Gloria Copeland — A Living Communion With Him Part 2

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But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall—will remind you of, bring to your remembrance—everything I have told you…. However, I am telling you nothing but the truth when I say, it is profitable good, expedient, advantageous—for you that I go away. Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you—into close fellowship with you. But if I go away, I will send Him to you—to be in close fellowship with you….But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the truth—the whole, full truth. For He will not speak His own message—on His own authority—but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father, He will give the message that has been given to Him] and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come—that will happen in the future. He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare,
disclose, transmit) it to you. Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) them to you (John 14:26, 16:7, 13-15, The Amplified Bible).

In 1 John 2:20 we read: “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.”

The word unction here is the same word as anointing in verse 27: “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.”

This anointing for living is from the Spirit of the God living in us. Jesus said He would lead us into all the truth. He said it was better that He went away because He would send another Comforter (the Holy Spirit) Who would live in us and teach us all things. The anointing of the Spirit of God which we have received abides within us. This unction of the Holy Spirit is in us continually to teach us, lead us, guide us and counsel us. He tells us what the Father and Jesus want us to do. It is just like having a two-way radio linked up to heaven. And He empowers us to do it.

Work out—cultivate, carry out to the goal and fully complete—your own salvation…[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you—energizing and creating in you the
power and desire—both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight (Philippians 2:12-13, The Amplified Bible).

Now here is the catch: “…even as it [the anointing] hath taught you, ye shall abide in him” (1 John 2:27). What does this mean? That as this anointing teaches us, we obey. We abide in Him. Abiding is obeying. If we do not abide in Him and walk in Him, the Spirit of God is hindered in accomplishing what He has been sent to do. We either walk in obedience to our God, or we pay the price for disobedience.

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

Gloria Copeland — Poverty and Prosperity Part 2

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From the time of Adam’s fall, man was cursed. Through
the years he was trained under deception and did not have the
necessary spiritual knowledge and understanding to escape it.
After several generations had passed, Adam’s teachings to his
own sons had been forgotten, and no one knew anything about
God or about spiritual law. Most of the things God had said
were absolutely foreign to the human mind. Jesus said “Give,
and it shall be given to you again,” but this is contrary to our
thinking. We say, “That’s stupid! It doesn’t make sense…anybody
knows that if you give it away, you won’t have it anymore!”
But God knows the foundation principle of the law of
giving. Satan knows it too, but he will try to deceive you in
order to keep you ignorant, weak and powerless so that he can
govern you.

When God made His covenant with Abraham, most people
could not understand. As long as they obeyed God, they were
blessed. However, when they relied on their own understanding,
they would go back under the curse again. God was telling
them, “If you won’t follow My Word and do what I tell you,
there is nothing I can do for you. I cannot usurp authority over
your own free will.”

Let’s stop and consider for a moment that when God made
His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He promised
to take care of them and their descendants. They were free men!
Consequently, every Jewish slave who bore the lash under
Egyptian rule was a free man! There was only one problem…
they didn’t know it! Therefore, God called Moses and gave him
the ability and authority to write down the covenant God had
made with Abraham. This way, the people would know what
had been done and what had been agreed to. Moses went forth
in the name of the covenant, performed miracles by the power
of God in the face of Pharaoh, and led God’s people out of
bondage. They could have gone free 400 years before, but they
didn’t know their covenant! God has laid out His innermost
thoughts and desires, His perfect will, in the form of a contract
and placed them in the Bible. They are available to set us free
from Satan’s authority, by the Spirit of God in the Name of
Jesus. Jesus said, “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).

We have seen from the Word that the covenant of God has
been established. We have seen that prosperity is a blessing of
Abraham and that poverty is under the curse of the law. How
does this affect us as members of the Body of Christ under the
new covenant?

Galatians 3:13-14, 29 says, “Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed
is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. And if ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Jesus bore the curse of the law in our behalf. He beat Satan
and took away his power. Consequently, there is no reason for
you to live under the curse of the law, no reason for you to live
in poverty of any kind. Many born-again believers live in spiritual
poverty, spiritual malnutrition. They are mighty, spiritual supermen
in the embryo but not growing an ounce because they are
not being properly fed. Spiritual growth comes only by feeding
and acting on the Word of God. “Desire the sincere milk of the
word, that ye may grow thereby” (1 Peter 2:2).

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Gloria Copeland — A Living Communion With Him Part 2

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Gloria Copeland — Poverty and Prosperity Part 2

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland