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I. Jesus taught on faith—how to have it and how to use it (Mark 11:22-25).
If you have accepted Jesus as your LORD and Savior, you are a new creature
(2 Corinthians 5:17), and that new creature has faith. At the moment of that
decision, faith came.
You are a three-part being—spirit, soul and body.
The spirit-you is just like God. You have God’s faith, His righteousness and all of
God inside you. You are born of God. He’s your Father, and His faith is in you.
If you know Jesus as LORD, you have faith. Say it: “I have faith in God.”
What things you desire, believe when you pray (believe that you receive them),
and you shall have them.
It’s simple, it’s easy, and everyone can exercise faith.
God is a spirit. We are spirit beings like God, therefore, we can do in the spirit
what He says to do in and by His Spirit.
III. To bring things into being, you must have substance. You must have hope and faith.
Hope and prayer are not enough to bring into being what you desire. Hope
moves your answer into the future.
God is the now-God. He works in your present.
One reason people pray over and over about a problem and get no results is that
they have hope (future), but no faith (NOW).
Prayer doesn’t make faith work; faith makes prayer work.
Faith brings things from the unseen realm into the natural seen realm.
Faith is now, and you must believe to see your answer NOW.
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As you build your life and your prayers on the Solid Rock of Jesus, you need a blueprint. In
your own words, begin writing a description of the fundamentals of faith. With that perfect
design, you will always receive everything you desire.
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I. Have faith in God NOW! That’s the first step.
If you know what faith is, where it comes from and how it operates, you’ve
arrived at hope.
Have faith in God in every circumstance—finances, children, business,
government.
The more you know about faith, the more you’ll use it in every situation.
II. Get faith words in your mouth, and say them over and over.
When these faith words register on your heart, you’ll be more and more
successful.
Don’t meditate on fear; that will draw to you what you are afraid of.
o You cannot be in fear and faith at the same time. If you’re in faith, you don’t
have to be in fear about anything.
o In most people’s lives, fear is highly developed. Remember, worry is fear.
When something registers on your heart, it will grow and start to produce, just
like a wooden post, when put into the ground, tries to grow. That’s why the
bottom rots. The ground was created to make whatever is put in it grow.
That’s how faith works. What you put in your heart begins to produce. Whatever
is in abundance in your heart comes out of your mouth (Luke 6:45). As we
verbally rehearse problems, they try to reproduce.
The spiritual phrase is “renew your mind” to the things of God (Romans 12:2), so
godliness reproduces.
IV. If Jesus appeared in front of you and spoke to you, it would be the same as reading
the promises of God from the Bible.
Here’s the key The LORD gave Brother Copeland:
o You say to Jesus, “Sir, I desire _____________________.”
o Jesus says, “OK. Believe you receive.”
o You say, “I believe that I receive ___________________________.”
o Jesus says, “OK, you shall have it. That’s no big deal. I paid for that at Calvary.”
o You respond, “If Jesus said I have it, then glory to God, I have it! I may not see
it yet, but I have it!”
You have to cross from hope to faith. Your hope takes on substance, when you
step across the line. You do it with your words. Every time you release faith, you
build faith.
As you keep saying what you believe (Mark 11:23-24), you get full of faith—
now-faith.
Believe you receive, when? When you pray!
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Write a note to yourself about the difference between hope and faith. Let your hope soar
and always add faith (substance), so your prayers are answered.
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I. Become perfected in the fundamentals of faith (Mark 11:2-25).
The basic fundamentals are evident when you watch a championship sporting
event. The players are masters of the fundamentals of the game.
o There are also masters of the fundamentals for each age group, but it’s the
same principles at each level.
Death and life come out of your mouth as words (Proverbs 18:21). The thing you
love is what you talk about, put your effort in, and spend most of your time
thinking about. What you are doing and practicing is what you’re going to
perfect.
II. To live the life of faith, you’re going to have to practice—practice God’s presence.
If you’re going to come to a place of power in faith, then you must spend most of
your time thinking about God, talking about Jesus and talking to Jesus.
Smith Wigglesworth, a man of great prayer and power, said he usually didn’t go
over 15 to 20 minutes without praying. He was in constant communication with
God.
You’re practicing the fundamentals of faith. You’re thinking about them. You
believe in your heart, and speak with your mouth. Then, you act on your faith.
Where you spend your thought life is where you are going.
If you have an assignment from God that’s not the ministry, you still practice
faith. Meditate on The WORD of God, Psalm 91 and the healing scriptures.
Think, Now that I’m healed how does this affect what I’m doing? The symptoms
may still be there, but you know you’re healed. Now that I’m debt free, how does
this change my life? and you still owe a lot of money. You are changing inside by
meditating the fundamentals. This is called “the renewing of the mind” (Romans
12:2). As your mind is renewed, the outward circumstances will change.
III. Brother Copeland had to change his mind concerning living to be 120 (Genesis 6:3).
It’s God’s will for His people to live to be 120.
When the children of Israel died at the age of 70 or 80, it was the result of them
saying, “We’re going to die in the desert” (Numbers 20:4). Their words limited
God. They believed in their hearts, they said with their mouths, and that’s what
they got. Only Caleb and Joshua stayed strong in faith.
When Brother Copeland committed to that promise of a long life, he began to do
the things that would cause his body to be healthy for 120 years.
IV. The image that’s on the inside of us is vitally important to our success as Christians.
We don’t think in words; we think in pictures. When God created animals and
birds, He already had an image of what the created thing would look like. God
had it all planned, every detail, for eternity.
We have that same kind of capacity. It’s part of being a human being. You’re a
spirit, you have a soul and you live in a body. You have an imagination, and
you’re supposed to be using it for the kingdom of God.
When we take The WORD of God, the promises of God, the facts of God and the
Bible, and build our faith on them, the image on the inside of us will change from
sickness to divine health.
o There’s no need to get sick and get healed over and over again. We ought to
live in divine health and not get sick in the first place.
Jesus bore your griefs, sorrows, sicknesses, diseases, weaknesses and pain in His
own body (Isaiah 53:4-5). By Jesus’ stripes you were healed (1 Peter 2:24)!
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Practice the presence of God by talking to Him every day about everything. Start a list of
what you want to share with Him, and things you need His help to complete.
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I. When your faith is hindered, prepare to forgive (Mark 11:25).
Unforgiveness is a huge hindrance to your faith.
Jesus taught His disciples to pray: “Forgive us, as we forgive” (Matthew 6:12).
Faith will not work in an unforgiving heart or even if there is an air of
unforgiveness.
o Faith doesn’t work in a complaining heart.
o Faith doesn’t work in an angry heart.
Unforgiveness, complaining and anger are all products of the devil’s weapon of
fear.
II. The Christian is led by faith in God; the non-Christian is led by fear.
Over a lifetime, a person is trained to have habits that are fear-based and fear-
dependent.
In the faith kingdom, we bless and call things that be not as though they were.
o In the kingdom of darkness, they curse and call things that be not as though
they were.
You have the power to reverse curses—even family curses. Speak faith, and say
what you want—not what you have inherited from your earthly family.
III. It’s a hindrance to faith to have a lack of understanding of being a new creature [a
new species of being] in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17-18).
You’re not a forgiven sinner. To say that is not humility; it’s ignorance of the
Bible.
When you were saved, you became a new creature. The old man is dead and
gone. Whatever you did before you were saved is not you. The man who did
those things died.
Paul, the man who persecuted believers in the book of Acts, said he had wronged
no man (2 Corinthians 7:2). How could he say that and not lie? Because his old
man died on the road to Damascus.
o He had to put down his past sins and let Jesus cleanse him. That’s how he
could write “there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus”
(Romans 8:1).
IV. A lack of understanding of righteousness is another thing that will hinder your faith.
You must develop the image inside of you that you are righteous.
You know the scripture (2 Corinthians 5:17-21), and you believe it; but have you
allowed God’s WORD to change what you think about yourself? Do you see
yourself as righteous? You must change your inner image.
God has reconciled you to Him; now you must reconcile yourself to God by
believing you are what He made you.
There is confusion between righteousness and holiness. It’s not true that you
have to live holy for a long time in order to attain righteousness.
Did Jesus ever commit any unrighteousness? No.
o Did you ever commit any righteousness? No.
o Yet Jesus was made sin with your sin, so you can be made righteous with His
righteousness.
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Make this confession:
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I. You have been taught that all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory
(Romans 3:21-24).
The devil wants you to be sin-minded instead of righteous-minded.
Look at the surrounding verses. You have been justified freely by God’s grace
through the Redemption that comes through Jesus Christ.
You have been justified, or made righteous, by faith. You have peace with God
and access to God through faith in The LORD Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1-5).
You accepted Jesus, and He gave you His righteousness. It is a free gift
(Romans 5:15-17).
o You who receive God’s righteousness will reign in life (reign as kings)
through Jesus Christ, the Anointed.
o Instead of life reigning over you, you will reign over life, over sin, over death
and over the curse.
II. The moment Jesus was raised from the dead, righteousness became available to all
men.
Not all men have received God’s righteousness, but it’s there ready to be
received. It’s a free gift. You cannot earn it!
Begin to develop a righteousness consciousness. You are right with God. There
may need to be some changing in your thinking and behavior, but you are right
with God.
Jesus purged our sins (Hebrews 1:1-3).
The Law of Moses can never purge our sins, but Jesus did (Hebrews 10:1).
Everything in our past has been wiped away. Use your faith to believe that. Let
your consciousness be cleansed by the blood sacrifice of Jesus.
No matter what your background is, you are not a failure; you are in the success
of Christ Jesus!
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You are right with God, now! You can use your faith, without fear, to send the enemy away
and change things in your life. We want to know how this teaching has helped you. Click
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I. The road to success is found in The WORD of God.
Let’s look at how praise is an integral part of victory and success.
A great army was coming against the nation of Judah (2 Chronicles 20:1-25).
o King Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek The LORD (praise).
o Even though the enemy was coming against people of Judah, they kept their
eyes on The LORD.
That’s what you do when you’re afraid. You don’t put up with the fear.
You set yourself to seek God. The king praised The LORD.
This is what you do when you get into financial difficulties, or debt, and
don’t know how to get out. You praise God!
o The Lord told Jehoshaphat, “Be not afraid nor dismayed of this great
multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.”
Don’t be afraid of this thing that’s attacked your household. Don’t be
afraid of this sickness or disease. Even though you walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil (Psalm 23:4). Shadows have no
power.
o King Jehoshaphat fell before The LORD and worshipped Him. There’s a lot of
praising going on here.
o The king said, “Believe in The LORD your God, so shall you be established;
believe his prophets, so shall you prosper” (2 Chronicles 20:20).
o Jehoshaphat appointed singers to sing unto The LORD to praise the beauty of
His holiness.
You can make the same confession they made: “Praise The LORD, for His
mercy endures forever” (2 Chronicles 20:21).
o And when they began to sing and to praise, The LORD God went into action.
The LORD set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab and Mount
Seir, and they were all destroyed. None escaped.
o It took Jehoshaphat and his people three days to gather the spoil left by the
armies.
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Prayer for help:
Father God, thank You for Your promises and Your faithfulness to Your WORD. In Jesus’
Name, I bind the devil from hindering me. I speak to the ministering spirits to go get
what I need, what I desire and what I am believing for, and bring it to me, in Jesus’
Name. Thank You, Sir! Amen!
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I. Faith in The WORD of God is simple.
The simplicity of faith: It is so simple. The more you can reduce faith to its
simplest form, the more it becomes uncluttered and powerful. It will grow and
grow as you take it in simplicity.
In the beginning of beginnings, there was no substance, no matter (Hebrews
11:1-3). God used faith and words to create matter. Then, God created man in
His own image to have faith in words.
When you are born again, you are a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17-21). It’s
your spirit that is new, not your mind or body. Your mind has to be renewed, and
your body must be subjected to obedience. Your spirit man is new, and it’s just
like Jesus.
God already had everything planned before the foundation of the world
including YOU.
o Before He said anything. He had the plan.
o So, before He said anything, the faith force wrapped around the plan. That’s
called hope.
o The plan was ready, hope was there, but it needed faith to come into being.
Faith is NOW. It is now-faith. Faith is substance of the hope.
Hope is important. We have a blessed hope of the return of Jesus (Titus 2:13).
We have an expectant hope (Philippians 1:19-20).
If you don’t know about a subject, you don’t know what to expect. The devil will
try to prove to you that what God said is not yours. But when you know the plan,
you can put your faith on it, and see it happen.
Brother Copeland tells the story of the building of their house.
o Gloria planned the house in detail. She knew what it would look like before
the foundation was laid.
o Gloria had the dream of a house. Eventually, she wanted to know if it was
God’s will to build that house.
o God proved to them it was His will, and it was time to start building.
o The dream took upon itself faith; and faith brought the money to do it with
cash.
o They started believing with house-building faith.
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Turn your hopes into faith, and receive them NOW! Write one thing you are hoping for;
then write a faith statement to receive it.
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I. Jesus did everything based on what His Father said.
Jesus moved His home and ministry headquarters to Capernaum as prophesied
(Matthew 4:12-15; Isaiah 9:1-2).
Jesus said, “I can do nothing of myself. It’s the Father who dwells within me”
(John 8:28, 14:10).
The kingdom of darkness has rank and order (Ephesians 6:12).
o Principalities.
o Powers.
o Rulers of the darkness of this world.
o Wicked spirits in the heavenlies.
These operate in the lives of governments and politicians. They attack
leaders with a strong force.
II. Jesus delivered a man who lived in the tombs (Mark 5:1-20).
This man was demon-possessed and cut himself.
Jesus said, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.” A person can be possessed
by only one unclean spirit.
The demons around the unclean spirit asked Jesus to send them into the swine.
Jesus said to them, “What is your name?” They answered, “My name is Legion,
for we are many” (the spirits were talking).
When Jesus sent them into the pigs, all 2,000 of them ran violently off the cliff
and drowned in the sea.
When the people from town heard the noise and came running, the man was
clothed and in his right mind. All the people were afraid.
III. Jairus, the leader of the synagogue in Capernaum, came to Jesus (Mark 5:21-42;
Matthew 9:18-25).
He wanted Jesus to lay hands on his daughter, who was at the point of death, and
heal her.
On the way to Jairus’ house, a woman with an issue of blood who had heard of
Jesus, approached them. She knew if she touched Jesus’ garment, she would be
healed.
She took specific steps toward healing.
o She heard enough about Jesus that faith came.
o Faith will come when you hear The WORD of God (Romans 10:17).
o She believed it in her heart.
o She said it with her mouth.
She didn’t feel it and then believe she was healed. She first believed it, and then
she felt it.
All this time, Jairus is standing there. He didn’t say a word. He’d already said his
faith. His servants came and said, “Your daughter is dead.” Jesus said, “Be not
afraid; only believe.”
Jesus used His words as a weapon of healing.
The woman received her healing, and Jairus’ daughter was raised from the dead.
IV. Two blind men asked Jesus to heal them (Matthew 9:27-30). They followed Him
right into His house.
They called Jesus “Son of David,” meaning “the Christ, the Messiah.”
Jesus said to the blind men, “Do you believe I am able to do this?” They said to
him, “Yea, LORD.”
Jesus touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith, be it done unto you.”
Faith in The WORD of God will bring you healing and deliverance.
Additional scriptures: John 14:10; Luke 4:31-32
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Make this confession:
I believe God is faithful to keep His WORD. Jesus has done the work to heal and deliver
me from all my problems. I now receive what Jesus did for me. I am healed! I am
prosperous! I am delivered! I am a child of God!
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I. Multitudes followed Jesus everywhere He went. He prayed for many and ministered
miracles to those who were diseased.
Jesus told the disciples to feed the multitude (John 6:1-21).
They found a boy who had five barley loaves and two small fishes.
Jesus gave thanks and fed them all—more than 5,000 men plus women and
children.
At the direction of Jesus, they gathered up the fragments and had 12 baskets left
from the five barley loaves.
Later that night, the disciples got into the boat to cross the lake.
Jesus came later, walking on the water. He said to them, “It is I; be not afraid.”
Jesus got in the boat, and IMMEDIATELY, the ship was at the land.
III. The greatest is the one who comes to Jesus as a little child.
Jesus had a house in Capernaum right on the seacoast.
o From His house, Jesus saw Peter working with his fishing equipment. Lots of
people were there waiting to see and hear Jesus. He got into Peter’s boat and
preached. After teaching, He told Peter to go out fishing again, and they
caught a huge amount of fish (Luke 5:1-9).
In Capernaum, the officials came to Jesus’ house and asked Peter, “Does your
master pay tribute?” (Matthew 17:24-27).
o Jesus said, “Peter, who pays taxes? The children or strangers? Nevertheless,
go down to the lake, cast in a hook, take up the first fish, open his mouth. You
will find a piece of money. Take it and give unto them for me and for you.”
o Jesus knew there was money in lots of the fishes’ mouths. Jesus meant for
Peter to keep catching and harvest the money. Don’t love money, use it!
When Peter came into the house to find out what to do about the taxes, at the
same time the disciples came in, and Jesus taught the whole chapter, Matthew
18, to all of them in His own living room.
o The disciples wanted to know, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven?” (Matthew 18:1-5, 10).
o They had brought their wives and children to Jesus’ house, so He called a
little child to Him. “Except you be converted and become as little children,
you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever shall receive one
such little child in my name receives me. Take heed that you despise not one
of these little ones. In heaven their angels do always behold the face of my
Father which is in heaven.”
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We are to pray for one another. The Holy Spirit will help us pray as we should for
each other (Romans 8:27). Who are you praying for? Allow the Spirit of God to pray
through you so that the will of God is done in their lives.
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I. Jesus taught in His own house to His close disciples (Matthew 18:18-20).
Jesus taught, “Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven;
whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
“And again, I say unto you, if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything
they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.”
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, here am I in the
midst of them” (just like Jesus was in their midst while He was teaching).
That’s the reason it is so important when you stand praying, to forgive. We must
forgive! It’s dangerous to not forgive.
III. The cure for unbelief is faith that comes by hearing The WORD of God.
Jesus went about teaching, preaching and healing. Brother Copeland believes
that Jesus went back later to His hometown, and they had another opportunity to
receive.
There is a method that language schools use called total immersion. The
students hear nothing but the new language.
o You can use this method of total immersion with The WORD of God.
Faith needs someone to receive; so, receive this word of prophecy from Brother
Copeland.
o As a minister of the gospel and as a prophet of God, Kenneth Copeland
pronounces:
In Jesus’ Name, I declare you blessed.
I declare you healed.
I declare you prosperous and in good health.
I declare miracles coming into your households.
Additional scriptures: Matthew 19:1; Luke 8:8
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