Victorious Christian Living
by Kenneth Copeland
While ministering in the Far East in 2007, Gloria and I met an extremely successful pastor and businessman from unusually humble beginnings. This man had started out peddling toilet paper from a bicycle truck for a living.
Now in most Western economies, that does not sound like a career with much of a future. But where this man was born and raised, you earned a living doing whatever your father did. He did what his father did, who did what his father did, and so on.
“That’s what I did, and what I had planned to do the rest of my life,” he told us, pointing to one of the several trikes with carrier boxes his family had used to transport and sell goods. “That’s what I thought even after I found out about Jesus and made Him Lord of my life. I was satisfied, from what I’d been told, that if you made Jesus the Lord of your life, then you’d get poorer the rest of your life.”
Then something happened. He found out about the Word of Faith. He got hold of our books and tapes, and some books by Kenneth E. Hagin, and began to learn who he really was in Christ Jesus. He found out about the privileges and rights available to him as a joint heir with Christ.
We rejoiced with him as he showed us a picture of the latest of several new homes. Today, he owns several businesses and is an overseer—or bishop—to an unknown number of churches representing more than a million people.
By every definition, he has become a prosperous man—one who has the ability to use the power of God to meet any need: spirit, soul or body. To prosper means “to be able to meet any need that exists in humanity with the power of God, and meet it to overflowing abundance.”
This is not an American doctrine. It is God’s goodness at work. It is a law that works the same for anyone, anytime. It is THE BLESSING in action.
This powerful man of God learned to live through Christ. V
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