Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which doth so easily
beset us, and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith…(Hebrews 12:1-2).
Faith holds fast to its foundation. What is the
foundation of faith? The living Word.

We must be honest with ourselves. We are dealing
with life and death. We must not be artificial. As one
fellow said about Hollywood, “Under that phony tinsel
is some real tinsel.” Sadly enough, there are many
people in the Body of Christ who are like that; they
are totally unreal. The way we become real is first by
being honest with ourselves and second, by getting
honest with God.

Not only is the living Word the foundation
of faith, but faith holds fast to the Word. So then
faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God (Romans 10:17). I like what Brother Kenneth
Hagin says about this verse: “It doesn’t say that faith
comes by having heard; it says that faith comes by
hearing, and hearing, and hearing.”

The time is fast approaching when we are going to
need our faith. Why? Because trouble is coming.
“But, Brother Copeland, I thought you were a
victory preacher.”

I am. What do you think we get victory over? One
another? No, over trouble, over trial and tribulation.
There have not been any “good old days” since the
Garden of Eden. There are not any good times—except
for those who believe their way into good times.

Let’s Be Honorable!

Be not slothful, but followers of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises
(Hebrews 6:12).

God has honored us with great power and authority.
Jesus paid us the greatest honor by going to the
cross for us, shedding His blood and paying the price
for our sins. We are crowned with glory and honor. The
Lord honors us with His Name, and all authority is
given unto us. He honors our faith. He honors His Word,
and He honors the Word that is active and alive in us.
He honors us with answered prayer. Thank God, He
honors us!

We can honor Him with our obedience, our praise,
our very lives as they are offered up as a living sacrifice
unto Him. It is a joy to honor our God.
He wants us to be honorable before Him.

God is calling us to be accountable to Him in
this crucial hour—totally, completely honest and
real before Him. He wants us to be honorable to each
other, honorable in our business dealings and honorable
in the eyes of the world. The eyes of the world are
on the Body of Christ as never before. The world is
watching as God pours out His power upon us.

Let’s be vessels of honor. Let’s not hinder the
greatest outpouring of the supernatural power of
God in history in these last days. Let’s walk in honor,
moving along step by step with the Spirit of the Lord
as He takes us closer and closer toward the climax of
the ages—the return of Jesus Christ.

Do what’s right.

Do it because it’s right, then

Do it right.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. And
he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with
what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to
you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.

For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he
that hath not, from him shall be taken even that
which he hath (Mark 4:23-25).

After explaining the meaning of the parable, Jesus
told His disciples, “Be careful how you hear, because
that will determine how you receive.”

He went on to say something startling: “Those
who have will receive more.” Have what? Ears that
take heed to what they hear. “And those who have not
ears that take heed to what they hear are going to lose
what little they do have.” Satan will come and steal it.

A Firm Faith Foundation

These biblical laws that I have shared with you
from God’s Word will help you in building a firm
foundation of faith.

Go over them again and again. Stay with them.
Learn from them. They are food to your spirit. Renew
your mind with God’s Word, particularly the financial
truths of God’s Word, because we are combating
traditions that, in some cases, are over 1,000 years old.

As somebody said, “Grandma taught it, and we
bought it.” Grandma did not mean to tell us something
wrong; she was only passing along what she
had heard. Each generation before us had less revelation
than this generation does today.

Each generation, according to God’s plan, should
grow in revelation. Each generation should pass on
what it knows. The next generation should grow
in God and add to that body of knowledge. This is
especially true in regard to what the Word has to say
about material prosperity.

I can be reading along in the Scriptures, see something
and think, Why didn’t I see that before? The
Lord will say, Because of your religious tradition. Such
traditional ideas have robbed us over the years. As
we progress, we hear God saying new and different
things—exciting things that we never heard before.

We have been locked up in the capsule of these
pages together, studying biblical honor. It has been
informative and inspiring. But soon we will go back
into the real world, out where Satan tries to attack
and destroy.

Stay before God. Do as James said: Keep your tongue
under control and don’t lie against the truth (James
3:2-14). If you don’t know what the truth is, say nothing
one way or the other. Just be quiet. Say, “Lord, give
me the answer to this situation; I believe I receive it.”

Don’t worry about what other people think or say
or do. We all are different and have different convictions,
understandings and interpretations. Just walk
in faith and in love. Don’t criticize anybody. Keep
listening, reading, walking, loving and believing. The
Spirit of truth will lead you into all truth.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

I didn’t know this woman. I had seen her, but was
not acquainted with her personally.

“A few nights ago I absolutely could not sleep,”
she told me. “I tossed and turned, and finally got up
to pray. ‘God, what is this?’ I asked.

“Get dressed, He answered. I’ve got somewhere I
want you to go.

“It was the middle of the night. I usually don’t do
things like that, but I obeyed the Lord. I got dressed,
and then I asked, ‘Where am I supposed to go?’

“He led me to the hospital, so I went.

“‘I don’t know anybody in this hospital,’ I said.

‘What do I do now, Lord?’

“He didn’t say anything, so I just started praying
in the spirit as I walked down each hall. I don’t know
how many corridors I walked down, but it was several.
I went along quietly just praying in the spirit, listening
for the Lord. Suddenly I stopped right in front of
one room. The Lord said, Go in there.

“I went in and saw that the man in the bed wasn’t
asleep. I walked up to him and said, ‘Sir, I don’t know
you, and you don’t know me. But the Lord wouldn’t let
me sleep tonight. God sent me down here to you. Do
you know Jesus as Lord?’

“He said, ‘You sound like Vinita and Kenneth
Copeland.’

“‘Vinita Copeland is a close personal friend of
mine,’ I told him.

“‘I’ve been trying to call Kenneth for two days,’
he answered. ‘He’s out of town, and I was lying here
praying, God give me somebody. I’m dying. Send me
somebody. I can’t die in this shape. I can’t die like this.
Send me somebody, Lord. Send me somebody.’”

What was happening in that situation? God’s
honor was at work. God was honoring the decision
that man made back in the Baptist church nearly
40 years before. He was honoring my mother’s prayers
and my prayers and our love for that man. God was
honoring all these things.

Thank God for that woman who honored God’s
direction to go to that hospital in the middle of
the night, not even knowing why. She prayed with
him, and he came back to Jesus, praying and rejoicing
in Him.

Then he died.

Actually, he didn’t die. He just stepped out of that
old cancerous body in which he was confined and
went on to be with the Lord.

Think what just one act by a dishonorable
Christian had done. Because of that one shameful
dealing, another man had spent his entire life out
of fellowship with Jesus, his brothers and sisters in
the Lord, and with the Father Himself. But this man
finally recognized the honor of God in the last minute
of the last hour. Thank God for that!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth
as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for
them of my Father which is in heaven (Matthew 18:19).

I want to share with you now about the covenant of marriage
between Gloria and me. There are some things that even the
minister who pronounced us husband and wife could not do
for us. We became one flesh, but there was more to it than that.
There was also a mental union and a spiritual union. The
preacher could not join us mentally. A mental union
cannot be pronounced and produced in 10 minutes.

It takes time. So too does a spiritual union before God. We are married physically. The Word of God says that her body belongs
to me, and my body belongs to her (1 Corinthians 7:4-5). We are married sexually. We don’t use it, either of us, in bribery or
extortion.

That is dishonorable.

We also are married mentally. It has taken Gloria time to figure
out that I don’t think like everybody else. (My mother and father could have told her that!) Actually, most people are that way.
We all think and act differently. No two people think exactly alike.

Gloria and I had to work at learning to think like each other.
As we did so, we started complementing each other. God
created us that way, to be one, to be full and strong together, instead of divided and weak in division and despair.

We also have been joined together spiritually. That is something
no preacher can do for us. God brought us together. In marriage, there is a miracle action that takes place just as when we
are born again. In the new birth, we became one with Jesus.

Gloria and I became one with each other when we stood before
the minister and were pronounced husband and wife. We agreed
to that union. There was a prayer of agreement, a prayer of covenant.

Marriage takes pulling with one another, praying with and for
one another. It takes seeking God to find out what we can do
to help, support, encourage and understand one another.
We have been at it now for over 30 years and
because of God’s honor between us, it gets sweeter
and stronger every day.

There were some things that I did for a long time which just
irritated Gloria, and I could not figure out why she was so
upset. That still happens occasionally. I can tell when she
is irritated about something, but she has too much spiritual
sense to throw a fit about it.

We have to be honorable in marriage and in the home.
We have to learn honor all over again, and we have to
teach it at home. We have to sit down with our children
and talk to them about it over and over.

Parents, teachers and pastors must all work together to
teach these principles to our children, so they will grow
up to be honorable young men and women. Then they
will pass on to their children and grandchildren what
they have learned from us.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries