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Kenneth Copeland — Your Heavenly Account

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:01:51 +0000

As we have already seen from Mark 10:30, Jesus promised a
hundredfold return when we give for His sake and the gospel’s.
Using this scripture, I decided to believe for a hundredfold
return when I gave my airplane as an investment in the gospel.
Let me add that I didn’t begin believing for a hundredfold
return overnight. When I started in the ministry, a hundredfold
return was more than I could fathom! I could see it in the Word
of God, and I knew it was true, but it took time for my faith to
develop so that these things would produce in my life. I didn’t
start believing for $5,000 or $10,000 at a time. I began believing
for the return on the first $10 I gave to Brother Roberts. My
wife and I believed for a double return and got it every, single
month. But over a period of time, by meditating in the Word
and confessing it, that “victory portion” of faith came alive in
my heart concerning a hundredfold return.

In October 1971 I gave my airplane to the Lord. I released
it, no longer claiming ownership. Then through the next few
months, I continually confessed with my mouth that the withdrawal
was mine, that it was on deposit in my heavenly account
and would be manifest as I needed it. There were times when I
would wake up in the middle of the night with fear trying to
take over, trying to get me to put pressure on people, trying to
get me to rent or lease or borrow. But I would fall back on the
Word of God and my covenant with Him, thanking God that
His Word is true and full of power. Then in January 1972 the
Lord spoke and told me to whom I was to give the airplane.

At this point, I was in quite a predicament. Arrangements
had been made to produce a television series, and we had no
apparent capital. In addition, we had a busy schedule with no
transportation. In the natural there was no way out, but by this
time, we knew how deeply God was involved! Ten days later I
had in my hands the exact amount I had confessed as my withdrawal.
Someone I didn’t even know said that God had told
them to give the money. I was to put it into the ministry and
not disclose from whom it came. This person wanted God to
receive all the glory and He has. If you borrow from the bank,
you have to answer to the banker, but when you get it from
God, there are no strings attached.

Well, I had spotted another airplane and knew exactly
where it was. I called the owner, and he flew it down to me. He
could hardly believe it! He was a Christian too, and God had
warned him three or four months earlier that he was flying
around in my airplane. But he hadn’t done anything about it
and had not made arrangements for one of his own. He had to
do without transportation for a while! This is an exciting life!
You can do what you want, but for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord!

Withdrawals from the bank of heaven are accomplished
through the power of agreement, the power of confession and
the power of standing expectantly on God’s Word.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Kenneth Copeland — Ready To Sow Part 3

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:01:22 +0000

My schedule was already set up, and it dictated that I use
an airplane. You can’t operate on our schedule and use the airlines
or an automobile. It was set up around a private plane.
Airlines service 650 airports in the United States. We service
8,000 with our own plane. So you can see that there was an
immediate need for another airplane.

God said, “When you give the airplane, this deposit will
enable you to call for a withdrawal to handle your television
ministry.” Well, in order to film it and put it on the air before
the people, we needed several months’ time and thousands of
dollars. The Lord had already shown me how it was to operate—
the people who heard the Word would support it in order
for others to hear it. But there was a certain period of time
when the television ministry would not be exposed to anyone.
This created a need in addition to the need for an airplane. The
Lord said, “I’ll handle it for you if you’ll make the proper
deposits.” So we did.

On February 21, just 10 days later, we had a new airplane
and the money for the television ministry. Just 10 days! Only
God could handle a situation like that. The second airplane was
worth five times more than the first one. It was larger and faster,
flew higher and farther. In fact, it was exactly the plane that I
had asked for, and all the bills were paid! Praise the Lord!

We need to learn how to make the proper deposits in our
heavenly bank so that we can withdraw from it when needed.

Once you realize you have this on deposit, it will become easy
to believe God for it. Your faith will not work easier. It’s not difficult
to believe God for the money you have on deposit at the
corner bank. You don’t have to exercise your faith to write a
check on it. But it takes a considerable amount of faith to get
money when you don’t have any on deposit. The same principle
works with God. The reason this action took place so fast in my
case was because the deposit had already been made. It was
there in heaven and available on call. There are many people
who have made these deposits with God and have never called
for them because they don’t realize they are laid up in store for
them now.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Kenneth Copeland — Ready To Sow Part 2

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:01:47 +0000

While I was in Ohio, God dealt with me about the television
ministry. At that time I could not understand, or see, with
my own mind how it would work financially, but I had learned
long before not to back off for this reason. I knew the Lord
could work it out. It didn’t matter how it operated or what the
financial details were, I knew there was only one way to succeed—
by giving. Then the thought flashed across my mind,
“No man has given until he has given all he has,” and the first
thing I saw was my twin-engine airplane. Well, cold chills ran
up and down my spine! That little plane was my pride and joy.
I had tithed and believed God for it, and He had given it to me
as a tool of this ministry. Because of this, it really meant a lot to
me. Then I realized that I had to get rid of it. I couldn’t afford
to let it come between God and me, so I went into prayer and
the Lord said, “If you will realize what I am leading you into,
you will make an agreement with Me so that I can help you
financially. Make Me Lord over your finances.” That is exactly
what I did. I wrote out an agreement about the airplane and
used it to lay up a treasure in heaven for the time to come when
I would need it. I didn’t want to release that airplane, but I
knew that God would not take it without giving more in return.
My faith dictated that God’s Word was true, so I disciplined my
thinking to get in line with my faith (instead of my fear) and I
wrote out this agreement: “On the fourth day of October 1971,
I give my airplane to the Lord to be sold and the money put
into preaching the Word of God on television and in any other
manner possible.”

I made this covenant with the Lord according to Luke 6:38,
“Give, and it shall be given unto you…again,” and Mark 10:30,
“But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time.” The agreement
also contained this statement: “I freely give this money
from the sale of the airplane, and I expect the return on it.”

Then I had the engines overhauled, had some maintenance
done, ran an annual inspection on it, and altogether spent about
$8,000 on a piece of equipment that technically didn’t belong to
me any longer. Since God is love, it follows that the laws governing
the power of God are the giving laws. You can’t stop
these laws and still make God’s power operate. It just will not
work that way! God’s system is really unique. He takes a person
who is absolutely destitute, provides the seed to start his giving,
then gives him the hundredfold return on what he gives. Only
God could manage or afford a financial operation like that!

I made the agreement to release my airplane in October
1971. Then on February 11, 1972, while we were holding a
meeting in Birmingham, Ala., the Lord instructed me to give it
to a particular evangelist. So that is what I did. This is the point
I want you to grasp: When God told me to give it away, I didn’t
hesitate for one moment. You see, God had set up this deal
almost four months before, and there had been time for me
to be healed of a possessive spirit where that plane was concerned.
Therefore, when God spoke, I acted and was thrilled
to do it! We flew it home and gave it away.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries