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Kenneth Copeland — Fraudulent Treasure 2Posted by admin on February 11th, 2011

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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Kenneth Copeland — Fraudulent TreasurePosted by admin on January 24th, 2011

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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Kenneth Copeland – Never Give UpPosted by admin on December 29th, 2010

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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Kenneth Copeland — Pressure?…What Pressure?Posted by admin on December 15th, 2010

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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Kenneth Copeland — Not Just in Heaven—In You!Posted by admin on December 1st, 2010

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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