Winding Down or Fired Up?
by Kenneth Copeland
Some years ago, I was listening to Gloria preach on healing and I heard something that I’m certain has added years to my life. I’ll never forget it. She was teaching on Psalm 91 and she’d just read verse 16: “With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.”
I immediately turned to Genesis 6:3, where God said, “His days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” Suddenly, The LORD spoke up on the inside of me. That’s just as much My WORD as by His stripes ye were healed! He said.
Although that might sound like an obvious statement, at the time it was exactly what I needed to hear. In the previous months, I’d let the devil sneak up on me with some lies about my age. Without even realizing it, I’d let my faith for long life begin to slip. I’d confessed for years what Psalm 103:5 says about God renewing my youth as the eagle’s, but something had changed.
I’d begun to wind down. Having reached my 70th birthday, I’d gotten to the age where my ancestors declined physically, and I’d let the same thing begin to happen to me. But, praise God, I woke up to what was going on. I got a fresh revelation of the fact that the length of my life isn’t defined by my family history. It’s defined by the written WORD of God, and it says “[man’s] days shall be an hundred and twenty years” (Genesis 6:3).
Since that day in Gloria’s Healing School, The LORD has talked to me a lot about this. He’s commanded me to quit yielding to the natural DNA I inherited from my physical ancestors and release by faith the DNA in my born-again spirit—which is the very DNA of God.
I’ve obeyed that command and my body has come in line.
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