Kenneth Copeland Ministries has been publishing the Believer’s Voice of Victory magazine for more than 40 years. Receive your positive, faith-filled magazine FREE each month, subscribe today at www.freevictory.com.
Issue link: http://magazine.kcm.org/i/1463174
Look at your hand right now and consider the kind of intellect it would take to measure the heavens with it. That’s the kind of Genius you have living on the inside of you! You have within you Someone who can determine the weight of all the oceans of the world by weighing a single drop of water. There might be a supercomputer somewhere today that could make that calculation, but could a supercomputer calculate the weight of a piece of dust that hadn’t yet been created and use it to determine the weight of the mountains? No! Even the super-est computer couldn’t do that. But the Spirit of God did. He planned out and created this planet with such precision that it remains perfectly stable, even while sailing through the universe at 10,000 miles an hour in one direction and spinning a thousand miles an hour in another. He balanced this earth so perfectly that human beings can level a mountain in one place and fill in a valley somewhere else, set off atomic explosions, and do all kinds of other things—yet the earth stays on course, steady as can be. What’s more, recently scientists have begun to realize, based on information provided by the telescopes we have now, that the entire universe was set up so that Earth could exist and support life. What kind of value does that put on you and me, that God did all this for us so that we’d have a place to live? What kind of value does it put on us that when we messed up, God sent Jesus to this planet to redeem us and then sent His own Holy Spirit, the Master Designer of it all, to live in us? Think about that! The Spirit of God who planned out the universe is on the inside of you! He’s the One planning your life. You think He can handle your car payment? You think He can figure out how to help you and me do the works Jesus said we would do? Certainly He can. We just haven’t been God-inside minded enough to give Him full opportunity. We’ve been too naturally minded. We’ve been more occupied with looking at what’s going on around us, on the outside, than we have with looking on the inside. It’s what’s on the inside of us that makes all the difference! “Behold, the kingdom of God is within you,” Jesus said (Luke 17:21). The Holy Spirit is IN you. He’s not way off somewhere in heaven. He. Is. In. YOU! Our lack of awareness of this is what’s caused us to say silly stuff like, “Well, I prayed. But I felt like my prayers didn’t get any higher than the ceiling.” They don’t need to get any higher than the top of our heads! The God to whom we’re praying is inside us. Please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not making fun of anyone. I wasn’t very God-inside minded either when I was first born again and filled with the Holy Spirit. A scriptural illiterate, I’d pray just before taking off in my airplane (I was a full-time pilot back then), “Oh, Jesus, be with me on this flight today! Be with me!” One day as I was saying that I heard the voice of The LORD on the inside of me. 'Kenneth, I said I would never leave you nor forsake you.' At the time, that was a major revelation to me—and I’ve been purposely working to develop my awareness of His indwelling presence ever since. I’m still working on it today. By training myself in it over the years I’ve made progress, but I’m far from satisfied yet. When I look in the Scriptures at how conscious Jesus was that He was in the Father and the Father in Him during His time on earth, I can see I still have a way to go. You Shall Receive Power “But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “Jesus didn’t have to work to develop God-inside mindedness like we do. He’s the Son of God.” Yes, He is. But He laid aside His powers of divinity when “He became like men and was born a human being” (Philippians 2:7, "AMPC"). He wasn’t born into the earth knowing everything He needed to know, any more than you and I were. He had to grow in wisdom (Luke 2:52). He had to study and learn The WORD. Granted, by the time He was 12 years old He knew more about The WORD than most full-grown Bible scholars, but that wasn’t because He’s the Son of God. It was because He was diligent in His pursuit of The WORD. He totally immersed Himself in it. He lived it 24/7 to the point where, even before He stepped into ministry, He answered the devil’s temptation by saying, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). BVOV : 29