BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Talk about straightforward! That’s so plain we’ve had to have help to misunderstand it. Jesus didn’t say, like religious tradition does, that you just never know what God is going to do. He said that God does for you according to your faith. “Have faith in God” (verse 22), He said. (Or as it can also be translated, Have the faith of God, or Have the God kind of faith.) “Speak to the situations in your life that don’t line up with God’s WORD, just as I spoke to the fig tree, believing what you say will come to pass, and you’ll get the same results I did.” “But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “surely we can’t do what Jesus did. He’s the Son of God.” Yes, He is, but when He was on the Earth, He didn’t operate as the Son of God. He operated as a man. That’s why He didn’t do any miracles until He was 30 years old. He couldn’t. He had to be baptized in the Holy Spirit with the anointing for service, just as we do, before He could do God’s supernatural works. Jesus never did anything in His earthly ministry that is not available to us, as believers, today! He told us so Himself. In John 14:12, He said, “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” You see, although Jesus will always be the Firstborn Son of God, as believers, we’re sons of God too. Just as He was born of the seed of The WORD, we’re born of the seed of The WORD. In our spirits, we’re His exact duplicates. We’re spirit beings, created in the God class. Unbelievers, although they haven’t been born again in Jesus’ image, are spirit beings too. That’s the reason when Jesus explained the law of faith, He said it will work for “whosoever.” Faith is a spiritual law and it applies to every spirit being. “Whosoever shall say…[and] believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith” (Mark 11:23). Set a Watch Over Your Mouth Let me repeat, this is a spiritual law. It’s always operating. No matter who you are, there is no way to get around it: What you have today is what you said yesterday. As Jesus said in Luke 6:45, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” We live in a word-created, word-upheld environment. God used faith-filled words to bring everything in this world into existence, and now we are using our words to create our world too. That’s been His plan since the beginning. He did not give us words primarily for communication. He gave us words to release power, and they’re always having an effect. The Bible confirms it time and again: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs 18:21). So, our words are serious business. As Jesus said, “Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment” (Matthew 12:36). Jesus wasn’t saying we should never laugh and joke around. We, as believers, ought to be laughing and joyful all the time. We just need to realize that words spoken in unbelief are no joke. They are “evil” (Hebrews 3:12), or idle, because they don’t line up with The WORD of God. 6 : BVOV

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