Kenneth Copeland - Receive Your Healing from Jesus Today
Today is my receiving day. This is very important. All of this, say it, is blood-backed. 53rd chapter of Isaiah. And verse 4, "Surely he has borne our griefs, sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses, and carried our sorrows, and pains of punishment. Yet we did ignorantly consider him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God, as if with leprosy. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, and the chastisement needed to obtain peace and well-being was upon him. And with his stripes we are wounded, and we are healed".
Genesis chapter 15. "After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am your shield, an exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed, and no one born in my house is mine heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but you shall have come forth out of your own body shall you be thine heir. And he besought him, he besought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord, and he counted it unto righteousness. And he said unto him, I am the God that brought thee out of..."
Now, let's come on down here. "And he said unto me, Take a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon, took these, and divided them in the midst". Now, this is covenant thing. They were cut down the spine, and they did this. Well, and there's blood there.
"And he divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another. But the birds divided he not. And when the fowls came upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said to Abram, Know of the surety of your seed to be a stranger in the land that is not theirs, and serve them, and they'll afflict them four hundred years. And so the nation whom they shall serve will I judge and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And you shall go to your fathers in peace, and be buried at a good old age". And the 18th verse, "And the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Under thy seed have I given this".
Now, he walked in that blood. And the ancient way to do it was to walk in a figure eight, which was infinity. That was the picture of circumcision. He hadn't been circumcised yet. That was in the 17th chapter. But he's walking in blood. And God is setting him up in the 17th chapter. Circumcision was introduced. The blood of animals, now he bled. And then he said he was fully persuaded. I'm 87. He was 100. Sweetheart, I don't know what kind of a tool they used to circumcise him. I don't even want to think about it. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not going there. Well, I inquired of the Lord. I spent some time on this. And I said, "Why? Why circumcision"?
In covenants, for instance, David had a covenant mark with Jonathan. They cut their wrists and entered covenant. You can see that scar. And the Lord said, "So that the only way you could tell he's in covenant with me, I made him rich". This is the reason that Jewish businessmen that follow the book, they become wealthy. If we follow the book, what have we been reading? It is God that gives you the power to get wealthy. And of course, we're going to get there before we get done. Now then, today is my receiving day.
Faith begins where the will of God is known. The Word is our medicine. And I want to remind you again of some things that happened with Jerry and me, and in different places. We were there in Marked Tree. And the barber offered $1,000 for anyone that got healed. And he was just going up and down. And he was laughing and mocking me. And so there was a man there that went over and knocked on the door. And Jerry answered. He said, "Are you Kenneth Copeland"? He said, "No, but I work with him". And he said, Why? And he said, "That barber over there said, 'Y'all pray for the sick.'" The barber didn't know he was witnessing. He said, "My wife is really, really sick. Would you come with me and go pray for her"?
Jerry went, laid hands on her, and she was healed. And I'm just adding this, and got up and ministered to them. Well, and then we had a girl healed of scoliosis of the spine. And I said, "Is the doctor here"? He said, "I'm her doctor". And so, her mother took her in the ladies' room, and she was completely, totally healed. Well, she applied for her $1,000. And he said, "Best two out of three". He didn't have $1,000. So you can see where healing passed away, devil was working on him.
Now, Gloria's grandmother, let's talk about her, and Pop, and sweet people. So, they came to Fort Worth, and she came to Grace Temple, where I was preaching. And afterwards, she said, "Kenneth, you didn't mention water baptism one time". I said, "Mom, there's a reason for that". She said, "I'd like to know what it is". I said, "Everybody there had been baptized". Oh. She said, "What about James chapter five? You believe that"? I said, "Yes, ma'am". She said, "No use calling on my elders. They don't believe anything. I've got really pain in my back. Would you and Gloria anoint me with oil"? I said, "Yes, ma'am".
So I anointed her with oil, and Gloria and her praying. She said, "Oh, Kenneth. I'm healed. I'm healed". I said, "Mom, you're obligated. Now, you're going to have to go back, and you're going to have to testify that Jesus healed you on that scripture". Oh, she said, "You wait. When I get home..." Well, her pastor told me, he said, "Copeland, she sits on the front row". Well, that's a little small Center Point church. She sits on the front row, and she'd say, "Pastor, you didn't read that correctly".
Now, Stanley, Gloria's youngest brother. Now, Missy was the youngest, and when Gloria and I got married, Mulder was pregnant with Missy. So we always know exactly how old Missy is, because she was at our wedding, but she hadn't been born yet. But Stanley, on our prayer cabin, there's a rock chimney there at the back, and he had a scaffold set up there, and he had two buckets of mud. He's a rock and brick mason, and he would climb up there with both of those. Doug and I were watching, and I said, "Doug, I hope you got your licks in on your little brother". He said, "I wouldn't touch him with a 10-foot pole. Look at him".
Well, I bought him a dress shirt at Pop's Homeboy. First thing he did was cut the sleeves out of it on account of his arms. Now, there's a road right there close. I can see it in my mind, and it's a sharp turn this way. But the way that road is set up, it doesn't lean this way. It's more like this. Well, there are signs there that tell you what the speed will handle. Well, the young man that was driving didn't pay attention to it, and that truck went off the road and burned. So Gloria was at a conference, and this woman was there giving her testimony. And she said it was just amazing. She said, "I was in heaven, and when the Lord walked out on the platform, she said, the roof came undone, and I realized it was angels. And when Jesus walked out there, the angels just did this".
And she said, these long tables, you know, the next thing is the rapture of the church, catching away at the church. And so she came to Gloria after it was over. She said, "Gloria, I don't know this because I, of course I know who you are, but, and love your ministry. But in these tables, there was a young man there putting placemats down, he just turned around and walked over to me, and said, 'Would you tell Gloria I was not in that truck when it burned?' But the funny thing about him, he was the only one that did not have sleeves in his garment". We knew it was Stanley. We knew it was Stanley.
So now, Matthew chapter 10, thank You, Jesus. "And when he had called him 12 disciples, he gave them power or authority against unclean spirits to cast them out, heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. And the names of the apostles," and he names off the apostles. The 12 Jesus sent forth, and that included Judas, Iscariot, because they didn't, now Jesus knew, but the rest of them didn't, didn't know. The 12 sent forth, "Go not into any way of the Gentiles, any city of the Samaritans, enter ye not. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead, cast out devils, freely you have received, freely give".
Now, the next one, "Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor script for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves. For the workman is worthy of his meat, or his hire". So what, what'd he do? You think they wore the same clothes three and a half years? Of course not. In other words, he said, "I will provide for you".
And if you look at his sermons, you can see what he's talking about. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. That's what he was teaching them. I don't want you to take what you made out of the fishing business. I don't want you to take that. You are my disciples. You depend on me. And later in the book of Luke, he said, "Did you lack anything" They said, "No Lord, we lack nothing". He is the great provider. He's the great physician. Thank You, Jesus.
All right. Now then, well, let's look at it in the book of Luke chapter 10. It's worded a little differently and that's Luke 10 also. "After these things, the Lord appointed other 70, sent them two and two before his face into every city where he himself would come. Therefore said he unto thee, The harvest is great, but laborers a few. Pray ye therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest. Go your ways, because I send you forth as lambs among wolves".
I learned this from Kenneth E. Hagin. Father, in the name of Jesus, send laborers across so-and-so's path with the word of their salvation, with the word of their healing, with their word of them suddenly being baptized in the Holy Ghost. Oh Lord God, please don't let that person go to hell. Please. I intercede for them. I intercede for them. There was a woman that she said, well you... She said, "My dad, I don't know whether he's saved or not. Would you go by the nursing home where he is"?
So I did. This is while I was in Tulsa, right after that. She gave me the address and so forth. I went over there. She told him I was coming and I was there promptly at the same time. He came down the stairs and he did. He had this one bad arm. So I just turned over there. We just sat down and I turned over there to the book of Romans and read. He said, "Thank you Brother Copeland". He just got up and left. I said, "Well Lord, just have the ministering spirits continue what I said to him".
Well, she contacted me. Now listen to this, because you can do the same thing. She said, "He was afraid you were going to pray for him out there in the lobby". I said, "Well, you got it right. I was planning to". But she said, "He got up to his room and he said, 'You know, what he read to me, I believe in God, but I thought, well, I better get on my knees and pray that.'" Then he called her and just, he was so thrilled. He was a born-again man. Praise God. So I just wanted to touch on that for a moment. Let's go. Yes. I was preaching daily broadcast with Jerry and I think we should do this this morning. Just close your eyes.
Now just lean your head back a little bit and you're there at the foot of the cross. Right there with his mother, Mary, and you look up. Now go around behind the cross and look at those stripes and a little bit of that blood has dripped down on you. Because right there, my brother and sister, was the day you were healed. That's when you were healed. Now it's up to us to receive it. Hallelujah. Glory to God forever. Thank You, Lord Jesus. Proverbs chapter four. "My son, attend to my words, incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart for they are life to those that find them and health to all their flesh". The cross reference says medicine. Now it's up to us to receive it.