A Long, Satisfying Life!
by Kenneth Copeland
Heaven is a wonderful place. If you’re a believer, I’m sure you’re looking forward to going there someday. I’m also fairly sure you’d rather not get there sooner than you should.
You don’t want to leave this earth earlier than God intended. You want to stay here long enough to do everything He planned and be able to say before you take off for heaven, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).
Otherwise, you’ll miss out on things God has in store for you here. Plus, the Church will miss out on the fullness of THE BLESSING you are divinely called to be.
This happens in the Church all too often. The LORD told me so some years ago. I was reading in Genesis 6:3, where He said man’s “days shall be an hundred and twenty years,” and I heard Him say on the inside of me, 'Kenneth, that’s just as much My WORD as "By My stripes ye were healed."'
Pointing out to me how over the years His Anointing on me has continued to increase, He said, 'There are 110-year, 115-year and 120-year-old anointings I don’t have in the earth—and I need them!' Then He asked if I would agree to stay the full 120 years.
“I’ll do it, Sir!” I said and accepted the mission.
Some might call it a “mission impossible,” and it would be if I were doing it on my own. But I’m not. I’m doing it by faith in God and with Him all things are possible. So 120 years, here I come!
I don’t care how many changes I have to make in my diet. I don’t care how many miles I have to run. I’m doing this for my Commander in Chief. He needs me, and I’m not going to back down.
“But Brother Copeland, doesn’t Psalm 90 say we’re only promised 70 or 80 years?”
No, it says that’s how long the Israelites lived during the 40 years they wandered in the wilderness. Psalm 90 is Moses’ prayer for them. Crying out to The LORD because their rebellion and unbelief were shortening their lives, he said, “All our days [out here in this wilderness…] pass away in Your wrath…we are doomed to die soon…. The days of our years are threescore years and ten (seventy years)—or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years)” (verses 9-10, "Amplified Bible, Classic Edition").
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