiah 57:19), and we are to do it continually as a sacrifice (Hebrews 13:15). God promises that when we praise and worship Him, He inhabits those praises (Psalm 22:3), and it gives us strength to defeat our enemy (Psalm 8:2).
For an even deeper study into how you can worship God in spirit and in truth, check out the 7 Types of Worship Bible Study. Enjoy a deeper experience as you discover how to worship God daily, at home and everywhere you go, in spirit and in truth!
You can receive divine health in your body AND your finances. But to have this, you must immerse yourself in The WORD of God. No WORD = no results; 10% WORD equals 10% results; 50% WORD equals 50% results; 100% WORD—100% results. Read, believe and receive God’s promises every day, and you will get 100% results!
Living In Divine Health
June 19-23, 2023 Jesus redeemed you from every sickness and disease! This week on Believer’s Voice of Victory, join Kenneth and Gloria Copeland as they talk all about living in divine health. Recognize that Jesus is both your Savior AND Healer. Learn how to stay out of grief and sorrow, so you can walk in God’s covenant promise of healing and long life!
Stay Out of Grief To Stay In Divine Health
June 19, 2023– Monday It’s time to break the habit of being sorrowful! Join Kenneth and Gloria Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they urge you to stay out of grief and sorrow. Find out how to put an end to both and stay in divine health!
How To Live In Divine Health
June 20, 2023 – Tuesday Healing is yours! Watch Kenneth and Gloria Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they teach you how to live in divine health through your covenant with God. Discover that healing isn’t a reward but a property that you must own!
Redeemed From Every Sickness and Disease
June 21, 2023 – Wednesday There is power in the Name of Jesus! Join Kenneth and Gloria Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as they remind you that Jesus has redeemed you from every sickness and disease. Learn the power of both the Blood covenant you have through Christ and His Name, which is above every name!
Jesus, Your Savior and Healer
June 22, 2023 – Thursday God wants you well! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth and Gloria Copeland discuss the fact that Jesus is your Savior and Healer. Find out how to no longer be moved by things in the natural, so you’ll always live in divine health!
Divine Health In Your Finances
June 23, 2023 – Friday Are you in debt? Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth and Gloria Copeland share how you can have divine health in your finances. Learn to stand firm in faith on God’s promises, knowing His WORD always brings results!
The King James Version of Proverbs 4:20 says, “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.” To attend means “to listen and obey.” We are to attend to God’s words—ALL of them. Read His Word and allow Him to reveal what it means in your life, so you can walk in perfect obedience.
Attend to God’s WORD for a Prosperous, Long Life
June 12-16, 2023 Resurrection life is in you! This week, on Believer’s Voice of Victory, join Kenneth Copeland as he teaches you to attend to God’s WORD for a prosperous, long life. Discover how He promises long life and abundance as you are willing and obedient. Plus, learn to call upon the power and authority of angels to carry out God’s promises on your behalf!
God’s WORD Promises Long Life
June 12, 2023 – Monday Our God is a good God! Join Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he shows you that God’s WORD lovingly promises long life. Find out how to not only live according to His WORD, but how to do it well!
Attend to God’s Word
June 13, 2023 – Tuesday Attend, listen, obey and receive! Watch Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he helps you attend to God’s WORD. Begin living a life full of THE BLESSING as you learn to give The WORD first place over everything in your life!
Angels Carry Out God’s WORD for Health and Prosperity
June 14, 2023 – Wednesday You’ve been assigned angels! Join Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he discusses how angels carry out God’s WORD for your health and prosperity. Discover how to call on the power and authority of your angels, and send them forth to accomplish whatever you need in your life today!
God’s Resurrection Life in You Brings Healing
June 15, 2023 – Thursday By His stripes you were healed—therefore, you are healed! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland reminds you of how God’s resurrection life in you brings healing. Get inspired to believe and speak the healing that’s been made available to you through Christ, and take hold of it with your faith!
Attending to God’s WORD Leads to Abundance
June 16, 2023 – Friday Are you willing and obedient? Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland speaks of how attending to God’s WORD leads to abundance. Find out how your obedience will not only bring you physical prosperity, but financial prosperity as well!
Do you find it easier to stand in faith for others to receive healing than it is to believe for yourself to receive it? Sometimes, it’s far easier to believe God wants and wills to heal someone else, isn’t it? But the truth is it is God’s will to heal you.
When Jesus walked the earth, He assured of this saying:
“For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me” (John 6:38, NKJV).
“The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does” (John 5:19, NIV).
“For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken” (John 12:49, NIV).
If Jesus came from heaven to only do the will of His Father, to only speak what His Father told Him to speak, and to do only what His Father told Him to do, what is it that we see on the pages of Scripture that Jesus spent His time doing?
Matthew 10 gives us a very clear picture: “And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease…. These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: ‘Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give’” (Matthew 10:1, 5-8, NKJV).
Luke 10 tells us more: “Now after this the Lord chose and appointed seventy others and sent them out ahead of Him, two by two, into every town and place where He Himself was about to come (visit)” (Luke 10:1, AMPC).
Then Jesus goes on to say: “The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house…. And heal the sick that are therein” (Luke 10:2-9, KJV).
From these Scriptures, there should be no doubt, no argument, no wondering whether it is God’s will to heal the sick. These verses give you the assurance needed that it is God’s will to heal you. God is for you, and He wants you to settle this in your heart, so you can receive your healing!
The Misuse of Praying, “If it be Your will…”
If all this is true—and it is—then why do some people pray with the phrase, “If it be Your will, God, please heal…”? Perhaps, they get this phrase from when Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, right before He was to be arrested and eventually hung on the cross. He prayed to His heavenly Father saying, “If it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done” (Luke 22:42, NKJV).
It’s important to understand that Jesus wasn’t praying about healing. He wasn’t asking His heavenly Father to heal His body, because He wasn’t sick. Rather, He was fully the Son of God who knew what He was about to experience as fully man—His crucifixion. As Kenneth Copeland has said, “Jesus still had flesh, but the glory of God was flowing in His veins. He poured His blood out on the heavenly mercy seat so that we could be healed and well.”
Nowhere in Scripture did Jesus demonstrate for us to pray, “If it be Your will,” in relationship to healing; therefore, it should not be a part of how we pray when we want God to heal us. Rather, we should pray according to, and in alignment with, the Word of God, which clearly shows us it is God’s will to heal every single one of us!
We Receive Our Healing by Faith
When Cornelius the centurion sent word for Jesus to come and heal his servant, he left his home and met Jesus as He was on His way (Luke 7:1-6). Cornelius told Jesus that he was not worthy for Jesus to come under his roof, “but say the Word and let my servant be healed.” To which Jesus marveled and said, “’I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!’And those who were sent, returning to the house, found the servant well who had been sick” (Luke 7:7-10, NKJV).
Later, after Jesus was in heaven, Peter preached in Cornelius’ house saying, “…how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38, NKJV).
We Receive Our Healing by Speaking Our Faith
Matthew records the centurion as saying to Jesus, “Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed” (Matthew 8:8, KJV).
To receive our healing by faith, we speak faith. We speak faith by speaking the Word of God. We pray it. We confess it. We profess it. We declare it. And we do that until we receive it. Until we have manifestation of our healing.
Do you want to be healed? Do you believe it is God’s will to heal you? Start speaking it out of your mouth!
In Mark 1:32-39, Jesus was doing what His Father said to do—He was healing the sick.
“At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to Him [Jesus] all who were sick and those who were demon-possessed. And the whole city was gathered together at the door. Then He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him.”
The next morning, He spent time with His heavenly Father, to hear what to do next and then He did it.
“Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed. And Simon and those who were with Him searched for Him. When they found Him, they said to Him, ‘Everyone is looking for You.’
“But He said to them, ‘Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also, becausefor this purpose I have come forth.’
“And He was preaching in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and casting out demons.”
Next, the Scripture tells us the best news of all because it shows us how Jesus is always willing to heal.
“Now a leper came to Him, imploring Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, ‘If You are willing, You can make me clean.’
“Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I am willing; be cleansed.’ As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed” (Mark 1:40-42).
Jesus Is Willing To Heal You Today
Jesus is willing to heal you—no matter your affliction. In Luke 5, He healed a man who had a stroke, something we might think isn’t reversible. In John 5, He healed the man who had laid by the pool of Bethesda for 38 years. How long you’ve been sick doesn’t matter. In Luke 8, He healed a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years, who’d spent her savings on medical treatment, who risked it all to reach Him. However your condition makes you feel mentally, emotionally or physically doesn’t matter. Jesus cares about you in every way—and it is His will to heal you. Even if it’s a miracle that you need.
Do you need a healing miracle? Receive now the assurance that it is God’s will to heal you, and receive your miracle today. Have faith in God. Isn’t that what Jesus said? “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22, KJV). This also can be accurately translated as, “Have the faith of God, or have the God kind of faith.” Doesn’t the faith we have come from God to begin with? Yes. (See Romans 12:3). So use the faith God gave you to receive from Him what He willingly has given you—your healing, your miracle!
