17Feb/10Off

Kenneth Copeland — No Third Story on a Vacant Lot Part 2

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

Jesus taught about it in Mark 4:26-29.
There, He said:

So is the kingdom of God, as if
a man should cast seed into the
ground; and should sleep, and
rise night and day, and the seed
should spring and grow up, he
knoweth not how. For the earth
bringeth forth fruit of herself;
first the blade, then the ear,
after that the full corn in the ear.
But when the fruit is brought
forth, immediately he putteth in
the sickle, because the harvest
is come.

According to the law of sowing and
reaping, if you want health, you need
to do more than just want it. You need
to do even more than believe in healing.
You need to plant seed that will
eventually grow up and yield a harvest
of health.

What kind of seed produces physical
health? Proverbs 4:20-22 tells us:
“My son, attend to my words; incline
thine ear unto my sayings. Let them
not depart from thine eyes; keep them
in the midst of thine heart. For they
are life unto those that find them, and
health to all their flesh.”

That word health in Hebrew means
“medicine.” God’s Word has life in it.
It is actually spirit food. As you feed
on it, you become strong spiritually
and physically.

“Let them not depart from thine
eyes.” Read the Word. Meditate on the
Word. That’s taking God’s medicine.
If you will be faithful to take it continually,
it eventually will be as hard
for you to get sick as it ever was for you
to get well.

But it’s a process. You can’t just read
the healing scriptures once and then
go on about your business. You must
continually feed on the Word of God to
keep the crop of healing coming up in
your life.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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10Feb/10Off

Kenneth Copeland — No Third Story on a Vacant Lot Part 1

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

Once you understand God’s will
really is for you to live in divine health,
you can’t help but question why so
many believers live sick. It seems puzzling
at first. But the answer is very
simple. Many of them just aren’t
willing to do what it takes to be well.

People want to be well. No one wants
to be sick. But to be well, you have to
make choices. How often have you seen
someone with a hacking cough still
smoking a cigarette? Or an overweight
person eating an ice cream cone?

Our fleshly nature likes to take the
easy way. And it’s much easier to give in
to habits than to break them. It’s easier
to give in to your flesh and watch television
every night like the rest of the
world, than to spend your time putting
God’s healing Word into your heart.

I recently heard Charles Capps say
that some people try to build the third
story of a building on a vacant lot. That
sounds funny, but spiritually speaking
it’s true. A lot of people want to enjoy
the benefits of healing without building
the foundation for it from the Word
of God.

It can’t be done. To construct a building,
you have to start below ground
level. If you want a harvest, you’re
going to have to plant something first.

Everything in the natural world works
that way. I call it the law of genesis.
This law of planting and reaping works
in the spirit realm too. It governs health
and prosperity—in fact, everything in
God’s kingdom is governed by the law
of planting and reaping.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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3Feb/10Off

Gloria Copeland — God Wants You Well!

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

I have some revolutionary news for
you today. God wants you healthy!
Every day!

Oh, I know that, you may quickly
think, I know God will heal me when I
get sick.

Yes, that’s true, He will. But that’s
not what I’m saying. I’m telling you
God’s perfect will is for you to live
continually in divine health. His will
is for you to walk so fully in the power
of His Word that sickness and disease
are literally pushed away from you.
Isn’t that good news?

You’ve probably heard a lot about
God’s healing power, but there is a difference
between divine healing and
divine health. Years ago, the powerful
preacher John G. Lake put it this way,
“Divine healing is the removal by the
power of God of the disease that has
come upon the body. But divine health
is to live day by day, hour by hour in
touch with God so that the life of God
flows into the body just as the life of
God flows into the mind or flows into
the spirit.” (John G. Lake: His Life,
His Sermons, His Boldness of Faith
[Fort Worth: Kenneth Copeland
Publications, 1995]).

I agree that it is wonderful to get
healed when you’re sick, but it’s more
wonderful to live in divine health. And
that’s what God has always intended
for His people.

Even under the old covenant God
promised His people immunity from
disease. Exodus 23:25 says, “And ye
shall serve the Lord your God, and he
shall bless thy bread, and thy water;
and I will take sickness away from the
midst of thee.”

That promise is even stronger
under the new covenant. Isaiah,
looking forward to what Jesus would
accomplish at the cross wrote,
“Surely he [Jesus] hath borne our
griefs, and carried our sorrows…. He
was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was
upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5).

The Apostle Peter, looking back at
the same event wrote, “Who his own
self bare our sins in his own body
on the tree, that we, being dead to
sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes ye were healed”
(1 Peter 2:24).

Were healed! That’s past tense. Jesus
finished your healing on the cross. He
paid the price for you to be whole. He
bought righteousness for your spirit,
peace for your mind and healing for
your body.

As far as Jesus is concerned, you’re
not the sick trying to get healed. You’re
the healed and Satan is trying to steal
your health. I remember when Ken and
I realized that, it changed everything
for us. We quit trying to talk God into
healing us and began instead resisting
sickness and disease the way we
resisted sin.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

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23Sep/09Off

Kenneth Copeland — God’s Riches in Glory

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

Let me give you an example: You’ve
prayed for your son or daughter to be set
free from a drug habit. You can get such a
clear picture of what that child will be like
after he has been delivered, that he starts
looking great to you now—even though he
still may be giving you trouble!

You’ll actually get to the point where you
won’t see what a louse he or she is being
right now because you’ve seen him in Jesus
with the eyes of your spirit. People will say,
“I don’t know what she sees in that child.”
They won’t understand that you’re looking
at him through eyes filled with hope.

If you’ll continue to look at him that way
and not let the devil shake you, if you’ll
refuse to jump up in that child’s face and tell
him what a sorry thing he is, one of these
days that child of yours will look on the
outside just like you see him on the inside.
He’ll be delivered!

No doubt about it, that kind of hope is
strong spiritual stuff! Where do you go to
get it?

You go to the same place you go to get
faith—the Word of God. You bathe your
brain in that Word every day. You think
about it all the time, wherever you are and
whatever you are doing.

You keep your faith tapes going. You
keep someone preaching to you all the time.
Because as you keep feeding your spirit on
God’s Word, hope will begin to rise up. God’s
pictures will start to develop in your spirit.
You’ll begin to see them on the inside of you.
In fact, they’ll get bigger inside you than the
circumstances around you.

Then, when the devil comes and tries to
show you an image of some beaten-up, run-down
person wearing your name, you’ll just send
him packing. You’ll shake your head and say,
“No sir, that’s not a picture of me. This is a
picture of me...” and you’ll start talking the
Word of God!

As you meditate on those inner pictures
hope has painted with God’s Word, you’ll
begin to believe you are what the Word of
God says you are. You’ll begin to realize
you’re not what the world says you are.

You’re not what your parents or your friends
say you are. You’re not even what you think
you are. You are what GOD says you are!
You’re the righteousness of God in Christ
Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21)!

When the devil comes at you with his
junk, you’ll reach in, get out that picture
hope has given you, and put it in front of
your eyes. You’ll say, “Devil, I’m not looking
at you. That sick, poverty-stricken, failure bound
person you’re describing isn’t me. This
is me. I’m the fellow with the healed body.

I’m the fellow with all my needs met according
to God’s riches in glory. I’m the fellow
who is more than a conqueror in Jesus!”

Power pictures. That’s what hope
produces. Inner pictures faith can build on.
But you need to understand, these are not
instant photos. The development of hope
takes time.

For instance, when I discovered healing,
I didn’t have any trouble with it. I could
easily see that if God made a body, He could
certainly fix it. That seemed obvious. But I
had a difficult time seeing how God could
ever fix my financial problems. I couldn’t see
the prosperity picture clearly at all.