Kenneth Copeland - Jesus' Ascension Gives You Access to Standby Power
John 14:10–18. Here’s what it says. It is expedient for you that I go away. John 14:10–18. I will not leave you as orphans. I will not leave you as orphans. I won’t leave you as spiritual orphans. Can’t you?.. You can’t plumb the depth of that. I won’t leave you as orphans. Thank You, Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. And divine access to all the Father has, he’s the king of the universe, develop a God-inside consciousness, become God-inside minder. He’s our helper, comforter, advocate, standby, counselor, strengthener, intercessor. All that’s in you right now. I said it before. This is the Spirit planning your life. He planned it before the foundation of the world. Hallelujah. Thank You, Lord Jesus.
The evidence that he’s in you is not how you feel or how you don’t feel. Deuteronomy 31:6 through 8. John 14:16. Forever. Hebrews 13:5. Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money, including greed, avarice, lust, craving for earthly possessions. Be satisfied with your present circumstances and with what you have, for God Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you or give you up nor leave you without support. I will not… This delivered me. This set me free one day. That depression tried to come on me again. And Gloria was quick to read this to me. Let your character, moral disposition be free from the love of money, not that part, including greed, avarice, lust, craving for earthly possessions.
Be satisfied with your present circumstances. That wasn’t it. And with what you have, for he Himself said, I will not in any way fail you, give you up, or leave you without support. This was it. I will not… I will not in any decree leave you helpless or forsake you or let you down. Relax. Hold on you. Assuredly not. He’s not willing to give me up. I thought, devil, you just shut your everlasting mouth. Tell me things like that. It broke it forever. Because when the Amplified came out, it came out first in just the New Testament. I still have mine. And then it came out, it wasn’t anywhere near this nice. It came out in the whole Bible. I still have it. And the way I marked it up then, that’s about the way I marked it up now. Of course, when I had it back there then, didn’t know much. Still don’t know a whole lot, but I knew more than I did back there then.
So, trust the God that is on the inside. Ability, efficiency, might, love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Now, I want to talk about the standby. Now, I go a long way back, as you know. Do you like the push button now for starters? You like that? Okay. Now, just imagine this. You’ve got two pedals down here. One of them’s a brake and one of them’s a clutch. Automatic, what do you mean automatic? They came out with a hydramatic drive. I thought, what a cinch. Stick shift. First gear, second gear, third gear. That’s it. A little more choke. Get running. Vroom… You get up on a hill, you got to hold the clutch in and hold the brake in and keep sliding down backwards. I got in the Army. I already knew how to drive a Jeep. The Jeep master came down there and he said, «Now Copeland, take out the mud».
So we got in there. Well, a friend of mine had a Jeep and I already knew how to drive it. I knew where the gears were and everything. So I got in there and he said, «You know how to drive this thing, don’t you»? I said, yeah. He said, «Come on, let’s go». So we went romping off around and I got the thing in the mud and in the four wheel drive and I said, «Sarge, I apologize. I’ll clean it up». He said, «Ah, forget it. It’s fun. I cleaned it up myself». Hallelujah.
I want to talk about the standby. Back in the day, you come up a hill, you’re either going to have to shift down and climb. We drove to California one year, my mom and dad did, and the old board highway was still visible across the desert where if there was a car coming, you had to pull off and let the other car go by and get out on that old board highway. And you’d see these bags hanging out in the front. They had water in them and you had two bags, one make cool drinking water and another one full of water in case you had to pour it in the radiator. That’s what it was like, the standby. But finally, man, you could push that accelerator down and it would gear down.
And I heard Brother Hagin talking about it, standby power. That’s what it was talking about. It wasn’t automatic shift. It was an automatic transmission, but it only, it had only run through about three or four gears and that was it. Then you get on a little hill, you press the accelerator down to the floor. It would shift down into another gear and that was standby power. Why am I telling you all this? Because of our God. He is always the standby power. He is always there. He has always existed. And one of the first things I want to know, I think, there’s a lot of things I want to know. How does a being exist forever? We’re linear. He’s like that.
Well, I’m going to find that out and we’re going to sit down and talk for a couple of thousand years. A new heaven and a new earth is coming and we’re a part of it. There’s coming a hard time and we’re going to have to be there for him. Not very often. I don’t think about it much. But Jesse’s been to heaven for an extended visit and he reminded me of this. He said, «There’s coming a time when we’re going to be there and he’s going to be standing there and say, 'Depart from me. I never knew you.' Didn’t we prophesy in your name? It’s in the book. I never knew you. I never knew you».
That’s going to be Jesus' hardest moment in his eternal life because they will wind up in the lake of fire. It’s too late. And you want to take care of that right now in the name of Jesus. Glory to God. Don’t let this time go by. Don’t let it go by. It’s so simple. He’s done everything, but pray your prayer for you. Just do what I did. Just look up and say, «Jesus, come into my heart. I receive You. Go ahead and pray. I receive You as my Lord and my Savior. And I know from what You said, Jesus, when you were on earth, that I am now born again. I am a new creature in Christ Jesus. I want to be there that day. I don’t want to be there where he said, 'Depart from me. I never knew you.'»
It’s coming. It’s coming. But not only that, tomorrow’s coming. And you can go into tomorrow morning, a new creature in Christ Jesus. Yes. Yes. And the rest of your life, you wake up and say, «Good morning, Jesus». Yes. Amen. Hallelujah. Now let’s go back to this. There’s one more scripture that I want to read. Let’s go back to the book of John. In that prayer, 17th chapter, we were reading there before. Now here’s another revelation. We pray in the name of Jesus, right? He said, «Father, I have kept them in Your name».
You know what he said? I have kept them inside Your name. In it. That gave me a whole, well, the Bible said his name is a high tower and the righteous run into it and are saved. Ha. It’s in the book. His name is a high tower. He said, «I have kept them in your name, in the name of the Father». So I want to go back here and we’re very close to closing. So I said, «Lord, I’ve learned about agreement. He’s praying and I’m going to agree with him. And this is life eternal. I’m just going along good. I have glorified thee on the earth and finished this work for I have given unto them the words that you gave me». I said, «Oh, I agree with that».
And I just kept reading, And now I come unto thee and the things that I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. Glory to God. Yes, I take that. I have given them your Word. And I had just, I had really got over in the fourth chapter of Mark, the sower sows the Word. I was just living there and I’ve given them your Word. The world hated them because they’re not of this world, even as I’m not of this world. I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but you should keep them from evil. I said, Oh yes, Lord, that’s for me. They’re not of the world, even as I’m not of the world. Sanctify them, separate them through your truth.
Your Word is truth. Oh, I agree. As you have sent me into the world, even so I send them into the world. And for their sakes, I sanctify myself that they might also be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also, which shall believe in me through their word. Well, look, all of them, but Judas one way or other, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. That they all may be one. as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; Uh, uh, yeah, yeah, I’ll take it. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, it can’t be. Oh, God loves me just as much as… No, no, no, no, no. God loves Kenneth as much as he does… No, no. Wait a minute. God loves Kenneth as much as he, God loves me. Well, of course he did. He went to the cross to get me. My God, he loves me just as much as he loves him. My knees were shaking. God loves Kenneth. God loves Kenneth Copeland as much as he does Jesus. God loves me. He loves me just as much as he loves Jesus. And glory be to God forevermore. He loves me as much as he does Jesus. I haven’t gotten over it and I never will. It broke my heart and it is still broken in his presence. He loves me. He loves you. He is love.
And then he said, not right then, «Kenneth, there’s not anything you can do to make me love you less. You can disappoint me, but there’s not anything you can do to make me love you less. And there’s not anything you can do to make me love you more». He said, «I just love you more every day». My God. It did to me then the same thing it’s doing to me right now. Here I am. I was 30 then and I’m 88 now. That’s a long time. I can’t get over it. I don’t want to get over it. And then I found a scripture. He did it to bring many sons to God. Hallelujah.
That standby power. Oh, Jesus. Thank You. This has been a magnificent week. Thank all of you for being so precious and kind. Thank you for that. In the name of Jesus. I just carry all kinds of things in here, but I want to close with this one. You remember, um, Rose and Bob Weiner did a lot of ministry on college campuses. It was a blessing to see you and Gloria in Washington at the Kennedy center at the Glenn Beck rally at the end of August. We appreciate the Word of Faith that Gloria gave. When you pray, believe that you receive it. Amen.
She said, take it. I told you when I saw you in DC, it occurred with new year’s eve and 09 prophecy. Now, March of last year, I was at a small prayer group at Harvard. After worshiping and singing in tongues for a long period of time, I had a vision. In this vision and I was above the clouds looking across the expanse of the sky, myriads of them. Many looked like the Liberty bell. I saw Jesus walking in the middle of these bells.
Then the Lord spoke to me and said, «You know, this is the only nation ever founded because people love me in the history of the world. I founded Israel because I love people and made them a great nation to bring forth Messiah, the Savior of the world. But the United States of America was founded because people love me and sought to create a nation where they could have freedom to worship me». And listen what he said, I will never forget that. And he said this, His voice broke up with emotion and you could hear that he was holding back the tears. Then he said, «I’m going to move. I’m going to move in a great spiritual awakening to call this nation back to myself. And it’s happening right now».