Mercy of God by Kenneth Copeland

Author:Kenneth Copeland
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: God, Religion, Christian Life, General
ISBN: 9780881147254
Publisher: Kenneth Copeland Publications
Published: 1986-02-14T22:00:00+00:00

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Possessing the Mercy of God

In most of the religious world, we have majored in the minors and minored in the majors. We have majored in God's anger and minored in His mercy. But Psalm 30:5 says God's anger "is but for a moment," and Psalm 134 says that "God's mercy endures forever."

There are other areas where we have gotten the wrong perspective too. In majoring on the body and minoring on the spirit, we have placed the wrong emphasis on the physical realm. The truth is that the existence of the spirit realm is as real as the existence of the natural realm. When we were born again, we were born in the spirit. We have tried to get the things of God to go from the outside in, instead of from the inside out. We need to turn inside and let what was born in the spirit flow outward.

Healing is a good example of this. It comes from inside the spirit man out into the body. We have wanted to have healing rubbed on us like an ointment. We have tried to get a treatment by getting into the prayer line expecting to receive healing the way we put on a salve.

Many people have a hard time receiving from God because they approach healing this way. They have had little understanding of the difference between the physical and the spiritual realm. They have failed to understand what Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:6. He said,

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

The flesh represents the natural, or physical, realm which is perceived by the five physical senses. In contrast, the spirit realm is more real than what we see, hear, feel, and taste.

We must understand that God, a Spirit, created the natural realm. This makes the spirit world, the realm of the Creator, the authority over the natural. Therefore, it would be foolish to consider that the creation is more powerful than the Creator.

When we confess Jesus as Lord, our spirits get born again—Ephesians says we are created in righteousness and true holiness. We are made in the image of God. You are a spirit. You have a soul. You live in a body. To worship God, you must enter the spiritual realm. Jesus said that those who worship Him must worship Him "in spirit and in truth."

Many do not understand that they are a triune being— spirit, soul, and body. We have been so natural conscious that we have assumed that our physical body is our true identity, but it is not. It is just our earth suit. A good illustration of this is my coat. I am the life of my coat. When I move, the coat moves. If I were to die, it would be like taking my coat off because dying is simply the laying aside of our natural body.

What I am saying is that we have majored in the minor which is the natural realm.

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