Kenneth Copeland - Believe God's Love and Receive Your Healing
Let’s go on over to the 4th chapter of the book of Proverbs. I’m going to read it here from the Classic Amplified in the 4th chapter, verse 20. «My son, attend to my words. Consent and submit to my sayings. Let them not depart from your sight. Keep them in the center of your heart, for they are life to those that find them, healing and health to all their flesh». All right? Now, listen to this from the King James. «My son, attend to my words. Incline thine ear unto my sayings». Incline. Have you ever said that? You know, I’m inclined to believe that. Yes. «Let them not depart from their eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart, for they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh».
And then number three, and it says medicine. This book is medicine to your flesh. It is medicine to your flesh. I was called in a situation and went inside the house, and they kept it very dark and took me into a back bedroom there. And this man had gangrene of the leg. And so I stood at the end of the bed and touched his toe, and he growled at me. And I realized, oh, uh-huh, this is a spirit. Broke the power of that spirit, and the gangrene healed up. So that became medicine to his flesh. Amen. I’ve had the Lord do this for me, and I suggest you do it, particularly with the letter of 1 John. And just read it. It’s a letter. And just read it every day for a while. And just read that, and not anything else. Just read that letter. Just read it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again. And it’ll become medicine to your flesh. You know why? It’ll get rid of fear. I have known, I have had an intimate relationship with his love and believed his love. Believed it.
Now, this is Healing School. Now, listen to me. To believe that, to believe that love, well, you know, sometimes I just don’t feel like he loves me. Kellie, I know you’re my daughter and all that, and I think you love me, but I just don’t feel like it. That’s a lie from hell. Now, the first time in Tulsa, I was reading the prayers of Jesus to agree with it. And I got over there, and it said, «Father, show them you love them as much as you do me». And I thought, oh, I don’t know about that. I mean, I was serious about it. I don’t know about that. And I was trembling, because I’d never read that like that before. I was a baby Christian in those ways. And I walked around that room, and I said, «God loves me as much as he does Jesus. How could that be»?
But my spirit was leaping on the inside of me. And I just started walking around the room, and you need to do the same thing. God loves Kenneth just as much as he does Jesus. Well, he can’t do anything else, because he is love. And you can’t do anything to make him love you anymore. You can’t do anything to make him love you any less. You can grieve him, but he is love. God loves Kenneth Max Copeland. Amen. Yes, he does. And he said in the 17th chapter of John, he said, talking to his disciples, «All the Father has is mine. But when the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, when the Comforter comes, he will take what is mine and show it unto you». And he said, «I say again, all that the Father has is mine, and he will take what is mine and show it unto you».
They didn’t have this book. We do. And I am a witness that you stay before him, and you pray in the Spirit, and you stay before him, and you worship him, and you worship him, and you worship him. And he’ll take what is the Father’s and show it to me. I’ve had it happen. I went to the prayer cabin. The ministry was a million dollars behind. And I got there, and I heard it in my spirit, you don’t need a million dollars. I said out loud, well, you could have fooled me. No. He said, «I flashed it across your spirit, the problem. If I gave you a million dollars, that wouldn’t get rid of the problem in the ministry that caused you to be behind in the first place».
Well, this sounds like it’s a few minutes, but this was hours. Because it would seem like I’d touch on it, and it’d just go away. And it seemed like, and I said, «Lord, what is it»? He said, «You’re not tithing the ministry». Not tithing the ministry. I said, «Well, Lord, I just figured it was all yours». And down inside of me, here was the wisdom. Do government employees pay taxes? Yes. It doesn’t matter for whom you work. You pay your taxes. We’re quick to tithe, personally. He said, «You start tithing the ministry, you start tithing the church, and you see what I can do». Amen.
Now that takes us back to the book of Malachi, so let’s go there. Now, there’s 400 years between Malachi and Matthew, and the Lord identifies Himself as the Lord of Hosts, the Lord of the angelic armies of God. Now, remember, there was bloodshed in the form of animals, and Abram, and then bloodshed through circumcision. And a very special child was born when he was 100 years old, Isaac. In order to get a very special child, in the second covenant.
Chapter four, «For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts. And unto you that fear my name shall the Sun, S-U-N, a star, a burning star, the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and you’ll go forth and grow up as calves of the stall, and tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts. Remember ye the Lord of Moses my son, the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb, for all of Israel in the statutes and the judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse».
And that was the end of anything about the curse except in Galatians 3, because it ended it. The law ended with Jesus. Verse 13, 3:13, «Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come on us». Glory to God. So, well, all right, let’s go to the book of Ephesians. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord.
Chapter 2, «And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sin, wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our manner of life in time past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy for his great love, wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us, or made us alive together with Christ, by grace are you saved, and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus under good works, which God hath before ordained, that we should walk in them. Remember that you being time past, and Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcised by that which is the circumcision made by hand».
Now listen, at that time, online, listen to this, read it. «At that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world». Oh, there’s a lot of sickness and disease that comes from that. And I can nail down another place where there’s a lot of sickness and disease, not walking in love, being quick to judge, judging other people. But we don’t do that, do we? That sure was weak. We don’t do that, do we? Well, moving on. «Redeemed from the curse, a life worth living». I am supposed to be healed today. The healings of Jesus.
Mark chapter 10:46. «They came to Jericho as he went out of Jericho with his disciples, and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the wayside begging. And when he had heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, Son of David…» Whoa. Whoa. He knew who he is. Son of David. «Son of David, have mercy on me». Now, let’s put it in proper vernacular. Son of David, do chesed for me. Son of David, Messiah. Do chesed for me. Mercy. «Many charged him that he should hold his peace». Many. Which just simply meant they didn’t get it. You’re interrupting the man.
Son of David, do chesed for me. Jesus stood still. Of course, the moment he heard mercy, the moment he heard chesed. And son of David, what’s running through his heart and mind. Whoever that is knows that I’m Messiah. He believes it. And he knows the meaning of the covenant word chesed. «So he stood still and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man saying, Well, be of good comfort, arise he calls him». Well, that’s kind of funny. They just didn’t have a clue. And it very well could have been some of his own disciples. Because there’s a huge crowd. And this guy’s hollering so loud. But Jesus stopped and stood still. And commanded him to be called. You get him over here to me right now. Commanded that he be called.
«Jesus answered and said unto him, 'what will you do that I should do unto thee? ' The blind man said unto him, 'Lord, that I might receive my sight.' Jesus said, 'Go your way. Your faith has made you whole.' And immediately he received his sight and followed him». But he had to say it. He had to say it. He could have said something like, I’ve been blind all my life, but I’m in so much pain. He would have stayed blind, but he wouldn’t have had any pain. He said the way you believe it. So he asked him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. Can’t you just see Jesus?
Now, he dropped his garment. He was legally blind. He had been checked out by the priests, which meant he was legally blind and his garment proved that. So people could give into his life, knowing that he wasn’t, you know, conning somebody. When he dropped that garment, Jesus saw his faith. In other places, he would say, «You believe I can do this»? They’d say, «Yeah, Lord». Be it done unto you as you have believed. He said to Thomas, «Thomas quit being faithless». Well, so Thomas wasn’t faithless anymore. But that’s Jesus. He said, «Come to me who are burdened and I’ll give you real rest». The goodness of God.