(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Healing is God's will for you,
and Jesus is your great physician. Join Kenneth Copeland
as he studies the Word and shares the Bible prescription
for receiving healing from God. Learn about God's
health plan on today's Believer's Voice of Victory.
KENNETH: We're talking about receiving healing.
We know--we don't guess. We don't wonder
about it anymore. We know for a Bible fact it is always
God's will to heal. AUDIENCE: Amen! Yes! KENNETH: It is
all--let me say this. Let me say this. All sickness, all disease,
all poverty, all human suffering, every bad thing,
every bad storm, all bad weather, all of it is the result
of a terrible hatred in the heart of Satan for mankind. He
is the author of all death. He is the author of all pain. He is
the author of all stress. He is the author of all death. He
is--he is the author of all of it! (Audience Agrees) Amen.
(Audience "Amens") And the curse is threefold. Spiritual death,
which is being separated from God--you know, the Bible said
you--when you were dead in your sins--well, those people hadn't
died and gone to the grave. No, they're still walking around,
but they're dead. AUDIENCE: Right. KENNETH: Why? Separated
from God. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: Amen. So
spiritual death, sickness, and poverty. That's the curse. But
Jesus was made a curse for us. (Audience Agrees) Oh,
hallelujah. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. KENNETH: He bore
that curse. (Audience Agrees) FEMALE: Amen. KENNETH: So
redemption is threefold; eternal life, healing, and financial
prosperity--(Audience Agrees)--which includes the
meeting of all of--all of--all of your needs being supplied
according to His riches in glory. Amen. (Audience "Amens")
It's really that simple. Now, religion has complicated it. And
people--you know, ha-ha-ha, you have to really have help to
misunderstand this Book. And we've had some really high-price
help over here. (Laughter) Hallelujah. Oh, glory to God.
I've done a pretty good job of messing it up in my own mind
from time to time, and the Lord would say, "Come on Kenneth, go
back--go back to the basics, son. It ain't that hard. Just
get--" "Well, yeah, but I--" "Now, just come on." Anyway, so
receiving healing is a spiritual process. Healing is a process
like we said. Whether it's instant or whether it's over a
period of time, the physical body goes through the same
healing process. And if you receive it instantly, glory to
God. Or it may take healing progressing. Amen. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: I'll take it any way I can get it. (Audience
"Amens") Yes, amen, and glorify God in it. Now then, "My son,
attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let
them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine
heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and
health," or medicine, "to all of their flesh." Now, that is the
Bible prescription for receiving healing from God. That's it. But
the thing about a prescription, you have to take it. AUDIENCE:
Come on. (Laughter) KENNETH: You can have it--you know, "Doc, I
tell you what. I'll tell you, if anything, I'm getting worse
instead of better." "Well, what did--I gave you that
prescription, didn't I?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I went and
got it--I went and got it filled immediately." "Well, have you
been taking it?" "No, but I've got it sitting right there next
to my bed. I mean, I read it every morning." (Laughter)
What's the problem with that? The medicine is not getting into
the system. AUDIENCE: Right. Right. Come on. KENNETH: Huh?
FEMALE: That's good. KENNETH: It's not getting in the system.
Let me ask you a question. How many of you had lunch today? I
guess the rest of you are pretty hungry, huh? (Laughter) Somebody
on the front row had breakfast or lunch today? MALE: Yeah.
KENNETH: This guy knows what he's doing. Ha-ha-ha. How you
doing, man? I ain't seen you for a while. MALE: I know it.
KENNETH: You're looking good. MALE: Thank you. KENNETH: Amen.
I'll be back in a minute. (Laughter) Do you remember what
you ate? MALE: Yes, sir. KENNETH: Do you remember what it
tasted like? MALE: Yes, sir. KENNETH: If you had to, you
could probably describe it, couldn't you? MALE: Yes, sir.
KENNETH: Mm-hmm. How good--much good is that going to do you
tomorrow? You could probably remember tomorrow at lunch what
you had today. MALE: Yes, sir. KENNETH: And describe it. Well,
what about two days from now? It's going to pretty well be
gone. (Laughs) Why? You--you can remember. You can remember what
that potato tastes like. You know exactly what a potato looks
like. Oh, yeah. And you can describe it prepared in several
different ways, some of them good for you, some of them not.
But you probably tried them all, and you could describe how they
all taste. MALE: Yeah. KENNETH: You can remember potatoes from
now on and the memory of a potato has never nourished
anybody. (Audience Agrees. AUDIENCE: Amen. Amen. KENNETH:
You can memorize scriptures, and that's good. Don't misunderstand
me here. That's a good thing to do, good thing to do. Good for
your brain, it's good for your mind, it's good for you to feed
on these things by memorizing. But memorizing them won't feed
you. (Audience Agrees) Da-da-dah da-da-dee-dee-do-do-do.
(Laughter) Amen. (Audience "Amens") MALE: That's right,
yes. KENNETH: Now you see why it's so important. Take the
time--so--and feed on it. How do you feed on that scripture? You
make the decision, "I choose to believe this." (Audience Agrees)
Now, something happens inside the human spirit when you decide
to believe something, and particularly when you say it.
AUDIENCE: Yes. Yes. KENNETH: Now, you can compare this to
your natural physical body and feeding it. You decide to eat.
It won't be long until you will be hungry-- AUDIENCE: That's
right. KENNETH: --because you decided to eat. And when you
decide to eat, the juices start working. Now, did you have to
tell them to do that? "Stomach?" (Laughter) No. That's
involuntary. Now, switch that over to the spirit man. "Faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." AUDIENCE:
Yes. KENNETH: Faith cometh. Faith is coming right now if
you've made a decision to believe what the Lord has sent
me here to deliver to you today. (Audience "Amens") Amen.
(Audience "Amens") It's coming-- AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH:
--because that's the way the system is made. You can't change
it, and neither can the devil. Amen. (Audience "Amens") Now
then, let's say that the moment you say, "I believe," and it's
not a slang expression, "I believe," something happened in
here. Something happened. "I believe." Say it. AUDIENCE: I
believe. MALE: Glory to God. Amen. KENNETH: Amen. AUDIENCE:
Right. KENNETH: Now, those of you that have been here all
three nights, when you said that, it had some--it had some
snarl to it when you said it. I mean, your believer's got some
growl in it tonight. Hallelujah. But now, it's important that we
understand and have some concept of this because it takes the
mystery out of faith and receiving. In--oh, years ago,
Gloria and I--this was before we had learned anything about how
to use faith. This was before we went to--before I went to ORU
and before we ever heard Brother Hagin and so forth. And I had
the flu. Oh, I mean to tell you, I had--I was really hurting. I
just--and we had--I had driven Gloria to the cleaners, and I
was sitting out in front of the cleaners. And I was so sick. And
I thought, "Man, she's going to have to drive home. I just feel
so bad." And I had my Bible laying there in the seat. And I
had it open to I Peter 2:24, "That himself bore our sins in
his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should
live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed."
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: If ye were, I was. If I was, I
am--(Audience "Amens")--which means that belongs to me.
(Audience Agrees) So I don't have to talk God out of
something I already have. (Audience Agrees) It's just that
simple. I don't have to talk Him into saving me. I'm already
saved. MALE: Amen. KENNETH: I've been saved for a long time. I've
already received it, you understand? Anyway, so--and I'm
sitting there and I'm--and I picked up my Bible, and I just
held it up. Now, notice how the Spirit of God was leading me. I
didn't know to do this. I put my finger on that verse and I read
it out loud, and I said, "Lord Jesus, I choose to believe this
right now." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: "By your stripes, I was
healed, so I am right now." And I just sat there and praised Him
and thought about that. In a few minutes, she came out. By the
time she came out and got in the car, I thought, "Well, I--you
know, I believe I'm good enough to drive home." And by the time
we got to the house, I'm feeling pretty good. I thought, "Well,
you know, I feel like maybe I can go ahead and eat supper now.
I'm--" ha. And by the time we went to bed that night, I was
feeling really good. And I got up the next morning no symptoms
at all. (Applause) Now, that's the kind of flu shot you want.
(Laughter & Applause) Amen. Hallelujah. (Audience
"Hallelujahs") So it's important to understand that the
spirit--your spirit knows how to do this. Do you remember that
Jesus compared the human spirit to soil in the earth? Ha-ha-ha.
Yeah, talking about Saul, talking about the human heart
and the seed that you put in there. If you're hard-hearted,
then the seed won't grow. Well, the seed knew what to do. Your
spirit knows what to do. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH:
You go--if you've got good soil and you've got water and you've
got sunshine and you've got a good seed, it'll grow. (Audience
Agrees) The ground knows what to do, the seed knows what to do,
the water knows what to do, and the sunshine knows what to do.
AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: You don't have--you don't have
to take a botany class to find out about that. It'll work.
AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: In fact, the ground tries to
grow everything you put in it. You put a fence post in the
ground, it'll try to grow it. And in order to grow it, it has
to rot the cover of the seed and break it down, so it tries to
break down that fence post. That's the reason fence posts
rot. The ground's trying to grow it like it was a tree. (Laughs)
It's just the system working. AUDIENCE: Right. KENNETH: Amen.
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: And everything you keep pumping in
here is going to grow. (Audience Agrees) Some of it, you better
pray for a crop failure. (Laughter) Hallelujah. Praise
God. So the system works. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH:
Amen. (Audience "Amens") Now then, keep--look at the 23rd
verse. "Keep your heart," your spirit, "with all diligence; for
out of it are the issues of life." That word "issue" is
"forces." Out of your spirit comes life forces. Amen. All of
the spiritual forces, faith, love--is God--wisdom,
righteousness, hallelujah, healing, amen, wisdom and
understanding, ho-ho-ho, that's all in here because He's in
here. (Audience Agrees) Jesus has made unto us wisdom. The
wisdom of the ages is on the inside of you right now. The
trick is getting it from here to here. AUDIENCE: Come on. Come
on. KENNETH: Another part of that tricky part is don't bury
it. Don't allow your spirit man to be buried and weighed down
under the weight of your carnal mind and your physical body.
There's a giant in there trying to rise up. So get in proper
order. I Thessalonians 5:23, you remember that? MALE: Yes, sir.
KENNETH: That you be made whole, spirit and soul and body. Your
soul and your spirit are not the same thing. It can't be because
the Word says that--the Bible says that the Word divides
asunder the spirit and the soul. MALE: That's right. KENNETH:
Spirit, soul, and body in that order. Spirit, that's you. Soul,
that's your intellectual being. Body, ha-ha, you know what that
is. (Laughter) It is not body, mind, and soul. Let's see, body,
mind, and soul. So actually, what you said was, "mind,"
twice. AUDIENCE: Right. KENNETH: So you're not even in that
equation. (Laughter) But see, that's how fouled up it can get
from all different kinds of sources and ideas. This is
heaven's operating handbook. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH:
You don't go get a book from Ford Motor Company and try to
figure out a Cadillac. If you're driving a Cadillac or a General
Motors product, you need to go get their book-- AUDIENCE:
That's right. KENNETH: Amen? Because you try to follow that
way, it won't work that way. Are you listening to me? (Audience
Agrees) Don't go get other people's books to try to find
out what your soul is. (Audience Agrees) Stay away from that
stuff. "Oh, well, the truth--the truth about the Noah's flood."
The truth about Noah and the flood is in here. (Agreement &
Applause) Don't be like that professor that said to this
young girl, "Well, you see, actually, that's--it actually
could not be possibly true about Jonah and the whale because, you
see, the throat of a whale is much too small to swallow a
human being." She said, "I don't care what you say. I believe the
Bible. I believe it happened just exactly like it said."
(Audience Agrees) "You can't possibly believe that." "Oh, but
I do. Yes. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to talk to him
about it." (Laughter) He said, "What if he's not in heaven?"
She said, "Well, then you can talk to him." (Laughter) It
happened just like the Book said it happened. It didn't happen
the way some--you know, well, you understand what--what I'm
talking about. Praise God. Protect this. Protect the
spirit. Protect your inner man. Look, hey, that's where you
live. That's where your life is. I'm telling you what, when this
inside part stops, all the rest of it stops. (Audience Agrees)
Amen. Are you listening to me? (Audience Agrees) To be absent
from the body is to be present with the Lord. Hallelujah.
AUDIENCE: Hallelujah! Glory! KENNETH: My spiritual father,
Oral Roberts, he called me on the phone one day. And I'm
telling you, he was--he was hollering in the telephone. I
said, "What is it, sir?" Well, he said, "You know, they put
this old stent in my arteries back there years ago." And he
said, "It only had a, you know, certain lifespan." But he said,
"They got a new one now that's for life." And he said, "They
want to go in there and take that one out and put this new
one in." And he said, "They've been telling me, 'Oral, that's
too big a risk. Now, just take your medicine and just be
quiet.'" "Risk?" He was hollering in the phone, "Risk?"
Telling Oral Roberts not to take a risk? They said, "Oral, you
might die." He said, "Well, so what? On the other side of that
is stunning!" (Cheers & Applause) Hey, we're looking for
stunning! We're looking for Jesus and He is stunning!
Somebody give Him a praise right now. Hallelujah. (Cheers &
Applause) But we need to realize that this inner man needs
attention. This inner man needs to be fed properly. This inner
man needs a constant, continual diet on the true Word of God,
the Word of faith. The reason why the apostle Paul called it
the Word of faith in the 10th chapter of the book of Romans is
because it is the source of the faith of God. Hallelujah.
(Audience "Amens") Amen. (Audience "Amens") Ooh, I'm
excited about this tonight, I'm telling you. Amen. The older I
get, the bigger it gets on the inside of me. Praise God.
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Protect it. Keep it. "Put away from you
a disobedient mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
Let your eyes look right on. Let your eyelids look straight
before you." Straight at what? The Word. (Audience Agrees)
Straight at the Word, keeping it on the Word all the time. Can
you say, "Amen"? (Audience "Amens") Hallelujah.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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