Isaiah 55:11 says the Word of God
prospers (or succeeds) in the thing for
which it is sent. That means His Word
about healing will produce healing. It
may not produce it right away, but the
more you let the Word work in you, the
greater your results will be.

In other words, the size of your
harvest will depend on how much
seed you plant. How much time and
attention you give to the Word of God
will determine how much crop you
will yield.

You see, your heart is actually your
spirit. Its capacity is unlimited. You can
plant as much seed in your heart as
you have hours in a day.

If you’ll build your life around the
Word, you can have a full return.
Jesus called it a hundredfold return
(Mark 4:20).

Now some people will argue about
that. They’ll say, “Well, it didn’t work for
me! I put God’s Word about healing into
my heart and I’m still sick!”

But these people give themselves away
the minute they say such things. Jesus
taught, “…of the abundance of the heart
his mouth speaketh” (Luke 6:45). If those
people had actually planted God’s Word
in their hearts in abundance, they’d
be talking about healing, not sickness!
They would be saying, “By His stripes I
am healed!”

The same is true for you. The more
you put God’s Word in your heart, the
stronger you’ll become. Eventually
that Word inside you will begin to
come out of your mouth in power
and deliverance.

Don’t wait until you have a need to
start speaking the Word. Start speaking
it now.

I’ll never forget the first time I realized
the importance of speaking
God’s Word. It was years ago when
Ken had just started preaching
and I was staying at home with our
children. We were in a desperate
situation financially and I was eager
for answers.

One day as I was sitting at my typewriter,
typing notes and listening to tapes,
I read Mark 11:23. “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.”

Suddenly, the truth of that last
phrase just jumped out at me. And the
Lord spoke to my heart and said, In
consistency lies the power.

He was telling me it’s not just the
words you speak when you pray that
change things, it’s the words you
speak all the time!

If you want to see your desire come
to pass, you need to make your words
match your prayers. Don’t try to pray
in faith and then get up and talk in
unbelief. Talk faith all the time!

Romans 4:17 says God “…calleth those
things which be not as though they
were.” So if you want to receive something
from God, follow His example.
Speak it. That’s the way faith works. You
speak the Word of God concerning what
you want to happen.

If what you’re looking for is health,
then go to the Word that tells you,
“By His stripes you were healed,” and
put that in your mouth. Don’t talk
sickness. Talk health. Don’t talk the
problem. Talk the answer.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Jesus taught about it in Mark 4:26-29.
There, He said:

So is the kingdom of God, as if
a man should cast seed into the
ground; and should sleep, and
rise night and day, and the seed
should spring and grow up, he
knoweth not how. For the earth
bringeth forth fruit of herself;
first the blade, then the ear,
after that the full corn in the ear.
But when the fruit is brought
forth, immediately he putteth in
the sickle, because the harvest
is come.

According to the law of sowing and
reaping, if you want health, you need
to do more than just want it. You need
to do even more than believe in healing.
You need to plant seed that will
eventually grow up and yield a harvest
of health.

What kind of seed produces physical
health? Proverbs 4:20-22 tells us:
“My son, attend to my words; incline
thine ear unto my sayings. Let them
not depart from thine eyes; keep them
in the midst of thine heart. For they
are life unto those that find them, and
health to all their flesh.”

That word health in Hebrew means
“medicine.” God’s Word has life in it.
It is actually spirit food. As you feed
on it, you become strong spiritually
and physically.

“Let them not depart from thine
eyes.” Read the Word. Meditate on the
Word. That’s taking God’s medicine.
If you will be faithful to take it continually,
it eventually will be as hard
for you to get sick as it ever was for you
to get well.

But it’s a process. You can’t just read
the healing scriptures once and then
go on about your business. You must
continually feed on the Word of God to
keep the crop of healing coming up in
your life.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Once you understand God’s will
really is for you to live in divine health,
you can’t help but question why so
many believers live sick. It seems puzzling
at first. But the answer is very
simple. Many of them just aren’t
willing to do what it takes to be well.

People want to be well. No one wants
to be sick. But to be well, you have to
make choices. How often have you seen
someone with a hacking cough still
smoking a cigarette? Or an overweight
person eating an ice cream cone?

Our fleshly nature likes to take the
easy way. And it’s much easier to give in
to habits than to break them. It’s easier
to give in to your flesh and watch television
every night like the rest of the
world, than to spend your time putting
God’s healing Word into your heart.

I recently heard Charles Capps say
that some people try to build the third
story of a building on a vacant lot. That
sounds funny, but spiritually speaking
it’s true. A lot of people want to enjoy
the benefits of healing without building
the foundation for it from the Word
of God.

It can’t be done. To construct a building,
you have to start below ground
level. If you want a harvest, you’re
going to have to plant something first.

Everything in the natural world works
that way. I call it the law of genesis.
This law of planting and reaping works
in the spirit realm too. It governs health
and prosperity—in fact, everything in
God’s kingdom is governed by the law
of planting and reaping.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

I have some revolutionary news for
you today. God wants you healthy!
Every day!

Oh, I know that, you may quickly
think, I know God will heal me when I
get sick.

Yes, that’s true, He will. But that’s
not what I’m saying. I’m telling you
God’s perfect will is for you to live
continually in divine health. His will
is for you to walk so fully in the power
of His Word that sickness and disease
are literally pushed away from you.
Isn’t that good news?

You’ve probably heard a lot about
God’s healing power, but there is a difference
between divine healing and
divine health. Years ago, the powerful
preacher John G. Lake put it this way,
“Divine healing is the removal by the
power of God of the disease that has
come upon the body. But divine health
is to live day by day, hour by hour in
touch with God so that the life of God
flows into the body just as the life of
God flows into the mind or flows into
the spirit.” (John G. Lake: His Life,
His Sermons, His Boldness of Faith
[Fort Worth: Kenneth Copeland
Publications, 1995]).

I agree that it is wonderful to get
healed when you’re sick, but it’s more
wonderful to live in divine health. And
that’s what God has always intended
for His people.

Even under the old covenant God
promised His people immunity from
disease. Exodus 23:25 says, “And ye
shall serve the Lord your God, and he
shall bless thy bread, and thy water;
and I will take sickness away from the
midst of thee.”

That promise is even stronger
under the new covenant. Isaiah,
looking forward to what Jesus would
accomplish at the cross wrote,
“Surely he [Jesus] hath borne our
griefs, and carried our sorrows…. He
was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was
upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5).

The Apostle Peter, looking back at
the same event wrote, “Who his own
self bare our sins in his own body
on the tree, that we, being dead to
sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes ye were healed”
(1 Peter 2:24).

Were healed! That’s past tense. Jesus
finished your healing on the cross. He
paid the price for you to be whole. He
bought righteousness for your spirit,
peace for your mind and healing for
your body.

As far as Jesus is concerned, you’re
not the sick trying to get healed. You’re
the healed and Satan is trying to steal
your health. I remember when Ken and
I realized that, it changed everything
for us. We quit trying to talk God into
healing us and began instead resisting
sickness and disease the way we
resisted sin.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries