As we approach the 2022 midterm elections, Brother Copeland asked me to share an important message with you regarding a word from The LORD he received last year.
On Aug. 22, 2021, Brother Copeland called in during the Sunday morning service at Eagle Mountain International Church to share a vision The LORD had shown him the night before about a blanket of blood covering our nation and our Partners. This blanket of blood he saw was the blood of Jesus.
Why is this significant? Scripture tells us about the power of the blood of Jesus:
We were purchased with His blood (Acts 20:28)
We were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God (1 Peter 1:18-19)
We have protection in the blood (Exodus 12:13)
We have authority to overcome the enemy by the blood (Revelation 12:11).
Oh, the power of the blood of Jesus in our lives!
As Brother Copeland was speaking to us that morning about what he saw, the Spirit of The LORD came upon him, and he prophesied a stunning word from The LORD concerning the times in which we live.
As we always do, we received that word with great reverence. Just this past Sunday evening, Brother Copeland called me to say, “That Word from The LORD is for us right now. It is for this election season and for all elections in the future.”
So, I am sharing it with you today, so you can review it and take hold of it by faith.
Watch a video clip of the word from The LORD being delivered or read the transcript below.
As you get ready to vote on Nov. 8, I encourage you to stand in the authority given to you as a believer by the precious blood of Jesus. Stay in faith concerning this word from The LORD, stay in prayer, and speak in power. As God showed me nearly two years ago, He has rolled up His sleeves, and He is working where our country is concerned.
JESUS IS LORD over the United States of America!
Pastor George Pearsons CEO | Kenneth Copeland Ministries
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Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law. Since Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, we are redeemed from all forms of sickness. You are not the sick trying to get healed. You are the healed and the devil is trying to take your health away from you. So, plug into your faith by declaring, “I take authority over all sickness. I cast every sickness and disease out. Get under my feet in the Name of The LORD Jesus Christ.”
Series Title: Attend to God’s WORD To Receive Your Healing
Receive your healing and be made whole! This week on Believer’s Voice of Victory, Kenneth Copeland teaches you how to attend to God’s WORD to receive your healing. God is a good, healing God, and His WORD is life to all who find it. Discover how to enforce it in your life, so you can be made whole and walk in victory in your health! Download the study notes for these broadcasts HERE.
Monday, Oct. 17: God’s WORD Is Life to All Who Find It
God’s WORD is life to all who find it! Join Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he helps get you focused on God’s WORD. Learn to dedicate your time and attention to it, so it can become medicine and healing to all your flesh!
Tuesday, Oct. 18: Receive Your Healing and Be Made Whole
Watch Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he explains what it truly means to live in THE BLESSING. Receive your healing and be made whole as you discover the transformational power that comes when you put God’s WORD first place in your life and attend to it daily.
Wednesday, Oct. 19: God Is a Good, Healing God
How good is our God? Join Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he ministers about the beautiful redemption you have through Christ Jesus. Be reminded that God is a good, healing God who sent His one and only Son to take your place on the Cross. Discover how He bore all sickness and disease, so you wouldn’t have to!
Thursday, Oct. 20: Enforce God’s Word and Be Healed
Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland teaches you how to enforce God’s WORD and be healed. Find out how your faith and your confession of God’s promises will unleash His healing power in your life today!
Friday, Oct. 21: Believe You Receive Your Healing
Believe you receive your healing! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland encourages you to get into a place of agreement with the Bible. Learn to stand firm—to tell your mind what to think and your mouth what to say according to God’s WORD—so you can be made whole!
Discover the “three things”—the three wisdoms—Brother Copeland heard one day that have produced success in his life and ministry against all kinds of impossibilities for the past 55 years.
We’ve all heard it at some point…“You can’t do that!” “That’s never been done!” “That’s not how we do it!”
Hearing those kinds of naysayer words can lead to naysayer thinking, which can leave you discouraged (without courage), second-guessing yourself (and God), and completely diverted from your hopes and dreams.
Granted, it’s harder going upstream. It can be lonely not following the crowd. But imagine if no one ever stood against the naysayers. Think of all the inventions that would never be discovered, diseases never cured, mountains never climbed, records never broken, mysteries never solved, fortunes never made… souls never saved.
Jesus addressed this very issue when He and His disciples were challenged by people who questioned their way of doing things: “No one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins”(Mark 2:22).
That’s essentially what Dr. Oral Roberts told Kenneth Copeland in 1967. As a first-year student at Oral Roberts University, Brother Copeland also worked as a pilot for Dr. Roberts’ ministry. Part of his responsibilities was to drive Dr. Roberts at out-of-town meetings, which gave him the unique opportunity to be discipled by Dr. Roberts.
One day, as Brother Copeland was driving Dr. Roberts to a meeting, Dr. Roberts shouted from the back seat of the car, “Kenneth! People will always tell you, ‘You can’t do it!’ But, if you will do these three things, you will always be a success.’”
Here are the “three things”—the three wisdoms—Brother Copeland heard that day that have produced success in his life and ministry against all kinds of impossibilities for the past 55 years. They are three wisdoms that will work for you, as well.
Wisdom No. 1: Find Out the Will of God
“Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping—believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, ‘That’s how many descendants you will have!’ And Abraham’s faith did not weaken, even though, at about 100 years of age, he figured his body was as good as dead—and so was Sarah’s womb” –(Romans 4:18-19).
God’s will was for Abraham to become the father of many nations. He told him so. And with that—God’s word on the matter—Abraham’s faith in God’s promise never wavered. In fact, it only grew stronger, with Abraham becoming all the more convinced God would do what He had said (Romans 4:20-21).
Faith begins where the will of God is known. That’s a wisdom Brother Copeland has preached and lived for decades.
“That’s the time when you search your heart and get before God,” Brother Copeland has said. “That’s the time when you ask Him your questions, when you get in the Bible and find out His will. When Gloria and I have needed God’s wisdom on a matter, we set aside three days and not pray about anything else but that one thing.”
Wisdom belongs to us—God has seen to it. We have every right to it. We have unlimited access to it. We just need to press in, at times, to receive it.
“It is because of [God] that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God…” (1 Corinthians 1:30, NIV).
“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all…” (James 1:5-6, NIV).
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is…” (Romans 12:2, NIV).
“Don’t live foolishly for then you will have discernment to fully understand God’s will” (Ephesians 5:17, TPT).
Brother Copeland gladly reports: “We have never gone three days without finding out exactly what His answer was.”
So, take time to find out God’s will in matters. Seek Him primarily, not people.
Wisdom No. 2: Do Not Confer With Flesh and Blood
“‘But what about you?’ [Jesus] asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’
“Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the [Christ], the Son of the living God.’
“Jesus replied, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven’” (Matthew 16:15-17, NIV).
When Jesus was well into His three-plus years of ministry and asked His disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” He wasn’t conducting a temple exit poll or checking the count of His social media likes.
No, Jesus was getting a pulse on the multitude of people following Him and on His core group of disciples. More importantly, He was opening the door for the revelation Peter was about to receive and blurt out in front of all his co-followers (verse 16).
And Peter nailed it. (So far, so good!)
But it was only “good” in that Peter said what he’d heard from the Holy Spirit—even though he didn’t realize that’s what had happened, because it all happened so quickly.
A few minutes later, Peter went off script, offering his own opinions and commentary on something Jesus had just shared with the group—that He was soon to be crucified— and that’s when the not so good happened.
“Peter took [Jesus] aside and began to rebuke him. ‘Never, Lord!’ he said. ‘This shall never happen to you!’
“Jesus turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the [will] of God, but merely human concerns’” (Matthew 16:22-23, NIV).
To Dr. Roberts, to “not confer with flesh and blood” was exactly what happened here.
Once you know the will of God (which Jesus did), don’t ask to other people or go around surveying them about what God has said. They will always tell you that you can’t do it (which Peter did)—just ask Brother Copeland…
“It’s so amazing how people just automatically think it’s their responsibility to point out all the reasons why you can’t do something. They may have good intentions, but they’re still going to tell you all the negatives—as if you had no idea.”
The point is: Guard yourself! Certainly, you may even start out thinking, There’s no way I can do this! But once you discover it’s God’s will for you, you need to guard your eyes, ears, words and thoughts—your heart—from all negativity (Proverbs 4:20-27).
Wisdom No. 3: Get the Job Done at All Costs
“Peter said to [Jesus], ‘We have left all we had to follow you!’” –(Luke 18:28, NIV)
The same year that Brother Copeland started as a student (and pilot) at ORU, he suddenly stopped. Dr. Roberts was fast becoming his “father in the faith” and Brother Copeland imagined being by his side for at least the next 12 years, and then, maybe leaving Tulsa, Okla. But one day the Lord told Brother Copeland, I’m through with you here. I’m ready for you now. I need you to go out into your own ministry.
“So my first day in the ministry,” Brother Copeland recounts, “I got up and put on my suit. I didn’t have a place in the world to go, so I got my Bible and my yellow notepad, walked into the living room, sat down and started studying.”
Prior to that first day of “ministry,” Kenneth and Gloria had taken Communion over three principles, three convictions they committed to concerning following God’s call:
They would never ask anyone for a place to preach
They would never preach anywhere based on a financial arrangement
They would get the job done at all costs.
Based on their list and Dr. Roberts’ list—they had reached the “at all costs” part.
Thankfully, the Copelands learned early on from Dr. Roberts that part of counting the costs of discipleship and ministry was prayer—lots of prayer. He passed along to them what the Lord had told him:
Prayer is the core value of any Christian endeavor. It is the foundation, the most essential part. Regardless of anyone’s ability, the result will be failure if they are not backed by prayer. All Christian failure is a prayer failure.
It was in that season that construction began on the campus of ORU, and the first structure built was the famous Prayer Tower, which was purposely located at the center of campus with an eternal flame at the top representing the prayers going up 24/7 to the Lord. Everything else was built around it.
Taking all this to heart, the Copelands hired their first employee as soon as they could.
Her job?
Pray—all day, every day!
Then, when the time finally came for them to begin construction on their own miraculously acquired 1500-acre property in Fort Worth, Texas, they built their prayer chapel, located at the heart of the campus—and they did it with a conviction and commitment to:
Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
Keep asking, seeking and knocking (Matthew 7:7-8)
Ask whatever you will, in Jesus’ Name, and He will back it (John 16:24-26).
Years later, Brother Copeland still misses his father in the faith. But he continues to practice the three proven wisdoms to success he learned from Dr. Roberts 55 years ago—wisdoms that have produced 55 years of success. You can practice them, too, and see great success in your life and ministry!
The Kenneth Copeland Ministries and Eagle Mountain International Church Relief Team has deployed to check on Partners and Friends following Hurricane Ian.
On Sept. 28, 2022, Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, heavily affecting the Fort Myers, Port Charlotte and surrounding areas.
Currently, we are making calls to check on our 457 Partners and Friends in the affected areas, and the KCM/EMIC Relief Team is on the ground in Florida visiting Partner homes. So far, we’ve covered Arcadia, Port Charlotte, Cape Coral, Punta Gorda and North Fort Myers.
We’ve been diligently praying for the protection of our Partners and Friends, and we’re happy to report that everyone we’ve visited in these areas has had NO damage to their property. We give God praise and glory for His hand of protection!
If you were affected by Hurricane Ian and need immediate assistance, below are the locations to our Partner ministries currently on the ground:
Operation Blessing www.ob.org Calvary Assembly of God, Port Charlotte, Fla.
Please call our prayer line at 817-852-6000, and we will pass your information to our Relief Team.
The KCM Relief Team is made possible by the financial support and prayers of our Partners. So, if you are a Partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries or a member of Eagle Mountain International Church, thank you. Your support through prayer and giving affects lives spiritually, emotionally, physically and financially worldwide!
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There are times when you may not feel connected to God. At those times, engage your faith and read His promises. Take those promises personally, because it’s your faith—your belief in His WORD—that activates those promises. Remember, God’s WORD is true, and nothing can separate you from your Father—especially not your feelings.
Learn more about the Word of the Week in this week’s Believer’s Voice of Victory broadcasts with Kenneth Copeland.
Series Title: Faith Connects You to THE BLESSING
Faith is a gift of God—and faith connects you to THE BLESSING and to Him! This week on Believer’s Voice of Victory, joinKenneth Copeland as he teaches you all about the powerful BLESSING of a covenant with God. Learn to confidently have faith in God and speak your desired result, so He can connect you to your healing!
Monday, Oct. 10: THE BLESSING of a Covenant With God
Do you know about your covenant with God? Join Kenneth Copeland as he emphasizes the importance of developing a strong covenant consciousness. Learn the many health benefits that accompany THE BLESSING of a covenant with God!
Tuesday, Oct. 11: Faith Connects You to God
God is the God of BLESSING! Watch Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he explains why it’s impossible to please God without faith. Discover how your faith connects you to THE BLESSING and everything God has waiting in store for you!
Wednesday, Oct. 12: Faith Speaks Your Desired Result
What are you believing for? Join Kenneth Copeland on Believer’s Voice of Victory as he encourages you to have faith in God and speak your desired result. Find out how to operate in faith that truly leaves it all in the hands of the Spirit of God, knowing that He and His angels will see to it.
Thursday, Oct. 13: Faith Is the Gift of God
Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland reveals that faith is the gift of God. Gain fresh revelation on the fundamentals of faith as you learn how to continually walk in it by staying in the transforming power of His Love.
Friday, Oct. 14: Speaking Faith Words Connects You to Your Healing
Your faith will make you whole! Watch Believer’s Voice of Victory as Kenneth Copeland walks through a day in the life of Jesus Christ. Through the miraculous encounters of Jesus, you’ll discover how speaking faith words connects you to your healing!
Amy’s faith in the healing power of God’s word and the prayer of agreement through that partnership were put to the test when she woke up with Bell’s Palsy one Fall morning. Watch her amazing testimony below!
For more than 20 years, Amy Ware had dearly valued her partnership with Kenneth Copeland Ministries and Eagle Mountain International Church. Often when experiencing various challenges throughout her day, her response to those challenges would be, “You know what, I’m a Partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries, and they are praying for me! So, I have the wisdom I need for this situation. I’m a Partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries. I sow, so I am eligible for that harvest to come back to me.”
On the morning of Nov. 8, 2021, her faith in the healing power of God’s Word and the prayer of agreement through that partnership were put to the test. Amy awoke to the muscles on the left side of her face—including her tongue, chin, and scalp— being frozen. They were paralyzed. She could not move anything except for her left eyeball. She could not even blink. When she looked in the mirror, the left side of her face drooped.
She was planning to attend the Washington D.C., Victory Campaign that week, so she went to Urgent Care to figure out what was going on. As soon as she walked in the door, the nurse said, “Oh! Bell’s Palsy.” Bell’s Palsy is an inflammation of the cranial nerve that runs across your face. It is a temporary condition, but it can still take a long time to be resolved.
They sent her home with some medications, and Amy left for her trip to Washington DC. Once arriving at the Victory Campaign, she had a desire for her pastor, Pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons from Eagle Mountain International Church, to vocalize her agreement with her concerning her healing. Pastor Terri said, “Okay. Get with Jesus as your shepherd with communion and let him lead you. Let Him just lead you and show you the way out. And no! We are not having that!” As in we are not having Bell’s Palsy. That statement was just what Amy needed to hear.
The next morning, she woke up, took communion and spent time worshipping and listening to what the Lord would have her do. Soon, she was reminded of Isaiah 54:17, “No weapon formed against you will prosper.” She took that as her word from the Lord. However, her healing was a process. During the following Sunday service Pastor George Pearsons began a series about thankfulness. He preached on “The Force of Thankfulness.” Amy was convinced this was another piece to her process. She determined that she would thank and praise the Lord until her face returned to normal.
After work each night, she began praising and thanking the Lord for her healing. She also began going through the 101 Healing Scriptures with Kenneth Copeland via video from the 2017 Southwest Believers’ Convention. A little over a week later, Amy was worshipping at her home while watching a church service in Australia. She decided, I’m gonna participate. So, she stood up right there in her living room. As she praised and worshipped the Lord, she realized her face was being restored. God showed up in the middle of her living room!
In reality, God had shown up all the way through her healing process. Her partnership with Kenneth Copeland Ministries provided her with the encouragement of prayer and the wisdom she needed to follow her shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the promise of healing. Praise God!
If you’ve been stuck with a problem and you just can’t seem to fix it, there may be a simple answer. Find out how to press the start button to everything you’re believing for, and walk in manifested victory!
Have you ever found yourself snared by a particularly persistent problem—stuck in some stubborn spot of trouble you just can’t seem to fix? You’ve done everything you know to do. You’ve focused on it, prayed about it, and scratched your head over it, but you still can’t figure out what’s behind it. You don’t know why it is like it is. It just is.
So, you call up your friends and talk about it. You describe the problem to one person and then another. Again and again, you say things like, “Man, this is bad, and nothing I do seems to help.” Maybe you even know better than to talk that way, but you’ve gotten so caught up in the negative flow of the circumstances and the world around you, you just open your mouth and let it rip. You release a torrent of unbelieving, ungodly confessions that actually perpetuate the lousy condition you’re so desperate to change.
The problem? As long as we keep calling things like they are, those things are never going to change.
What’s the answer? We must start calling things that are not as though they already are. Think of your words like pushing a start button. As you go about your day, you likely push a number of different start buttons to activate different processes and functions at work or in your home. You push a button to turn on your coffeepot, dishwasher, washing machine, computer and television. A start button sets in motion the process by which we receive the desired end result (i.e., coffee, clean dishes, a functioning computer).
The same is true in the spiritual realm when we speak words. We have a host of promises from God’s Word we can expect to see come to pass in our lives. But first we have to set our faith in motion by speaking and calling things the way we want them to be, not how they are.
You might say, “Oh, I’ve heard that again and again, and I do speak words of faith. It just doesn’t work for me.”
It just did.
You see, your words are a start button. When you push the button, it sets things in motion—either good or bad. When we speak words, all of heaven is waiting to hear what we will say so that our words can be acted upon. The devil has no rights to us except what we give him through our words. That’s why Jesus said, “By your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned” (Matthew 12:37, NKJV).
Here are four ways your words push the start button and set things in motion in your life—one way or the other.
“The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” –Proverbs 18:21 (NIV)
Like it or not, this is a word-created, word-controlled universe. God established it that way from the very beginning. He made everything by calling “things which be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17, KJV). He set this whole system in motion by speaking into the darkness and saying, “Light be!” and light was (Genesis 1:3).
The whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, makes it clear that we live under a word-activated system. It’s always been that way, and it always will be. We can’t change that fact. We can, however, choose the words under which we live. We can change our environment by what we say.
Jesus explained it this way in Matthew 12:34-37:
…whatever is in your heart determines what you say. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.
Even in the natural world, you have to speak the result you want. Say you want to build a round building but you tell your builder you want a square one; what do you think you will get? Even though the desire of your heart might be to have a perfectly round building, YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU SAID. So it is in life: What you say with your mouth is what you are going to get—even though you might desire something else.
We live in a word-created, word-upheld universe. Amen. It’s pretty awesome, isn’t it? Words dominate our lives. It’s set. It cannot be changed, but we can change the words under which we live.
2. Words Determine What You’ll Have
“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” –Mark 11:23 (NKJV)
Even when we know the truth about words, choosing right words is no easy feat. Jerry Savelle used to compare it to paddling upstream. Years ago, he talked about how the whole world is in a negative flow. It’s going the wrong way. If you just relax, you wind up drifting downstream with everyone else and end up sick, broke and eventually dead. So, you have to build yourself a spiritual canoe out of God’s Word. You have to grab your faith oars, get yourself turned around, and start rowing the other way.
Learn to Say This, Not That here.
Why is this so important? Because you will have what you say. That’s Mark 11:23 wrapped up in an easy-to-understand package that you would have to work to misunderstand. It’s what Word of Faith beliefs are based on—and it is spiritual truth.
Some people don’t want to believe it’s true because then they’d be responsible for what is going on in their own lives. Most people want to blame the devil or God’s will for the problems they face. Sure, we’ll face trials and persecutions, but if we’re supposed to be salt and light, we can’t be sick and broke all the time.
God has delegated authority here on earth to you. Your words have authority to create every time you speak, not just when you pray. If you speak positive results in prayer and negative results the rest of the time, your negative words will prevail.
Charles Capps said that the Lord told him this: “I have told My people that they can have what they say, and they are saying what they have.” Saying what you have has no power to change things.
The key to receiving the desires of your heart is to make the words of your mouth agree with what you want!
Make everything you say agree with what God says. Be consistent in saying only faith words. Husbands and wives, help each other to train your mouth to speak only words of faith. When your husband corrects you and says, “That’s a bad confession,” don’t get aggravated.
Just say, “You’re right. In the Name of Jesus, I rebuke that bad confession, and I render it powerless to come to pass!” We have to help each other.
Speak whatever you desire to come to pass in the Name of Jesus. Take authority over the money you need, and command it to come to you. If you need healing, speak to your body. Command it to be healed in the Name of Jesus. Command it to function properly. Speak the result you want. Whatever you say will come to pass.
Now, you can’t change your talk by simply going to church one time a week. There is only one way you can achieve this and do so for the long term—by meditating on the Word of God day and night.
3. Words are satan’s Way of Stealing from You
“But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord.” –James 1:6-7 (ESV)
We see in this verse two simple choices: You can waver, or you can receive. You cannot waver and receive at the same time. Knowing this, satan has one tactic in mind—to get you to doubt. But, remember this—if satan had any authority of his own, he would not have to depend on deception.
The devil has to trick you into saying what he wants to come to pass. With your words, you either resist or comply with satan’s demands. With your words, you either resist or comply with God’s Word. You are in command. The decision is yours. Nobody else makes it for you.
The reason staying in the Word of God continually is so important is because satan is just waiting to curse you. He wants to steal, kill and destroy all the promises of God before they ever reach you. But he can’t do it without your cooperation. You are the only one who can give him access to your promises—and you do this through your words.
So, the first step in defeating satan’s attack against you is to make the decision that you are not going to allow him to change your confession of faith. A fearless confession comes from a Word-ruled mind. It’s a mind that knows the Word of God is true and never gives place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27). That’s what it means to bring into captivity every thought.
Your mind is where you first have the choice of giving place to satan or resisting him according to James 4:7 (AMPC), “So be subject to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him], and he will flee from you.”
Whatever it takes to make you free, speak it out in the Name of Jesus and command it to come to pass. Speak the result that you desire. SATAN CAN ONLY DO WHAT YOU SAY. If you say, “FLEE!” he goes. If you agree with him against the Word of God, he stays.
4. Faith-Filled Words Change Your Circumstances
“A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart.” –Matthew 12:35
Many people hear the Word of faith and decide that they will change their circumstances by speaking faith-filled words according to Mark 11:23. What many don’t realize is that you can’t fill your words with faith out of your own determination. Words become faith words by hearing the Word of God. Then, by continually hearing and hearing and hearing the Word—faith comes, and faith remains.
If the world is distracting you from the Father, then most likely your “faith confessions” will be empty words. You are not going to experience resurrection power unless you set your affection on Him.
Whatever is in your heart in abundance is going to come out of your mouth. Matthew 12:35 says, “A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart.”
Listen to Kenneth Copeland teach more on how Faith-Filled Words Dominate:
It takes time to develop a new way of thinking, because you’ve been talking since you were 9 months old. Your parents taught you how to talk, so whatever they spoke and received, you have probably spoken and received—which can be good or bad.
Like one man said, “Grandma taught it, and we bought it.” Well, that explains generational curses. If your mom and dad taught you how to talk, which they learned from their parents, then their confession may have opened the door to the curse.
They may have said things like, “Now Jimmy, you take care of yourself, honey, because you know Hester men don’t live long.” That’s a generational curse! And if you keep saying the same thing, you’ll keep getting the same thing you’ve always gotten. That’s the definition of insanity—doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
What does it mean to fill your words with faith? Well, to start with, it doesn’t include complaining and murmuring. When you do, it just takes you further into the hole you’re in. But if you speak faith, you speak the answer, and you’ll change your circumstances.
That’s the spirit of faith at work in our lives and it doesn’t quit.
Remember the woman with the issue of blood? She had been going to doctors for years and was no better—instead, she was worse! But she believed in the power of Jesus. More importantly, she said, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed” (Mark 5:28). She came saying what she believed. That’s what we’re supposed to do. We’re supposed to say something—speak the answer about our life, our body, our finances.
When you believe God in spite of what you see, feel or hear, He moves on your behalf. He will never forsake you. When you call upon Him, He will answer.
Conclusion
It’s time to stop telling it like it is, and start telling it like the Word of God says it should be. When you continually speak the Word of God in the face of adversity, you will change your circumstances! Refuse to let the devil or the world influence your words. Stand firm in your decision to only speak what you want to see come to pass in your life.
Push the start button on everything you’re believing for, and watch as faith sets things in motion for your benefit!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries and Eagle Mountain International Church have donated more than $8 million toward this effort in 2022.
On Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, personally called Kenneth Copeland and Pastors George and Terri Pearsons to express his thanks and appreciation for the significant work Kenneth Copeland Ministries and Eagle Mountain International Church have done to help Ukrainian Jews make Aliyah amid the Russia/Ukraine war.
In partnership with Keren Hayesod United Israel Appeal, the Partners of Kenneth Copeland Ministries and the congregation of Eagle Mountain International Church have helped more than 30,000 Ukrainian Jews make Aliyah by contributing more than $8 million this year alone. This is the most significant financial offering the ministry has sown into other outreaches in its 55-year history.
The finances are used to not only bring Ukrainian Jews out of harm’s way and into Israel, but they are used to meet practical needs, including housing, clothing, integration and vocational training.
During the call, Brother Copeland was able to share with President Herzog why the ministry is committed to supporting Israel and the Jewish people:
“We are Jewish because we want to be. We stand strong in covenant with this nation, and we stand on Genesis 12…
Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. So Abram departed… (verses 1-4, New King James Version).
“That’s the family we’re a part of.”
The Israeli president went on to express his appreciation and thank the Partners of Kenneth Copeland Ministries and the Eagle Mountain International Church congregation for their generous support of the Jewish people:
“I’m extremely honored to speak to you and congratulate you…for being such staunch friends of the state of Israel and believing in the state of Israel and its unique destiny….”
Watch the full remarks from President Herzog and the conversation in the recorded video below.
We want to thank our KCM Partners and EMIC congregation members who have prayed with us and given of their supply to be a part of saving Jewish lives and fulfilling Bible prophecy. Together, we’re making a difference and impacting the history of a nation!
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Drawing near to God isn’t just a religious exercise or a duty—it’s a path to great reward.
The Supreme Court of the United States is a place of honor, respect and procedure. Many of us would like to show up and pursue some righteous changes in the Court, and if we were given the privilege, there is one thing we’d need to do first—answer the call.
When the Court is called into session, the opening formalities include an announcement by the marshal, in which he declares, “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court!”
All persons having business in the Court are first called to draw near. But, if everyone is in attendance, why call them to “draw near and give their attention”? It’s simple. Just showing up isn’t enough to get results. If anyone really wants to achieve a victory in what they’re after, they must participate and show their intent by drawing near (coming closer) and giving their attention.
There is another court in which you must draw near and give your full attention—the court of heaven. God is seated on the throne of the highest court, and He is making the same call to draw near (James 4:8). He has dominion over the earth, yet He is seeking one thing—YOU.
God doesn’t just call us to draw near for His own benefit. Drawing near to Gof and walking in the spirit are a lifestyle—a lifestyle of victory. The more you abide in God’s Word and in His presence, the more you will hear His voice and the more victorious and successful you will be in every area of life.
Additionally, The Word says God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6). A reward is a prize, an honor, a gift. That’s what you can expect when you spend time drawing near to Him. Below are six rewards you can expect if you draw near to Jesus.
1. God Will Draw Near to You
“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” –James 4:8 (NKJV)
To draw near to God, as is talked about in Hebrews 11:6, is to diligently seek Him.
What does it meant to diligently seek Him?
The word diligent means “persevering attention, constant effort, persistent.” In other words, when you draw near to God, you don’t just do so once in a while or when the mood strikes you. To diligently seek Him is to drop the things that are stealing your time from reading the Word and praying. Spending time with God becomes a priority in your life. It means when you have to go to work, you get up early enough to pray instead of skipping time with Him. It is a persistent and constant effort on your part to draw near.
The Passion Translation of Hebrews 11:6 says, “He rewards the faith of those who give all their passion and strength into seeking him.”
It says He rewards those who give all their passion and strength. What does that look like to you?
Some would call it pressing in. Not just pressing in to God or reading more Word or praying more. Pressing in to His presence.
The reward is that He, in turn, will draw near to you. There will be a closeness between you and God—a fellowship—a friendship. Nothing is more precious than friendship with Almighty God.
When He draws near to you, the doors of communication are wide open. You can hear His instruction, correction and encouragement. And, you will enjoy the other rewards that come directly through this relationship.
2. He Will Guide You Into All Truth
“He will guide you into all the truth.” –John 16:13 (NIV)
When you’re in tune with God, you get to follow Him to a very special place known and accessible only to His followers. It’s a place called TRUTH.
Some people think they know the truth, but they are deceived. God is the one and only TRUTH, and He says He will lead you into this truth. Not just some truth, a little truth or the truth we can comprehend—but ALL truth! What does that really mean?
If you’re a businessman, it means the Holy Spirit will show you how to increase your profits and reduce your expenses. If you’re a mother, it means the Holy Spirit will show you how to settle arguments between your children. If you’re a student, it means the Holy Spirit will show you how to excel in your classes.
God is the author of truth. If there’s a truth to know—He’s the One to reveal it to us!
There’s a story that came out of World War II that illustrates this perfectly. The United States Navy had run into some serious trouble. Their ships were being sunk by the enemy faster than they could build new ones—a process which at the time took an entire year.
Finally, they came up with a way that made it possible to build a ship in a single day. But there was one hitch. The process involved building the ship upside down and when the ships were turned upright, the welds would pop, and the ship would come apart.
The problem was presented to a deeply spiritual man who was a famous industrialist at the time. “I’ll find out how to do it,” he said. After days of prayer and fasting, God showed him the welding formula that would hold the ship together. It worked! Just one idea made it possible to go from building a ship a year, to building a ship a day. Can you begin to see now how God could prosper you through leading you into all truth?
If you’re facing a problem today, don’t drag around trying to handle it on your own. Take Jesus at His Word and start asking the Holy Spirit to give you the knowledge you need to solve it. Let your time with Jesus bring you into all truth and bring new insights to your job, your family, your finances and your health. Tap in to the truths He’s placed in you!
3. He Will Show You Things to Come
“He will show you things to come.” –John 16:13 (KJ21)
The future. Would you like to see it? Would you like the advantage of knowing how to prepare for things to come? Most of us would!
That is one of the rewards of drawing near to Jesus. When you abide in Him, you have access to an anointing with power that spans heaven and earth. That anointing teaches you all things—it causes you to know God’s will in any situation. That’s walking in what the Spirit of God tells you to do—that’s walking in VICTORY.
Victory doesn’t come by walking in your own ability and your own mental capacity. You can turn on the news and see what’s already happened, but God is the only One who can show you things to come. If we rely on what we know in the natural, we’ll be defeated like everybody else. But if we abide in the anointing and the anointing abides in us, there won’t be a single enemy that can bring defeat to our lives.
The Spirit of God will continually direct you, and He will show you things to come. He’ll reveal to you how to prevent problems and trouble. Even when tests and trials come, you’ll walk right through them.
“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” –Nehemiah 8:10(NKJV)
When you run into an impossible situation—one you just don’t have the strength or the ability to handle, are you often tempted to give up and accept defeat? Maybe it isn’t just one challenge, but a whole onslaught of trials all at once—an illness, a strained relationship, bad news, a temptation you never thought you’d face.
You don’t have to face discouragement or weariness ever again! God knew the moment He created you—you need Him. That’s why His Word says His strength is made perfect in you (2 Corinthians 12:9).
How?
The word translated strength in this scripture is dunamis. It means “God’s miracle-working power.” Just think about that. When your human strength ends, that’s where God’s power begins. And He has promised that His miraculous power will bring you through!
So, don’t wait for a crisis to come before you draw near to Jesus. Build your relationship with Him so you are prepared when trouble comes. You’ll know in advance that if you’re sick and medicine has failed you, if your finances are out of control, if your family is falling apart, and you’ve done absolutely all you know to do and you still haven’t gotten results—you can rejoice! Because God’s grace is sufficient for you and when your strength ends, His power propels you to victory!
5. He Will Give You Everything You Need
“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” –Matthew 6:33 (NKJV)
What do you need today? Healing? Financial breakthrough? A miracle in your marriage?
There is a promise you need to know about—Matthew 6:33. It says that when you seek God’s kingdom first, and His righteousness, ALL things will be added to you. You don’t have to struggle and fight to get what you need—it’s all in the promise.
What’s your part?
To seek Him FIRST. Sounds simple, yet it’s a struggle for many. They feel irresponsible if they aren’t worrying or working by their own strength. Sure, we’re called to put forth an effort in the natural, but not to achieve the victory on our own.
What does it mean to seek Him first? It’s simple. Put the Word first.
No matter what your needs or goals, it is the wisdom that comes from the Word of God that will get you there. So, commit yourself right now to do what it takes to totally saturate yourself with the Word of God. Use every available moment to read, study, listen to and meditate on it. Draw near to the feet of Jesus through prayer and praise.
Then, watch everything you need and desire (even some things you’ve never imagined!) come right to you.
6. He Will Anoint Your Natural Abilities
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me.” –Luke 4:18 (NIV)
If God has ever called you to do something outside of what you would normally do, the first thing you thought might have been, I can’t do that.
God is not looking for ability, He’s looking for availability. It doesn’t matter what you are in the natural. It doesn’t matter what you look like. It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what birth order or birth privileges you had or didn’t have. The natural realm is no problem to God. He’s got the ability, and He’ll give you His ability. What He has to have is someone who will make themselves available to Him—someone who will draw near to Him and heed His voice.
Drawing near to Jesus moves you into the supernatural, where God’s ability moves onto your ability, and you’re no longer dependent on your own knowledge, intelligence or talents.
He never looks at your bank account. He never really looks at your natural ability. When He gives you an assignment, all He expects is that you obey Him in the promptings that come to you, take the next step, and trust in Him to give you supernatural ability to accomplish what He’s asked of you.
Don’t ever look at yourself in the natural and say, “I’m just not suited for that.” God doesn’t want you to do His work in the natural. The only way you can do His work is through His power and ability.
What is He calling you to do today? Is it beyond your own ability? Then draw near to Jesus, walk forward in faith, and God’s ability will meet you there.
Are you ready to experience the rewards of drawing near to God? When you draw near to Him, He will draw near to you, guide you into all truth, and show you things to come. He’ll make you perfectly strong, give you everything you need, and anoint your natural abilities. There is nothing you can’t do when you have access to these rewards! Victory is yours—now go draw near to Jesus and walk in it!
Do you have faith that gives glory to God or does it question His power and goodness? Find out how to develop fully persuaded faith and take God at His Word.
Faith. You can’t get saved without it. You can’t walk the Christian walk without it. You can’t win the victory without it. You can’t please God without it. Faith is a spiritual force that, when fully developed, subdues kingdoms, works righteousness, obtains promises, stops the mouths of lions, and quenches the violence of fire (Hebrews 11:33-34, NKJV). And faith doesn’t just deliver the victory into your hands—faith gives glory to God.
Not just any faith, but the kind of faith that honors God as trustworthy, faithful, powerful and loving. It means acknowledging His glory—His manifested presence, power and goodness. And it is also connected to love (Galatians 5:6). So, faith in God is expressing love to God. Imagine saying to your spouse or good friend, “I love you, but I don’t believe you.” That doesn’t sound much like love! “Love…always trusts” (1 Corinthians 13:7, EXB). If you aren’t trusting God—taking Him at His Word—are you really loving Him?
Faith works for the people who will put it to work. And it gives God glory in front of a cloud of witnesses. As Jerry Savelle says, “God wants to work wonders for you because it arrests the attention of others—especially nonbelievers.”
Faith that gives glory to God is faith that is fully persuaded, doesn’t consider the circumstances, acts on the Word and stays out of strife. Find out if you fit the bill, and if not, how to get there.
1. Faith That Is Fully Persuaded Gives Glory to God
“Being fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was able to perform.” –Romans 4:21 (MEV)
Society is rife with skepticism these days. Negative sayings abound: “Don’t believe it unless you see it,” and “If it seems too good to be true, then it probably is.” Couple that with endless statistics about the low likelihood of success in any given area, and it’s easy to see why people struggle to have faith! So if you’re going to church and hearing encouragement one day each week, but you fill up on cynicism the rest of the week—your faith is in trouble!
You’ll want to believe, and you’ll even feel like you have faith—but you won’t be fully persuaded. If you’re fully persuaded, you don’t have one foot in faith and the other in fear. Fully persuaded faith is all in—there’s no middle ground. When you’re fully persuaded, you aren’t wishing or hoping—instead, you know that you know that you know that what God said is true and for YOU.
As Jesse Duplantis says, “When you expect nothing, don’t be surprised when you receive nothing.”
That seems like a high level of faith, so how do we get there? By renewing our minds. To renew means to “rebuild and re-energize.” It’s a continual process of rebuilding the truth of the Word of God into a mind that is constantly exposed to things of the world. One way you can help is by limiting that exposure!
Fully persuaded faith gives glory to God because it honors Him as trustworthy, faithful, just and final authority. That’s what Abraham did when God told him that he and Sarah would conceive a child in their old age. He could have come up with a lot of “logic” and “common sense” and medical data, family history, what happened to the neighbors, and so much more to counter this promise and let doubt creep in. But he didn’t. Instead, “he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God” (Romans 4:20-21, KJV).
Being strong in faith is giving glory to God by being fully persuaded that He’s able to do what He promised (verse 21). It’s putting more trust in God and His Word than in anything else on this planet. God said, “I have made you the father of many nations” (Genesis 17:5, AMPC). For Abraham, what God said was enough.
2. Faith That Doesn’t Consider the Circumstances Gives Glory to God
“He considered not his own body….”—Romans 4:19 (KJV)
Abraham “considered” not the circumstances. Consider means “to use the mind.” That’s using reason, natural facts, scientific studies, what happened last time or anything else you can think of. Instead, he chose to tune in to his heart. That’s where belief comes—in the spirit man.
You are a spirit, you have a soul (mind, will and emotions), and you live in a body (flesh). Your spirit is the born-again, re-created part of you with the Holy Spirit dwelling within. Your soul is the intellectual side of your being, and your body is the flesh, or carnal side.
So, when symptoms of sickness, for example, show up in your body, your flesh is very in tune with those symptoms. The spirit knows the truth about the matter, so that leaves your mind. Whichever way your mind goes—it’s two against one. So, if your mind sides with your flesh, you’re going to give more weight to your circumstances than anything else. But if you have a renewed mind—one that has been trained to come into agreement with God’s Word—you have two against one on the other side because your soul is now agreeing with your spirit. That is how you become fully persuaded.
Kenneth Copeland tells a story that illustrates this point:
We were in this prayer line, and I was going along laying hands on different ones. I started to lay hands on this man, and The LORD stopped me. He said, Ask him if he’s healed. Well, you know that’s kind of a funny thing to ask a guy who’s in the prayer line. He’s in the healing line, and you ask him if he’s healed. I said, “Are you healed?”
“No.” He said, “I’ve got this thing right here.” And he started describing whatever it was he had there on his side. And I heard The LORD say just as plain as before, Ask him again, ‘Are you healed?’ He said, “No.”
I said, “The WORD of God says, By His stripes you were healed.”
“Yeah, I know it says that.”
“Well, are you healed?”
“No, I tell you I’ve got this thing right here.”
Well, now I’m into it, you know, and I really don’t know what to do next. But I heard The LORD. The LORD just kept telling me, Ask him again. I said, “The Bible says, By His stripes you were healed.”
“Yeah. I know it says that.”
I said, “Are you healed?”
He said, “No!”
I said, “Well, then you never will be.”
This man’s natural mind was siding with his flesh instead of his spirit. His unrenewed mind was preventing him from having a revelation of his healing, and without the revelation, he couldn’t receive the manifestation.
So, when symptoms show up declaring sickness, lack, decrease, family failure or anything else against the Word of God, faith that gives glory to God won’t consider them. It won’t ignore them, but it won’t give them first place. When you say, “Yeah, but the doctor said…” or “Well, just look at my bank account,” you’ve already fallen off the faith line.
I said, “If I agree with you, you’re going to keep that thing you’ve got on your side. If you will agree with the Bible, then you have God’s WORD that you’re healed.” Man, you could see the light come on.
“Yeah,” he said. “Praise God! Put your hand on me. I’ll be healed.”
I laid hands on him, and the power of God just knocked him sideways, brother, and he came up healed.
Does your faith honor and praise Him? Or does it question His goodness and His grace? Does it magnify Him, or does it believe symptoms, bank accounts and trouble in this world over what He has to say?
Faith that gives glory to God says to God: “You said it, and that’s enough for me.” Don’t glorify your circumstances—give glory to God!
Join Kenneth Copeland as he shares more about faith that gives glory to God.
3. Faith That Acts On the Word Gives Glory to God
“They went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.” –Luke 5:19 (NKJV)
Faith without action isn’t really faith at all. Some people might think they have faith, but they’re really just wishing or hoping. Real Bible faith will step out and act like what God says is true. That’s important because if we don’t give authority to His written Word, then even when we need Him to be on the scene right away, there are situations where we have blocked Him from helping us.
That happened in Jesus’ own hometown. He was just as anointed in Nazareth as He was anywhere else, yet “He could do no mighty work” (Mark 6:5, NKJV). Why? “Because of their unbelief” (verse 6, NKJV). Unbelief ran Him out of town. A refusal to believe what He said prevented the miraculous from taking place. They refused to believe Him. They gave His words zero place—none. And He left town and went to Capernaum, where they gave place to His Word and His life.
So, whatever you’re believing for, ask yourself, “Am I acting on that belief?” If you believe you’re healed, do you still tell people what you can’t do because of your condition? If you believe God is your Provider, are you staying up at night worrying about paying your bills? Whatever you’re wanting to receive by faith, find out if you’re really acting on it. If not, start today!
Kenneth Hagin Sr. once said, “Stop trying to make God’s Word work and start acting on the Word.”
When we act on God’s Word, we give Him honor and glory. Faith in the absolute authority of the Word of God requires no other evidence.
What God has already said and what God has already done, believe it in your heart, say it with your mouth, then act like it’s true. That’s faith that gives glory to God.
4. Faith That Stays Out of Strife Gives Glory to God
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.” –Proverbs 10:12 (ESV)
What does strife have to do with faith that gives glory to God? Faith won’t work without love (1 Corinthians 13:2), and as long as you’re in strife—any kind of strife—you’re stepping out of love. Is it possible to go through life without strife? Yes! That doesn’t mean you won’t feel frustrated with someone now and then or disagree with others, but it does mean that you will work to keep out of strife. There’s an effort involved.
Why is this so critical to your faith? Strife is a blessing blocker. That’s why if the devil can’t get you any other way, he will work to get you in strife or unforgiveness. It’s how he brings confusion to your life and situation. It distracts you, gets you off that love line and out of position to receive what you’re believing for. “For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work” (James 3:16, KJV). That doesn’t sound like miracle-working ground!
That’s why the devil pushes strife so hard. Don’t tolerate even a little bit of strife. You don’t want even a tiny bit of dirt in your fuel tank because over time, it will blow your engine. Strife is the same way. One grain of sand, one bit of strife every day or two, will cost you.
Kenneth Copeland says, “Unrepented sins of strife, little grains of it at a time seem so insignificant that you may not even stop and deal with it until your spirit is so clogged up, God’s glory can’t flow through it.”
That’s the reason you have to be on guard—be watching for it all the time. Don’t even get in strife with the news commentator on TV. Don’t sit there and fuss back at the news. If you can’t be trusted with the news, cut it off. As far as it depends on you, stay out strife, stay in peace, stay in God’s rest.
Don’t let other people get under your skin and cause you to lose your love walk. Say, “No. I’m not getting off my love walk.” Then, pray for them right there. It’s worth the effort, and it produces the kind of faith that gives glory to God.
Watch Kenneth and Gloria talk about how faith in the love of God drives out fear.
Now you can develop your faith to the place where you are fully persuaded, don’t consider natural circumstances, act on the Word, and stay out of strife, to achieve the kind of faith that gives glory to God! Living by faith will achieve wondrous and miraculous things in your life. It will bring victory! More importantly, it will give glory to God. Isn’t that worth pursuing?
