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Kenneth Copeland — More Than You can Dream
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These days, when I say the Word of God can heal your body, pay off your debts and bring you victory in every area of your life, not everyone believes me. Most wouldn’t admit it outright, but it’s true, nonetheless.
They don’t intentionally doubt the Word, of course. They’re just so overwhelmed by the problems in their own lives, they’re not sure anything (natural or supernatural) can help.
When they see Gloria and me so blessed and prosperous, they think, Sure, it’s easy for you to live by faith. You have a great life. But what can God do with a life as messed up as mine?
If you ever struggle with that question, let me tell you. God can do for you exceeding After more than 25 years of ministry, I can say that, not only because it’s the Word of God, but also because it’s a living reality for me.
You see, I wasn’t always blessed. When I first learned about faith, I was a failure looking for somewhere to happen. I wasn’t just scraping the bottom of the barrel, I was underneath with the barrel on top of me! Then one day I was reading Deuteronomy 28 and I saw all the blessings God’s people are supposed to have in their lives.
I got mad. Where are all these blessings that are supposed to belong to me? I thought. As far as I could see, I didn’t have even one of them. Yet the Bible clearly said:
All these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt
hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. (I wasn’t blessed anyplace!)
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body…. (My children kept getting sick so they weren’t very blessed, either.)
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. (I wasn’t.)
The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee (Deuteronomy 28:2-4, 6-8).
I didn’t have any land. I didn’t have any storehouse. In fact, I’d heard that God wouldn’t bless you with a storehouse at all because He didn’t want you to have anything.
And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers to give thee. The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow (verses 11-12).
I don’t mind telling you, that looked good to me. All I’d ever known how to do was borrow. I had depended on borrowed money all my adult life.
