Waching daily Jun 4 2018

KENNETH: My brother and sister, the Word of God is

the most precious thing on this earth.

(Singing) I know my God has made the way for

me. I know my God has made the way for me.

ANNOUNCER: This week, join Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

at their prayer cabin in Southwest Arkansas as they

teach on receiving your healing from God. Today, on

the Believer's Voice of Victory, learn how God's Word brings

freedom. Here are Kenneth and Gloria.

KENNETH: Hello, everybody. We're Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, and

welcome to the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast. GLORIA:

Amen. KENNETH: And welcome to Southwest Arkansas. Praise God.

GLORIA: On a chilly spring morning. KENNETH: Yeah, it is.

Whoo! I'm telling you. It's just plum got cold-- GLORIA: It did.

KENNETH: --over the last two or three days. Of course, by

the time you see this, it'll be all warmed up. But, I

mean, it--oh, yeah. And everything--springtime-- GLORIA:

And I didn't even bring my skis or anything. KENNETH: (Laughs)

Our spring time in this part of the country is so beautiful.

GLORIA: It is. KENNETH: It's just wonderful. GLORIA: It's

pretty. KENNETH: Everything comes alive. We've--we've got a

family of geese that have moved in, and they just hatched out

of--two or three days ago. And the little old yellow, fuzzy

goslings-- GLORIA: You may hear them, too. KENNETH: --and, you

know, they're teaching them how to swim, and they paddling

around the pond. It's just wonderful. And we want to--we

want to share this place with you. We enjoy this with you

every year. It's been such a blessing to our family. Gloria

was born just, what, two miles up the road here? And-- GLORIA:

I always was a city girl. KENNETH: Yeah. Ha-ha-ha. Yeah,

uh-huh. The town is--it's got this--the same, what is it, 102

people? And they never changed the sign. I guess the equal

amount move in and move-- GLORIA: Well, that's right,

yeah. KENNETH: --out over the years. Father, we thank You

today. We give You praise, and we honor You today. We honor

Your Word. We honor Your name. We honor the blood of Jesus, and

we thank You. GLORIA: Thank You, Jesus. KENNETH: Open--the

windows of heaven are open, and we open our hearts and minds to

receive, to receive revelation from heaven, to receive insight

and ideas and concepts about living this life of faith in

Jesus and to know more about You, Lord Jesus. Oh, my, my, my.

We love You, and we thank You. We honor You, and we ascribe all

of the glory, all of the honor for every word that's said and

every deed that's done to Your matchless name. Thank You. Amen.

Glory to God. We are going to be talking about healing. Isn't

that good? GLORIA: Oh, I like healing. KENNETH: And Gloria's

done Healing School for almost 40 years, and I'll tell you

what, there ain't nobody just--I don't care who it is. There

ain't nobody knows any more about ministering healing than

Gloria Jean Copeland. Ha-ha-ha. GLORIA: Well, I appreciate that.

KENNETH: I can tell you that. Praise God. I've sat there in

Healing School and just got healed, and received. Amen. It's

just wonderful. GLORIA: Praise the Lord. KENNETH: Now, let's

open our Bible's first to the book of Proverbs. All healing,

all of it, is from God. God is the one--people say, "Well, I

don't believe in that healing." What's the matter with you?

There's healing in your body. "Well, I know, but that's

natural." Well, who do you think put it there? You didn't.

Ha-ha-ha. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: God built that in

there. He is the healer. Amen. Come on. Amen? GLORIA: That's

right. KENNETH: All right, you're going to learn-- GLORIA:

That's right. KENNETH: --a lot of things. I want to show you

this, though. Healing of the physical body is a process. Now,

healing natural--you know, there's just--there's divine

healing, and there's natural healing. GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH:

But--help me, Lord, to make this clear, please. Let's--let's take

the healing of a broken bone. And they--you know, they set the

bone and put it in a cast. And it takes several weeks for that

bone to heal. That's a process, right? GLORIA: Yes, that's

right. KENNETH: Now, that healing process is over a period

of time. Now, divine healing is when the anointing, the power of

God, is released, and that bone--say that bone is healed

over--it mends--say it mends over a period of a week instead

of four to six. Well, you know something's happened. GLORIA:

Speed it up. KENNETH: But it's the same process is what I'm

trying to get over to you. Now, let's say you just received a

miracle, just an instant--instantaneous,

miraculous healing, which a lot are--you're--this is going to

happen a lot all this week. Praise God. GLORIA: Yes, amen.

KENNETH: It's the same process. It just got--it just got sped up

to instantaneous, but the healing is the same process.

Amen. GLORIA: Yes, that's right. KENNETH: Now-- GLORIA: I can see

that. KENNETH: --this is the prescription in the 4th chapter

of the book of Proverbs, beginning with Verse 20. "My

son, attend to my words." Now, I want--we're going to see that

words play a vital part in this all the way through in healing.

Remember Psalm 107:20, Gloria, where He said, "He sent his

word--" GLORIA: Yes, that's right. KENNETH: "--and healed

them, and delivered them from their destructions." Well, Jesus

is the Word. He's called the Word. He is that Word that--

GLORIA: Think how blessed we are to have the Word. KENNETH: Oh,

glory. Yeah, and the--oh, you know what? And there's something

I want to mention about--about this as we go. "Attend to my

words," words came first; "incline thine ear to my

sayings." Well, words don't do you any good if you don't have

an ear to hear. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: And what is

that--let's take, quickly, Mark 4:23. Hold your place there in

Proverbs and go over to the New Testament to the book of Mark 4

and look at the 23rd verse. "If any man--" Now, that--do you--do

you realize that when the Bible, which is a spiritual book,

refers to "man," it's not--it's not talking about gender? It's

talking about mankind. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. KENNETH: You know,

there's been a lot of wrong ideas and bad doctrine that came

out of that, and it's ignorance that caused it. "Well, see, this

is only for men." Well, you know, pssh, I'm not even going

to honor that-- GLORIA: Don't even go there. KENNETH: --with

much comment, but it's talking about mankind. Now, any person,

"Any man--If any man," any person, "have ears to hear, let

him hear." So that's not God's choice. GLORIA: No. KENNETH:

That's our choice. "And he said unto them, Take heed what you

hear." You don't just--you don't--now, we're about to read

in Proverbs 4, "Incline thine ear unto my sayings." You don't

just open your ear up like a garbage pail and just listen to

gossip and all of that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. "You take

heed what you hear: with what measure you--" "M-E-T-E," is old

English for "measure. "--what measure you measure, it shall be

measured to you." The way you hear it is the way it's going to

come back to you. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: "And unto you

that hear shall more be given. For he that hath, to him shall

be given: he that hath not, from him shall be taken that--even

that which he hath." Now, it's not God that's taking it. He

just got through teaching that it's Satan comes immediately to,

what? Steal the Word. My brother and sister, the Word of God is

the most precious thing on this earth. It's the most powerful

thing on this earth. This is a Word-created universe, created

by the Word of God. It is upheld-- GLORIA: That's right.

KENNETH: According to Hebrews 1, it is upheld by the word of His

power. GLORIA: It never loses its power-- KENNETH: No. GLORIA:

--because of that. KENNETH: Because of that. Now, notice

that the Scripture says, "The power of death and life are in

the power of the tongue," or in the power of words. You can't

change that. That's a spiritual law. However, you can change the

words under which you live. And they come out of your own mouth

and out of the Bible, the written Word of the living God.

GLORIA: Mm-hmm. KENNETH: It's so vitally important. Now, notice,

"Unto you that hear shall more be given. For he that hath--"

Has what? GLORIA: Has-- KENNETH: Ears to hear. GLORIA: --ears.

KENNETH: Ha-ha-ha. GLORIA: These things. KENNETH: "He that

hath--" He's talking about ears, wasn't He, when He was talking

about, "Any man have ears to hear, let him hear." "Unto you

that hear shall more be given. For he that hath," ears to hear,

"to him shall be given: and he that hath not," ears to hear,

"from him shall be taken even that which he hath." And He just

got through going through all of this--these verses here, telling

us, from the 14th to the 20th verses, that the sower sows the

Word, and Satan comes immediately to steal it. Now,

when we don't let him steal it, praise God, it's because we have

ears to hear, "shall more be given." GLORIA: I have on

my--you know, I've got this margin on here just filled up.

"Law of--the law of receiving is the law of attention." KENNETH:

Oh, that's good, Gloria. Yeah. Well, hey, let's go back over

there to 4:20. GLORIA: That's what it says. It says, "Attend

to my words." KENNETH: That's what He said. That's what He

said. That is so good. Listen to this, go back to that 20th

verse, the 4th chapter of Proverbs. "My son, attend," pay

attention-- GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH: "--to my words; incline

thine ear unto my sayings." Now, don't forget what Romans 10:17

says. "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word

of God." Now, I made note of these scriptures, Gloria, in

Luke 5:15 and 6:17. They came to hear and be healed. Now, you

know--you know, Gloria, most people have the idea that Jesus

just came to town, and He just went to healing and just--and He

just healed everybody, and He just healed everybody. No, He

didn't. He didn't heal everybody. "Why, Brother

Copeland--" Put your gun up. He didn't--He didn't heal

everybody. There were those in His hometown that "There He

could do no mighty works because of their unbelief." Now, wait a

minute. We're onto something here. What did they not believe?

The Word. He preached. He took a text in the 61st chapter of

Isaiah, and He preached, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,

for He has anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor." So what

happened? He preached, and they didn't believe it. They said,

"Who does He think He is? I mean, we know Him. That's Mary

and Joseph's boy coming in here, telling us that all this and--"

GLORIA: What didn't they do? KENNETH: Got furious at Him.

GLORIA: They didn't pay attention. KENNETH: They didn't

pay attention. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: No, they didn't.

So now what did He do? What did He do after that? The Scripture

said, "He went throughout the whole area, went through their

villages teaching." GLORIA: Oh. KENNETH: That's the cure for

unbelief because faith cometh by hearing-- GLORIA: That's right.

KENNETH: --and hearing by the Word of God. Now, "Attend to my

words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart

from thine eyes." Keep them before your eyes. Now, back in

these days, they only had the written Word. But think about

what you and I have. Oh, my goodness. You know what I enjoy

doing? It's so wonderful now. You can--you know, I've got all

these translations in my phone, and now, not all of them are

audio, but there's a number of them that are in different

translations that--that someone is reading it. Well, turn on the

audio and follow it and read with whomever is reading on

the--on the audio in that particular translation. And, of

course, I use the--I use the King James translation from

which to preach, and so that's what I listen to. I use other

translations to study, but it's so good. You know what? This guy

don't daydream. He just keeps on reading, and you can--you go,

"Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Where is he now?" GLORIA: He

can't stop. He can't stop. KENNETH: No, man. Now, there are

times you stop and you make notes and so forth, but there

are times you need to just--just go on and read and listen

carefully and read and look. So, amen. Now then, "Keep them--"

Don't let them depart from your eyes. When you're reading and

meditating and confessing the Word of God, keep them--you

ought to--you ought to go through the healing scriptures

every day. And as you do, you begin to see yourself--you

meditate on that, "By his stripes you were healed." "Okay,

what does that mean now that I'm healed, and I know I'm healed

now? Well, you know, healed people ought to--ought to be

up out of bed this time of day. Well, what am I--what am

I staying in bed for?" GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH: "Yeah,

but you've got the flu." Don't--this--that's not what

this says. This says, "By His stripes you were healed." "I

know, but you're hurting." "Yeah, but that don't matter."

Now, here's the difference, Gloria, and this is--this is

where the--it seems to be difficult. People make it

difficult. But when you "attend to My word, you put My word

first place," when that's final authority in your life, and you

read I Peter 2:24--and, for instance, I've really--I enjoy

doing this first thing out of bed in the morning. I look in

the mirror. I go in there in the bathroom, and I look in the

mirror, and I look myself right in the eye. "Surely Jesus bore

my griefs, my sicknesses, my sorrows, and my pains." Look at

my--look at myself right in the eye, and I finish quoting that.

"We did esteem him stricken and smitten of God and afflicted.

But he was wounded for my transgressions, he was bruised

for my iniquities: and the chastisement of my peace was

upon him; and with his stripes I am healed." Then I go over to

Matthew 8:17-- GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH: --which was in--in

quoting that scripture. "Himself took my infirmities, and bore my

sicknesses." Then I go to I Peter 2:24. "Jesus bore my

sins." I'm looking myself right in the eyes, and I'm saying

this. "Jesus Himself bore my sins in his own body on the

tree, that I, being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness,

by whose stripes I was healed. If I was healed, I am healed

now." GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: Now, that's what God

said about it. Now, faith is believing that instead of

believing physical symptoms or anything else. I heard Creflo

Dollar say it like this. In fact, I was watching Creflo

yesterday. And, oh, my goodness. So plain. He said, "Now,

grace--" You know, the Scripture says, "We are saved by grace

through faith." It put the grace first and then the faith next.

Then we see over in Romans 4:16, "It is by faith, so that

it might be by grace." Now, get this. Creflo said this, and, oh,

my, my, it just blessed me so. He said, "Jesus--Grace--" Jesus,

full of grace and truth. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. KENNETH: "Grace provided

my healing 2,000 years ago. Grace provided that." Now, I

have to appropriate it by faith. GLORIA: "Grace" meaning you

didn't do anything to deserve it. KENNETH: I did--it has

nothing to do with-- GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH:

--anything I did or didn't do. GLORIA: It was grace. KENNETH:

It's just pure grace. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. KENNETH: So what I must

do, I must appropriate it by faith and say, "That's mine. I

take it now. And from this moment, I am healed." And don't

get off of it. Don't turn that loose. GLORIA: That's right.

KENNETH: Don't get over into the, "Yeah, but's." "Yeah, but I

hurt. What if--" No. No, no, no, no. All that's a badge of

unbelief. Just get over here and stay here. "Yeah, but I'm

healed. Yeah, but I'm well." Yeah. Yeah, yeah. GLORIA: And,

you know, we ought to start doing that when we feel good,

not wait until we get sick. KENNETH: All the time. That's

the reason I'm saying-- GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: --do it

every morning looking in the mirror. GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH:

"Every morning, I'm healed." GLORIA: Yes, amen. KENNETH: I

don't care what your body feels like. And you just--you just

keep laying hold of that. As your faith grows, your faith

appropriates it, and it comes from the power of God within. It

comes from a power of the Holy Ghost upon you, and it doesn't

come--it doesn't come down on you here. It comes from in here,

out like that. We're out of time. GLORIA: Already? KENNETH:

Already. Gloria and I'll be back in just a moment.

ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth

Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.