Kenneth Copeland — Forward…or Back

What exactly did God instruct Joshua to do?
Be thou strong and very courageous,
that thou mayest observe to do
according to all the law, which Moses
my servant commanded thee: turn not
from it to the right hand or to the left,
that thou mayest prosper whithersoever
thou goest. This book of the law shall
not depart out of thy mouth; but thou
shalt meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do
according to all that is written therein:
for then thou shalt make thy way
prosperous, and then thou shalt have
good success. Have not I commanded
thee? Be strong and of a good courage;
be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed:
for the Lord thy God is with thee
whithersoever thou goest (verses 7-9).

Just like Joshua, if you meditate on the
Word of God, if you believe it and obey it,
you’re a candidate for a miracle today. You may
feel like you’re in the desert, but you’re standing
on the boundary of the Promised Land.
The only question is: Will you go forward...
or will you turn back?

The devil is going to try to convince you
to turn back. He’s going to work to distract
you from the Word of God and scare you
into settling for a nice life in the desert.

But listen to me. You may build 100
churches in the desert. You may draw water
out of the Jordan, cultivate the dry land and
think you’ve found heaven. But you’ll be
mistaken. Don’t live in the desert in a church
with a cultivated yard! You’ll be outside of
the will of God. He wants you in the
Promised Land.

“But, Brother Jesse, it would take a
miracle to get me past all these problems I
have and into the Promised Land.”
No problem! You’re a candidate for a
miracle!

Well, then, you may wonder, why am I
having such a hard time receiving one? Because
you remember too well that fallen state you
were in before God saved you.

Most Christians have that problem. That’s
why they have difficulty believing God will
work a miracle for them. They believe, for
instance, that God will heal...but they’re not
sure He will heal them!

But it’s time we change that kind of
thinking. We need to quit dwelling on that
old, fallen state and focus instead on the fact
that God has made us His righteousness in
Christ Jesus! We are in Him!

Sometimes I speak so boldly, it makes
people mad. They say, “Who do you think
you are?!” I ask them, “How much time do
you have? It would take me a long time to
tell you who I am because I’d have to tell
you everything Jesus is. I’m in Him!”

Kenneth Copeland Ministries