This Covenant Key Unlocks BLESSINGS That Will Overwhelm You

Because The WORD was made flesh, Jesus and The WORD are One and the same.

And The WORD is as alive today as it was when The WORD was walking the shores of Galilee healing the sick, casting out devils, restoring sight and cleansing lepers.

The WORD is as bold as He was the day the wind and the waves obeyed The WORD, yet as tender as when The WORD spoke to a child or restored a broken woman.

The WORD comforts the brokenhearted and challenges the self-righteous at the same time. The WORD has power in three realms—heaven, earth and under the earth (Philippians 2:10).

The WORD is as effective as it was when Jesus answered the devil, saying, “It is written…” (Matthew 4:1-10).

The WORD is the meeting place where God’s Faith and our Faith come together. It is The WORD that prevails when a believer speaks it in Faith, confident in his or her Covenant (John 8:31).

In the kingdom of God, The WORD of His power is the only foundation fit to undergird and empower believers to walk in the God kind of Faith (Mark 11:22). The WORD is the only way we can overcome the contradictions to the Covenant and walk in THE BLESSING.

“But Brother Copeland,” somebody might say, “how do we get The WORD to work in our lives? In our families? In our bodies? In our finances?”

As the doctor told my dad when they were talking that day, it all starts with our head. That doctor had learned from experience that what’s going on in people’s heads often gets in the way of their health. It affects their healing. Why would the thoughts in our head govern our bodies? Because what we believe is a result of our thinking. If we think wrong, we will believe wrong. The WORD of God is given to us to straighten out our thinking. If our believing is wrong, our confession will be wrong. Whatever is in our heads is going to affect what comes out our mouths, and whatever comes out our mouths will steer our lives. Proverbs 23:7 says, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.…”

In Consistency Lies the Power

It’s a spiritual principle revealed through the Bible: The way we release Faith and cause it to work on our behalf is by speaking it. Romans 10:8 says, “The WORD is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, The WORD of faith, which we preach.”

Faith speaks, but it cannot say The WORD of God if The WORD does not first reside in our minds. Why? Because we speak what we think. We say what’s in our hearts. When we’re squeezed by pressure, what’s inside us automatically comes out of our mouths. If we have God’s WORD inside us in abundance, Faith words come out. If we don’t have His WORD abiding in us, then fear and everything that goes with it comes out. The Bible says in Luke 6:45, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.”

David praised God saying, “Your WORD I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You” (Psalm 119:11, New King James Version). To hide God’s WORD in our hearts is to read it, meditate it, study it, memorize it and speak it. We call this renewing our minds because that’s the phrase the Apostle Paul used in Romans 12:2 where he wrote: “Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]” (Romans 12:2, Amplified Bible, Classic Edition).

In the Apostle Paul’s second letter to the church at Corinth, we find the answer to the renewing of the mind. The bottom line of all this is to put God’s Covenant words from The BOOK into our hearts and minds and build a Covenant stronghold that will hold you strong in your spirit and in your soul (or your will, mind and emotions), and the results will be divine health. In John 10:10 (Amplified Bible, Classic Edition), Jesus said, “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” He is the Good Shepherd; renew your mind to that.

A man stopped me in a parking lot and said, “Brother Copeland, God only promised to meet our needs, not our wants.” Let’s look at that. Small pieces of verses bring up small pieces of the truth. The truth that will make you free is found in the Apostle Paul’s partner letter in Philippians 4:18-19 which says, “But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” All my need covers what I want. Shall we go to the First Covenant and see what the Prophet David said? “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). I reminded him of that scripture, and he just looked a little sad and walked away.

The LORD spoke to Gloria many years ago about this very issue and said to her, In consistency lies the power. If we want to walk in all our Covenant rights and privileges, we must keep the words of THE BLESSING in our hearts and in our mouths all the time. We must consistently speak The WORD only. Nothing else. Because in consistency lies the power. Being consistent is another way of saying “diligent.”

When the centurion Cornelius wanted Jesus to heal his servant, he said, “I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak The WORD only, and my servant shall be healed” (Matthew 8:8). Speak The WORD only. That’s what Gloria and I have been teaching people to do for years. It’s the key to receiving all that God has for us.

The WORD contains God’s own creative ability. It carries within it the power to bring itself to pass. Therefore, when we believe and speak The WORD of THE BLESSING over our lives, we release its power and experience its life-changing manifestations. As we are diligent to activate it by speaking it in Faith, it empowers us to prosper and succeed. That’s why there are pages of scriptures at the end of this book that you can personalize and pray over your own life.

I’ve asked you twice, but I’ll ask once more: What are you facing? And what are you saying to what you are facing?

When Joshua and the children of Israel first entered the Promised Land, they faced the walls of Jericho. Those walls presented them with an impossible situation—a contradiction to God’s WORD. He’d said that He’d given Jericho into their hand (Joshua 6:2). But the walls around the city were more than eleven feet high and almost six feet thick.

What did Joshua do in the face of that contradiction?

He believed and acted on what God had said to him: “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success” (Joshua 1:8, New King James Version).

To observe to do all that is written in it, is seeing it in the spirit, or revealed knowledge from The BOOK. If it is Western movies, that’s what will come out of your mouth. If it is constantly reading novels, that is what will come forth. If it is meditating on your problems, your problems will come forth in your speech. If you meditate on The WORD only 10 percent, you will have 10 percent results. If you meditate on The WORD 50 percent, you will have 50 percent results. Heart and mind full of the Covenant, 100 percent results: spirit, soul, financially and socially!

Joshua followed that divine formula for success, and under his leadership the Israelites fulfilled their assignment. Joshua’s words activated the vast power and might of heaven’s armies to fight for Israel and they delivered a decisive victory over the heavily fortified city.

What’s in your mind? And what’s coming out of your mouth? Is your mind renewed with The WORD of God? The answer to that, according to Jesus, is that it’s what is in your heart in abundance that will come out of your mouth.

To walk in all that God has for us, we must be speaking The WORD only. Yet oftentimes we waffle between speaking The WORD and speaking everything else but The WORD. We act like the people James was correcting when he wrote:

Out of the same mouth proceed BLESSING and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh (James 3:10-12, New King James Version).

God’s words, the bedrock of the Covenant, are alive and filled with Himself, with His very nature, with Jesus. They are filled with His hesed—life, health, prosperity and BLESSING (John 6:63; Proverbs 4:22; Deuteronomy 29:9). They are the expression of His thoughts and innermost being, bringing the essence of Himself into human thought and language. You and I are to meditate on, know and learn them so that we speak them only, all the time.