KENNETH: Put the Word of God in your heart, in your mouth, in
your eyes, in your ears, and keep putting it in there, keep
putting it in there, keep putting it in there, and keep
putting it in there until it begins to come out your mouth.
(Singing) I know my God has made the way for me.
I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Today on the Believer's Voice of Victory,
Kenneth Copeland teaches you to develop the love of God in your
inner man. Renew your mind to think, speak, and act in faith.
There's nothing that can defeat you because love never fails.
KENNETH: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Believer's Voice
of Victory broadcast. Father, we praise You today, and we
worship You. And we give You honor and thanksgiving
for this broadcast today. We open our hearts, we
open our minds for revelation from heaven. And we give You all
the honor and the praise for everything that's said and
everything that's done on this broadcast today. There will be
many, many, many people all over the--everywhere the sound of my
voice is being heard today that will be healed miraculously. And
there will be many that will have situations in their lives
suddenly straightened out today. I heard you say that. And so we
want to give You praise for it right now, Sir, and give you
much worship and honor and the glory to the wonderful name of
Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. Just as I started praying, I heard the
Lord say that, so, praise God, receive your healing. How do you
do that? Well, we've been talking about it now all last
week and then this week also. Jesus said, "Whatsoever thing
you desire, when you pray--" When you pray, that's when you
start believing. How do you start believing? You believe it
in your heart, and you say it with your mouth, "I believe I
receive. I believe I receive. I believe I receive healing," or a
better way is, "I believe I receive my healing." And go
through the Bible. All the healing scriptures belong to
you. Every one of them belong to you. And you go there and look
it up. For instance, under the curse of the law, Deuteronomy
28:22, "fever, inflammation, consumption," or tuberculosis,
all three are named in that verse as being under the curse
of the law. Galatians 3:13 says I've been redeemed from the
curse of inflammation, the curse of tuberculosis, and the curse
of fever. I've been redeemed from it in the name of Jesus. So
Father, I want to thank You. I want to thank You that I believe
Your Word. I want to thank You that that belongs to me because
Jesus is mine, and I belong to Him. And so I believe I receive
my healing from inflammation. Any inflammation in my body, any
kind of disease that's fired up inflammation in my body, I
believe I receive healing for inflammation. I believe I
receive healing for fever. I believe I receive healing for
consumption, or tuberculosis, or any other kind of lung disease.
I believe I receive it, and I thank You for it. I believe I
receive it. I thank You for it. Now let's take that situation
there with inflammation. I believe I receive my healing
from inflammation in the name of Jesus. I thank You for it, and I
forgive if I have ought against any. And I thank You. By faith,
I say it, "The inflammation is gone, and I praise You." "Yeah,
but Brother Copeland, I still feel it." Well, let's see--what
we're doing will change--it'll change it. As it changes, the
feelings change because the spiritual--the spiritual power
of faith in your spirit is being ministered from your spirit into
your body and is removing inflammation. I believe I
receive it. Now, you--as you begin this--remember, you have
the measure of faith. "I just don't have any faith." Yes, you
do. You read Romans 12:3 again. And you go back and read
Ephesians 2:8. And you go back and read Romans 10:17. Praise
God. You have it. You--either that or you're not saved. "Oh,
Brother Copeland, I know--you know, I know I'm born again. I'm
baptized in the Holy Ghost." Well, you've got faith. You
couldn't have got there without it. It is the gift of God,
praise God, not of yourself. So do you begin--if that's where
you are right now, then that's where you need to start. "I
believe faith is working in me now. I believe I receive my
faith growing." See, you're using faith to grow faith. "I
receive it. I'm strong in faith. Glory to God. I believe I
receive strength in my faith. I believe it. I receive it. I am
strong therefore in faith." See, now that's your faith speaking.
You have that measure of faith. Now, II Thessalonians 1:3, the
apostle Paul said to the church at Thessaloniki, he said, "Your
faith grows exceedingly." So now, how does faith grow? It
grows by feeding it on the Word of God. Matthew 4:4, Jesus said,
"Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God." So the Word of God is to
your spirit man, your inner man, what physical food is to this
natural man. Now, I want to say this: You know, you can just
feed this natural man on junk all the time, and you can't keep
the thing well. And it just starts showing up--bad food and
the wrong stuff, you could get ahold of stuff that will kill
you, man. Well, the same thing is true with your spirit man.
It--the Word of God is life unto them that find them. The
Word--faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God, not
religion, the Word of God, the Word of faith, the Word of love,
the Word of joy. Glory to God. Amen. So start feeding on it
every day, day in, day out, every day, every day, feeding
your faith, every day feeding on healing, feeding on the
prosperity promises of financial situations you're facing. Faith
works the same. You believe in your heart, and you say it with
your mouth. "I want to thank You. Praise God. I believe I
receive my financial miracle today." "Well, how much--you
know, how much are you believing for?" "Well, you know, all I can
get." Well, that ain't any good. You need to take the time and
get before the Lord. Find out what His desire is in your life,
where you need to be going financially. You need to be
increasing financially. Don't just sit around and just take
what you--what you can get. No, no, no, no, no. Now, you're
feeding your faith on the Word. Go back and get these
broadcasts, feed on them, watch them over and over and over and
over again. And then give it a rest for a couple of days, and
then go back and do it again. Go back and do it again. Look up
all these scriptures, praise God, and begin to confess, "I'm
a new creature. I have the measure of faith that God has
given me. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I'm a new creature,
and I'm strong in the Lord." See, you're feeding your faith.
You keep feeding your faith. You keep saying it with your mouth
because you believe it in your heart. Don't get sidetracked by
your feelings and start saying something else. Just before
I--well, I was getting dressed this morning, and Gloria walked
in, said, "You're teaching on faith again today?" I said,
"Yes, ma'am." She said, "Well, don't say anything that you
don't want to come to pass." I said, "Yeah, that's good." She
said, "That's just coming across my spirit and across my mind,
'Don't say anything that you don't want to come to pass
because you have what you say.'" That's the way the system is
built. That's the way it works. So-- "Well, it just doesn't work
for me." Oh, so that's what you want to come to pass. Mm-hmm,
well, if you say so. "No, no, Brother Copeland. No, that's not
what it was." Don't say that. Put the Word in your heart, in
your mouth, in your eyes, in your ears, and keep putting it
in there, keep putting it in there, keep putting it in there,
and keep putting it in there until it begins to come out your
mouth with you having to think about it. I'm going to say that
again. Keep feeding on the Word, keep putting it in there, keep
putting it in your eyes, putting it in your ears. Go to Proverbs
4:20, 21, and 22 and it will tell you exactly the process for
receiving. "Incline thine ear--Attend to my word," put the
Word of God first place; "incline thine ear unto my
sayings." What it says is right and not what you thought or
felt. "Don't let them depart from your eyes." You keep
feeding it--putting your eyes on it. Begin to see yourself
healed, begin to see yourself with it, begin to see yourself
prospering, begin to see yourself strong in faith. Amen.
That's the way you do it. But you-- "Well, now, this--I'm
telling you, this lemonade that I've got here, this is good for
me. I believe in that. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, that's just good right
there. That's good. I believe in that." Now, see, that could be
something that the doctor told you, and you set it right there
by your bedside. I got it. It ain't gonna do you any good.
You've got to get it in you. Well, it's the same thing with
the Word of God, and it says, "Protect your heart with all
diligence; for out of it flow the forces or the issues of
life." "They are health to all that find them, and medicine to
all their flesh." God's Words are health. God's words are
literally medicine to your flesh, but like the
prescription, you have to get it in the system for it to do any
good. So that's where you feed it. You feed on it all the time.
You don't take two or three days off and just feed on a bunch of
junk, just pure bunk. It'll do the same thing that bad food
does to your physical body. Amen. So, now then, let's go
back over to I John. Well, we're not with that. Thank You,
Father. Stay in a place of receiving. Stay on the God side
of everything. God's on your side. He's not doing--now, the
devil will come along and tell you He doesn't care anything
about you, but he's a liar from the start. Amen. So stay on the
God side of everything. Don't start talking crosswise about
your faith. "Well, my faith is so weak. Well--" No, no, no, no,
no. Don't be doing that. Don't be saying things that you don't
desire to come to pass. Say those things that you desire to
take place and continue to say them. Feed on the Word and
continue to say it. Feed on the Word and continue to say it.
Praise God. Just continue to say it. Amen. Continue to say it.
Continue to say it. Feed on healing scriptures. It will keep
you well. Praise God. Thank You, Father. Now, I John 4, and let's
begin reading again with the 16th verse, "We have known and
believed the love that God has to us. God is love; and he that
dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is
our love made perfect--" Now, that word "perfect," it's
talking about developing, talking about maturing, talking
about being in constant state of growth, and exercising it.
"--that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as
he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love." Well,
of course not, God is love. Isn't that what that said? "God
is love." "But perfected love," developing, growing, practicing
love, "casts out fear." As you begin to speak love words, as
you begin to renew your mind on the love of God, as you begin to
grow in the Spirit as these things--your spirit begins to
fill up with these things, then the fear that was in there,
that's carnal stuff. That's not--it operates in the same
envelope, the same spiritual envelope as faith. It is a
spiritual force, but it is 100 percent weak. I tell you what,
it is so easy to get rid of fear when you fill up on the Word of
God, you fill up on the love of God, you begin to confess it, "I
refuse to fear. Glory to God. I rebuke you, spirit of fear. I'm
not--I am not connected with you. And I love my neighbor as
myself. I love my God with all my heart, all my soul, all my
mind, and all my strength. I love the brethren even as He
loves the brethren. And glory to God, I walk in His statute. And
I do those things that are pleasing in His sight. And He
fulfills the length of my days and takes sickness from the
midst of me!" I mean, it just--and fear just collapses in
the middle of all that. Amen. Now, "There is no fear in love;
perfected love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He
that fears is not made perfect--" He's not been
developing the love of God, because if you're majoring on
love, then when fear presents itself, love just rises up and
just hammers it. Amen. I know what I'm talking about. All of
these things are done by faith. But faith worketh by love. So
you're using your faith to develop your love, and you're
using the love that's been shed abroad in your heart by the Holy
Ghost in developing your faith. Hallelujah. So one is working in
developing the other, but you've got to watch this thing. It's
all what you believe in your heart and say with your mouth is
what's coming to pass. Amen. I mean, that's the way the system
works. Last week, we went through--we went through a
whole--that we went through one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. We went
through 17 scriptures on the power of words. In the 12th
chapter of the book of Matthew, Jesus said, praise God, "You
are--you'll stand judgment for every idle word. You are
justified by your words, and you are condemned by your words."
Look at that. All judgment happens right here. Amen.
And--well, we won't take time to go through all that again, but
like Job 3:10 said, "Let the weak say--" "I'm weak. I'm so
tired. I don't know what I'm going to do." No, no, no. It
said, "Let the weak say, I'm strong." This is a word
created--now listen to me. We're going to get something right
here. You've heard me say this part before. This is a
word-created, word-dominated, word-controlled environment in
which we live. Now, you can't change that. You can't change
that fact that we live in a word-created, a word-controlled,
a word-dominated environment. You can't change that, but you
can choose the words under which you are ruled. You can't change
the fact that it's words, but you have authority to change the
words that dominate and rule your life. Amen. Now, let me add
this to it: "In the beginning, God said, Light be. Light was."
That's the way He brought everything into existence. Back
up. "In the beginning, Love said--" So let me put it like
this: We live in a Love/Word-created, a
love/Word-controlled, a Love/Word-dominated environment.
He upholds all things by the Word of His power. Yeah, but
wait a minute. "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with
God, and the Word was God." Wait a minute, back--back up. "In the
beginning was the Word, the Word was with love, and the Word was
love." Glory to God. The Word of love brought it all into
existence. It is the Word of love that's upholding it all
today. So if you will get the Word of God and the love of God
developed inside your inner man and renew your mind to think
like that and to talk like that and act like that, I want you to
know, there's nothing on this earth that can defeat you,
because love never fails. It may look like it's all going to fail
and go down the tube, but, glory to God, if I go down the drain,
I want you to know something, this is going down under me.
This Word of God and the love of God, Who is love, Who is God, is
going to have to go down that same drain because I'm standing
on Him. I'm standing with Him. I'm standing with--hallelujah.
Whoo! Glory to God. Well, I'll be back in just a moment.
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