FEB 2018 KENNETH COPELAND ® MINISTRIES Hannah P. 10 Minor struggled to stay in faith after suffering three miscarriages in four years. Then she saw her faith renewed when, while attending a Southwest Believers’ Convention, Kenneth Copeland called her out and said that a fourth pregnancy would produce a healthy child. Ten months later, Hannah gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Terry Minor III. CHILDby Melanie OF Hemry PROMISE by Kenneth Copeland FAITH WON’T WORK IN AN UNFORGIVING HEART WHEN MY GRANDSON MAX WAS A YOUNG BOY, HE DID SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL. ALL ON HIS OWN, HE WENT TO THE KITCHEN, FOUND THE WOODEN SPOON HIS PARENTS SOMETIMES USED TO DISCIPLINE HIM, AND TOOK IT TO HIS MOTHER. Confessing to her that at such a young age that he’d repeatedly disobeyed submitting to discipline is her in a certain area, he better than staying stuck in said, “Mama, I know disobedience; that getting that’s wrong, but I’ve been corrected (even if it stings doing it anyway, so I need a a little) is better than spanking.” allowing yourself to be Max is the only child overtaken by sin. I’ve ever known who’s done That’s not an easy lesson that! He’s the only person to learn. Many people live I know who figured out their whole lives and never “EVEN WHILE YOU’RE NOT AWARE OF IT, POINTS THAT UNFORGIVENESS IS WORKING IN TO GET YOU. IT’S MAKING YOU SPIRITUALLY SICK.” YOU learn it, and those who do often curse! Faith is what continually walking in love isn’t just a THERE: tend to forget it—including delivers you from the effects of suggestion. It’s a spiritual those of us who are relatively that curse and all the ugly things law. It’s our New Covenant Protect your faith. mature believers. that are included in it. commandment, and obeying it Forgive everyone of If we don’t watch ourselves, That’s one reason you don’t is a very serious matter. everything. Walk in love all the time and FAITH we can forget how important it want to get sloppy when it comes How serious? Read be BLESSED! Here is to seek out correction from to dealing with sin. Sin will Deuteronomy 28 and you’ll see. are some points to our heavenly Father. We can stop your faith from working. There, God told the Israelites after get you there: become so casual in our attitude Why? Because “faith…worketh giving them His Old Covenant toward His commands that, by love” (Galatians 5:6), and sin commandments that their 1 WON’T God has instead of going to Him for help always violates the law of love. obedience or disobedience would when we break them, we act as if As the Scripture says: mean the difference between a commanded us, as New Testament disobeying Him is no big deal. BLESSED life and a cursed life. believers, to walk in I’m telling you right now, For all the law is fulfilled in one He said: love. WORK that’s a dangerous attitude! word, even in this: “You shall Galatians 5:14 Disobeying The LORD is love your neighbor as yourself It shall come to pass, if thou always a big deal. Breaking (Galatians 5:14, New King James shalt hearken diligently unto 2 IN AN His commands is sin, and sin is Version). the voice of the Lord thy When you keep deadly. Sin will open the door to God, to observe and to do all that commandment, the devil to come into your life For this, Thou shalt not commit his commandments which I your faith flourishes, and you can believe to steal, kill and destroy. Sin will adultery, Thou shalt not kill, command thee this day…all and receive the stop you from walking in THE Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt these blessings shall come on manifestation of UNFORGIVING BLESSING of God and cause not bear false witness, Thou thee, and overtake thee…. It THE BLESSING you to fall prey to the curse. shalt not covet; and if there be shall come to pass, if thou wilt in your life. “But Brother Copeland,” you any other commandment, it is not hearken unto the voice of Deuteronomy 28:2 might say, “I’m a believer. Doesn’t briefly comprehended in this the Lord thy God, to observe to HEART the Bible say I’ve been redeemed saying, namely, Thou shalt love do all his commandments and 3 from the curse?” thy neighbour as thyself. Love his statutes which I command When you break Yes, it does. In Galatians 3:13 worketh no ill to his neighbour: thee this day; that all these the commandment it says that “Christ hath redeemed therefore love is the fulfilling of curses shall come upon thee, of love through unforgiveness, your us from the curse of the law, the law (Romans 13:9-10). and overtake thee (verses 1-2, faith falters, and being made a curse for us.” It 15). Not a Suggestion, but a Law you become also goes on to say this: “That the vulnerable to blessing of Abraham might come This is something we, as Those words still apply to us the curse. on [us] through Jesus Christ; that believers, need to understand if as God’s people today. Even Deuteronomy 28:15 we might receive the promise we want to walk in the fullness though we’re living under of the Spirit through faith” of THE BLESSING: For us, a new and better covenant, 4 (verse 14). we, like the Israelites, have a This is why Those two verses together put commandment to keep. If we Jesus connected a very high value on faith! obey it and walk in love, faith forgiveness with the They say it’s “through faith” can flourish in our hearts and prayer of faith. Mark 11:25 that you receive redemption and the promise of the Spirit. It’s THAT’S ONE REASON YOU DON’T WANT TO GET through faith you connect with SLOPPY WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING WITH SIN. 5 THE BLESSING of Abraham Get rid of the poison and experience its benefits in of unforgiveness, SIN WILL STOP YOUR and keep your faith every area of your life. strong by feeding In other words, faith is what’s FAITH FROM WORKING. it with The WORD standing between you and the of God. 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