by Kenneth Copeland

Not long ago, the Lord told me that we need a much higher degree of revelation that God is love, and that His love is in us to be used.
As you develop and exercise that love, He said, it will not only fill you up, it will flush the fear out of your soul. Once fear is flushed out and you begin to step out in faith and love, an area of protection will develop around you, an area of joy which is your strength—an area that the world has no explanation for. They’ll begin to wonder, “Who is this that even stops and stills the storms?”
We can read 1 John 4, and clearly see how this process works. There, the man known as the Apostle of Love says:

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us (1 John 4:15-19).

Notice the very first thing that we need to do once we’ve confessed Jesus as our Lord is to know and believe the love God has for us.
We have to develop faith in that love and have it secure in our hearts. When we do, there won’t be an ounce of fear in us. Any time the devil threatens us with some kind of harm, we can rebuke him and say, “You’d better not touch me. I am a dearly beloved child of Almighty God. If you do anything to hurt me, you’ll have my Daddy to deal with and we both know you don’t stand a chance against Him. So just back off right now!”

Now think of all the different people it takes to make up the Body of Christ in the world today. What if we all prayed an hour each day in the Spirit? How many hours of praying the perfect will of God would that represent?

Once the Body of Christ rises up and becomes obedient to God, with each individual doing what he is told, we will reap the harvest of souls that God desires—and we will do it quickly!

God might tell one person to pray five hours. Someone else may be told to pray 15 minutes. The important thing is that we do what we are told. I was told to pray an hour each day, and it has changed my life. (Now I pray in English as much as in the Spirit—just whatever direction I receive.)

If you prayed in the Spirit one hour a day, by the end of the year you would have prayed 365 hours of the perfect will of God. Just 15 minutes a day would be 91 hours. Don’t you think that would affect everything in your life for good? It certainly did mine. I wouldn’t consider not spending time in prayer every morning.

I want you to realize that God will deal with you right where you are today. He might tell you to pray five minutes each day. He may ask you to start there and then increase. Five minutes is important when you are praying the perfect will of God. It is God praying through you. He gives the utterance, you give Him your authority and your voice. When you pray in the spirit, your intellect will not get in the way because you are not praying out of your head, but out of your spirit.

We must come to a place where we keep God’s Word, obey His guidance and simply do what we are told—a body of people that God can depend on to do His will in the earth.

What God said exactly was “Don’t take up all your time with natural things…but see to it that you give heed unto your spirit and give your spirit opportunity to feed upon the Word of God…
and give your spirit opportunity to commune with the Father above and build yourself up on your most holy faith…just an houror two out of 24, just pay a tithe of your time unto Me, saith the Lord and ALL WILL BE WELL.”

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Prayer is the foundation of every successful Christian

endeavor. Time spent with God is vital if you desire a fruitful

Christian life. As the foundation of every Christian endeavor,

it plays a vital role in living a successful Christian life. Study

the lives of the great men and women of God from the past,

and you’ll see the strong emphasis they placed on prayer.

Without prayer, they would never have been able to achieve

such tremendous results.

Throughout the New Testament we can see the value of

prayer in the founding of the early churches. The Apostle Paul

prayed and interceded many hours for the new believers. In

Ephesians 1:16 he wrote, “[I] Cease not to give thanks for you,

making mention of you in my prayers.” In Colossians 1:3 he

said, “We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus

Christ, praying always for you.” In 1 Thessalonians 5:17, he

instructed the Church to “pray without ceasing.” Luke 18:1

says, “Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.”

It is not enough to know that we should pray. We need to

know why. Look at Ephesians 4:14-16:

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to

and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine,

by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness,

whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking

the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things,

which is the head, even Christ: from whom the whole

body fitly joined together and compacted by that

which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual

working in the measure of every part, maketh increase

of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Compare the Body of Christ to a brick building. The bricks

would topple if they were not joined together. Mortar forms

those bricks into a solid, impenetrable wall. It is held together,

or made useful, by the effectual working of every part. In the

same way, the power of love, through prayer and intercession,

is the mortar which knits the Body of Christ together. Each

member, or “brick,” contributes his part by building up the

Body and strengthening it through prayer. If one is injured, or

weakened in some way, the others are able to stand in prayer

and make up for that weakness. 

Kenneth Copeland Ministries