Kenneth Copeland — Prosperity Is Provision and ProtectionPosted by admin on November 4th, 2009
Satan goes to great lengths to convince God’s
people that poverty, sickness, calamity and trouble
are blessings in disguise. It is his perversion of
God’s creation! If the devil can make us accept his
attack as “an act of God” in our life—and he does
that through unscriptural religious traditions or
doubt and unbelief—he can rob us of everything
Jesus died to provide for us. And what’s even
more tragic about that is, if we don’t know and
have confidence in what God has provided for us,
we won’t even try to stop the devil from operating
against us. Everything that Jesus bore on the cross
for us, it is our responsibility to resist. We begin to
walk in divine prosperity with a decision to no
longer allow Satan to put symptoms of lack on
us—in any area of our life.
If our thinking isn’t completely in line
with God’s Word, the devil can con us into
accepting his attacks. He’ll try to make us
believe that sickness, poverty or anything
else contrary to God’s Word is actually
God’s will for us to teach us something—or
for some other reason. Nothing could be
further from the truth of God’s Word.
If you’re a born-again child of God, Christ
has redeemed you from sickness, poverty,
lack and all of the curse (see Galatians 3:13).
Deuteronomy 28:15-68 describes the curse
of the law. Here are some excerpts from
those verses that plainly show poverty and
lack for what they really are. There’s nothing
good about them, and they don’t belong
to anyone in the family of God. Read
them and rejoice that you have just the
opposite of what is listed here.
If you will not obey the voice of
the Lord your God, being watchful
to do all His commandments and
His statutes which I command you
this day, then all these curses shall
come upon you and overtake you:
Cursed shall you be in the city,
and cursed shall you be in the field.
Cursed shall be your basket and
your kneading trough. Cursed shall
be the fruit of your body, of your
land, of the increase of your cattle
and the young of your sheep.
Cursed shall you be when you come
in, and cursed shall you be when
you go out….
And you shall grope at noonday,
as the blind grope in darkness, and
you shall not prosper in your ways;
and you shall be only oppressed
and robbed continually, and there
shall be no one to save you….
You shall build a house, and not
live in it; you shall plant a vineyard
and not gather its grapes…. A nation
which you have not known shall eat
up the fruit of your land and of all
your labors; and you shall be only
oppressed and crushed continually….
You shall carry much seed out
into the field, and shall gather little
in; for the locust shall consume
it…. You shall plant vineyards and
dress them, but shall neither drink
of the wine nor gather the grapes;
for the worm shall eat them…. All
your trees and the fruit of your
ground shall the locust possess.
He [the stranger] shall lend to
you, and you shall not lend to him;
he shall be the head, and you shall
be the tail.
All these curses shall come upon
you and shall pursue you and overtake
you, till you are destroyed, because
you do not obey the voice of
the Lord your God, to keep His commandments
and His statutes which
He commanded you….
Because you did not serve the
Lord your God with joyfulness of
[mind and] heart [in gratitude] for the
abundance of all [with which He had
blessed you], Therefore you shall
serve your enemies…in hunger and
thirst, in nakedness, and in want of
all things (The Amplified Bible).
Kenneth Copeland Ministries