“But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “can I really be assured I have the victory even before my circumstances have changed?” To shout with joyful assurance, “The victory is mine! I have it now!” Even though nothing on the outside may appear to have changed, in your heart you’ll know that you know that you have believed God. When it does, it will go off inside you like the whistle on a teakettle. But nevertheless, if you keep the scriptural heat on, one day your faith is going to boil. You won’t necessarily feel it because faith isn’t detectable to the natural body. The same principle applies in the realm of the spirit: There’s no such thing as faith that won’t come! If you keep the fire of The WORD burning in you, faith is eventually going to bubble up in your spirit. If you’re at sea level, when the water gets to be 212 degrees Fahrenheit (or 100 degrees Celsius) it’s going to start bubbling because there’s no such thing as water that won’t boil. You don’t have to confirm with sensory evidence that the law of thermodynamics is still in force. You don’t have to keep feeling the water to see if it’s getting warmer. When you put water in a teakettle, if you put the fire under it and keep the heat on, the result is certain.
Not long ago, I was fellowshiping with The LORD and He said to me, Kenneth, think about it this way. It cometh every time, all the time, because it’s a spiritual law and spiritual laws are even more powerful and exact than natural laws. No, it says if you keep hearing and hearing The WORD of God, faith cometh! Period. It doesn’t say that faith sometimes comes. Notice that verse doesn’t say faith might come. God’s WORD is more available right now than it’s ever been before in all of human history-and, as Romans 10:17 says, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Talk about having what it takes to believe God! You’ve got it made.
Anytime, day or night, you can turn on your CD or DVD player, or tune in to the BVOV Network, and hear the Anointed WORD of God being preached. Anytime you choose, you can open your Bible and read the Covenant of BLESSING that’s yours in Christ Jesus. Second, you have abundant access to His WORD. Maybe I just don’t have what it takes.”įirst, you have God’s very own faith that He gave you as a gift the instant you received Jesus as your LORD (Ephesians 2:8). “But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “I’ve tried to believe God in the past for some things and just couldn’t seem to do it. You can take Him at His WORD, conquer every challenge, and become a living testimony to 1 John 5:4: “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” No matter how many defeats you’ve experienced in some area of your life-you can believe God in that area.
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