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Kenneth Copeland — The Daughter of Abraham Part 3Posted by admin on June 9th, 2010

When a person lives out from under
the curse and is walking uprightly
before God, he has the power of God
in his corner. He has the power of the
Spirit Himself backing him. The Word
of God states very clearly in Hebrews
7:22 that Jesus is the surety, or the
guarantee, of this new covenant. Jesus
Christ of Nazareth will have to fail before
the covenant can fail, and in Him
there is no failure. Why? Because Jesus
is love and love never fails.

Go to the Word. That is what it is
for. That is why it was written. It is
a copy of your contract—your covenant—
with God. It sets out the things
God promised Jesus that He would do.
Hebrews 1 speaks of Jesus’ inauguration
as Lord of the universe. It says
that He is upholding all things by the
Word of His power. If you want to be
upheld, get on the Word.

Once you make Jesus Lord over
your life, you become a covenant man
under the new covenant. Remember
God said, “As for Me, these things
are so.” He said, “As for Me, you are
healed. As for Me, you are redeemed
from the curse of the law. As for Me,
the blessing of Abraham is upon you.”
The only reason these blessings are not
operating in your life is because you
have not stood up and said, “Well, as
for me, it is so, too!”

Make this confession from your
heart before God.

“Father, in the Name of Jesus, I
believe in my heart that Jesus has been
raised from the dead. I make Him Lord
of my life now with the confession of
my mouth. I am His and He is mine!
Jesus has redeemed me from the curse
of the law. Sickness will have to depart.
Disease will have to depart. Poverty
will no longer be in my house, for I am
redeemed from the curse of poverty.
I am a believer and not a doubter. I
have the Name of Jesus and the power
of the Holy Spirit. Thank God, darkness
is over. The storms of life will no
longer be victorious over me. Jesus
is my intercessor. The Spirit of God
strengthens me. You, God, are my very
own Father. I praise Your Name!”

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Kenneth Copeland — The Daughter of Abraham Part 2Posted by admin on June 2nd, 2010

In the Great Commission (Mark
16:15-18), Jesus did not say, “These
signs shall follow those that believe…
they shall pray for the sick and they
shall recover.” Jesus did not mention
praying for the sick. He said,
“Lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover.” There is nothing wrong with
praying for the sick, but many times
we have our minds so rigid that we
miss the reality of the words. He said,
“Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel to every creature.” Jesus was
saying that the gospel would do the
job. When we preach the gospel—the
good news, the Word of God—then
we can expect the sick to be healed
when we lay hands on them. First, we
must preach the truth—“that God was
in Christ, reconciling the world unto
himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them.” And that He who knew
no sin was made to be sin for us “that
we might be made the righteousness of
God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:19-21).
Preach the truth…the signs will follow!

What is a pair of crippled legs that
they would not obey the voice of the
righteousness of God? What are blind
eyes that they would refuse to see after
Jesus said in Luke 4:18, “The Spirit of
the Lord is upon me…to preach…recovering
of sight to the blind”? God is the Creator.
He is the Father. Satan has no right to
run roughshod over God’s children.

“Ought not this woman be loosed,
seeing she is a daughter of Abraham?”

You can apply this to yourself
because “if ye be Christ’s, then are ye
Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to
the promise.” Ought not this man be
loosed from financial bondage, seeing
he is the seed of Abraham? Ought not
this woman be loosed from arthritis,
seeing she is a seed of Abraham?

Jesus spoke the words, “Woman,
thou art loosed from thine infirmity.”
Then in honor of the Word of God, He
laid His hands on her. The power it
took to enforce God’s Word came into
action and immediately the woman
was set free! Praise the Lord!

I have used this fact of being redeemed
from the curse many, many
times. When Satan would come at me
with some problem, I would open my
Bible to Galatians 3:13-14 and say,
“Praise God! I’ve been redeemed from
that. Satan, you are not going to put
that on me. I’ll not stand for it!”

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Kenneth Copeland — The Daughter of Abraham Part 1Posted by admin on May 26th, 2010

Let’s look at Luke 13:10-12: “And he
was teaching in one of the synagogues
on the sabbath. And, behold, there was
a woman which had a spirit of infir-
mity eighteen years, and was bowed
together, and could in no wise lift up
herself. And when Jesus saw her, he
called her to him, and said unto her,
Woman, thou art loosed from thine
infirmity.”

Notice that Jesus did not say, “I am
going to loose you” or “Be loosed.” He
said, “Woman, thou art loosed.” Jesus
did not waste words; He used them.
Words had an extremely high priority
in His ministry. “And he laid his hands
on her: and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God.”

When the ruler of the synagogue
questioned Him about healing on the
Sabbath day, Jesus said, “And ought
not this woman, being a daughter of
Abraham, whom Satan hath bound,
lo, these eighteen years, be loosed
from this bond on the sabbath day?”
(verse 16). That woman was a daughter
of Abraham, and therefore had a
right to be loosed from that infirmity.
You see, she had lived with her infirmity
for eighteen years because she didn’t
know the blessing of Abraham—the
blessing that would set her free!

This same ignorance of God’s covenant
caused Israel to live in bondage
for 400 years.

The Word of God was just as valid
and real when they went into bondage
as it was the day they were set free.
The only problem was, they didn’t
know it. God had to call Moses and
explain the covenant to him so that he
could lead them out of Egypt. Moses
went before Pharaoh in behalf of that
covenant and led the Israelites out of
bondage. It was the same God, and His
Word was just as true 400 years before,
but the people had lost sight of it.

Jesus did not pray for that daughter
of Abraham. He told her that she was
loosed, and then He laid hands on her.

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Kenneth Copeland — The Word Of God, The New CovenantPosted by admin on May 12th, 2010

The promise God gave to Jesus has
now been given to the believer. We
are to receive the blessing of Abraham
written in Deuteronomy 28. As the
seed of Abraham, I intend to receive
everything that is mine by Christ Jesus
as a glory to God. God’s Word tells us
that we have a right to pray and expect
God to answer, not because of what we
have done but because of what Jesus
has done for us! God said, “If ye be
willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land” (Isaiah 1:19). Obedient
to what? The Word of God, the new
covenant of God. The old covenant
was fulfilled by Jesus on the cross. He
walked perfect and upright before God,
then took the penalty for breaking the
covenant. He went to hell and paid the
price for our sin. But because He was
sinless, because He had not broken the
covenant, hell could not hold Him! He
whipped Satan and took the keys of
death and hell! (Revelation 1:18).

You can expect God to move because
of His Word, because of His
promise to Abraham’s seed. Find out
what the covenant says. Put the Word
first place in your life. Matthew 8:17
says, “Himself took our infirmities,
and bare our sicknesses.” That is God
speaking directly to you, the believer.
Christ has redeemed you from the
curse of the law so that the blessing
of Abraham will come on you through
Jesus Christ, that you might receive
the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The blessings of God belong to every
born-again believer. All you have to
do is stand on God’s Word and allow
these blessings to manifest themselves
in your life.

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Kenneth Copeland — The Promise Of The SpiritPosted by admin on May 5th, 2010

If Jesus Christ is the Lord of your
life, then you are Abraham’s seed.
Notice the word seed in verse 29 is
singular as it was in verse 16, when it
was referring to Jesus. The promise is
to you and will work in Jesus’ Name
every bit as well as it did for Jesus in
Galilee. You have put on Christ. You
are one with Him. Jesus has passed the
promise to you as His joint heir! You
have the right to function exactly the
same way Jesus functioned in the earth
by using His Name. It is your promise.
He has given it to you.

With this understanding, let’s look
once again at Galatians 3:13-14.
“Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law…that the blessing of
Abraham might come on the Gentiles
through Jesus Christ; that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith.” We have always read
this thinking that “the promise of
the Spirit” referred to receiving the
promised Holy Spirit, but there is more
to it. The Holy Spirit is a part of the
promise, but this verse actually means
that through faith we might receive the
promise that the Spirit made to Jesus.
It is referring to the entire promise of
God given through Abraham.

This promise of God should be so
real to you as an individual believer
that you will receive it and act upon
it the same way Jesus did! However,
you must realize that you have to work
it according to the Word of God, not
according to how you think or feel.
The natural mind does not consider
prayer answered until the answer can
40 Our Covenant With God be seen. But prayer is answered the
moment you receive the answer by
faith from the authority of God’s Word.
Quit dealing with the problem and
begin to deal with the answer from
the Word of God. Start confessing
the answer before you can see the
manifestation. This is what Jesus did!
He spoke the end result. Romans 4:17
says that God speaks of things that are
not as though they were. We should do
the same thing!

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