(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: The Bible tells us how faith calls things that be
not as though they were. What is your faith calling to you?
Today, Kenneth Copeland shares Bible examples of people who
sought after Jesus and received their miracles by faith.
KENNETH: Now remember, Capernaum is-- AUDIENCE: Home.
KENNETH: --home. Jesus left home, preached--had a
great home meeting, went across the lake to deliver
this man, and equipped him with the message of love. And
it is the message of love that casts out fear. (Audience
Agrees) Amen. I mean, Jesus just messed up the devil's whole
playground over there, man. Well, the other side of that
lake needed cleaning up. (Audience Agrees) Amen. Well,
wonder why He didn't go over there a month before that?
Wonder why He didn't--wonder how this man got that far along.
Wonder how they--hey, the Lord didn't lead Him over there.
AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: "Well, why didn't He?" I don't
know. Ask Him. (Laughter) He'll talk to you about it just as
good as He would me. In fact, I never did ask Him. I don't
really care. (Laughter) He knows what He's doing. I'm following
Him. He's not following me. Aren't you glad of that? Glory
to God. Thank You, Lord Jesus. Oh, yeah. Thank You, Jesus. Now,
we're following Him, right? AUDIENCE: Amen. Yes. KENNETH:
Now, He goes back-- "when Jesus was passed over again by ship
unto the other side--" which was? AUDIENCE: Home. KENNETH:
Home. Amen? (Audience "Amens") He went over there and took care
of business that morning and went back across the way. He's
going home. After all, He was up most of the night messing around
out there in that--in that storm. He didn't get much sleep
trying to sleep in the back of that rocking boat. So He's going
back home. "And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the
synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, fell at his
feet--" Now, this man is ruler of the synagogue in Jesus'
hometown. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Huh? They knew one
another very, very well. He ran up there. Something happened to
his daughter while Jesus is gone. So he's--he said, "Hey,
I know how to fix this." But you will notice this as
we track through these things--ha-ha-ha--I'll tell you
what, there was a crowd waiting on Him every time He came home.
They had--don't you know they had--they had people on--on
every road, every way into that--into the city of Capernaum
just looking for Him. They've got scouts out watching for when
Jesus comes home. Glory to God. Hallelujah. (Audience
"Hallelujahs") Now, he "besought him greatly, saying, My little
daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay
your hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live."
Jesus went with him. Ha-ha-ha. Jesus went with him. (Audience
"Amens") I said, "Jesus went with him." (Audience "Amens")
The call of faith. He went with him. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH:
"--and much people followed him, and thronged him. And a certain
woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had
suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all
that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
when she heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched
his garment. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I
shall be whole." Faith. "I will be." What did Jairus say? "She
will live." Faith is speaking here. Yeah, okay, Lord. Yeah,
I'll do that. Now, you would agree with me that that word
"whole" right there, "I shall be whole," is talking about her
physical body? It's not talk--it's not--it's not being
used to draw attention to her spirit at all. It is talking
about the healing of her physical body. AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: Amen? (Audience "Amens") I want you to look with
me--hold your place there. We're coming right back. This is just
a little--little side journey here. Romans 10:9, "If thou
shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in
thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be
saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Would you
agree with me that that's not talking about the healing of the
physical body? That's talking about the new birth and
recreation of the human spirit. (Audience Agrees) Amen? Did you
know both--the same word was translated "whole," talking
about the woman's body, is translated "whole," speaking
about the rebirth of the human spirit. (Audience Agrees) Hey,
you--hey, you should have shouted right then. (Cheers)
That means God was just as interested in--at Calvary--on
your body as He was your spirit. (Cheers) Amen! (Audience
"Amens") And it--and it also includes your financial
wholeness. (Audience "Amens") Because that word "sozo" covers
the whole spectrum of human condition. (Audience Agrees) Oh,
I tell you, this is good news. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: And you
can see it. You can see what Jesus said to that woman after
she told her story, that--let's go ahead and--Jesus said--
"Straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt
in her body that she was healed of that plague." She didn't feel
it then believe it. She believed it then felt it. (Audience
Agrees) Amen? (Audience "Amens") "Jesus, immediately knowing in
himself that virtue," or dunamis had--power, power, healing power
in this case "--had gone out of him, turned him about in the
press, and said, Who touched my clothes? His disciples said to
him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou,
Who touched me? And he looked around about to see her that had
done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing
what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told
him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith
hath made thee--" AUDIENCE: Whole. KENNETH: "--whole." Now
whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold it. Back up. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH:
She had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent
all that she had. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Now she's financially
wiped out. All that she had is gone. Jesus said, "Daughter,
your faith made you whole." AUDIENCE: Amen! Amen. KENNETH:
Amen. (Audience "Amens") See, "sozo" covered that. (Audience
Agrees) Sound, complete. Ha-ha-ha. Hallelujah. Oh, I tell
you, that just-- I don't know, that shoots a thrill through me.
Praise God. That's just absolutely wonderful. Now then,
"Thy faith hath made thee whole." "Well, now, wait a
minute, Brother Copeland. He said, 'Knowing that power had
gone out of him.'" "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with
the Holy Ghost and power," same word, "dunamis," "who went about
healing all oppressed of the devil" and so forth. "Yeah, but
Brother Copeland, it was that power that did it." Well, now,
was it? AUDIENCE: Faith. KENNETH: Jesus didn't say,
"Daughter, my anointing has made you whole." Let me give you--let
me give you a--just a little, simple concept. Here is a large
piece of steel, and here is a magnet. Now, the magnet is
headed toward that steel. It wasn't the steel that did the
work. It was the magnet. (Audience Agrees) And the
smallest little ole' magnet there is-- AUDIENCE: Yes, sir.
That's right. KENNETH: --will stick. It doesn't take a great
big one. AUDIENCE: No. KENNETH: It doesn't take this huge--ooh,
this gigantic faith. No, it don't. It takes a grain of
mustard seed. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. That's good. That's
real good. Wow. KENNETH: Hallelujah! (Audience
"Hallelujahs") I thought you'd like that. Glory to God. I liked
that myself. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Thank You, Lord Jesus.
Praise God. Amen. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, thank You, Lord
Jesus. "While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the
synagogue's house certain which said, Your daughter's dead: why
troublest thou the Master any further? As soon as Jesus heard
the word that was spoken, he saith to the ruler of the
synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe." Now, in Luke, Chapter
8, in Dr. Luke's account, he said that Jesus said this: "Fear
not," or "Stop the fear," "believe only--" AUDIENCE: Yes.
KENNETH: "--and she shall be made--" AUDIENCE: Whole.
KENNETH: "--whole." AUDIENCE: Amen! KENNETH: There it is
again. "She shall be made whole." Hey, that is a spiritual
law. Stop the fear. Believe only, and you will be made
whole. (Audience Agrees) Amen. (Audience "Amens") Thank You,
Lord. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Thank You, Lord Jesus. So now, "He suffered
no man to follow him except Peter, and James, John the
brother of James. He cometh to the house of the ruler of the
synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed
greatly. And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make
ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but
sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put
them all out, he taketh the ruler--taketh the father and the
mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth
in where the damsel was lying. Took her by the hand, and said
unto her, Talitha, cumi; which is, being interpreted--" Now,
listen to this. He's using His faith. "Oh, Brother Copeland,
this is Jesus." I know it. And the Bible said, "He perfectly
pleased the Father." You can't please God without faith.
(Audience Agrees) God does nothing apart from a seed. He
does nothing apart from His Word. He does nothing apart from
faith. And He does everything because He loves you. (Audience
"Amens") Hallelujah. (Audience "Hallelujahs") Thank You, Jesus.
Now then--ha-ha--He used His words, saying, "Daughter, I say
unto you, arise. And straightway the damsel arose, and walked;
she was the age of 12 years. And they were astonished with a
great astonishment." Now then, let's pick up in the 9th chapter
of Matthew. We know where we are, Matthew 9, Verse 24,
"Give place: for the maid is not dead...They laughed him to
scorn." And Verse 27, "Jesus departed there." I wanted you to
see this now. "When the people were put forth, he went in...and
the maid arose." Now Verse 27, "When Jesus departed there, two
blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David--"
Now, what did they say to Him when they called Him "Son of
David?" AUDIENCE: Messiah. KENNETH: Messiah. Notice that.
Make note of that. Anytime you see anybody reaching to Jesus
and called him "Son of David," you know they believed He was
the anointed One. They believed He was Messiah. So now, they
said, "Son of David, have mercy on us." Are you ready? Look at
Verse 28. "And when he was come into the house--" (Indistinct
Responses) He's-- AUDIENCE: Home. KENNETH: --home. He's
right there next door to Jairus. Are you loving this or what?
(Audience Agrees) (Laughs) Hallelujah! (Audience
"Hallelujahs") He's in the house. The blind man came in to
Him. I mean, they just came right on in His house. Praise
God. Amen. Oh. And Jesus said, "Believe you I'm able to do
this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. He touched their eyes
saying, According to your faith be it done unto you." AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: "According to your--" AUDIENCE: Faith.
KENNETH: "--faith be it done unto you." Now--ha--how much
time is left? Yeah, I got time enough right here to introduce
this to you. Look in John, Chapter 6, please. "After these
things, Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of
Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw
the miracles which he did on them that were diseased. Jesus
went into a--up into a mountain, and...and then he said to
Philip, Where are we going to get the bread," money to feed
the--"bread to feed these people?" He said, "I don't
know." And then they went on down and they brought the lad in
there, and they made the men sit down, and Jesus--Jesus gave
thanks, and then they fed everybody. I mean, this is a
long day, right? (Laughter) So then--and then they were all
filled, and they gathered up the fragments. And before they
gathered them--(Mumbling) (Laughter) The men had seen the
miracle that He did and said, "This is of a truth that prophet
that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived
that they would come and take him by force, make him a king,
departed again into a mountain himself alone. And when evening
was now come--" long day. AUDIENCE: Long day. KENNETH:
"--evening was now come, his disciples went unto the sea, and
entered into a ship, and went over the sea towards Capernaum."
AUDIENCE: Home. KENNETH: They're going home. AUDIENCE: (Claps)
KENNETH: They've been out there all day. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH:
Ha-ha-ha. "Jesus was not come to them. And the sea arose by
reason of a great wind that blew. And when they had rowed
about five and twenty, or thirty furlongs--" three miles, three
miles "--they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh
unto the ship: and they were afraid. But he said unto them,
It is I; be not afraid. Then they willingly received him into
the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land where they
went." Now, where are they going? AUDIENCE: Home. KENNETH:
The man wanted to get home and get in his own bed. (Laughter)
Well, you tell me. It couldn't be because He's trying to prove
something to say nobody saw it. It was in the middle of
the night. (Audience Agrees) AUDIENCE: That's right, that's
right. Amen. KENNETH: "I don't want to sit out here and have to
sleep in this boat again tonight!" Ha-ha-ha-ha. Well,
they rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed. These
people are tired. "I'm tired. I'm going home." Kkkk! Man.
(Laughter) "Let's get this thing out of here." Glory to God. I
know how He feels. (Laughter) I've been there, brother. I just
never could get my boat to go that fast. (Laughter) I thought
I really had something when I was flying my little 180
mile-an-hour airplane going home at night. It took half of the
night, but I was in my bed. Glory to God. AUDIENCE: Yes.
KENNETH: Amen. And then got blessed with a jet. Think of--
AUDIENCE: Amen. (Cheers & Applause) KENNETH: And that jet
was twice as fast as that other airplane. But it's still slow.
So the Lord finally blessed us with a Citation X, the fastest
jet in the country. And it's still way slower than that.
Ha-ha-ha-ha! Amen. Now, I'd have to be coming in the 10 from
Dallas to Fort Worth to be anywhere close to that fact, and
still wouldn't make it. This gives me and blesses me--
AUDIENCE: Amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. KENNETH: --into an
intimate place with Jesus. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. KENNETH: Amen. (Audience "Amens") I see Him,
and I--I tap into His--His feelings. AUDIENCE: That's
great. KENNETH: And--and I know then He knows how I feel.
AUDIENCE: Praise God. KENNETH: He knows how you feel. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: And if you'll give Him a chance--thank You,
Lord. If you'll let Him in the boat, He'll get you there quick.
(Audience Agrees) (Cheers & Applause) Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory. Come on,
let's praise God here. Let's just praise Him for a few
moments and just worship Him. Glory to God. Thank You, Lord.
Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord, for revealing these things
to us. And--and we know that on His heart and on His mind was
not Himself that night. Of course, He wanted to get home.
But these guys had worked night and day, and they--they did any
and everything He said to the very best they knew how to do
it. And He needed to get them home and get them in their--with
their families. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Amen. (Audience
"Amens") Instead of being out there in the middle of the
night. Because--you know, I never had thought about this
before. He was not the one that had to row that boat. They did.
That's Jesus. Come on, just bless Him and--oh,
thank You, Lord, thank You, Lord, thank You, Lord.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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