Is America on the Lord’s Side?

Posted on March 31, 2016 - 3:59 pm by kcmblogsite

by Billye Brim

During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln heard someone say he hoped the Lord was on the Union’s side. Lincoln replied, “I am not at all concerned about that, for I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.”

At this critical time, that must be our prayer as well.

The Lord has a side. It’s in the Bible, exactly as it is written.

The Bible is the plan of the ages, and it’s not subject to change. Jesus said to look at the fig tree—which represents Israel—to see where we are in God’s timetable (Luke 21:29-31). Through Abraham, God chose Israel, blessed them, and gave them the land.

God’s original plan was to reveal Himself to the nations and demonstrate His blessings through Israel. “And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee” (Deuteronomy 28:10).

The Jews were literally scattered to the four corners of the earth (verse 64). But just before the coming of the Messiah, God promised to gather them back to their land. The Jewish people began to return to their homeland in 1948 when Israel was declared a state. Even today, we see that happening. “For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it” (Jeremiah 30:3).

America’s Untold Foundation

God also clearly declared the outcome of those who bless Israel and those who curse Israel.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed (Genesis 12:1-3).

From our beginnings, America has blessed Israel. As a result, we have had a chuppah (canopy) of blessing over us. But if we stray from God’s plan, we damage our covering and become exposed to the storms.

Judgment of the Nations

I believe we are now in a time called the “judgment of the nations.” Although every nation will be judged, the Bible tells us how, as a nation, we can pass that judgment. It also tells what will happen to the nations that don’t go with God’s plan.

Joel 3:2 says, “I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” The Hebrew says, “I will bring all nations to the valley of Jehoshaphat and will indict them there.”

So the Bible tells us that God will bring all nations to the valley of judgment (Jehoshaphat means “Jehovah shall judge”). At that time, He will indict those who scattered the Jewish people and divided up the land of Israel. What that judgment will be was revealed through the prophet Jeremiah. Through him, God said to Israel, “Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey” (Jeremiah 30:16).

In this crucial hour, the United States of America needs prayer. Our leaders are involved in great discussions and pressures to part the land God gave His people. Those in government and in spiritual authority need our prayers of intercession that they will understand God’s will and His plan for Israel, and act accordingly.

First Timothy 2:1-2 is the prayer platform of the Church and gives us authority to pray for our leaders. “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”

Leading a quiet and peaceable life depends on our prayers for those in authority. The future of the United States is not in the hands of politicians…it is in our hands.

Pray that America will be on the Lord’s side. We must have our canopy of blessing intact. We must continue to bless Israel.

Billye Brim is the president and founder of Billye Brim Ministries. For ministry materials and information write to Billye Brim Ministries, P.O. Box 40, Branson, MO 65615, call 1-417-336-4877 or visit her Web site www.billyebrim.org

2016 – April Wallpaper

Posted on March 31, 2016 - 12:00 am by KCM

Your digital wallpaper for April is ready to download! You can save this wallpaper to your desktop computer or mobile device. Say it every day: “I am healed!”

Click here to download the Desktop version.

Click here to download the Mobile version.

Desktop Computer Instructions
For most desktop computers, click the link to download the image. Then, navigate to your downloads folder to find your newly downloaded image. Next, simply right-click the image and select “Set as desktop background or wallpaper.”

Mobile Device Instructions
For most mobile devices, click the link to download the image to your device’s photo album. Then, in most cases, you can change your wallpaper background or lock screen from the Settings menu. If you can’t find this setting, consult your device’s help section or manual for instructions on how to apply the image as your new wallpaper or lock screen.

L-O-V-E

Posted on March 17, 2016 - 4:47 pm by kcmblogsite

The Rod On Which Every Blessing Hangs

By Kenneth Copeland

Imagine someone trying to hang curtains over a window without first putting up the curtain rod. It would be impossible, right? The guy would try to put up one set of curtains only to have them fall down just as fast as he could reach for the next set. If he continued in this way, he would soon be hopelessly tangled in a pile of curtains.

If we looked a little closer at this pile of fallen curtains, we would see written on each a name. One would be the curtain of faith. Another, the curtain of deliverance. Others might be curtains of healing, prosperity, righteousness and gifts of the spirit.

Next we would hear the poor fellow crying out: “Oh God, why is this happening to me? I’m serving You. It seems as though my faith doesn’t work right. I’m sick, though I believe in healing. I believe in abundance, yet I’m behind in my bills. Only debt and lack are abundant in my life. What’s wrong??!!”

Our attention is then drawn to a corner of the room. There, standing all the time just waiting to be hung is a tremendously strong, golden curtain rod. It’s as massive and stout as a bridge girder. Written on it in huge red letters we see Matthew 22:37-40:

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.

The second is like unto it,

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

On these hang all the law and the prophets.

The Lord flashed that vision across my spirit recently as I was praying about overflow and why the Church has had such a hard time with promises such as Ephesians 3:14-21. The Ephesians passage was the Apostle Paul’s prayer that we would have a working knowledge of the love of Christ and such intimacy with Jesus and His Anointing that we would be “filled with all the fulness of God.” For 2000 years the Church has really had difficulty believing that could ever happen.

As I prayed, the Lord showed me that curtain-hanging scene. My first thought was, This is hilarious! I am a big fan of the old, silent-era movie comedies of Buster Keaton. It was amazing how his character could become so tangled up in all kinds of stuff and still come out of it all right. So as this vision unfolded, it tickled me. I laughed out loud.

That is, until I heard that man’s cry: “Oh God, why is this happening to me? I’m serving You. It seems as though my faith doesn’t work right. I’m sick, though I believe in healing. I believe in abundance, yet I’m behind in my bills. The only abundance I have is debt and lack. What’s wrong??!!”

When I heard that prayer, it pierced my heart.

That cry is the same cry I am hearing everywhere. It’s something that has been far too common in the lives of believers everywhere. As the Lord concluded the curtain-hanging vision He had given me, He spoke these final words:

Don’t hang the curtains.

Hang the rod!

The curtains are already on the rod.

Doing the Greater Works

The writing on those curtains represents every blessing and manifestation of God’s love to meet man’s need. Each of them is a law of the spirit. And they all hang on the law of love.

Two things believers must clearly establish in their thinking are (1) everything works by spiritual law, and (2) no law of God works correctly unless it is first tied to the law of love. These things are vitally important to comprehend and apply, especially as we walk in days of overflow—days of increasingly great displays of God’s abundance and love, but also days of unusual devastation, whether the result of man’s activities or catastrophic eruptions of the physical elements of the earth buckling under the weight of sin.

What we are seeing is not the result of two different sets of spiritual laws, one created by God and the other created by Satan. We are seeing the result of one law set in motion at Creation and reaffirmed in God’s promise after the Flood: “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest…shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22). And every word and action of man is included in that planting and harvesting process: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Galatians 6:7-9).

Sin’s harvest is the same as it has been since the Garden of Eden. Romans 6:23 tells us: “For the wages of sin is death.” But the overflow of the fruit of righteousness—the seeds of repentance, love and compassion—is the abundance of everything good. Overflow is fulfillment of Jesus’ promise that “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” (John 14:12).

Greater works than what Jesus did on earth? Is that possible? Not only is it possible, but the Church already saw a glimpse of the “greater works” on the Day of Pentecost. Thousands of people were spirit-born and baptized that day. Not only that, people were healed by the power of God without being touched—they only had to come within a shadow’s distance of Peter.

But those kinds of occurrences over time became fewer and fewer and farther between. What happened? Did God just stop doing those things? No. The Church stopped making love a priority above every other pursuit. As a result, operations of the nine gifts, or manifestations of Jesus, faded to almost nothing. Revelation of God’s Word also grew increasingly dim. Then one day revelation of Romans 1:17, “The just shall live by faith,” came alive in the spirit of a young, German priest named Martin Luther. And God patiently began restoring truth to the Body of Christ. The new birth, the revelation that the just shall live by faith, the baptism in the Holy Ghost, gifts of the Spirit, healing, faith, prosperity—all of these things have been restored.

Restoration has come.

It’s time for overflow.

Know and Apply the Elements

God has never changed His plan which is for Jesus to manifest Himself in us as “his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all” (Ephesians 1:23). His plan is still for believers to comprehend (have a working knowledge of) and know (intimately) the love of Christ and His Anointing (Ephesians 3:19). It is still that we would walk so consistently full of His love that wherever we go, we would confidently hear and obey the voice of the Holy Ghost telling us how to minister to the needs of those we meet.

For instance, if you were filled with the fullness of Him and walking in the love of God you could be in the grocery store when you’d hear the Holy Spirit whisper: See that woman over there. Her heart is broken. Her teenager is in a whole lot of trouble. If you’ll just walk over to her, I’ll give you words to say that will deliver her from fear and grief and sorrow.

As you were obedient to the prompting and instruction of the Holy Spirit, that woman would be set free!

We enter into God’s plan for our lives as we discover and apply the elements of His laws that let His love be put on full display. The laws of God control the blessings of God.

There are no accidents, and there is no such thing as luck. Spiritual law governs all of life.

God’s laws, or promises, in every realm of human existence were given for a purpose. That purpose is stated in 2 Peter 1:4 which tells us we have been given “exceeding great and precious promises: that by these [we] might be partakers of the divine nature.”

Perhaps you’ve heard someone who does not understand that faith is a law say something like, “Well, you know, faith comes through trial and tribulation and temptation.”

What they’re saying is just guesswork. That’s not what the Word says at all. And it just plain doesn’t work. If hard times made your faith strong, everyone would be a faith giant!

Romans 3:27 tells us faith is a law: “By what law? of works? [No]: but by the law of faith.” And by a little digging in the Word, we find the elements of that law. Romans 10:17 says: “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Another element of spiritual law is found in James 2:20: “Faith without works is dead (or incomplete).” Jesus said, “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” (Mark 11:23).

As we continue reading, we also find that Jesus said, “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses” (verse 25). Once again we see that every law hangs on the law of love. “Faith worketh by love” (Galatians 5:6).

Every promise of God is released the same way. God is no respecter of persons. Find the elements and apply them in the order He gave. Begin by walking in the greatest law—love. Then faith, prosperity, healing, wisdom, gifts of the spirit, salvation—whatever is needed to manifest the love of God in that situation—will manifest every time.

No Longer Mere Men and Women

You can apply this same process to every promise of God—His blessings work by spiritual law. “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2). We need to know these things because we are no longer mere men and women. We are new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17). The same Father who did the works that manifest in Jesus now lives in us to do those same works and greater works:

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works…. He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father…. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him…. If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him (John 14:10-23).

Can you see what is bursting forth in the Body of Christ in 2005? Let’s look again at that post-Pentecost report of what happened in the life of Peter. Acts 5 tells us there was a huge outpouring, so much so that people were bringing the sick into the streets on their beds “that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them” (verse 15). This wasn’t about his shadow. It was about a manifestation of the power of God so strong that neither sickness nor disease nor any other work of death and darkness could stay in those who got within shadow distance of him.

Now, are you ready to shout? That same thing has begun to manifest again in parts of the world. There are churches in Nigeria in which this is happening all the time. As soon as people walk through the door, they start speaking in tongues and getting healed!

Taking Love to the Streets

As love becomes our greatest pursuit, manifestations of that love are going to make the multitudes wake up and take notice. The world is hoping that what we believe is real. And they’ll see it is true as we begin to get an intimate, working knowledge of how Love operates. When that happens, we’ll stop identifying with the woman with the issue of blood straining to touch the hem of Jesus’ garment. Instead we’ll begin identifying with the One whom she touched.

“Oh Brother Copeland, that sounds like blasphemy!”

I’m not talking about being Jesus. I am talking about being His joint heirs, anointed and authorized by Him and indwelt by the Father who does the work.

When you begin to walk in love, love will flush the fear out until you are no longer afraid to impose your authority on sin, sickness, demons and fear. You’ll become a vessel through whom the love of Jesus will be put on full display.

You’ll begin to walk so close to God that you tell Him about 500 times a day how much you love Him and He’ll tell you 505 times a day how much He loves you. You’ll learn to recognize the voice of Love and hear Him talk to you.

That’s the true depth of meaning in this life. It’s not just preaching for an hour. It’s having God stop you on the street somewhere and say, That woman needs healing. Minister to her now.

Be ready. Develop a working knowledge of the love of God and intimacy with His Anointing. Make love your greatest pursuit.

Don’t hang the curtains…hang the rod.

It’s a Miracle! KCM Partner Family Survives Deadly Tornado in Virginia

Posted on March 17, 2016 - 12:00 am by KCM

Hello everybody! We have a miracle and an AMAZING testimony to share! This past weekend, our KCM Disaster Relief Team responded to the recent tornadoes in Appomattox, Va. Our Partner, Sandy Burchette, wasn’t home when the tornado hit, but her son Jake, a U.S. veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan, was asleep during the day because he works the night shift.

When the storm neared their home, a noise woke Jake up just as he was swept into the funnel of the tornado. He was barraged by debris and thrown into a brick wall of a house 300 yards away. Miraculously, Jake’s wounds were minor, and he was able to walk to safety.

“It really didn’t register to me what was happening,” says Jake.

Sandy was on her way home from work and couldn’t reach her home by car because the roads were blocked from debris. After finally reaching Jake, Sandy and her son realized their home and vehicles had been completely destroyed.

“There is no doubt in my mind that He [God] cradled Jake,…and cushioned him as he hit that brick wall. I know that,” remarks Sandy.

Watch the story from Jake’s perspective, starting with when he was flung into the tornado, in the video below:

Thankfully, because of the generosity of KCM Partners, the KCM Disaster Relief team was able to meet, pray for, and help the Burchette family financially. Praise God for His mighty protection in the midst of a storm and the power of Partnership!

Leaving the Low Life Behind

Posted on March 10, 2016 - 3:56 pm by kcmblogsite

by Kenneth Copeland

Far too many believers are struggling with sin these days—and it’s time for us to end that struggle. The Lord Jesus Christ did not live His life on earth, shed His precious blood, defeat the devil in the pit of hell and rise again in glorious victory so that you and I could spend the rest of our natural lives struggling against (and falling into) sin.

Jesus whipped sin once and for all so that we wouldn’t have to. Hebrews 9:26 says that through His work of redemption “now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.”

To struggle and fight with sin is like getting back into a boxing ring with an opponent who has already been defeated. Sin has already been knocked down and out by the Lord Jesus Himself. The count is over and we’ve been declared the victor in Him. The fight with sin is finished. So we might as well stop struggling and enjoy the victory.

“Oh, Brother Copeland,” you might say, “are you getting soft on sin? Are you suggesting I just give up and give in to it?”

Absolutely not! On the contrary, I’m suggesting you rise up by faith in the Word of God and put sin under your feet where it belongs. Start acting like the Bible is true. Start believing that God meant it when He said, “Sin shall not have dominion over you” (Romans 6:14).

Sin Stops the Anointing

No real Christian should ever be soft on sin. It is an absolutely horrible thing. It blocks the blessings of God from coming into our lives. In fact, sin is a manifestation of the antichrist. Here’s why I say that. The word Christ is the Greek word for anointing. The anointing is God’s burden-removing, yoke-destroying power that came to mankind through Jesus. It is still flowing on the earth today through His Body which is the Church.

The devil is anti-Christ. He is in the business of putting people in bondage so he is against that anointing. He would like to stop its operation in the earth because it sets people free. Obviously, he can’t stop the anointing at the Head because Jesus is beyond the devil’s reach. He is in heaven, seated at the right hand of God. So the devil focuses his attacks on us.

After all, we are the Body of the Anointing. We represent Jesus in the earth and we are where His burden-removing power resides. So if the devil is going to stop that power, somehow he has to keep it from flowing through us.

That’s why the devil works so hard to get believers into sin. He doesn’t really care that much about the good or bad things we do. His goal is to stop the anointing and he knows sin will do the job. So he goes to work trying to blind our eyes to the victory we have in Jesus. He tries to drag us back into a battle that has already been won and convince us to expend our energies grappling with sin instead of simply grasping by faith the victory over it that has already been given.

In light of the Word of God, the very idea of believers being overcome by sin is ridiculous. We ought to not be walking in sin any more than Jesus did when He was here on the earth! We’ve been made free from the law of sin and death. We’ve been handed a law that supercedes it and it is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. When it is applied, sin must bow its knee. Then we can stop struggling with it and start living above it like we should!

Activate a Higher Law

I realize that thought is foreign to the minds of many religiously trained believers. They’re like the fellow who decided the only way he could ever live above sin would be to rent an apartment over a bar! If that’s the way you feel, take heart. You can activate the sin-dominating power of God in your life. All you need is some faith. And since faith comes by hearing the Word of God, let’s look at what it has to say about this issue.

In Romans, we find the Apostle Paul describing a miserable condition many believers are all too familiar with. He is writing about a time in his life when he tried not to sin, yet found himself falling into it against his will again…and again…and again. He says:

O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!… There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Romans 7:24-25, 8:1-4, New King James Version).

If you’ve found yourself in the condition Paul described, repeatedly stumbling into sin, you might have a question about these verses. You might think, If I’ve already been made free from the law of sin and death by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, why didn’t I automatically start living sin-free the moment I got saved?

Because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus only works when it is put to work!

Think in terms of natural, physical laws and you’ll easily see what I mean. The law of gravity, like the law of sin and death, is functioning continually on the earth. It works all the time. No matter who you are—sinner or saint—if you jump off the house you’re going to hit the ground. Isn’t that correct? You can struggle against that law. You can come up with new and better ways to jump off the house. You can flap your arms hard and fast but you’ll still fall. You simply can’t win a fight with the law of gravity.

What you can do, however, is activate a higher law known as the law of lift. If you apply that law directly, you can supercede the law of gravity and fly.

Of course mankind has only put that law to work for themselves in recent years. But the law was there all the time. Birds have been using it for ages. Actually the law of lift existed back in Noah’s day. He could have built an airplane instead of an ark if God had given him the materials and the revelation.

The law of divine lift is called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. It always supercedes the law of sin and death and it has been in operation on the earth for more than 2,000 years. It was introduced into this atmosphere the moment the Holy Ghost came at Pentecost bringing the message of the resurrected Jesus. The only reason Christians still sin is because they don’t know how to exercise that law.

Two Plus Two Is Four—No Matter How You Feel

“How do we exercise it?” you ask.

To answer that question, let’s stick with the analogy of gravity versus lift. In the natural realm, there are certain principles that must be applied to put the law of lift into operation. Using thrust over drag, you have to manipulate high and low pressure systems in a certain way in order to rise above the law of gravity and fly.

In the same way, there are principles that if applied will always activate the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. The first of those is the principle of faith. Acts 16:31 says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved…” So, as I’ve already stated, our very first order of business is to believe in the saving power of Jesus—not just in His power to save us from hell in the hereafter but in His power to save us from sin in the here-and-now.

We must dare to believe that despite all previous evidence to the contrary, what the Bible says is true: Sin has no more dominion over us! We must dare to believe that through Jesus we have already been made victorious over it.

“But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “I don’t feel very victorious. I feel weak and helpless when temptation comes my way.”

It doesn’t matter how you feel about it. The devil will always come along and do his best to draw you off the truth of the Word and into your feelings. But don’t let him. Remember that just like natural laws, spiritual laws are true no matter how you feel.

Take the laws of mathematics, for example. They’re true all the time for all people in every circumstance. You might get up some morning and say, “I just don’t feel like numbers will work today. I know they worked yesterday and they’re in the math book and all…but today I just feel like two plus two is six.”

You know as well as I do that how you feel about numbers is irrelevant. Two plus two will always be four no matter how you feel.

The Word of God is the same way. It’s always true no matter how you feel. So base your thoughts and actions on the Word, not on your feelings. The Word says Jesus has put sin away. It says sin is a defeated foe and has no place in your life, so believe and act on that Word regardless of your emotions.

The Second Key

To find the second principle that activates the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, let’s focus on the last three words of that phrase—in Christ Jesus. Keeping that phrase in mind, let me ask you this: If the law of the Spirit of life resides in Christ Jesus, isn’t it reasonable to assume that to use that law we must be abiding in Him?

Certainly it is! And we can find out how to abide in Him by reading the words Jesus gave us in John 15. There, He said:

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me…As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love…This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you (verses 4, 9-10, 12, New King James Version).

Walking in love is the second key to activating the law of spiritual lift!

If you think about it, that makes perfect sense. After all Jesus is the “express image” (Hebrews 1:3) of God…and the Bible tells us that “God is love” (1 John 4:8). Therefore, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus could also be called the law of the Spirit of love!

Love is what enabled Jesus to defeat sin when He walked the earth. He didn’t spend His time studying and concentrating on all the sins he shouldn’t commit and all the things He shouldn’t do. He just walked in love which lifted Him above those things. Walking in love guaranteed He wouldn’t do any harm to His neighbor. It guaranteed that He wouldn’t break God’s commandments. Love fulfills those commands by its very nature!

So when He commanded us to walk in love, He was actually saying, “I have defeated sin for you. I have given you My own Spirit to dwell within you. Now you go out and live like I lived. Live above sin by walking and talking in love!”

I See Jesus in You

Exactly what does it mean to walk in love toward one another? We find a perfect picture of it in Matthew 25. There, Jesus described the judgment day to come and said:

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me (verses 31-40).

That last verse is one of the most important verses in the Bible. It tells us that if we’re acting in love toward our fellow man, we’ll treat him just like we’d treat the Lord Jesus Himself. If I’m truly abiding in love, when I look at you, I’ll think of Jesus. I’ll remember that He suffered for you. He died for you. He went to hell for you. He was raised again for you.

I’ll be aware that Jesus loves you just as much as He loves me. As far as He is concerned, if you don’t have clothes, He doesn’t either. If you don’t have shelter over your head, He doesn’t either. He totally identifies with you.

What would you do if I called you and said, “I need you to go to the prison with me? They’ve put Jesus in there! Somebody beat Him up, shot Him up with heroin and got Him addicted to it and now He’s almost dead. We have to go visit Him. We have to do something to help Him!”

How would you answer me? What would you say? I’m fairly sure you wouldn’t say, “Well it’s fine for you to go down there to the prison but that’s not my calling. I have more important things to do…”

Riding High in Jesus

No, you wouldn’t say that! You’d say, “Just hang on, I’ll be there as quick as I can.” If you didn’t have enough money to meet the need, you’d cry out to God for it. You’d say, “Father, I have to have a few thousand dollars right away. Jesus needs help! He needs food. He needs clothes. He needs a house.” You’d start tapping into the resources of heaven—not just to meet your own little needs but in order to take care of the Lord!

I’m telling you, the windows of heaven would open in response and pour you out so much you’d hardly have room to receive it. Why? Because there wouldn’t be any sin and selfishness there to block the blessing! You’d go charging out into the world to meet the needs of “the least of these My brethren” armed with the provision of heaven and clothed in the anointing of Jesus Himself.

That’s the way we ought to be living! We shouldn’t be messing around in the spiritual lowlands stumbling around in sin. Jesus has called us to a higher way of life. He has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness.

If we’ll just step out in faith and love, we’ll take off into that life like a spiritual jet and leave sin far below us. Riding high on the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, we won’t be struggling with sin anymore. We’ll be abiding in Jesus. We’ll be flying free.

Free KCM product now offered via the BVOV broadcast!

Posted on March 10, 2016 - 3:11 pm by kcmblogsite

“When the seed gets bigger, the harvest gets bigger!” – Kenneth Copeland

Do you wish you had FREE access to consistent, biblically based study materials and tools that would help you live the victorious life God has planned for you? Do you ever find yourself wishing you could purchase product offers that accompany the Believer’s Voice of Victory (BVOV) broadcasts each week?

Well, we have GREAT news! The Lord recently spoke to Kenneth saying, You have sold the last television product you’ll ever sell.

In the video above, Kenneth makes this huge announcement concerning FREE weekly product offers from KCM:

Effective Sunday, March 13, 2016, Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM) will be sowing all KCM products offered on the BVOV broadcast absolutely FREE!

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland are delighted to be sowing this product into your life! In this video, Kenneth explains why he’s doing it and how he is expecting not only a huge harvest in your life, but also in the ministry.

To find each week’s free product offer, go to kcm.org and look for “This Week’s Product Offer” on the home page. Go there now and get this week’s offer!

Note: Free product offers apply only to Kenneth Copeland Ministries’ products offered on the BVOV broadcast and featured on the KCM website as “This Week’s Product Offer.” When we host guest ministers on the broadcast, their products may or may not be included in the week’s free offer.

Kenneth and Gloria love you, and we all pray for you every day! Remember…Jesus Is Lord!

-Team KCM

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You Can Stop Living Defeated!

Posted on March 3, 2016 - 2:54 pm by kcmblogsite

Sure-fire ways to live a victorious life.

by Gloria Copeland

“In this world you will have trouble…”

Those may not be our favorite words in the Bible. But, like it or not, Jesus said them.

Some people think faith preachers don’t believe that. They think we teach that if you walk by faith you won’t have any problems at all. But we don’t. We are well aware of the fact that this world is full of trouble. And as long as we live in it, we’re going to face trouble too.

The difference however, between us and some other folks is this: We don’t stop there. We preach the rest of the story. We preach the other things Jesus said in that verse. He said, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But, take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33, New International Version).

Glory to God! Jesus said we could have peace in the midst of the troubles of this world. He said that in Him, we could overcome it!

Ken and I know from experience how true those words are. We’ve been walking with the Lord for a lot of years and we’ve faced some serious trouble during that time. We’ve faced financial trouble, sickness and disease, and challenges with our children.

We’ve encountered problems that, naturally speaking, we didn’t know the answer to.

But you know what? We found out that if we stuck with God and trusted what He said in His Word, He’d see us through. We found out that Jesus has defeated every foe that comes against us and when we follow Him, He leads us out of trouble and into victory every time.

We found out that in Him we truly do have peace.

A few years ago, I learned that the word peace (which is the word shalom in Hebrew) literally means “to be whole, or perfectly intact with nothing missing and nothing broken.” And the Bible tells us that in the Name of Jesus, we have a covenant of peace with God.

Think of it! Almighty God has made a blood covenant with us, promising to keep us whole and intact with nothing missing and nothing broken—right in the middle of this messed up, dangerous world.

A Case of Neglect

Why then, if we have this wonderful covenant of peace, are so many Christians living defeated, broken lives? Why do so many good, born-again believers fall prey to the destructions of this world when God has promised to deliver them?

I believe Hebrews 2 tells us. There we, as heirs of this covenant of salvation, are given some instructions.

Since all this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the truths that we have heard, lest in any way we drift past [them] and slip away. For if the message given through angels [the Law spoken by them to Moses] was authentic and proved sure, and every violation and disobedience received an appropriate (just and adequate) penalty, How shall we escape…if we neglect and refuse to pay attention to such a great salvation [as is now offered to us, letting it drift past us forever]?… (verses 1-3, The Amplified Bible).

We don’t have to do something terrible to find ourselves trapped in some kind of trouble with no way of escape. We don’t have to be in some kind of sin and rebellion against God. All we have to do is neglect what He has done for us.

According to Webster’s dictionary, the word neglect means “to ignore or disregard; to fail to care for or attend to sufficiently or properly; to fail to carry out through carelessness or by intention; leave undone.”

It’s easy to let spiritual things get away from you. Even though you may have been on fire and excited about the truths of God, they’ll slip away from you if you stop paying attention to them. If you don’t keep them in your eyes and in your ears, you can drift right back into unbelief.

As born-again children of God, we have a great salvation. But if we just get up in the morning, go to work, come home, eat dinner, watch television and go to bed like natural people do, we’re going to suffer defeat and calamity right along with the rest of the world. If we get too busy with other things to pay proper attention to the things of God, we’ll miss out on the benefits of our salvation that are available to us while we are still in the earth. There are covenant benefits here as well hereafter!

They’re Not Automatic

Exactly what are those benefits?

If you don’t know that answer, you won’t be able to experience the fullness of your salvation. After all, you can’t lay hold of the things God has provided if you don’t know what they are or that they belong to you.

To fully understand the benefits of your salvation, you need to continually read and study the Word of God. You’re not going to walk in victory without knowing what the Word says. Jesus said, “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-32).

A good place to begin your understanding of salvation is by learning the meaning of the word. Most believers think the word salvation simply means “to be saved from eternal damnation.” But it means much more than that.

The word salvation refers to deliverance from all kinds of evil—both temporal and eternal. It refers to spiritual and material preservation, deliverance from the fear of danger as well as pardon, restoration, healing, wholeness, and soundness in spirit, soul and body.

It’s true that when we are born again we are saved from the penalty of sin (Romans 5:9). Hallelujah, we’ve been delivered from hell and we’re headed for heaven!

But, that’s not all that’s included in our covenant of salvation. It also provides a life of freedom while we’re still here on earth.

It provides deliverance from the dominion of sin in this life (Romans 6:14). Thank God, we don’t have to sin any more! We have been born of God and we have the power to live holy lives.

Psalm 91 tells us that God also promises to protect us from earthly dangers. It says we’ll be delivered from pestilence, which includes serious sickness and disease, famine, earthquakes and other calamities. It says we’ll be protected from sudden death that comes by the weapons of men. It promises us a long, satisfying life and deliverance from every kind of trouble that comes our way.

Those are wonderful promises, but they don’t operate in our lives automatically just because we’re Christians. They operate under specific conditions and verses 1-2 tell us what those conditions are:

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and relay, and in Him I [confidently] trust! (The Amplified Bible).

Your Abiding Place

The first condition we see there is that of abiding in the Lord or staying consistently close to Him. If you aren’t consistent in your walk with the Lord, you won’t consistently see the promises in Psalm 91 coming to pass for you.

That’s not God’s fault. He always wants to deliver you, and be merciful and kind to you. He is willing. And He has the wonderful capacity to keep up with and to bless all of us. We don’t have to look Him up when we need Him because He’s always with us.

But He’s not like the devil who comes in and forces things on you. God won’t take over and make you do things His way. He won’t force His blessings on you.

He’ll do everything He can to get you to turn toward Him, but He won’t dominate you. He will reach out to you and wait for you to open the door of faith for Him.

How do you keep that door open? By giving God first place in your life. And you can’t do that and be a lazy Christian. Over and over again, the Bible tells us we must seek God first and foremost if we want His blessing in our lives. Seek is a scriptural word that means “to go after with intense effort.”

If you want to experience the fullness of this great salvation Jesus purchased for you, you have to exert consistent effort. Not just when it’s convenient. You can’t live a life of sin, neglecting the things you know to do, and then expect to turn to God when you need help.

Some people do that. They think, God took care of me last time when I wasn’t living right. So next time He’ll do the same thing.

That’s a dangerous attitude.

If you keep going in rebellion and stubbornness, you’ll get a hard heart. One of these days, you may find yourself unable to turn to God when you need help. Even if you can turn to Him, you may find you’re under so much condemnation in your own mind and heart that your faith won’t work.

“But I’m not rebelling,” you might say. “I’ve just been too busy lately to spend time in the Word or in prayer.”

Then you’d better simplify your life because you can’t spend your time on other things, filling your heart and your life with natural concerns, and expect to be strong in faith when trouble comes.

“Oh, but things are going fine right now.”

That may be true, but, as Jesus said, trouble is coming. When it does, it better find you doing what Psalm 91:1 says, “abiding in the secret place of the Most High.”

The word abide means “to dwell, remain fixed in a certain place.” If you abide somewhere, that’s where you live. I might stay at a hotel while I’m preaching a meeting, but I don’t abide there. I’m just there for a few days.

In John 15:7, Jesus said, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” I’ve found that if I’ll spend time every day in the Word of God, that Word will begin to abide in me. It will come alive in me and begin to speak to my heart continually.

I’m telling you, that’s a good thing. When you run into trouble and that abiding Word of God rises up to tell you what to do, you’ll be glad you weren’t a lazy Christian. You’ll be glad you made the Word your dwelling place.

Open Your Mouth and Shut the Devil Out

Look back at Psalm 91:2 and you’ll see the second way to keep yourself in condition to experience the fullness of your salvation. “I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!”

You give God authority to act in your life by trusting Him with your heart and speaking words of faith with your mouth. Jesus taught us that principle in Mark 11:22-23 when He said, “…Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That 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.”

The devil knows that truth so he tries to turn it around to work in his favor. He can’t come in and force things on you the way he can those who are unsaved and outside God’s covenant of protection. So he has to deceive you into giving him a place with your words—speaking words of fear and doubt.

Have you ever noticed that when you feel sick the first thing you want to do is tell someone about it? If you have a problem, you want to talk about it. Somehow you think if you can say it, you’ll feel better.

That’s exactly what the devil wants you to do. But don’t do it!

Instead, when trouble comes, zip your lips. Don’t say anything about that situation until you’re centered on the Word of God and it’s in your heart in abundance.

Then when you open your mouth, you’ll be able speak the Word. You’ll be able to say what God says about your situation—not just to yourself and your friends, but to the situation itself.

That’s right! Mark 11:23 says we speak to the mountain. That means we don’t talk about the problem. We talk to the problem!

We tell it what we want it to do. We tell it to be removed according to the Word of God.

It may sound strange, but it’s scriptural and it is a vital part of attending to our covenant salvation. Remember: When we speak the Word of God, we shut the devil out and he doesn’t have any place to work.

It’s Not Too Late

You might be reading this and thinking, Gloria, all this is wonderful, but it’s too late for me. I’m already in trouble. I haven’t been walking with God, and there’s no way out.

If that’s your situation, let me encourage you. God is good. He is merciful.

Many times I’ve seen people call out to Him in situations that have gone so far there seems to be no solution. It looked like it was too late for those people. But it wasn’t. God still turned things around. He is kind and He is good!

If you will take your stand on the Word of God, and make a quality decision to give your life to Him, He can make a way where there seems to be no way. He’ll deliver you not because of what you’ve done, but because of what Jesus already did for you.

I’m not saying your problems will instantly disappear. But there can be an instant change. It will start on the inside of you—in your heart. If you’ll trust the Lord, you can have joy and peace on the inside even when things on the outside are challenging.

When you stick with Him, keep listening to His Word and obeying it, attending to this great covenant of salvation He has given you, day by day your life will change. If you’ll keep the door of faith open to God and give Him time to work, He will restore what the devil has stolen from you and repair what’s been broken. He wants you whole.

“Oh, but I’m not worthy!” you might say.

No, on your own you’re not. Neither am I. But Jesus is and we are in Him. Our righteousness is in Him. He lived and died and rose again so that we could be blessed with a covenant of peace.

Don’t let it slip away by neglecting it, and don’t let the trouble of this world overwhelm you. Instead, take heart…He has overcome the world. And in Him we have too!