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6 Steps to Live a God-Given Dream

Posted on July 22, 2015 - 1:49 pm by

by Kenneth Copeland

Oh, Jesus! Don’t You know how sick I am? Don’t You know how broke I am? Why don’t You help me? Oh, Jesus…don’t You care?

Most of us have prayed a prayer like that at one time or another.

We’ve also found out such prayers don’t work. They don’t bring the power and provision of God on the scene. They leave us as sick and broke as we were when we prayed them.

Why is that?

It’s because that kind of “praying” does not give Jesus, our High Priest, anything to work with. It does not open the door for Him to do what He is anointed and appointed by God to do.

I realize that statement might come as a shock to some. They assume because Jesus is Lord, He can do anything He desires. But, that’s not the case. According to the New Testament, our heavenly Father has given Him a particular ministry to fulfill. Hebrews 3:1 tells us what that ministry is. It calls Him “the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.”

The word profession used there can also be translated confession. It refers to the words we speak. Its literal translation is “to say the same thing.” Therefore, according to that verse, Jesus is anointed to bring to pass the words we say when we speak His Word.

In light of that, let me ask you something. What is He supposed to do when we stand before Him and say things like, “I’m sick! I’m hurting! I’m broke!”?

I’ll tell you what He’ll do.

Nothing.

Jesus is not anointed to administer those kinds of professions. He is not called to bring to pass devilish things like sickness, pain and poverty. They’re part of the curse and He has defeated them. They are under His feet.

“Then why doesn’t He deliver me from them?” you might ask.

He has delivered you! Through His death and Resurrection He has already provided you with absolute victory in every area of life. The problem isn’t with His giving…it’s with your receiving.

#1 – Tune In to God’s Channel

Think about times when you’ve tried to tune a radio to a particular station and you’ll see what I mean. If the radio is not set on the right frequency, you can’t hear that station. You can’t receive what it’s broadcasting.

What do you do when that happens? You don’t call the station and say there’s something wrong with their equipment. You don’t wonder if they’ve gone off the air. You know enough about technology to understand the problem is not with their transmitting, it’s with your receiver. So you check the batteries in the radio or you keep adjusting it until you can hear the station loud and clear.

We need to have the spiritual sense to operate the same way with God. If we’re not receiving what He has promised us in the Bible, we should stop assuming He is withholding it from us. Instead, we should trust that God is faithful, and go to work to find out what adjustments we must make to receive from Him. We should grab our Bible, ask the Holy Spirit to show us how to tune in to THE BLESSING of God, and look for scriptures that reveal how God operates—scriptures like Genesis 26:2-3. There, God said to Isaac during a time of famine: “Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father.”

Notice that God said He would perform for Isaac the oath, or the word, He gave to Abraham. He didn’t say, “Sometimes I will perform that word and sometimes I won’t.” No, He said, “I will perform it!”

If that was the only time God made that statement, we might think it applied only to Isaac; but it wasn’t. He made the same declaration in Jeremiah 1:12: “I will hasten my word to perform it.” One translation phrases that verse, “I am quick to perform My Word.” Another says, “God watches over His Word to perform it.”

God hasn’t changed a bit. He said the same thing to Isaac that He said to Jeremiah. He performs His Word!

#2 – Untie Jesus’ Hands

What does that have to do with Jesus’ high-priestly ministry?

A great deal because, as our High Priest, He operates by that same principle.

Mark 16:14 confirms it. There we read about a time just after Jesus’ resurrection when He appeared to the disciples and upbraided them (or sternly corrected them) for “their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” Then He said:

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following (verses 15-20).

Notice the word them in the last verse is italicized. That’s because it isn’t in the original Greek manuscripts. It was added at the discretion of the translators. Sometimes such additions are helpful, but in this case, the added word doesn’t belong. Only when we take it out do we see the clear meaning of the verse: They went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with and confirming the Word with signs following.

According to that scripture, signs and wonders didn’t follow the disciples just because they were the first apostles of Jesus. They followed them because they were speaking the Word. Jesus, their High Priest, was working with, confirming and performing the Word.

No wonder He upbraided the disciples when He found them huddled in a back room feeling sorry for themselves! As long as they were wallowing in unbelief, He didn’t have anything to work with. Until they started confessing His Word in faith, His hands were tied. He didn’t have anything to perform.

#3 – Rejoice in Hope

That wasn’t true just in the lives of those first disciples—it’s true for us today. Jesus Christ is still the High Priest of our profession. God has anointed and appointed Him to perform the Word we confess, and He will do it, as Hebrews 3:6 says, “…if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.” Look at verse 14 of the next chapter: “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.”

That last phrase is important because Jesus can’t fulfill His high-priestly ministry on our behalf if we’re confessing His Word one minute, and moaning about our problems the next. For Him to perform the Word in our lives, we must hold that Word fast in faith and confidence. We must rejoice in hope over it until it comes to pass.

What does it mean to rejoice in hope?

Imagine someone walked up to you and said, “I own a Fortune 500 company, and I’ve decided to pay off all your debts. I’ve put $5 million into your bank account and when you spend that, I’ll give you $5 million more. I’ve also put you on our company’s board of directors.”

If you believed that person was telling the truth, you’d have goose bumps climbing on top of goose bumps. Your hair would be standing straight up with excitement. You’d be so thrilled you couldn’t wait to call all your friends and relatives to tell them the good news. Even though you hadn’t seen a dime of the money yet, if you were confident of that person’s word, you’d be rejoicing in hope.

We ought to be the same way about the promises of God. When we read that God will meet all our needs according to His riches in glory (Philippians 4:19)…or that THE BLESSING of Abraham is ours in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:14)…or that in Christ we’ve been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places (Ephesians 1:3), if we really believed it, we’d whoop and holler with joy. But most of the time, we don’t.

Instead, we just ho-hum our way through those promises. We say like one fellow said, “Yeah, well, praise God…I’ll put it on my Sears bill and see how far it will go. Ha, ha, ha.”

Why is that? Why does the natural promise of $5 million from a man excite us so much more than the supernatural, limitless promise of our Almighty God?

The first one is received by our natural, carnal mind. It comes to us from the outside in, through our natural, physical senses. If we have enough evidence to back it up, a natural promise requires no faith to believe. So our mind and emotions just respond and start doing back flips.

The revelation of God’s Word, on the other hand, comes to us through our spirit. It comes to us from the inside out. Before our mind can fully take hold of it and start rejoicing over it, that Word has to become strong enough in us to overcome the outward evidence to the contrary, and take over our entire being.

For that to happen, we must meditate on the Word. We must feed on it and stir ourselves up on purpose with the truth of it. We must spend time developing our faith.

#4 – Develop Your Faith in the Gospel

If you’ll do that, one of these days the reality of the gospel will hit you. It will spill out of your spirit over into your soul (your mind, will and emotions) and when it does you’ll take off like your coattail is on fire.

Faith will take hold in you and you’ll start rejoicing in hope. Once you start rejoicing in hope, it won’t be long until the Word of God is made flesh in your life.

That’s how the power of the gospel always works. It becomes a reality first on the inside of you. The external manifestation always begins with an inner revelation. That’s why Hebrews 4:2 says, “For unto us was the gospel preached….” We must hear and receive the gospel in our hearts before it can show up in our lives.

“But what does the gospel have to do with my healing and my finances?” someone might ask.

Everything—because the gospel isn’t just the good news that through Jesus we can go to heaven when we die. Let’s read Galatians 3:8: “And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.”

Do you see that? Praise God. It’s the glorious truth that: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Galatians 3:13-14).

The gospel is the good news that THE BLESSING God preached to Abraham, which is the same blessing He gave to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, now belongs to us as born-again believers. Certainly, heaven is included in that blessing, but so are healing, prosperity and every other good thing God has to give.

Again! Was there any sickness in that Garden? No!  Was there any poverty or oppression in that Garden? No!

The Garden of Eden was a dream place—a little heaven on earth. It was a perfect manifestation of the goodness and love of God, and that’s what THE BLESSING produces. As we confess it with confidence and give our High Priest the opportunity to administer it, it turns our lives into a God-given dream come true! He is Lord over the curse. He is high priest over THE BLESSING!

#5 – Start Building

“But I don’t have any dreams, Brother Copeland.”

Then open your Bible and get yourself some!

Read and meditate on God’s promises. Build your faith in His goodness and the integrity of His covenant Book until you begin to see a picture of your life that lines up with it. If you’ve been plagued with sickness, build a dream of health and strength and long life. If you’ve been dogged by financial lack, build a dream of abundance. Stay in the Word of God until you see yourself “always having all sufficiency in all things,” so that you “may abound to every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8).

Real Bible hope is a God-ordained dream. So build yourself a dream from the Scriptures and start rejoicing over it.

In the initial stages, it will be a dream without substance, but if you’ll keep feeding it…and feeding it with the Word, your faith for it will start to grow. Then that faith will begin to draw the reality of that dream out of your spirit and it will begin to manifest in your life. It will flow out from inside you and start healing your flesh, bringing you finances and making your dreams come true.

I know from experience just how true that is. I’ve been watching it happen in my life and ministry for more than 40 years now, and so have my children. Years ago, for example, when my son, John, who is grown now, was just a little boy, our whole family developed a God-given dream for a station wagon. The car we’d been driving just wasn’t big enough to carry all the stuff for our meetings, so we all started confessing the Word over the situation.

We didn’t cry and moan and say, “God, can’t You see we need a new car? Why don’t You give us a car? Why don’t You give us the station wagon we need?”

No, our High Priest couldn’t have done anything with those words. So we said, “Our God meets our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. We have our station wagon, in Jesus’ Name!” Then we sowed seed toward it—both word seed and financial seed.

Eventually, it got so real inside me that I quit saying much about it. It was mine. I could see it with the eyes of my spirit.

One day, I realized John could too. We were driving down the road and he said, “Daddy, we got our station wagon! It’s ours, right?”

“Yes, that’s right, John,” I answered.

“Why don’t we go get it?”

It was so real to him he couldn’t figure out why we weren’t already driving it. The reason in the natural was $3,000. In John’s spirit and mine, it was finished.

Sure enough, within a few days a fellow called me, weeping. “Brother Copeland,” he said, “please forgive me. Some time ago the Lord told me to send you some money and I haven’t done it. But I’m sending it to you now.”

The money was just the amount we needed to buy the station wagon of our dreams.

If you’ll put the Word of God in your heart and in your mouth, your High Priest will do the same kind of thing for you. He’ll perform His Word on your behalf.

#6 – Start Confessing

So get rid of those old, unbelieving prayers and confessions. Replace them with words Jesus can work with. Spend time in the Bible and develop some God-given dreams. Keep meditating the Word and feeding your heart with it until those dreams become real to you and you have such confidence in them that you are rejoicing in hope.

If you’ll dare to do it, I can promise you on the authority of God’s Word, you’ll never be disappointed. For you have a High Priest who is anointed to make your God-given dreams come true.

 

How to Find Your Way Out of Impossible Circumstances

Posted on July 8, 2015 - 3:06 pm by

by Gloria Copeland

            If you’re new to the things of God, a beginner just learning about the word of faith, no doubt you’re eager to launch into a lifestyle of living contact with God by spending time each day in prayer and the Word. That’s how I was too when I first learned what the Word of God could do.

No one had to urge me to put the Word first place. No one had to tell me to turn off the television and put down the newspaper. I totally lost interest in those things because Ken and I were desperate for God. We were in trouble. We weren’t on the bottom of the barrel. We were under the barrel, and it was on top of us.

We knew that the Word of God was the only answer to our situation. So it was easy for us to sell out to it and spend time in the Word and in living contact with God day and night.

You know, desperation sometimes helps. It encourages you to simplify your life. It inspires you to eliminate the unnecessary things and just go for God. But after you’ve walked with God for a while and things begin to be comfortable, it’s easy to lose the desire you once had for the Word.

That’s what happened to me. Once Ken and I paid our debts and began enjoying the blessings of God, I began to let too much of my time be taken up by other things. They weren’t sinful things, they were just things I enjoyed doing. Almost without realizing it, my appetite for the things of God began to wane. Instead of hungering for time with Him, I enjoyed other activities and interests more. Those activities would have been fine if I had kept them in the right place, but they occupied too much of my time and attention.

I hardly even noticed it had happened until I was attending one of Brother Kenneth Hagin’s meetings in 1977 and he began to prophesy. (I still keep the final words of that prophecy in my notebook today.) Part of that prophecy said to purpose in your heart that you will not be lazy, that you will not draw back, hold back or sit down, to purpose in your heart that you will rise up, march forward and become on fire.

When I heard that, it dawned on me that I had become lazy about the things of God. I was still spending time in the Word, but not as much as before. And I wasn’t as full of zeal either—you can’t be spiritually on fire without spending a sufficient amount of time with God.

The Lord began to deal with me about it. I prayed and determined in my heart that I would change things. In order to simplify my life, I asked the Lord to show me what activities I should eliminate and what I should take on.

He led me to drop certain things that were stealing my time with Him. He also told me to do certain things that would help me get back in the habit of spending time with Him as I should. One specific thing He told me to do was to read one of John G. Lake’s sermons each day. Each time I read one of those sermons, it opened up my heart to the power of God in a fresh way.

He also led me to get up an hour earlier in the morning so I could spend time with Him before I began my day. It was wintertime and my alarm clock would go off and my flesh would say, You don’t want to get up. It’s too dark! It’s too cold! My bed would feel so wonderful and warm that there were a few mornings during the first weeks that I’d agree with my body and go back to sleep.

I didn’t let that stop me though. If I went back to sleep, I’d repent. Then I would ask God to help me, and the next morning I’d go at it again. Eventually, my body became trained.

Your body can be trained to follow God just like it can be trained to follow the devil. Hebrews 5:14 says that mature believers have their “senses and mental faculties…trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between…good and…evil” (The Amplified Bible). If you practice the things of God, your body will eventually begin to cooperate with you.

Getting up earlier was a challenge for a while. But eventually my body stopped complaining. It became accustomed to getting up at that hour.

My commitment to make time for God every morning has been one of the most important decisions of my life. It made such a difference in my spiritual growth. I’m not the same person I was then. People are always talking about how timid and restrained I used to be. And I really was—but I got over it!

Become Addicted to Jesus

By implementing the changes God instructed me to make, I created a lifestyle of living contact with God. I became addicted to spending time with Him. Do you know what the word addicted means? It means “to devote, to deliver over, to apply habitually.”

You create good habits in God the same way you create poor habits. If you’ll apply yourself to making contact with Him daily through prayer and the Word, it will become a way of life. You won’t even have to think about it—it will just come naturally to you.

That’s what happened to me. Making time with God as my first priority is such a habit that I don’t have to get up every day and think, Well, should I read the Word and pray this morning? I just do it automatically. It’s a way of life for me to spend the first part of my day in prayer. Even when Ken and I are traveling, even when I have to get up at 4 a.m. to do it—I do it.

You might think that’s extreme. You might think I’m the only one around who is that committed to spending time with the Lord every day, but I’m not. I’m one of many.

I have one friend in particular who is very diligent about it. No matter how early she has to get up in the morning, no matter what else her schedule may hold, she puts her time in the Word and in prayer first place in her day. That’s because many years ago she found herself dying of liver cancer. The doctors had diagnosed it and told her she only had a few months to live.

Medical science couldn’t help her, so she turned to God’s medicine. She began to spend time reading and meditating on scriptures about healing each and every day. As a result, she is alive and well today with no trace of cancer in her body.

My friend knows she owes her very life to God’s Word, so she is still faithful and diligent to partake of those scriptures and fellowship with God first thing every morning. She is a minister of the gospel, and like Ken and me, she often begins her day very early. But she says, “Even if I have to get up at 3 a.m., I do it.”

Certainly such faithfulness requires time and effort. It’s not easy. But if believers fully understood the blessings it brings, they would be willing to do whatever was necessary to make their time with God first priority every day.

There are great rewards for that kind of faithfulness! The Bible says, “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him” (2 Chronicles 16:9). The word translated perfect there doesn’t mean without a flaw. It simply means “faithful, loyal, dedicated and devoted.”

God will pass over a million people to find that one who is loyal to Him. He scans the earth looking for a person who will put Him first and let Him be God in their life.

God wants to help us. He wants to meet our every need and work miracles for us. If you were God, wouldn’t you do that? Wouldn’t you move in the lives of your children? The Bible says if you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more the Father gives to His children.

Well, we’re God’s children. We’ve been born of His Spirit. We look just like God on the inside because He’s our Father.

He has us in His heart. He cares about us. He loves each and every one of us as if we were the only child He has. God has a great and wonderful ability to have a family of many millions while treating each member as if they were the only one.

But God can’t bless us like He wants to if we won’t let Him be God in our lives. He can’t pour out His provision upon us if we keep clogging up our heavenly supply line by putting other things before Him. If He is to show Himself strong on our behalf, our hearts will have to be turned wholly toward Him.

Your Desire Follows Your Attention

Maybe today your heart isn’t turned wholly toward God. Maybe you’re facing the same situation I was facing back in 1977. You’ve grown busy and lost your appetite for the things of God. You know you ought to be praying more and spending more time in the Word, but you’ve lost your desire. You just don’t want to do it.

If so, you can turn yourself around. You can rekindle your fire for the Lord by making the same kinds of changes I made. Before long, you’ll find yourself addicted to God instead of the earthly pursuits that have been so consuming you.

How can I be so sure?

Because God showed me that your desire always follows your attention. Most people think it’s the other way around. They think their attention follows their desire, but that’s not the case.

One of the greatest practical examples of the fact that desire follows attention is the average golfer. In the springtime when the weather is nice and there is plenty of opportunity to play golf, most avid golfers become very absorbed in their sport. The more they play, the more they want to play. They think about it, read about it, talk about it. They are constantly wanting to play golf!

But when winter comes, they put away their golf clubs. They stop talking about it and thinking about it. They don’t mope around all winter because they can’t be on the golf course. Why? Because they’ve turned their attention to other things and their desire for golf has lessened.

I’ve seen that same principle at work in our conventions. People will come to a Believers’ Convention, and when they arrive they will often be completely caught up in natural affairs. They’ll be preoccupied, worrying and fussing about some business deal at the office or some problem they left at home.

But after just a day or two of attending the meetings and spending hours in the Word of God, they’ll completely forget about that business deal and that problem. They’ll be so absorbed in the Word that those things won’t interest them at all.

It doesn’t matter how disinterested you may have grown about the things of God. If you will turn your attention toward Him, your heart will follow.

I know that from experience. I turned my attention to the Word of God, spent time listening to tapes, spent time in prayer until I became so addicted to the things of God that I lost interest in many of the other things that had so engaged me before. For example, I enjoy decorating homes and offices, and I used to spend a great deal of time at it. But as I became more involved in the things of God, I just didn’t want to spend much time decorating. Now it’s a chore to do it.

What’s more, every time I thought about taking up some new project, starting a new hobby or buying something that would require me to spend my time maintaining it, I’d say to myself, Can I afford this? Can I afford the time it will cost me? Usually I decided I couldn’t. I had come to value the things of God so much and have such great desire for them, I just didn’t want to give my time to anything else unless it was absolutely necessary.

A Tithe of Your Time

My resolve to put prayer and the Word first place in my life every day was even further strengthened in 1982 by another prophecy by Brother Kenneth Hagin. In that particular prophecy, the Spirit spoke of wading further out into the realm of the spirit, until it’s so deep, you can’t possibly touch the bottom. But the Spirit warned, our flesh will hold us back from that. It’s only by renewing our minds that we can move into the realm of the spirit. Brother Hagin went on to say by the Spirit of God that if we’d just give an hour or two out of every 24, our lives would be changed and empowered, all would be well, and we would be a mighty force for God.

That prophecy has influenced and encouraged me tremendously throughout the years. In fact since hearing it, I have spent at least an hour or two alone with the Lord every day. When I began to do this, there were things in my life and family that I wanted to see changed. There were things in the lives of my children that needed to be improved.

When I heard the prophet say that if I’d spend an hour or two a day with the Lord, things would be well with me, I took God at His word. Today I can give testimony that word was true. It worked. At the writing of this article, everything in my life and the life of my family is good. Things are well with us. My children are healthy, blessed and serving the Lord.

There is no question about it. The time I’ve spent with God has changed my life. And I can say with certainty that if you’ll spend an hour or two a day with Him, it will change your life too.

How could it be otherwise? How could you possibly spend an hour or two daily with the highest authority and the most kind and loving Being in the universe without having it affect your life?

You may be facing problems today that seem to have no solutions. You may be caught in impossible circumstances. But I want you to know, God can change those things. If you’ll give Him a way into your life by making living contact with Him every day, He’ll give you a way out of those impossible circumstances. He’ll help you solve those problems. He’ll move on your behalf until you can say, “All is well with me!”

If you want a change, make a change.

Commit yourself to do whatever it takes to maintain living contact with God, and spend time with Him every day. Determine right now that by the strength and grace of God, if you have to get up earlier in the morning, you will do it. If you have to go to bed later at night, you will do it. If you have to change jobs, you will do it.

Decide that no matter what it takes, you will maintain your communion with God, and you will guard your heart above all, for out of it flow the issues of life.

3 Ways Christians Shaped America

Posted on June 30, 2015 - 4:54 pm by

by David Barton

In early America, Christians and ministers were responsible for shaping our form of government. We were involved in three vital arenas.

#1 – Christians were involved in shaping worldview.

We taught society that everything in life can be addressed by principles in the Bible. Ministers addressed issues people were dealing with at the time, and gave them God’s wisdom about those subjects. They also taught their congregations from the Word what their civic responsibilities were in regard to elections, government leaders, etc.

Christians were responsible for creating a biblical worldview throughout the culture. Even atheists knew what was right and wrong, knew the Ten Commandments and often followed them. Christians had tremendous influence in society by demonstrating that the Word of God was practical and applicable. Their example and ideals helped shape the culture that led to the American Revolution.

Our Constitution contains radical ideas that no other nation has ever put into practice. In fact, it contains so many novel concepts that political science professors investigated to find out where the founding fathers got their ideas of separation of powers, checks and balances, and democratic elections. After 10 years of studying 15,000 writings, they discovered that 34 percent of the quotes in the Founding Era came from the Bible. And in the writing of the Declaration, the source quoted most often was Two Treatises of Civil Government, a book that cites the Bible more than 1500 times. Biblical thinking so undergirded our founding documents that John Adams stated, “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were…the general principles of Christianity.”

#2 – Christians, pastors and churches were also intricately involved in the making of governmental policy.

Today many people believe that government is a secular institution and religious people should not be and never were involved in the process. That view can only be held because they don’t know who our founders really were. For example: Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon had numerous volumes of gospel sermons published. He was responsible for two American editions of the Bible, including America’s first family Bible.

Dr. Benjamin Rush started the first Bible society and Sunday school society in America. He believed if people would only read and study the Bible, all social problems could be resolved.

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 24 held what would today be considered seminary or Bible school degrees.

Men like these formed our early laws and policies. In fact many ministers and theologians were members of Congress and members of their state assemblies.

#3 -Finally, Christians were actively involved in defending our country.

Many brigades in the American Revolution were made up of ministers who led their parishioners to defend their rights. The minutemen in Lexington, Mass., were deacons of Rev. Jonas Clark’s church. They followed their pastor as he led the charge to defend the town. These Christians and many others understood that we have “dual citizenship” and stewardship responsibilities here on earth as well as in heaven.

When you look at American history, Christians, pastors and churches were responsible to a large degree in shaping worldview, in shaping policy and in defending our country. As Christians, God made us stewards of the nation He gave us. It’s time to renew our minds to that truth and get involved again in shaping America.

David Barton, nationally known author and public speaker, is the founder and president of WallBuilders, a pro-family organization which seeks to educate grass-roots society to rebuild America’s constitutional, moral and religious foundations.

For more information go to www.wallbuilders.com, call 1-817-441-6044 or write to WallBuilders, P. O. Box 397, Aledo, TX 76008-0397.

 

 

KCM Partner – YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!

Posted on June 30, 2015 - 2:52 pm by

As you know, the weather this spring has been quite severe for much of the U.S. Several states have experienced excessive rainfall, excessive flooding, rivers cresting and many tornados. Here at Kenneth Copeland Ministries, we want you to know, as our Partner, YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!

Our Disaster Relief team has been traveling to affected cities to find our partners for the last two months, and we are not finished yet.

And while the Disaster Relief team is on the road, the entire team here at the Kenneth Copeland Ministries is praying and standing with you in faith that you are protected and that your steps are directed by the Lord!

Click here to watch the latest videos!

 

Statement on the Supreme Court Decision

Posted on June 30, 2015 - 9:49 am by
By David Barton
The Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that established homosexual marriage as national policy is unambiguously wrong on at least three crucial levels: Moral, Constitutional, and Structural.
On the Moral Level
The Court’s decision violates the moral standards specifically enumerated in our founding documents. The Declaration of Independence sets forth the fundamental principles and values of American government, and the Constitution provides the specifics of how government will operate within those principles. As the U. S. Supreme Court has correctly acknowledged:
The latter [Constitution] is but the body and the letter of which the former [Declaration of Independence] is the thought and the spirit, and it is always safe to read the letter of the Constitution in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration first officially acknowledges a Divine Creator and then declares that America will operate under the general values set forth in “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” The framers of our documents called this the Moral Law, and in the Western World it became known as the Common Law. This was directly incorporated into the American legal system while the colonies were still part of England; following independence, the Common Law was then reincorporated into the legal system of all the new states to ensure its uninterrupted operation; and under the federal Constitution, its continued use was acknowledged by means of the Seventh Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Numerous Founding Fathers and legal authorities, including the U. S. Supreme Court, affirmed that the Constitution is based on the Common Law, which incorporated God’s will as expressed through “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.”
Those constitutional moral standards placed the definition of marriage outside the scope of government. As acknowledged in a 1913 case:
Marriage was not originated by human law. When God created Eve, she was a wife to Adam; they then and there occupied the status of husband to wife and wife to husband. . . . It would be sacrilegious to apply the designation “a civil contract” to such a marriage. It is that and more – a status ordained by God.
Because marriage “was not originated by human law,” then civil government had no authority to redefine it. The Supreme Court’s decision on marriage repudiates the fixed moral standards established by our founding documents and specifically incorporated into the Constitution.
On the Constitutional Level
The Constitution establishes both federalism and a limited American government by first enumerating only seventeen areas in which the federal government is authorized to operate, and then by explicitly declaring that everything else is to be determined exclusively by the People and the States (the Ninth and Tenth Amendments).
Thomas Jefferson thus described the overall scope of federal powers by explaining that “the States can best govern our home concerns and the general [federal] government our foreign ones.” He warned that “taking from the States the moral rule of their citizens and subordinating it to the general authority [federal government] . . . . would . . . break up the foundations of the Union.” The issue of marriage is clearly a “domestic” and not a “foreign” issue, and one that directly pertains to the State’s “moral rule of their citizens.” But the Supreme Court rejected these limits on its jurisdiction, and America now experiences what Jefferson feared:
[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another.
By taking control of issues specifically delegated to the States, the Court has disregarded explicit constitutional limitations and directly attacked constitutional federalism.
On the Structural Level
The Constitution stipulates that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government” (Article IV, Section 4). A republican form of government is one in which the people elect leaders to make public policy, with those leaders being directly accountable to the people. More than thirty States, by their republican form of government, had established a definition of marriage for their State. The Supreme Court decision directly abridges the constitutional mandate to secure to every state a republican form of government.
To believe that the Judiciary is an independent and neutral arbiter without a political agenda is ludicrous. As Thomas Jefferson long ago observed:
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
Judges definitely do have political views and personal agendas; they therefore were given no authority to make public policy. The perils from their doing were too great. As Jefferson affirmed, the judges’ “power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control.” He therefore warned:
[T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. . . . The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal. The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
The Supreme Court’s decision is a direct assault on the republican form of government that the Constitution requires be guaranteed to every State.
The Road Ahead
The Supreme Courts decree on marriage will become a club to bludgeon the sincerely-held rights of religious conscience, especially of those in the several dozen States who, through their republican form of government, had enacted public policies that conformed to both the Moral Law and the traditional Common Law.
While the Supreme Court decision paid lip service to the rights of religious people to disagree with its marriage decision, history shows that not only does this acknowledgment mean little but also that it will be openly disregarded and ignored, particularly at the local level. After all, there are numerous Supreme Court decisions currently on the books – including unanimous Court decisions – protecting the rights of religious expression in public, including for students. Yet such faith expressions continue to be relentlessly attacked by school and city officials at the local and city levels. (See www.religioushostility.org for thousands of such recent examples.)
Even before this decision was handed down, numerous States were already punishing dissenting people of faith, levying heavy fines on them or closing their businesses – not because those individuals attacked gay marriage but rather because they refused to personally participate in its rites. These governmental actions were initiated by complaints of homosexuals filed with civil rights commissions – and all of this was already occurring without a Supreme Court decision on which they could rely. Now that such a decision does exist, expect a tsunami of additional complaints to be filed against Christian business owners, and both the frequency and the intensity of the penalties to be increased.
Now is the time to display stand-alone courage on the issue of marriage as well as the judicial activism of the Court – now is the time to stand up and be counted, regardless of whether anyone else stands with you. Now is the time for individuals to broadly voice support for traditional marriage (which will likely cause you to be verbally berated or attacked by its opponents) as well as for the rights of religious conscience of dissenters (which will cause you to be charged with defending bigots and haters). Good people can no longer be silent and allow themselves to be intimidated by the mean-spirited attacks that occur when you begin to speak out on this issue.
It will soon become obvious that this decision opened a Pandora’s Box that will initiate a series of policy changes affecting everything from hiring practices to college athletics, from non-profit tax-exempt status to professional licensing standards. So the battle is not over; it is literally just beginning. We have a duty to let our voice be heard.
Strikingly, duty was the character trait of Jesus. He loved us because it was the right thing to do; He went to the cross because it was the right thing to do; He forgave us because it was the right thing to do. It was His duty. Our Founders repeatedly praised that character trait, and noted the numerous spiritual blessings that came from its performance:
The man who is conscientiously doing his duty will ever be protected by that Righteous and All-Powerful Being, and when he has finished his work, he will receive an ample reward. Samuel Adams, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
All that the best men can do is to persevere in doing their duty . . . and leave the consequences to Him who made it their duty, being neither elated by success (however great) nor discouraged by disappointment (however frequent and mortifying). John Jay, ORIGINAL CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, AUTHOR OF THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
The sum of the whole is that the blessing of God is only to be looked for by those who are not wanting in the discharge of their own duty. John Witherspoon, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION
People of faith need to regain the concept of duty, and we would do well to adopt the motto that characterized the efforts of Founding Father John Quincy Adams: “Duty is ours, results are God’s.” Now is the time for people of faith to be silent no more.
Article written by David Barton. Original Post: http://wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=169861

Announcing VICTORY™ network (formerly BVOVN) with 24/7 word of faith teaching!

Posted on June 23, 2015 - 5:22 pm by

Effective July 1, 2015, VICTORY network [formerly Believer’s Voice of Victory Network (BVOVN)]  – an exclusive 24/7 word of faith channel — will launch on DISH satellite TV channel 265!

In 1967, God gave Kenneth and Gloria Copeland a word of direction that would alter history. He said:

I am coming so soon. I want this uncompromised message of faith on every available voice.

In the following years, they obeyed that directive, taking the message of faith, victory, healing and prosperity to believers worldwide—through national radio, citywide events, books, tapes and eventually a television broadcast that became known as  Believer’s Voice of Victory.

In 2015, as the Copelands continue to obey the Lord’s leading, the inevitable expansion of that voice of victory has arrived—with the introduction of VICTORY network! Beginning July 1, VICTORY will deliver 24/7 word of faith teaching through DISH satellite TV channel 265, govictory.com, and Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV streaming devices.

You now have available to you a dream Kenneth and Gloria have long held: a 24-hour-a-day network with nothing but the word of faith preached from the most trusted Bible ministers available. In the beginning, VICTORY will feature the BVOV broadcast, live KCM events, live Eagle Mountain International Church services and classic teachings. In the coming months, we will be adding exciting new programming and further development of the vision.

We are so thankful for YOU! Because of you, we’re able to accomplish the mission God has given to get the message of faith on every available voice. Together, we are changing lives all around the world with the truth that JESUS IS LORD!

Sincerely,

Team KCM

Together, we can do GREATER works and spread the uncompromised message of faith on every available voice! Learn more about partnering with Kenneth Copeland Ministries here. 

On the Road Again – KCM Disaster Relief Team Update

Posted on June 17, 2015 - 11:53 am by

Our Disaster Relief team has been on the road checking on Partners in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas every week since the beginning of May. We want all of our Partners to know that we are here for you, and we’re praying for you daily, standing with you in faith that “no weapon formed against you shall prosper”! Check out the latest video from the KCM Disaster Relief team below, and be on the lookout for more to come.

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Click here to learn more about how we can make a difference together.

 

Mountain-Moving Faith 101

Posted on June 16, 2015 - 5:24 pm by

by Kenneth Copeland

It is important for you as a believer to realize that God has given you the power and ability to operate in the God kind of faith. God’s will for you is that you be delivered from this present evil world (Galatians 1:4). He does not want you to live subject to its beggarly elements. As you act on God’s Word, you will release the power of God within you, that mountain-moving faith, to bring victory for you over the circumstances of life.

Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses (Mark 11:22-26).

The Translator’s New Testament says, “If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be carried away and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening, then it will happen for him” (Mark 11:23). Believing you receive is believing that it is happening for you now!

            The purpose of mountain-moving faith is to remove the things which come into our lives to hinder us spiritually, mentally, financially or physically. Some people believe that this promise only pertains to spiritual mountains. However, in Matthew 21:21, Jesus used faith-filled words to cause a fig tree to wither from the roots and die. That was natural, not spiritual.

            In Mark 11:22-26, Jesus said, “whosoever,” so this is for the believer, not just for the minister or someone with some kind of special calling. You have the potential to operate in the same faith that I have. He also said, “When you stand praying, forgive.” Operating in mountain-moving faith is dependent upon operating in forgiveness. Faith pleases God, but faith works by love (Galatians 5:6). It is impossible to please God and to hold something in your heart against someone at the same time. You forgive because you choose to forgive and because it pleases God, not because you feel like doing it.

Believing You Receive

Mountain-moving faith is centered around believing you receive (believing it is happening for you now!). There is more to believing you receive than just having someone lay hands on you and saying, “I believe I receive.” Some people will have others pray in faith, but will not put themselves into it enough to really receive anything from God. It takes effort and commitment to the Word of God to walk in this kind of faith.

In order to believe you receive, you must establish in your heart that the Word of God is true. You need a standard, something that will put you in agreement with God. The miracle you need is already inside of you because God is in you. All you need is to find the key that will open the door and release it. The key is getting your spirit, soul and body in agreement with the Word.

You Are a Triune Being

            You are a spirit. You have a soul, which consists of your mind, your will and your emotions. And, you live in a body. Each area has a specific role to play in believing you receive.

Each area of your being produces a specific type of strength. As your body is nourished with food, it produces physical strength. Your soul produces willpower as you feed your mind intellectually. Your spirit produces a spiritual force called “faith.” It must be nourished with spiritual food—the Word of God. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).

God made you a spirit-being which gave you the ability to have dominion over the natural realm. When you begin to use your faith to move a mountain in your life, you must begin with a spiritual foundation on the Word of God.

At the new birth, your spirit receives the faith of God and the nature of God. You do not have to be concerned about your spirit believing the Word. It is born of God and it assimilates spiritual food and produces faith. Jesus said, “My words are spirit and they are life.” Basing your faith on the Word of God is the spiritual aspect of believing you receive.

The Word Is Your Foundation

The Word of God is your foundation. Most of the time, when you pray, you can still see the mountain or feel the pain in your body. The Word is the only thing solid enough to stand on when opposition comes your way. First John 5:14-15 says, “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” God’s Word is His will.

First John 3:22 says that we receive whatever we ask of Him because we keep His commandments and do those things which are pleasing in His sight. We receive our petition when we pray in line with His Word.

Anchoring the Soul

The Word of God must also affect your mind, your will and your emotions. Your aim is to cause your soul to work in harmony with your spirit. By doing so, you will open the floodgates of the power of the Holy Spirit within you. It will cause a change to come in your physical body and your natural circumstances.

The participation of your soul in believing you receive involves hope. Your mind must have an image to focus upon. Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is the substance of things hoped for. Hope is a vital part of this scripture. It is the goal setter. Hebrews 6:19 says that hope is the anchor of the soul. Without that anchor, the faith of God which is in you cannot be channeled in a specific direction.

Hope is the blueprint, or inner image of the mountain being removed. You need a clear, strong picture on the inside built on the promises of God because hope is the plan that your faith will bring to pass. If it isn’t clear, faith cannot produce it. If it isn’t strong it won’t hold as an anchor. The image begins in the mind. After meditating in the Word, it will form in your spirit. As you confess the Word your hope is built on, it builds and takes root in your heart with more and more strength. From that abundance, faith will flow and bring good things to pass (Matthew 12:34).

It takes meditation in the Word—seeing it, writing it, hearing it, speaking it—to change your inner image. God gave you an imagination so that you could paint an image of the Word on the canvas of your mind. That mental picture forms the good treasure of your heart. Out of that good treasure, you will bring good things to pass.

Faith Is an Action

The last area to get involved in, in believing that you receive, is the body. The body always wants to be first, but you must get your spirit and soul in their proper places first. You must be on the Word. Your soul must be anchored with an inner image of the Word. Then, you must act on the Word.

James 2:17 says, “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” Works in this scripture means “corresponding action.” If your spirit and soul believe the Word, but you do not act accordingly, your faith will not come to completion.

Your physical body will do whatever it is trained to do. If you have an inner image of the Word of God and you are speaking it in faith from your spirit, but you are acting contrary to what you are saying, you will hinder your faith. You must train your body to follow the Word of God. If you are believing for healing in your body, do something that you could not do before! Act on what you believe. Begin to act like the Word is true.

Believing you receive is your spirit, your soul and your body working together in harmony with the Word of God, giving the Spirit of God the opportunity to bring it to pass in your life.

Reach out in faith today. Believe “it is happening for you now.” Allow the mountain-moving faith, the God kind of faith within you to change your circumstances as well as your life! Glory to God!

 

 

How to Live in the Reality of God’s Blessing

Posted on June 10, 2015 - 3:18 pm by

by Kenneth Copeland

Have you ever read a promise in the Bible and wondered how it could ever come to pass in your life?

Have you ever read, “by [His] stripes ye were healed” when your body was wracked with sickness and pain? Or heard someone preach that God will meet “all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” when your bank balance was zero and your unpaid bills were piled high?

Healed sounds great, you thought. Needs met sounds great. But I don’t know how to get there from here. It looks impossible!

Everyone who has ever lived by faith has felt like that at one time or another.

Everyone.

Even Abraham, who was one of the greatest God-believing, impossible-promise-receiving, scriptural heroes who ever lived. The first time he heard God’s promises to him, he had no idea how they would ever come to pass.

He’d grown up in a totally heathen culture—surrounded all his life by people who worshipped the moon. So when God said, “I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing” (Genesis 12:2), Abraham had no clue how to connect with that blessing and cooperate in its fulfillment.

He must have been especially puzzled about how God was going to make of him a “great nation.” After all, Abraham’s wife was—and always had been—barren. What’s more, they’d both grown too old for baby making.

How do you get from being a childless old man with a barren old wife to being a great nation? he must have wondered. It’s impossible!

#1 – Learn to Live the Life of Faith

Over the years, God answered that question for Abraham. He taught him how to think in a way that would connect him with THE BLESSING. He taught him how to talk and live the life of faith so well the Scriptures call him the faith father of us all.

Granted, Abraham’s faith made him look, sound and act different than everyone else. But it sure produced results.

It opened the door for THE BLESSING to do the same thing in his life it was originally designed to do for Adam and Eve when God spoke it over them. It empowered him to “Be fruitful, and multiply…and have dominion” (Genesis 1:28). As Abraham’s faith connected with THE BLESSING, that blessing produced such supernatural abundance in his life it created around him a kind of Garden of Eden wherever he went.

That’s how THE BLESSING works. It worked that way for Adam and Eve until they cut themselves off from it by yielding to sin. It worked that way for Abraham when God passed it down to him. It worked that way for Jesus during His earthly ministry, and it will work that way for us.

According to the Bible, as born-again believers we have inherited THE BLESSING of Abraham through Jesus. God didn’t give it to us as just an afterthought. He had us in mind from the start. When He blessed Abraham, He did it so that through the plan of redemption, we could receive that blessing too. Galatians 3:8-9 says it this way: “The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”

Praise God, the former heathens described in those verses are believers like you and me! We are the people who have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus and blessed with faithful Abraham.

That means if we can find out what Abraham did, if we can learn what God taught him about how to connect with THE BLESSING, we can enjoy the benefits of it as surely as he did.

#2 – Believe That You Are Whatever God Calls You

Galatians 3:13-14 confirms that. It says: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

The last phrase of that passage leaves no doubt about it: We receive THE BLESSING, which is the promise of the Spirit, the same way Abraham did—through faith.

“But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “I don’t know what Abraham knew about faith. God hasn’t taught me the things He taught him.”

Sure He has. He put them down for you in black and white. Right there in your Bible, He recorded every faith lesson Abraham ever learned. Read Romans 4 and you’ll see those lessons for yourself. You’ll find out exactly how to “walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham” (verse 12).

You’ll see, for example, that God called Abraham “a father of many nations,” and He didn’t start calling him that after Isaac was born. God called Abraham the father of many nations when there were no sons in sight.

When God calls you something, that’s what you are. You may not look like it, you may not feel like it, but God’s Word is the truth no matter what you can see or how you feel.

That’s how it was in Abraham’s life and that’s how it is in ours. If God calls us overcomers (and He does in 1 John 5:4) that’s what we are. We aren’t going to become overcomers one of these days. We already are because God said so. If we’ve made Jesus the Lord of our lives we are born of God, and He said, “Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world.”

Abraham understood that principle. That’s why Romans 4:17 says when God called him a father of many nations, Abraham stood “before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Abraham not only stood before God and believed Him, he acted like God by calling those things which are not as though they were.

Since Abraham is the father of our faith, we should do the same thing. After all, the Bible says we have been born again in God’s image (Colossians 3:10). It tells us to “be imitators of God as dear children” (Ephesians 5:1, New King James Version).

God always operates that way. He speaks things into being. So He taught Abraham to do it, too. He showed him how to connect with THE BLESSING by calling himself blessed.

If we want to follow in his footsteps and enjoy THE BLESSING like he did, that’s the first thing we must do.

#3 – Let the Word of God Take Over Your Mind

The second thing we’re to do is study and meditate on God’s Word until it takes over our mind and nothing can shake our confidence in it. We’ll learn to think like Abraham: “Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform” (Romans 4:19-21).

Abraham didn’t focus on his negative circumstances. He didn’t meditate on his 100-year-old body or his very old and barren wife. He fixed his mind on God’s promises. He meditated on THE BLESSING until THE BLESSING controlled his mind.

Abraham’s thinking was so dominated by and saturated with THE BLESSING that when God told him to sacrifice Isaac, he didn’t even flinch. He was able to march up Mount Moriah with confidence because he figured after he obeyed God’s command and sacrificed that boy, God would raise him right back up.

We know that’s what Abraham was thinking because Hebrews 11:17-19 says: “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.”

When you think about it, Abraham’s attitude was amazing because he didn’t know what we know about God. He’d never seen or heard of God raising anyone from the dead. Yet he was so fully persuaded that God would keep His promise to make him a father of many nations through Issac that he expected the impossible to happen.

If Abraham could be that fully persuaded, how much more should we be? We have inherited the same blessing, and ours has been guaranteed not just by the blood of animals like Abraham’s was, but by the precious blood of Jesus, God’s own Son!

What’s more, we don’t have to believe God with our own, natural mind like Abraham did. As born-again believers, we can think supernaturally because “we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16). We have the mind of the Anointed One. Talk about having an advantage! That same kind of divine mind is available to us, but we have to take it by faith.

#4 – Call Things That Be Not As Though They Were

If we want to follow the faith of Abraham, we must begin to call things that be not as though they were. We must speak God’s Word over our minds and say, “I thank God my mind is as anointed as the mind of Jesus. THE BLESSING is working in me now and an anointed mind is part of my blessing. Praise God, I have a brilliant mind!” Then act on 2 Corinthians 10:3-6.

Once you start saying things like that, scriptural promises such as those in Deuteronomy 28 will come alive as you read them. That chapter spells out in detail the things that are included in THE BLESSING of Abraham. It says:

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee….

“Do you really believe God will do those kinds of things for us?” you might ask.

Yes, I do because THE BLESSING of Deuteronomy 28 is our blessing! It has “come upon us” through Jesus. If we’ll connect with it like Abraham did, it will do for us what it’s always done. If we’ll fill our anointed minds with it by meditating those verses and speaking them over ourselves until we are fully persuaded, no matter how impossible our circumstances might appear to be, that blessing belongs to us. It will do for us the same thing it once did for Adam and Eve…and Abraham…and Jesus. It will empower us to be fruitful, multiply and have dominion in every area of life.

Some folks think that’s too good to be true. They claim we can never enjoy that kind of blessing on this earth. But I know we can, not only because the Bible says so but because I’ve proven it in my own life again and again.

When I was diagnosed with degenerative joint disease a few years ago, for example, I knew I had to connect with THE BLESSING to turn that condition around. So I did exactly what Abraham did. I considered not my body that was screaming in pain. I focused on THE BLESSING of God instead. I fixed my mind and my mouth on the fact that I was healed by the stripes of Jesus (1 Peter 2:24).

I called things that be not as though they were. I said, “I’m healed,” and I said it not just once or twice but countless times month after month.

I won’t kid you, it wasn’t easy. Sometimes I hurt so bad I thought I’d have to stuff a rag in my mouth to keep myself from talking about it. I’d sit on my back porch with heating pads wrapped around my legs and turn the heat up as high as it would go, hoping the heat would hurt bad enough to distract me from the pain in my joints.

It took effort to speak words of faith during that time. I was tempted to say things like, “Dear God, how long must I be in pain like this? How long before my healing comes?”

But I didn’t do that. I stuck with the truth. I locked on to THE BLESSING and refused to let go. I connected with that blessing by speaking, believing and acting on the Word of God and, sure enough, the impossible happened. I have MRIs to prove it. One shows my body with degenerative joint disease and ruptured disks in my back. The other, done some time later, shows all the disease is gone and all the disks healed, regenerated and standing tall!

That’s the kind of thing that happens when we make the faith connection. We open the door to THE BLESSING of God and His goodness pours into our lives. Sickness becomes health. Poverty becomes wealth. We start living like the overcomers God made us to be.

We discover for ourselves the lesson Abraham learned some 4,000 years ago: “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”

 

The KCM Disaster Relief team has been dispatched!

Posted on May 28, 2015 - 1:43 pm by

Over the past several weeks, many states have been affected by excessive amounts of rain and severe weather threats. Numerous small tornadoes have caused damage and flooding, resulting in devastation and loss for so many cities in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. The KCM Disaster Relief team has been dispatched and responded to several areas, and will continue to do so in the coming weeks.

Click below to see the team visiting Partners just like you in Oklahoma!

As you know, Brother and Sister Copeland pray Psalm 91 over every Partner each day, and today is no different. We are standing in faith for the safety and well-being of your family and property, and against any storm that may threaten your area. Isaiah 54:17 says, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper,” and we take God at His Word.

If you have a prayer need, please contact us today at 1-817-852-6000. God will meet all your needs according to His riches in glory. He cares about you, and so do we!

Greater works start with you!  Together, we and our KCM partners are spreading the Word, changing lives, and reaching the world!  YOU can do greater works through KCM, too.  Find out how you can partner with us at kcm.org/partner.

Remember, Jesus Is Lord!

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