(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the Believer's Voice of
Victory. Start your new year in the power of
God's Word. Learn from Gloria Copeland and Pastor George
Pearsons today that it is God's will for you to prosper. You
have a covenant with God that is filled with promises.
GLORIA: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Believer's
Voice of Victory broadcast. Today, Pastor George
Pearsons is back with us, and he's loaded.
He's just got all kind of good notes for us.
GEORGE: Oh, man. GLORIA: God's will is prosperity. GEORGE:
Yeah, yeah. GLORIA: Now, if you're not interested in
prosperity, don't listen. GEORGE: That's right. GLORIA:
I've always enjoyed it myself. GEORGE: That's right. I have,
too, and it's been a blessing to me for a long, long time. I so
appreciate you asking me to be on the broadcast with you.
GLORIA: We love to have you. GEORGE: And it's the new year,
Gloria Copeland. Happy New Year! GLORIA: Happy New Year to you.
GEORGE: 2018, we are expecting-- GLORIA: Sounds like science
fiction. GEORGE: It does, doesn't it? We-- (Laughs) We
want--we want to--we want to be able to walk in the prosperity
of God this year like we have never walked in it before.
GLORIA: Hallelujah. We should. GEORGE: And, you know, Brother
Copeland has a word for this new year. And it came during last
year and he said, "2018, the year of Holy Ghost and fire."
GLORIA: Oh, I like that. GEORGE: 2018 is the year of Holy Ghost
and fire. And then--and then another portion of that word, he
said, "It's the big 18." GLORIA: Well. GEORGE: He said, "It's the
big 18, the nine gifts of the Spirit and the nine fruit of the
Spirit--" GLORIA: Wow. GEORGE: "--the big 18." So what a year
we have before us. GLORIA: That's pretty exciting. GEORGE:
Holy Ghost and fire. GLORIA: Ooh. GEORGE: Glory to God.
GLORIA: I want those written down. GEORGE: Yeah, I'll get
those for you. GLORIA: Okay. GEORGE: And then just before we
went on the air, before we go into the study that Gloria and I
have for you, she was reading from whatever notebooks, and I
wrote this down. And we haven't figured out yet who she got it
from, but we'll find it. We'll find out. GLORIA: It was from a
man in-- GEORGE: A man in Africa. GLORIA: --from Africa, a
man from Africa-- GEORGE: Now, this is good. GLORIA: It is.
GEORGE: My prosperity is tied to the kingdom of God and not to
the natural realm. That's good news. GLORIA: That is good. So
that market goes up. The market goes down. GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA:
But we are not tied to the market even if we have money
there. GEORGE: That's right. That's right. GLORIA: Because
our prosperity is based and tied to the spiritual realm and
supernatural realm. GEORGE: Yeah. It's connected to the
kingdom of heaven. And it's connected to the fact that we
are tithers and we're sowers. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
And the hundredfold return is not dependent upon the economy
and which direction it's going. GLORIA: You know when you read
the paper and you read all the reports and the stocks and all
that? GEORGE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. GLORIA: They forgot to consult
the realm that's in charge of everything-- GEORGE: That's
right. GLORIA: --which is God's kingdom. GEORGE: That's right.
It's the kingdom of God. GLORIA: That's where we count our
blessings. GEORGE: So, Gloria, here we are. This is our 301st
day of teaching on prosperity. GLORIA: George, we should know.
Well, you are the professor of prosperity. GEORGE: (Laughs)
GLORIA: We know that. 301 days. GEORGE: And I have studied under
the best for a long time. And let me tell you what this series
is going to be all about. GLORIA: That'll be so good.
GEORGE: We're going to be taking these two weeks together. Here's
what happened, Gloria. I was praying about, one day, knowing
that this series was coming, we were going to be taping
together. And there's so much to talk about concerning
prosperity. And I was saying, "Lord, what specifically do you
want us to talk about?" And I literally heard the witness of
the Spirit of God. I'm sitting in my office at home. He said,
"Go into your library." I have a--I have a closet which is a
very long closet. And it has nothing but books in it. It's my
library. And I went in there and He said, "Pull out Gloria's
original book on 'God's Will is Prosperity.'" GLORIA: It's used,
isn't it? GEORGE: That's--this is the book, Gloria, that you
wrote. You wrote a note to Terri and me in it. And I have kept
this original book. GLORIA: Well, bless your heart. GEORGE:
And the thing about this book that's so special to me is that
years ago you had some--you had an outside company designing the
cover for it. And they were sending you these comps for it.
And you didn't like any of them, so you came to me. And you said,
"George, see what you can do with it." So I came up with
this-- GLORIA: That's a good cover. GEORGE: --this cover, and
you said, "I like it. Let's go with it." So this is my
connection to this book-- GLORIA: Well, good. GEORGE: --is
the-- GLORIA: That's our book. GEORGE: That's our book. GLORIA:
Okay. GEORGE: That's exactly right. And so the Lord said,
though, "Go in and look at the book and check and see what the
publication date was." GLORIA: '67. GEORGE: And the publication
date was 1978. GLORIA: '78. GEORGE: Gloria, this is the 40th
anniversary-- GLORIA: Is that right? GEORGE: --of "God's Will
is Prosperity." GLORIA: Wow. GEORGE: And this is what He had
me do. He said to go ahead, and what we're going to do is we're
going to take a chapter a day. And each day will be the essence
of what that chapter is talking about-- GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE:
--in "God's Will is Prosperity." And then on the last day is
going to be a very special day because it's going to be devoted
to an individual who read your book and who now pastors the
largest church in the world-- GLORIA: Oh. GEORGE: --and it is
because of that book. GLORIA: Wow. GEORGE: And he says it
himself, Pastor David Oyedepo. He says it hisself--himself that
it was because of reading Gloria's book, "God's Will is
Prosperity," Kenneth Copeland's book, "The Laws of Prosperity,"
that he is where he is today. GLORIA: Praise God. What a
marvelous man. GEORGE: So, Gloria, we've got some great
things ahead of us here this--these two weeks. GLORIA:
Wow, that sounds like fun. GEORGE: So let's do this, let's
go to-- GLORIA: Let's stir ourselves up on the subject.
GEORGE: Let's get stirred up about "God's Will is
Prosperity." GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: Father, we pray
over these broadcasts these two weeks and thank You that You are
leading us into a place of-- GLORIA: Yes, Lord. We love You.
GEORGE: --prosperity that we've never been before and that we're
walking in realms that we've never walked in before. GLORIA:
Praise God. GEORGE: And, Father, I thank You for this book. I
thank You for the work that Gloria Copeland did on this book
40 years ago and how it is still alive, more alive than ever
before-- GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: --more relevant than
ever before. And so, Lord, we thank You and we praise You for
this in Jesus' name. Amen. GLORIA: Amen. That's exciting.
GEORGE: Let's look at Genesis 1 to begin with, Gloria. GLORIA:
Okay. GEORGE: Genesis 1--and I like this as we outline these
notes. The first part of your note up there says Genesis
1:26-29. "In the beginning--in the beginning--" and so it says,
in Genesis 1:26-- GLORIA: So we started off right. GEORGE: We
started off right. Start it right at the beginning. GLORIA:
Yeah. GEORGE: It says, "And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps
upon the earth. So God created man in his own image--" GLORIA:
Yes. GEORGE: "--in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. And God blessed them--" GLORIA: Yeah.
GEORGE: That's big. That's big. "God blessed them." You know, I
heard one time, Gloria, a definition that Kenneth gave of
the word "blessed." And it means "to empower, to prosper."
GLORIA: To prosper. GEORGE: And that's what God was doing with
man-- GLORIA: Yeah, that's right. GEORGE: --empowering him
to prosper. So God created man, "And he blessed them, and he
said to them, Be fruitful--" Now again, Gloria, I did a study
some time ago on the word "fruitful," and it means to
increase. So we were--we were created to increase. God created
us-- GLORIA: Of course. GEORGE: --He created you to increase.
And as Psalm 115 says, He said we are to increase more and
more, we and our children. So we are designed by God. We were
created by God to increase. GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: Well, "Be
fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it: and
have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air,
over every living thing that moves upon the earth. And God
said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which
is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in which the
fruit of the tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." In
other words, your seed is your provision. Your seed is your
provision. So let's look at our notes here, Gloria, and--
GLORIA: Okay, I like these notes. GEORGE: --part--part A
here that we have--and these notes are available to you right
now. Just go to kcm.org. Look for the picture of Gloria and
me. You can click onto it and it'll take you right to the
notes, these notes, Gloria, as well as all 300 other notes that
we have on prosperity. How exciting is that? GLORIA: Now,
where are they? GEORGE: Those are on kcm.org. We have all of
the notes that we've ever taught from-- GLORIA: Wow. GEORGE:
--available to you absolutely free. And you can duplicate
them. You can give them out. GLORIA: Preach them. GEORGE: You
can teach them. GLORIA: Teach them. GEORGE: You can get these
notes out there. Gloria, the people that have downloaded the
notes, we are well, well over a million notes that have been
downloaded. GLORIA: Isn't that amazing, George? GEORGE: So
people are hungry for prosperity. They're hungry to
know how to prosper. Well, we just read Genesis 1:26-29. And,
Gloria, in your book--and let me--let me make a comment here,
before we go on, with these notes. GLORIA: Okay. GEORGE:
Everything that you see on these pages, you said. GLORIA: I did?
GEORGE: Everything, everything. And it's so good to refresh
ourselves in this. GLORIA: I know, I know. I like to stir
yourself up. GEORGE: Gloria, there are times when people come
back to me and they'll share with me notes of things that I
said in church. And I'll sit there and go, "That was good."
GLORIA: Did I say that? GEORGE: Did I say that? That was good.
GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: So here, this first point, "God made sure
that Adam lacked no good thing." GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
His man was fully furnished. He was--all he knew was abundance.
That's all that Adam knew. GLORIA: No curse. GEORGE: No
curse. GLORIA: Just blessing. GEORGE: The blessing of the
Lord. GLORIA: That was God's will and is God's will. GEORGE:
It is. Absolutely, Gloria, it is. And you said, "It's only
after Adam committed high treason against God that sin,
sickness, lack, and poverty came in." And now he had to work for
it. Now he had to--Bible talks about-- GLORIA: He went against
the rules. GEORGE: He--yeah, he went against the rules. He
stepped out of the-- GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: --he
stepped out from under the umbrella of the blessing of God.
We have to stay there. We have to stay right in the middle of
His will and His purpose. And, truly, we are redeemed from the
curse of the law-- GLORIA: We are. Amen. GEORGE: --so that we
can walk in the blessing of Abraham. GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE:
So now we see here what you said in your book, "Satan is the
author of poverty, and God is the author of abundance."
GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: I like that. GLORIA: One is the
curse, one is the blessing. GEORGE: Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely. GLORIA: And they're both available. GEORGE: Oh, they
are. GLORIA: You can have the curse if you want it. You can
have abundance if you want it. You can have the blessing if you
want it. GEORGE: I choose abundance. I choose--I don't--I
don't want the curse in my life. And it wasn't--it wasn't until
Jesus got that back for us-- GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
Adam committed that high treason and put himself in the place of
the curse. But the blessing is now available to us because of
what Jesus did. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: We are the
blessed. We are walking in the blessing of God, and we're
walking in the blessing of Abraham. So let's look here. The
next point-- GLORIA: Then we're walking in God's will. That's--
GEORGE: Yeah, that's right. GLORIA: That's a key. GEORGE:
They were. GLORIA: That's what God had all the time-- GEORGE:
Yes. GLORIA: --for His men. GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: Glory to
God. GEORGE: He did. GLORIA: And His women. GEORGE: And He told
them--He--that's right. (Laughs) He did. That's right. GLORIA:
Hallelujah. GEORGE: He did, and He told them to be fruitful and
to multiply, to replenish the earth, subdue it. The word
"subdue" there means, if it gets out of line, put it back.
GLORIA: Put it back. That's--I like that definition, George. Is
that in my notes here? That's good. GEORGE: No. I
just--that's--I--this is something that I studied a long
time. GLORIA: Don't forget that. GEORGE: I won't forget that. I
won't forget that. And this is interesting. I wrote this in my
Bible. It's not under "Notes." We'll put it there, though. In
this Verse 29, God said, "Behold, I've given you every
herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, every
tree, in which the fruit of the tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for meat." And listen to what the Amplified Bible
says. "You are to use all of its vast resources for the service
of God and man." GLORIA: Wow. GEORGE: The vast-- GLORIA: The
blessing. GEORGE: --resources of the blessing belong to us. And
they belong to-- GLORIA: Praise God. Now, that was a--well,
that's from where? GEORGE: That's the Amplified
translation. GLORIA: Of which one? GEORGE: Of--I believe
that's Verse 29, that we were to use "all of its vast resources
in the service of God and man." GLORIA: So there's no question
about it. God wants His people blessed. GEORGE: That's right.
GLORIA: Why wouldn't He? They're His people. GEORGE: That's
right. They're His people. He's taking care of them. GLORIA:
That's why He put them in the earth-- GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA:
--to take over the things of the earth. GEORGE: Yeah, yeah.
GLORIA: Be blessed. See to it to rule, being under a ruler, a
shepherd. Hallelujah. GEORGE: That's why we were placed here.
GLORIA: Under Jesus. Hallelujah. GEORGE: And to expand and to
enlarge the garden of Eden. GLORIA: Pretty exciting when you
think about it. GEORGE: It is. It is. You know, Kenneth has
taught this about the expansion of the garden of Eden. That's
what Adam and Eve were supposed to do. They were to
take--supposed to take the garden of Eden and take it all
over the world and actually to the planets, to the universe.
GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: So we should, everywhere we go, we
carry the garden-of-Eden effect. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
The effect of the garden of Eden. GLORIA: That blessing is
working. GEORGE: The blessing is working in us. And I'm reminded
of this right now. When you lived--years ago, when I first
came here, you and the family were living on Green River
Court. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. GEORGE: And Green River Court--you had a
beautiful home that overlooked Downtown Fort Worth. GLORIA:
Yeah. GEORGE: But there was a large grassy area between your
backyard and downtown Fort Worth. And one day, I was--I
happened to be looking at a map of that area. And that area is
actually called the Garden of Eden. GLORIA: Is that right?
GEORGE: That's what that area's called. GLORIA: When--where our
old house-- GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: --in Fort Worth--
GEORGE: In Fort Worth. GLORIA: --City where you could see the
skyline? GEORGE: Where you could see the skyline, but before you
got to the skyline, there was a big open area-- GLORIA: That's
interesting. GEORGE: --and it was called the Garden of Eden.
So I'm like-- GLORIA: Hmm, I wonder what's there now. GEORGE:
I don't know. GLORIA: We better go check, George. GEORGE: We
need to check that out. But we are--we are to carry this garden
of Eden everywhere we go. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
And that's why-- GLORIA: That's what the blessing does. GEORGE:
That's--Gloria, when you wrote this book 40 years ago, this
concept was foreign to most people, that it is God's will
for us to prosper. And it's been God's will for us to prosper
since the very beginning of mankind. GLORIA: Amen. Yes, it
has. GEORGE: He set the precedent. God set the precedent
with Adam and Eve. GLORIA: And we--things didn't prosper in our
lives until we found that out. GEORGE: Until we found it out
and we took it. GLORIA: We began to act on it. GEORGE: And now we
are to multiply. We are to be fruitful. We are to subdue the
earth and have dominion over it, replenish the earth. GLORIA:
Praise God. That's right. GEORGE: That's what our job is.
That's what we do. GLORIA: It's fun. GEORGE: And I must say that
I remember--I remember reading this book and I've gone through
it and over it and over it and found that these things help me
as much today as they helped me 40 years ago, Gloria, when I
first read the book-- GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: --and when
you first laid these things out. GLORIA: I might read it again.
GEORGE: And you talked about something that many people don't
know about, and that is the blessing of Abraham. Look with
me at Genesis 17. You started talking about in the book, and,
of course, we have a 40th edition of the book that we have
produced. GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: And we'll be offering it
on this broadcast absolutely free. GLORIA: Have I gotten one
yet? GEORGE: No. (Laughs) You'll get one, though. GLORIA: Well, I
should have one. GEORGE: I promise that you will have one.
But Genesis 19--or 17, rather. GLORIA: 17. GEORGE: And looking
here at rereading Verses 1-9, but I'll--let's just read these
that I have on your page down here, Gloria. GLORIA: Okay.
GEORGE: Because they just showed me our time is running out. My
goodness. GLORIA: We just got here. GEORGE: We just got here.
We just got started. In Verse 2, it says, "And I will make my
covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
And in Verse 6, it says, "I will make you exceedingly fruitful."
Verse 7--and this is B, number three. Verse 7, "I will
establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants
after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant."
And, Gloria, in your book, you defined the word "established."
And the word "established" is to settle or to fix on a permanent
basis. GLORIA: Ooh, I like that. GEORGE: I like that, too. To
establish. GLORIA: I'm going to go back and read that book.
GEORGE: He said, "I will establish my covenant between me
and you and your descendants." Well, this is--this is to settle
it. This is to fix it-- GLORIA: Yeah, that's right. GEORGE: --on
a permanent basis. And you said that, "God's covenant is
unalterable." You said that, "His covenant is generational."
I like that. GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: We are in that
generation now. And every generation and every individual
has a choice whether or not they're going to walk in the
covenant with God-- GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: --and to
what degree they walk in the covenant with God. GLORIA: And
we have a choice of whether we, the parents, pass that on to our
children. GEORGE: Yes, ma'am. Yep. GLORIA: We have to live it
before them, teach them-- GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: --show
them how it works-- GEORGE: That's right. GLORIA: --or it
doesn't work for them even though it belongs to them.
GEORGE: No, we have to--we have to pass that along. And that's
what--that's what we've determined to do. GLORIA:
That's--the word "established" is a good word there. GEORGE:
Financial prosperity--that's point number four down there at
the bottom. Financial prosperity or wealth is one way that God
established this covenant of promise. In Deuteronomy 8:18,
"And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he that
gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his
covenant which he swore to your fathers." So, "The person who
holds to poverty--" This is good. This is what you said in
your book: "The person who holds to poverty rejects the
establishment of the covenant." GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
The person who holds to the covenant rejects poverty.
GLORIA: And, you know, you'd be shocked at how much flak could
come-- GEORGE: Oh, yes, ma'am. GLORIA: --from teaching
prosperity-- GEORGE: Yes, ma'am. GLORIA: --in the old days.
GEORGE: Yep. GLORIA: I'm telling you. GEORGE: But, you know, it's
changed. GLORIA: It has. GEORGE: It has changed through the--
GLORIA: It's gradually--the--it's been
accepted. People figured out it's better to be blessed than
cursed. GEORGE: Yeah, yeah. GLORIA: Took a while. GEORGE: It
took a while, but you and Kenneth-- GLORIA: I figured it
out. GEORGE: One of the things that the Lord called you and
Kenneth to do was to teach the laws that govern supernatural
abundance and prosperity. And that's what you've done over all
of these years. And now we are--we are taking hold of it.
We are receiving it. GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: Let's finish up.
They've given us like the two-minute mark here. GLORIA:
Okay, go. GEORGE: So the point--the last point we want to
make is--you talked about this in your book. In Romans 4,
Abraham received it by faith. So we receive this promise--
GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: --of prosperity by faith. It says, in
Romans 4:19, "He was not--he was not weak in faith--he did not
consider his own body, already dead since he was a hundred
years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. But he did not
waver at the promise of God through unbelief." GLORIA: In
other words, he didn't consider the circumstance. GEORGE: He
didn't consider the circumstance. GLORIA: He took
the promise. GEORGE: Yeah. He took the promise. He took the
covenant. He was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God--
GLORIA: Yes, amen. GEORGE: --and being fully convinced that what
he had promised, he was also able to perform. GLORIA: Yeah,
able. Mm-hmm. GEORGE: It takes faith-- GLORIA: It does. GEORGE:
--to establish the covenant. GLORIA: That's exactly right.
GEORGE: And we receive that covenant by faith. And the last
thing, look at the very bottom, what you said. GLORIA: Okay.
GEORGE: "The blessing of the covenant cannot be stopped in
the life of an heir of Abraham as long as he keeps the
covenant, that he obeys God and believes that he's able to
perform--" GLORIA: That God is able. GEORGE: "--the covenant--"
that's right, "--that God is able to perform the covenant in
his life." GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: So, Father, in the name
of Jesus, we are walking in covenant with you. GLORIA: Thank
You, Lord. We are so grateful. GEORGE: You began from the very
beginning to bless mankind. GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: And,
Lord, that covenant has continued through Abraham and
now we're walking in the blessing of Abraham. GLORIA:
Yes. Amen. GEORGE: And we take it by faith-- GLORIA: Yes.
GEORGE: --in the name of Jesus. GLORIA: In the name of Jesus.
GEORGE: Amen. GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: And amen. GLORIA: We
stir ourselves up! GEORGE: Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. GLORIA: We
walk in the blessing. Hallelujah. GEORGE: Praise
God. GLORIA: Glory to God. GEORGE: Praise
God. GLORIA: George and I'll be right back.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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