KENNETH: Open your Bibles with
me tonight to Acts chapter one. We will be looking at several
verses of scripture here at the beginning. Acts chapter one,
verse eight. Jesus is speaking, "But you shall receive power."
The Greek word Dunamis, you shall receive power. This is the
same word later on in the book of Acts, the 10th chapter, how
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and Dunamis.
Power. Went about doing good healing all that were oppressed
of the devil. "You shall receive power. After that the Holy ghost
is come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me, both in
Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the
uttermost parts of the earth." Now then two things to develop
this, to develop of God inside consciousness. Let's look at
John, the 16th chapter. This hit me. Oh, I'd read it over and
over again over the years. But then I really read it one day
and I kept going back over it and over it and over it, and it
kept saying the same thing to me. Beginning with the 13th
verse. Now, all of this started when he told them, "It's
expedient for you that I go away. For if I go away, the
father is going to send the Spirit." And he's still teaching
on that and he's still describing it and he's still
telling them who this is, that we'll be living on the inside of
him. And he said in the 13th verse, "When he, the spirit of
truth is come." Well, he has come. He has come. He's living
in you. He's living in me right now. I want you to see what is
on the inside of you. He will guide you into all truth for he
shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever, he shall hear that
he shall speak. He is speaking, he's speaking day in, day out.
He's speaking. Jesus is responsible for you. He is
responsible for me. He's speaking every moment of every
day about every thought about every word, about everything
that's going on around you, about the smallest things, the
biggest thing. He's talking, he's speaking all the time. What
are we listening to? Fox News? Not anything particularly wrong
with listening Fox News, but if that's all you're listening to,
you in a heap of trouble. You just don't have any answers.
Every question that you asked yesterday, he was already
telling you the answer. Everything that crossed your
mind. I wonder about that. The slightest little thing there. He
knows the answer. You know I wonder what sister so-and-so
thought about that. He knows exactly what she thought about
it. And if it's any of your business, he'll tell you. If
not, he won't. So don't bug him about it. I want us to ratchet
up and see what is really, really in there. What and with
whom we're dealing here. Whatsoever, he shall hear that
shall he speak. He will show you things to come. He will glorify
me. Oh, look at it. Oh, look at it. Look at it. Look at it. Look
at it. Open your heart, open your mind. For he shall receive
of mine and shall or will show it unto you. All things that the
Father has are mine. Everything that God has belongs to Jesus.
All of it. 100% of it. Everything the Father had,
everything the Father knows, everything the Father wills,
everything the Father does. It all belongs to Jesus. Therefore
I said he shall take of mine and he will show it to you. Now, Jim
Hilton, what does that mean to you and me? That means we can
find out the answer to anything if we just stay hooked long
enough, particularly if you'll use that supernatural language.
You can inquire of things with God on a basis that you can't
even get there in your natural mind, but you can in the spirit.
CONGREGATION: Hallelujah. Lord. KENNETH: There's things that you
need to be asking. You don't even know how to ask them. Turn
it over to him. Let him ask it. CONGREGATION: Yes. KENNETH: In
your prayer time, become an instrument. CONGREGATION: Mm-hmm
(affirmative). Yes sir. KENNETH: In the hands of the spirit of
God. God created the heavens and the earth and then he gave it
all to men. That's the reason Jesus said in the 18th chapter
of Matthew, he said, "Whatever you bind on earth is bound in
Heaven." Heaven can't bind until earth does. Whatever you loose
on earth is loosed in Heaven. God can't loose until earth
does. It was a hundred percent communion between God and man,
but then man broke it off. CONGREGATION: Lord. He's right.
KENNETH: There are things that God would do in this earth in a
heartbeat if somebody were to ask him for it. CONGREGATION:
Yes. KENNETH: Not knowing how to ask it, not even knowing what
the question is, much less the answer. But you can
yield yourself and say, "Father, if there are things
in your plans that need to be asked today
by someone on earth in order for you to move
and carry out your will, I'm your man. I'm your man. Put it
in my heart and my mouth. I'll speak it. If you want me to
speak it in the natural, I will. If it's none of my business, but
you want it asked, just give it to me in the spirit." And so as
I pray today, I receive utterance by the spirit of God
and I take my place as an intercessor and a supplicator to
be used by your power, your spirit. I get in on all the
overflow of that. Because what's happening while I'm praying, I'm
edifying myself. I get it on the edifying. I get in on the
building up on my most Holy faith. Why is it your most Holy
faith? Because, Jesse, you don't know enough about it to
foul it up. I like that. Well I won't go into my track
record, you know, but I have fouled things up. Have not
because you ask not and hasn't received not because you ask
amiss. Well, I'm tired of asking amiss. CONGREGATION: Amen.
KENNETH: Amen. Get over there in that area where I don't mess it
up. Get base it on the Word. Get the scripture for you. Pray also
that you interpret then believe you received the interpretation.
CONGREGATION: Right. Amen. KENNETH: It could come just
right out in English. It can come as a conviction. It can
come as a knowing. It can come later and you didn't realize it
was the interpretation of it, but that's what you prayed out
in the spirit all that time. CONGREGATION: Yes. Amen.
KENNETH: I remember. Nancy, I was in your church and we were
dedicating that new building. And I wasn't there to do the
dedication though. I was just there to enjoy the service. And
I remember Ed turned around, he said, "Brother Copeland, you got
something you want to add here?" I said, "Well, no. Yeah, but
here's this." Because I didn't have a thing and my mind was
just about a zero. But the moment when I said no then it
just started coming out. That's the first time that I said, "You
know, Jesus' last name is not Christ." I hadn't even thought
about that. It just came out my mouth. And I began to talk about
it and talk about the anointed one and his anointing and
translating and interpreting and so forth and so on. That was the
first message I preached on it and I didn't know, I knew it.
CONGREGATION: Right. KENNETH: Now, later on I'm praising God.
And I saw right then I'm going to have started preaching this.
This is something that God had planned for me to spend some
time on. He said, "Kenneth, you've been praying about that
in the Spirit for months, but you said back there when you
were praying for that." It's just a matter of course because
that's what I pray. And I said, "I pray also that I interpret."
He said, "Now what you said tonight, it finally came out."
That was the interpretation of it and he said, "Now go on with
it. Go on and study it." And he said, "It's working in you now.
Now develop it." That message was prayed out in the Spirit
before I knew anything about it. And I've learned over the years
and a number of things have come like that. But if you don't ever
spend any time praying in the Spirit or if you let the devil
talk you out of it for one reason or other. Religious
reason or whatever it is. But then that supernatural part of
it, you're not going to be walking it. Well, if you're not
walking in that, you're not walking in the edification
either. Now you remember Isaiah prophesying said with a
stammering lip in another tongue while I speak to these people,
"This is the rest and the refreshing." I heard Kenneth
Hagin say this. If I had had known it a long time before, it
would have saved me a lot of problems. He said, "The reason I
was able to just preach night and day and just go and go and
go and go." He said, "I believe I received the refreshing and
the rest of my spirit." And he said, "Once my spirit was
rested, then my body would begin to rest." And he said, "I
refreshed myself like that." He said, "I didn't want to go that
hard, but back in those days I had to." But he said, "That's
the way I did it was praying in the Spirit more than a prayed in
English, but I had to believe for it. See if you don't know
it, you can't believe for it." Whoa. But when I heard him say
that, man, I grabbed a hold of that like a dog hitting the bone
brother. That's my rest. Mark, that's my rest, man. I'm
refreshing myself and building myself up praying on my most
Holy faith in the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. (Speaking in
tongues) There's a lot of things in which I would lead and
guide you if I had the privilege of your faith working in those
areas. Now, there are areas that you don't even know how or why
or when and the ins and outs of the problems and the answers.
But if you would trust me by praying in your supernatural
language and by praising and worshiping in your supernatural
language. If you would trust me with it, then I will begin to
reveal to your mind because you see, if you pray that you
interpret, then your mind becomes fruitful. But as long as
you're just praying in the spirit and not exercising and
joining the mind with that, then your mind, as I said in my
words, sayeth the Lord, is not fruitful. But it should be. And
I will bless it and I will illuminate your mind as you pray
in the spirit and refresh your spirit and strengthen and rest
your spirit, it will also rest and strengthen your mind. I'll
see to it sayeth the Lord if you'll trust me. That's what I
said in tongues. Praise God. Praise God. Shall we just begin
to worship right now? Just begin the words. Just lift your voice,
lift your voice, lift your voice. (Speaking in Tongues)
It's always appropriate. It's always allowed
in the heavenlies. Therefore, it's appropriate in the earth
for you to worship in that language and as you praise and
worship me in that language, it will begin to broaden and it'll
broaden you spiritually. It'll broaden your mind. It will cause
you to think better than you used to think, and it will cause
you to have an activity in the spirit that you can no longer
ignore. The things begin to take place on the inside of you
that's working for you and will help you in times of trouble.
And these days are wonderful sayeth the Lord, so begin to
take full advantage of them and you'll know things and
understand things that you didn't know, you know. Your
spirit knows more than you know. I said you know more than you
know. Because you're a spirit man, you're a spirit being has
understanding that your mind hadn't caught up with yet. He's
in there. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost. Let's stand and give him praise. Glory to God. Glory,
glory, glory, glory, glory. The evidence that he is in you is
not how you feel or don't feel. Deuteronomy 31:6-8, John 14:16,
Hebrews 13:5. "He will never leave you or forsake you or fail
you." Glory to God, because "greater is he that is in you
than he that is in the world." And he's there forever and ever
and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever
and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever. And whatever
problem you run in tomorrow, he's already got it fixed.
Whatever problem you run into next week, he's already had it
fixed, Whatever trouble your family gets into, he's already
got it fixed. Pray in the Spirit until you get the answers. Oh
hallelujah. CONGREGATION: Hallelujah. KENNETH: Hallelujah.
CONGREGATION: Hallelujah. KENNETH: I don't care what,
Gloria and I could come to my mother in misery and say, "Well,
you know, what do you think we ought to do about this?"
Ninety nine times out of a hundred she'd say,
"Hit it in tongues. Hit it in tongues. Hit it in tongues.
Amen." That was her answer. Amen. You just
pray in the spirit til you find out what to do and then
do it. Praise God. Thank you, Lord Jesus. I said,
thank you, Lord Jesus. CONGREGATION: Thank you, Lord
Jesus. KENNETH: Your healing is already in here. It doesn't have
to come from heaven. The healer lives inside you now. All that
it takes to deliver your body, to deliver your mind from any
kind of trouble, I don't care what it is, all that it takes to
do it is on the inside of you right this second. It's when we
begin to acknowledge that he is in here and he loves me and he's
more interested in my being delivered and healed than I have
any idea. Receiving the supernatural language is the
easiest thing you have ever done in your life. Jesus is God's
gift to the world. He's God's gift to the center. He's free,
free gift. The Spirit of God is God's gift to the church.
Hallelujah. Yeah. Hallelujah. And if you're born again, if
you've received Jesus as your Lord and savior. If you
haven't, that's the easiest thing you ever
did. Just say, "Jesus take my life and do
something with it. Come into my heart. I receive you as
my Lord and savior." Now that I am. CONGREGATION: Now
that I am. KENNETH: I'm asking you, Jesus. CONGREGATION: I'm
asking you, Jesus. KENNETH: Fill me. CONGREGATION: Fill me.
KENNETH: To overflowing. CONGREGATION: To overflowing.
KENNETH: With your Holy spirit. CONGREGATION: With your Holy
spirit. KENNETH: You said it. CONGREGATION: You said it.
KENNETH: Luke wrote it down. CONGREGATION: Luke wrote it
down. KENNETH: You being evil. CONGREGATION: You being evil.
KENNETH: Give good gifts to your children. CONGREGATION: Give
good gifts to your children. KENNETH: Your heavenly father.
CONGREGATION: Your heavenly father. KENNETH: Will much more.
CONGREGATION: Will much more. KENNETH: Give the Holy ghost.
CONGREGATION: Give the Holy ghost. KENNETH: To those that
ask him. CONGREGATION: To those that ask him. KENNETH: Well, I'm
asking. CONGREGATION: Well, I'm asking. KENNETH: And I'm
receiving. CONGREGATION: And I'm receiving. KENNETH: You said it.
CONGREGATION: You said it. KENNETH: I believe it.
CONGREGATION: I believe it. KENNETH: I have it.
CONGREGATION: I have it. KENNETH: I thank you for it.
CONGREGATION: I thank you for it. KENNETH: Now I fully plan.
CONGREGATION: Now I fully plan. KENNETH: To speak with my new
prayer language. CONGREGATION: To speak with my new prayer
language. KENNETH: Thank you for giving me the utterance.
CONGREGATION: Thank you for giving me the utterance.
KENNETH: I'll make the noise. CONGREGATION: I'll make the
noise. KENNETH: You make the words. CONGREGATION: You
make the words. ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed
today's teaching from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, and
remember Jesus is Lord.
