You will never be healthier or more prosperous than your
soul. You can be born again, even filled with the Holy Spirit,
and still not be prosperous in your soul. For instance, an old
saint of God, living in poverty, can pray revival down on a
church, get everybody in town saved, and be lying in bed sick
the whole time—if she does not believe the Word of God for her
health! She can do these things, never knowing the fullness of
the infilling of the Holy Spirit and speaking with other tongues,
even though healing and prosperity belong to her all the time.
You see, her soul was not prosperous in these areas; her mind
had not grasped the full meaning of the Word of God; her mental
computer had never been fed on God’s Word concerning
healing, the Holy Spirit and prosperity. She knew the Word
enough to seek salvation and revival and used this knowledge
to pray down the power of God. Her soul was prosperous in
this area.

The world’s definition of physical prosperity (prosperity of
the senses) includes gold, silver, financial favor or power, political
favor or power and social favor or power. The world’s definition
of mental prosperity (prosperity of the soul) is “knowing
it all.” Put these two ideas together and you have a person who
can use his mind to get financial and political power. This is
the world’s total concept of prosperity. You can easily see its
drawbacks! Wealth and power cannot answer every problem.
Money makes a lousy god! It can’t buy good health or prevent
sickness and disease from taking over the human body. Yes, it
can go toward buying it, but the world’s system of healing just
isn’t good enough. In the mental realm, a person can have all
the facts in his head and not have the ability to use that knowledge
to obtain the money or the health that he needs.

What produces spiritual, mental and physical prosperity?
What brings all these areas together? The Word of God. The
Bible says in Hebrews 4:12 that the Word is alive, powerful and
sharper than a two-edged sword. It says that it divides the soul
and the spirit, the joints and the marrow, and that it is a discerner
of the thoughts and intents of the heart. When you are
walking in the Word of God, you will prosper and be in health.

We cannot settle for prosperity in the physical or the mental
realm only. It would be easy just to settle for spiritual prosperity,
but we can’t afford to be lazy and to discount physical
and mental prosperity simply because we are saved and filled
with the Holy Spirit. It is the will of God for us to be made
whole—spirit, soul and body—and to be kept that way until
the return of our Lord Jesus Christ (see 1 Thessalonians 5:23).
As you walk in the light of God’s Word, you will become prosperous
in every area of your life.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries