Kenneth Copeland — Well-beingPosted by admin on January 6th, 2010
2 Thessalonians 3:3
KJV—The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish
you, and keep you from evil.
Amp—The Lord is faithful and He will
strengthen [you] and set you on a firm foundation
and guard you from the evil [one].
Moffatt—The Lord is faithful; he will be
sure to strengthen you and protect you
from the Evil one.
NIV—The Lord is faithful, and he will
strengthen and protect you from the evil one.
Well-being
Well-being is defined in Webster’s Dictionary
as “the state of being well, happy or prosperous.”
Truly, all is well in your life when
you and your loved ones are healthy,
happy and prosperous.
Psalm 35:27 says the Lord “delights in the
well-being of his servant” (New International
Version). And 3 John 2 says, “I pray that you may
prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep
well even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers”
(The Amplified Bible). The Lord is concerned
about our total well-being.
The Scriptures repeatedly tell us that it
will be well with those who obey the Lord
and do what is right in His sight. Then He is
free to bless them in every way.
God doesn’t wait for circumstances to be
perfect before He blesses His people.
Romans 4:17 says He calls “those things which be
not as though they were.” So our well-being is
not tied to circumstances, it is tied to God
and His Word. He can create whatever He
needs to bless us. He can bless us in the
midst of a famine just as easily as when
things are in abundance (Genesis 26:1-3). He
blessed the children of Israel while they
wandered in the wilderness, and He blessed
Joseph while he was in captivity. He even
blessed Abraham and Sarah with a child
when, in the natural, it was impossible—and
went on to make Abraham the “father of
many nations” as He had promised (Genesis
17:4-5). So we don’t have to wait until someday
in the future, when everything is just
right, for God to bless us with well-being.
He wants to do it today!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries