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Gloria Copeland — The Joy of Winning

29 Dec

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

Paul knew where to look for his joy. He said he was going to “finish [his] course with joy.” He was going to complete the ministry to which he had been called. He did not focus on his own life—his personal desires. He was going to finish his race and when he crossed the line there was going to be a smile on his face.

He intended not only to finish but to do it with joy. I like that. I too am not only going to finish my race and win but I’m going to enjoy it!

Do you see that we’re not talking about a race where at the end we’re going to drag up to the finish line depressed and despondent? We are talking about a race God intends for us to finish with joy.

Don’t let the natural realm determine your level of courage or disappointment. The life of spirit beings is not sustained in the natural. A lot of our troubles are caused because our desires are incorrectly focused. Peace and joy, however, belong to those who keep their hearts full of God. So look in the right places for your joy.

Don’t get distracted by anything—even legitimate things. If they have preeminence in your life, they are not right for you. One day each of us will stand before God. I personally don’t think I will live out my natural life on earth. I expect Jesus to come before that happens. When I stand before the Lord, nothing will matter except that I finished my course.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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Gloria Copeland — Faith: A Violent Force Part 2

15 Dec

Kenneth And Gloria Copeland

The faith-filled lifestyle is ordained by God and is the only walk that works. It works by principles and laws that God put into operation.

To live this lifestyle, faith must be in two places—in your heart and in your mouth.

If faith is only in your heart, then it’s not expressing itself and therefore, can’t be applied to the natural realm around you. When you’re in the midst of a struggle, save yourself some time—just look at the opening right under your nose. That’s usually the answer to “What have I been doing wrong?” You’ve been talking the problem instead of the answer. On the other hand, if it’s only in your mouth and not in your heart, then there’s no real force behind it because faith comes from the heart.

Faith is the only force that will change natural things or natural circumstances. It is the only force that can apply itself to the natural realm to change or move a mountain.

But you won’t have that powerful faith if you’re influenced by the world’s goods and feeding on its information. The source you draw from determines what is going to be on the inside of you and what will come out.

You may know God’s promises. But if you don’t take the time to put God’s Word in your heart—even though you might be able to “say” the right things—your words won’t come out in power to move your mountain.

Maybe you are feeding on God’s Word, and yet the situation you face still seems impossible. I know it’s hard to speak words of faith when you’re facing such hard times. But don’t stop feeding on the only thing that can change your situation. Remember, you were born again so that you could accomplish hard things—impossible things!

I think it was a great blessing that Ken and I were in our own impossible situation financially when we first began to hear the word of faith. (I didn’t think it was a blessing then, of course, but I do now!) Our finances were minus zero at that point in our lives. We didn’t have anything but our debts.

We were so desperate we had to believe God. It was the hardest believing we ever did because we didn’t know very much

It was easier for us to believe our way out of the $6 million deficit we faced a few years ago than it was to believe for the little amount we needed back then. But do you know, when it came down to it—when we needed to receive that $6 million—we did exactly the same thing we did the first time we ever believed for grocery money.

We fought the fight of faith. We got aggressive with the Word.

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Gloria Copeland — Faith: A Violent Force Part 1

01 Dec

Kenneth And Gloria Copeland

Most people don’t see faith as a violent force. But spiritually speaking, it is! Paul said, “Fight the good fight of faith…” (1 Timothy 6:12).

Faith is aggressive. It uses the Word of God as a weapon and brings down every stronghold of unbelief and every demonic obstacle in its path!

You must become spiritually aggressive if you want to walk in the supernatural. You have to do it by faith using the Word of God or you won’t do it at all.

People who don’t know about aggressive faith waste a great deal of time. When they find themselves in a difficult situation, they often just sit back and wait for God to rescue them.

But you won’t get anywhere just waiting for God to do everything. He’s already given you the blood of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit. He won’t do your part! As one minister says, “The Holy Spirit is
your helper and if you don’t do what you’re supposed to, He doesn’t have anything to help.”

So, don’t just sit there—do something! Fight the good fight of faith! Put the Word of God in your heart and in your mouth every day. Get aggressive. Make it your lifestyle. The Apostle Paul did. He said: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).

I’ll tell you something else: No matter how much you know or how long you’ve been in the walk of faith, the basics don’t change.

Ken and I have never encountered a problem from which God didn’t deliver us. On the other hand, we’ve never been in a situation that didn’t require us to walk by faith and do all the basic things we learned many years ago. It has never changed. It never will.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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Gloria Copeland – Build The Whole House

04 Nov

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

With that foundation laid, you’ll be ready to step out in faith and receive the abundance God has in store for you.

Many people who have lived godly lives have failed to do that, so they’ve missed out on God’s financial blessings. Although they’ve continually applied the principles of God’s Word and become prime candidates for great prosperity, they’ve unwittingly passed it by because religious tradition has taught them that God wants them in poverty. Christians like that have great wealth in their spiritual bank accounts, but because they don’t realize it’s there, they never tap into it!

Don’t let that happen to you. Don’t just build the foundation for prosperity and stop there. Go on and build the whole house. Dare to believe that if you’ll seek first God’s kingdom, His way of doing and being right, all other things (the food, the clothes, the cars, the houses, everything!) will be added to you as well.

Build your foundation, then dare to believe—and you will surely prosper!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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Kenneth Copeland — Become a Candidate for Increase Part 2

28 Oct

Kenneth And Gloria Copeland

When you pray for your enemies instead of hating them, you become a candidate for increase. When you turn away from immorality, you’re turning toward blessing. When you see things in your life that you know aren’t right and you correct them according to the Word of God, you’re preparing yourself to handle greater financial abundance.

The book of Proverbs is full of God’s wisdom about everyday things and decisions. It will help you learn how to handle your affairs in a way that is pleasing to God. And since it has 31 chapters, by reading a chapter a day along with your other Bible reading, you can finish it in just a month. It will increase you to read Proverbs over and over.

In Proverbs you’ll find out, for example, that the quality of faithfulness and the blessing of prosperity are tied together very closely. Wherever you find one, you’ll find the other. For as Proverbs 28:20 says, “A faithful man shall abound with blessings….” According to Webster’s dictionary, a faithful man is one who “adheres to duty, of true fidelity, loyal, true to allegiance, and constant in the performance of duties or services.”

Luke 16:10 says, “He who is faithful in a very little [thing] is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little [thing] is dishonest and unjust also in much” (The Amplified Bible). So if you want to be trusted with more and be promoted to a better job, be faithful and honest in the job you have right now.

You may think Christian people don’t need to hear about honesty and faithfulness, but they do. I know personally of cases where Christians have stolen money from their employers.

They may not have intended to “steal” anything. They may have just thought, Well, I’ll borrow this money for a couple of weeks and then I’ll put it back and no harm will be done. The problem is, you can’t borrow something from someone without their permission. That’s stealing and you can’t be blessed and steal.

Taking that money may have seemed all right to those people when they did it. They may have made excuses and justified it in their own minds. But if they’d been studying and obeying the Word of God, they wouldn’t have fallen for those excuses. That’s because the Word discerns the thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12). It teaches you what is right and what isn’t.

It reveals not man’s way, but God’s way of doing and being right. It enables you to lay a firm foundation for godly prosperity.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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