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Gloria Copeland — How to Overcome
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For we know that the whole creation [every creature] groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit [to know], the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it (Romans 8:22-25).
The day is coming when we are not going to have this flesh body. We’ll have a glorified body and we’ll take on immortality. We’ll be a spirit being in a spirit body! There will be no more war between our spirits and our flesh.
What do we do while waiting for the redemption of these bodies? We groan within ourselves, in the spirit, waiting for that day. Romans 8:26 tells us how to overcome the weakness of our flesh and to walk in the spirit, even while we live in this body. This revelation has changed my life and the lives of countless others.
“So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance” (Romans 8:26, amp).
How does He bear us up in our weakness? By enabling us to pray in the spirit. Praying in the spirit causes your spirit to dominate your flesh. Praying in the spirit applies spirit to flesh. When you pray in the spirit, you pray the perfect will of God. Your prayer knows no limitation. It is God the Holy Spirit, speaking through your spirit to God the Father, in the Name of God the Son. That is prayer that cannot be overthrown.
The King James Version translates the word weakness as “infirmities.” Perhaps we have overlooked what was actually being said. The Greek word is singular and should have been translated “weakness.” Romans 6-8 talks about the weakness of the flesh and the strength of the spirit. God has not changed directions. He is talking about overcoming the weakness of the flesh.
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, counselor, helper, intercessor, advocate, strengthener and standby (John 14:16, amp). His ministry is to bear us up, help us and strengthen us. God knew that man was weak through his flesh. He says:
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my Judgements, and do them (Ezekiel 36:26-27).
God does not expect you to overcome the weakness of the flesh, even by your new, born-again spirit. He gave you His Spirit to help and to strengthen you (Ephesians 3:16).
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Gloria Copeland — Let Go of Doubt and Be Healed
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Look at Acts 10:38 and see how Peter describes Jesus’ ministry after three years of close association with Him: “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” Did He just heal some? No. He healed all who were oppressed of the devil.
The only record of anything hindering Jesus from accomplishing the will of God in the lives of His people occurred in Nazareth. It was not God’s will that stopped His miracle and healing power; it was the will of the people there. He could do no mighty works because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5-6).
Doubt will rob you of God’s blessings. Unbelief will rob you and leave you sick. There is only one thing that can stop doubt and unbelief in the heart of a man and that is the Word of God. When a person
receives the Word, doubt, defeat and discouragement have to leave. Don’t hang on to any doubt or unbelief. Don’t even dwell on it. Let the Word of God expel it.
I absolutely refuse to feed my spirit on doubt and unbelief because I know that my very life depends on the faith of God in my spirit. I will not sit under any teacher or preacher who puts doubt and unbelief in
my spirit. What you feed into your spirit is a matter of life and death, a matter of victory and defeat. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Doubt comes by hearing unbelief. It is important what you hear.
The Scriptures show beyond doubt that Jesus, while fulfilling the will of God, offered healing unconditionally during His ministry in the earth.
God has never been stingy with His healing power. He has always desired that you be healed. He wants you to be healed even more than you do. Because of His great compassion and love for His family, God greatly desires to manifest His power in our midst, yet He works only by faith—no other way.
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Gloria Copeland — Attend to God’s Words for Healing
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“Attend to my words.” Give your undivided attention to God’s Word. Pay heed to what He says.
Whatever it says, you believe it and act on it. If you attend to someone, you take care of that person.
There is still only one thing that is needful and that is the Word of God. It is the one thing that a believer
cannot successfully do without. If you will attend to the Word and spend time in it, every other situation
in your life will be taken care of because of the faith, knowledge and wisdom that come from God’s Word.
Everything we do should revolve around the Word of God because it has the answer to every problem. The
Word of God will make your time count. It will save you mistakes that cost time. Sickness costs time. The
Word of God will make your life better and your time more productive. You cannot afford to be without the
Word.
Whenever I get under pressure and begin to think, There’s no way that I can do all that I’ve got to do,
I know immediately that I have not been spending enough time in God’s Word. When I get bogged
down in the affairs of life and pressure comes, I know that my time in the Word has gone for something
else. The Word of God causes your life to work. You won’t get bogged down in the affairs of life if you will
spend time in the Word, to meditate in it and see what God is saying to you.
The Bible says, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he
trusteth in thee” (Isaiah 26:3). When you spend time in the Word and stay your mind on it, you will be kept
in perfect peace and you will trust in Him. That is faith. Romans 10:17 says faith comes by hearing and
hearing by the Word of God. You will be kept in this perfect peace because you trust in Him. Your faith will
stay strong and you will be trusting in the Lord, not in the things you can see.
When you keep your attention on God’s Word, your mind will be free from doubt. Many people try to
believe, but don’t have the Word in their hearts. Faith is not a mental process. Believing in the heart comes
from time spent in the Word of God. It takes more than just a mental decision to cause your vocabulary
to be in line with God’s Word.
Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh” (Matthew 12:34). You have to get
God’s Word into your heart in abundance so that it has more reality to you than the things you see.
In other words, if you’re sick, you need to come to a place where the Word of God has so much reality
to you that the symptoms in your body count for nothing. That’s what Abraham did. He was fully
persuaded that God was able and mighty to keep His Word (Romans 4:21). It didn’t matter to him that he
was 100 years old and that the time for Sarah to bear children had passed. He didn’t look at that. He was
fully persuaded that the Word of God was true.
You have to put the Word of God in your heart until the reality of your healing has more power and validity to you than the symptoms of sickness coming on your body. That revelation will only come from attending to God’s Word keeping yourself in the Word of God and putting it in your heart in abundance.
You can come to the place where the Word of God has more authority than what you can see or feel. If you see or feel something that is opposite from the Word, you’ll not be moved by it because you are moved only by God’s Word.
