(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Your life is sustained with the force of
faith. Today, on the Believer's Voice of Victory,
join Kenneth and Gloria Copeland as they explain how living by
faith changes everything for good. Now here's Kenneth.
KENNETH: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Believer's
Voice of Victory broadcast. We're Kenneth and
Gloria Copeland today. And you know what? This year
is pretty near gone. Now, for all of you somewhere else,
"pretty near" means almost--(Laughs) GLORIA: It's
been good. KENNETH: --when you come to Texas. Praise God.
Father, we thank You for this-- GLORIA: Yes. KENNETH:
--wonderful day today and we give You praise and honor. Oh,
Lord, thank You. We honor You, we worship You, we bless You
today, and we thank You for always being here. GLORIA: Thank
You, Lord. Praise God. KENNETH: Amen. You always come to this
broadcast. Praise God. You've never missed one, and we thank
You for it. GLORIA: Praise God. KENNETH: We just worship You
today. GLORIA: Thank You, Lord, for Your mercy. KENNETH: Thank
You, Lord Jesus. We thank You, Father. We bless You today for
revelation from heaven in Jesus' name. Amen. GLORIA: Amen.
KENNETH: And bless you, darling girl. GLORIA: Bless you.
KENNETH: You look so good today. GLORIA: Thank you, handsome.
KENNETH: You know, Christmas wasn't but just a couple of days
ago and-- GLORIA: Where's my present? (Laughs) KENNETH: Well,
Gloria-- (Laughs) GLORIA: Okay, I'll wait. KENNETH: I'm here.
GLORIA: Oh, yeah, that's right. KENNETH: (Laughs) It took me a
little bit to catch up with that. GLORIA: Yeah, okay.
KENNETH: Amen. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. These
three days we have here--and in praying about these broadcasts,
I had the Lord to change my direction. And He said, "I want
you to finish out this year talking about faith and why it
is so important to talk about it, think about it, pray about
it, listen to it, hunt for it, search for it everywhere you
look, why it is so important." And why do we do that? I mean,
we found out about this in--right in the very beginning
of 1967. And the impact of it was so dynamic in our lives that
it didn't take a long time to change things. GLORIA: Well, we
were desperate. KENNETH: Well, but usually people that far down
in the ditch, you and I were-- GLORIA: We just caught on quick.
KENNETH: --that it--that, you know, you'd think is going to
take, you know, a long time and a lot of hard work and then
change and work hard and dig our way out of this thing. I mean,
once we began to function in the Word of faith, I mean, it just
yanked us up by our bootstraps and took us up out of there.
Glory to God. And it's just been--yeah, awesome is the word.
Anyway, let's get the--I want to--I want to begin today in
Hebrews 11. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a
good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were
not made of things which do appear." Now, notice he said
right here, Gloria, "Substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen." Now, this is telling us right
here that God, through faith, the force of faith--the worlds
were framed by the Word of God. He said it. Now, that's what
Jesus said in Mark 11:23. He spoke to the fig tree,
"Whosoever shall say unto this mountain," so--and he was--he
was doing the classic teaching on the way the faith of God
works. We'll get into that part of it later. GLORIA: Okay, good.
KENNETH: But I really want to make a point out of this because
we'll--we're going to get a hold of something here. "That the
worlds--" not just this one "--the worlds were framed by the
word of God, so that things," all material things, "which are
seen," anything you can see, this material universe, "were
not made of things which do appear," or things that are
visible. I heard--or I've heard more than one, but one
particularly I'm thinking about now, talking about how great God
is and He created this universe out of nothing. No, He didn't,
but He created it out of something you can't see. GLORIA:
That's right. KENNETH: And it's the spiritual force of faith.
Now, hang on to that because we're going to deal with this
and you're going to like it, too. "By faith Abel offered unto
God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained
witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and
by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was
translated that he should not see death; and was not found,
because God had translated him: for before his translation he
had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith
it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God
must--" GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH: "--must believe that he is, and
that he is their rewarder of them that diligently seek him."
Or, in other words, you diligently seek God at His Word
and you use these spiritual laws, they'll work for you and
they'll-- GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: --work for me and
they'll work for Gloria and they'll work for anybody just
like they did for Jesus. GLORIA: That's right. What is it you
don't understand about that? KENNETH: Yeah. GLORIA: I mean,
that's easy. KENNETH: I mean, really. Now-- GLORIA: Nothing.
KENNETH: --impossible to please Him without faith. "Why do you
preach it so much? Why do you need to talk about it so much?
Why does this need to be on your mind so much?" Well, number one,
Ephesians 2:8, you can't be saved without it. GLORIA: That's
right. KENNETH: Number two, you can't live the Christian life
without it because Hebrews 10:38 says that, "The just shall live
by faith." Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, Habakkuk 2:4,
"The just--" GLORIA: It didn't sound like it was optional.
KENNETH: No, no, no, no, no. "The just shall live--" GLORIA:
"The just shall." KENNETH: Or let me put it like this: You
don't just go, you know, just diddly-dobbling along your own
unbelieving, carnal way and something bad happens, "Oh, I'm
going to use my faith." It don't work like that. This is a
lifestyle. GLORIA: Yes. KENNETH: You walk in this. GLORIA: It's
good. KENNETH: You do this all the time. Now, you can't live
the Christian life without it. "The just shall live by faith."
You can't walk the Christian walk without it because, "We
walk by faith, and not by sight." GLORIA: That's right.
KENNETH: Now, using the word "walk," we "walk" by faith, any
time you see that-- GLORIA: We move and live and have our
being. KENNETH: Yeah. Our lives are sustained with the force of
faith. We do everything by faith. GLORIA: That's right.
KENNETH: The Scripture said, "Anything that doesn't proceed
from faith is sin." So any time you see this phrase, "We walk by
faith," that indicates 24 hours a day. GLORIA: That's right.
KENNETH: You're serious about being a Christian. You're
serious about following the Word of God, walking in the things of
God and the life of God. Now, you can't live the Christian
life without it, or walk without it. You can't fight the
Christian fight without it because we fight the good fight
of faith. GLORIA: The good fight of faith, that's right. KENNETH:
And number six, you can't overcome the world without it
because this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our
faith. Now, really, you could just--you could just go--you
could just--there's just a lot. You could just go ahead and make
your list and list and list of all--all kinds of different
things. But those are--those are six things right there that mean
the difference between life and death. GLORIA: That's right.
Well, basically, without faith, you're in trouble. Everything
operates by faith, your healing, your peace, your safety.
KENNETH: If you're in the ministry, every message you
preach. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: Yeah, amen. GLORIA: If
you have a job, you better do it by faith so you'll keep it.
KENNETH: You know, that brings this to mind, Gloria. Well,
that's part of the victory that overcometh the world, isn't it?
GLORIA: Yeah, it is. KENNETH: And you expect--you expect a
pastor, you expect a minister to be anointed. But, hey, Mr. Car
Dealer, if you're where God sent you to be, there's an anointing
for you to do that business, you can prosper when nobody else
does. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: You're--you remember
the lawyer that we showed his testimony from Nigeria? And in a
recessed time of recession and really tough times, he
wasn't--he wasn't a lawyer in New York. He's a lawyer in
Nigeria. And the area where his practice was wasn't all that
great and prosperous to start with. GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH: But
he put the Word of God first place in his life and prospered
in a place where you can't prosper in a time of recession.
GLORIA: Think about it. KENNETH: So what-- GLORIA: Well, think
about--well, you go ahead and finish your thought. KENNETH: So
what he's doing--he's living by faith. But he's an anointed
lawyer because one of the things he said was--somebody came up
and said, "Who in the world could possibly have an answer to
this?" And somebody said, "Only one guy," and they pointed to
him. You know what that reminds me of? That reminds me of
Daniel, because God gave him the answer-- GLORIA: Yeah, wisdom.
That's right. KENNETH: --to that. And while he was at the
Southwest Believers' Convention, he got a check for $30,000 while
he was at the convention. GLORIA: Well, think
about Kenneth and Gloria before they found faith. It was a sad
situation. KENNETH: Oh, dear Lord. GLORIA: (Laughs) Nothing,
old car-- KENNETH: Well, yeah, oh me. GLORIA: --old clothes.
KENNETH: Let's-- GLORIA: Little ragged rent house. KENNETH:
Shall we go on here? (Laughs) GLORIA: But-- KENNETH: But--
GLORIA: --we heard about faith. KENNETH: --we heard about faith.
GLORIA: And it changed everything. KENNETH: And you
know what? GLORIA: And it still changes everything. KENNETH: It
got on our mind. We thought about it. GLORIA: Yeah, we did.
KENNETH: We ate it and slept it. We--any time that--me
personally, any time I have had it rough was when I let faith
get off my mind and get to thinking about, well, you know,
doing this and doing that, doing this and doing that, and, "Well,
what do I need to do here?" Well, you know what you need to
do, dumb-dumb. Go get your Brother Hagin tapes-- GLORIA:
Yes. KENNETH: --and get back in there and start going to bed
with them every night and listening to them in the car.
You know, I'll tell you something that is a great
advantage in technology, when they put the--ha-ha, the
Bluetooth in the car. And I just--when I get my--if my--when
my phone gets in range of my car, I--Brother Hagin comes on.
GLORIA: It starts preaching. KENNETH: It starts preaching to
me. (Laughs) I don't even have to select it. It just takes up
where you and I left off last night in the bed. GLORIA: Yeah.
KENNETH: I mean, it--I go get in the car, and Brother Hagin's
talking to me before I get out of the garage. Isn't that
wonderful? GLORIA: That's pretty good. KENNETH: I don't even have
to change the dial. I cannot even have a dial on my radio
because that's where--this is the only thing that ever comes
across-- GLORIA: Not too long ago, Ken and I were listening to
Brother Hagin in bed and--or we went to bed and we were
listening to Brother Hagin. And we had him all sitting up here
on a wooden holder. KENNETH: That night, we were watching it
on the iPad. We had a video. GLORIA: Oh, was that iPad?
KENNETH: Yeah, yeah. GLORIA: So, okay, Ken decides to kiss me
goodnight. So he leans over here and I said, "Not in front of
Brother Hagin." (Laughs) KENNETH: "Not in front of
Brother Hagin," and she put-- (Laughs) she pushed the iPad
over, "Not in front of Brother Hagin." GLORIA: Not Brother
Hagin, no. KENNETH: (Laughs) GLORIA: It was a funny night.
KENNETH: Oh, hallelujah. GLORIA: (Laughs) KENNETH: Glory to God.
Amen. Where in the world was I here? GLORIA: I don't know.
KENNETH: Yeah, I remember. Now, where am I? Here, there you are,
God created all--say, "All." GLORIA: All. KENNETH: All
material things-- GLORIA: All material things. KENNETH: --out
of the force of faith. GLORIA: Everything you see. Everything
you see. KENNETH: That means everything you can see,
everything you can touch can be affected by the same force. It
will respond to the force with which it was created. GLORIA:
Amen. KENNETH: Now, whoa, I told you you're going to like this.
Gloria, let's go to Romans 12, capitulo doce. Romans 12:3,
"For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man," or
every person, "that is among you--" Now, he was writing this
to the church at Rome. So this is for the church at Rome. It's
for the church in Fort Worth. It's for the church in
Bangladesh. It's for--hey, this is for any born-again believer.
GLORIA: That's right, the Church. KENNETH: "I say, to
every person that is among you, not to think of himself more
highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according
as God hath dealt to every person," every born-again
believer, "the measure--" ha-ha "--of the same faith" -- GLORIA:
Praise God. KENNETH: --that God spoke the worlds into existence
with. GLORIA: They gave substance to everything you see
or feel. Glory to God. KENNETH: That'll set you on fire. GLORIA:
We have that faith. KENNETH: That'll set you to burning.
You've heard of the Holy Ghost and fire? GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH:
Well, down here in Texas, it's the Holy Ghost and "far."
(Laughs) GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: You know, "Set it on
fire." GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: Well, I--hey, hey, this
Holy Ghost fire with which we've been baptized is burning and
flaming on the inside of us. If somebody will just--just set
faith off a little bit, I mean, that--it'll catch on fire.
This--oh, this'll help you. I mean, it just seems like the
devil's using his pile-on technique, which he'll do. You
remember the apostle Paul said, "None of these things move me."
GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH: I heard--I remember Keith
Moore--in fact, he's said it on this broadcast, if I remember
right, more than once. Satan was using the pile-on. He--I mean,
he just piled stuff on him till he just didn't think he--he just
couldn't handle it all. And he said he came in and just sat
down in the middle of the floor. He had--had his Bible case with
him. And he just set it down and just sat down in the middle of
the floor and said, "None of these things move me." (Laughs)
That's what you have to do. GLORIA: That's right. That's
exactly right. KENNETH: And right sitting there on the
floor, he just dumped all the care of it over on the Lord.
"Well, how do you do that?" By faith, because "He is faithful
and just--" to what? "--to forgive us our sins," when we
confess them-- GLORIA: Yeah. KENNETH: "--to cleanse us of all
unrighteousness." And He is also faithful and just to take those
cares, worries, anxieties and troubles, all of that stuff, all
that, once and for all, dump it. And just--He'll take it. He'll
take it. And if you'll leave it with Him, then, by faith, He'll
do something about it. GLORIA: I was thinking about our past and
all, how we've walked by faith. Did we ever hand Him something
and Him say, "I don't want that"? KENNETH: "I don't want
that." (Laughs) GLORIA: No. KENNETH: No, no, no. GLORIA: Not
in all these years. KENNETH: No, no, not in all these years.
GLORIA: No, no. KENNETH: I--oh, dear Lord. Well, there's just so
much stuff that's just flooding in on me right now with--and
maybe it'll--we'll--between now and the end of Friday's
broadcast, we can bump into some of these things. But now,
listen, why then--oh, let--before we get off that,
think--think about how that'll encourage you where you--but
don't quote these. Put your eyes on them. You need to be doing
that. You need to be looking at it, looking at it. And I'll give
you a testimony that's fresh. Yesterday--and normally, we
do--we'll come in and do five broadcasts in a row. And
yesterday, we did two. And by the time we finished those two,
I don't know where to pinpoint it, but I was so physically
exhausted, and I really hadn't done enough physically to be
that exhausted. Of course, preaching nearly exhausts you
worse than working out hard because it drains you
spiritually. And so yesterday, I just said, "Well, we'll
just--we'll just finish up tomorrow." So this is tomorrow.
And--but the difference is this: Yesterday, I was quoting
strength scriptures. Today, I got my list out and read my
strength scriptures. Boom! GLORIA: Eyes. KENNETH: Yeah,
going, feeding on it. "My son, attend to my words." Let's go
over there, Romans--I mean-- GLORIA: Proverbs. KENNETH:
--Proverbs 4 because, see, this is--you're--hey, remember how
faith comes? "Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of
God." That's the only way it comes. But now, notice this, "My
son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings." In
other words, put the Word first place, incline your ear to His
sayings. Why? Because, "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
the Word of God." But now, look at this, "Let them not depart
from your eyes." "Well, I don't see why you have to read it,"
because the Book says you have to read it. That's why you have
to read it. GLORIA: It's the way you take it. KENNETH: Yeah,
that's the way you take-- GLORIA: One of the ways you take
it. KENNETH: Now, just make your mind up right now that's the
reason why. And I'll--we're out of time, but I'll put this on
the end of this here. Do you remember what you had your last
meal? "Uh, yeah." Yeah, I had a bowl of fruit with yogurt and
some pecans and I had a little cup of flax seed and--kind of
makes me hungry again. And it was good. Do I remember what it
tastes like? Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's just a few hours ago. I
remember very well what it tastes like. I remember it. I
did enjoy it. I can sit here and think about this until I get
hungry, and it will not do one thing towards nourishing my
body. You have to put it in the system. GLORIA: That's right.
KENNETH: It will not do one thing about nourishing your
spirit unless you put it in the system. GLORIA: That's right.
KENNETH: We'll be back in just a moment.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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