“But, Gloria,” you say, “all that sounds
so simple!”

It is simple! Sometimes I think that’s
why God chose me to teach it. Because
I’m simple. When I read the Word of
God, I just believe it is speaking to me
personally. I don’t worry and fuss and
say, “Well, I wish that would work for
me, but I don’t think it will because of
this or that….” I just expect God to do
what He says.

You can do the same thing. You can
come to the Word like a little child
and say, “Lord, I receive this. I believe
Your Word above all and I trust You
with my life.” If you will, you’ll never
be disappointed.

How can you get that simple, childlike
faith? By hearing the Word of God.

Romans 10:17 says, “Faith cometh
by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God.” But you need to know something
else: Doubt comes by hearing
also. That’s why Jesus said, “Be careful
what you are hearing…” (Mark 4:24,
The Amplified Bible).

What you’re hearing can be a matter
of life and death when you’re dealing
with healing. If you’re going to a church,
for example, that teaches healing has
passed away or that God uses sickness
to teach you something—and you keep
hearing that Sunday after Sunday—what
do you think will grow in your heart?
Doubt, not faith.

What you plant in your heart grows—
always. Doubt will grow and keep you
bound. Truth will grow and make you
free. So be careful what you’re hearing.
Listen to the Word of God. As Proverbs
4:21 says, “Let them [God’s words] not
depart from thine eyes; keep them in
the midst of thine heart.”

Read the Word every day. Make
notecards for yourself using the
healing scriptures and tape them to
your mirror.

Play audio teaching resources. Listen
to them in your car. Listen to them
while you dress in the morning. If you’ll
listen to the Word while you’re driving
back and forth to work every day, you’ll
be surprised how fruitful that time will
become. It will change your life. I challenge
you to try it!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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

Isaiah 9:6-7
KJV—Unto us a child is born, unto us a son
is given: and the government shall be upon
his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The
everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of
the increase of his government and peace
there shall be no end, upon the throne of
David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and
to establish it with judgment and with justice
from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the
Lord of hosts will perform this.

NIV—To us a child is born, to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace
there will be no end. He will reign on David’s
throne and over his kingdom, establishing and
upholding it with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever. The zeal of the
Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

AMP—To us a Child is born, to us a Son is
given; and the government shall be upon
His shoulder, and His name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace. Of the
increase of His government and of peace there
shall be no end, upon the throne of David and
over His kingdom, to establish it and to uphold
it with justice and with righteousness from the
[latter] time forth, even forevermore. The zeal
of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 19:20
KJV—They shall cry unto the Lord because
of the oppressors, and he shall send them a
saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver
them.

AMP—They will cry to the Lord because of
oppressors, and He will send them a savior,
even a mighty one, and he will deliver them.

Moffatt—When any who are oppressed cry
to the Eternal to send a champion, he will
intervene and rescue them.

NIV—When they cry out to the Lord because
of their oppressors, he will send them a savior
and defender, and he will rescue them.

Luke 1:67-75
NKJV—Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit,
and prophesied, saying: Blessed is the Lord
God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed
His people, and has raised up a horn of
salvation for us…as He spoke by the mouth of
His holy prophets, who have been since the
world began, that we should be saved from
our enemies and from the hand of all who
hate us, to perform the mercy promised to our
fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the
oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
To grant us that we, being delivered from the
hand of our enemies, might serve Him without
fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him
all the days of our life.

Weymouth—Zechariah…was filled with the
Holy Spirit, and he prophesied, saying, “Blessed
be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He
has not forgotten His people but has effected
redemption for them, and has raised up a
mighty Deliverer for us…as He has spoken from
of old by the lips of His holy prophets—to deliver
us from our foes and from the power of all who
hate us, dealing pitifully with our forefathers,
and to remember His holy covenant, the oath
which He swore to Abraham our forefather, to
grant us to be rescued from the power of our
foes and so render worship to Him free from
fear, in holiness and uprightness before Him
all our days.”

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Luke 10:19
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.

Jesus gave Himself as the last sacrifice of
the old covenant. He became the sacrificial
lamb, offered upon the altar of the Cross for
one reason: to defeat Satan.

The blood Jesus shed is protection for
those who will receive it by faith. In Egypt,
the Israelites who applied the blood of the
sacrificial lamb to their doorposts were
delivered from the death angel. How much
greater is the protecting power of “the precious
blood of Christ…a lamb without blemish and
without spot” (1 Peter 1:19).

By His blood we are separated from every
curse of the law of sin and death and given
access to every promise of the Spirit of life
(Romans 8:2). By His Spirit we have the same
anointing power in which He “went about doing
good, and healing all that were oppressed of
the devil” (Acts 10:38).

Principalities and powers were spoiled in
Jesus’ victory over death. He destroyed the
authority of the devil and every demon of hell,
bringing them down to nothing and stripping
from them the armor they had trusted in!
Moments later, He stepped out of that tomb.
He walked out of there and said, “All power
is given unto me in heaven and in earth”
(Matthew 28:18).

That’s not where it ended either. He said,
“Therefore you go into all the world. You take
My Name. You lay hands on the sick and they’ll
recover. You cast out the devil. I whipped him;
you go enforce it.” (See Mark 16:15-18.)

How do we do it? Jesus said, “If ye abide in
me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you”
(John 15:7). We abide in Him by filling ourselves
with the Word so that we bring its promises
and authority into every situation that comes
before us.

The Word you meditate and act on
concerning your protection is the Word that’s
alive in you, and it will perform all God sent
it to do on your behalf. Just as we receive
wholeness for our bodies through faith, we
will walk in all the protection that is ours in
Jesus’ victory over our enemy, Satan, if we will
believe God for it.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Psalm 20:1
KJV—The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble;
the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

AMP—The Lord answer you in the day of
trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob
set you up on high [and defend you].

Moffatt—On the day of trouble may the
Eternal answer you, may Jacob’s God, whom
you invoke, protect you.

NIV—May the Lord answer you when you are
in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob
protect you.

Psalm 31:3
KJV—For thou art my rock and my fortress;
therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and
guide me.

AMP—Yes, You are my Rock and my Fortress;
therefore for Your name’s sake lead me and
guide me.

Moffatt—For thou art my crag and castle. As
thou art God, oh lead me, guide me.

NIV—Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

Proverbs 18:10
KJV—The name of the Lord is a strong tower:
the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

AMP—The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
the [consistently] righteous man [upright and
in right standing with God] runs into it and is
safe, high [above evil] and strong.

Moffatt—The Eternal is a tower of strength:
good men run in and are secure.

NIV—The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
the righteous run to it and are safe.

Joel 2:32
KJV—Whosoever shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be delivered.

AMP—Whoever shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be delivered and saved.

Moffatt—Every worshipper of the Eternal shall
be saved.

NIV—Everyone who calls on the name of the
Lord will be saved.

Zechariah 13:9
KJV—They shall call on my name, and I will
hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they
shall say, The Lord is my God.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Psalm 40:11
KJV—Withhold not thou thy tender mercies
from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and
thy truth continually preserve me.

AMP—Withhold not Your tender mercies from
me, O Lord; let Your loving-kindness and Your
truth continually preserve me!

Moffatt—Thou wilt not keep back from me
thy mercy; thy love and faithfulness shall ever
be my guard.

NIV—Do not withhold your mercy from me,
O Lord; may your love and your truth always
protect me.

Psalm 107:1-3
KJV—O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is
good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Let the
redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath
redeemed from the hand of the enemy; and
gathered them out of the lands, from the east,
and from the west, from the north, and from
the south.

AMP—O give thanks to the Lord, for He is
good; for His mercy and loving-kindness
endure forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord
say so, whom He has delivered from the hand
of the adversary, and gathered them out of
the lands, from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the…south.

Moffatt—Hallelujah! “Give thanks to the
Eternal!—he is good, his kindness never fails!”
Be this the song of the redeemed, redeemed
by the Eternal from their foes, gathered from
lands afar, from east and west, from north
and south.

NIV—Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever. Let the redeemed
of the Lord say this—those he redeemed
from the hand of the foe, those he gathered
from the lands, from east and west, from
north and south.

Isaiah 54:10
KJV—For the mountains shall depart, and the
hills be removed; but my kindness shall not
depart from thee, neither shall the covenant
of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that
hath mercy on thee.

AMP—Though the mountains should depart
and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My
love and kindness shall not depart from
you, nor shall My covenant of peace and
completeness be removed, says the Lord,
Who has compassion on you.

Moffatt—Though mountains be removed, and
hills be shaken, never shall my love leave you,
my compact for your welfare shall stand firm:
so promises the Eternal in his pity.

NIV—“Though the mountains be shaken and
the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for
you will not be shaken nor my covenant of
peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has
compassion on you.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Deuteronomy 4:31
KJV—(For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;)
he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee,
nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which
he sware unto them.

Deuteronomy 7:8
KJV—Because the Lord loved you, and because
he would keep the oath which he had sworn
unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you
out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you
out of the house of bondmen.

AMP—Because the Lord loves you and
because He would keep the oath which He
had sworn to your fathers, the Lord has
brought you out with a mighty hand and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage.

Moffatt—Because the Eternal loves you,
because he meant to keep his oath to your
fathers, that the Eternal has brought you out
by sheer strength, rescuing you from that
slave-pen.

NIV—Because the Lord loved you and kept
the oath he swore to your forefathers that
he brought you out with a mighty hand and
redeemed you from the land of slavery.

Psalm 6:4
KJV—Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save
me for thy mercies’ sake.

AMP—Return [to my relief], O Lord, deliver
my life; save me for the sake of Your steadfast
love and mercy.

Moffatt—O thou Eternal, save my life once
more; for thy love’s sake, succour me.

NIV—Turn, O Lord, and deliver me; save me
because of your unfailing love.

Psalm 17:7
KJV—Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, O
thou that savest by thy right hand them which
put their trust in thee from those that rise up
against them.

AMP—Show Your marvelous loving-kindness,
O You Who save by Your right hand those
who trust and take refuge in You from those
who rise up against them.

Moffatt—Strong saviour, in thy kindness
interpose, for those who shelter with thee
from their foes.

NIV—Show the wonder of your great love,
you who save by your right hand those who
take refuge in you from their foes.

Psalm 32:10
KJV—Many sorrows shall be to the wicked:
but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall
compass him about.

AMP—Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but he who trusts in, relies on, and confidently
leans on the Lord shall be compassed about
with mercy and with loving-kindness.

Moffatt—Many a pang falls to the ungodly,
but he who trusts in the Eternal shall enjoy
his favour.

NIV—Many are the woes of the wicked, but
the Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the man
who trusts in him.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries