In the spiritual realm as a born-again believer, you have life
and the ability to share it with others. You need to learn how to
give this life to meet their needs. The Word of God says, “How
beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and
bring glad tidings of good things!” (Romans 10:15). I wondered
what this really meant until I heard the story of a missionary
and his family who were captured by the Japanese during World
War II. After they were taken captive, they were told that
Washington, D.C. had fallen, that the United States had surrendered,
and that Japan was in control. Well, you can imagine
what this did to those people. They felt absolutely hopeless! The
Japanese dragged them around the country and finally began
killing them because there wasn’t enough food. They took this
missionary’s little girl and shot her. The next day they heard a
deafening roar and saw the sky covered with B-29s! Those people
just went crazy! They had been completely without hope,
laboring under the lie that their country was defeated. Later a
G.I. kicked in the door on their compound and said, “You’re
free,” and when he did, the missionary fell down before him and
kissed his boots! You have the life-giving force of God Himself
residing inside you, and the world is desperate for that life!
Don’t be stingy with it. Freely you have received…freely give.

When you make it your need to get salvation into the hands
of the people, when you make it your purpose to feed the gospel
to the unsaved, God will support what you do. This is true
prosperity! God has obligated Himself to communicate the
message of Jesus Christ to the world. He will move heaven and
earth to do it because, to the man who has never heard it, Jesus
has never died or been resurrected from the dead. To that man,
the sacrifice of Jesus means nothing. The Word says in
1 John 4:17, “…as he is, so are we in this world.” God is feeding
us through Jesus. When you go to the Lord, He has more than
enough to meet the need. Have you ever turned to the Lord
with a problem and had Him say, “Well, that’s new! You’ve
come up with something heaven can’t cover”? Of course not!
God has more than enough to solve the worst problem you
could have. Jesus is the channel to us, and we are the channel
to the world.

True prosperity is the ability to look a man in the eye in his
moment of impossibility and take his needs as your own. Those
who are spiritual are to help those who are not. We are to bear
one another’s burdens. When a brother comes to you with a
problem, join with him in prayer, join your faith with his. Put
pressure on Satan with the Name of Jesus and get him off the
man. Put pressure on the laws of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus. Lean on your righteousness in Jesus Christ. Lean hard on
it! Lean hard on your sonship. Lean hard on the blood of Jesus.
Praise God, they work!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries