This is the day of adversity! Whatever you are facing today, you can’t afford to be weak. You can’t afford to faint spiritually in the trials of life. If you do, you’ll be in trouble because, naturally speaking, things aren’t going to get better in this world, they’re going to get worse. But don’t let that scare you. For 1 John 5:4 tells us that “whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
Did you know you can become just as strong as you want to be by spending time in the Word? The only one who can put limits on you is you. If you’ll give the Word more time, it will give you more strength. That’s what wise believers do. They keep themselves strong by spending time in the Word every day. They stay strong and ready because they know this is an evil day we live in. Wake yourself up to the Word by getting out your Bible and meditating on it every day. Get tapes and books of anointed men and women preaching the Word. Listen to them and read them again and again.
Keep that Word in your heart. Keep it going in your eyes and in your ears until it takes over the very thoughts that you think. Keep yourself strong and ready…and free to operate in the Spirit of God. If you do, when adversity strikes, you’ll have supernatural strength to overcome and walk in the victory. Remember, this is no time to faint.
(This article was reprinted from the devotional book by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Pursuit of His Presence. To order a copy of this devotional, CLICK HERE or call 800-600-7395.)
I ’m amazed at how often people claim to have discovered the “fountain of youth.” Month after month, year after year, magazine covers and book jackets tout the latest and greatest longevity secrets. Scientists come up with genetic keys, and nutritionists proclaim the one…or two…or seven foods that guarantee long, healthy lives to those who eat them. Fitness experts invent exercise plans that promise to keep us young, slim and agile at any age. | Although good nutrition and exercise really do help, no one has yet come up with a guaranteed life- lengthening, youth-renewing plan that provides people in their 80s, 90s, hundreds and beyond the strength and
With all the talk about health care, wouldn’t it be great to know the one plan that works—regardless of age? One that has a promise of radiant health throughout your entire life? God offers a divine health plan for every believer.
With all the change going on in the world today, it’s time for Christians to make an impact in the earth. But to walk in the kind of world-changing power necessary to impact our communities, our nation and the world, we must allow the Holy Spirit to change us.
You may be in the deepest hole of your life. But if the Word says you have hope, then, glory to God, you have hope!
But we haven’t always lived that way. In fact, the first time I ever saw Kenneth Copeland he was about as far from a preacher as I figured you could get. He flew planes and sang in nightclubs. As for me, I was a college girl who said she would never marry a preacher and who had never even heard about the new birth.
