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They said, “Daddy, the doctors are concerned about you. You don’t need to be preaching right now.” But he insisted. He spent all of Saturday night praising The LORD and shouting the victory. When he went to church Sunday morning he was asked to say a word and he did. He preached…and preached…and preached! Then he went home and just laid back and went to heaven. Dad Clark departed in style. He preached his way to glory at 109 years old! What was his secret? He put The WORD of God first place in his life. He meditated on it, believed it and obeyed it. He sought God’s wisdom and lived according to it, not just spiritually but physically. In other words, when it came to staying healthy Dad Clark did his part where natural things were concerned. He ate right and exercised. He did what was right for his body. If you and I are going to live out the full number of our days we’ll have to do the same. We can’t just sit around, eat anything our flesh desires, live sloppy, get fat and believe we’re going to live 120 years. It won’t happen. So make a quality decision right now to renew your mind and think scripturally about food. Don’t get fooled by all the dumb stuff worldly people are saying about it. They don’t know anything. They’ve been coming up with ways to lose weight for years and their ways don’t work. That’s why so many people end up losing the same 20 pounds over and over. The world doesn’t know how to fix the problem. But God does! So instead of trying to get healthy by following the latest fad, start praying and believe God for wisdom. He’ll bring the right information across your path. He’s done it for me many times. In fact, He did it just recently. I was believing Him for wisdom about a physical issue and while Gloria and I were visiting over a cup of tea one day something on television caught my eye. We weren’t even watching TV at the time! The picture was on but the volume was turned down. I happened to glance at the screen and saw a book being advertised. The LORD said to me, Buy that book before the sun goes down! I did and, sure enough, it provided exactly the information I’d been asking The LORD to give me. The Book You Need Most “I want to read that book, too!” you might say. “Will you tell me the name of it?” No, because the book you need most is the one God has already given you—His written WORD. If you’ll use that Book to build up your faith then you can pray like I did and hear from The LORD yourself. “But Brother Copeland, the Bible is a big Book. What part of it should I read?” Well, everything in it is good so you ought to read all of it. But to build your faith for a long, healthy life, you’ll especially want to focus on scriptures about healing. Then, when the devil comes after you with sickness or disease, you’ll be ready to resist him with The WORD and put him on the run. That’s something a lot of believers can’t do because they have unanswered questions where healing is concerned. They’ve been taught, for instance, that sometimes God heals and sometimes He doesn’t. So when they look to Him for healing they aren’t sure what’s going to happen. They have the attitude that you just never know what God is going to do. I actually heard a news commentator say those words on television one time. He was talking about how current events might unfold and he said, “You know, I guess this will happen if it’s the will of God. But who in the world ever knows what the will of God is?” I hollered back at him and said, “I do!” God didn’t will one thing and write another. His will is in His WORD. Since faith begins where the will of God is known, the first thing you need to find out about healing is what He said about it in the Bible. Is healing His will or not? You can see the answer to that question in Luke 5. It tells about a time in the ministry of Jesus when He was approached by a man described as “full of leprosy.” That means he wasn’t just suffering from the beginning stages of the disease, he was eaten up with it. Lepers were supposed to keep their distance from people. They were considered untouchable in those days. But this man not only came within arm’s length of Jesus, he “fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him” (verses 12-13). ******continues on next page***** ****ADVERTISEMENT**** Download MP3 Healing-It Is Always God's Will by Kenneth +++++++++++++++ Set Your Faith for Renewed Youth Your anointing develops with age...so it's time to set your faith to live a long, healthy, strong life! Now get Brother Copeland's entire teaching on this topic and more in the 2014 Living Victory Las Vegas meeting series. 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