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Enough for Every Good Work by Gloria Copeland When Ken and I were first learning to walk in faith for prosperity, more than 45 years ago, we didn’t know very much of God’s Word yet. We received our revelation piece by piece. Every time we’d learn something new, we’d put it into practice. Actually, it’s much easier for us now to walk in prosperity than it was back then. Today, we have to believe for millions of dollars just to pay our TV bills. But that’s not nearly as challenging as it was to believe God back then for food on the table. During those days I often had to pray in the spirit just to pay my way out at the grocery store. That was the hardest time of all because we were just learning. You have to grow in these things. If you’re just now hearing that God wants you to prosper, you probably won’t be able to get a million dollars in cash by this time next week. Why? Because your faith isn’t up to that yet. What you need to do is start right where you are. Start believing God for rent money. Start believing God to buy groceries. Start believing and then increase. That’s what we did. We just kept growing. We kept listening to God and walking in the faith that we had, and it grew bigger. And we kept tithing and giving! What’s important is to start now. Don’t wait until next month. If you want a change, make a change. Start believing God for the things you need today. Start thanking Him for them. Tell the devil you’re out from under his curse. Grab hold of the Word of God and don’t let go. If you’ll do that and stay with it, and continue to do what God tells you, you’ll eventually have a surplus of prosperity so that not only can you pay your bills, but you can also have the capacity to give into every good work! Speak the Word: God makes all grace abound toward me. I always have all sufficiency in all things. I abound to every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8 V ************************************* *****continued from p. 6***** That is a huge command! Everything Jesus said about faith hangs on it because “faith...worketh by love” (Galatians 5:6), and forgiveness is an essential expression of love. Without forgiveness, faith won’t function. It just sits there like a car with a dead battery, going nowhere. Many Christians haven’t understood this. They’ve had the idea that forgiveness is optional. “You just don’t know what that person did to me!” they’ll say. “I’ve been trying to forgive them for years but I haven’t been able to do it. I guess I just need a little more time.” Such statements directly contradict what Jesus said. He didn’t tell us to take years to forgive people. He commanded us to forgive them right now, immediately, while we’re praying. He told us to do it before we say, “Amen!” Not because He’s hardheaded but because our faith (and therefore, the answer to our prayer) depends on it. The Power That Forgives Is the Power That Heals If you want to see how vital forgiveness actually is, think about the paralyzed man in the New Testament whose four friends brought him to Jesus for healing. You probably remember his story. His friends couldn’t get into the house where Jesus was preaching because there were too many people in it. So they ripped off part of the roof, put him on a mat, and lowered him down into the meeting. Sure enough, the plan worked and Jesus ministered to him. But He didn’t start by addressing the paralysis. Instead, He said, “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee” (Mark 2:5). That didn’t go over very well, especially with the religious crowd. They thought, This is blasphemy. Only God can forgive sins! "And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house. And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all" (Mark 2:8-12). 8 : BVOV