Compassion Has a Plan by Kenneth Copeland

Set priorities. Put first things first. Major on the majors…and don’t sweat the small stuff.

We’ve all heard the slogans. Experts tell us they’re the key to success. But with so many things clamoring for our attention, how do we determine what things to put first? How do we decide what majors to major on…and what small stuff not to sweat?

Those may sound like tough questions—and for many they are. But as born-again children of God, we don’t have to rush out to buy a self-help book or sign up for a seminar to figure out the answer. All we have to do is open the Bible. It plainly lays out our priorities.

No. 1: Believe on the Name of Jesus.

No. 2: Walk in love.

That’s it. God’s Word says if we’ll put those two things first in our lives, God will do whatever we ask and the rest of our lives will fall into place. Personally, I’ve never had a question about the first of those two priorities. It’s always been obvious to me that since faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior is what gives us eternal life and sets us firmly in the family of God, then believing on His Name is the most vital thing we can ever do.

But honestly, I’ve wondered at times about that second priority. I’ve puzzled over why it’s such a major issue with our heavenly Father. Why is it such a big deal to Him that we live in His love?

It is a big deal, you know. In fact, according to the Bible love is such a paramount issue in the mind of God, when one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to name the greatest commandment of all time, He said: “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 prophets” (Matthew 22:37-40).

Think about that! According to Jesus, the command of love is so vital that the entire Word of God—from the Creation account in Genesis to the Amen at the end of Revelation—hangs on it.

Love is literally the ultimate spiritual law. All the operations of God’s kingdom function in accordance with it, and no one on earth is exempt from it.

Compassion Has a Plan by Kenneth Copeland

Spiritual and Physical Law Part 2 - Kenneth Copeland

Salvation is available to every human being on the face of the earth because the Word says anyone who calls upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved (see Joel 2:32; Romans 10:13). This higher spiritual law of life is here in the earth, but every day people die and go to hell. Why? Because the law of salvation hasn’t been put to work in their particular lives. It will work  only  when it is put to work.

This same rule is true in prosperity. There are certain laws governing prosperity revealed in God’s Word. Faith causes them to function. They will work when they are put to work, and they will stop working when the force of faith is stopped. The Bible says God’s Word is established forever, and it is law (see 1 Peter 1:25). When God speaks, His words become law in the world of the spirit. Jesus said,  “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”  (Matthew 4:4).

 

The success formulas in the Word of God produce results when used as directed. Mark 11:23 says,  “…whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”  Here Jesus introduced a principle—a spiritual law—that works. It doesn’t make sense to the natural mind that with faith you can have whatever you say even though it may be contrary to what you can see with your physical eyes, but Jesus said it and by the eternal Almighty God, it is so! When you act on it, mix your faith with it, don’t doubt in your heart, this spiritual law will work for you! Do you see how this functions?

 

The laws of prosperity work the same as the laws of salvation, healing and so forth. We  are dealing with the same God, the same Word, the same Jesus, the same force of faith and the same thief, Satan, who is trying to steal it away from you! There are many people who have the world’s idea of salvation, and they will go to hell with it! It is wrong! Man’s good intentions have nothing to do with eternal salvation. You can have good intentions to fly, but you will never get off the ground until you make the proper arrangements—until you put the proper laws into operation. A farmer can intend to have a good crop, but if he never plants the seed, how can he possibly produce a harvest?

 

These laws, both spiritual and physical, must be followed if you expect to get results. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 29:29,  “The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”  

Any law that God has ever revealed to His saints will never pass away. It will work every time it is put to work. Anything God taught Abraham or his descendants about operating financially will work just as well today as it did several thousand years ago. If you don’t believe it, you’ve never met a Jew!

The formulas still work, and they always will! Every law God has given us is recorded in His Word, and He sent the Holy Spirit as our teacher to lead and guide us in these laws and show us how they operate  for one reason—so that we will put them to work. Each time one of these laws operates, it glorifies the Almighty God who spoke it and adds one more defeat to Satan who said it would not work.

 

– Laws of Prosperity

Spiritual and Physical Law Part 2 - Kenneth Copeland

World’s System vs. God’s System Part 1 - Kenneth Copeland

God has a highly organized system to meet the needs of every facet of your life. The world’s system of meeting our needs works exactly opposite from God’s system.

God’s system is totally adequate.  

The world’s idea of anything is very limited at best and stands 99.9 percent chance of being totally wrong.

As believers, we must be careful not to limit God in our individual lives to what the world says is so. The problem with the world and its system of operations is that there is a spiritual mad dog loose in it and his name is Satan. The world has a system of healing that is a miserable failure! We thank God for what good has been done with it, but we are forced to admit it falls far short of being adequate to meet the needs of the sick around us. Some men are dedicated to it as if it were a god.

The world’s system of healing makes a god of the hospital and a god of medicine. Actually, for the most part, it leaves God out entirely, and without God, it will not work! There is no way to get healing except through the power of God, either directly by His power or by the power He built into the human body. No man on earth can heal apart from God.

There are two choices before you—

1. The world’s system of healing or

2. God’s system of healing.

 

God’s system and its laws are contradictory to the world’s system. The world cannot understand God’s system of caring for the human body.

The Bible says the things of God are foolishness to the world (see 1 Corinthians 2:14). God made the human body. He definitely should be able to repair it.

Ford Motor Company has that much sense! If they can build the whole car, surely they can build parts for it. We haven’t known much about the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus and a lack of understanding has caused problems in making this law function for our benefit.

The Apostle Paul wrote,  “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…”  (Romans 12:2). In order to be successful at God’s business, we must understand how His system works.

 

Don’t expect God’s best to come from the world’s system. He will work around and through it in order to reach you, but it is always far below His best. 

 

The absolute priority in studying prosperity is that you should  never  think of it from a carnal viewpoint, from the world’s attitude.

You must train yourself to think in line with God’s Word. If you’re not careful, when you think of the laws of prosperity, all you will see is money—only a very small part of prosperity.

True prosperity is God manifesting Himself to us in His Word. If He is manifesting Himself through His Word, He is always within easy contact because you can handle the Word. The only way you can have God with you on a continual daily basis is through His Word.

We should not judge by our feelings or by our emotions, but by what God has said in His Word.

 

Let’s look for a moment at the world of finance, the biggest problem area on earth. Sickness is not our main concern. There are many healthy people who are head over heels in debt,  and God’s people have no business being in debt!  Here again, we find that the world has a system of finance which is complex and very poor in operation.

It continually rocks back and forth between the two extremes of depression and inflation. However, when you are functioning in God’s system of finance, life can be very simple.

Don’t borrow from anyone— get it from God. The problem with borrowing is that it is controlled by the world’s system. In order to borrow, you must subordinate yourself to another person. Proverbs 22:7 says the borrower is the servant to the lender. By borrowing, you subordinate your name to another person. This is very important because of the spiritual significance of your name.

Your name is the same as your nature. If your name is good, then you are good—your reputation is good. You can do whatever your name can do. 

However, when you borrow and go into debt to someone else, you bow your knee to that person and look to him as your source of supply. This creates a spiritual problem that can be very serious, particularly if the other person is ungodly.

Look to God, He will  give to you, not loan to you! 

 

– Laws of Prosperity

World’s System vs. God’s System Part 1 - Kenneth Copeland

Well Worth the Wait - Gloria Copeland

The pressure is on.

You have prayed the prayer of faith. You believe you have received the answer. You are confessing the Word. You are standing on God’s promise. You are expecting a miracle. But instead of getting better—things seem to get worse. Symptoms and circumstances pile up around you. Every time you turn around, some demon is whining in your ear: Why don’t you just give up? This faith stuff doesn’t work. God doesn’t even care about you.

 

Soon all you can think about is how tired you are, how fed up you are with waiting for your answer to come. You have had it with this situation and unless something changes, you’re about to say the two words that cost more believers their victory than anything else in the world: I quit!

Sound familiar?

Sure it does. Everyone who ever walked by faith has gone through times like that. Tough times. Times when you feel like you can’t take any more. Maybe those times have tripped you up in the past. Maybe the devil has used them to pressure you into letting go of your faith. But I want you to know something today. That never has to happen again because you’re about to learn how to release a force so powerful it can carry you through those hard times in triumph.

It is a force so dynamic the devil cannot stop it. It is a force that comes from the heart and character of God Himself and it will take you from here to victory…every time.

What is this magnificent force? The force of patience.

Well Worth the Wait - Gloria Copeland