(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: The Word of God outlines a "receiving formula"
for your miracle. Join Kenneth Copeland today on the Believer's
Voice of Victory for a study in Proverbs, Chapter 4. Become
equipped with the Word and overcome anything by faith!
KENNETH: Look in the Bible with me to two places, one in the
book of Proverbs, please. And I strongly suggest, if you're not
doing this, to begin doing it. There's 31 chapters in the book
of Proverbs. It ought to be your daily devotional. And, I also
strongly suggest that you use a couple of other translations and
compare these things instead of just using the King James all
the time. "So which one, Brother Copeland?" I'm not telling
you--(Laughter)--that. Amen. Personally, I enjoy the Classic
Amplified. I haven't just really fallen in love with them. And,
you know, it was good. There wasn't any use in fixing it in
my opinion. But anyway, that's just my opinion. It's none of my
business, really. I use the Amplified and have for years. I
also like the New Living. And--but take the time to do
this devotional first, every--every--every month. Now,
4th chapter of Proverbs, so simple. Verse 20, This is the
receiving formula not only for healing, but for other things.
"My son, attend to my words." All right. Put the Word first.
Put what God said in His Word first. AUDIENCE: First, yes.
KENNETH: If you don't know what He said, stop right there and
find out what He has already said about your situation--
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: --in which you are planning to
receive. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Don't be so quick to just start
praying this all over the place about something. Now, if you've
got an emergency, pray immediately. And those
scriptures that come out your mouth, pray them. But in
emergencies, just switch over into tongues. (Audience Agrees)
AUDIENCE: Amen! Amen! KENNETH: Just let the Holy Ghost take
charge here. AUDIENCE: Yes. Amen. KENNETH: Don't even try to
go to your mind at all. Just cut your mind out of the thing.
AUDIENCE: Right. KENNETH: Amen. (Audience "Amens") Now, wisdom
is the principal thing. And if you will take the time and
inquire of the Lord, "How do I pray about this? What do I say
about this?" Well, you see, if He tells you something to say,
then you can say, "Thus saith the Lord." But you have to have
scripture behind it. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: If He leads you
to a verse of Scripture, yes, then now--now you can say, "Thus
saith the Lord," when you pray. Not "thus saith me," but "thus
saith the Lord." Are you-- AUDIENCE: Yes--you following me
here? AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: The Word comes first. AUDIENCE:
Yes. KENNETH: Now, "Attend to my words;" then, "Incline your ear
unto my sayings." Incline--you know what an incline is.
"Incline" means to lean towards that. I lean toward what He
said, not what somebody else said. I lean toward what they
said, not the doctor. I lean toward what God said, not my
folks or somebody. I lean towards the Bible. I lean
towards what He said in this. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: We got
ready to leave Columbia, South Carolina, one Saturday morning,
finished the service, on the way to the airport. And they said,
"Well, we've got trouble. We can't open the airplane door."
And so I talked to Duane, our chief pilot, and I said, "What's
the matter with that door?" He said--he said, "I have no idea
what's the matter with this thing." He said, "You--you open
it." He said, "It sounds good," but he said, "You can't--you
can't even get your fingernails up under there. It just--it just
doesn't work." I said, "Well, have you--have you called
Cessna?" "Yeah," he said. "They can't do anything about it
today, but Monday they could come out, and they want to drill
a hole in the emergency--" No, no, no, no. They're not drilling
a hole in my airplane. I'm going home today, not Monday or
Tuesday. (Audience Agrees) I said, "All right, I'll call you
back." He said--I said, "I'm on my way out there." "Okay." So
we're riding along, and I said, "Lord, I'm inquiring of You--"
And I had just preached that morning on "Jesus only said what
He heard His Father say." See, I need to talk to that door. Right
at this point, I don't know-- I don't know what to say to the
door. How do you talk to a door that won't open? (Laughter)
Well, you--I can make up a lot of stuff. I could go out there
and quote Mark 11:23 and just holler at it and quote it and
walk around the airplane and kick the tires and all that.
That's a waste of time. I want to attend to the Word. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: I don't want to get in this thing mentally. So I
just laid my head back there. And I don't mean I heard--I have
never heard the audible voice of God. It's been so close a time
or two, hoo. It was just sure like it was. But if you'd have
been there, you wouldn't have heard it. But you know when you
hear it. It's--it's not up here. And you need to practice this.
You need to practice His presence. And you need to be
talking to Him all the time and ask Him to teach you, to
show--teach you how to hear the voice of your own spirit because
that's where He speaks, is in your spirit. And when you're
talking to Him like that, you tend to listen. You haven't
prayed until you listen. I mean, you know, what--what kind of
idea is that, somebody that knows nothing doing all the
talking to somebody that knows everything. (Laughter) And don't
let Him say anything. So just put your hand right here because
this is where it's going to come. And think here. I'm
leaning back in that seat there. I said--I said, "Lord, what do
I--what do I say? What do I do?" Ha-ha. He said, "You remember in
My Word where it said, "And all things work together for the
good of those that love God, called according to his
purpose?" Well, my first thought was, "What does that have to do
with this?" (Laughter) But, more--the more I got that--I no
more thought that until I actually heard those words,
"All--" AUDIENCE: Things. KENNETH: "--things." AUDIENCE:
All things. KENNETH: It didn't say, "All spiritual things."
AUDIENCE: Yeah. KENNETH: It said, "All things." (Audience
Agrees) He-He-He. Ha-ha! Well, I know pretty well what the inside
of that door looks like. I mean, I'd been training on that
airplane. And--and I--all of a sudden, I can just kind of see
the inside of that door, you know? And--and He said, "Now,
say this." And I followed Him. I heard Him, and I said it out
loud. I heard Him, then I said it out loud. I heard Him, I said
it out loud. He said, "Say this: All things--" I said, "All
things--" "--work together--" I said, "--work together--" "--for
those that love God." I said, "--those that love God." Then He
said, "And that would be me." And I said, "And that would be
me." "Called according to his purpose." And I said, "Called
according to his purpose." And He said, "And that also would be
me." And I said, "That also would be me." "Say to the door,
'Door, open now, saith the Lord.'" So I said, "Door, open
now, saith the Lord." Now, don't go adding a bunch of stuff to
it. (Audience Agrees) Those are all idle words. (Audience
Agrees) Just stay with those words. I just shifted over and
began to thank Him in the Spirit. (Praying in the Spirit)
Thank You, Lord. Glory to God, we're going home today. So I got
out there--no, excuse me. I no more than got that prayed, we're
still probably 10, 15 minutes, maybe, from the airport. And
Mike's driving, and I'm talking on his phone. I handed him his
phone back to him, and he took his phone back, and, "bling," it
went again. He said, "Here. Duane wants to talk to you." He
said, "Boss," he said, "I got in the car to go up there to speak
to the--to the FBO to pick you up." He said, "I thought, 'I'm
going to try that door one more time.'" He said, "She opened
just perfect. Come on, we're going home." AUDIENCE:
Hallelujah! (Applause) Amen. KENNETH: Now, listen to me. We
are responsible. Amen. We got home. I said, "I want you to go
into that door. I want you to check that door from one end to
the other. You look at it, you do whatever--you find what's
going on inside that door." They got in there, and they checked
it over, and they even lubricated the whole thing, and
they found a couple of three little things in there, didn't
seem like nothing too much. And it just worked perfectly. And
the next trip we were on--ha-ha--I walked over there
to it to open it, and it hung. I said, "No, you don't, in the
name of Jesus." And it just came right on down (Laughter) That is
the last problem we ever had with that door. (Audience
"Amens") Now I'm going to tell you something else. That won't
take the place of doing maintenance on the airplane.
(Audience Agrees) That's negligence, and it'll get you
killed. (Audience Agrees) Hallelujah! (Audience
"Hallelujahs") I got anybody in here that's interested in what
we're talking about today? (Cheers) Hallelujah! Do you see
the importance of "attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my
sayings"? Because if He can--you get to praying--and you
see--see, I could--what does that have to do with that
scripture in Romans, you know? But, hey, He wrote the book. I
didn't. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: Hallelujah. AUDIENCE:
Hallelujah. KENNETH: So, "Incline thine ear unto my
sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes." You're going to
have to keep your eyes on this Book. You're going to have to
stay in it, stay in it, stay in it, stay in it. "Well, I listen
to CDs all the time." That's wonderful. You ought to listen
to at least a CD a day. But, hey, you're going to keep--put
your eyes on this thing. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: You put
your eyes on it. If it says, "Keep it before your eyes," it
means keep it before your eyes. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: God
already knew about CDs when He wrote this Book. (Laughter)
Amen. (Audience "Amens") Did you know there is a--oh, dear Lord.
A number of years ago, they went through college campuses asking
student and some faculty, "Do you think God understands
radar?" (Laughter) You'd be shocked at how many of them
said, "No, of course not." The little bat had radar a long time
before World War II. And he don't miss. And he can't see.
(Laughs) Oh, yeah. "Does God understand radar?" Come on. Now,
why keep it before your eyes? You need to keep looking at this
and keep looking at this until you find yourself in here.
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: You keep looking at it and keep
looking at it until you're at home with Jesus. You keep
looking at it and you keep looking at it until you're the
woman with the issue of blood. And then you keep looking at it
and keep looking at it until you're no longer the woman with
the issue of blood, you're right there behind Jesus ministering
with Him. (Audience Agrees) AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Keep it
before your eyes. Don't get so busy--don't replace this with
some goofball TV broadcast. AUDIENCE: Right. KENNETH: No,
no, no. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Amen. I've been reprimanded for
that, and I'm--you know, that's the name of the game. God gets
on me, I get on you. (Laughter) That's just the way this--that's
just the way this game works, brother. Ha-ha-ha. Now, "Let
them not depart from your eyes; keep them--" Keep them! Keep
them! Guard them! Watch over them! Think about them! Meditate
on it. Think about it! "--in the midst of your heart. For they
are life--" Say, "They're life." AUDIENCE: They're life. KENNETH:
Jesus said, "My words are spirit, and they are life."
AUDIENCE: Yes. Hallelujah. KENNETH: Life! The law of the
Spirit of life is in the Word! AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH:
Hallelujah. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. (Cheers & Applause)
KENNETH: Whoa! Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Whoo!
Blessed be the name of the Savior. Blessed be His name
that's healing this crowd this morning! He's healing you right
now! You're being--your lungs are being healed! Your eyes are
being healed! Your ears are being healed! Your breasts are
being healed from lumps and cancer! Hey, I don't care what
it is. If it's dead, it's gone! (Cheers & Applause) Hallelujah!
(Audience "Hallelujahs") They're life to those that find them.
That would be me! (Audience Agrees) And health! That's
Hebrew word for "medicine." This is God's medicine. (Audience
Agrees) And this is the way you receive from Him. (Audience
Agrees) Then one more verse of Scripture. Go to the 11th
chapter of the book of Mark. Oh, my, my. Some of you knew I'd
wind up there some way or another. They saw Jesus curse
that fig tree. And sometime within a 24-hour period, the
first time they came back by there, there's no change in that
tree. I guarantee you, every one of them looked at the tree on
the way home. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Amen? (Audience
"Amens") And if anything would have happened to it, Peter would
have said something. (Audience Agrees) Amen. (Audience "Amens")
What they didn't know, they just saw the Master use the faith of
God. And faith functions by spiritual law. AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: "By the law of works? No, by the law of faith," the
Bible says. Amen. (Audience "Amens") They said, "Look at
that tree." And Jesus said, "Have faith in God." Oh, dear
Lord. Just rings in my ears. "Oh, but Brother Copeland, what
about my children?" Have faith in God. "What about my
finances?" Have faith in God. "Oh, what about this thing
that's in my stomach?" TOGETHER: Have faith in God. KENNETH: "Oh,
what about the government?" TOGETHER: Have faith in God.
KENNETH: "What about the president?" TOGETHER: Have faith
in God. AUDIENCE: Amen, amen. KENNETH: There is nothing in
this world order, there is nothing, no calamity, no
problem, no situation, life or death, that faith in God won't
overcome. (Agreement & Applause) And you in this church are
especially blessed because you have been taught over and over
and over how to have faith in God. AUDIENCE: Yes. Yes.
Hallelujah. KENNETH: I bless this church. It's blessed me.
AUDIENCE: Amen, amen. KENNETH: For verily I say unto you,
whosoever--" Ho, that means me. "--shall say unto this
mountain--" whosoever shall say unto this cancer, whosoever
shall say unto this debt, whosoever shall say unto this
sickness, whosoever shall say to their sick daughter, "Be thou
removed," sickness, disease, weakness, and pain, "and be thou
cast into the sea--" AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "--and shall not
doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things--" Let
me read it like this: "But shall believe that those words which
he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith."
(Audience Agrees) Now, that is a spiritual law.
All spiritual law have a reverse curse. That works
in healing. It works in sickness.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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