(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: God's Word is the key to answered prayer. You can
receive God's promises for your life. Join Gloria Copeland and
Pastor George Pearsons today on the Believer's Voice of Victory,
and find out God's formula for success. Now here's Gloria.
GLORIA: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Believer's
Voice of Victory. Pastor George Pearsons is
back with us for some more prosperity. If you're
not interested in prosperity, don't listen. GEORGE: That's
right. GLORIA: I'm interested. GEORGE: Just go away. (Laughs)
GLORIA: I--somebody said, "I've been rich and I've been poor,
and rich is better." GEORGE: Rich is better. GLORIA:
Prosperity is better-- GEORGE: That's right. That's right.
GLORIA: --in Jesus' name. GEORGE: Well, first of all,
Happy New Year to you. This is the first week of our new year.
GLORIA: Well, thank you very much. GEORGE: And Brother
Copeland's Word for the new year, 2018, the year of Holy
Ghost and fire. GLORIA: Oh, I like the sound of that. GEORGE:
Yeah. So that's--I'm--we're in for a big year, and you're in
for a big year. GLORIA: I receive that. I receive it.
GEORGE: This is--this is our--this is day 305 of all of
our prosperity broadcasts that we've done together. GLORIA:
Think about it. GEORGE: And all of the notes from them,
including what we're teaching on right now, are available to you
on kcm.org. You go to the picture of Gloria and me, click
onto it, and all of these outlines will appear before you.
You can print them out. We've had over a million, well over a
million now, downloads of these outlines. GLORIA: Is that right?
GEORGE: And so you take them, print them, and just-- GLORIA:
Think about that, George. That's just awesome. GEORGE: --get them
out there. They're absolutely free. And so you can print as
many as you want to. And so before we get into the message,
let me read you a quick testimony. Can I do that,
Gloria? GLORIA: You can do that. GEORGE: This lady writes to us.
She's from, let's see, New Jersey. And she says, "I just
wanted to thank you, to Gloria and George, from the bottom of
my heart for all of the free material items that you have
loaded me up with in the last few months. I was absolutely
thrilled--" GLORIA: (Laughs) Loaded her up. GEORGE: Yeah, she
loaded her up. "--absolutely thrilled when I received those
packages." She said, "I started with two broadcasts of Gloria
and George I viewed about increase that got me started. I
didn't know about the free material offers until then. Now
I have watched 'Supernatural Increase,' 'Bulldog Faith'--"
GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: "--'God is My Source.'" GLORIA:
Hallelujah. GEORGE: "I am on a roll." GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE:
"What a booster shot I got from all of the scriptural teachings.
Thank you." GLORIA: Let's just believe people are doing that
all over the world. GEORGE: He says--she says, "I do believe
God cares for us and wants our needs taken care of." GLORIA:
Praise God. GEORGE: So isn't that a great testimony? GLORIA:
Oh, yeah, that's wonderful. GEORGE: And so if you have a
testimony about these prosperity broadcasts, please send them to
us. GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: Gloria and I want to hear-- GLORIA:
That would be such a blessing. GEORGE: --the good reports of
the things that are taking place. And we'll read them on
the broadcast and let others know that it's working, it's
working, it's working. GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: And so today, what
we're talking about--and as we've--as we've spoken before,
Gloria, the Lord spoke to me about this series that we're on.
And He said, "Go look at Gloria's book, 'God's Will is
Prosperity.'" I went into my little library, and I pulled out
my original copy that you gave to me many years ago, and--the
one that I did the cover for. You had several--you had a
company do a cover, and they presented several different
options. And you said you didn't like any of them. You said,
"George, see what you can do." (Laughs) GLORIA: "See what you
can do, George." GEORGE: I came up with a cover. GLORIA: You get
a lot of jobs like that, George. GEORGE: We have--well,
that--hey, that's why I'm here. I'm here to serve. And so
we--this book cover is not--it's not in this book cover anymore.
But the Lord said, "Take each day and do a chapter." GLORIA:
Mm-hmm. GEORGE: So that's what we're doing today. And today,
day five, is chapter five. GLORIA: Okay. GEORGE: And it's
called, "How to Receive From God." GLORIA: Praise God.
GEORGE: "How to Receive From God," and it's a step-by-step
that we're taking here. And it begins with number one here,
"Realize that God's Word is His will." Very simple, but so many
people don't realize that. The Word of God-- GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: --is God's will for us. GLORIA: They'd be even
more interested in reading it if they know that. GEORGE: They
would be. They would be. GLORIA: Because it's a blessing. It's a
blessing place. GEORGE: And you covered that in your book
called, "God's Will for You." There's a
chapter in that book called, "God's Will is His Word." So
that's--again, these are some of the things that you taught me in
the very beginning, you and Kenneth, in your teaching, as I
would listen to you speak. I found out that it was whatever
is in the Word of God is His will for me. GLORIA: That's
right. You can count on it. GEORGE: If it says that I am to
be the head and not the tail, to be the lender and not the
borrower-- GLORIA: Above and not beneath. GEORGE: Yeah. And
that's the will of God for me. So how important it is to get
revelation of the will of God. I quoted this the other day, and
this was from F.F. Bosworth. He said, "Faith begins where the--
TOGETHER: "--will of God is known." GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: So
when you know the will of God, there is a confidence. There's
definitely a confidence in knowing that that belongs to
you. And I have a scripture that just--just popped into my head
here. It is--the scripture is in-- GLORIA: Is, is. GEORGE:
Come on, come on. I can see it. Oh, here it is. I John. I John
5:14, listen to this. It says, "This is the confidence that we
have in him, that, if we ask him any thing--" GLORIA: Anything.
GEORGE: "--according to his will--" GLORIA: He hears us.
GEORGE: "--he hears us. And we know that he hears us--if we
know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that
we have the petitions that we've asked of him." And I wrote this
in my Bible right here, "Faith begins where the will of God is
known." GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: It stops at the question
mark. GLORIA: Yeah, that's right. GEORGE: When there's a
question mark--when there's a question mark about the healing
of your body, and you don't know whether it's the will of God for
you to be healed, go to the Word. Go to Isaiah 53. GLORIA:
That's right. GEORGE: I Peter 2:24. GLORIA: If you don't know,
fix it. Go to the Word and find out. GEORGE: Yeah, exactly.
That's what I love about her so much, is the--is she--you can
say it in a sentence. GLORIA: (Laughs) GEORGE: "If you don't
know, fix it." GLORIA: Fix it. GEORGE: Fix it. GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: And I like the ultimate Gloria-ism, "Get over
it." GLORIA: Get over it. GEORGE: (Laughs) GLORIA: Okay,
George, you're such a good student. GEORGE: So I'll tell
you-- GLORIA: What can I say? GEORGE: --we have to know that
it's the will of God. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: That's the
book-- GLORIA: That is faith. GEORGE: --"God's Will--" GLORIA:
To know it's the will of God is faith. GEORGE: "--is
Prosperity." GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: And there was a time
when you and Kenneth had a revelation that it was God's
will for you to prosper. GLORIA: Oh, it was big, too. We needed
it bad. GEORGE: You had to have it. GLORIA: Yeah, that's right.
GEORGE: You had to have it. And you--back then, you were going
to hear Kenneth Hagin, and hearing about the plan of
redemption-- GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: --and what God provides
for you. GLORIA: We were learning about faith. GEORGE:
You were learning about faith and how to put your faith to
work. And so you said in this book--I quote Gloria, "Read the
Bible with the knowledge that God had it written for your
benefit, not for His." GLORIA: That's right. Did I say that?
GEORGE: You said it. GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: You said it.
(Laughs) GLORIA: Well, that's the truth. GEORGE: And you also
said, "God's Word in you is the key to answered prayer." GLORIA:
That's right. GEORGE: Oh, that's-- GLORIA: We know that's
true. GEORGE: --that's a massive statement, Gloria, "God's Word
in you." So-- GLORIA: Because faith comes by hearing-- GEORGE:
Yeah. GLORIA: --and hearing by the Word of God. GEORGE: And,
"From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Or to quote
you, "From the abundance of the heart, the mouth leaks." GLORIA:
Oh. (Laughs) Well, it goes both ways. GEORGE: It does. GLORIA:
It depends on what you've got in that heart. GEORGE: Yeah,
exactly. GLORIA: It'll come out your mouth. GEORGE: Exactly. And
if you're putting--we'll just like-- GLORIA: It's better to
speak than to leak, I'm telling you. GEORGE: (Laughs) So
it's--exactly. Yeah. I'm listening to what you're saying.
That's pretty funny. You do. You have to put that down on the
inside of you. And it reminds me of Keith Moore and when he was
working for Brother Hagin. He was in charge of Healing School,
and they had him watching Brother Hagin's healing videos.
And he was watching them and watching them and watching them
day after day after day. And all of a sudden, he found himself
healed. He's healed, he's whole. Well, he thought, "You know
what? If this will work for healing, it'll work for
prosperity." GLORIA: Dah-dah! GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: Came
through. GEORGE: So he started listening to you and Kenneth. He
got all of your prosperity materials, started to put that
down on the inside of him, began to identify with what the will
of God was. I used to think--before I came in contact
with this ministry, I honestly used to think--because I was
taught that God used sickness-- GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: --to teach
you-- GLORIA: A lot of people were taught that. GEORGE: --that
the reason that you're sick is because He wants to do something
with you or He wants to communicate something with you.
And when I came around here and started listening to this and
started reading things like this, I found out that it was
not God's will for me to be sick. I had--I had
an--I--there--it was an enlightening moment. It was an
epiphany. It was a revelation that, "I don't have to be sick
anymore." GLORIA: Praise God. That's right. GEORGE: And then I
was taught I don't have to be poor anymore, and I don't have
to be in debt anymore. GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: And there are some
people--there are some people in the financial world that say,
"Well, there's some good debt." GLORIA: Don't you believe that.
GEORGE: I don't think so. I don't think so. I'm so--we don't
use that word around here, only in the context of what we don't
do. GLORIA: That's right. That's right. GEORGE: And there's never
any discussion amongst us about-- GLORIA: Have you ever
regretted believing God for--to pay for something when you got
it? GEORGE: Not at all. I've never regretted that. GLORIA:
You'd still be making payments on your refrigerator, your
stove-- GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: --your house, your car-- GEORGE:
Yeah, exactly. GLORIA: --if you hadn't believed God-- GEORGE:
Exactly. GLORIA: --to manifest it for you. GEORGE: Had we taken
out a 30-year loan on the executive building that we have
here-- GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: --we would have just finished
paying it last year. GLORIA: And it would have been about how
much interest, do you suppose? GEORGE: Oh, it would have been
massive, massive interest paid over it many times. And--but you
knew the will of God. You knew it was the will of God for you
to be debt free. And where that building was concerned, I
remember the day that Brother Copeland called us and said,
"Sweep it out and let it sit." It was just--it was concrete
floors at that time. GLORIA: We were building the--which
building? GEORGE: It was the administrative building, the
executive building. GLORIA: And we weren't but--we were not
borrowing money for it. GEORGE: Right, exactly. GLORIA: But we
did not have money to finish it-- GEORGE: Well, he said--he
said that-- GLORIA: --at that moment. GEORGE: --he didn't want
to take money out of outreach to be able to get the building
finished. And so he just closed it up and said, "Just let her
sit." GLORIA: That's what he did. GEORGE: And I remember I
would come out here, and I would walk that building and just pray
in the Spirit over it, talk to it, call it finished. Well, it's
done. It's completed. Took us a little bit longer than it would
normally take, but we didn't owe anything on it. GLORIA: But how
long--you'd be still paying on it. GEORGE: Be still paying on
it. Well, we would have finished last year. But still, the point
being is you would have paid for it many times over. All that to
say it is the will of God for us to prosper and is the will of
God for us to be able to continue in our lives in a place
of prosperity. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: And you taught me
something through this book. I've preached on it, and I've
got it right here. And in chapter five, you talk about
God's success formula. GLORIA: Mm-hmm. GEORGE: God's success
formula. And you began with Joshua 1:8. And it says, "This
Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall
meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do
according to all that is written in it. For then you will make
your way prosperous, and then you will have good success."
GLORIA: Yeah, that's good, isn't it? That says it. GEORGE: And
I--it says it all. And that's how you prosper. GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: That's how you prosper. And the way you put it
in the book was, it was God's success formula. So I studied
that out, Gloria. I read it through. And I've preached on
that many times before. I preached on the success formula
that you have. And here it is right here. It's laid out before
us right here. And it's in greater detail in the book, but
here it is, the three things--this is the three points
to God's success formula. First one--and I'll read the points
first, and then we can talk about it. Number one, talk the
Word. Now, this is based on what God told Joshua. You talk the
Word, you speak the Word. Number two, you meditate the Word. And,
number three, you act on the Word. That is the success
formula that guarantees the outcome of prosperity. GLORIA:
If you--if you do the first three but you don't do the last
one-- GEORGE: Yeah, you can't leave-- GLORIA: --you just blew
it. GEORGE: You--(Laughs) Exactly. GLORIA: You're done.
GEORGE: You can't--you can't just do one. You've got to do
all of them. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: You have to do
all of them. And so the first one was, you have to speak the
Word. You've got to talk the Word. GLORIA: You have to say
what you want to come to pass. GEORGE: You have to say--
GLORIA: --because you can have what you say. GEORGE: Yes, yeah.
GLORIA: That's just the way it is. That's faith. GEORGE: Once
again-- GLORIA: Mark 11. GEORGE: --she said it all in a sentence.
GLORIA: Mark 11. GEORGE: Mark 11:23. So you have to speak the
Word of God. And you do this by keeping the Word in you in
abundance. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: You have to really
stockpile the Word. GLORIA: And you keep it in you in abundance
by putting it in your eyes and in your ears. GEORGE: Yeah,
yeah. GLORIA: It gets into your heart. GEORGE: And when you need
it, it will come out. When you put it down there, whenever--
GLORIA: You deposit it. GEORGE: You deposit it and you can
withdraw it. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: That's good,
Gloria. That's really good. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
You've got your own bank account down here in the realm of the
Spirit. And you deposit the Word and the Word goes down there.
And that Word is alive and active. And then, when you need
that Word, it will come up out of you and you will act on that
Word. That's good. That's really good. GLORIA: That's the way it
works. It's easy. GEORGE: It reminds me-- GLORIA: It's easy.
You just have to do it. GEORGE: It reminds me of the
conversation that I had with Marilyn Hickey one time. Then
she was talking to Terri and me about when she was a little
girl, she went to Grandmother's house, and Grandmother had a
basement. And the basement was just a dirt--you know, dirt
dug-out-- GLORIA: Floor? GEORGE: --area, but it was cold down
there. And in the summertime, they would pick the peaches, and
then they would can the peaches. And they'd take it down into the
cold basement and leave it down there. And in the middle of the
winter, Grandmother would say, "Marilyn, go down there and get
some of those good peaches." So she'd go down there and open up
the can, or the bottle. GLORIA: The jar. GEORGE: The jar, thank
you. GLORIA: You came from the city, I realize that. GEORGE: I
know, she's a tutorial on country living. The jar, thank
you. GLORIA: Uh-huh. GEORGE: And they open up the jar, and the
smell of the peaches was just like when they put it down in
the jar in the summertime. And Marilyn looked at us, and she
said, "You've got to can the Word." GLORIA: That's good,
isn't it? That's right. GEORGE: "You've got to can the Word."
GLORIA: That's a good way to say it. GEORGE: And so you put that
Word down there, and you'll be able to speak that Word. It'll
come up out of you. You said--this is number two, point
two, "Unless you act against the world order with the Word of
God, your mouth will speak from experience, circumstance--"
GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: "--and tradition." So you have
to fight that. You have to overcome it. And so to change
your words, you must first change the source. GLORIA: The
natural way for people is to talk negative. GEORGE: Yeah,
that's right. GLORIA: And if people that talk positive--
GEORGE: Oh, yeah, yeah. GLORIA: --they think you're a fanatic of
some kind. (Laughs) GEORGE: They really do. They really do. And
how many people do we get around in a store or something like
that, that you hear them speaking-- GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE:
--and it's like noise to your ears. It's not right. So we have
to speak. GLORIA: They just don't know. GEORGE: We've got to
speak and declare the Word of God. We speak and declare the
end from the beginning. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: When Terri
and I pray every morning, we make--we have confessions that
we make every morning. GLORIA: That's good. GEORGE: We have our
daily confessions that we make. And at the very end of our
confessions, we say we declare the end of this day from the
beginning. GLORIA: That's right. That's good. That's a good thing
to say, George. I like that. GEORGE: So we prophesy over our
days. So, number one, talk the Word; number two, meditate the
Word. To meditate the Word, you put God's Word in your heart by
meditating that Word. It gets down there when you meditate the
Word. GLORIA: It becomes part of you. GEORGE: When--yeah. It
becomes-- GLORIA: And when it becomes part of you, it comes up
and talks to your-- GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: --thinker here--
GEORGE: Yeah, your thinker. GLORIA: --which needs to be
renewed, the Bible says. GEORGE: That's right. And you do that by
meditating the Word of God. You take--you take a scripture and
you think about it. GLORIA: You get to where you do it
involuntarily. I mean, it's just a natural weight. GEORGE: Oh,
yeah. Yeah. GLORIA: It comes up. GEORGE: It's good. GLORIA: You
say, "Okay, that's right," you know? GEORGE: Yeah, it's there.
GLORIA: And then you say it, but it becomes a natural way of
life. GEORGE: You really--you really get trained in these
things. You're training the human spirit, and developing it
takes time. The renewing of the mind takes time. But when it's
down in there and it's solid and you meditate on it, you--and I
remember in Brother Copeland's book about--and you talk about
it in your book, too, about meditation, how to do it. But
Brother Copeland talks about it as well. And he says you have
to--you've got to see that Word and how it applies to you
personally. GLORIA: That's right. Take it. GEORGE: How does
that--yeah, you take it. And how does--how does Deuteronomy 8:18
apply to me personally where He's talking about how He gives
us the power to get wealth? Well, how does that apply to me?
And you think about it and you think on it and you dwell on
these things. These are all words that you all have taught
me about how to meditate the Word. And you sit there
sometimes on my Saturdays when I'm preparing to preach for
Sunday. I will have meditation time where I will sit there and
I will meditate, think about--I will digest the Word of God.
GLORIA: Apply the Word to yourself-- GEORGE: I would apply
it to myself. And I'll say-- GLORIA: --how it hits me right
now. What am I doing? What am I saying? GEORGE: Yeah. And I'll
say, "Lord, what do You want to share with the people about this
scripture tomorrow? What do you want to say?" And I'll just
think and I'll meditate on that scripture. I'll look--like this
scripture I'm looking at right here, this--I'm just looking at
this one. This is the victory that overcomes the world, even
our faith. I'm meditating on that. This is the victory. This
is the victory that overcomes everything that's in the world,
our faith. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the
world. And that gets down on the inside of me. And like you said,
it becomes part of you. It becomes part of your spiritual
being and your spiritual makeup. Here's another definition of
meditation in the Word. Meditation is fixing your mind
on the Word so that you are able to do all that is written
therein. So you fix your mind on that Word. GLORIA: You're taking
it. GEORGE: Yeah. And Brother Copeland says this about
meditation in the Word. He says, "It enlarges your capacity for
faith." I like that. GLORIA: Yeah. I believe that. GEORGE: It
stretches your being to where you're able to see what you
haven't seen before. You're able to see that house. GLORIA: Yeah.
GEORGE: You're able to see that car. You're able to see that
need met. You're able to see that debt gone. So we meditate
on that and we see it, meditation in the Word versus
meditation in the worst--(Laughs)--the worst-case
scenario-- GLORIA: Yeah, that's right. GEORGE: --or the worry.
We meditate on what God says about it, and it changes our
lives. And the third point to God's success formula is acting
on the Word. One of the great enemies of faith is mental
assent, believing the Word is true but never acting on it.
GLORIA: Yeah, yeah. That's got--that's right. GEORGE: And
so you must-- GLORIA: You've got to take it and act on it.
GEORGE: Yeah, you must act on the knowledge to get results.
And I like what you said here. You are the determining factor
in receiving from God. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: You're the
determining factor for that. GLORIA: You hear it. You take it
or you reject it. GEORGE: Exactly, exactly. GLORIA: And
sometimes you ignore it. GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: Nothing happened.
GEORGE: Nothing--nothing happens. No, no. And so in the
last couple of moments here, look at your second page,
Gloria. And I think I'm just going to hit some highlights
because we're-- GLORIA: Go ahead. I'll catch up. GEORGE:
--we are--we are down to the last couple of minutes, Tim,
aren't we? Minute and a half? Okay. GLORIA: Ooh-ho! GEORGE:
Well, here, you can get these notes in this product that we're
giving to you free. But the scripture that we're using on
this last part is Mark 11:22-24-- GLORIA: Big
scripture. GEORGE: --the God kind of faith. What do you do?
You speak to the mountain. You don't talk to God about the
problem. You talk to Him about the answer. Like Gloria said in
her book, "Most people want God to talk to the mountain for
them. But He will not, so we talk to the mountain." GLORIA:
That's our job. GEORGE: God has given us authority on the earth
to speak and to see it come to pass. And because of man's
authority on the earth, God will allow whatever you allow in your
life-- GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: --righteousness or sin,
health or sickness, prosperity or poverty. And then we're not
to doubt in our hearts. Gloria said that "Doubt is eradicated
from your heart through hearing and meditating on the Word. And
the key to receiving the desires of your heart is to make the
words of your mouth agree with what you want all the time."
GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: Gloria, these are powerful,
powerful statements. GLORIA: They are. GEORGE: And then
the king of all statements, "In consistency lies the power."
GLORIA: Lies the power. Hallelujah. GEORGE: "Only say
what you want to come to pass, and keep saying it and keep
saying it." And you said, "If you speak positive results in
prayer and negative results in the rest of the time, your
negative results will win." GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: "Be
consistent in only saying faith words." GLORIA: That's right.
GEORGE: And we are to live-- GLORIA: You can change any
situation if-- GEORGE: That's it. GLORIA: --you learn how to
do that. Say what you want to come to pass. GEORGE: Say what
you want to say. GLORIA: And if you don't want it,
don't say it. GEORGE: That's right. GLORIA: George
and I'll be right back. GEORGE: Amen.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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