There is a medicine so powerful it can cure every sickness and disease known to man. It has no dangerous side effects. It is safe even in massive doses. And when taken daily according to directions, it can prevent illness altogether and keep you in vibrant health.

Does that sound too good to be true? It’s not. I can testify to you by the Word of God and by my own experience that such a supernatural medicine exists. Even more important, it is available to you every moment of every day.

You don’t have to call your doctor to get it. You don’t even have to drive to the pharmacy. All you must do is reach for your Bible, open to Proverbs 4:20-24 and follow the instructions you find there:

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health [Hebrew: medicine] to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

As simple as they might sound, those four verses contain the supernatural prescription for divine health. It’s a powerful prescription that will work for anyone who will put it to work.

If you have received healing by the laying on of hands, following this prescription will help you maintain that healing. If you have believed for healing, but are experiencing lingering symptoms, it will help you stand strong until you are completely symptom-free. And, if you are healthy now, it will
help you stay that way—not just for a day or a week, but for the rest of your life!

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 has a highly organized system to meet the needs of
every facet of your life. The world’s system of meeting our
needs works exactly opposite from God’s system. God’s system is
totally adequate. The world’s idea of anything is very limited at
best and stands a 99.9 percent chance of being totally wrong.
As believers, we must be careful not to limit God in our individual
lives to what the world says is so. The problem with the
world and its system of operations is that there is a spiritual
mad dog loose in it and his name is Satan.

The world has a system of healing that is a miserable
failure! We thank God for what good has been done with it, but
we are forced to admit it falls far short of being adequate to
meet the needs of the sick around us. Some men are dedicated
to it as if it were a god. The world’s system of healing makes a
god of the hospital and a god of medicine. Actually, for the
most part, it leaves God out entirely, and without God, it will
not work! There is no way to get healing except through the
power of God, either directly by His power or by the power He
built into the human body. No man on earth can heal apart
from God.

There are two choices before you—the world’s system of
healing or God’s system of healing. God’s system and its laws
are contradictory to the world’s system. The world cannot
understand God’s system of caring for the human body. The
Bible says the things of God are foolishness to the world (see
1 Corinthians 2:14). God made the human body. He definitely
should be able to repair it. Ford Motor Company has that much
sense! If they can build the whole car, surely they can build
parts for it.

We haven’t known much about the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus and a lack of understanding has caused problems in
making this law function for our benefit. The Apostle Paul wrote,
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). In order to be successful
at God’s business, we must understand how His system works.
Don’t expect God’s best to come from the world’s system. He will
work around and through it in order to reach you, but it is
always far below His best.

The absolute priority in studying prosperity is that you
should never think of it from a carnal viewpoint, from the
world’s attitude. You must train yourself to think in line with
God’s Word. If you’re not careful, when you think of the laws of
prosperity, all you will see is money—only a very small part of
prosperity. True prosperity is God manifesting Himself to us in His
Word. If He is manifesting Himself through His Word, He is
always within easy contact because you can handle the Word.
The only way you can have God with you on a continual daily
basis is through His Word. We should not judge by our feelings
or by our emotions, but by what God has said in His Word.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

As we begin this study of prosperity and how it functions
according to the Word of God, let’s read the basic scriptures on
which our whole study is founded. Let me mention here that
we are putting the Word of God first and foremost throughout
this study, not what we think it says, but what it actually says!
When we see it in the Word, believe it, and begin to act on it,
faith is created. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God” (Romans 10:17).

As you read our basic scripture text, remember Jesus said in
John 17:17, “Thy word is truth.” For a clearer meaning substitute
the Word for truth as follows: “Beloved, I wish above all
things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul
prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified
of the truth [the Word] that is in thee, even as thou walkest
in the truth [the Word]. I have no greater joy than to hear that my
children walk in truth [the Word]” (3 John 2-4).

It would be good to point out that when the Apostle John
wrote this epistle, he was an old man and had been in the
Christian walk for a long, long time—in fact, from the time of
his youth. He had walked with Jesus and watched Him closely
throughout His earthly ministry. John was a wise old man,
strong in the Lord, and he said, “I wish above all things that you
prosper and be in health.”

Through our traditional ideas, we have been lead to believe
that prosperity is bad or ungodly. However, John writes that
we should prosper and be in health and then it says in verse 11,
“Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He
that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen
God.” If prosperity is evil, why would He want us to prosper?
You see, there is nothing wrong with prosperity in itself. Money
is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil
(see 1 Timothy 6:10), and there are people committing this sin
who don’t have a dime! I want you to realize, however, that
prosperity covers much more than finances.

When John said we should prosper and be in health, he
added the phrase, “Even as thy soul prospereth.” Man is a spirit;
he has a soul consisting of the mind, the will and the emotions;
and he lives in a body. Thus, there is spiritual prosperity; there
is mental prosperity; and there is physical prosperity.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries