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Gloria Copeland — Possessing The Mercy Of God Part 2
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Many do not understand that they are a triune being—
spirit, soul and body. They have been so conscious of the
natural world they have assumed their physical bodies are
their true identity, but not so. Our physical bodies are just
our earth suits. My coat would be a good illustration of
this. I am the life of my coat. When I move, the coat moves.
If I were to die, it would be like taking my coat off because
dying is simply the laying aside of my natural body.
What I am saying is that we have majored in the minor,
which is the natural realm. We get disturbed over what we
are going to wear, what we are going to eat and what is
going to happen to us. Even preachers have emphasized
the minors. They have spent a lot of time preaching to
women about what they wear. The Bible says in 1 Peter
3:3-4 that a meek and quiet spirit is important and not the
plaiting of hair or the wearing of gold or apparel.
How women dress is a minor point. God is really talking
about the spiritual attitude of a woman and whether or
not she is trying to call attention to herself through her
dress. A woman who has a meek and quiet spirit will come
to church to worship God and to help others. She will not
come to try and show off her wardrobe.
It is true that some women are dressing to get attention
out of pride, but if you major in the spirit, you will settle
this matter with God and begin to dress to please Him.
Likewise, if you will do the same with mercy and major
in it, then the minor of God’s wrath will take care of itself.
In short, if you will concentrate on the quality of life your
spirit is living, you will have no trouble with your body.
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — Possessing The Mercy Of God Part 1
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In most of the religious world, we have majored in the minors
and minored in the majors. We have majored in God’s anger and
minored in His mercy. But Psalm 30:5 says God’s anger “is but for a
moment,” (The Amplified Bible) and Psalm 136 says that “God’s
mercy endures forever.”
There are other areas where we have gotten the wrong perspective,
too. In majoring on the body and minoring on the spirit,
we have placed the wrong emphasis on the physical realm.
The truth is that the existence of the spirit realm is as real
as the existence of the natural realm. When we were born
again, we were born in the spirit. We have tried to get the
things of God to go from the outside in, instead of from the
inside out. We need to turn inside and let what was born
in the spirit flow outward.
Healing is a good example of this. It comes from inside
the spirit man out into the body. We have wanted to have
healing rubbed on us like an ointment. We have tried to
get a treatment by getting into the prayer line expecting to
receive healing the way we put on a salve.
Many people have a hard time receiving from God because
they approach healing this way. They have had little
understanding of the difference between the physical and
the spiritual realm. They have failed to understand what
Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:6: “That which is born
of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is
spirit.” The flesh represents the natural, or physical realm
that is perceived by the five physical senses. By contrast,
the spirit realm is more real than what we see, hear, feel
and taste.
We must understand that God, a Spirit, created the
natural realm. This makes the spirit world, the realm of the
Creator, the authority over the natural. Therefore, it would
be foolish to consider that the creation is more powerful
than the Creator.
When you confessed Jesus as Lord, your spirit was
born again. Ephesians 4:24 says you were created in
righteousness and true holiness. You are made in the image
of God. You are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in a
body. To worship God, you must enter the spiritual realm.
Jesus said those who worship Him must worship Him “in
spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — It’s Up To You
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Of course, if you want to sow into the
kingdom of God you must first be born again.
You do that simply by making Jesus the Lord
of your life.
You can read the Bible all day, and it won’t
make sense to you if you haven’t taken that
first step. The great kingdom truths it contains
will be hidden from you. Why? Because, as
Jesus said, “Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
A person who hasn’t been born again
simply cannot understand the way God
thinks. The ways of His kingdom are beyond
his grasp because he is in darkness.
A person who has been born again,
however, is translated into God’s kingdom.
He immediately has the ability to know and
walk in God’s ways. How much he does from
then on is up to him. The more he seeks after
God and His way of doing and being right,
the more of His power and dominion he’ll
enjoy. The more he renews his mind to God’s
Word—which is His way of thinking—and
changes his life in obedience to that Word,
the more he’ll see the kingdom of heaven
manifest in his life and the lives of those
around him.
The wonderful thing about the kingdom of
God is that you don’t have to be rich or smart
or talented to walk in it. Anyone can do it. All
you have to do is find out what God says and
act on it. When you do, blessings—heavenly
breakthroughs—will begin to happen.
So I want to encourage you to start
today investing more of yourself—your
time, thought and energy—into seeking the
kingdom of God. Determine in your heart to
change some areas in your life. Dig into the
Word more deeply and find out what God
says about those areas. Then start acting like
He does instead of like the world.
Heighten your awareness of the kingdom
of God. Become more and more kingdom-of-
God minded. Then get ready for the blessings
of heaven—the lavish, liberal-to-excess,
extravagant and over-abounding favors of the
kingdom of God—to break through on you!
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — Take Off The Limits Part 2
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But with God all things are possible! There
are no limitations in the kingdom of God! It
knows no impossibilities! So what we need
to do is obey the instructions Jesus gave in
Matthew 6:
Take no thought for your life, what
ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink;
nor yet for your body, what ye shall
put on…. (For after all these things
do the Gentiles seek:) for your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye
have need of all these things. But
seek ye first the kingdom of God,
and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you
(verses 25, 32-33).
The Amplified Bible clarifies that last
verse even more. It says, “seek (aim at and
strive after) first of all His kingdom and His
righteousness (His way of doing and being
right).” In other words, if we want to operate
in the dominion of God, we have to find out
His way of doing things and then do things
His way. We’ll have to change the way we
think. We’ll have to start thinking and acting
like He does instead of thinking and acting
like the world.
We’ll have to seek Him and His principles,
put our dependence first and foremost on
Him, and then He’ll see to it that our natural
needs are met.
You see, the principles of the kingdom of
God always work. God has spoken and set
them into motion by His Word. They will
work for anyone who will put them to work.
For example, one of those principles, the
primary one, is the law of sowing and reaping.
Galatians 6:7-8 states that law very simply:
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.”
Actually, the law of sowing and reaping
works in both the kingdom of God and the
kingdom of this world. If you sow into the
kingdom of darkness, you reap the harvest
of that kingdom––death in all its forms.
If you invest your time and money in the
concerns of the world, you’ll end up on drugs,
pornography and alcohol. You’ll end up sick
and unhappy.
On the other hand, if you sow to the
kingdom of God, you’ll reap the harvest of
that kingdom––abundant life in all its forms.
As Romans 8:6 says, “For to be carnally
minded [to think like the world thinks] is
death; but to be spiritually minded [to think
like God thinks] is life and peace.”
Gloria Copeland
Gloria Copeland — Take Off The Limits Part 1
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Jesus didn’t intend for those breakthroughs
to stop at the end of His earthly ministry,
either. He commissioned His disciples to
continue His ministry. He told us to go about
healing the sick and bringing other heavenly
breakthroughs, saying, “The kingdom of
God has come close to you” (Luke 10:9, The
Amplified Bible).
Jesus commanded us to:
Go ye into all the world, and preach
the gospel [the good news that the
kingdom of God is here] to every
creature. He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved; but he that
believeth not shall be damned. And
these signs [or heavenly breakthroughs]
shall follow them that believe; In
my name shall they cast out devils;
they shall speak with new tongues;
they shall take up serpents; and if
they drink any deadly thing, it shall
not hurt them; they shall lay hands
on the sick, and they shall recover
(Mark 16:15-18).
It’s the responsibility of the Church to
manifest the kingdom of God in this natural
realm. It’s our job to exercise the dominion of
that kingdom, and demonstrate it so others
can experience its reality and become citizens
of God’s kingdom themselves!
Until now, the Church hasn’t been getting
that job done nearly as well as it should. Why
is that? Primarily, it’s because most believers
have become so busy with the natural affairs
of life, they haven’t had time to learn much
about how to operate in the kingdom of God.
They’re so busy seeking the things of this
world—food, clothes, houses, cars, money to
pay their bills—they don’t even give much
thought to the things of God’s kingdom.
Actually, that’s not very smart. Why should
we invest ourselves so much in this natural
world? Its systems are limited. When we face
impossible situations, this natural world has no
answer for us. It can’t help us with an incurable
disease or an insoluble financial crisis.
Gloria Copeland
