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Kenneth Copeland — Fast and FeastPosted by admin on November 11th, 2010

“Oh, but Brother Copeland, my spirit hasn’t been in very good shape lately. I’ve been too tired to read my Bible or go to church. All I’ve had the energy to do is lie around and watch television.” Well then, you’re in trouble.

To get out of that trouble, start feeding the man of faith on the inside of you. Set aside some of the physical food you’ve been chewing on and sink your spiritual teeth into the Word of God.

Take a day or two to fast in your body and feast in your spirit!

Fasting helps give your spirit man a rest. All the physical operations of the body drain energy from the spirit. You have many involuntary physical functions, for example, that go to work every time you eat a meal. Those functions take a toll on the spirit. They drain your generator. When you fast, you give your spirit a break.

That’s why it’s good every once in a while to fast a few meals and just be quiet. Don’t do anything. Don’t put any pressure on. Just be still. Go get back in bed and turn your tapes on, read your Bible for a few hours and sip a little fruit juice.

Shut down all the physical functions you can and feed on the Word. You don’t even have to pray. Just be still for a while and know that God is God. Let the Word rejuvenate your spirit man. When you do pray during that time, pray in the spirit. Relax in God’s presence.

There’s an old religious cliché that used to be especially popular among ministers. “We’re just going to burn ourselves out for God,” they’d say. That’s not what God wants. That’s what the devil wants! He would love to see you just work yourself until you “burn out” and die. He’d kick up his heels at your funeral!

Don’t give him that opportunity. Take the time to feed your inner man so you won’t “burn out.” Keep feeding your spirit until you increase your strength. Burn brighter and stronger every year.

Be transformed from glory to glory by “beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18). Increase the wattage of your spiritual generator by spending time focusing on the Lord. Take your focus off the things of the world and look at Him. Begin to work with Him instead of just for Him.

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Kenneth Copeland — The Answer Is InsidePosted by admin on October 28th, 2010

When you’re suffering from that kind of weakness, you need to follow Paul’s example. He wrote, “Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day” (2 Corinthians 4:16). In spite of all the pressure Paul was under, in spite of the fact that he had despaired of life, he found the strength not just to go on, but to go on in victory.

Where did he find that strength? In his inward man! In his own reborn spirit!

It doesn’t matter how tired you are. It doesn’t matter how depressed you feel. It doesn’t even matter if you feel like you’ve been dragged through a knothole backward and you’re so stressed out you can’t take one more step. The answer to your situation is not “out there” somewhere. The answer is inside you.

Look again at what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 1:8-9 about his predicament: “We were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves.” If you’ll look up the Greek word translated sentence in that last phrase, you’ll find the better translation is the word “answer.”

Now, actually a sentence is an answer. When someone robs a bank and they’re sentenced to 10 years in prison, that 10 years is the legal answer to their crime. Keep that in mind when you read these verses and you’ll realize how truly powerful they are.

We were pressed out of measure…insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence [or answer] of death in ourselves.

When the pressure is so great it’s about to kill you, where do you look for the answer? Inside your own reborn, Holy Ghost-filled spirit!

Your deliverance is inside you because that’s where the Holy Spirit is. Your help is inside you because that’s where your Helper is. The joy, the strength, the love…everything you’ve been looking for is right there inside your spirit.

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Kenneth Copeland — Guard Your GeneratorPosted by admin on October 18th, 2010

Most people don’t know, for example, where their life force resides. They don’t know their spirits are the generators that provide energy for everything they do. So they fail to take care of those generators. They overload them and neglect them until they “burn out.”

Let me illustrate. Say you have a 100-watt generator and you start plugging 10-watt bulbs into the circuit that generator supplies. You can put in 10 bulbs and they’ll all burn brightly.Your generator will be running at full capacity, pulling all the load it’s made to pull.

When you put bulb number 11 on line, the whole string will dim a little. If you put in a 12th bulb, they’ll dim a little more. Put in 13, and you’ll see smoke coming out of that generator. It will burn out because it’s not equipped to produce 130 watts.

What happens then? All the lights go out. Not just the three extras you put in—all of them go out. The overload knocks out the whole string.

That’s what is happening to many dedicated believers today. They’re so busy ministering, so busy working for God instead of with God, they’re overloading their spiritual generators. They’re putting out more than they’re putting in.

Proverbs 4:23 warns us against such careless treatment of our spirits. It says, “Keep thy heart [or spirit] with all diligence; for out of it are the issues [or forces] of life.” Most people don’t understand the importance of obeying that verse. They think if they eat right and rest and exercise, they’ll have all the strength they need. But they’re wrong. The real strength for living, the force that literally keeps the body alive, comes from the spirit man.

Your body has to have strength and life from your spirit being or it can’t function. When your spirit is strong, you can sleep a few hours, eat a good healthy meal, work out a little and you’re ready to go again. But when your spirit is weak, it doesn’t matter how many hours you sleep or how many vegetables you eat, you just can’t seem to get on top of things.

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Kenneth Copeland — Your Inside Answer to Outside PressurePosted by admin on October 4th, 2010

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” — Proverbs 4:23

The pressure is on. There’s no question about it. We have more to do these days, and less time to do it in, than ever before.

Things, both in the natural world and in the world of the spirit, are moving at a rapid-fire pace. It’s exhilarating—and it can also be draining. In fact, if you don’t learn how to handle the pressure, it can drain you completely dry.

I know, because at one time in my life I let it happen to me. I felt like I was the most tired man in the world back then. I was so tired that no amount of rest would help. I went to bed tired and I woke up tired. Every bone in my body ached. At times, Gloria had to physically help me out of bed.

I felt much like the Apostle Paul must have felt when he wrote in 2 Corinthians 1:8: “For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble…that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.”

At that time in his ministry, Paul was under so much pressure he despaired of life. That’s what I did too. I got to the point where I wasn’t even fighting to live anymore. I went to God and said, “I’ve had all this I can stand. I just want to come on home now.”

What causes that kind of devastating fatigue? It took me a long time to find out, but when I did, I realized it was really very simple. My life force was being drained out. I was giving out more spiritual strength than I was putting back into myself. As a result, I developed a spiritual deficit that very nearly killed me.

Let me give you a word of warning. Don’t believe the old adage that says what you don’t know won’t hurt you. God’s Word says just the opposite. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). In the spirit realm, what you don’t know can kill you.

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Kenneth Copeland — Patiently Experiencing the RewardPosted by admin on September 27th, 2010

In Hebrews 10:35-38 we are admonished to, “Cast not away therefore your confidence [or faith], which hath great recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise…the just shall live by faith.” Now, remember, Romans 5 says that tribulation works patience, and Hebrews 10 says that we have need of patience—because patience works experience. Experience is the reward. Patience produces the reward of experiencing the answer.

“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God,” or you could say it this way, “After you have acted on the Word of God, employ the power of patience and you will receive the promise of that Word.” Hebrews 6:12 tells us that through faith and patience we inherit the promises. Faith is acting on the Word. God’s Word is His will. After you have exerted the force of faith by acting on the Word, or the will of God, then patience comes into action to produce the experience of victory!

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