Kenneth Copeland — Learn to Do It Yourself
Read Colossians 1:11 again and you’ll
see it is that joy-inspired strength, which
enables us to be patient and long-suffering.
(So, if you’ve been running short of patience
lately, check your joy supply. That could be
what you’re lacking.)
Read Ephesians 6:10 and you’ll see it
takes that same strength to operate your
spiritual armor. If you don’t have the joy of
the Lord, you’ll eventually get too weak to
wear it!
The fact is, joy and the strength it
provides are far more vital than we ever
imagined. Study Ephesians 3:16-19 and you’ll
see what I mean. There Paul prays:
That [God] would grant you, according
to the riches of his glory, to be
strengthened with might by his Spirit
in the inner man; that [the Anointed
One and His Anointing] may dwell in
your hearts by faith; that ye, being
rooted and grounded in love, may be
able to comprehend with all saints
what is the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height; and to know the
love of [the Anointed One and His
Anointing], which passeth knowledge,
that ye might be filled with all the
fulness of God.
According to those verses, we can’t abide
in the anointing without joy. We can’t
comprehend the love of God without joy. We
can’t be filled with all the fullness of God
without joy. We can’t do any of those things
without joy because we simply wouldn’t be
strong enough!
Can you see now why joy is such a major
force in this end-time move of God? Even
more importantly, can you see why joy must
be a major force in your life if you’re to be
a part of that move?
“Oh yes, Brother Copeland, I do. So I’m
planning to attend every Holy Ghost meeting
within 100 miles of my house.”
That’s great. But, frankly, even if you do,
it won’t be enough. You see, as wonderful as
it is to be in services where there is Holy
Ghost laughter, you need joy all the time.
And since you can’t carry Kenneth E. Hagin
or Rodney Howard-Browne around in your
pocket, you’d better learn to release the joy
of the Lord yourself!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Kenneth Copeland — You Are a Candidate for a Miracle
If you’re facing an impossible situation today,
if you can’t see a way out and you’re so
discouraged you’re ready to quit, I have
seven words for you that can change
everything.
Seven words that can—if you’ll dare to
believe them turn total defeat into the
most glorious opportunity for victory
you’ve ever known: You are a candidate
for a miracle.
That’s right. If you’re in Christ today
(Notice I said “in Christ” not “in church.”
These days there are a lot of people in
church who aren’t in Christ.), you should
be expecting God to do the impossible for
you.
You should be running for a miracle today
the same way a political candidate runs for
office. But with one big difference. You
don’t have to be voted in to get your miracle.
You just have to enter the race—because
your miracle has already been won!
Every challenge you face today was
overcome by Jesus 2,000 years ago when
He went to the cross. He paid the price to
heal every sickness or disease that may be
in your body.
Because of Jesus, there’s an answer that’s
older than any problem you now have. If
you have cancer, you’re a candidate for a
miracle.
If you have diabetes, high blood pressure,
heart trouble (or whatever!), you’re a
candidate for a miracle.
If you’re financially broke, you are a
candidate for a miracle.
If you’re looking for someone to marry,
you’re a candidate for a miracle.
No matter what kind of need you may have
today, you’re a candidate for a miracle!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Kenneth Copeland — Better Than Good
If you’re not sure what you’re becoming,
let me give you a hint. You’re going to
become whatever you think about and talk
about all the time.
I can listen to you talk for 30 minutes and
tell you exactly what you’re going to become.
It doesn’t take a prophet to do that. It just
takes someone who will listen to your
words.
So, listen to yourself. If you don’t like
what you hear, change it. Become someone
better by beginning to think God’s Word, talk
God’s Word and act on God’s Word.
Nobody on earth can determine what
you’re going to become but you. Yes, you!
Don’t blame it on the devil. He can’t change
it. Don’t blame it on your parents, your
background or your circumstances.
Forget those things which are behind...
and do what Abraham did. The Bible says
“he considered not his own body now dead,
when he was about an hundred years old,
neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb....”
(Romans 4:19). He just said to himself, “Old
man, you don’t count. Neither do you,
Granny. What counts is God’s Word, and I
am exactly who God says I am.”
Do you want to become who God says
you are? Do you want to be healed? Do you
want to become financially free? Do you
want to become a powerful witness in your
neighborhood?
What is your dream? You can have it if
you’ll learn to live by faith.
If you don’t have a dream yet, get one.
Fill your heart full of the Word of God. Let
Him show you what’s possible. Trade your
negative, natural hope for the supernatural
promises of Almighty God and learn to “hope
against hope.”
I can tell you, your life will really be good
when you’re living Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John instead of the 6 o’clock news. No, it will
be better than good—it will be miraculous.
So miraculous, in fact, that sometimes
when you tell people the Word of God will
heal them, prosper them and set them free,
they’ll look at your life and say, “Sure it’s
easy for you to live by faith. You have a
great life. But what can God do with a life
as messed up as mine?”
Then you’ll just smile and say, “Friend,
God can do more for you than you’ll ever
dream. I can tell you that from experience.
You see, I wasn’t always this blessed....”
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Kenneth Copeland — Anchor Your Soul
God has made a covenant with you just
as surely as He made it with Abraham. But
instead of making it in the blood and body
of animals, He made it with the broken body
and shed blood of His own Son—Jesus the
Anointed One. That’s what should be on your
mind when you take Communion. Hebrews
6:17-19 says:
Wherein God, willing more abundantly
to show unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath: that by two
immutable [unchangeable] things [the
body and the blood of Jesus], in which
it was impossible for God to lie, we
might have a strong consolation, who
have fled for refuge to lay hold upon
the hope set before us: which hope we
have as an anchor of the soul, both
sure and steadfast....
Friend, we have hope because we’re in
blood covenant with Almighty God! Through
Jesus we have access to Him. We “are no
more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
with the saints, and of the household of
God” (Ephesians 2:19)!
When we’re confronted by impossible
situations in this world, we have a covenant
right to factor in Jesus! Factor in the power
of His Word! Factor in His Anointing!
Some say, “That sounds too easy.” No,
it’s not easy! When the devil begins to pull
the noose of hopelessness around your neck
with poverty or sickness or some other
terrible situation, you have to fight, and fight
hard. Not by burning buildings and robbing
stores—but by grabbing hold of the hope in
the Word and using it to demolish every
thought that would rise up against it.
“Casting down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ”
(2 Corinthians 10:5).
The battleground where hope is won or
lost is not on the streets, it’s in the mind. It’s
in the imagination where expectancy begins
to take form. So take your stand on that
battleground. Begin now to expect the anointing
to destroy the yokes in your life. Begin
now to expect God to keep His covenant
promises to you.
Fight for that expectancy in the Name of
Jesus. Take your hope, fill it with faith and
storm the gates of hell. They will not prevail
against you!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Kenneth Copeland — God is Faithful
One of the first steps to becoming
righteousness-conscious is to learn the
difference between having your sins forgiven,
and having your sins remitted. Remitted is a
word that should never be used in connection
with a believer because a man’s sin is remitted
only once.
When sin is remitted, at the moment of
salvation, the Word tells us we become “a
new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new”
(2 Corinthians 5:17).
You see, the problem we had before we
were saved was not all those little individual
sins we committed. They were only the
symptoms. The problem was the condition
of our hearts. The problem was our sin
nature. No matter how hard we tried to be
good and act right, that nature kept us
imprisoned in sin.
But when we made Jesus the Lord of our
lives, our sin nature died and a righteous
nature was born in us. Sin no longer had
dominion over us. Righteousness set us free!
That kind of freedom wasn’t available to
people in Old Testament days. Back then,
before the blood of Jesus had been shed, there
was a “reckoned righteousness” with God,
gained through the blood of sacrificed bulls
and goats. Those sacrifices covered the individual
sins, but they didn’t change the hearts
of people. People kept on committing the
same sins every year because their nature was
still the nature of sin.
“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls
and of goats should take away sins” (Hebrews
10:4). But what the blood of bulls and goats
could not do, Jesus’ blood did. “This man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat
down on the right hand of God.... For by one
offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified” (verses 12, 14).
How long will Jesus’ sacrifice for sin last?
Forever. You are forever righteous through
the blood of Jesus.
I know you still miss it and sin sometimes.
But even when you do, it’s not the
same because your heart is different. God
doesn’t see you the same way He did before
you were born again.
Think of it this way. If you’re a parent,
you may know your child has done something
wrong, but as far as you’re concerned,
he’s still your child and he’s wonderful. He
may need to be corrected, but there’s nothing
wrong with him. You know he wants to
please you. He just needs more training so
he can learn to do things right.
Do your children fall out of good standing
with you just because they mess up?
Certainly not. It’s the same way in the family
of God. Once you’ve been born again, your
nature is changed. You don’t want to sin even
when you do sin.
And when you do sin, you have Someone
on your side. “...If any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous”
(1 John 2:1). “If we confess our sins,
[God] is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”
(1 John 1:9).
While remission changes your nature,
forgiveness erases your mistakes. And that’s
the final word on sin. God has taken care of
the sin problem forever. When Jesus became
sin and put sin away, the sin problem became
a closed issue with God.
You can still sin if you choose. God won’t
stop you. The Holy Spirit will deal with you
if you’ll listen...but if you won’t, you can do
what you will. But you don’t have to sin. You
don’t have a sin nature anymore. You have
a righteous nature.
God “hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the
kingdom of his dear Son” (Colossians 1:13).
You’ve been translated out of one kingdom
and into another one.
People are so worried about the devil.
They’re fighting the devil and bombarding
the gates of hell all over the place. But I like
what one author wrote: “If you really understand
your righteousness in Christ and your
authority as a believer, you will pay no attention
to the devil. You’ll just go on and do
your job.”
Jesus said, “I beheld Satan as lightning fall
from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power
to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over
all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall
by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:18-19).
Satan has no authority over you unless
you give it to him. Jesus has stripped him of
all authority and placed it in your hands. As
He said in the Great Commission, “All power
is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go
ye therefore...” (Matthew 28:18-19).
That’s good news, Church! Let’s tell it!