♪ - Every believer has a
voice, and it's the
Voice Of Victory. ♪ ♪ My God has made a way for me - Hello everybody. I'm Gloria Copeland and welcome to the
Believer's Voice Of Victory. Pastor George Pearsons is back
with us with more good news. What is this day on our
good news for prosperity? - This is day 200 and six. - Nine? - Seven. 207. - 207, day 207. - 207. - He's been bringing us
positive words on prosperity and blessing. I want to hear some
testimonies too. - Yeah, we do need to hear
some good testimonies - That would be so
encouraging to us, to hear that you took this word,
that Pastor George preached and things begin to change
and look up and ... When we'll hear it.
Let us do it. - Praise God. - Hallelujah. - Gloria, first of all, all of
the notes that we're teaching from, are available on kcm.org. You can get them, download them. - We could preach them. - Preach them, teach them. Yeah, make copies of them,
do whatever you want to do with them. And I think that we've
had over a half a million, since we started
doing this together, downloads of those outlines. - Well, that's
awesome, isn't it? - So people are interested
in studying the Word of God. They're interested in
growing and learning. And also I wanted to mention,
on the Friday broadcast, your Sister Gloria and I are
going to be receiving communion together. So join us for that. - Yes, have the elements ready. - Get your communion
elements ready, and we're going to take
communion together. And the thing that
we're going to do, up until this point in our
study of The Untouchables, Living In God's
Circle Of Protection, we've been talking about many
Scriptures that relate to our protection. We've been going
through the 91st Psalm. We've been reading about
our covenant of protection, in the Old Testament,
in the New Testament. And from this point out, on our
study, in the next four days, we're going to take some time
now for the application of this. How do we do this? - Good, good. - How do we walk in that
place of divine protection? Today, we're going to
be talking about a message that Gloria taught
many years ago and it's one of my favorite that she's
taught and it's called, Build Yourself An Ark. - Hallelujah. - Build Yourself An Ark. So what we're going
to do today here, is we're going to construct
our own ark of protection. - Oh I like that George. - And it's really wonderful. The thing that I enjoy
so much ... Well, the book that we're
offering this week has this information in it. And I take what you've taught in
that book and I will outline it and study it out. And one of the things that
you taught in this book was about Noah's Ark, and how ... You said
something in between our taping. You talked about what if Noah
didn't ... How'd you say it? Oh, what if Noah said, "Well,
it's not going to rain." - It never rains this
time of year. - It never rains at all. And what would have
happened had he not obeyed? Well, God was speaking to
him about his protection and he was getting him
ready and prepared. So let's take a look
at this, Gloria. In Genesis 6, we're talking
today about how to build your Ark of Protection. - Praise God. - And in Genesis 6, we'll
look here at verse 11. It says ... Oh, here's the
Amplified in our notes. "The earth was depraved
and putrid in God's sight. And the land was filled
with violence, desecration, infringement, outrage, assault
and lust for power." - Oh, no peace at all. - That was a mess. - It was. - They were in a serious mess. And notice that it said
it was filled- - That's the Amplified. - That's the
Amplified, and it says, "It was filled with violence."
So there was plenty of opportunity for the
destruction of lives. - The curse was running free. - The curse, yes,
it was running free. It was running rampant at
that time and listen to this. In verse 14 in the
NIV Translation, God spoke to Noah and he said,
"So make yourself an ark of
Cypress wood." So here we have
God speaking to Noah for his own protection. Even though they've
never seen a rain, like they're about to see- - Did the Scripture
say about Noah, that he found grace? - He found favor with God. - Favor. - Favor, which is
the grace of God. He found favor with God. - I'm glad somebody did or
we'd not ever been here. - And he was a righteous man. - Uh-huh. - Noah and his family,
righteous man. And so, the ark did
two things for Noah. Number one, and Gloria, I
mean this is you right here. All of this information
came from you. This is great. The ark did two things for Noah. First, it provided his
deliverance from the destruction that was yet to come. And second, it kept his family
safe when the whole world was perishing.
- Yes, that's right. - That's what that ark did. And we can build
ourselves an ark. As you said, in your message
that you taught on this, you said, "We must individually
build an ark for ourselves and for our family. We don't use Cypress wood. We build ourselves an ark
with God's Word." - Praise God, that's right. - That's how we do it. - That's right, exactly right. - That's how we do it. And you said, "You can live
safe and secure in your ark of protection in spite of the
danger in the world." - Build yourself an ark. - Build yourself an ark. - With the Word of God and
the words of your mouth. - That's right. So Gloria, are you ready? - Don't participate. Don't participate in the curse. - Uh-uh. - Don't participate
in unbelief. Don't participate when they say
there's going to be a downturn. It's going to be bad. There's an epidemic. Whatever it is,
don't participate. - Don't participate. - Stay in that Word. - In the economy, whatever's
going on with the economy, don't participate in it. Don't participate in a
depression or anything else. You participate in
the Word of God. - Stay put. - Stay put on the Word. So now Gloria- - This is no time to go
swimming. Stay in the ark. - This is no time
to go swimming. - Don't jump overboard. - If we can just
talk for a moment. This is one of the reasons why I
so enjoy doing these broadcasts with Gloria, because you
never know exactly what she's going to say next. - Well, I don't know either. - It just tickles us all in
here because it's wonderful. Don't go swimming. - No. - When it's time
to get in the ark. - Don't jump overboard. - Nope, don't jump
overboard either. So Gloria, are you
ready to build an ark? - Let's do it. - Okay, let's do it. What we're going to do is, we're
going to look at Psalm 91. Once again in verses
one and 2, and it says, "He that dwells in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the
shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He
is my refuge and my fortress. My God, in him will I trust."
Now the word abide there, it means to stay. It means to dwell. It means to take up residence.
- That's right. - We have to take up residence
in that secret place of the Most High and stay under
the shadow of the Almighty. And like you said,
in your teaching, "It's a permanent residence. It's a place that we stay all
the time." We stay in a constant state of protection. - That's right. - We stay in that place. It's like you said, "It's not a
temporary hotel room." - That's right. - That's temporary. And you and Kenneth, especially,
you know a lot of hotel rooms. - We do. - You have had a lifetime- - We have abided in
many places. - Yes, you had. You've abided in
many, many places, but- - I don't know if there
is such word as abided, but we did it. - You have been to these
places, but what you said. - We made our abode
in many places. - You did, but the place
where you live all the time, that's the place
you come home to. - That's right. - Whenever you travel,
whenever you go on the road, that's the place that
you come home to. - Oh yes, thank God. - That's the place
of that ... I mean, that is where the Lord is
able to minister back to you. - Peaceful. - That's what we do. We stay in the secret place. We dwell under the shadow. We abide under the
shadow of the Almighty. It's the place where
we stay all the time. So, in building our ark,
step one, abide in the Word. - Uh-huh. That's right. - Abide in the Word. What does it mean to
abide in the Word? What would you say Gloria to
someone who's asking- - Well, you can't abide if you
don't know what the Word says. - Okay. - So you put it in your
eyes and your ears. Like the Scripture
says in Proverbs, "Attend to the Word." Give your
attention to the Word of God. - That's how you do it. - And that's how
you get results. It gets in your
eyes, in your ears. It gets into your heart. And then it talks to you. It abides there. It'll correct you. It'll encourage you. It'll help you. - Yes, yes, yes. - Faith comes out of that. Glory to God. - Yes. So we abide in the Word. One of the things that you
mentioned was we have to dig in this case, into the
Word of our protection. That's what we've been doing,
since we began last week in this series. We've been digging into the Word
and you have to build it into your life, verse by verse. You take a word,
like this one here, "He that dwells in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty." You meditate that Word. You see yourself in
that secret place. - That's right. - Living in that secret
place of the Most High, under the shadow
of the Almighty. You build it into your life. You build it into your spirit. You build it into your heart. - Under his presence. - And like you said, you don't
wait until trouble comes. - No, this is what
you do all the time. - All the time. - Good times, bad
times, you're the same. - Yeah, that's right. - You're dwelling
in the secret place. You're abiding. - You're abiding there. - You're putting your eyes and
your ears on the Word of God, and bringing the Word out
your mouth and applying it to situations. People that give
up, don't receive. - Right, yeah. - We don't give up. - I don't think I've ever
known a time that you and Kenneth have
ever taken a faith vacation. I don't ever remember
a time when- - We wouldn't want to do that. - You wouldn't want to do that. You have so stayed in the Word
and that's been the
inspiration for us. - George, you know times
are tight in a lot of places now, and we've had tight times. You were probably the head
of the business part of the ministry at the worst
time, where we got- - Six million. - Six million dollars
behind in TV bills. So what do you do when you it's
impossible in the natural, to get out of there? - Yes. - What do you do? You apply the Word of God. - You apply the Word. You dig into the Word of God. - You stay with it. You don't quit. You don't change. You don't let
depression come on you. You just take after that
Word and you stay with it until that changes. - Praise God. - And it took us a while, but
what if we'd gotten halfway and quit? - Well- - We don't
know where we'd be. - It actually didn't take as
long as they said it would take. In the natural realm, they were
saying it would take at least two and a half years. - To get out of that. - To get out of that. - And that was television time - That's television,
that's TV time. That was from a
natural standpoint, but we were operating
in the supernatural. We were using our faith. We were believing God. We were praising God. - Yes, we were. - And at the end
of, it was 1988. At the end of 1988, we were
six million dollars behind. We crossed over
into the new year. And by May of that new
year ... No, it was 1990. May of that new year, all
of our accounts payable were caught up. And by July, all the TV
bills were caught up and they've been caught
up ever since. So it didn't take near as long. - And it was George's fun
job to oversee everything. - Well, I was
there at that time. We had just gone on daily
television and we went on every available voice. - When you're having a hard
time with weekly television, - Go on daily television. - Daily ... No, when
you're having a hard time, what you do is
whatever God says, no matter how
- Right. Well, you dig into the Word. And like you said, you don't
wait until trouble comes. You make a lifestyle of this. - That's what we do. - This is our lifestyle. I'll just tell you something
about the Copeland family, which I've been around
for now 40 years. This is our lifestyle. We go to the Word. - That's right. - We've had good examples to
watch and every one of us have learned to go to
the Word of God. - Praise God. - If there's something going
on, you dig into the Word, but you don't wait
until that trouble hits. You have a daily dose
of the Word of God. Every day- - Stay out of trouble. - Building it, building
in in the spirit. Even this morning, Terri and
I, which we do every day. When we get up, we confess the
Word of God to each other. We declare the Word of God. - Amen. - We stay in that place. We declare to each other. We are expecting our greatest
blessing ever today. - Hallelujah. - Because great
grace is upon us all. We have victory over death
and we are experiencing the manifestation of
the love of God. We declare the glory of
the Lord over this day, the manifested presence,
power and goodness of God. - Amen. - I mean, we go through- - That's right. - We declare the Word of ...
This takes us five or six minutes straight on through. And then when we're
done with that, we just begin to praise God and
whatever else that comes up. - You take it and
you praise God. - But this is 24/7. To build yourself an ark. - That's right. - And do it the right way,
it's going to be 24/7. - It's a lifestyle,
it's a lifestyle. - It's a lifestyle. It has to be a lifestyle. It can not be Church one day a
week and then the rest of the time, you put your Bible aside,
you don't take it out until... No, we've learned- - We don't wait till trouble
comes and then go at it. We stay at it. We stay in that secret. - We have the Word of
God going all the time. - Amen. That's right. - We're feeding on it and
that's how you build your ark. That's step one,
abide in the Word. - Good, that's good. - Step two, obey the Word. We have to be obedient
to what God's Word says. Obedience has to be a lifestyle. - Uh-huh. - "If you're willing and
obedient," Isaiah 1:19, "You will eat the good of the
land." So you have to obey it. - You got to check
yourself out. - Yeah, you can- - If things aren't working, see what you're doing. What am I doing? - That's right. - What am I not doing,
I'm supposed to do? Or what am I doing I'm
not supposed to do? - That's good
Gloria, that's good. - And ask the Lord
to correct you. If you just don't have a clue,
"I don't know what I did wrong," well just say, "Lord, show me
how to make this thing right, and I'll do it."
- Yeah. - He'll show you. - And Noah was obedient. - Yes he was. - When the Lord told
him to build an ark, he was obedient to that
and he did the Word. We are doers of the
Word, not hearers only. - That's right. - And whenever we
hear the Word of God, we just make that
decision on the inside. "I'm going to do this." - I'll do it. I'll do it. - I'm doing it. Look at your third page, Gloria
and we'll find step three. The first step in building
your ark was you have to abide in the Word. You've got to give the Word
first place and make it final authority in your life. The second one is
to obey the Word. You have to obey
what God's Word says. You cannot hear
it and not do it. - That's right,
doer of the Word. - You have to be a doer. You have to do this Word. And number three, you
have to declare the Word. You've got to speak the
Word out of your own mouth. Speaking words of faith will
open the door to victory in your life. - That's right. - And so we declare the
Word, like in Psalm 91:2, "I will say of the Lord. He is my refuge and my fortress. My God, in him will I
trust." - Praise God. - So let's do that Gloria. Say this after me. I will say of the Lord. - I will say of the Lord. - He is my refuge. - He is my refuge. - My fortress. - My fortress. - My God. - My God. - In him. - In him. - Will I trust. - Will I trust. - I like what you were doing,
just then we said, fortress. - Surrounding myself
in my fortress. - We're surrounding ourselves. - Hallelujah. - We are surrounded. - The power of God,
the blessing of God, the angels of God. That's all part of our fortress. - Noah was
surrounded by an ark. He was protected and that ark
lifted him up and over the corruption that's
in the world. That's what the Word
does for us today. It lifts us up and over. It doesn't matter what's
going on in the world. It doesn't matter what's
happening economically. It doesn't matter
what's taking place. We are like a tree planted
by the rivers of water. - Praise God. - That brings forth our
fruit in our season. Our leaf will never wither and
whatsoever we do, it prospers, no matter what's going on. - No matter the economic
upturn, downturn. - That's right. - Sideways turn. We're in an economic
situation, all of our own. It's the Word of God. It's the blessing of God. - Yeah, it's the
blessing of the Lord. - It's the blessing
... Read the blessing. If you never spent time
reading the blessing in the Old Testament, read it. Man, blessed coming in. Blessed going out. - Deuteronomy 28, what
a Scripture that is. - Oh my God. - I want to read Gloria a
... Let me just quote this Scripture and
then I'll do this. We have to declare
the Word of God. We just said that. In Hebrews 11:3, "Through faith,
we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God. So that things which are seen
were not made of things which do appear." We frame our
worlds with our words. - That's right, we do it. - Noah framed the ark
with Cypress wood. - That's good. - We frame our ark with our
word or the words of God. Words of faith. - Words of faith.
The Word of God. The Word of God brings faith.
- Yep. - And our word. It takes our word in God's
Word, working together. - Yes. - God's Word has
to become our word. That's how you release your
faith, with your word. - That's exactly it. - If you're in trouble
and you're saying, "I don't know what
we're going to do. I don't think we're
going to make it. I don't see how we'll ever get
out of this situation." I don't see how you'll ever
get out of it either. But if you'll take it by
faith and you'll begin to get your Scriptures,
to stand on. - Yes, amen. - And say them out loud and
take them and put it in your eyes and your ears and
let it get in your heart, you'll come out. - That's right. - You'll come out of trouble. - Gloria, in your book called,
Your Promise Of Protection, I just want to read
this as we finish up. "It took Noah many, many
days to build his ark. Think about that. There he was, out in
the middle of nowhere, building this big ship. No water in sight. Don't you know-" - He wasn't a
boat builder before that- - No, he was not. That's a good point. That's a great point. "Don't you know, his
neighbors laughed at him. "Crazy old Noah,"
they must've said." - There's not even any rain. - "Crazy old Noah and his boys
talking about God delivering them from a flood that's coming. They don't know what
they're talking about. You know, people made fun of
Noah and his family all those years and the Scripture says
they did not know or understand the day the flood came
and swept them away. They were in the dark,
but when the flood came, Noah wasn't in the dark. He was in the ark."
- Noah's crazy. Gloo gloo ...
There they went. (laughs) - I was hoping
you would do that. It tickled me a
little while ago. - Oh me. - "The flood came Noah
wasn't in the dark. He was in the ark. He knew exactly what God
was going to do and he was prepared." - That's right. - "Today I'm saying to you
the same thing that God said to Noah. "There's a flood coming. Build yourself an ark. Build it with the 91st Psalm. Build it with Scriptures about
your deliverance." - That's right. - "Build it by abiding
in the Almighty. Build it by saying with your
mouth, "He is my refuge. He is my fortress." - Amen.
- "He is my God. In him, I will trust and
onto him, I lean and rely. Don't wait until the flood
comes and sweeps you away. Start now. Meditate on God's
Word of deliverance. Read it." - Praise God. - "Go over it every day,
until it's so deeply rooted in your heart, that it comes
flowing out at the first sign
of trouble. Build yourself an ark today. Don't be in the dark,
be in the ark." - Amen. I like it. - Gloria Copeland. - Praise God. Hallelujah. - Classic Gloria Copeland. - It's an awesome
thing, isn't it? - It is Gloria. - Praise God.
- It is. - When Ken and I ... How
much time do we have left? 30 seconds. Well, this is going to be short. But when Ken and I first began
to learn the Word and we decided we'd do what we saw in
the Word and it said, we found the Scripture,
"Stay out of debt." - Oh my. - Amplified I think says,
"Keep out of debt." Well, hey I married Kenneth
Copeland and his notes. He had debt when I married him,
and we didn't have anything either. I mean, we had old nothing,
early Goodwill furniture. - Right. - In a little project house. So, we were broke. We didn't have anything
and here the Bible says, "Stay out of debt."
So what did we do? We said, "Okay, if
the Bible says it, we'll do it." And so what
was the result of that? Is that we don't lack anything. - Praise God.
- In Jesus' name. - You were a doer of the Word. - That's right. - You abided in the Word. You did the Word. You'd declared the
Word and to this day. - And it was our supply. - That's your supply. - For whatever we needed. - And you're debt-free. - Yep. - Praise God. - For many, many,
many, many, many years. - Oh, The Word of God works. - That's it. That's it. It does. - It works. - Glory to God.
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