(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the Believer's Voice of Victory.
Kenneth Copeland is once again teaching about your spoken word.
Speak God's words and discover how faith-filled words always
bring victory. Now, for today's message, here's Kenneth.
KENNETH: Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Believer's
Voice of Victory broadcast. And merry Christmas, everybody.
Praise God. And here on the Believer's Voice of
Victory, we're celebrating Christmas from now
through December the 25th, Christmas Day, glory to God, by
giving you a special gift every day. It's part of our "25 days
of Christmas." Just go to kcm.org/25days, and get all the
information there. Hey, we went--we get excited about this.
I'm a Christmas kind of a guy. Amen. I just--I just--whoa. I
mean, when I was a little boy, my birthday was on the 6th of
December, so mother would always get the Christmas tree up by my
birthday. Oh, I just had to have it. But then, boy, the 6th
through the 24th, oh, oh, it was agony. Ha-ha-ha. You would, oh,
you know, watch the presents stack up. I just--and my mother
loved Christmas. Well, so did my dad. But we're just a Christmas
family, and we always enjoyed it, and we still do. And so
we're--we're all in it with you. Praise God. Father, we thank You
today. We receive Your presence on this broadcast, and we thank
You and worship You. We open our hearts, we open our minds to
receive revelation from heaven. And we thank You in Jesus' name.
Amen. Hallelujah. We're talking about words, the most important
things in this earth. Let me say it again. Words are the most
important things in this planet. Praise God. Now let's go to
Matthew, Chapter--excuse me. Matthew 4:4, "But Jesus answered
and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Let
me--the-- "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Now, since words are
the most important things in this planet, that makes the Word
of God the most precious thing in this planet. Praise God. Oh,
thank You, Father. Oh, Lord, give us--give us deeper insight
and revelation of this. Now, you remember John 1, "In the
beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. The same in the beginning with God." Hallelujah. The
Father, the Son, who is the Word, and the Holy Spirit. Now,
this, then, the Word of God, the covenants of God, His very bond
is just as much a revelation of God in the earth as He is. Oh,
this is just His--this is just as much God as He is. Mm. Oh, my
goodness. My, my, my. Hallelujah. Now then, we talked
about the fact that this universe--this is a Word-created
universe, Genesis, Chapter 1; 1, 2, and 3. Then Hebrews, Chapter
1, we found out that it is a Word-upheld universe. He is
upholding all things by the Word of His power. Amen. Now let's go
back to Mark 11:23 once again because you--it--it is not--it
is not a good thing to talk about all of these things--you
can't separate them from faith because faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the Word of God. "Brother Copeland, why do you
preach so much about faith? I mean, why do you talk about
faith so much?" Well, for one thing, that's what I'm called to
do. And--but now think about this. You can't get born again
without it. We are born again by faith. The just shall live by
faith. You can't walk the Christian walk without it
because we walk by faith and not by sight. It is by faith so that
it might be by grace. The gift of righteousness is by the faith
of Jesus Christ. Oh, you could just go on and on and on and on
and on and on. God is a faith God. He is love. He is a faith
God. Faith worketh by love. Oh, yeah. Let me tell you something.
We must--mm. I can't impress this on you enough. The Lord has
been impressing me with this now for months. We must, we must
renew our minds that when we say, "love," we said, "God." And
when we say, "God," we've said, "love." We've-- "love" has
become a slang word. "I love my car. I love pizza. I love this,
I love that." And that--you can have very little respect for the
love of God when you don't respect the word "love." So what
does the Word say? To love my new shirt? No, no, no. The
Scripture says He gives us all things richly to enjoy. He wants
you to have a new shirt. He wants you to have these things.
These things are good, and He knows you have need of all of
these things. But we must develop a greater and higher
respect for God Himself. When you say, "love," you've said,
"God." And you ask--ask any Christian, "You believe God
loves you?" "Oh, yes, Brother Copeland." Then why, when the
going gets tough, do-- "I just don't understand why You--don't
You care? How could You let this come on me?" See, you don't
believe He loves you. Not--you understand that He does, but
you--but you don't trust the love. "I know you didn't do this
to me, and I know--praise God. I know with all my heart the
reason you told me to do this is because You love me. Now, it
don't look--it doesn't make sense right now, but I believe
it. I believe the love, and I trust You with all my heart. And
I don't lean to my own understanding." That is so
vital. That is faith in love. Faith in God, faith in love,
same thing. But the renewing of your mind to love--all of
these--all of these words and all of this has to do with His
love. Praise God. Now, Mark 11, Verse 20, "In the morning, as
they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold,
the fig tree which you cursed is withered away. Jesus answering
said, Have faith in God," or "Have the faith of God." "For
verily I say--" Well, "Have faith in love." Huh? Oh, oh,
yeah. Glory to God. "For verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall
say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, be thou cast into the
sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that
those things which he saith--" What are things that you say?
Words. So let's read it that way: "--believe that those words
which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever
he saith." Now then, let's go to the 12th chapter of Matthew.
Matthew, Chapter 12, and look at the 36th, "I say unto you, That
every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the day of judgment." You tell me words are not
important? "For by your words you shall be justified, by your
words you shall be condemned." This is serious business. Now,
let's look at this from the 6th chapter--or--yeah, 6th chapter
of Luke because Luke adds something to it in his writing
that Jesus said. 6:45, "A good man out of the good treasure of
his heart," or the deposit of his heart, "bringeth forth that
which is good." Verse 44, "Every tree is known by his own fruit.
For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush do
they gather grapes." See? "The--A good man out of the good
treasure," good deposit, what you've put in there. What you
have put in there is what comes out. Huh? "--bringeth forth that
which is good; an evil man out of the evil deposit of his
heart," or a heart full of fear and unbelief, "bringeth forth
that which is evil." Why? How? How, Jesus? How does He do it?
"For of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks." That's
what causes it to come to pass. You have, today in your life, I
have, today in my life, what I said yesterday. Amen. Now,
this is spiritual law. You can't change it. You can change the
words. Ha-ha-ha. Hallelujah. Oh, yeah, I just--ha-ha-ha. I
preached myself happy on that one right there. So now stop and
think about it. We live in a Word-created, Word-upheld,
Word-dominated environment. Amen. All right. Now, let's go
back over our--we won't take time to look all these up. We
looked them up last week. We've got so much to do today. And
you--if you've got your--if you've got your--downloaded your
notes from last week, you've got them. Now then, download them
for this week, and you'll have them, have all the scriptures
and everything there. So now, Genesis 1:1-3, "God said, Light
be: light was." Hebrews 1:3, He's "upholding all things by
the word of his power." Psalm 19:14, "Make my words acceptable
to you, O Lord." Psalm 91:2--ha-ha. Oh, oh, this
one--this one just does me that way. Hallelujah. Ha-ha-ha. Think
about that--think about it. Let's turn over there. I
can't--I can't bypass this one. Glory to God. Nope, no, no, no.
"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall
abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Now, how do I get in
there? "I--hey, I want to--that's where I want to
abide. I want to be there in the shadow of the Almighty.
I--that--I don't want to be outside that. How do I--how do I
get in there? Oh, God, let me in there. You just--(Whining)" That
won't do it. That will not do it. "I will say of the Lord, He
is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely
he will deliver me." (Laughs) Glory be to God. Hallelujah. I'm
telling you, well, if that don't set you on fire, your wood's
wet, brother. Praise God. I'm telling you, that's dancing time
in the household of faith. Praise God. That thing--that's
the reason David would dance before the Lord with all of his
might because this work--these things work for--these psalms
worked for him in combat. Hallelujah. That's the soldier's
psalm. I--I know--I know of--I've met a few. I know of
hundreds and hundreds under the command of personal friends of
mine that caused their--Keith Kurber, colonel retired,
pastoring church up in Alaska now, Special Forces. He said, "I
want you to lay hands on me." And Gloria and I did. He was
about to deploy. And he said--and he said, "I'm taking
over a high-casualty unit." Well, we went over the 91st
Psalm, and I told him about what I had read of a World War I
commander that commanded all of the troops under his command to
memorize the 91st Psalm. And you had to be standing ready, you
know. I mean, you walk up in front of them and say, "Verse
5!" "Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; nor for the
arrow that flies by day, sir!" I don't care--just like they--like
we had to do when we was in the service learning the orders of
the day, if they called out number 3, I mean, brother, you
had to come up with number 3. And that--that's--and they did
it with that whole 91st Psalm so that they had it. They said it
every day. They said it in formation every day. And in
combat, that man did not lose a man under his command. So
Colonel Kurber and Gloria and me and--phew, we believed God,
stood on the Word. I said, "Keith, let me know." So the
four of us were standing there praising God and worshiping God.
And then, he went on, you know, two-year deployment. Well,
I--you know, I pray in the Spirit over my partners and
over--and, you know, all that, but I wasn't thinking about
Keith every day. But, now, that's the reason you need to be
praying in tongues and take care of your prayer life every day.
You turn that over to the Holy Spirit, and it would come up.
And--but I wouldn't--but my partners, I prayed for my
partners every day, day--every day, every day, every day, every
day, every day, every day, every day. Well, I got a call, and it
was about 2:00 in the morning. Gloria and I were in the bed,
and that phone rang. And I answered it, and it was Keith.
"Brother Copeland, I'm home!" I said, "Hey, Keith!" He said,
"I'm so excited! I want to tell you, I didn't lose a man! Praise
God!" He said, "We were protected through this whole
thing!" Ha, why? He was in the secret place, and he knew how
to--he knew how to control his tongue. And like David
said--David said, "Keep--don't let me sin with my tongue, put a
watch over my mouth." Amen. Hallelujah. All right. So,
words, that's the way you get in there is words, words spoken in
faith. Hallelujah. And--well, okay, I got--I've got so much to
do this week. We'll--okay. Psalm 103, Verse 5, and Verse 20.
Well, yeah, I'm--ha-ha-ha. Oh, Lord, this is going to be a fun
day. Verse 5, "Who satisfies thy mouth with good things; so that
thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." Now, the words
"things" in the King James translation is italicized, so it
just simply tells you that it was put in there by the
translator. "Satisfies thy mouth with good; thy youth is renewed
like the eagle's." Now, is he talking about food? I've heard
people translate that way. But actually, it simply says, "Who
satisfies thy mouth with good; thy youth is renewed like the
eagle's." So now, let's take the way this was translated. That's
fine. The root--Hebrew root to "things," material things,
anything that can be touched and so forth, is "word." That's
good, isn't it, because all things are created by words. So,
"He fills my mouth with good words; that my youth is renewed
like the eagle's." Now, we can--we can--if that was just
one little spot, we couldn't do that. But we know because of the
flowing principal. So what do we know from the--what do we know
from the book of Isaiah? "He renews my--I wait upon the
Lord." Huh? What am I doing waiting upon the Lord? I'm
praising Him. I'm standing before Him. I'm worshiping Him.
Words. Amen. "And he renews my strength like the eagle's."
Praise God. Words. How does He do that? "I believe I receive
it." Isn't that what Jesus said in Mark 11:24, talking about
Mark 11:23? "I believe I receive the strength." Words, words.
Now--whoa. You can't--there's just scripture after scripture.
I carry a whole list of them in my little book here. I go from
strength to strength as the day--as the days--as my days
are, so shall my strength be. He is my strength. He upholds me.
Praise God. Saying it, saying it, making confession of these
things before God, may come to pass. All right. Now, also,
I want you--now, that was the 5th verse. Let's go to the 20th
verse of the 103rd Psalm. "Bless the Lord, O you angels, that
excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto
the voice of his word." They're not listening for
what God is saying in the earth. They already
know what God is saying. It's when we
say it that activates it, otherwise they don't have
anything to work with. Amen. Hebrews 1:14, "To which of the
angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand--are they not
all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those that
shall be heirs of salvation?" "Well, what are they waiting
for?" They're waiting for--to hear what's coming out of your
mouth. You are--and--you and I are the deciding witness. "Out
of the mouth of two witnesses let every word be established."
Amen. So what you're saying is what licenses the angels or the
devils to work. Hallelujah. Whoa-ho-ho-ho. Glory to God. And
we're out of time. 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.
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