DONNA MARY: It has put me on a different path
of, um, expectations, what to believe for,
and taking the limits off of my believing.
(Singing) I know my God has made the way for me.
I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: God's Word is full of promises for your healing.
Today on the Believer's Voice of Victory, Kenneth Copeland
studies Psalm 91. See God's compassion at work
and learn where healing can be found. Now here's Kenneth.
KENNETH: Open your Bibles now to the 91st Psalm.
And we will watch compassion at work. There
are three different individual speakers in this Psalm. This
Psalm is prophetic, and we're living in its--we're living in
the light of it today. "He that dwelleth in the secret place of
the most High--" say, "Most--(Audience
Repeats)--high." It doesn't get any higher than that. "--shall
abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Here is the first
speaker, which, in this case, it's you, it's me. "I will say
of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God--" who is
love; "--in him will I trust." That first-person speaker,
that's the last word you and I say in this Psalm. And if you'll
notice this, it's the way it's written. And every time you read
it, you notice it's kind of written funny. Well, it's
written correctly; it's been read funny. (Laughter) Now, the
next speaker is Jesus. And since you said what you said, now He
has something to say to you. "Surely," Kenneth, "He," the
most High God, "shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover you," Kenneth,
"with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his
truth shall be your shield and buckler. You," son, "shall not
be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that
flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walks in
darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at
noonday. A thousand," Kenneth Copeland, "shall fall at your
side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not
come nigh you." (Audience Agrees) "Only with your eyes
shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked." I wrote
in my Bible, "Like a bad movie." (Laughter) Why? I'm in the
secret place. I'm seeing all this. I'm seeing all this
happen. I'm seeing a thousand, ten thousand, all of them coming
after me. Ha-ha. But I'm hidden away in the secret place of the
most High God. How did I get in there? I believed it with my
heart and said it with my mouth. (Audience Agrees) Hallelujah.
All of these different things here includes sickness and
diseases and all the curse. Now, notice this: "Only with your
eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because you," Kenneth, "made the Lord, which is my refuge--" This
is Jesus talking now. "You made the Lord, which is my refuge,
even the most High, your habitation." AUDIENCE: Amen.
KENNETH: Do you see that? He's saying to you, He's saying to
me, He's saying, "Kenneth, you'll only see this with your
eyes because you made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the
most High, your habitation, your refuge." And because of that,
"There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come
nigh your dwelling." AUDIENCE: Amen. Glory. KENNETH: "For he
shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all
your ways." Now, wait a minute. Don't jump and run from that.
"To keep you in all of your ways." What ways? All of the way
now from Verse 3 and all the way down, and all of this stuff, the
angels are the agents of the most High that have built the
blessing wall around you while all this stuff is coming after
you. (Audience "Amens") This is the soldier's psalm. And it's
not just--it's not just for the military, it's for every soldier
in the army of the Lord. AUDIENCE: Amen. Yes! KENNETH:
But it is directly effective in the military. AUDIENCE: Yes.
KENNETH: A very good friend of mine pastors up in Alaska, Keith
Kurber, full colonel, special forces. And I--he--we were--he
was being deployed, and Gloria and I were in Alaska ministering
up there. And so I laid hands on him and shared these things with
him. And I told him, I said, "Keith, teach this--" He was
taking over a high-casualty unit, a lot of--lot of
casualties, just--anyway... I said, "You make this just like
it was when those kids learn the orders of the day, basic
training. And somebody walks up and says, 'Number four,' you've
got to shout order number four, number five, number seven. If
they come up there and--where, if--you come up and say, 'Verse
8,' 'only with my eyes shall I see the reward of the wicked,'
where they quote it every day, quote it every day, quote it
every day." He said, "Kenneth, I'll do it." And he did. And, I
said, "Keith, now, when this deployment is up, I want to hear
from you." I got a phone call at 3:00 in the morning. (Laughter)
"Kenneth!" I recognized his voice. I said, "Tell me about
it, Colonel." He said, "I want you to know, we had zero
casualties!" (Cheers & Applause) Zero. Zero. AUDIENCE:
Hallelujah. KENNETH: Zero. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah! KENNETH:
Now, he called me again a few weeks later. He said, "I've got
a question for you." He said, "I got a report," and he said,
"They've gone back to taking casualties again." And he said,
"I want you to help me with that." He said, "They're not as
bad as they were, but I want you to help me with that." I said,
"Keith, that's obvious. The--whomever took command
didn't carry on." AUDIENCE: Yeah. KENNETH: "Now, the reason
it's not as much is because the troops carried on." AUDIENCE:
Yeah. KENNETH: "You've got people probably--probably, I
don't know this for sure because I don't know these people." But
I said, "You've probably got some non-coms that enforced it."
AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "Somebody in there is believing
it, and they're still doing it." But whoever--whomever took
command didn't demand it. It's got to be enforced. Well, see,
you don't have to wait. Glory to God. This is over your
household. (Audience Agrees) This is--hey! Glory to God.
Glory to God. Glory to God. "They'll bear you up in their
hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone." I prayed this
for the benefit of our partners yesterday morning because we
were talking about the Citation X and talking about the
Gulfstream V and all of that and--that we're believing for
and so forth. And I demonstrated this, that every time we sit
down in that airplane, every time, we pray this right here.
AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: Amen. "Father, we plead the
blood over this airplane together." See, we overcome him
by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony, or the
word of our confession. AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: "We
plead the blood over this airplane today for protection
against every evil spirit, every evil person, every evil thing.
Every evil, wicked plan of the devil is now stopped and
thwarted, praise God, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ministering spirits, lift us up, lest we dash our foot against a
stone, and keep us in all of our way according to the 91st Psalm.
And, Father, I pray you bless our partners beyond measure
today." AUDIENCE: Yes. KENNETH: Hallelujah. We pray it every
time. Gloria and I get in the car, we pray that prayer. Glory
to God. Amen. And from time to time, the Spirit of God will
pick up with you there, and He'll--you'll start praying in
another direction over here, or something else will come up.
I've had that happen, particularly in private prayer
time, you start praying in the Spirit down these lines, and,
man, it's just being led of the Spirit, praying for all saints
perseveringly. AUDIENCE: Yes, sir. KENNETH: "In the Spirit"
can be translated "praying perseveringly for all the
saints, being led of the Spirit." And you just start
praying that direction, and all kinds of wonderful things start
happening. Why? You're in the secret place. You're in there in
your secret place. Amen. The devil ain't got a clue what
you're talking about. AUDIENCE: That's right. KENNETH: Ha-ha-ha.
Glory to God. Hallelujah. There's healing this morning in
that secret place. (Audience "Amens") "Thou shalt tread upon
the lion and the adder the young lion: and the dragon shalt thou
trample--" Boy, I like that word, "stomp," "trample." Ha-ha.
"--underfoot." Ah, you and I spoke, got Jesus stirred up, and
He started ministering to us. AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: And
He's ministered to us all the way down through this 13th
verse, and all of a sudden, the Father speaks out, "Because--"
He's talking to Jesus. See, He's talking to Jesus. "Because he,"
because Kenneth, "set his love on me, therefore will I deliver
him: I'll set him on high, because he's known my name."
AUDIENCE: Whoo! KENNETH: "He shall call on me, and I will
answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him,
I will honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him
my salvation." (Cheers & Applause) I said it, Jesus said
it, and the Father said it. AUDIENCE: Hallelujah. Amen.
KENNETH: Now, why would the Father say that to Jesus instead
of saying it to me? Because He's your Lord and He is your Savior,
and He's the one that's going to carry it out. (Audience Agrees)
AUDIENCE: Amen. KENNETH: You're just standing there in the
secret place, saying, "Yes, amen." (Laughter) "Yes. Thank
You, Father. Thank You, Jesus. Oh, thank You, Jesus. Thank You,
Father. Thank You, Jesus. Go, ministering spirits." (Laughter)
"Get under my feet, Satan!" (Cheers) AUDIENCE: Thank You,
Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. KENNETH: Say it, "Get under my
feet, pain." (Audience Repeats) "You're a trespasser in my body.
This is a living sacrifice. Belongs to Jesus. He
bought it and paid for it. Get out, cancer!"
DONNA MARY: I'm Donna Mary, and I'm from Columbia,
Missouri. I have been legally blind in my left
eye since I was in second grade. I've worn glasses.
And then when I got older, I started wearing
contacts. But I only wore contacts in my left eye. I had
to turn completely around to see behind me when I was driving. I
couldn't see anything far away at all. And reading was--you
know, I always had to wear glasses. And so one service with
Gloria Copeland was the Healing School. And I had never been to
Healing School with her before. But I was sitting way in the
back in the congregation, and she said something about healing
of the eyes. And I had a thought, "Oh, my gosh, I never
thought of that." GLORIA: And the spirit of blindness, we
rebuke you. Eyes be opened! Eyes be healed! Cataracts, get off of
them in Jesus' name! (Cheers) Glory to God. DONNA MARY: And I
felt something tangibly touch my eye. And I didn't think a lot of
it except it was extremely tangible. I mean, I felt
something really touch my eye. For the rest of the day, I
didn't think much of it. But the next day was church, and I was
there, and I was looking around and in amazement how clear and
vibrant everything was, and the colors. And I was like, "What
has happened?" And I looked down at my Bible, and I closed my
other eye, and I could read perfectly. And I was like, "Oh,
no, my gosh, I've been healed." And I was so excited. Even to
this day I can still read the finest of print on my iPhone.
And I really enjoy just reading anything I can get ahold of
because I was--had many restrictions because of that eye
being blind. But now I can see. I was in Healing School a year
after this particular one, and I had been having pain in my--in
my back, not in my spine, but in my side for over a year. And I
told the Lord, "I know that this is possible, and I don't want to
go to a doctor to--I know healing, and I know Your Word,
and I'm going to take this healing from--from You today."
And I went down there. She laid her hands on me, and I've never
had that pain again. I spend every morning with Gloria
Copeland in Healing School. Healing is my passion. It's what
I'm passionate about. It has put me on a different path of
expectations, what to believe for. And taking the limits off
of my believing, seeking Him for more, for more healings, but,
you know, like anything's possible. I hear so many people
nowadays talk about how sick they are, how many medications
they're on. And it gives me an opportunity to say, "Did you
hear about I Peter 2:24?" And there's so much power in that.
There's enough power in that scripture to heal the entire
world. And just that one scripture, helping people say
that you can hold fast to your faith, don't quit, and don't
give up, even if you don't see the manifestation right away,
it's coming. Healing always comes, as Gloria would say,
and Jesus always comes to Healing School.
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