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).

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

When a person lives out from under
the curse and is walking uprightly
before God, he has the power of God
in his corner. He has the power of the
Spirit Himself backing him. The Word
of God states very clearly in Hebrews
7:22 that Jesus is the surety, or the
guarantee, of this new covenant. Jesus
Christ of Nazareth will have to fail before
the covenant can fail, and in Him
there is no failure. Why? Because Jesus
is love and love never fails.

Go to the Word. That is what it is
for. That is why it was written. It is
a copy of your contract—your covenant—
with God. It sets out the things
God promised Jesus that He would do.
Hebrews 1 speaks of Jesus’ inauguration
as Lord of the universe. It says
that He is upholding all things by the
Word of His power. If you want to be
upheld, get on the Word.

Once you make Jesus Lord over
your life, you become a covenant man
under the new covenant. Remember
God said, “As for Me, these things
are so.” He said, “As for Me, you are
healed. As for Me, you are redeemed
from the curse of the law. As for Me,
the blessing of Abraham is upon you.”
The only reason these blessings are not
operating in your life is because you
have not stood up and said, “Well, as
for me, it is so, too!”

Make this confession from your
heart before God.

“Father, in the Name of Jesus, I
believe in my heart that Jesus has been
raised from the dead. I make Him Lord
of my life now with the confession of
my mouth. I am His and He is mine!
Jesus has redeemed me from the curse
of the law. Sickness will have to depart.
Disease will have to depart. Poverty
will no longer be in my house, for I am
redeemed from the curse of poverty.
I am a believer and not a doubter. I
have the Name of Jesus and the power
of the Holy Spirit. Thank God, darkness
is over. The storms of life will no
longer be victorious over me. Jesus
is my intercessor. The Spirit of God
strengthens me. You, God, are my very
own Father. I praise Your Name!”

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Let’s look at Luke 13:10-12: “And he
was teaching in one of the synagogues
on the sabbath. And, behold, there was
a woman which had a spirit of infir-
mity eighteen years, and was bowed
together, and could in no wise lift up
herself. And when Jesus saw her, he
called her to him, and said unto her,
Woman, thou art loosed from thine
infirmity.”

Notice that Jesus did not say, “I am
going to loose you” or “Be loosed.” He
said, “Woman, thou art loosed.” Jesus
did not waste words; He used them.
Words had an extremely high priority
in His ministry. “And he laid his hands
on her: and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God.”

When the ruler of the synagogue
questioned Him about healing on the
Sabbath day, Jesus said, “And ought
not this woman, being a daughter of
Abraham, whom Satan hath bound,
lo, these eighteen years, be loosed
from this bond on the sabbath day?”
(verse 16). That woman was a daughter
of Abraham, and therefore had a
right to be loosed from that infirmity.
You see, she had lived with her infirmity
for eighteen years because she didn’t
know the blessing of Abraham—the
blessing that would set her free!

This same ignorance of God’s covenant
caused Israel to live in bondage
for 400 years.

The Word of God was just as valid
and real when they went into bondage
as it was the day they were set free.
The only problem was, they didn’t
know it. God had to call Moses and
explain the covenant to him so that he
could lead them out of Egypt. Moses
went before Pharaoh in behalf of that
covenant and led the Israelites out of
bondage. It was the same God, and His
Word was just as true 400 years before,
but the people had lost sight of it.

Jesus did not pray for that daughter
of Abraham. He told her that she was
loosed, and then He laid hands on her.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

The promise God gave to Jesus has
now been given to the believer. We
are to receive the blessing of Abraham
written in Deuteronomy 28. As the
seed of Abraham, I intend to receive
everything that is mine by Christ Jesus
as a glory to God. God’s Word tells us
that we have a right to pray and expect
God to answer, not because of what we
have done but because of what Jesus
has done for us! God said, “If ye be
willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land” (Isaiah 1:19). Obedient
to what? The Word of God, the new
covenant of God. The old covenant
was fulfilled by Jesus on the cross. He
walked perfect and upright before God,
then took the penalty for breaking the
covenant. He went to hell and paid the
price for our sin. But because He was
sinless, because He had not broken the
covenant, hell could not hold Him! He
whipped Satan and took the keys of
death and hell! (Revelation 1:18).

You can expect God to move because
of His Word, because of His
promise to Abraham’s seed. Find out
what the covenant says. Put the Word
first place in your life. Matthew 8:17
says, “Himself took our infirmities,
and bare our sicknesses.” That is God
speaking directly to you, the believer.
Christ has redeemed you from the
curse of the law so that the blessing
of Abraham will come on you through
Jesus Christ, that you might receive
the promise of the Spirit through faith.
The blessings of God belong to every
born-again believer. All you have to
do is stand on God’s Word and allow
these blessings to manifest themselves
in your life.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

In the old covenant, we can see
that the power of sin was very much
in force. Satan took the authority that
Adam had given him and perverted
it, using fear and death against men
instead of the life and faith they had
in God. The power of sin was operating
throughout the Old Testament.
A man could make the decision to
live in line with God’s Word, but sin
would still plague him night and day.
For instance, Noah performed the
greatest act of faith known to man
and then got roaring drunk! This is
why the decisions of the Old Testament
saints spoken of in Hebrews 11
were such outstanding feats of faith.
The power of sin was still inside them
and spiritual death was lodged in their
hearts. Then Jesus came to earth. He
bore the penalty of spiritual death,
broke its power, and was raised from
the dead, triumphant over Satan and
his kingdom. When you made Jesus
your Lord, the power of eternal life
enveloped your spirit and a new man
was born inside you: “Therefore if any
man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new. And all things
are of God” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18).
This is the new covenant!

Wherefore then serveth the law? It
was added because of transgressions,
till the seed should come to whom
the promise was made; and it was
ordained by angels in the hand of
a mediator. Now a mediator is not
a mediator of one, but God is one.
Is the law then against the promises
of God? God forbid: for if there
had been a law given which could
have given life, verily righteousness
should have been by the law. But
the scripture hath concluded all
under sin, that the promise by faith
of Jesus Christ might be given to
them that believe. But before faith
came, we were kept under the law,
shut up unto the faith which should
afterwards be revealed. Wherefore
the law was our schoolmaster to
bring us unto Christ, that we might
be justified by faith. But after that
faith is come, we are no longer
under a schoolmaster. For ye are
all the children of God by faith in
Christ Jesus. For as many of you as
have been baptized into Christ have
put on Christ. There is neither Jew
nor Greek, there is neither bond
nor free, there is neither male nor
female: for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye
Abraham’s seed, and heirs according
to the promise (Galatians 3:19-29).

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Everything Jesus used in His earthly
ministry is available to the believer
today. The only thing Jesus did that
no other person on earth could ever
do was to die on the cross as the Son
of God and pay the price for sin. God
did not answer Jesus’ prayers simply
because He was His Son. He answered
Jesus’ prayers because of the covenant
(the promise), that Jesus was operating
under—the covenant that God had
allowed Abraham to handle so many
years before.

In the light of this truth, let’s read
again from Galatians 3:16-19:

Now to Abraham and his seed
were the promises made. He saith
not, And to seeds, as of many; but
as of one, And to thy seed, which
is Christ. And this I say, that the
covenant, that was confirmed before
of God in Christ, the law, which was
four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make
the promise of none effect. For if
the inheritance be of the law, it is
no more of promise: but God gave it
to Abraham by promise. Wherefore
then serveth the law? It was added
because of transgressions, till the
seed should come to whom the
promise was made.

You see, the law was brought in to
protect the promise. Then when Jesus
came forth, the promise was in force.

Once God’s Word has been loosed
in the earth, there is nothing Satan
can do about it. Isaiah 55:11 says, “So
shall my word be that goeth forth out
of my mouth: it shall not return unto
me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper in
the thing whereto I sent it.” God’s Word
will come to pass. There is no way
Satan can stop it! When you received
salvation, when you made the decision
and acted on it, no devil in hell was
powerful enough to stop the new birth
from taking place in your life.

Satan is helpless before the Name of
Jesus because the power of the curse
has been broken. He will walk all over
you if you allow him to, but his actual
power has been removed. The power
of sin has been broken. Satan cannot
dominate you once you recognize the
power of the Word of God and allow
that power to operate in your life.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

We have read from Galatians 3:13-14
that Jesus Christ has redeemed us from
the curse of the law so that we might
receive the blessing of Abraham and
the promise of the Spirit. Let’s take
this a little bit further and discuss it in
more depth.

In Galatians 3:16 we read, “Now to
Abraham and his seed were the promises
made. He saith not, And to seeds,
as of many; but as of one, And to thy
seed, which is Christ.” God’s promise
was made through Abraham, but it
was actually meant for one person,
Jesus Christ. We have seen from the
book of Genesis that God approached
Abram with His proposition for a
covenant between them. God’s purpose
was to provide an avenue back into the
earth—to open the way for Jesus to
come forth.

In his lifetime, Abraham operated
only basic parts of God’s covenant. In
the following years, God revealed more
of His Word to the prophets. These
Old Testament prophets handled the
Word and operated under the covenant,
but the promise was made to
Abraham’s seed—Jesus Christ. They
used the covenant as best they could,
but it was too difficult for them to
follow completely. They were just not
strong enough spiritually to handle it,
but Jesus was! The promise was made to
one seed, which is Christ.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Jesus fulfilled the terms of the old
covenant and brought a new covenant
into being—a better covenant based on
better promises. He died and paid the
price to finish that old Abrahamic Covenant.
He satisfied it completely and
was resurrected from the dead a new
man—a new covenant man untouchable
by sin, untouchable by death.
Now He is seated at the right hand of
God to carry out this new covenant.

The new covenant is between
Almighty God and Jesus Christ,
an immortal man incapable of failure.
God will not fail, Jesus will not
fail. Therefore, the covenant between
them will not fail! Jesus was capable of
failure when He walked the shores of
Galilee. He had to stand the test Adam
failed, and He stood it without failure.

As the Son of God, Jesus accepted
the penalty of death for sin. He was
taken illegally by Satan into the bowels
of the earth. But God proclaimed, “It is
enough!” and Jesus came forth out of
hell triumphant in the power of God!
The courts of eternal justice were satisfied.
Sin was completely remitted—
wiped away. God took man’s place and
suffered the penalty for breaking the
covenant. Man once again has legal
right to enter the Father’s presence in
the holy of holies (Hebrews 4:14-16).

The cut of the old covenant was
the shedding of man’s blood through
circumcision. The cut of the new
covenant was the shedding of God’s
blood on the cross by Jesus, the Lamb
of God—the sacrificial lamb that took
away the sins of the world (John 1:29).
There is no curse under the new covenant
because Jesus became the curse
for us! Praise God!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

“Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for
us: for it is written, Cursed is every one
that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing
of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we
might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith” (Galations 3:13-14).

Jesus of Nazareth was a product
of the Abrahamic Covenant. He was
an Israelite circumcised the eighth
day. As we have read from Genesis
17:1, God commanded that Abraham
walk perfect and upright before
Him; but it was not until Jesus that
this command was fulfilled. Jesus
walked perfect before God under the
articles of the covenant, and God
backed His ministry 100 percent.
He used the covenant to control the
laws of nature. He spoke the words
that broke the bonds of death and
brought Lazarus forth from the grave.
God was bound by His own words to
do what Jesus said. The Bible tells us
in Hebrews 4:15 that Jesus was “in
all points tempted like as we are, yet
without sin.” He faced as much temptation
to sin as any man on earth, yet
He withstood it all and continued to
walk perfect before God.

According to Levitical law, the high
priest was to take an unblemished
lamb and offer it as a sacrifice for sin.
Jesus of Nazareth, the unblemished
Lamb of God, served as the final
sacrifice for sin under the Abrahamic
Covenant. The High Priest offered up
the spotless Son of God on the altar
of the cross for the sins of mankind.
The blood of Jesus was poured out in
behalf of the covenant He upheld. He
was our substitute—bearing our sins,
diseases, poverty and spiritual death.

Remember what was listed under
the curse in Deuteronomy 28? Poverty
of every kind, political failure, drought,
war—every calamity known to mankind.
Jesus has redeemed us from all of
it. As we saw in Deuteronomy 28:61,
all sickness and all disease, even those
not mentioned there, come under the
curse. Therefore, we are redeemed
from all sickness and all disease. You
need to fight the temptation to be sick
just as you would fight the temptation
to lie or steal. Satan will tempt
you with sickness, but you don’t have
to give in. You can resist him with the
Word of God like Jesus did!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

When a man under the Abrahamic
Covenant refused to obey the law
that would bring the blessing, there
was only one alternative—the curse.
When a man steps out from under
the covenant with God, he automatically
steps back over into the hands
of Satan. The curse was already in the
earth from the time that Adam bowed
his knee to Satan in the Garden. It
was only God’s covenant that protected
the people from being completely
destroyed by Satan. Abraham had
plenty of problems before God approached
him. What he did not have
was a way out of the problems. There
is no area where a man can stand in
the middle between the blessings of
God and the problems of the world. If
he doesn’t have the blessings of God,
he has the problems of the world.
There’s no in-between.

When God made His covenant with
Abraham, He didn’t do away with the
curse. He just offered Abraham a way
to live free from its effect by providing
an umbrella of protection. He said,
“If you will walk perfect and upright
before Me, I’ll protect you.” Thus
Abraham and his descendants would
be protected from the curse already
in the world. However, when they
stepped from beneath the protection of
God’s Word, Satan was waiting to come
against them.

Let’s look at the curse beginning in
Deuteronomy 28:15-19:

But it shall come to pass, if thou
wilt not hearken unto the voice
of the Lord thy God, to observe
to do all his commandments and
his statutes which I command
thee this day; that all these curses
shall come upon thee, and overtake
thee: Cursed shalt thou be in
the city, and cursed shalt thou be
in the field. Cursed shall be thy
basket and thy store. Cursed shall
be the fruit of thy body, and the
fruit of thy land, the increase of
thy kine, and of the flocks of thy
sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when
thou comest in, and cursed shalt
thou be when thou goest out.

The next several verses refer to
many different plagues and diseases
that are part of this curse. Verse 29
mentions poverty, “And thou shalt not
prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be
only oppressed and spoiled evermore,
and no man shall save thee.” It goes
on to list marital difficulties, cattle
destruction, sickness in the legs and
knees, sores that cannot be healed,
crop destruction.

Verse 44 refers to being in debt, “He
(the stranger) shall lend to thee, and
thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be
the head, and thou shalt be the tail.”

Verse 61 says, “Also every sickness,
and every plague, which is not written
in the book of this law, them will
the Lord bring upon thee, until thou
be destroyed.” So, all sickness and all
disease—even those not mentioned
here—come under the curse.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries