There is a basic, fundamental truth that runs throughout
the entire Bible, throughout God’s history of dealing with man.
Every time there was a need, no matter what that need was,
God had a man somewhere who had the resources—spiritually,
mentally or financially—to meet that need. For Israel, there
was Moses. For the world, there was Jesus. For Jesus, there was
a man with a donkey. For Ephesus, there was Paul. The Bible
says God gave gifts to men—apostles, prophets, evangelists,
pastors, teachers (see Ephesians 4:11). He had a man to provide
every need. No one person will ever be so spiritual that he
doesn’t need other people. We all need one another.

Begin to include the Body of Christ in your needs. Begin to
include the lost in your needs. If a man came to you needing
clothes and you didn’t have any clothes to give him, both of
you would be in trouble. You need clothes for yourself, and you
need to be able to supply him with clothes. Jesus said, “Why do
you worry about what you will eat and what you will wear?
Your heavenly Father knows you have need of these things”
(see Matthew 6:31-32). But He also said, “Give, and it shall be
given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together,
and running over, shall men give into your bosom” (Luke 6:38).

When I realized this and began to consider the needs of
others before my own, I found that my needs were met supernaturally!
It was uncanny! I had spent practically all of my
adult life in debt. It seemed that every business venture I tried
just fell apart, leaving me even further in debt. Then I turned to
the Lord, determined to commit myself to His Word, and began
walking my bedroom floor with my Bible in my fist, shouting at
the top of my voice, “My God meets all my needs according to
His riches in glory by Christ Jesus!” I just kept confessing this
hour after hour, day after day! My situation looked absolutely
impossible at the time! I had no place to preach and nothing
much to say! (One thing I could say was, “My God meets all my
needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus!” I knew
that sentence very well!) Eleven months later I was completely
out of debt. In the meantime, I learned to include other people
in my needs by giving to them and getting involved with them.
When I began to give, I suddenly realized one day how very
busy I was with God’s work. Years have come and gone and I
haven’t caught up yet. When you do this, God will move heaven
and earth if necessary to reach you.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Let’s look for a moment at the world of finance, the biggest
problem area on earth. Sickness is not our main concern. There
are many healthy people who are head over heels in debt, and
God’s people have no business being in debt! Here again, we find
that the world has a system of finance which is complex and
very poor in operation. It continually rocks back and forth
between the two extremes of depression and inflation.

However, when you are functioning in God’s system of
finance, life can be very simple. Don’t borrow from anyone—
get it from God. The problem with borrowing is that it is controlled
by the world’s system. In order to borrow, you must subordinate
yourself to another person. Proverbs 22:7 says the borrower
is the servant to the lender. By borrowing, you subordinate
your name to another person. This is very important because of
the spiritual significance of your name. Your name is the same
as your nature. If your name is good, then you are good—your
reputation is good. You can do whatever your name can do.
However, when you borrow and go into debt to someone else,
you bow your knee to that person and look to him as your
source of supply. This creates a spiritual problem that can be
very serious, particularly if the other person is ungodly.

Look to God, He will give to you, not loan to you! Believers
need to learn how to operate in God’s system. It isn’t easy to
learn; but as you search the Word, you will have the desire to
know God’s system. When you begin to operate by it and live
by faith in every area of your life, God will step in and make up
what you don’t know. He will put you over! The deeper you get
into the Word and the more you learn, the more you will
expand; the more you expand, the more Satan will fight; the
more he fights, the bigger the victory; the bigger your victory,
the more glory to God; the more glory to God, the more you
will expand! It is constant growth!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

God used His Word to set the standards by which we would
operate. It had to be by faith or not at all. We made commitments
that seemed so hard. We declared that we would never
ask any man for anything including money and places to minister.
We pledged ourselves and this ministry to Romans 13:8,
that we would never borrow one cent. We would tell our needs
only to God and expect what He was teaching us to produce.
Little did we know then what a blessing these standards would
be. We learned, many times the hard way. We prayed. We confessed
our faith. We stood on God’s Word when every circumstance
spelled absolute doom. God’s Word worked! Things
began to happen for us instead of to us. We began to grow. In
11 months, we were free from debt. Unless you have experienced
the freedom of being debt-free, you cannot imagine how great it
is not to have any man putting pressure on you. We know what
Hebrews 4:11 means when it says, “…labour therefore to enter
into that rest.” There is peace and rest when you know how to
operate in God’s laws instead of being forced to seek help from
men’s sources.

God always has more than enough. The rise in interest rates
has not affected our ministry. The rise in medical costs has not
affected us. We have learned to receive our healing from God.

The world’s shortages have no effect on someone who has
already gone to heaven. Therefore, they should have no effect
on us here who have made Jesus the Lord of our lives.
Philippians 4:19 says that our needs are to be met according to
His riches in glory, not our shortages in earth. Our problem has
been in not knowing heaven’s ways of doing things. We have
tried to live in God’s blessings with the world’s laws. It won’t
work. We receive from God by using His laws and ways.

In the book you are about to read, I have shared these laws
of prosperity the way they were given to me from God’s Word.
They are not theories; they are facts. We have tried and proven
each one in our lives! We live this way. My invitation
to you is from Malachi 3:10. God Himself says, “Prove me now
herewith…if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour
you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive
it.” Determine now to act on God’s Word and start looking for
more room!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries