by Kenneth Copeland

As born-again children of God, you and I ought to be growing up into the image of Jesus. With every day that passes, we should be walking, talking, thinking and acting more like Him. Instead of crying in fear about the storms of life that come against us, we ought to be taking authority over them. We should be speaking to the storm like Jesus did and say, “Peace! Be still!”
Jesus, Himself said, “…He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” (John 14:12).
The Apostle Paul wrote that we are predestined “…to be conformed to the image of [God’s] Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Romans 8:29) and to “grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).
The Apostle John said it this way, “…as he is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17).
God wants to do the same things through us that He did through Jesus!

I have received the gift of righteousness, therefore, I do reign as a king in life by Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17).

The Lord has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant, and Abraham’s blessings are mine (Psalm 35:27; Galatians 3:14).

I seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, so all things I need are added unto me (Matthew 6:32-33).

God, Who did not withhold or spare even His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, freely gives me all other things (Romans 8:32, The Amplified Bible).

The powerful, active, living Word of God is always on my lips. I meditate on it day and night that I may observe and do what is written in it. As a result, I’m prosperous and successful. And since I’m willing and obedient, I eat the good of the land (Hebrews 4:12; Joshua 1:8; Isaiah 1:19).

The Lord teaches me to profit and leads me by the way I should go. Blessings are coming upon me and overtaking me, as the Lord daily loads me with benefits (Isaiah 48:17; Deuteronomy 28:2; Psalm 68:19).

I have faith and do not doubt. Whatever I ask for in prayer, really believing, I receive from the Lord, Who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that I ask or think (Matthew 21:21-22, The Amplified Bible; Ephesians 3:20).

I ask and it is given to me; I seek and find; I knock and the door is opened to me (Matthew 7:7-11).

I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. So the wealth of the sinner, which is laid up for me, is finding its way into my hands. God is giving sinners the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to me (2 Corinthians 5:21; Proverbs 13:22, The Amplified Bible; Ecclesiastes 2:26, New International Version).

The Lord goes before me, levels the mountains, and makes the crooked places straight. He gives me the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places (Isaiah 45:2-3, The Amplified Bible).

God gives me seed because I’m a sower. He will multiply the seed I have sown (1 Corinthians 9:8-11, The Amplified Bible).

I prosper in every way and my body keeps well (3 John 2, The Amplified Bible).

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Speak God’s powerful, active, living Word over all the situations in your life, including your prosperity. Many of these scriptures need to become part of your daily confession of faith for yourself and your household.

God wants His people to receive everything He has promised, and knowing what He promised is vital. So read and meditate on the promises throughout these pages, and remember that God’s will is always to
prosper His people—He will never forget you nor forsake you!

Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Christ has redeemed me from poverty; Christ has redeemed me from sickness; Christ has redeemed me from spiritual death (Galatians 3:13-14; Deuteronomy 28).

Jesus has delivered me from poverty and given me wealth. He set me free from sickness and has given me health. He has delivered me from spiritual death and has given me eternal life (2 Corinthians 8:9; Isaiah 53:5-6; John 10:10, 5:24).

God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to me in abundance, so that I may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need, be self-sufficient—possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation….

Thus I will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that I can be generous, [and my generosity as it is] administered…will bring forth thanksgiving to God (2 Corinthians 9:8, 11, The Amplified Bible).

I delight myself in the Lord and He gives me the desires of my heart (Psalm 37:4).

I have given and it is given to me good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. Men give me—all the time (Luke 6:38).

With the measure I mete, it is measured to me. I sow bountifully therefore I reap bountifully. I give cheerfully, and my God has made all grace abound toward me. Having all sufficiency of all things, I do abound to all good works (2 Corinthians 9:6-8).

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But it shall be, saith the Lord, that THE WORD OF THE LORD SHALL RISE WITHIN MEN—men of God of low esteem in the financial world—that shall claim the Word of God to be their very own and walk in the light of it as it has been set forth in the Word and give. They’ll begin to give small at first because that’s all they have, but then it will increase, and THROUGH THE HUNDREDFOLD RETURN, so shall it be that the reservoirs that have held the riches in days past, so shall it return to the hands of the giver. BECAUSE OF THE HUNDREDFOLD RETURN SHALL THE RESERVOIRS BE LOST FROM THE WICKED AND TURNED TO THE GOSPEL. For it shall be, it shall be in this hour that you will see things that you’ve never dreamed come to pass. Oh, it’ll be strong at first in ways, then it will grow greater and greater until men will be astounded and the world will stand in awe because the ways of men have failed and the ways of God shall come forth.

As men walk in My Word, so shall they walk in the ways of the Lord. Oh yes, there will be some who say, “Yes, but God’s ways are higher, surely higher than our ways, and we can’t walk in those.” It’s true that the ways of God are higher. They are higher than your ways as the heavens are above the earth, but I’ll teach you to walk in My ways. I never did say you couldn’t walk in My ways. Now learn to walk in it. Learn to give. So shall the inversion of the financial system revert and so shall it be that the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all the world, and THERE SHALL BE NO LACK IN THE KINGDOM. Those that give shall walk in the ways of the supernatural! They shall be known abroad. MY WORD SHALL SPREAD AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD SHALL FILL ALL THE EARTH IN THE DAY AND THE HOUR IN WHICH YE STAND. Ye shall see it and know it for it is of Me and it shall come to pass, saith the Lord.

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In 1978, Brother Charles Capps delivered the following prophecy about the end-time transfer of wealth. It confirms the Scripture and God’s plan for the Church in the end times.

Financial inversion shall increase in these days. For you see, it is My desire to move in the realm of your financial prosperity. But release Me, saith the Lord, release Me that I may come in your behalf and move on your behalf.

For yes, yes, yes, there shall be in this hour financial distress here and there. The economy shall go up and it will go down; but those that learn to walk in the Word, they shall see the PROSPERITY OF THE WORD come forth in this hour in a way that has not been seen by men in days past.

Yes, there’s coming a FINANCIAL INVERSION in the world’s system. It’s been held in reservoirs of wicked men for days on end. But the end is nigh. Those reservoirs shall be tapped and shall be drained into the gospel of Jesus Christ. It shall be done, saith the Lord. It shall be done IN THE TIME ALLOTTED and so shall it be that the Word of the Lord shall come to pass that the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Predominantly in two ways shall it be done in this hour. Those that have hoarded up and stored because of the inspiration of the evil one and held the money from the gospel shall be converted and drawn into the kingdom and then shall it release that reservoir into the kingdom. But many, many will not. They’ll not heed the voice of the Word of God. They’ll turn aside to this and they’ll turn to that and they’ll walk in their own ways, but their ways will not work in this hour. It’ll dwindle and it’ll slip away as though it were in bags with holes in them. It’ll go here and it’ll go there and they’ll wonder why it’s not working now. “It worked in days past,” they’ll say.

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Proverbs 13:22

KJV—The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Amp—The wealth of the sinner [finds its way eventually] into the hands of the righteous, for whom it was laid up.

Moffatt—The sinner lays up treasure—to enrich the good!

NIV—A sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.

Proverbs 28:8

KJV—He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

Amp—He who by charging excessive interest and by unjust efforts to get gain increases his material possession, gathers it for him [to spend] who is kind and generous to the poor.

Moffatt—He who adds to his income by taking interest will lose his money to some charitable soul.

NIV—He who increases his wealth by exorbitant interest amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

KJV—For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God.

Amp—For to the person who pleases Him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and heaping up, that he may give to one who pleases God.

Moffatt—To a man whom God approves, he grants wisdom, knowledge, and happiness, but he sets a sinner the task of gathering and amassing wealth, only to leave it to the man whom God approves.

NIV—To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.

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James 5:1-4

KJV—Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Amp—Come now, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries—the woes—that are surely coming upon you. Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are completely rusted through, and their rust will be testimony against you and it will devour your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days.

[But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out (for vengeance), and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

NIV—Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.

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How do you fight distractions like that? Just “continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them” (2 Timothy 3:14).

It won’t be the great revelation you haven’t received yet that will cause you defeat. It will be failing to do what you already know to do. You won’t come out of the hard place when the money shows up at the bank. You’ll come out when God’s power, anointing and faith show up inside you.

You’ll come out of your hard situation only when God’s Word gets so big inside you that you’re not moved by what’s in the bank. It may take a day or two for it to show up in the bank, but you’ll get victory
inside first. That never changes.

So whenever you reach a hard place, continue to do what you know and you’ll make it through just fine.

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I’m not telling you there won’t be trouble on the outside. Certainly there will be trouble. As a matter of fact, Paul said he was troubled by circumstances on every side…but on the inside he was not distressed.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed (2 Corinthians 4:8-9).

Paul fixed his attention not on external circumstances, but on his inner man because that’s where the excellency of God’s power is. “We’re perplexed,” he said. The Greek word translated perplexed means “to be cornered by the circumstances.” “But we’re not in despair.” In other words, even when it looks as if there’s no way out, I can find a way out if I look on the inside.

Persecuted, but not forsaken. If I’m persecuted on the outside, how do I know God hasn’t forsaken me? Because when I look on the inside, I can see Jesus saying, “I’ll never leave you nor forsake you, even to the ends of the earth.”

Perplexed…persecuted…cast down. There’s no doubt about it, Paul was under more pressure than most of us today will ever experience. But he handled it…and so can you if you’ll do these three things:

1. Remember where the pressure is coming from. (The outside!) And remember where your life force comes from. (The inside!)
2. Stop running on a spiritual deficit. Take time to feed your inner man with the Word of God. Fast your body if necessary and feast your spirit on the Word so your inner man can get stronger more quickly.
3. Focus on Jesus inside you until your inner picture of Him is bigger than the outside situations you’re facing.

If you’ll build up your spirit man in those three ways, when pressure comes it won’t affect you like it used to. Problems that once knocked you flat won’t even bother you anymore.

Think about it. A 5-foot, 140-pound bully who scared you silly when you were in the second grade couldn’t even make you blink now that you’re 6 feet tall. You’ve grown. You’re stronger now. That second-grade bully isn’t a threat anymore.

That’s what happened to Paul. He grew! He kept feeding on the Word until the image of Jesus within him grew bigger than the pressures around him. He grew up so much that just a few years after he wrote about being “pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life” he wrote, “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (2 Corinthians 1:8; Philippians 4:11, 13).

Don’t let the bullies get you down. Just keep feeding your spirit man on the Word. Get strong on the inside. One of these days, when the circumstances are putting the squeeze on you and someone asks how you handle the pressure, you’ll look at them with surprise and say, “Pressure?…What pressure?”

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Where must you look to see Jesus? First, in the Word. And second, in your own spirit.

That second place is where most of us have trouble. We can see Jesus as great and magnificent in the Word of God. We can envision Him sitting grandly in heaven at the right hand of the Father. But we haven’t developed our ability to see Him living inside us.

You must have that ability to survive the pressure in these last days. You’ll need to be able to see Jesus within you just as clearly as you can see Him in the Word. You’ll have to know—not just with your brain but with every fiber of your being—that He Who is within you is greater than he that is in the world.

Never forget this: Once you truly see that the very Spirit and power of Jesus reside on the inside of you, nothing—no amount of debt, no disease, no problem of ANY kind—will be able to defeat you. When your inner image of the Jesus Who lives in you becomes bigger than your image of the problems around you, you’ll conquer any challenge the devil brings your way.

So get to work on that inner image. Begin to look inside yourself and say, “I am the righteousness of God. I have fellowship with my heavenly Father. I do walk with Him hand in hand, and Jesus Christ is my blood Brother. Through Him, I have an eternal blood covenant with Almighty God.”

I know you’re facing needs. I know you’re facing difficulties. But I also know that 2 Peter 1:3 says God has already given you “all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of [Jesus].” Once you develop that inner knowledge of Him, those needs will be met and those difficulties overcome.

The answer to everything is inside you right now. Everything you’ll ever need is in your spirit. All the money…all the health…all the strength…all the wisdom…all of it is in you because that’s where Jesus is!

We have this treasure in earthen vessels, Paul says, “that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).

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