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Don’t Give Up—Double Up

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 Don't Give Up—Double Up
If you’ve ever run out of gas while driving down the road, you
already know this to be true: You can’t coast for long. You may be
able to keep rolling for a little while, as long as you’re on a
straightaway or going downhill. But as soon as you hit an uphill
climb, it’s over!
You stop moving forward because a coasting car simply can’t
go uphill.
The same principle holds true when it comes to living a
victorious life. If you don’t keep your spiritual gas tank full by
consistently putting God’s Word into your heart, you may coast
along OK as long as things are going smoothly; but when trouble
comes, you’re going to stop moving. You won’t have the power to
overcome.
That’s why you can’t afford to get too busy to spend daily time
in the Word. You always need to be ready to face the hills you
encounter on the road of life.
Those hills are coming, you know. The devil, who is our enemy,
always makes sure of that. He’s always out there trying to kill,
steal and destroy.
If we resist him, he will flee from us (James 4:7). But resisting
isn’t always easy. It takes a heart that’s full of faith because, as 1
John 5:4 says: Faith is “the victory that overcometh the world.”
Since faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17),
to stay strong in it we need a steady diet of God’s Word. We must
be like the man in James 1:25. That man puts the Word first in his
life. He’s faithful to it. He “perseveres in looking into it, being not
a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys]”
(The Amplified Bible). As a result, he is blessed in everything he
does.
Notice, I emphasized the word per​severe there. It’s especially
important because lack of perseverance is the reason many good,
Spirit-filled, Bible-believing Christians fail.
They get started in the Word. They read it, hear it preached
and believe what it says about things like healing and prosperity.
But then they get distracted by the everyday cares of life. Their
Bibles, instead of being opened and studied, start gathering dust.
The faith messages they once listened to get shoved to the back
of the closet. About the only time they give attention to the Word
is on Sunday when they go to church.
I’ll just be blunt about it: You can’t keep the Word in your
heart in abundance if you only pay attention to it for an hour on
Sunday. Your faith can’t survive on one meal a week. It must be
continually fed and renewed. That’s why Proverbs 4:20-23 says:
“My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings.
Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of
your heart. For they are life to those who find them, healing and
health to all their flesh. Keep and guard your heart with all
vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the
springs of life” (AMP).
 Feed On God's Word Every Day
Look again at those verses and you’ll see why it’s so vital for
us, as believers, to persevere in the Word. It is “life”—not just to
our spirit but to our physical body!
Ken and I can testify from much personal experience that the
Word of God has supernatural healing in it. The first thing we do
when a symptom of sickness comes our way is rebuke it in Jesus’
Name and resist it. “No, you don’t!” we say. “You’re not coming
on me!” Then, we immediately take the life that’s in the Word of
God.
We turn to the healing scriptures and read and confess them.
We take healing scriptures like other people take medicine. Why?
Because we know God’s Word is healing and health to all our
flesh.
We don’t wait until sickness attacks us to feed on those
scriptures, either. We don’t ignore the Word until trouble comes
and then grab our Bible and try to fill our hearts with faith. We
per​severe in the Word all the time.
Actually, I believe taking daily doses of God’s medicine—His
health-imparting, life-giving Word—can enable us to live for the
most part in perpetual divine health. So I feed on God’s Word
every single day. I put it in front of my eyes and in my ears and
mouth seven days a week. I continually let it correct me,
endeavor to obey it and act like it’s true. Because it is true!
As a result, I don’t have sick days. I’m a healed woman. I feel
good. I’m 71 years of age, I have plenty of energy and I’m well.
“But sickness isn’t my problem,” you might say. “What I’m
dealing with is financial trouble. Can God’s Word help me with
that?”
Certainly! The heart-faith the Word produces can bring you
victory in every area of your life.
According to Jesus, faith can move mountains (Mark 11:23). It
can conquer the curse and replace it with THE BLESSING. Faith
in God’s Word about prosperity coming out of your heart and your
mouth will push out poverty and replace it with plenty. It will
overcome everything the devil throws at you and make you more
than a conqueror through Him who loves you (Romans 8:37).
As we’ve already seen, however, to have that kind of strong,
overcoming faith, you can’t just look at the Word every once in a
while. You can’t just focus on it for a week or two and then quit.
You have to keep it before your eyes. You have to be faithful to
attend to it and obey it consistently.
Jesus said it this way: “If ye continue in my word, then are ye
my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free” (John 8:31-32).
Our victory in life completely depends on our perseverance in
the Word.
What, exactly, does it mean to persevere?
It means “to persist; to stay with the program; to be set, fixed,
and constant; to pursue steadily any business or enterprise
undertaken, in spite of contrary influences, opposition, and
discouragement.”
If you’re determined to persevere in the Word, you won’t do it
for a while and then quit when things get hard. You won’t throw
in the towel when the devil opposes you, and say, “Oh, I’ve tried
that Word stuff and it doesn’t work. I’m just going to quit reading
my Bible. I’m going to quit praying and listening to that faith
preaching. I don’t have time for it anyway.”
On the contrary, you’ll keep at it, stick with it and carry on
until it becomes a way of life. You’ll refuse to be moved by the
obstacles that come against you. You’ll steadily pursue God’s
Word—when times are easy and when they’re tough.
That may not sound like fun but it’s what develops faith. It’s
what de​velops spiritual strength and character. You can’t be a
weak Christian and walk in victory. You have to have some
endurance. You have to have some spiritual muscle!
Physically, you can’t develop muscle and endurance unless you
press against something, by lifting weights, for example, or
running an extra mile. Because such pressing can be
uncomfortable, physical training isn’t necessarily fun.
When you get busy and stop exercising for a while, if you go
long enough before you start again, you get sore again. There’s
just no way around it. You are pressing some muscles that haven’t
been used in a while.
Although you don’t like feeling sore, you persevere anyway
because you know the results will be worth it. The press will help
you get fit. It will help make you strong. That’s a physical fact.
This is a spiritual fact: When you start to exercise your spirit
daily by attending to the Word, obeying it and spending time in
prayer, you will have to press through some pressure at first. The
progress you want to see may take longer than you like. You may
find yourself facing greater challenges than you expected. But if
you’ll persevere and stick with the program, you’ll get wonderful
results and it will be worth the effort.
 Win the Argument
Everything in your life depends on the Word of God! Nothing
else can give you the faith you need to walk in consistent victory.
That’s why putting the Word first place in your life every day is so
vital. It’s also why the devil works so hard to keep you from doing
it.
He’ll give you all kinds of reasons why you can’t spend daily
time in the Word. He’ll tell you repeatedly why you shouldn’t obey
it and act on it. When he does, just keep persevering.
I found out how much difference such perseverance can make
many years ago when our son, John, was a teenager. He wasn’t
living right and I’d been wondering what to do about it. One day,
Ken and I were attending one of Brother Kenneth E. Hagin’s
meetings, and he spoke a prophetic word by the Holy Spirit that I
knew contained the answer to my question. “Spend just an hour
or two a day in prayer,” he said, “and all will be well with you.”
That word lined up perfectly with the Bible. It tells us not only
to attend to the Word but to pray. So I decided then and there to
commit to praying an hour every day, believing that all would be
well with my big problem—John Copeland.
When I started, it was wintertime. I’d wake up an hour earlier
than usual and it would be dark. It would be cold. My body would
say, “You do not want to get up and pray right now. This is not
any fun. You need more sleep.”
The devil would agree. “Yes, that’s right!” he’d say. “Go back
to sleep.”
One definition of perseverance is “to persist in speech,
interrogation, or argument; to insist.” That’s what I had to do
when the devil tried to talk me out of getting up for my prayer
time. I had to persist until I won the argument.
Oh, it was hard to drag myself out of bed on those cold, dark
mornings! I can do it with ease now, but I wasn’t used to it back
then. I stuck with it though until, eventually, it became a way of
life for me.
That was back in 1979, and I’ve been praying every morning
ever since! It’s turned out to be one of the greatest blessings of
my life. It accomplished exactly what I expected—and much
more!
John has long since ceased to be a problem. He’s a strong man
of God. He loves the Lord, has a wonderful family and serves as
executive director of this ministry. But that’s just the beginning.
Things are well with me today in every area of my life. I’ve
received countless blessings—spiritually, physically, financially
and in my family—by spending time every day in prayer.
 I’m not saying you should do the same thing I did. You need to
do whatever the Lord leads you to do. If you’re a night person, He
might lead you to spend time in the Word and in prayer in the
evening before you go to bed. He might lead you to listen to the
Word in your car while you’re driving to work every morning, or
spend your lunch hour reading your Bible.
One way or another, however, God will lead you to consistently
spend time in His Word because you need it to make things right
in your life. You cannot live in victory without a continual diet of
the Word of God and spending time with Him, because that’s
where faith comes from. Whatever God tells you to do, do it.
Persevere! Stay with it!
If you’re believing for finances and it takes longer than you
want for the money to come, don’t quit. If you quit, it’s all over. If
you turn away from the Word, what else can you turn to? If you
don’t follow God’s plan, whose plan will you follow? He is the only
One who can cause you to triumph. His Word is the only thing
that can give you victory.
Even if things are going smoothly for you right now and you
don’t have any problems today, that doesn’t mean you won’t have
problems tomorrow. Jesus said, “In the world you will have
[trouble]” (John 16:33, New King James Version). So stay strong
and ready to overcome it.
Don’t try to coast along on the Word you’ve put in your heart
in the past. Fill up your spiritual tank every day. When the road
gets rough and the devil pressures you to give up, double up
instead! Double up on the Word. Double up on prayer. Be doubly
quick to obey the Lord.
Say, “Oh, no, devil. I’m not going to quit. I’m just getting
started. I’m going to persevere in the Word until I receive
everything it promises.” Then put the pedal to the metal and
charge down the road of life with victory that overcomes the
world—even your faith!
Prayer for Salvation and Baptism in the
Holy Spirit
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. Your
Word says, “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be
saved” (Acts 2:21). I am calling on You. I pray and ask Jesus to
come into my heart and be Lord over my life according to
Romans 10:9-10: “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.” I do that now. I confess that Jesus is Lord,
and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead.
I am now reborn! I am a Christian—a child of Almighty God! I
am saved! You also said in Your Word, “If ye then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts unto your children: HOW MUCH
MORE shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them
that ask him?” (Luke 11:13). I’m also asking You to fill me with
the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, rise up within me as I praise God. I
fully expect to speak with other tongues as You give me the
utterance (Acts 2:4). In Jesus’ Name. Amen!
Begin to praise God for filling you with the Holy Spirit. Speak
those words and syllables you receive—not in your own language,
but the language given to you by the Holy Spirit. You have to use
your own voice. God will not force you to speak. Don’t be
concerned with how it sounds. It is a heavenly language!
Continue with the blessing God has given you and pray in the
spirit every day.
You are a born-again, Spirit-filled believer. You’ll never be the
same!
Find a good church that boldly preaches God’s Word and
obeys it. Become part of a church family who will love and care
for you as you love and care for them.
We need to be connected to each other. It increases our
strength in God. It’s God’s plan for us.
Make it a habit to watch the Believer’s Voice of Victory
television broadcast and become a doer of the Word, who is
blessed in his doing (James 1:22-25).
 About the Author
Gloria Copeland is a noted author and minister of the gospel
whose teaching ministry is known throughout the world.
Believers worldwide know her through Believers’ Conventions,
Victory Campaigns, magazine articles, teaching audios and
videos, and the daily and Sunday Believer’s Voice of Victory
television broadcast, which she hosts with her husband, Kenneth
Copeland. She is known for Healing School, which she began
teaching and hosting in 1979 at KCM meetings. Gloria delivers
the Word of God and the keys to victorious Christian living to
millions of people every year.
Gloria is author of the New York Times best-seller, God’s
Master Plan for Your Life and Live Long, Finish Strong, as well as
numerous other favorites, including God’s Will for You, Walk With
God, God’s Will Is Prosperity, Hidden Treasures and To Know
Him. She has also co-authored several books with her husband,
including Family Promises, Healing Promises and the best-selling
daily devotionals, From Faith to Faith and Pursuit of His
Presence.
She holds an honorary doctorate from Oral Roberts University.
In 1994, Gloria was voted Christian Woman of the Year, an honor
conferred on women whose example demonstrates outstanding
Christian leadership. Gloria is also the co-founder and vice
president of Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Fort Worth, Texas.
Learn more about Kenneth Copeland Ministries by visiting our website at
kcm.org
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