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For instance, if a guy came up to me and said he had fallen out of the space shuttle last week, drifted through outer space a couple days, then re-entered the earth’s atmosphere, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean and swam to California under the power of the Holy Spirit…of course, in the natural I’d pay no attention to a wild tale like that. But when the Holy Spirit is brought into it that changes everything—I would believe him. At least, I would believe him until someone proved otherwise.  Now, I realize some people might think it would be foolish to believe a story like that. But they can think what they like. I just make it a habit to always believe. I choose to live on the believing side of life.  I purpose to stay on the positive side…the side that says, “All things are possible!”

Have the Heart to Believe
We know of at least one time when Jesus got on to His disciples for being hardhearted. It all started when Thomas made a faithless decision after hearing reports about Jesus being raised from the dead. Thomas told his fellow disciples, “Except I shall see [Jesus]…I will not believe” (John 20:25).  Well, not long afterward, Jesus “appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen” (Mark 16:14).

Jesus called Thomas “faithless” (John 20:27). And rightly so. Thomas rejected the Word of God. He rejected the things Jesus had said for the past three years. And he rejected the testimonies he had heard of Jesus’ resurrection.  Thomas wasn’t the only one, however. The other disciples didn’t believe what Jesus had told them concerning His death and resurrection. They, too, rejected the testimonies of those who said they had seen Jesus alive.  So Jesus rebuked them all for their “hardness of heart.” Their hearts were hard because none of them was in the habit of believing.
Like many believers today, the disciples had processed almost everything they heard and saw through their minds, instead of their hearts.

Faith Is an Action Word
A lot of Christians fail to understand that faith is a definite, purposeful act of the heart. It is not a mental exercise.  Accepting something as fact is not faith. That’s merely giving mental assent. It’s reasoning with your mind. You can mentally acknowledge that something is true and still never really believe it in your heart.

Real Bible faith is a matter of the heart, and it carries with it God-given responsibilities.

A man once went to Jesus for some help with his son.  “Master,” he called out to Jesus, “I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; and wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away…” (Mark 9:17-18).  Then he challenged Jesus with this statement: “If thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us” (verse 22).  When the father pleaded for compassion, Jesus threw the responsibility back on him, saying, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” (verse 23).

The boy’s father was trying to get Jesus to do his believing for him. But Jesus cannot do that.  Finally the man broke down in tears and cried out, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” (verse 24). He was believing in his heart, yet he was having trouble with it in his head. His heart was saying, I believe, I believe, I believe! But his mind was resisting.  Had this man known Proverbs 3:5, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,” there would have been no problem with his head. He could have trusted more in his heart and less in his head.

In the end, when the father cried out in faith, “Lord, I believe,” he enabled Jesus to cast the deaf and dumb spirit out of his son and the boy was healed.  Jesus will do the work for you, but He cannot do the believing for you. You have to do that.  But remember, heart faith grows out of God’s Word.

If you want to condition your heart to be in the habit of believing, then you must give God’s Word first place in your life. You must feed it into your heart constantly. And you have to realize that the Word is actually God speaking to you…personally. It’s not just a lot of information for your head to carry around.  Then, you must make the quality decision that your body and all its physical senses will never override the Word of God in any given situation.  If your body screams, I’m sick! I’m sick! I’m sick!…don’t allow that natural, physical evidence to be the final authority about what you believe. Go to the Word as your final authority. And the Word says, “By [Jesus’] stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).  So abide in the Word and let the Word abide in you (John 15:7).

It will get out of your head and into your heart. It will get you out of the impossible and into the possible. You will get into the habit of living on the believing side of life.  – Kenneth Copeland

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His secret for long, strong life, echoed throughout the Bible, is the only one that really works. He proved it beyond any doubt by staying youthful to the ripe old age of 120. Moses practiced what he preached. Despite his rugged life in the wilderness and his potentially high-stress job of leading a million-plus cantankerous, unbelieving people to the Promised Land, he tapped in to a fountain of youth that kept him young year after year, decade after decade. He found a source of life-renewing power that kept him sharp-eyed and physically strong 20 years beyond the century mark.
What was Moses’ secret? What was the force that kept him going so strong for so long?

It wasn’t a particular gene. It wasn’t a certain kind of food (although I’m sure manna was perfect). It wasn’t some kind of super-duper exercise program (though the Israelites’ walking program was exceptional)! It was the living Word of Almighty God. It was the Word Moses received on Mount Sinai in the midst of the fire of God’s glory, the Word he believed and obeyed (with one rock-striking exception) from the time he was 80 until his mission was finished 40 years later. It was the Word of God that prolonged Moses’ days.

The Word from God was his life. It protected him, preserved him, and kept him going… and going…and going.

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You may be thinking I have you confused with someone else. “Brother Copeland, I’m just not good with finances,” you might say. “I’m one of those baffled people who can’t figure out what to do with them. I don’t have the wisdom it takes to prosper in times like these.”

Yes, you do.

If you’re a born-again, Holy Spirit- filled child of Almighty God who has a Bible to read, you have all the wisdom you need—not just to survive the economic storm that’s been raging around us, but to prosper in the midst of it. God has perfectly positioned you in this time of famine, shortfall, bad debts, foreclosures and dreams gone up in the smoke of the stock market, to bring THE BLESSING into people’s lives again.

He has called you to build hope where there is no hope. He has anointed you to bring life, spiritually and financially, where there is no life, so people can see the real Source of life—God Himself, the Greater One who lives within you.

You don’t have to be a financial expert to do it, either. You don’t even have to be especially wise when it comes to economics. According to Jesus, all you have to do to enjoy victory in the midst of a storm is to be “liken[ed]… unto a wise man” (Matthew 7:24).

That means, if you’ll follow the example of a wise man who increased financially during hard economic times—if you’ll think like he thought, believe what he believed, do what he did, and say what he said—you’ll be like him and get the same results. You’ll prosper and be a blessing to people even in tough times.

Kenneth Copeland

Read Full Article “Sojourning in the Land of Promise” in the June 2010 Believers Voice of Victory.

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.   -  Kenneth Copeland

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Council member Gary Okino is a devout Christian and is standing up for the practice of prayer before meetings. Friends, we have been here before with similar issues in California, Michigan and Texas and the Lord has helped us be victorious in every instance.

Again, I’m asking you to stand with us and our friends and partners in Hawaii. Here’s what you can do:

1) E-mail City Council Chair Todd Apo tapo@honolulu.gov and let him know of your support for prayer at the opening of his Council meetings

2) E-mail Councilman Gary Okino gokino@honolulu.gov and thank him for his strong stand for Prayer and Faith in Jesus

My family and I feel a closeness to the people of Hawaii and to the beautiful Islands that God has made for each of us to enjoy. I have been traveling there since the age of two and it has been an honor for us to have the opportunity to minister to our partners and friends in the Hawaiian Islands through the years. In fact, Kellie and I will be speaking there again in less than two weeks. Let’s make our voice heard together now and support the People of Hawaii, where the State Motto is, “The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness.”

Blessings to you and remember,

JESUS IS LORD!

Dr. Stephen Lowell Swisher
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What do we need to empower us to change? Sure, we need knowledge, but knowledge alone isn’t enough. We need the power of God that effects change. Take weight loss, for example. We all know how to lose weight: move more, eat less. But how many are actually doing it? To be truly free from the bondage of weight we have to allow the Holy Spirit to change and empower us to go higher—spirit, soul and body.

Change is deep within the purpose of why God created us. The power to change is within His glory—His presence. A revelation of His glory, of His honor and of the power of His love is enough to change anything. That’s what we need if we are to change.

We are from God. He created us in His image, so we come out of Him, just like natural children come out of their parents and are a combination of their DNA. When we wonder, How do I get God to help me change? we are forgetting that we were created out of Him. We were predestined before the earth was ever created to be like Him. His power is in us.

Marty Copeland – Taken From The Article “The Power To Change” – BVOV March 2010

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Because Kenneth Copeland Ministries believes in the right to privacy afforded by the First Amendment as well as the U.S. and Texas Constitutions, KCM took a stand for religious freedom and determined it was not appropriate to surrender salary information of individual employees and invade their right to privacy. Originally TAD had requested a summary of the total compensation for employees, or a statement from an auditor that the Church or ministry’s finances were in proper order, which KCM was willing to provide. However, after a recent change in TAD personnel, a hard line was taken requiring complete and individual disclosure of salaries and employee positions. Because of that change in policy from TAD, KCM had to change their position.

KCM filed suit over this issue for two specific reasons: to protect the right to privacy for all of its employees and to stand up for the general privacy rights for all Churches. Kenneth Copeland Ministries believes that the salary information of Church or ministry employees should not be public record just as an individual taxpayer’s salary is not of public record. In addition, it is our position that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the only governmental agency with the authority to inquire and request this type of information from non-profit organizations, and of course the IRS has strict rules of confidentiality not afforded by other governmental entities.

The decision and settlement from TAD is a victory for Church freedom, the preservation of religious constitutional protections and the privacy rights of Church employees throughout the State of Texas. We appreciate our KCM partners and friends and the Believers Stand United internet response team for their prayers, vocal support and involvement in standing up for freedom and justice for all people of faith.

For questions or more information, please contact Dr. Stephen Swisher at media@kcm.org or 817-252-2792.

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