When Peter preached the Word to the Jews
on the Day of Pentecost, it pricked them in
their hearts and they had to get saved. God
does this with spirit-power, His Word. It chastens
unbelief and purifies the human spirit in
such a way that man comes out strong, not
weak and condemned.

Daniel chastened himself before the Lord
and asked the Lord to correct him. How did
God correct him? He sent an angel to him
and gave him His Word. God has done better
than that for us. He hasn’t sent us an angel—
He has sent us the Holy Spirit to lead us into
all the Truth. We need to fully understand the
ministry of the Holy Spirit in the world today.
Let’s not take away from it. In other words,
let’s exercise our faith in this area. We need to
realize that the Holy Spirit was sent here to
teach the Church, to reveal the deep things of
God to the Body of Christ. We need to
develop our faith in the ability of the Holy
Spirit to show us these things so that we
might be filled with the knowledge of God in
all wisdom and spiritual understanding.

You know, it seems that some people have
an overwhelming desire to believe the worst
from God. They will fight to prove that God is
the one that inflicted them.

If you were to try talking this way about
my earthly daddy, I’d fight you! Don’t try to
tell me that my dad lied to me or that he stole
my property or made my babies sick. My
father is a good man. He has worked hard to
provide for me, and he would never lie to me.
He loves me—he wouldn’t hurt me—so don’t
try to tell me he’s destroying my life!

I’ve heard people say something like this,
“Well, God killed all my cattle and burned all
my crops, but He finally got me down where
He wanted me.” No, God’s not the one that did
that! Your earthly father would never hurt
you, so why do you want to believe that your
heavenly Father would? James 1:13 says, “Let no
man say when he is tempted [tested or tried], I am
tempted of God.”

How long are you going to listen when
someone says, “God put that on you”?

Kenneth Copeland Ministries