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

In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. Genesis
1:26-27 says:

And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth. So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female
created he them.

From the dust of the earth, God
formed a man, named him Adam, and
placed him in the midst of the Garden
of Eden. This man Adam was given the
awesome authority of lordship over
God’s creation on earth. God gave him
dominion over every living thing on
the face of this earth. He was to
subdue the earth and replenish it. He
was given the right to be the father of
God’s family. He was to sire the human
race. What a privilege!

God set a law into motion at creation
which I call the law of genesis—or
the law of beginnings. According to
this law, every living thing was created
by God to produce after its own
kind. Man was no exception. God is a
Spirit, and Adam was created in God’s
own image and likeness—a spirit being.
They walked in close fellowship
and communion together, and Adam’s
descendants were to live in harmony
with God, their spiritual Father. But
something happened in the Garden
that caused a great and terrible change
to occur. Satan approached Adam’s
wife Eve and deceived her into disobeying
God’s command. Then Adam
willfully followed her in this rebellion.

According to the law of genesis,
man takes on the nature of his
spiritual father or lord. God was
Adam’s spiritual father. But when
Adam disobeyed God and bowed his
knee to Satan, he changed spiritual fa-
thers. Satan became the illegitimate
stepfather of mankind. Adam committed
high treason. At that point, all
the dominion and authority God had
given him was handed over to Satan.
Suddenly, God was on the outside
looking in.

Until this time, Satan did not have
any authority on earth. All his authority
had been taken away when
he led the rebellion against God in
heaven (Isaiah 14:12). He came into
the picture absolutely void of authority.
But by deceiving the woman, he
manipulated man’s authority into his
own hands and became the god of this
world (2 Corinthians 4:4). In Luke
4:3-7, when Satan tempted Jesus in
the wilderness, he took Jesus up on a
high mountain and showed Him all
the kingdoms of the earth. He said,
“All this power will I give thee, and
the glory of them: for that is delivered
unto me: and to whomsoever I will I
give it. If thou therefore will worship
me, all shalt be thine” (Luke 4:6-7).

Some people think this was just
one of Satan’s lies. But if it had been a
lie, it would not have been a temptation
and the Bible says that Jesus was
sorely tempted. This was real temptation,
brother! Satan had it to give.
Jesus was tempted, but He used the
weapon for which there is no defense.
He said, “It is written…” and Satan had
to flee from Him!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Jesus Himself warned us of Satan’s tactics
in the parable of the sower, Mark 4:14-20:

The sower soweth the word. And these
are they by the way side, where the word
is sown; but when they have heard, Satan
cometh immediately, and taketh away the
word that was sown in their hearts. And
these are they likewise which are sown on
stony ground; who, when they have heard
the word, immediately receive it with
gladness; and have no root in themselves,
and so endure but for a time: afterward,
when affliction or persecution ariseth
for the word’s sake, immediately they
are offended. And these are they which
are sown among thorns; such as hear the
word, and the cares of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of
other things entering in, choke the word,
and it becometh unfruitful. And these
are they which are sown on good ground;
such as hear the word, and receive it, and
bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some
sixty, and some an hundred.

Notice that the Word is the subject of this
parable, not the ground in which it is sown.
Notice also that persecution and affliction
arise for the Word’s sake. Satan has to stop the
Word from taking root in your heart. He has
to stop you from cultivating an inner image of
the Word. Once you have that inner image,
nothing can stop you from receiving from
God. You are then fully persuaded that what
God has promised, He is able also to perform.
So Satan must try to stop you before you
become fully persuaded.

Remember, the Word has the power in
itself to bring itself to pass. Once you get in
agreement with the Word, Satan can’t stop it
from coming to pass in your life. It’s the Word
he’s after, not just you! And he only has five
things to use to steal the Word from you—
persecution, affliction, the cares of this world,
the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of
other things.

Satan uses these five things to try and get
your mind off the Word and onto natural
things. And there’s only one way to overcome
his methods—follow the advice the Apostle
Paul gives in 2 Corinthians 5:7 and “walk by
faith, not by sight.” Even when your body
says you are sick, you can believe that you
are healed. How? By focusing your spiritual
eyes on the Word of God that says, “By His
stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).

Just like Joshua, keep meditating on the
Word of God day and night until it wells up
as truth inside you and comes spilling out of
your mouth in the form of faith-filled words!

Once you have the same inner image God
has, you can be confident that your body is
going to change. It has no choice! It has to
line up with God’s Word.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries