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Kenneth Copeland — The Power of Standing on the Word Part 1

16 Jun

Kenneth And Gloria Copeland

God’s Word is absolutely true. There is great power in the
Word. God has used the words written in the Bible to release
His faith. No Word of God is void of the power it takes to cause
itself to come to pass. No one has ever reached the depth of
what is available in the written Word of God to the believer
who will stand on God’s Word as quickly and as firmly as he
would the word of his lawyer, doctor or most trusted friend.
God’s Word is God speaking to you. God’s Word is not of private
interpretation. It is for whosoever will stand on it and expect
things to come to pass.

When you begin to look forward expectantly to the things
God’s Word promises you, you will then begin to say, “I have
it.” You will then begin to say, “I believe that I receive. My
money is coming to me, and I will be able to be a greater blessing
to the work of God’s ministry, to the poor, and to the other
things that I need to be involved in.”

Standing on the Word of God is a spiritual activity that will
bless and cause you to grow in faith and in power. James says it
like this, “Faith without works is dead” (see James 2:17). He says
to be a doer of the Word, an actor of the Word of God, and not a
hearer only. Then he describes standing on the Word of God or
looking into the Word as looking into the perfect law of liberty.

God’s Word always comes to pass for the man who will
stand and act on it. Your confession of God’s Word will always
come to pass in your life regardless of what opposition Satan
puts up against it because you are confessing and expectantly
standing on the Living Word of the Almighty Jehovah God.
Jesus Christ is the guarantee that our covenant with God, or
God’s Word to us, is absolutely and eternally true. Even if heaven
and earth pass away, thank God, you and I won’t pass away
as we stand on His Word for His Word will not pass away!
Hebrews 1:3 states that He is upholding all things by the Word
of His power. It just makes good sense then to stand on His
Word if you want to be upheld financially. If you want to be
upheld spiritually, get on His Word. If you want to be upheld in
any area of your life, put that area on God’s Word and begin to
confess that you have success and victory in Jesus. It’s yours!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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Gloria Copeland — The Power Of Confession

09 Jun

Kenneth And Gloria Copeland

Jesus said in 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.” Notice the last words, “he shall have
whatsoever he saith.” Faith is released with the mouth. Even our
salvation is based on the confession of our mouths that Jesus
Christ is our Lord (see Romans 10:9-10). You can have what you
say! In fact, what you are saying is exactly what you are getting
now. If you are living in poverty and lack and want, change
what you are saying. It will change what you have!

People continually say to me, “Brother Copeland, I cannot
see what the confession of my mouth has to do with the circumstances
around me.” Well, I didn’t understand it much
when I first found out about it. Only the simple fact that Jesus
said it was enough for me to begin to change my vocabulary.
Since then I have learned the powerful force of the spiritual
world that creates the circumstances around us is controlled by
the words of the mouth. This force comes from inside us.

Jesus Himself said, “By thy words thou shalt be justified, and
by thy words thou shalt be condemned” (Matthew 12:37). Words
are containers. They can contain faith, love, fear, hate, or they
can be totally empty. Jesus said that we would stand judgment
for idle (or empty, inoperative) words (see Matthew 12:36).
Remember, we said earlier that all the material substance you
will ever need is already in the earth. Everything you need is
already here. The confession of your mouth will cause you to
possess it. God will see to that. Hebrews 3:1 says that Jesus is
the Apostle and the High Priest of our confession; and Hebrews
4:14 states that we are to hold fast to our confession. We are to
confess what we desire to come to pass. We don’t wait until it
comes to pass and then begin to confess it. In Mark 11:23, Jesus
is talking about saying things that have not yet come to pass.
The mountain had not yet been removed when it was spoken
to. Jesus said for us to believe that those things which we say
will come to pass and then we will have whatsoever we say.
When I learned these facts, it became easy for me to confess, “I
have it now….I can see it through the eye of my faith.” Once I
make deposits in my heavenly account, I can say, I have it and
then it will come to me. Sometimes it comes instantly; sometimes
it comes after it is confessed several times; sometimes it
comes after several days; sometimes it comes after several
weeks. There have been times when it came after months of
confession, but nonetheless, it came! We have God’s Word for
it. It will come to pass!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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Gloria Copeland — The Power of Agreement

02 Jun

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

For years I knew deep down inside that there was a place in
God where a man could live in victorious circumstances at all
times. I knew there was total victory in Jesus, so I searched for
it; but many of the people I asked about it told me that I would
not be able to live this way until I got to heaven. Thank God,
the Word says differently.

Matthew 18:19-20 says this: “Again I say unto you, That if
two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they
shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am
I in the midst of them.” Notice that Jesus said, “Again I say unto
you.” This was important enough for Him to say more than
once to these men until they realized that if they would get in
agreement with one another and establish a thing, Jesus would
be in the midst of them to cause it to come to pass.

You need someone to be an agreement partner with you.
The most ideal situation is for a man and his wife to be in
agreement. You need someone who will not relent and, once
the agreement is made, will stand firm that it will come to pass.
Jesus will bring even the impossible to pass if two Christians
will agree firmly on His Word and its truth. This is the reason
that in financial matters it is so important to know that you
have made your heavenly deposits. It is easy to agree on the
fact that something is yours when you have already made the
deposits for it.

The prayer of agreement is a powerful prayer, and it will work
when it is put to work. However, so much of the time one person
will agree and another person will hope. I have prayed with people
and when I finished said, “It is done and it will come to pass.”
Then the other person who was supposed to be agreeing with me
would say, “I certainly do hope so, Sister Copeland.” At that
point I am forced to say, “Well, it won’t. I agreed…you hoped.”

When an agreement is made, both parties are firm in the
fact that there is an agreed situation. When you agree with a
person to pay a bill at a certain time and that person says, “I
consider this bill as paid,” and you say, “I certainly hope so,”
then that is probably as far as the situation will go until you are
firm in your committal to that agreement. The other partner
will not enter into it with you. It should be this firm between
two Christians when they come together and believe that what
they have agreed upon in the world of prosperity will come to
pass. Remember, we have Jesus Christ’s Word for it. It will
come to pass if we refuse to relent in our agreement together.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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