and it's the Voice
of Victory. ♪ ♪ My God has made a way for me [Kenneth Copeland] Father, we
thank You tonight. It is so wonderful to understand and to know how to
live by faith. Thank You. I praise You for it and
I worship You tonight. We're learning more and more
and more in these days that those of us that live
and walk according to the
laws of faith never have to change our
lifestyle because of the times. We just stay steady on Your
Word and You always give us the victory, You always
cause us to triumph, and we worship You and
praise You in Jesus' name. I had the Lord minister this
to me several years ago. Now, it was one of those things
I knew it, but I didn't know it. He said this just
so plainly to me. He said, "Kenneth, I want your
desires met and I have provided a way for your every desire
to be experienced." I said, "Lord, what is that?" He said, whosoever shall
say." I thought, "Oh my, I've been looking at this
thing all these years." Whosoever and all of a sudden
whosoever just kind of got
all over me. Whosoever shall say under this
mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea. Who's with me? And shall not
doubt in his heart, but believe that those
things, which he says
shall come to pass, he shall have
whatsoever he says. Therefore, I say unto you
whatsoever thing you desire when you pray believe you
receive and you will have. But when you stand praying,
forgive if you have aught
against any. And all of a sudden something
that I'd been preaching for 50 years just got
all over me. Think about the
magnitude of that. The Master Himself
said those words, but when He said
what He did, He said, "I want your desires met and
I've provided a way." I want to talk to you tonight
about first things first. So go with me to the
Book of Matthew, please. And we'll go to the sixth
chapter of Matthew where there is recorded the
greatest sermon ever preached. And let's begin
with the 24th verse. "No man can serve two masters
for either he will hate one and love the other, or
else he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and
money." You can't serve God and the money system. One of them has to be first. And of course, God
is priority, right? God is priority. That kingdom is priority. "Therefore, therefore
or because of that, take no thought for your life. What you shall eat,
what you shall drink, nor yet for your body what you
shall put on is not the life more than meat and the
body more than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air
for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into
barns, yet your heavenly
father feeds them. Are you not much
better than they? Which of you by taking thought
can add one cubit to your
stature? Why take you thought
for raiment?" "Why are you so hung up on that? Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow, they toil not
neither do they spin. Yet, I say unto you that even
Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like
one of these. Wherefore, if God's so clothed
the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow
is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe
you, O you of little faith?" Now listen to what He just said. Jesse, He said, Solomon in all
of his glory is not arrayed like this and I want
to take care of you like I take care of the plants, which is greater than what
I did for Solomon. [Jesse] Yes, sir.
That's powerful. [Kenneth Copeland] Huh? [Jesse] That's
powerful. Yes, sir. [Kenneth Copeland]
That's the kingdom. [Jesse] Yes, sir. [Kenneth Copeland]
That's the kingdom. Solomon did not have the
relationship with the king that you and I have. At best, he was a servant of
God until after Jesus went to the cross, went to
hell, paid the price, raised from the
dead and glorified, seated at the right
hand of the Father. Hallelujah. You remember what Jesus said
about John the Baptist, the greatest prophet? Yet the least one, come
on, the least one where? Is greater than he. They didn't know what
he was talking about, but we crossed over
the river, brother. We became new creatures. They were servants
of the kingdom. We are citizens of the kingdom. (applauds) Amen. [Congregation] Amen. - Are you going along
with me so far? [Congregation] Yes. - Well, I'm believing
it's going to get better than this. Now wait a minute. Wherefore, if God's so clothed
the grass of the field, which today is tomorrow
is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe
you, O you of little faith?" Now notice verse 31 is
a powerful revelation. Take no thought saying. Take no thought saying. The way you take a
thought is by saying it. There are thoughts you don't
have any business saying. Now maybe some goofy thing the
devil put across your mind. Don't say it. Let it die stillborn. If you say it, repent
and kill it right there. Abort that thought. Take no thought saying. Oh, there's a lot of things
I could tell you about that, but that's a very, very, very
important rule of faith. Amen. And another place Jesus said,
"Take heed what you hear. Take heed what you say."
All right, now notice this. "Take no thought saying
what shall we eat, what shall we drink,
wherewithal shall we be clothed for all these things do
the Gentiles seek, your heavenly father knows you
have need of all these things." He knows you have need
of all these things, but you seek first. First things first. Food is not first. Clothe is not first. Family's not first. No, family's not first. The kingdom is first. Seek you first the
kingdom of God, but now it doesn't stop there. And, and His righteousness. You see that? You can't stop with just seek
first the kingdom of God, "and His righteousness and
then all these things shall be added to you." Now, wait a minute,
wait a minute. Don't start worrying
about tomorrow. Tomorrow gets here
and do the same thing. Don't start your day off
seeking all that other mess, go right straight to
the kingdom of God. Now I want to read
this to you from... Let me get back over there. And we will go to the
Book of Matthew chapter six and verse 33. Now I wanted you to hear this
in the Classic Amplified. "Why should you be
anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the
field and learn thoroughly how they grow, they
neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you even Solomon
and all his magnificence, excellence, dignity and
grace was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothed
the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow's tossed
into the furnace will he not much more
surely clothe you? O you of little faith."
Now wait a minute. Yes, He will. So I'm no longer
of little faith. I believe that. Praise God. It's written in red
and I believe it. Therefore... You believe that? "Then therefore, do not
worry and be anxious saying, 'What are we going
to have to eat? What are we going
to have to drink or what are we going to have to
wear for the Gentiles, the heathen wish for and crave and diligently seek
all of these things. Your heavenly father knows
well you need them all. But seek, aim at, strive
after, first of all, His kingdom and His
righteousness." Listen to this. "His way of doing
and being right." He knows what He's doing. Don't argue with Him about it. Amen. "And then all these things
taken together will be
given you besides. Don't worry or be
anxious about tomorrow. Tomorrow will have worries
and anxieties of its own. Sufficient is each day to
its own trouble." Amen. In other words,
what He's saying, "Seek my kingdom." It
was here yesterday and it'll be here tomorrow. So enjoy it today. Don't be worried. Don't waste your time
trying to figure stuff out. Spend that time in the
Word and praising Him. When I had back in 2004,
Sunday morning after Southwest
Believers' Convention, I won't go into all
the reasons why, but it was spiritually
a hard-fought meeting. It turned out to
be a great meeting, but there were a lot of
circumstances in that meeting. Anyway, Sunday morning I'm just
standing there in that shower with hot water running all
over me just glad that meeting's over with. And I turned to pick up my
washcloth and I had
dropped it off, just pitched it over on the
little shelf there in my
shower stall. Well, I missed it and
it went in the corner. Well, I didn't turn and
do this, I did this. And when I did, I'm telling you,
there was a disc exploded in my back, knocked me flat on
the floor and I couldn't get up. Well, the pain was
excruciating and I screamed at the top of my lungs
it hit me so hard. And so of course,
Dr. Wheater, I mean, Gloria called him and they came
and drug me out of the shower. And immediately he and his
wife and just tied in and praying over me. Then I went to see Dr.
Colbert and he worked on me. He and Dr. Wheater, I mean,
man, they're all over me. And I was just doing
a little better, but I was in a lot of pain,
just excruciating pain. So it took my lightning fast
mind a little while to get ahold of this, but Jesus
said, "Take no thought saying." This is when this really
became big to me. Of course, it was in August
so I got two heating pads, took the sashes off of two
robes and tied them both to my left leg and turned the
heat on both of them up as high as it goes so maybe
that'll hurt worse than
this other thing, this nerve in my leg. And I'm sitting out there in the
backyard praising God just as loud as I could, just
hollering this loud. "I thank God for the birds. I thank God for the green grass. Thank God my other
leg doesn't hurt." And to thank God for my hand, my fingers, my eyes, my
hair, anything I can think of. And when I'd quit praising
God, then the pain would just get all over me. Oh, this had gone on for days. And one day the Lord
ministered this to me, Jesse. He said, "Is pain in
the mind, in the brain?" "Well, yeah, all they have to do
is put you to sleep and cut you open. You don't know anything
about the pain." He said, "Don't take the pain saying." Thank God I'm healed, not Oh God, I hurt. You remember that? And so I started doing that. I don't take the pain saying. I don't take the pain saying. So everything, glory to
God, thank God I'm healed. Thank God I'm healed. Thank God I'm healed. And there were those that
suggested surgery and all that. I'm not against surgery,
but I checked in on it and there was just
too much failure rate with that low back surgery. I said, "No, I'm
not going that way. I'm not going to do that."
Thank God in the name of Jesus, I'm pain free. I call myself pain free. I call myself pain free. I don't take the
pain, glory to God. And just make a
long story short, I stand before you tonight
absolutely pain free. (applauds) Now I had a lot of
help, but I'm pain free. Glory to God. (laughs) It's time we began to
live and to think like citizens of God's kingdom. But now notice He
said something here in the 14th chapter of
John, verse 12. "Verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also." And greater works than what? "Greater works than
these shall he do because I go to my Father." Well, I've read
that over the years and Brother Hagin's
interesting teaching about it and I believe every word of it. And we'll never do
greater works in quality. No, you can't do
greater in quality. And I was reading this very
scripture right here one day and the spirit
of God said, "Kenneth, there's the greater
works in verse 20." "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or think according to the power,
the dunamis that works in us." I said, "Lord, what? Tell me that." Jesse,
here's what He said. "You think about the greatest
miracle that you've ever seen, I can do better than that. You believe me and I can
do better than that." That's some of what was coming
out of my spirit tonight by
the Lord. He said, "I can do better
than that." He said, "You need to be saying, 'Okay,
that's the best I've ever seen. What's next?'" Then comes with greater works
and then more greater works and then more greater works and
then more greater works. And we're walking over into
those greater works right now. We're going to see
limbs put back. Now Jesus has seen
it, but we haven't. I doubt seriously if there's
anybody on earth today that's seen a new arm. Now there was a woman,
she was born crippled. And she was walked up to
Brother Hagin and said, "May I speak to you please?" - Yes. She said, "This is the first
new pair of shoes I've ever
had on." Well, he said, "Well, I
thought maybe she never had a new pair of shoes or
something." She said, "No, no. Let me explain." She said, "I
was born crippled." She said, "I just had to stay in the house
all the time and somebody gave me your tapes, and I've
been listening to them for six months." She said,
"During that six month time, the Word of God completely
straightened out my foot and I grew a little toe on that
foot." Now just to make sure that I'm not just telling
a wild tale. She said, "I was raised
in the church of one of your close friends and
told her who it was." And so the next time
they saw them, she mentioned to the
pastor's wives her name. She said, "Oh, the little
crippled girl." She said, "She's not crippled anymore
and she's got a new toe." (applauds) Aw, Brother Copeland. Don't go, "Aw
Brother Copeland me. I don't believe that." Well,
you'll never get a new toe (laughs) or new anything else if
you're not careful. Hey, you think the kingdom
doesn't have toes? We were in a meeting a
number of years ago and we went in healing
service, Gloria and I both. And this woman came up, we
asked for testimonies and this woman came up. Her little boy was standing
right in front of her and he was 12-years-old. And I noticed... and I thought
maybe he's gotten healed of chronic sinus
trouble or something. And I said, "What
is your testimony?" She said, "Well, it's
my son." And I mean, he was having such a
good time breathing. She said he was born
without any nostrils. And they were going to
wait until he got older and got to the place where he
wasn't growing much, and then go in there and
fix him some nostrils. And she said, "Jesus
just gave him nostril right in the service." ♪ [Narrator] Take the
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"Let him who is taught the Word share in all good things
with him who teaches. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked for
whatever a man sows that he will also reap." Now it's a powerful
thing when you sit and you hear the Word
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today you heard something today, maybe something you've
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you have heard before, but it got in you
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ministry is about. This entire ministry for more
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Word of God into your life, causing you to see what it looks
like to live by faith and walk by faith and talk and
think and fight by faith. That's what this
ministry has been about. But listen, when
you're taught the Word according to the scripture, you
and I have a response. You and I are supposed to
hear that and respond to it. And that's when
partnership comes in. Now I know a lot of you
watching you are partners with this ministry and you know
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powerful thing that's been in your own life, and how God has used your
partnership into this ministry as an open door of access
for Him to go to work in your family, in your
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ministry is doing a lot, but you're reaching people
all over the world. That's a powerful,
powerful thing. Father, we thank You today
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