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living within you (John 17:23; 1 Corinthians 6:19). All the healing power you could ever need is inside you right now. It's there, and you can connect with it anytime…by faith! Speak Life Words "But that's the problem," you might say. "I don't have any faith." Yes, you do! According to Romans 12:3, God has given to every believer the measure of faith. "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8). God gave you His own faith as a gift at the moment of your salvation! That faith is what enabled you to believe in Jesus and be born again, and it's still in you. It's there to enable you to take hold of everything God has provided for you by His grace. You can use that faith to receive healing the same way you received the new birth—by believing with your heart and confessing with your mouth: "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Romans 10:10). To get born again you believed and said what God's WORD says about Jesus as LORD and Savior. To receive healing, you believe and say what God's WORD says about healing. What does God's WORD have to do with your healing? Everything! Jesus said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63). God's words are life words! Just as they brought life to your spirit when you were born again, they also minister life to your physical body. The Bible confi rms it time and again in verses like these: "He [God] sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions" (Psalm 107:20). "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that fi nd them, and health [medicine] to all their fl esh" (Proverbs 4:20–22). We also see throughout the Bible that 6 : B V O V told them the Anointing of God was on Him, yet as Mark 6:5 says, "He was not able to do even one work of power there, except that He laid His hands on a few sickly people [and] cured them" (Amplifi ed Bible, Classic Edition). Notice that doesn't say Jesus would not do any works of power. It said He could not. Why couldn't He? Because of the people's unbelief (verse 6). "But Brother Copeland, I thought Jesus could do anything." Not without faith He can't. Faith is what enables us to receive from God. It's the spiritual force that brings into manifestation in our lives whatever we need from Him— whether it's healing, prosperity or something else. Faith is the great connector! Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the assurance (the confi rmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]" (AMPC). "NOW FAITH" is what Willie Phelps had. That's why his statement thrills me so. It's a great illustration of how faith talks. Faith doesn't say, "I hope God heals me one of these days." Faith says, "Healing is mine today!" "Brother Copeland, that would be easy for me to say if Jesus was here with me like He was with the people in Nazareth. But I don't have that kind of access to God's power." Yes, you do. All of us do, if we're born-again, Spirit-fi lled believers. I'll never forget what The LORD said to me about this some years ago. I was in a situation where we needed healing, and a lot of other things, and I was crying out to God. Remembering a phrase I'd heard in an old Pentecostal hymn, I prayed, "LORD, send the power just now!" Suddenly, on the inside of me I heard Him say, Where am I going to get it? Puzzled, I said, "Sir?" Where am I going to get it? He repeated. I can't look up to somebody and say, "Kenneth needs more power." I'm in you right now, and I'm all the power you could ever need! Think about this: Acts 10:38 says, "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil." And now, as a believer, you have that same Anointed Jesus and the Holy Spirit B V O V : 6 St. Louis Victory Campaign Oct. 26-28 | St. Louis, Mo. Omaha Victory Campaign Nov. 9-11 | Omaha, Neb. FlashPoint LIVE Oct. 5-6 | Brooklyn Park, Minn. Nov. 30-Dec.1 | Pasadena, Calif. Schedule is subject to change without notice. For updated event information visit: KCM.ORG/EVENTS events 2023 Join us!

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