Here's a portion of a prophecy given by Kenneth Copeland. This reminds us why it's so important to keep our eyes on what God says, regardless of circumstances. Thus, God says, "Don't pay attention to or make any plans based on what the media says or what [politicians] says. Stand on My Word in John 16. Pay attention to Me...I already have THE PLAN for you, and it's very good. Follow it. It will not only get you through, it will place you in a high place---a rich place---a strong place of victory. Discipline yourself and be diligent to listen to Me...My system is stronger than ever. My Kingdom is flourishing, and THE BLESSING is the place to be. Keep your eyes on My Word. It will guide you and I will perform it. Love My people---You'll be able to reach out to untold numbers of suffering people with the Good News of the Gospel."
God prophesied through Hosea in Hosea 4:16 saying, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou has rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."
God didn't say that His people were destroyed because the devil is so great or because he's so big and powerful there's nothing you can do about it. No! God didn't say that. His Word says that, "My people are destroyed for LACK OF KNOWLEDGE."
You cannot believe anything further than YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE. 2Peter 1:2-3 says, "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord." It's important to recognize that, "It's through knowledge of God that grace and peace are multiplied" to you. So many people have no peace-grace and peace aren't multiplied to them, because they don't have the knowledge of God---they don't know the promises of God or realize God has made promises in His Word that we can stake our lives on.
Verse 3 goes on, "According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and Godliness through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature."
We can be "PARTAKERS of the DIVINE NATURE OF GOD." Peter said,in the above scripture, "Hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and Godliness." If God has given them, then THEY ALREADY BELONG TO US---THEY ARE OURS, but quite often, we have let the devil cheat us out of those things, which God intended us to have.
1John 5:18 says, "He that is born of God keepeth himself." We keep ourselves by knowing that you cannot use faith any further than the KNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE. The single most reason tragedy happens to Christians, is they lack the knowledge of the Word God has spoken to us---a knowledge of what God has wrought in Christ Jesus and what our position is in Christ. They lack knowledge of what their authority is in the earth as children of God.
Proverbs 2:1-6 says, "God says the Lord gives wisdom and out of His mouth comes wisdom and understanding." In other words, the words that come from God's mouth are the wisdom of God and His understanding.
Proverbs 3:1-2 says, "My son, forget not My Law but let thine heart keep My commandments: for length of days and long life and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man."
Through knowing what God's Word says WE CAN HAVE FAVOR in the SIGHT OF GOD and MAN. Proverbs 3:5-8,13 continue, "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy naval and marrow to thy bones." God's Word is designed to give us knowledge, wisdom and favor with both God and man. Verse 13 goes on, "Happy is the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour."
When Hosea prophesied that, "God's people are destroyed for lack of knowledge," he was not filling in pages of the Bible. He was speaking a truth that will absolutely transform your thinking and cause you to enter into the blessings God has prepared for you. God's Word is filled with great promises, but UNLESS WE KNOW THEM and BECOME PARTAKERS, WE WILL NEVER RECEIVE THEM. Knowledge of God's Word will be, "Keeping and garrisoning our property, our possessions and that which God has given us as an inheritance in the earth." That makes US the ones who are responsible for keeping it. We have a responsibility to possess the Promises and to enforce satan's defeat.
David said in Psalm 17:4 that, "I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer." How did he do that? By the "Word of his lips." In other words, David spoke what God spoke. Read what Jesus said in Mark 11:24. He admonished us to not pray the circumstances or the problems, but PRAY YOUR REQUEST, saying, "Whatsoever things you desire." "What you desire" is YOUR REQUEST. What you should pray for IS THE ANSWER and not THE PROBLEM. The Church has missed out in this area and has opened the door for satan to con God's people into PRAYING the PROBLEM, instead of PRAYING the ANSWER.
The more you pray the problem, the greater the problem will become. The Principle of Mark 11:23 is geared for you to speak that which you desire. Jesus said, "Whosoever shall say to the mountain." WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY to the mountain (the mountain of finances, sickness, divorce, etc)? SPEAK YOUR DESIRE. Jesus said, "Whosoever believes and doubts not in his heart (not his head) but believes those things which he sayeth shall come to pass-he shall have whatsoever he SAYS." Because of that faith principle, you will have what you SAY. If you pray the problem, then you're going to receive the problem. If you pray the ANSWER, then you will RECEIVE THE ANSWER.
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