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KENNETH: You've heard people say, "Boy, I tell you what,
it doesn't seem like my prayer got any higher than the
ceiling." It didn't need to get that high. God's right here.
(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: In every aspect of your Christian faith, put your
trust in God. Today, be ready to be blessed as Kenneth Copeland
shares how much God watches over His children, next, on
the Believer's Voice of Victory. Now, let's join Kenneth.
KENNETH: Let's go back over there to Mark 11. And let's
read this again. "Jesus answering saith unto them, Have
faith in God." Now--now, yesterday's broadcast, we were
talking about, "Well, what about this need? What about that?" I
don't care what it is. "Have faith in God." AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean not to your
KENNETH: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean not to your
own understanding." Now, that--once you have
understanding of the new birth in the--in the New Covenant, the
second testament, New Testament, then you begin to learn--and you
can only find this out from the Word of God--to rightly divide
the Word of truth. And this is the only way you're going to
find out the difference between spirit and soul and body. And of
course, they're mingled together, but the Word separates
them so you can identify them. AUDIENCE: Mm-hmm. Amen. KENNETH:
Now, that Scripture said, "Trust in the Lord with all your--"
AUDIENCE: Heart. KENNETH: "--heart; lean not to your--"
AUDIENCE: Understanding. KENNETH: "--understanding." So
you can see right now there's a difference between trusting God
in your heart-- AUDIENCE: Mm-hmm KENNETH: --and leaning to your
own understanding. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Now, "Have faith
in God." Now, how much faith--how much faith are you
exercising in the God that's within you-- AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: --or leaning to your own understanding? Let's go over
to I John. Thank You, Lord. I John 4:1, "Beloved, believe not
to I John. Thank You, Lord. I John 4:1, "Beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby
know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh is of God: every spirit that
confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of
God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have
heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the
world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome
them." "Them" who? Them spirits. AUDIENCE: Mm-hmm. Amen. KENNETH:
The grammar's terrible, but you get--you see where I'm going
with that? You have overcome them. It didn't say, "You're
going to overcome them," or that you need to try to overcome
them. No, no, no. You have overcome them. See, you're--I
want you to get this. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Jesus went to the
cross. The Scripture said, "He was manifest in the flesh."
That's when He was born of Mary. "But he was made alive in the
Spirit." That's when He was born again in the pit of hell. And
the first chapter of the book of Hebrews said, "And again when he
bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he said--" Jesus
was the first man to ever be born again, to be born of the
Spirit. Now, Jesus--you're listening to me? AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: Jesus never, ever committed a sin, not one.
AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: He took your and my sin.
AUDIENCE: That's right. Amen. KENNETH: Amen. But now listen to
me. He took our sins, our sickness, our disease. He was
made a curse for us. Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Born
again in the pit of hell, raised from the dead, glorified--now,
you remember when Mary came up to the tomb, and she didn't
recognize Him, but when He called her by the name, she--she
did. He said, "Don't touch me for I have not--I have not gone
before my father and your father, my God and your God." He
presented Himself before God after having stripped Satan. And
Jesus said "All authority has been given unto me both in
heaven and in earth." And He took it by great conquest.
(Audience Agrees) AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Isn't this
powerful? (Audience Agrees) Oh, glory to God. But now listen to
me. He went before God, presented Himself spotless
before Him. The New Covenant was settled in His blood. Then He
came back and said, "Now, handle me, for a spirit hath not
flesh--" AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: "--and bone," not
blood. All of his--all of it, all of his blood is in heaven on
the heavenly mercy seat-- AUDIENCE: Yes. Amen. KENNETH:
--right tonight. But--(Laughter)--heaven does not
record that Jesus did that. He already had authority over the
devil. He didn't do that for Himself. AUDIENCE: No. Right.
KENNETH: Heaven has it recorded that you overcame the devil.
(Audience Agrees) Heaven has it--(Cheers &
Applause)--recorded that you did it, that you went to the cross,
that you whipped him in hell. He gave it to you and me! Glory to
God! You have overcome them! (Audience Agrees) Amen!
(Audience "Amens") Because, "Greater is he that is in you,
than he that is in the world." AUDIENCE: Amen. Hallelujah.
Glory. KENNETH: Somebody ought to shout, "Amen!" Glory to God.
(Cheers & Applause) Hallelujah! AUDIENCE: Hallelujah! KENNETH:
Say it, "The Greater One is in me." (Audience Repeats) "I
recognize that in myself I'm inadequate, that I'm
inefficient. But I'm not in myself, I'm in Christ Jesus. And
the Greater One is in me!" (Cheers) AUDIENCE: Hallelujah!
Whoo! KENNETH: I've got to give you Creflo Dollar's testimony. I
like giving Creflo's testimony. Amen. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH:
And he had been diagnosed with a very fast-moving form of cancer.
Well, he just locked himself up in the Word of God. Never
would--he never would speak the name of the disease. AUDIENCE:
Amen. KENNETH: Wouldn't say it. He said, "No, there's a man
living in me." (Audience Agrees) "You can't put the cancer on
me." I heard Brother Hagin say it again and again. "Satan, you
can't put that on me, and you know it. The Greater One is in
me." AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. (Applause) KENNETH: "And
just--just forget about trying." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Do you
remember when they had--they had Paul tied up, bound, they was
about to--they were about to scourge him. They were going to
beat him within an inch of his life or maybe kill him on the
whipping post. He said, "Boys--" He said, "You--you really think
you ought to do this, seeing I'm a Roman citizen?" AUDIENCE:
That's right. KENNETH: And the guy went running in, "Boss, we
need to rethink this." (Laughter) "Hey, we--" And they
just come out of there begging, "Oh, please. Oh, please, mister,
please. We didn't intend to do this. Everything all right now?"
(Laughter) You know. Hey! You're a citizen of heaven. (Cheers)
And you ought to let the devil know about it. AUDIENCE: Yeah.
KENNETH: "Who do you think you are putting your hands on me?"
(Audience Agrees) Learn those Scriptures, memorize them.
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: He went--you can just say it to
him, "I've been raised up to sit together with Him in heavenly
places." (Audience Agrees) "Now get your sickness and disease
out of my body--" AUDIENCE: Yeah! KENNETH: "--and get out of
here now!" (Applause & Approval) "Greater is he that's in me--"
AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "--than he that's in the world."
AUDIENCE: Glory. KENNETH: Well, Creflo had to go back in
for--for, I don't know, some kind of scan or something.
Ha-ha-ha. He and his son and the doctor are standing there
looking at this thing. (Laughter) Their mouths dropped.
He looked over there--he looked over there to his son. He said,
"You see what I'm seeing?" He said, "I think so." And they
looked at the doctor and--(Laughter)--right on that
screen was the face of Jesus. Imagine that. (Applause) And no
cancer. AUDIENCE: Yeah. Whoo! Amen. (Applause) Amen. Glory to
God. Hallelujah. KENNETH: Shouting time! (Cheers &
Applause) Shouting time in the house of faith! Ha-ha-ha. Hey,
hallelujah! The Greater One is in us. (Audience Agrees) But how
much trust are you putting in the Greater One? AUDIENCE:
Right. Amen. KENNETH: Is your attention and trust--you're
leaning to your own understanding? AUDIENCE: Whoo!
KENNETH: And not to the Greater One that's living on the inside
of you? AUDIENCE: Amen. Mm, mm. KENNETH: You get so busy--
AUDIENCE: Mm. KENNETH: --out here. AUDIENCE: Right. Amen.
KENNETH: I heard this years ago. Years ago, I had the Lord
minister to me. He said, "Kenneth, become God-inside
minded." AUDIENCE: Hallelujah! KENNETH: He said, "You look for
me right here." AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: You've heard people
say, "Boy, I tell you what, it doesn't seem like my prayer got
any higher than the ceiling." AUDIENCE: Yeah. KENNETH: It
didn't need to get that high. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: God,
right here. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: But the little Sunday
school idea-- AUDIENCE: Mm-hmm. KENNETH: --of God, the little
religious idea of God, that, you know, He's--He's way up there,
and-- AUDIENCE: Yeah. KENNETH: --and you're way down here, and
if He's not too busy, well, you know. No, no, no, no, no. You're
the biggest thing in His life. AUDIENCE: Yes. Hallelujah.
KENNETH: Come on, get ahold of that. You're the biggest thing
in the life of Jesus. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: He died for you--
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: --and for me. We're the biggest thing
in His life! AUDIENCE: Yes. Amen. Amen. KENNETH: And that's
why the Holy Spirit is here. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: And
I--some of you have heard me tell this, but I like it. I'm
going to tell it again. (Laughter) I was--I spent some
time--I was up at the prayer cabin, and I--and we--I'd been
up there for several days just praying, seeking the Lord. And I
had--I had a whole list of stuff--I mean, like Gloria said,
when we first got in this, we needed everything, man. Well,
now, we--we're--at least we were ahead of where we first started.
But, oh, man, I--and I've got all of these things, and I had
them all laid out there. And I'm praying over each one, and
I'm--I'm seeking God's direction about this. And, I mean, we
needed--well, my legal pad, it's a full-length legal pad, and it
was full, man, of stuff that we had to have. The ministry was
just growing by leaps and bounds. We had just gotten on
the radio and--and anyway... I went up there just to get before
the Lord. And I'd been praying in the Spirit for quite some
time. And--and I saw it--well, I had my eyes shut, and I saw it.
time. And--and I saw it--well, I had my eyes shut, and I saw it.
I'm sitting in this--I'm sitting in this room, and there's this
big, long table, and there's a door over there, and in walked
God the Father. Oh, Lord. (Sighs) Mm. Still have my eyes
shut. And in walked Jesus. I thought, "Glory to God."
AUDIENCE: Lord, yeah. KENNETH: And--and so He sat down next to
the Father on His right hand. And in walked the Holy Spirit.
And I thought, "What am I going to do with Him?" (Laughter) "I'm
going to put Him on the left hand of God?" I mean, I had
never seen nothing like that. Now, I still got my eyes shut,
but I'm telling you this was so real to me. And--I was--I was
just right in that area where I just stepped over in the Spirit.
AUDIENCE: Mm-hmm. KENNETH: And--and it was--it was a
vision. And--and I--where do I--He walked all the way down
the length of the table, and He came over behind me, got Him a
chair, and sat down and said, "Give me that list." He said,
"I've been here before, and I'll get all of this stuff for you."
(Cheers & Applause) Greater is He-- AUDIENCE: That's in me.
KENNETH: That's His job. That's His job-- AUDIENCE: Yes.
KENNETH: --hallelujah, when you're living and walking by
faith. (Audience Agrees) Jesus said, "The words that I speak
are not my own: it's the Father that dwelleth within, he does
the works." AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "I only say what I hear
Him say, I only do what I see Him do." AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: Hallelujah. Isn't that wonderful? (Audience Agrees) And
here we are--amen--(Audience "Amens")--with God Himself
dwelling on the inside of us. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: How
much-- AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: --trust are you putting in the
one that's on the inside of you? AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: Now,
how--thank You, Lord. Ha-ha. Lord, you want me to... All
how--thank You, Lord. Ha-ha. Lord, you want me to... All
right. How much time I got, Tim? Well, I can introduce this to
you at the moment. Let's go to Ephesians 3. And we'll begin
you at the moment. Let's go to Ephesians 3. And we'll begin
reading with the 14th verse. "For this cause I bow my knees
unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole
family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you,
according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with
might by his Spirit in the inner man." Now, "strengthened with
might in the inner man." "Might" is the Greek word "dynamis,"
d-y-n-a-m-i-s. If you want to make a little note of it,
just--just put it right up there in the margin. "That Christ may
dwell in your heart by faith; that you, being rooted and
grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints--"
This is available for every born-again child of God.
AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "--what is the breadth, and the length,
and the depth, and the height; and to know," to be acquainted
with personally-- AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: "--the love of
Christ--" That's God. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: "--which passes
knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of
God." AUDIENCE: Yeah. KENNETH: "Now unto him that is able to do
exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according
to the dynamis that worketh in us--" Now, Acts 1:8, Acts 1:8,
to the dynamis that worketh in us--" Now, Acts 1:8, Acts 1:8,
"But you shall receive dynamis, after the Holy Ghost is come
upon you: and you will be witnesses--" Now, Acts 10:38,
10:38, "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and with dynamis: who went about doing good, and healing all
oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." AUDIENCE: Amen.
Amen. KENNETH: It's exactly the same spirit. It is exactly the
same power. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Hallelujah! AUDIENCE:
Hallelujah! Amen. KENNETH: All of these great things.
Everything here--go back--go back over there again, Ephesians
3. We've got one minute. Ephesians 3, now, notice it
again, "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his
glory, to be strengthened with dynamis by his Spirit in the
inner man." All right, I believe that. "That Christ may dwell in
your heart by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints the breadth
of God, the length of God, the depth of God, the height of God;
and to know the love of God the anointed, which passes
knowledge, that you might be filled with all the
fullness of God." (Cheers & Applause) AUDIENCE: Amen!
KENNETH: "Now unto him that's able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according
to the power," of the Holy Ghost that's on the
inside of you working right now. (Cheers & Applause)
Somebody shout, "Amen!" AUDIENCE: Amen. Hallelujah!