2Jun/100

Kenneth Copeland — What’s in Your Heart? Part 1

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

“I’d have no problem at all believing God’s Word would heal me if He’d spoken to me out loud like He spoke out loud in Genesis,” you might say. “But He hasn’t!”

No, and He probably won’t either. God no longer has to thunder His Word down at us from heaven. These days He lives in the hearts of believers, so He speaks to us from the inside instead of the outside. What’s more, when it comes to covenant issues like healing, we don’t even have to wait on Him to speak.

He has already spoken!

He has already said, “By [Jesus’] stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). He has already said, “I am the Lord that healeth thee” (Exodus 15:26). He has already said, “the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up” (James 5:15).

God has already done His part. So we must do ours. We must take the Word He has spoken, put it inside us and let it change us from the inside out.

You see, everything (including healing) starts inside you. Your future is literally stored up in your heart. As Jesus said, “A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things” (Matthew 12:35).

That means if you want external conditions to be better tomorrow, you’d better start changing your internal condition today. You’d better start depositing the Word of God in your heart just like you deposit money in the bank. Then you can make withdrawals on it whenever you need it. When sickness attacks your body, you can tap into the healing Word you’ve put inside you and run that sickness off!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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9Dec/09Off

Gloria Copeland — God Is Our Eternal Shepherd

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

1 Chronicles 16:15, 20-22
KJV—Be ye mindful always of his covenant;
the word which he commanded to a thousand
generations.… When they went from nation to
nation, and from one kingdom to another
people; He [the Lord] suffered no man to do
them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their
sakes, saying, Touch not mine anointed, and
do my prophets no harm.

AMP—Be mindful of His covenant forever, the
promise which He commanded and established
to a thousand generations.… When they went
from nation to nation, and from one kingdom
to another people, He allowed no man to do
them wrong; yes, He reproved kings for their
sakes, saying, Touch not My anointed, and do
My prophets no harm.

Moffatt—Never forget his compact, the
pledge he gave for a thousand generations.…
[They wandered] from one nation to another,
and from realm to realm...he would not let a
man oppress them, he would punish kings on
their account, saying, “Never touch my chosen,
my prophets never harm.”

NIV—He remembers his covenant forever,
the word he commanded, for a thousand
generations.… They wandered from nation to
nation, from one kingdom to another. He
allowed no man to oppress them; for their
sake he rebuked kings: “Do not touch my
anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

Psalm 37:28
KJV—The Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh
not his saints; they are preserved for ever.

AMP—The Lord delights in justice and forsakes
not His saints; they are preserved forever.

Moffatt—The Eternal, who loves honesty,
never forsakes his faithful band.

NIV—The Lord loves the just and will not
forsake his faithful ones. They will be protected
forever.

Psalm 95:7
KJV—He is our God; and we are the people of
his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

AMP—He is our God and we are the people
of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.

Moffatt—The Eternal is our God, and we the
people whom he shepherds.

NIV—He is our God and we are the people of
his pasture, the flock under his care.

Isaiah 54:17
KJV—No weapon that is formed against thee
shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise
against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the
Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith
the Lord.

AMP—No weapon that is formed against you
shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise
against you in judgment you shall show to be in
the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security,
triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the
servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal
Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the
righteousness or the vindication which they
obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to
them as their justification], says the Lord.

Moffatt—No weapon forged against you shall
succeed, no tongue raised against you shall
win its plea. Such is the lot of the Eternal’s
servants; thus, the Eternal promises, do I
maintain their cause.

TLB—No weapon turned against you shall
succeed, and you will have justice against
every courtroom lie. This is the heritage of the
servants of the Lord. This is the blessing I have
given you, says the Lord.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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25Nov/09Off

Kenneth Copeland — God’s Contract of Protection

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

In the days to come you will see a great
deal of trouble in the world around you. The
reason is, there are two groups of people on
the earth. There are the people of God and
there are the people who still live in the devil’s
kingdom of darkness.

The Word of God tells us that these two
groups, even though they may live side by side
on the earth, will experience very different
kinds of lives. We can see this in Isaiah 3:10-11
where the Lord tells Isaiah to “say ye to the
righteous, that it shall be well with him…. Woe
unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him….”

Take two groups of people living in the
same space, in the same earth, in the same
city, even in the same family, and one can live
well and the other can live in woe. One can live
in security and the other in constant peril. The
difference is that one of these two groups has
a covenant with God, and the other does not.
God is a God of covenant, and God’s covenant
is a covenant of protection.

We see this in the preservation from their
enemies that belonged to Israel, even before
Jesus came and paid the price for man’s sin. God
made a way for His people to be secure. He
said, “If you’ll serve Me, if you’ll obey Me, I’ll be
an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to
your adversaries.” And as long as Israel obeyed
God no enemy could stand before them. No
enemy could overrun them. No sickness or
disease was in their midst. No catastrophe
would come upon them if they lived with God,
obeyed Him and did what He said.

If the Israelites under the old covenant
had that much protection, think how much
protection belongs to those who are in Christ—
who are in the One anointed to defeat Satan
and restore to man the glory lost in the Fall. As
good as those covenants were, God has made
a new and better covenant with you through
Jesus Christ, His Son. God has offered all He
has—His Son, His Word, His Name, His Spirit,
His Love—to you. Actually, you and I can walk
in the comfort of the Holy Ghost every day.
Think about that. The comfort, the protection,
the counsel of the Spirit of God.

Don’t let God’s covenant sit on a shelf
and gather dust. Use it for the peace and
protection you and your family need in these
troubled times.

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!