Kenneth Copeland — Word and SpiritPosted by admin on September 23rd, 2009
It is the spirit that quickeneth [makes alive]; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life (John 6:63).
What man says doesn’t really mean a thing in and of itself. What I say will not necessarily stand up unless what I say is based on the Word of God.
I say that I am healed, regardless of the condition of my body. I say that as a praise to God because my body is well, or as a confession of faith to change my body if it is not well. In either case, all I am going to say is that I am healed. I am not speaking from my position in my body; I am speaking from my position in Christ Jesus.
There are all kinds of misunderstandings about this principle. The reason I say I am healed is not because I heard some great man of God say it. I say I am healed because I learned it from God’s Word. I stayed in the Word until it came alive in my spirit and rose up in my mouth. That is more real to me than the symptoms in my body.
I don’t go around saying I am healed just because I am part of the “faith movement.” If that were the case, the first time anything went wrong with my body my confession would crumble and fall apart. I say I am healed because the living Word is the foundation
of my faith.
The Word lies dormant in a person’s life until it becomes the foundation for his faith. Some people can quote much of the Bible, but it is not the foundation for their faith. Actually what they are doing is confessing, but their confession is coming out of the mind instead of the spirit. The power is not in the flesh, but in the spirit: the re-created human spirit, the Holy Spirit, the spirit realm.
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