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Kenneth Copeland Ministries is based on the uncompromising, infallible, unchanging Word of God. Kenneth and Gloria Copeland have determined to walk by faith, preach the truth of God's Word and His unconditional love. That's why, after 40 years, the only thing that has changed is the way the message—JESUS IS LORD—has traveled across the globe in a variety of more accessible formats. As they fulfill their call to the nations, Kenneth Copeland Ministries continue to preach faith, love, healing, prosperity, redemption, righteousness, the anointing and the principles of victorious Christian living. They are bringing people from the milk to the meat of God's Word—and shaping the course of an entire generation of believers. The message of Kenneth Copeland Ministries is far reaching, touching every nation, whether you are in the United States or a remote part of the world. With the help of their international offices in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe and the Ukraine, the good news of Jesus Christ has reached millions of people. It continually flows through every available voice, from the daily and Sunday Believer's Voice of Victory television broadcast, conventions and victory campaigns, the Believer's Voice of Victory magazine and the Internet. The purpose of Kenneth Copeland Ministries is for you to live in victory as you mature in faith. As you build on the Word, you will grow spiritually, be equipped to overcome your own adversity and be able to share what you are learning with others. Kenneth Copeland Ministries has transformed the lives of millions, and it will do the same for you.

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Heirs of the World

by Kenneth Copeland

Forty years ago, I discovered something that revolutionized every aspect of my life. I found out that I am a blessed man.

When I first made that discovery, I looked anything but blessed. Driving around in a junky, old car held together with bailing wire, renting a ramshackle house so pathetic that Gloria refused to unpack for weeks after we moved in because she couldn’t believe she had to live there, and struggling to get by as a 30-year-old college student on a salary of $100 a month. I looked more cursed than blessed—especially in the area of finances.

But I wasn’t focused on my circumstances. My eyes were fixed on the Word of God that says, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Galatians 3:13-14).

The first time the revelation in those verses hit my spirit, I latched onto it like a dog grabbing a bone. I needed that revelation to survive—and I knew it. I’d been so desperate for change in my life that for months I’d spent every spare minute in the Word of God. I went to bed at night listening to preaching tapes. The minute I woke up in the morning, I turned the tape player back on and went at it again. I listened to the Word while I bathed, shaved, ate and drove.

Somewhere in the middle of all that, I heard that the blessing of Abraham belongs to us as believers. At first, I didn’t know exactly what the blessing of Abraham was. But it didn’t take long for me to look in the Old Testament and find the men who walked in that blessing. Whew! I thought as I read about the likes of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Those guys did all right! There wasn’t a poor one in the bunch!

With my lightning-fast mind, I figured out that the blessing of Abraham would do the same thing for me it did for them; and my thinking instantly changed. I jumped up and started hollering, “Praise God! I’m not poor anymore! I’m blessed with the blessing of Abraham!”

If you know me at all, you know I’ve been shouting about that ever since.

Send Out the Laborers

In recent months, however, the Lord has led me to bear down harder than ever on the revelation of THE BLESSING. He has stirred me to study it again in even greater depth.

Why would He want me to spend so much time and energy digging around in the Word to find out more about a truth I’ve known for so long? Because faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17), and God wants us all to increase our faith in THE BLESSING right now. He wants us to start reaping the benefits of it more fully because—whether we realize it or not—it’s harvest time.

I learned some things about harvest season as a kid because my grandfather was a farmer. He always had good crops (primarily because my grandmother tithed and honored the Lord and he did whatever she said). As I watched him over the years, I noticed that for the most part my grandfather worked his land by himself—with help from his children.

Sometimes he drove the tractor from dawn to dark getting the crops planted. Sometimes he was so busy with a hoe and shovel, breaking up the ground and digging irrigation ditches, that he never got to sleep at night. But, even so, he usually got the job done without much help from anyone else.

When harvest time came, however, it was a different story. There was no way my grandfather could harvest his 640-acre farm by himself. So he’d hire laborers to help him—sometimes so many that his fields swarmed with them.

I can still see my grandfather standing in the middle of those fields surveying his cotton crop. I can see the satisfaction on his face. He isn’t thinking anymore about how to raise that cotton. He isn’t wondering if it will come up or not. In his mind, he’s already pulling wagonloads of cotton to the gin. He is thinking about payday.

A few months ago, I was preparing to preach about THE BLESSING and that image flashed across my mind. When it did, the word of the Lord came into my spirit. You stand and look out over the crop I’ve promised you in My Word, He said. You pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into that field. That’s your blessing!

A Hard Row to Hoe

Ever since then, I’ve been keenly aware that the blessing of Abraham is out there working for us, as believers, 24 hours a day, seven days a week; and our Father wants us to take full advantage of it.

Actually, He has always wanted that for us but there’s a greater urgency about it now because the end of the age is barreling toward us like a freight train. Every day that passes brings us closer to the return of Jesus, and there’s a harvest of souls to be reaped for God’s kingdom before He arrives. To bring in that harvest, we’ll need more resources than we’ve ever had—more spiritual strength and power, more physical stamina and health, more favor with the people around us—so doors can be opened for the gospel, and more finances to get God’s work done.

“But you don’t understand,” someone might say, “I had a hard childhood. I grew up on the wrong side of town. I don’t have what it takes to lay hold of those resources.”

Sure, you do. If you’ve received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, if you’ve been born again, you have the blessing of God. With that blessing, anyone from any background has enough power to succeed, prosper, be fruitful and victorious anytime and any place—no matter how dismal the circumstances seem to be.

If you doubt it, read the story of Joseph. He had what we used to call in west Texas “a hard row to hoe.” His brothers sold him to a traveling caravan when he was just a teenager. From there, he was bartered off as a slave to an Egyptian official named Potiphar. Clearly, Joseph didn’t launch his career in what you’d call the land of opportunity.

But Joseph was a blessed man, and he knew it. As a result:

The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not aught he had, save the bread which he did eat (Genesis 39:2-6).

Notice, the first thing THE BLESSING did for Joseph was give him favor. It opened Potiphar’s eyes and persuaded him to put some of his wealth in Joseph’s hands. Once he saw that everything he put under Joseph’s authority multiplied and prospered, Potiphar entrusted everything he had into Joseph’s care. Eventually, the man didn’t even know how much money he had anymore. He just knew THE BLESSING on Joseph was making him rich.

Of course, anytime overflow comes because of THE BLESSING, the devil tries to stop it. So he pulled a stunt that got Joseph locked up in an Egyptian prison on false charges. But even a prison can’t keep a blessed man down. So, the same thing happened there: “The Lord was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper” (verses 21-23).

Not Just for the Jews

I know what you’re probably thinking. That’s a great story…but I’m not like Joseph. I don’t have what he had.

Yes, you do! The Bible says that as a believer, you have received from Jesus grace upon grace (John 1:16). Do you know what the word grace means? It means “the favor of God.”

When God’s favor is on you, people are just drawn to help you. Most of the time, they don’t even know why. They don’t realize it’s because the blessing of God is at work in your life.

What’s more, according to the Bible, that blessing and the favor that goes with it isn’t something God just gave to the Hebrew race. It isn’t just for the Jews. God originally gave it to all mankind in the Garden of Eden when He blessed them and empowered them to “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:28).

After Adam sinned and threw that blessing away, God found another man—a man named Abram—and gave THE BLESSING to him and his Seed. That Seed turned out to be Jesus; and according to the New Testament, you and I inherited that blessing through Him!

Every single one of us inherited the blessing of God the moment we were born again. It instantly belonged to us as surely as it belonged to Abraham, and as surely as it belongs to Jesus Himself. Why, then, haven’t we seen more evidence of it in our lives?

Because for us to enjoy the benefits of that blessing, we must receive it the same way Abraham did. We must believe God, “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. [For] they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham” (Galatians 3:6-7).

Obviously if Abraham believed God, then God must have said something to him first. God must have delivered to him some kind of faith-inspiring message. Verses 8-9 tell us what that message was. It says, “The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”

Think about it! God actually preached the gospel to Abraham. What gospel did He preach? The good news that through him, God was releasing THE BLESSING, once again, to all the nations of the earth.

By giving him THE BLESSING, God promised to make Abraham the heir of the world!

Let Faith Work Your Fields

That’s the divine promise Galatians 3:14 is talking about when it says the blessing of Abraham has “come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

Many believers just assume “the promise of the Spirit” mentioned there means the Baptism in the Holy Ghost. That’s included, of course, but the real promise of the Spirit is actually the promise God made to Abraham—the promise to put divine authority over this earth back into the hands of God’s people. It’s the promise of God’s blessing!

That was the gospel God preached to Abraham; and it’s the gospel the New Testament preaches to us. It’s the good news that, as born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we have been blessed with the same blessing God originally gave Adam.

If we’d just get into the Word and meditate on it until God opens our eyes, we’d see that we’re in the same position as my grandfather at harvest time. We’re standing in the midst of a field of abundance, power and authority that stretches farther than the eye can see. We’re standing in the middle of a world that’s been bought and paid for with the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

As joint heirs with Him, we’ve inherited the entire planet, and now it’s time to harvest it for the glory of God. It’s time to put God’s blessing to work for us the same way Abraham did—not by keeping a bunch of religious rules, or trying to impress God with our own goodness and abilities, but by faith.

Now that we’ve received that blessing, God expects us to put it to work. He expects us to follow “the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) [like] him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be” (Romans 4:16-18).

Faith is the servant that brings in the harvest from our fields of blessing! So the more we believe and act on God’s promise—calling things that be not as though they were, calling ourselves blessed like I did back when I was driving that old bailing-wire car and living in that pitiful excuse for a house—the more that harvest will flow in.

No wonder God wants us to dig more deeply into what His Word has to say about the blessing! No wonder He wants us to develop an ever-increasing faith in it!

Harvest time is here. We are surrounded by a world that’s ripe and ready to win. But we can’t bring in that harvest with the same amount of faith we used during the planting and cultivating seasons. We need whole truckloads of harvesters swarming our fields now.

So let’s send our faith out to get the job done. Let’s believe God’s promise and call things that are not as though they are until we have every resource we need to preach the gospel to every soul on the planet. Let’s become the blessing to all nations God always planned for us to be.

Courtesy of: Dr Kenneth Copeland

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