timeless teaching
originally published December 2000
Before the Foundation of the World—Part 1
Find Your Wealthy Place in God
by Kenneth Copeland
“He loves that child so much, he’d give her the world.” We’ve often heard that expression used to describe the great love of a father for a child. We know no man could actually do that. It’s just a word picture to express the depth of a father’s love.
What I want you to think about is that God, too, is a “family man.” Like any father, God’s desire has always been to give His children the world.
And long before any of us were ever born, that’s just what He did.
“For since the beginning of the world,” Isaiah 64:4 tells us, “men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.”
When God decided He wanted a family, He did what parents do. He started making plans. He started preparing. He looked around heaven, and heaven was a nice place, but somehow it just wasn’t enough. God wanted something new for His family. So, He created the universe.
The Genesis account of Creation tells us that as God carried out His plan, He took time to examine what He had done. And what He saw, He liked. He called it “good.”
It was all so good, in fact, that by the time He was finished, God had made every man and woman who would ever be born into this world wealthy beyond their wildest dreams and imaginations.
Imagine tending to a garden that has gold lying around on the ground. That’s how the Bible describes the Garden of Eden. I would call that wealthy.
What the Church has not completely grasped is that making man wealthy beyond his wildest dreams has been God’s intention all along. Since the beginning of time, God has fully intended for every person to spend all of eternity exploring the abundance of possessions and inheritance He had prepared for them before the world ever began. He has fully intended for every man and woman to prosper in every way possible. That was His plan under the Old Covenant.
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