Fill your mouth and the atmosphere with gratitude —
for all He is, for all He has done and is doing in your life. You and the world around you will change! Kenneth Copeland
I was mad at my legs. I was mad at the devil and anybody who came near me. And I hadn’t slept in days. D It was just after Labor Day 2004, and I was at the height of one of the most intense battles for healing I’ve ever fought. A few days earlier I had ruptured a disc in my back. It felt like a toothache that was 4 1/2 feet long—from my hip to the tips of my toes.
D During my life, I have been beaten up, shot, thrown off horses and run over with cars…but never had I hurt as bad as I did at that moment. All I wanted to focus on was the pain and getting free of it. D God met me in it, but in a very different way than I would have imagined.
grateful
of a ( H EA R T
If you don’t redirect your focus, the problem will consume your life.
BY K ENNETH C OPELAND
I have
been beaten up, shot, thrown off horses and run over with cars…
BUT NEVER HAD I HURT AS BAD AS I DID AT THAT MOMENT.
Back Porch Praise
There I was on the back porch facing anoth er sleepless night. One heating pad was wrapped around my calf. Another was wrapped around my thigh. Each was held on by a bathrobe sash. The heat was turned as high as I could get it. But nothing seemed to help—I was still lying there on my back crying.
I didn’t feel very grateful. I certainly didn’t look very grateful.
Right in the middle of all that pain, though, the Spirit of God dropped it in my heart to begin shouting out my gratitude for all my heavenly Father had done for me.
“Oh, Father, I’m so grateful to You! I’m grateful that my other leg doesn’t hurt. I’m so grateful my arms aren’t hurting, my fingers are all working well, and my head doesn’t hurt—it is sleepy, but it doesn’t hurt!”
In the midst of all that pain, by an act of obedience I expressed gratitude to God… … by faith!
More Praise—Less Pain
Being grateful by faith
Not by feeling. Not by temperament. But by a deliberate act of faith, I did something I’d done many times before. That night on the porch I decid ed I would no longer talk about the way I felt, my flesh or its condition.
Instead of focusing on the pain and hurt, I filled my thoughts and mouth with gratitude for my life, my family, for all the years I’ve been in min istry, and for every other good thing that arose in my spirit.
I started praising and thanking God and the more I praised Him, the less pain I had in my leg.
And as I was expressing my gratitude to Him, God began talking to me.
The more He talked, the better I felt. Each day I progressed; not one day was as bad as the day before.
There were a number of things that brought me to the place where complete healing manifest in my body. Thousands of my Partners; many believ ers from Spirit-filled churches; faith-talking, true healingbelieving doctors; my family and friends; all added their faith to mine.
Nothing, however, had more impact than what began that night on the porch. The moment I began thanking God for all that was going right in my life, I was on my way out of the problem.
Redirected Focus
If you’ll think about it, we only have two real options in times of extreme pressure. Those options are to focus either on the problem…or the gratitude. You cannot do both at the same time.
For instance, what happens if you have one sore finger? You may have nine fingers, toes, arms, ears, and numerous other body parts that are working perfectly, but that isn’t your focus. No. All you can think about is how you are going to get that one finger healed. You begin confessing healing scriptures and try to decide what else you need to confess or do, to stop the pain.
But if you don’t water those confessions with praise and thanksgiving, your focus on the one sore finger—or whatever problem will continue to dom inate your thinking.
If you don’t redirect your focus, the problem can consume you. So start giving God thanks for everything that is working right. Praise Him for all the good things He has done in your life. As you do, you’ll come to a place where you can release your faith and receive your answer.
“Yeah, but Brother Copeland, you don’t know what has happened to me.”
You’re right, I don’t. But I do know you’re breathing—not pushing up grass!
So just start thanking God for your life! Remind yourself that no matter what your circumstances are— it could be a whole lot worse. You’re not dead yet!
Hylton Memorial Chapel
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
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And this principle applies to far more than just receiving healing. Expressing gratitude by faith will change everything around you. It will change the whole complexion of your life.
Shouts Silence the Devil
I’m not saying the challenges will be over when you start filling the atmosphere with shouts of praise and thanksgiving. In fact once you begin praising God with purpose, you’ll become a prime target for the devil. Why? It’ll scare the daylights out of him when you begin operating in gratitude…and he’ll try to stop you.
He’ll use the only tactic he possesses. He’ll try to steal that word out of you by stirring up your flesh. Mark 4:16-17 tells us, “These are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; and have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.”
The enemy will try to get you to become offended. But that will only work if you have no root—if you’re not grounded in the love of God.
However if you are loving the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind (Matthew 22:37) and expressing your gratefulness for all He has done, you are becoming rooted and grounded in love. That’s what Paul wrote to the Ephesians. He said:
I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God (Ephesians 3:17-19, New Living Translation).
Become so filled with His love that offense can’t come near you. Praise Him for His marvelous love.
Praise Him, and as you do the enemy will be stopped cold because praise “stills the avenger” (Psalm 8:2).
Fill your mouth and the atmosphere with gratitude—thank God for all He is, for all He has done and is doing in your life. You and the world around you will change! V ICTORY
You can praise your way to
victory
by praying something like this:
Father, I don’t care how bad the finances look, I don’t care what they said about me or what I’m being threatened with. Jesus said You love me as much as You love Him, and the Love in me never fails.
I’m grateful, Lord. I remember the times when things were so tough the situation looked impossible, and You moved in and brought me out of it. You set me free so many times.
I’m so grateful to You. I worship You and thank You so much. Nothing is going to change that. I am thrilled to have a grateful heart—an abundant heart.
I am grateful for the very breath in my lungs. For everything You have bestowed upon me I am grateful.
Most of all, I am grateful Jesus went to the cross and paid the price for our deliverance from death, hell and the grave. I am grateful for the blood He shed for my sins, for the privilege of being called by and authorized to use the power of His Name, for the Word, and that heaven is in my future. I thank You that I am alive. I will live and not die and declare the wonderful works of my God!
I praise You and thank You, and I serve You with joyfulness and gladness of heart. Hallelujah.
“O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.” (1
T HE O LDEST A MERICAN H OLIDAY …
Thanksgiving
elebrating Thanksgiving as a time to focus on God and His blessings dates back almost four centuries in America. Although such celebrations occurred as early as 1607 at Cape Henry, Va., our current tradition of Thanksgiving came to us from the Pilgrims. Z Sailing from England on Sept. 6, 1620, the Pilgrims spent two months braving the harsh elements of a storm-tossed sea. After finally landing and going ashore at Plymouth Rock, they held a prayer service, then began hastily building shelters. But nothing prepared them for the bitter winter ahead. Before spring half of them had died. Z Yet through perseverance in prayer and the help of neighboring Indians, they reaped a bountiful harvest the following summer. In December 1621, the grateful Pilgrims declared a three-day feast to thank God and celebrate with their Native American friends. America’s first Thanksgiving festival began an annual tradition that slowly spread to other New England colonies.
BY D AVID B ARTON
A National Day of Thanksgiving
The first national Thanksgiving occurred in 1789. According to the Congressional Record for September 25 of that year, immediately after approving the Bill of Rights: “Mr. Elias Boudinot said he could not think of letting the congressional session end without offering an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining with one voice in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings He had poured down upon them.”
He moved that the following resolution be delivered to President George Washington:
Resolved, That a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request that he would recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer…. Mr. Roger Sherman justified the practice of thanksgiving not only as a praiseworthy one in itself but also as warranted by a number of precedents in Holy Writ…. This example he thought worthy of a Christian imitation on the present occasion.
The president heartily concurred with the congressional request, declaring:
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.... Now, therefore, I do appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November 1789...that we may all unite to render unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection.
National thanksgiving proclamations occurred sporadically following this one, and most official
Thanksgiving observances still occurred only at the state level. Much of the credit for the adoption of an annual national Thanksgiving may be attributed to Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book. For 30 years she promoted the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day, contacting president after president with her recommendation. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln responded by setting aside the last Thursday of November, declaring:
We often forget the Source from which the blessings of fruitful years and healthful skies come.... No human wisdom hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God.... I therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States...to observe the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
Proclaiming a Day of Thanks
Congress recommends a day of…thanksgiving and praise so that the people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts…and join…their prayers that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, to forgive our sins and…to enlarge His kingdom which consists in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
—Continental Congress, 1777
(Samuel Adams and Richard Henry Lee)
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I appoint…a day of public Thanksgiving to Almighty God… to ask Him that He would…pour out His Holy Spirit on all ministers of the Gospel; that He would…spread the light of Christian knowledge through the remotest corners of the earth… and that He would establish these United States upon the basis of religion and virtue.
—Governor Thomas Jefferson, 1779
For the next 75 years, presidents followed Lincoln’s precedent, annually declaring a national Thanksgiving Day.
Then, in 1941, Congress permanently established the fourth Thursday of each November as a national holiday.
As you celebrate Thanksgiving this year, remember the original spirit of the oldest of all American holidays—gratefulness to God. Amid all the hustle and bustle, take time to give thanks and praise “to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.” God.
V ICTORY
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Smack in the Middle of God’s Protection
I live exactly in the middle of the bombed areas. Left on my side only two streets far is King’s Cross which I use sometimes. And then in the middle just straight four streets along is Russel Square. On my right side, only two streets far, was where the bus exploded. This shocked me as I took the bus there every day to work. But Thursday I had off as the project of the job I worked was finished.
At first big fear set in. But thank God about four weeks ago I found a faith-preaching church. Yesterday the pastor preached us not to fear and taught us very important faith statements against fear for every day. That helped me also.
Thank you for your phone message on my mobile. It was a great support. Thank you that you thought of me and prayed as well.
B.B. | England
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Delivered From Danger
My office is based in London virtually in between Liverpool Street and Aldgate—one of the bomb blast locations. I usually take the tube from King’s Cross to Liverpool Street and should have been traveling on the tube this morning at or around the time of the attacks.
On Tuesday my schedule was most unusually and unexpectedly changed at the last moment which resulted in me traveling to Swindon this morning instead of coming into the office. I therefore passed through Central London about an hour before the incidents. Praise God for my deliverance from danger—I know He looks after His children!
When I got home this evening I connected online to the Anaheim Prosperity Convention to hear Kenneth praying Isaiah 54:14-17. I know I have nothing to fear in Him.
Ian Tanner | England
A Faithful, Answering God
from danger. for my deliverance
July 7, 2005, my son and his wife who both work and live in London, were going to work as usual. For some reason he did not get on his normal bus that morning. After finding out about the bomb, he phoned his wife to check on her. He found out she didn’t go to work that morning but went back home as she did not feel well. Later they found out that both buses had been touched and had devices put on them by the bombers. On phoning my son on his mobile to check on them, he was amazed that I got through to him. “It’s a miracle you got in touch with me, as the airways (all communications) have been cut off.” He is a faithful, answering God! He is faithful to His Word and faithful to His children. Praise God.
W.H.F. | England
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Change in Plans Changes Outcome
I give God the glory. Our God is great. I wanted to visit Liverpool Street to buy some stuff for my aunt in U.S.A., but on that day I met a friend earlier who advised me to go to my hairdresser first before heading toward Liverpool Street. I give God the praise for sending help and taking control of my thinking on that fateful Thursday. If I had not obeyed, I would have been caught in the chaos caused by the bomb blast. I have been praying and remembering KCM articles about dealing with terrorism and how we should fight against fear. Thanks for your support. Jesus is Lord.
M.A. | England
He Has Spared Us!
During my devotions in the morning, more sirens than usual were racing past the window but I didn’t think much of it until my sister rang to tell me all of the underground trains were stopped and she would have to take the bus to work. As I was praying I felt that I should pray Psalm 91 over myself and my family. Both places where I do my research are situated in and around the three main bombing sites. The day before the bombings I had purposefully decided in my heart not to go to these places but to stay home and do some research instead.
I felt that I should pray Psalm 91 over myself and my family.
I want to thank the Lord for His protection, His Spirit of peace and His love. So often we focus on the trouble He gets us out of primarily after we have gotten ourselves in it. Rarely do we thank Him and focus on what He has spared us from, the many things that we may never know or be aware of. Perhaps that is in part why we are to stay in continuous thanksgiving and why faith is the only way to please God, for it equals trust, commitment and most importantly—LOVE. Thank you to anyone who continues to lift Londoners up in your prayers.
R.A. | England
Experiencing and Expecting Overflow in 2005!
We would like to thank you for the DVDs on The Year of Overflow. They have been a real blessing and will continue to be so as we view and review them. Because of your preaching and teaching the uncompromised word of faith our ministry is debt free. Praise the Lord! We are teaching our congregation these truths and are earnestly expecting manifest OVERFLOW in 2005 for our ministry and the entire Body of Christ.
We thank you for your continued prayers as we continue to pray for you.
W.R. | Florida
Listening Online Is a Lifeline
I found Kenneth Copeland Ministries online and I cannot tell you how grateful I am for your online broadcasts. They have supported, taught, encouraged, inspired and fortified me. Just yesterday I discovered the fear against terrorism sermons—I was so thrilled to find that there was someone who shared my attitude about that. So very hopeful for this country and the world. Meanwhile I continue to make my way through the archived sermons. I just wanted to take a minute to write a thanks to the ministry for helping me. Together with Charles Capps and Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland has saved my life, literally. And not only that, I’m glad, greatful, overjoyed to be alive. Kenneth Copeland’s intelligent, scripturally rich sermons have helped to renew my soul and mind.
S.P. | Minnesota
Words That Heal
My husband had emergency bypass surgery at 58 years old and is healing wonderfully. Praise the Lord. I kept Gloria’s book Words That Heal to help me stand in faith and to cast out fear.
Hallelujah!
Marcia Falgoust Cypress, Texas
Get a Rep u t a t ion
“The person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.” 1 Corinthians 6:17 ( The Amplified Bible )
WWhen Jesus trained the first 12 disciples, He taught them the same strategy He had been using on the earth: “Go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:7-8).
He also told the 70 disciples in Luke 10 the same thing in verse 9.
“Well, yes, that’s how Jesus said to do it back then,” someone might say, “but He has a different plan for us.”
No, He doesn’t.
His last words before He ascended into heaven were the same instructions: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils...they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:15, 17-18).
Praise God! We have the same new birth, the same Holy Spirit and the same commission those first disciples had. And you remember what happened to them after Jesus left, don’t you?
They kept right on doing what Jesus had done—and the crowds responded to them just like they had responded to the Master. They brought the sick to the disciples so they could be healed. In Jerusalem, they actually laid the sick in the street so Peter’s shadow might fall on them as he walked by.
Why did they do that? They had heard if you could get to a place where the Christians were, you could get healed.
Christians had a reputation. It was the same reputation Jesus had. As a result the early Church grew at a rate of thousands per day!
That’s the way it should be for us today.
“But I can’t heal the sick!” you say. “I can’t cast out devils!”
You and Jesus are one. He is the Head and you are the Body. You are His instrument in the earth. Dare to believe that.
Maybe not...but God can…and He is in you! In fact the Scripture says the person united to Him becomes one spirit with Him. Think about that for a moment. You are united with the Lord. You are one spirit with Him.
Jesus said it this way, “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you” (John 14:20).
You and Jesus are one. He is the Head and you are the Body. You are His instrument in the earth. Dare to believe that. Be bold enough to speak the words the Bible speaks and do whatever Jesus tells you to do.
Believe me, people will come to you for help. The Spirit of God will anoint you—and great things will happen! V ICTORY
BY G LORIA C OPELAND
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yron Baago had promised his wife, Sue, Saturday morning breakfast outside her own kitchen. He meant to keep that promise. So he slipped out of bed early and settled into his study before the sun crept over the horizon. Picking up his Bible, he remembered how his parents had given it to him years before when he’d graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in chemical engineering. N Because he thought with the methodical, logical mind of an engineer, the existence of the Bible made sense to him. If there was a God, he’d always reasoned, surely He would write a book to explain how Creation was designed to work. A user’s manual, so to speak. No one would build a car, boat, airplane or even a microwave oven without providing a user’s manual to those who needed instructions.
BY M ELANIE H EMRY
Myron Baago
MYRON BAAGO DIDN’T SEE A DOCTOR BECAUSE IT WAS TOO LATE. NOT TOO LATE MEDICALLY, BUT TOO LATE SPIRITUALLY.
I T WAS TOO LATE for hi m to believe for a SINGLE SECOND
THAT HEALING DIDN ’ T belong to him. P
Logically speaking, the idea of a God who didn’t offer a user’s manual made no sense whatsoever. What kind of God would create the sun, moon, stars and all the bounty of earth, add human beings in the mix and then just expect them to figure it all out and know what He expected of them?
The very idea was absurd.
So if there was a God, it stood to reason that there would be a Book—a Book which would surely hold the answers to all of man’s most pressing problems. And that day Myron was facing just such a problem. He’d been battling it by himself…but this morning he planned to tell Sue about it and ask her to pray with him, confident she would respond in faith, not fear.
That hadn’t always been the case, he realized, running his hand over the worn, warm leather of the old Bible. When he’d first met Sue at a student mixer at Iowa State she had been a very frightened young woman. Myron loved her though and had quickly realized he wanted to marry her. Outwardly their marriage had been a match made in heaven. Myron had gotten a good job as a chemical process engineer. He and Sue had two lovely daughters, Dawne and Heather. They had a nicely furnished home and a warm circle of friends who often envied them.
But behind closed doors, paradise had its problems. Sue had been plagued not only with recurrent, debilitating health problems, but with mental illness as well. As she spiraled downward into darkness so deep Myron couldn’t reach her, the situation appeared hopeless.
If Myron had been the type of man who reacted to problems with his emotions instead of his mind, the family would have fallen apart. But Myron’s analytical mind wrestled with the problem and saw
one spark of hope: If his wife’s mind was broken, the Creator’s Manual must tell how to fix it. He just needed to know where to find the proper instructions.
Asking God to help seemed the logical place to begin. So that’s what Myron did and sure enough, help came.
It didn’t come in any spectacular way. God hadn’t supernaturally written the answer on a wall. Nor had He waved a magic wand and made the problem disappear. It had happened on an ordinary day in 1978 when they’d gone back to Iowa to visit his parents. Myron’s mother had handed his wife some tapes she had gotten at a Kenneth Copeland meeting. “Sue, I’d like you to have these,” she had said.
Myron and Sue had no idea that those seven words would change their lives.
Myron had watched his wife play those tapes again and again. Submerging herself in the truths they contained and in the Word of God, Sue fought for her life. A year later she was healed and in her right mind. Since that time they had lived the Word, spoken the Word and preached the Word. They had turned off the television (except for BVOV broadcasts) and no longer watched movies. They began to study teaching tapes together and the family spent vacations at Believers’ Conventions. They immersed themselves in the Word.
So in 1987 when a little growth had appeared on Myron’s back, like everything else in his life, he’d dealt with it in faith and the Word—and it had disappeared. Nine years later, in 1996, it was back. Thus far Myron hadn’t mentioned it to Sue. He had simply prayed in faith and stepped up his confession of healing scriptures.
But this time the growth had not disappeared. It had gotten larger. He knew he had to tell his wife.
If there was a God, it stood to reason that there would be a Book. And if there was a Book,
s u rely it would hold the answ ers to all of man’s most pr essing probl ems.
As promised, Myron took Sue out that morning for a hearty breakfast at a local restaurant. Afterward as they climbed into their truck to head home, Myron winced when his back touched the leather seat. Sue watched him and wondered what was going on. For a single moment he let his head fall against the headrest, and she knew immediately that whatever the problem, it was serious.
“Sue,” he said, “you’re going to have to agree with me that my back’s healed.”
Drastic Times Call for Drastic Measures
“By the time the enemy hit me with the growth on my back, I already knew that God had promised to heal me,” Myron says. “I knew that 1 Peter 2:24 says that by Jesus’ stripes I was healed. To me that meant that God had known this weakness would appear in my body, and had already dealt with it on the Cross. I knew that the anointing was on the Word of God, so the logical thing to do was to immerse myself in that anointing to receive the full manifestation of my healing. If I had not been fully persuaded in my spirit—not just my mind—I would have turned to medical science as most people would do.
“Because Sue and I had learned the power of our words, I knew she would never say anything negative about my situation. I also knew she wouldn’t give me an opportunity to make negative confessions by asking me how I was feeling or by urging me to talk about it.
“As far as I was concerned, I was already healed according to the promises of God. But since the growth hadn’t responded at all in the natural, I knew I would have to immerse myself in the Word the way Sue had done years before. Normally I would have taken a leave of absence from work and stayed in
the Word around the clock. Unfortunately I was in the middle of managing an international project and didn’t feel I could take time off. But I was willing to take drastic measures before and after work, knowing Sue would give me her full support to do it.”
Myron armed himself with videos from several years of Gloria’s Healing School. He pulled out the KCM Healing Praise CD and tapes of healing scriptures. He gathered his Bibles and healing scriptures and moved into the study so his early-morning and late-night vigils wouldn’t disturb Sue.
Each morning he set the alarm a couple of hours before work so he could spend that time in praise, worship and the Word of God. He took a tape player and worship music to work and played it in his office. He also took Charles Capps’ book of confessions, God’s Creative Power for Healing, and confessed the scriptures three times a day at the office.
Each evening after work Myron ate dinner with Sue before entrenching himself in the study to watch Healing School videos all evening. Healing Praise and scripture tapes played while he slept.
Days turned into weeks and weeks into months as he saturated himself in God’s promises. By June the growth had grown to the size of his fist—and it started to bleed.
Too Little Too Late
“By summer Myron wore bandages over the growth to absorb the blood,” Sue recalls. “He also wore a coat to hide it even when it was 90 degrees outside. Each day at noon he came home to change his bloody shirt and dressing. We didn’t discuss it but I knew he was in pain because he was so very quiet.
“It was hard to watch him come home wearing a bloody shirt every day. But I wasn’t afraid for him
because I understood that healing was his covenant right. I only got to see him during meals—the rest of the time he was in the study.”
Myron and Sue told no one of his battle. By September of that year however, anyone who looked at him knew he was sick. Although the couple walked into their church with smiles on their faces and heads held high, Myron’s color had turned a chalky gray and his cheeks were hollow.
“What’s wrong with Myron?” friends asked Sue.
“Myron? He’s healed,” Sue replied.
“Sue,” someone else said, pulling her aside, “Myron is sick!”
“No,” Sue said with a smile, “Myron is healed.”
Myron Baago hadn’t refused to see a doctor because he didn’t believe in modern medicine. He hadn’t refused to see a doctor because he thought there was something inherently wrong with that decision.
Myron Baago didn’t see a doctor because it was too late. Not too late medically, but too late spiritually.
in the study by himself listening to healing praise all night?
Certainly. But he wasn’t tired enough to stop doing it—he knew his body needed more of the Word to be healed.
The Word Made Flesh
It was January 1997, when Myron moved into the study and dove into the deep waters of the Word. Now nearly a year later, Sue hummed Christmas car ols as she trimmed the Christmas tree. They’d come almost full circle through four seasons. It was no longer odd that Myron wore a coat every day. A north wind blew in icy temperatures.
The Christmas season brought its own reminders of the goodness of God and the Joy He’d sent to earth wrapped in swaddling clothes. Myron could almost sense the angels watching over him just as they had watched over the birth of the Savior. And as each day of the joyous season passed, the growth on Myron’s
In 1987 when a little growth had appeared on Myron’s back, like everything else in his life, he’d dealt with it in faith
and the Word—and it had
He’d already seen God powerfully heal and restore his wife. It was too late for him to believe for a single second that healing didn’t belong to him. In spite of a huge bleeding growth on his back—it was too late.
The very idea that God wouldn’t come through for him was illogical. And it was far too late for Myron Baago to start thinking illogically. He’d read the User’s Manual, and it clearly said that the Chief Engineer created the human body to be healed by His Word. When a car battery ran dry, you had to give that battery as many volts as it needed to charge it. Clearly the same was true for his body. It didn’t matter how long it took. It only mattered that when his body was fully charged with the Word of God, the manifestation of his healing would appear. And the only thing that could stop that from happening was for him to stop giving his body the charge it needed.
Was he tired of getting up at the crack of dawn? Was he tired of spending every single evening of his life watching healing videos? Was he tired of sleep ing
disappeared.
back grew smaller, as though it had to bow to His glorious presence.
Fifty-one weeks after Myron Baago submerged himself in the Word of God, he emerged from his study totally healed and rejoicing for all he was worth! He knew that what Jesus did on the cross was so charged with power that it could and did heal him now.
The truth is—it’s too late for Myron and Sue Baago…too late for them to believe God didn’t provide a User’s Manual. Too late for them to accept second best when Jesus had given His all.
More than 2,000 years ago Jesus healed Myron Baago. And it’s been seven years since his body received enough voltage from the Word of God to have that healing manifest.
“The answer to every single problem you face is already written in the Book,” Myron says. “Just read it and do what it says.”
When you think about it, that makes perfect, logical sense. V ICTORY
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LORD , PLEASE TELL ME Y OUR WILL FOR MY LIFE !
Every Christian I know has prayed those words at least once. Most of us have prayed them hundreds of times.
Without a doubt, that’s a prayer God wants to answer. Yet all too often, believers remain frustrated. Seemingly unable to hear specific instructions from the Lord, they end up wandering around in a spiritual twilight, incapable of clearly seeing the unique path God has planned for them.
Orders Headquar t
The cycle of love begins with God. His love for us is what ignites within us a love for Him and a love for others.
Receiving His love is what enables us to obey our general commands.
If you’ve ever wondered why that is, this one fact may shed some light on the matter for you: If we, as believers, are ever going to receive God’s specific instructions for our lives, we must first obey the general instructions He has given us.
We must hear and obey the first and second commands God has given us in His written Word before we will be able to hear His still, small voice giving us more detailed instructions about our daily lives.
That makes perfect sense to me. Years ago when I reported for basic training in the U.S. Army, we first learned our general orders. General orders are the overall military requirements everyone in uni form must obey. Once we understood those orders, we learned about the direct orders which were given to us by our superior officers. Finally we heard about the orders of the day. The orders of the day contained detailed, specific information we needed—what uniform to wear, what time to report where, and what to do when we got there.
Obviously all those orders were important. But I figured out real quick that if I didn’t keep those first two sets of orders, I’d never hear the orders of the day. Do you know why I wouldn’t hear them? Because I’d be locked up in a military jail somewhere!
If I’d received orders, for example, to serve at a base in Arizona—where it’s 100 degrees at night and an absolute oven in the daytime—the Army would expect me, first and foremost, to show up at that base. I didn’t have the option of saying, “Hey, I think I’ll just go serve at that base in Hawaii instead.” If I had showed up in the islands with a lei around my neck asking for my orders for the day, do you think I would have received them?
Certainly not. The Army doesn’t work like that.
Neither does the kingdom of God.
As soldiers in the army of that kingdom, we’ve been given general orders by the Commander in Chief. Those commands are mandatory and they are vital—so vital that everything else in our lives hinges upon our obedience to them.
Matthew 22 is one of the many places in the New Testament we find those general commands. There we read about a young lawyer asking Jesus a crucial question: “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the proph ets” (verses 36-40).
No. 1: Receive God’s Love Love God. Love others. Those are the general orders of the kingdom of God. And direct orders to each member of the Body of Christ. They are easy to remember. Simple to understand. Yet have you ever failed to live by them? And as a result have you been unable to find God’s specific will for your life and
break through to your destiny? If so, you’re not alone!
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
There are definite things you can do to step up and step into obedience to those two all-important commands. The first is simply to receive God’s love for you.
“What?” you may ask, “I thought this was about me loving God…not about God loving me!”
It is. But the Bible says, “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10).
In other words the cycle of love begins with God. His love for us is what ignites within us a love for Him and a love for others. Receiving His love is what enables us to obey our general commands.
So let me ask you a question. Do you know how much God loves you?
Most believers don’t. Yet Jesus told us plainly just before He went to the cross. He prayed to the Father for His first 12 disciples and for all who would believe in Him, and said, “You have sent me, and have loved them as You have loved Me” (John 17:23, New King James Version).
I’ll always remember the day I first read that. Sitting in our little, shotgun-style house in Tulsa 38 years ago, I’d made a commitment to the Lord that if I saw anything in His Word, I’d believe it, confess it and alter my lifestyle to fit it. But when I read that verse, it staggered my mind. I thought, Dear Lord, did I read that right? Does that say God loves me as much as He loves Jesus?
For a moment old religious thinking tried to rise up and stop me from accepting it. There was no question about it, though. The scripture plainly said God loves me as much as He loves Jesus. So I began to say that out loud and as I did, joy came rushing in!
Get Prayed Up—Stay Prayed Up
Don’t wait for something to happen to begin building your faith in prayer. Start by getting into the Word and developing your prayer life now. In this powerful teaching, Kenneth Copeland explains how to get “prayed up” and stay “prayed up.” He shares practical, everyday principles you can use to strengthen your faith walk, develop your prayer life and begin praying with faith and confidence, knowing your prayers will bring results.
If you’ll receive the love of God, the same thing will happen to you. So start right now. Open your mouth and say, “God loves me just as much as He loves Jesus!” Say it like you mean it. Keep saying it and thanking God for it until the truth of it begins to saturate your heart.
And when the devil tries to convince you God doesn’t love you that way, tell him to shut up! Don’t give his lies any place in your thinking. Stop them short by praising God right out loud and saying, “Father, thank You for loving me so much. Thank You for giving Your own Son for me that I might not perish. I receive that love now, in Jesus’ Name.”
No. 2: Believe God’s Love Is in You
Here’s the second thing you can do to walk in obe dience to God’s general commands: Believe that the love God has for Jesus actually abides and lives in you.
Believe, as Romans 5:5 says, that the love of God has been shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost. Believe, as Jesus said in John 17:26, that the love with which God loved Jesus is in you First John 4:15-16 says, “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.”
Think about that. The creative principle of the heavens, the very love of God Himself has been imparted into your spirit and you have been autho rized to love others with it.
When you begin to believe that, you activate within yourself the most powerful force on earth. You’ll start loving everybody. You’ll not only love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, you’ll start loving and praying for the meanest people you know. You’ll be so full of love, you won’t have to work at releasing it…it will just begin to overflow.
I know that from experience. One morning not long ago I was walking down the hall of our home meditating on how much God loves me and how His love dwells in me. Suddenly the presence of God surrounded me. I wasn’t up on Mount Sinai or any place special, I was just on the way to my kitchen for breakfast and I got totally caught up in God’s love. When I did, gratitude and love just poured out of me. I started saying, “Oh Lord, I love You so much. I’m grateful for the green grass outside. I’m grateful for the sky and the birds that fly in it. I’m so grateful for Your strong arms that sustain me and Your strong hands that care for me. I love You…I love You…I LOVE YOU!”
Do you know what happened
when I said that? God answered me back. Clear as can be, in my spirit I heard Him say, I love you, too. And that made me love Him even more!
No. 3: Practice, Practice, Practice
When you start receiving and believing God’s love, you’ll experience His presence and love. You’ll find that it isn’t a struggle to love Him and receive His love. Then you’ll be ready to take the next step and begin using and practicing that love on other people. Exactly how do you go about doing that?
Salvation Prayer
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You can start by taking time to really forgive people who have wronged you. Don’t just casually say, “Oh, I forgive So-and-So.” Rather, in prayer take time to picture that person in your mind. Lift him before God and say, “Father, I turn the unloving feelings I’ve had toward this person over to You. I will not be bitter against him. I surround him with love.”
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simply pray the following prayer in faith, and Jesus will be your Lord! Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. Your Word says, “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” and “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Acts 2:21; Romans 10:9). You said my salvation would be the result of Your Holy Spirit giving me new birth by coming to live in me (John 3:5-6, 15-16; Romans 8:9-11) and that if I would ask, You would fill me with Your Spirit and give me the ability to speak with other tongues (Luke 11:13; Acts 2:4).
I take You at Your Word. I confess that Jesus is Lord. And I believe in my heart that You raised Him from the dead. Thank You for coming into my heart, for giving me Your Holy Spirit as You have promised, and for being Lord over my life. Amen. If you have just prayed this prayer, please contact us and let us know of your decision. We have a free Salvation Package we would like to send you to help you begin your new life in Jesus! Simply write and ask for offer #50801, or call (877) 4803388.
Imagine J esus walking up behind that person and putting His big arms around him, bringing peace to him. Then just keep confessing, “I love that person as much as I love myself.” Don’ t hurry through it. Take time to cleanse your spirit.
Spend extra time loving God and focus on forgiving people who have been especially hard cases in your life. Pray for them at night before you go to bed. Shut off the radio in your car and confess your love for the Lord and for them while you drive to work.
In addition start to practice being agreeable. Consciously endeavor to live and walk in harmony with those around you— especially with your family, pastor and people at church. The devil will work the hardest to get you into strife with them because he knows when you’re in agreement, there’s power!
You activate the promise Jesus gave in Matthew 18:19-20: “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they
Spend extra time loving
God and focus on forgiving people who have been especially hard cases in your life.
shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
Refuse to get into strife in any area. Don’t allow yourself to become accustomed to being angry. Stop getting mad at your car…computer…and traffic lights. When you let yourself get irritated at the physical things around you, you’re actually practicing being angry. Before you know it, you’ll be shooting off your mouth at somebody and you’ll sound angry, even if you aren’t.
Ask me how I know!
The Lord really had to jerk the slack out of me about this. I had to deal with it in my own life. So I can tell you firsthand what to do. Every time you catch yourself saying something angry and unloving—whether you’re talking to a thing or to a person—repent out loud. Say, “I judge myself for that in the Name of Jesus. I’m not full of anger, I’m full of the love of God.”
It’s amazing what that will do for you. The more you practice being agreeable and kind, the more agreeable and kind you’ll become. The car and the computer may not appreciate it, but the people around you will. They’ll be glad you’re not acting like an angry bad-mouth anymore.
No. 4: Don’t Just Sit There. Do Something!
Another way you can practice the love of God is by looking for secret ways to bless people. Give someone a gift and write a little note on it that says, “The Lord told me to give this to you.” But don’t put your name on it. Just stand back and watch and then give the Lord all the praise and glory.
Actions like that will charge up your confidence in the love of God dwelling within you. And that indwelling love will spring to life. Faith and love work hand in hand. Faith needs action. It’s not enough to sit around believing the love of God is in you. You have to get up and do something. As James 2:14-17 says: “What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye
give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead.”
If your love life is dead, resuscitate it by putting love into motion. Go to your closet, pull out the best you have and give it to somebody who needs it. Better yet, secretly slip them a gift certificate so they can go buy something brand new!
Don’t do it to be seen or appreciated. Do it purely out of love. You’ll experience so much joy! You’ll get excited about giving to and loving others.
No. 5: Become God-Inside Minded
Finally, seal the deal on your life of love by continually confessing, “Greater is He—who is love—within me than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
Cultivate within yourself the conscious awareness that God Himself, your very own heavenly Father, is walking with you and talking with you 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:16-18).
Become God-inside minded. Say to yourself, “When I walk, God walks. His hands are in my hands. I have the mind of Christ. God is not a million miles away. He’s inside me right now. He’s my Father and I’m His very own son. I’m a joint heir with Jesus and my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.”
When you begin to live in the light of that revelation—when you begin obeying and abiding by God’s general commands of love—you won’t find yourself wandering around in the spiritual twilight trying to find your way.
No. You’ll be walking in the light of heaven itself. You’ll be hearing specific orders from headquarters at every turn! You’ll be treading on the path of the righteous which is like the light of dawn that grows brighter and brighter every single day! V ICTORY
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Discovering God’s Master Plan
God has a master plan for our lives. Each of us has been created to walk in the good things He has ordained for us. Watch today and discover the keys to living in His plan—in His blessing!
Gloria Copeland God’s Call to You Watch today and understand how hearing and obeying God’s voice will bring your life’s purpose into clear focus!
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland Celebration of Thanks Today’s broadcast kicks off a week of celebration! Join us as we praise and give thanks to the Lord for all His goodness!
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Every Day a New Day
He Guides You
God desires for your life to be a great adventure! This week, Gloria Copeland will teach you how He guides you by His Word. It’s the road map you need to live successfully.
In Everything Give Thanks
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland explore the effects of having a grateful heart. Your life can be changed as you express continual gratitude to your heavenly Father.
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DOMINION MANDATE
WE ARE EQUIPPED WITH WHAT IT TAKES TO BE VICTORIOUS IN EVERY SITUATION! | FIRST JOHN 5:4 SAYS, “FOR WHATSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD OVERCOMETH THE WORLD: AND THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH.” BY FAITH WE OVERCOME THE WORLD AND FULFILL WHAT I CALL THE “DOMINION MANDATE.” IT ’S THE MANDATE GOD GAVE TO ADAM. WE READ ABOUT IT IN GENESIS 1:26: “AND GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS: AND LET THEM HAVE DOMINION OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA, AND OVER THE FOWL OF THE AIR, AND OVER THE CATTLE, AND OVER ALL THE EARTH, AND OVER EVERY CREEPING THING THAT CREEPETH UPON THE EARTH.”
I want you to notice that God expected mankind to have dominion over this earth. Having dominion means “to rule, to govern, to subdue or to manage.” God expected Adam and those of us who came after him to exercise stewardship and ownership. We were meant to be in charge here. That was, and is, God ’s plan.
Man’s Reconnection to God | Before Adam sinned, he had a direct line of communication to God. Once he sinned, however, that connection was broken. Adam went from receiving rev elation from God to operating on information
When you’re dealing with faith, you are operating outside of time and in the eternal. When you walk by faith, you can have dominion over time.
the things he knew through his five senses. Jesus restored that God-connection to us. After we are born again we become reconnected to God. We learn from God ’s Word how to walk by faith and we begin receiving revelation knowledge. We begin seeing through the eye of faith instead of only seeing things in the natural. We are made in the image and likeness of God. That means we are made to: act like God; walk like God by faith and not by sight; talk like God; “calling things that be not as though they were.” And we ’re to see like God, “looking not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen.”
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ADAM SINNED, HE HAD A DIRECT LINE OF COMMUNICATION
I realize you may be thinking, That ’s some pretty strong stuff, Pastor Winston. I just don’t know…after all, I ’m from Hicksville, U.S.A. Well, I want you to know if you are born again, where you are from now is from God!
You were born of God and created in Christ Jesus for good works (Ephesians 2:10). These are works you can do only with God ’s ability. We have to operate the way God operates with His power, His anointing, His faith, His love and by speaking His Word. We are His children, joint heirs with His Son, Jesus, and we have been given that ability. The world desperately needs to see those good works! We are living in a time when the earth is reeling from sickness, disease, famine, natural disasters and pestilence. Jesus said these types of things would be seen in the last days (Matthew 24:6-8). He also said in John 16:33, “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” When we operate in faith, we overcome the world.
Faith Operates From the Heart | Jesus demonstrated that when He was in the earth. He said to the father of the demon-possessed boy in Mark 9:23, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
How do you believe? With your heart. You don’t believe with your head. The mind only believes what it can see or feel it feeds off the senses. The head is not designed to see the invisible the heart is. Your heart, or spirit, feeds off the Word. At times when you speak the Word your head may go “tilt,” because to your head it ’s impossible.
That happened to Martha at the grave site of Lazarus. She came up to Jesus and basically said, “If you had been here earlier, my brother wouldn’t have died.” Jesus answered her, “Thy brother shall rise again” (John 11:23). Martha thought Jesus was speaking of the Last Day Resurrection. She couldn’t get her mind around the idea that Jesus was going to raise up Lazarus then and there. Martha was looking at the situation in the natural. Jesus wasn’t.
What Jesus really was saying to Martha was what God said to Moses in Exodus, “I AM.” God has no future and no past. He’s outside of time.
Faith Overrides Time Delays | When dealing with
faith, you are operating outside of time and in the eter nal. When you walk by faith, you can have dominion over time.
The Syrophenician woman who came to Jesus in Mark 7:26 had faith that moved Jesus out of time. Her daughter was sick and she wanted Jesus to heal her. She wasn’t a Jew, so she didn’t have a covenant. Still she persisted with her faith.
When Jesus told her He was sent only to the Jews (at that time), and not to the Gentiles, whom the Jews considered the same as dogs, the woman called Jesus “Lord” and said that even the dogs get the crumbs that fall under the table.
Seeing her great faith, Jesus stepped out of time and healed her daughter. He gave her the same blessing we have as Gentiles after the Cross. He responded to her faith as if she were under the New Covenant.
When you really have faith in God and His Word, all things become possible!
God has a heavenly reservoir, or treasury, for us. Peter described it this way, “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2 Peter 1:3). God has given us all things nothing is left out.
It ’s important for us to be fully persuaded about that truth. We are living in times that are “hard to deal with and hard to bear” (2 Timothy 3:1, The Amplified Bible). It ’s only going to get worse in the world ’s system. But you and I are in the kingdom of God we ’re on the kingdom system. We are to manifest God ’s will in this earth no matter what Satan has done or will do. We’re here to manifest the kingdom and draw people in to be saved!
It ’s up to us to demonstrate the power and the glory of God. Our job is to take back everything Satan has stolen. Our job is to go into all the world and preach the gospel. Our job is to fulfill the Dominion Mandate!
Bill Winston is founder and pastor of Living Word Christian Center, a 15,000-member church located in Forest Park, Ill. He is also the founder and chairman of The Joseph Center® for Business Development. For more information or ministry materials write to Bill Winston Ministries, P.O. Box 947, Oak Park, IL 60303; call (800) 711-9327; or visit his Web site at www.bwm.org.
THE LORD IS w orking WITH US
O n time! All specifications met! | These objectives are understood by every project manager regardless of the project that ’ s been assigned. | David Styles, KCM Canada director and manager of the building project for the new KCM Canada ministry center, was recently able to report these goals were met!
He says, “We moved into the new ministry building on July 15, 2005 it was completed debt free! The facility is everything we dreamed it would be! The Lord is the best project manager any team could have.”
Throughout the building process, the Canadian ministry team stood on Psalm 127:1: “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.”
And build it, He did!
Supernatural favor was evident on every front from breaking ground to moving in! The contractors met project milestones they felt sure would be delayed. Suppliers gave deals and discounts some would call unreasonable. Though the team expected it to be their biggest hurdle, even the typically challenging Canadian weather gave this project a break.
The Lord paved the way for every inch of this beautiful 15,640-square-foot facility to be finished on time in excellence!
KCM Partners around the world played a part, with Canadian Partners and Friends leading the way by faithfully praying for, and diligently planting seed toward its completion.
Director Styles says, “We thank the Lord for building this house. And we thank you, Partners and Friends! We are looking forward to serving you in new levels of excellence from this great new ministry center.”
New Levels of Ministry | In 2006, KCM Canada
will celebrate its 30th birthday 30 years of service to Partners and Friends! And that ’s just one of many things the staff is excited about.
Of course they are excited about being better able to meet the needs of more than 17,500 Canadian Partners and Friends from this new facility…they are also excited about plans for outreach…and perhaps most of all, they are excited about building stronger relationships with Partners and Friends!
In order to connect with Partners in a more significant way, the KCM Canadian ministry staff will be traveling across Canada in the coming months to host special receptions. Anticipation is building as plans are being established to meet and greet Partners. So be watching for information about these informal gatherings where relationships will be strengthened as the love of God is shared.
To better connect with Canadian Partners and Friends, the KCM Canada Web site has been enhanced. Be sure to visit www.kcmcanada.c a and explore the site. Take advantage of some of the newest features:
Click on Downloads where you’ ll find books as well as the Believer ’s Voice of Victory magazine available! KCM Canada is the first KCM office to offer this feature!
Click on About Us and view photos of the new ministry center and staff.
Rejoicing! | In the midst of all the new things the Lord is doing in the KCM Canada office, we still continue to rejoice with each testimony we receive and praise Him for all He’s accomplishing each day in the lives of our Partners and Friends.
The daily ministry continues to grow as we fulfill our commitment to respond as quickly as possible to all requests. Incoming and outgoing telephone calls and mail are high ministry priorities. Receiving testimonies helps us know we are meeting our goal of ministering to our Partners and Friends. For instance we heard from a Partner in Edmonton, Alberta, who said:
Your office called us and left the most wonderful prayer of encouragement on our answering machine. It so blessed us and filled our hearts with love and joy! Thank you! Thank you!
As another means of ministry, 195,000 Believer ’s Voice of Victory magazines and more than 90,000 products will be shipped this year from the KCM Canada office. Robert Wilson of Canada tells us about the affect of one book in his family:
On Thursday night, October 14, 2004, my 17-year-old son told me that he prayed the prayer of salvation written in the back of the book The Laws of Prosperity . He told me he read it out loud and meant it and believed it in his heart and he is now a born-again child of God. Glory to God. Robert Wilson | Canada
Aother ministries which makes your seed “twice-sown seed.” Many of these churches and ministries report they are seeing increase and overflow too! Across the nation, ministry is on the rise First Nations people, prisoners, teens in crisis, street people, mature believers, and those who need salvation. For instance, we have received this report from The Loft Ministries:
I want to thank you for your decision to plant your seed into The Loft Ministries. We are in agreement that every seed you sow will produce a mighty harvest for Kenneth Copeland Ministries Canada. Our Children’s Horse Camp is entering its fourth year. It is an awesome venue for children to experience the power of God. To date all those who have attended our camp have made decisions for Christ. Praise the Lord!
The y went fort h , and preache d every where , the Lor d working wit h them, an d confirmin g the wor d wit h sign s followin g.
Mark 16:20
And the BVOV broadcast is aired six days a week on 10 Canadian television stations, potentially reaching 25 million people. One viewer writes:
Thank you for your prayers and support. I was watching BVOV and Gloria Copeland prayed that listeners would receive the best job ever and prosper. On Sept. 3, 2004, I was interviewed for a teaching position at a Christian School. I was hired the same day and started working Sept. 7, 2004. This is the best job I ever had. Since then, the Lord has been pouring His abundant blessing on my teaching career. I am so grateful.
S.F. | Canada
A portion of what you give to KCM is sown into
Not only is KCM Canada supporting other ministries within Canada, but they have also joined with relief organizations to help victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and famine around the world.
Partners, your twice-sown seed is in good ground…so expect a big harvest during this year of overflow.
Labor of Love | Just as KCM Canada has occupied new territory by moving into the new ministry center, they are also taking new ground spiritually taking the land for Jesus! They are launching into new heights and depths of God ’s love as they purpose to teach and demonstrate that love to the nation through every available voice.
So thank you, Partners and Friends! You ’ve helped make 2005 a year of overflow for KCM. Your love, prayers and financial support are greatly appreciated! We are standing firmly in faith for you to experience overflow in your lives. We are praying for total fulfillment of your hopes, dreams and the desires of your heart.
We are praying “that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend [have working knowledge] with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” (Ephesians 3:17-19). V ICTORY
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he HAPPY m arriage FORMULA
HHusbands and wives, I want you to know that walking in love with one another is the bottom line to a good marriage. S The old saying, “What ’s good for the goose is good for the gander” applies in marriage. To have a happy home, you both must develop a habit of walking in the love of God. It is what will cause your marriage to be blessed. It is what will cause you to have a good life a life worth living. S God desires for your life and marriage to be like days of heaven on earth. And that is possible…when you do things God ’s way and obey His commands. S I know it ’s possible because Ken and I have been married more than 43 years, and we have never been happier! The longer we live together, the better it gets because we have come into agreement about the way we live our lives. We see things the same way now almost everything!
BY G LORIA C OPELAND
“LOVE
ENDURES LONG and is PATIENT AND KIND ....
LOVE (GOD’S LOVE IN US) DOES NOT INSIST ON ITS OWN RIGHTS OR ITS OWN WAY, FOR IT IS NOT SELF-SEEKING; IT IS NOT TOUCHY OR FRETFUL OR RESENTFUL; IT TAKES NO ACCOUNT OF THE EVIL DONE TO IT [IT PAYS NO ATTENTION TO A SUFFERED WRONG]. LOVE BEARS UP UNDER ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES, IS EVER READY TO BELIEVE THE BEST OF EVERY PERSON….
LOVE never FAILS ...”
(1
Corinthians 13:4-5, 7-8, The Amplified Bible).
The result is truly days of heaven on earth. Ken and I desire for you to have that too. We desire for you to have a happy, blessed home and family. We want to encourage you to know that it is possible when you apply the principles found in the Bible.
In the Word of God, there is what I consider to be a happy marriage formula It ’s found in 1 Corinthians 13. This passage of scripture teaches us many things about walking in love. Verses 1-2 reveal the importance of love. It says: “If I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love…I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers…and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God ’s love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody)” (The Amplified Bible).
If we do not have love, we cannot be spiritual adults. We may have the gifts of the spirit operating in our lives, but if we don’t have love and we aren’t walking in love with others we are useless nobodies! Nothing we do counts! That ’s how important love is.
So we must understand how to walk in love.
To begin with, we must recognize that the love of God is unselfish.
Have you ever noticed that selfish people are never happy? And here ’s why: They are always thinking about themselves instead of others. They are always striving to get their needs met and get what they want.
The Bible tells us it is in giving that we receive (Luke 6:38). Unselfish people walk in love and are always looking for ways to bless others (including their spouses). They are sowing love and they will reap love. These people will live in happiness, joy and peace.
First Corinthians 13:5 says love “does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking” (The Amplified Bible)
Demanding our own way is not how we walk in love.
One important key to having a happy marriage is being unselfish it will make all the difference!
Be Adaptable! | Another key to developing a great marriage is learning to be adaptable.
Ephesians 5:21-22 in The Amplified Bible says, “ Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ…. Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.”
Ken and I were very different when we were first married, and we had to learn how to be subject to one another. In other words, we both had to do whatever it took to have a happy marriage! We had to adapt.
I ’m sure we are not alone in this. A person often marries someone who has a personality very different from his own. I think I know why that was true in our lives I needed Ken and he needed me. He was more capable in a lot of things, and I was more capable in other ways. We were two totally different human beings who didn’t think alike or act alike. We had to adapt to one another and learn to value our differences. Interestingly, over the years, we have grown more alike! I dare say that if I couldn’t have adapted, Ken and I would not be together now. The ability and willingness to adapt is one thing it takes to stay together.
It seems to me that many younger wives today have not learned the importance of this. The Scripture plainly says wives are to “adapt” to their husbands. But nowadays people have a selfish mindset. Being submissive and adapting is not something women of this generation have been taught.
Nonetheless, the Bible says we are to “Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)” (Ephesians 5:21, The Amplified Bible). This is not just a verse for wives! We are to learn to yield to one another in the love of God.
Now I ’m not advocating that a wife should submit to a husband who beats her and abuses the children, or anything of that nature. I ’m talking about submitting as a give-and-take attitude in everyday life.
This is not something that ’s learned overnight. I didn’t learn to be adaptable the first week I was married, but rather I learned it over the years.
Make it a point to be adaptable. Be willing to submit to one another. It ’s part of your love walk. It ’s part of a happy marriage.
Practice the Love of God | In marriage you have to practice walking in the love of God. It doesn’t come naturally, but supernaturally as you obey the Holy Spirit and the written Word. First Corinthians 13 is our guidepost for love. And verse 5 is perhaps the greatest marriage scripture I have ever found about how to walk in love. It says love is “not touchy or fretful or resentful…[it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]” (The Amplified Bible)
This verse helped me so much when I was just
is not touchy, fretful or resentful. Love forgives. If you desire to have a happy marriage, you must forgive one another.
Someone once said that refusing to forgive someone and expecting things to go well with you is like drinking poison and thinking the other person is going to die. It just doesn’t work that way. Unforgiveness doesn’t hurt the other person it hurts you. When you forgive, however, you are set free.
Forgiving is a very significant part of love. We can be habitual forgivers because God has forgiven us so much.
First Corinthians 13:13 in The Amplified Bible defines love as “true affection for God and man, growing out of God ’s love for and in us.”
As we love God, we are able to love the people around us, even when it isn’t easy.
It may be hard to believe, but in the early years of our marriage Ken would occasionally do something I didn’t like. I was learning to walk in love, so instead of getting outwardly angry, I just wouldn’t respond even though I was really aggravated! I didn’t forgive. By not
If you find yourself being touchy, fretful or resentful , know that you ’ re out of the will of God. It is as simple as that.
learning to walk in love! Today it is ingrained in my spirit. It ’s not even hard to do anymore it ’s a way of life. When I first read this scripture years ago and it became a revelation to me, I wrote this verse on little cards and put them up where I could see them.
When I would want to get mad, I would say, “I walk in love. I ’m not touchy, fretful or resentful.” I did that over and over until I learned not to respond in anger. I did whatever it took to get these words working in my life!
Today they still help me stay on track. If I begin to get mad and yield to temper, I think about this scripture. I think it ’s advisable to keep 1 Corinthians 13 before you all the time I do! My life is changed as a result. Remember, you have to practice the love of God. Some people practice anger. They are mad at everyone and everything around them. Being angry has become a habit in their lives.
As born-again children of God, our habit should be to yield to the nature of the Spirit of God in us. His nature is love we must decide to yield to that!
Love Forgives | Love doesn’t hold a grudge. Love
responding I was just covering up my disobedience to the Word. But I knew the truth and so did the Lord.
You see, walking in love is not a matter of just holding your tongue. It means not being touchy, fretful or resentful. It means paying no attention to a suffered wrong.
Love is a matter of what is in your heart.
I learned that. I discovered when I didn’t respond in love I became my own worst enemy. No one comes out on top by staying in strife.
In marriage, it ’s vital for a husband and wife to walk in love and have respect for the other ’s opinions. Today Ken and I are living proof it can be done. However, we would not be where we are in our marriage if both of us had not been determined to obey the Word where love is concerned.
Walking in love is our law. That is our command. We know we cannot please God unless we love everybody including each other.
So if you find yourself being touchy, fretful or resentful, know that you’re out of the will of God. It is as simple as that.
Choose to forgive and walk in love and have a happy marriage!
Take the Word Literally Do It! | To improve your marriage your life you must take the Word of God literally and actually do what it says.
Ken and I were Spirit-filled Christians for quite a while before we discovered this truth. Of course we had been changed on the inside the moment we were born again. But we didn’t immediately experience a significant change in our lives outwardly. We were still selfish, miserable and defeated. It wasn’t until we began to take the Word literally and apply it that our lives dramatically changed.
We have learned to put 1 Corinthians 13 in our hearts, speak it out our mouths and expect ourselves to come up to that standard. Do we always do everything it says? No. But the more we yield to it, the more we progress.
Over the years, we have gotten better and better at walking in love. When we get out of love, we repent quickly. We refuse to allow unforgiveness and strife in our lives. We refuse to open that door to the enemy.
Walking in the love of God locks out the enemy, who has come to steal, kill and destroy. Love opens the door to the Lord Jesus Christ, who has come that you “may have and enjoy life” (John 10:10, The Amplified Bible).
If you want to live a good and happy life and you want the blessings of God to flow in your life, then go after and eagerly pursue the love of God. First Corinthians 14:1 says, “Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]…” (The Amplified Bible).
Eagerly pursuing love is a path I recommend for everyone. According to 1 Corinthians 13:5-7, love “takes no account of the evil done to it…. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes….”
That means nothing is going to come across your path that love won’t conquer.
Think about that.
When you walk in the Word of God and keep the commandment of love, every door to good is open and every door to evil is closed! The devil won’t have any place to work in your life.
Obey the Word and things will go well with you. If you do what the Lord says, you will have a good, long life.
Love is so powerful. The Bible says, “Love never fails.” If you’ ll walk in love, you won’t fail either. When you follow God ’ s ways, you’re on the way to the best life possible!
Everything including having a happy marriage and a happy home depends on walking in love. V ICTORY
Beyond Religion— There’s Relationship!
Living contact with God is not only possible…it ’ s something He desires!
As you draw close to Him, you ’ ll find difficult situations in your life will begin to line up with His Word. Trusting Him for your every need will become second nature. Love, joy and peace will not just be something you ’ re striving to attain, it will be part of who you are.
This compelling book by Gloria Copeland will help you come To Know Him as never before! Go beyond religion and enter into the most rewarding and fulfilling relationship you can ever have!
“To know Him should be, without question, the No. 1 priority in every person’s life. It is the key that opens every door.” —Gloria Copeland
Partners! Please send us your testimonies we would like to hear and rejoice with you about the great things God is doing in your lives!
In this season of Thanksgiving and always we, at Kenneth Copeland Ministries, thank God for His partnership with us for His guidance, His help and for all He has blessed us with. And we thank Him for you, our Partners! We are so grateful for your love, your prayers and your support…your partnership.
Thanksgiving is a celebration of partnership! }
Through the power of partnership, we are moving forward to accomplish all the Lord has called us to do.
And, Partners, our most glorious days are on the horizon!
If you would like to become a Partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries or would like to find out more about partnership, just check the box on the response form in the center of this magazine, visit kcm.org or call (800) 600-7395 from within the United States or (877) 480-3388 from within Canada
