15Jul/09Off

Kenneth Copeland — Better Than Good

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

If you’re not sure what you’re becoming,
let me give you a hint. You’re going to
become whatever you think about and talk
about all the time.

I can listen to you talk for 30 minutes and
tell you exactly what you’re going to become.
It doesn’t take a prophet to do that. It just
takes someone who will listen to your
words.

So, listen to yourself. If you don’t like
what you hear, change it. Become someone
better by beginning to think God’s Word, talk
God’s Word and act on God’s Word.

Nobody on earth can determine what
you’re going to become but you. Yes, you!
Don’t blame it on the devil. He can’t change
it. Don’t blame it on your parents, your
background or your circumstances.

Forget those things which are behind...
and do what Abraham did. The Bible says
“he considered not his own body now dead,
when he was about an hundred years old,
neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb....”

(Romans 4:19). He just said to himself, “Old
man, you don’t count. Neither do you,
Granny. What counts is God’s Word, and I
am exactly who God says I am.”

Do you want to become who God says
you are? Do you want to be healed? Do you
want to become financially free? Do you
want to become a powerful witness in your
neighborhood?

What is your dream? You can have it if
you’ll learn to live by faith.

If you don’t have a dream yet, get one.
Fill your heart full of the Word of God. Let
Him show you what’s possible. Trade your
negative, natural hope for the supernatural
promises of Almighty God and learn to “hope
against hope.”

I can tell you, your life will really be good
when you’re living Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John instead of the 6 o’clock news. No, it will
be better than good—it will be miraculous.

So miraculous, in fact, that sometimes
when you tell people the Word of God will
heal them, prosper them and set them free,
they’ll look at your life and say, “Sure it’s
easy for you to live by faith. You have a
great life. But what can God do with a life
as messed up as mine?”

Then you’ll just smile and say, “Friend,
God can do more for you than you’ll ever
dream. I can tell you that from experience.
You see, I wasn’t always this blessed....”

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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8Jul/09Off

Kenneth Copeland — Anchor Your Soul

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

God has made a covenant with you just
as surely as He made it with Abraham. But
instead of making it in the blood and body
of animals, He made it with the broken body
and shed blood of His own Son—Jesus the
Anointed One. That’s what should be on your
mind when you take Communion. Hebrews
6:17-19 says:

Wherein God, willing more abundantly
to show unto the heirs of
promise the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath: that by two
immutable [unchangeable] things [the
body and the blood of Jesus], in which
it was impossible for God to lie, we
might have a strong consolation, who
have fled for refuge to lay hold upon
the hope set before us: which hope we
have as an anchor of the soul, both
sure and steadfast....

Friend, we have hope because we’re in
blood covenant with Almighty God! Through
Jesus we have access to Him. We “are no
more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
with the saints, and of the household of
God” (Ephesians 2:19)!

When we’re confronted by impossible
situations in this world, we have a covenant
right to factor in Jesus! Factor in the power
of His Word! Factor in His Anointing!

Some say, “That sounds too easy.” No,
it’s not easy! When the devil begins to pull
the noose of hopelessness around your neck
with poverty or sickness or some other
terrible situation, you have to fight, and fight
hard. Not by burning buildings and robbing
stores—but by grabbing hold of the hope in
the Word and using it to demolish every
thought that would rise up against it.

“Casting down imaginations, and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ”
(2 Corinthians 10:5).

The battleground where hope is won or
lost is not on the streets, it’s in the mind. It’s
in the imagination where expectancy begins
to take form. So take your stand on that
battleground. Begin now to expect the anointing
to destroy the yokes in your life. Begin
now to expect God to keep His covenant
promises to you.

Fight for that expectancy in the Name of
Jesus. Take your hope, fill it with faith and
storm the gates of hell. They will not prevail
against you!