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Kenneth Copeland — Factor In the AnointingPosted by admin on September 30th, 2009

With those things in mind, let’s go back to Ephesians 2 and dig a little deeper into what God is telling us about hope: “For we are [God’s] workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (verse 10).

Before we read any further, I want you to stop for a moment and notice the phrase “created in Christ Jesus.” To truly understand that phrase, you need to realize that Christ is a Greek word. Why the English translators failed to translate it, I don’t know. But that failure has cost us a great revelation.

You see, the word Christ isn’t Jesus’ last name. It’s not a title. It’s a word with a very significant meaning. Christ actually means “anointed.” To anoint is literally “to pour on, smear all over or rub into.” So the Anointing of God is to have God poured on, smeared all over and rubbed into.

Some time ago, the Spirit of God further clarified that definition for me. He said, The Anointing of God is God on flesh doing those things only God can do.

Practically speaking, what does that Anointing of God on flesh do for us? According to Isaiah 10:27, it destroys the yoke of bondage.

Some people say the anointing breaks the yoke. But the word used in Isaiah isn’t break, it is destroy. It literally means to obliterate so completely that there is no evidence the yoke ever even existed.

Now, let’s go back and read Ephesians 2, translating the word Christ: “Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh…were without [the Anointed One], being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in [the Anointed] Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of [the Anointed One]” (verses 11-13).

According to those scriptures, before you were born again, you were without the Anointed One. Well, if you were without the Anointed One, you were also without the anointing, right? But now, you are in the Anointing of Jesus. That anointing is available to you in every situation to destroy (obliterate completely!) every yoke of bondage.

That’s why you can have hope in the most hopeless situations. It doesn’t matter who you are or what color your skin is. It doesn’t matter if you never made it past the sixth grade. You can break out of that hopeless situation if you’ll factor in the anointing.

The anointing factor is what the world always forgets. They say, “We’ll build this wall so big nobody will ever get through it. We’ll build it big enough to block out the gospel and keep the people under our thumb.” But they fail to figure in the anointing factor. It will destroy that wall. If you don’t believe it, ask the believers in Berlin!

I strongly suggest you begin factoring in the anointing in your life from this moment forward. If someone says, “Well, brother, you can’t expect to succeed. You can’t expect to prosper. You can’t expect to get healed,” ask yourself, “Is there a yoke holding me back?” If the answer is yes, then rejoice because the anointing will destroy it!

“But Brother Copeland, I can’t ever expect to get a good job because I can’t read.” Is that your yoke? Then, believe God and He’ll destroy it.

I know a fellow who hadn’t gone to school at all. God taught him how to read the Bible, but for a long time he couldn’t read anything else. One day, he walked into the principal’s office in the local high school and said, “I want to earn my diploma.”

The principal looked across his desk at this 40-year-old man and said, “OK, we can probably work something out. How much schooling have you had?” “None,” the man answered.

Shaking his head, the principal told him there just wasn’t any way to overcome that kind of obstacle. But the man was persistent. “Now wait a minute,” he said. “The Lord Jesus Christ has let me know that if I do my part and you do your part, He’ll do His part. Yes, sir. There is a way.”

Sure enough, in less than a year, he had his high-school diploma.

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Kenneth Copeland — Word and SpiritPosted by admin on September 23rd, 2009

It is the spirit that quickeneth [makes alive]; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (John 6:63).

What man says doesn’t really mean a thing in and of itself. What I say will not necessarily stand up unless what I say is based on the Word of God.

I say that I am healed, regardless of the condition of my body. I say that as a praise to God because my body is well, or as a confession of faith to change my body if it is not well. In either case, all I am going to say is that I am healed. I am not speaking from my position in my body; I am speaking from my position in Christ Jesus.

There are all kinds of misunderstandings about this principle. The reason I say I am healed is not because I heard some great man of God say it. I say I am healed because I learned it from God’s Word. I stayed in the Word until it came alive in my spirit and rose up in my mouth. That is more real to me than the symptoms in my body.

I don’t go around saying I am healed just because I am part of the “faith movement.” If that were the case, the first time anything went wrong with my body my confession would crumble and fall apart. I say I am healed because the living Word is the foundation
of my faith.

The Word lies dormant in a person’s life until it becomes the foundation for his faith. Some people can quote much of the Bible, but it is not the foundation for their faith. Actually what they are doing is confessing, but their confession is coming out of the mind instead of the spirit. The power is not in the flesh, but in the spirit: the re-created human spirit, the Holy Spirit, the spirit realm.

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Kenneth Copeland — The Whole Armor of GodPosted by admin on September 16th, 2009

And the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak (Isaiah 59:15-17).

Isn’t this also listed in Ephesians 6:11-17? The Bible says we are to take on the whole armor of God. And do what? “Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might” (Ephesians 6:10).

The Lord has delegated to us authority, and He has honored us with the right and privilege to wear his fighting armor. He has given us the right and authority and privilege to have His nature, to have His mind, to receive and be filled with His Spirit, to speak His Word, to use His Name to do His works.

The love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost (Romans 5:5). Think about that. Think about the capacity that has been given to us as spirit beings so that we are able to house the love of God Himself—the love that never fails.

To where does all this point? To the blood-covenant relationship we have in Jesus through which God has called us His own (Hebrews 2:11-12). We are His family. Do we see that? Do we know that? Both God and Satan know it.

God’s “Untouchables”

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not (1 John 5:18).

Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm (1 Chronicles 16:22).

We are “the untouchables.” When we keep ourselves in the Lord, the evil one cannot touch us. God warns Satan, “Keep your hands off what is Mine.”

To walk in that anointing, that place of divine safety and security, we have to watch ourselves. We have to keep ourselves walking the love walk. If we step off that path, Satan can get a shot at us.

God has honored you and me as only He can. He has delegated to us authority that only He possesses.

He has given us dominion over what is His. We have received honor that comes from God only.

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Kenneth Copeland — The Picture of HonorPosted by admin on September 9th, 2009

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:1-2).

The greatest picture of honor is Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. He could have called forth 12 legions of angels to set Him free, but He did not (Matthew 26:53-54). He had every right to do so, but He knew if He did that, we would go to hell. Later, at Calvary, He withstood the shame and the pain that was put upon Him for the joy that was set before Him. This was honor.

We are to look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, as our example of how to lead honorable lives in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.

Back to the Basics

We have to teach and preach honor just as if our generation had never heard of it because many of them have not!

We have to return to the fundamentals of personal integrity and Christian responsibility. We have to teach once more the most simple principles, such as: When you use something that belongs to somebody else, wash it, clean it, fill it with gas or fix it (even if you didn’t break it) before you return it. Whatever you borrow, return it in better condition than when you got it.

Here is another of the most basic principles of honor: Don’t lie. The most dishonorable thing you can do is to misrepresent or distort the truth.

“But, Brother Copeland, Christians don’t lie.” Sure, they do. Just because you and I are believers does not mean that we are not part of today’s dishonest society. Let me give you an example.

“We’re having a meeting at the church Thursday night. Are you coming?” “I’ll sure try to make it.”

Often that is a pure lie. The person has no intention of coming. It is obvious that he does not plan to attend, or he would not have said “try to make it.” He is just leaving himself an opening, a way out. That isn’t the Christian thing to do.

Believers ought to not have an escape hatch. Jesus taught us to make our word either yes or no. He said that all else proceeds from evil (Matthew 5:37). I know all this is really basic; but when you get to the fundamentals of honor, you get down to the heart of God. He is truth!

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Kenneth Copeland — The House Without FoundationPosted by admin on September 2nd, 2009

But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great (Luke 6:49).

Notice that the storm hit both houses. It was not the storm that destroyed the house. If the storm had the power to destroy all houses, it would have destroyed both of them; but it did not.

But rather, the lack of foundation destroyed one house. The firm foundation saved the other. That foundation was hearing and doing. Allow what you hear from God’s Word to become the determining factor in what you do.

Jesus, the Living Word by Kenneth Copeland

For the word of God is quick [alive], and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do (Hebrews 4:12-13).

Is Jesus the Word of God? Yes, He is. This scripture says that the Word is alive. The living Word is the foundation of our faith.

Without the Word of God in us, even though we may be doing all the right works and saying all the right things, we have no foundation for any of it. There have been people over the years who have tried to walk on my faith. They did what I did and said what I said. Then when the storm hit, I didn’t fall, but they did—and they got mad at me!

I wasn’t the one who knocked their foundation out from under them. They never really had a foundation. They had listened to tapes, read books and followed many religious exercises. But when the storm came, instead of standing on God’s Word, they backed away and said, “What Kenneth Copeland said doesn’t work.” That’s the problem. Kenneth Copeland didn’t say it. God said it. It’s the Word that will never pass away.

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