The great thing about your heart account is that, unlike your bank account, there’s no limit to the amount you can put into it. You might run out of money to deposit, but you’ll never run out of Word. You can put in as much as you want.

Of course, it takes time to make those deposits, but you’re the one who decides how much time you’re going to spend in the Word. It’s entirely up to you!

Some people are hesitant to spend great amounts of time putting the Word about healing in their hearts because they think their investment might not pay off. They think they might make sacrifices to attend to the Word and end up sick anyway. But Galatians 6:7-9 puts such concerns to rest:

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in welldoing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

This is the unchangeable law of God. Whatever you sow is what you will reap. If you sow cotton, you won’t reap peanuts. If you sow peanuts, you won’t reap doughnuts. If you steadfastly sow the Word of Life into the soil of your heart, you won’t end up with sickness and death. You’ll end up with a harvest of divine health. The New Testament in Modern English by J.B. Phillips says, “A man’s harvest in life will depend entirely on what he sows” (Galatians 6:7).

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