Force of Righteousness by Kenneth Copeland

Author:Kenneth Copeland
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Righteousness, Family & Relationships, God, Christian Life, General, Religion, Biblical Studies
ISBN: 9780938458128
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 1992-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Become Righteousness-Minded

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:34, "Awake to righteousness, and sin not....” Awake to righteousness. Become aware that you have been made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ, that you have been placed in right-standing with Him through the sacrifice of Jesus at Calvary. When you do, it will stop the sin in your life.

As long as Satan can convince you that you don’t have any right to the things of God, then he can keep you under his thumb and sin will control your life. But when you awake to righteousness, you will realize that Satan is a defeated foe and the struggle is over.

Awake to righteousness... become righteousness-minded! You have been thoroughly equipped to handle every situation that comes your way. You are to reign in life as a king by Jesus Christ. You are to live in conformity with the Father. The Almighty God, Creator of the universe, chose to come down on your level in the form of Jesus Christ, to dwell in your heart by the Holy Spirit, and to give you His righteousness, His ability and His strength., "because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). Praise God!

Ephesians 3:20 says He is "...able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”

When I fully understood the significance of this scripture, I began to have some confidence in the ministry of the Holy Spirit in my life. In fact, the Lord spoke to my heart one day and said, How much confidence are you placing in the God within you? At that time, I had no confidence in Him whatsoever! I was praying and hoping God would do something, obviously with no results. Then I grasped the reality of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God.

Jesus said that when the Spirit of Truth came, He would reveal the things of God to us (John 16:13-15).

God through the Holy Spirit began to reveal to my heart the deep truths of the new birth, of the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. He revealed the power of the Holy Spirit—God’s muscle, God’s mind, God’s everything— and He showed how this part of the Godhead was living inside every born-again, Spirit-filled believer! Then these truths became deeply rooted in my spirit, and I began to become righteousness-minded.

How do you become righteousness-minded? Romans 8:5 says, "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh....” We have occupied ourselves much of the time with fleshly things. Proverbs 4:20 instructs us to attend to the Word of God. In the past we have not done this. We have thought sickness instead of healing.weakness instead of strength.trouble instead of victory.poverty instead of prosperity...sin instead of righteousness. We have attended to these other things, almost completely ignoring the power of the Word of God to deliver us from the flesh.

Hebrews 5:13 tells us, "For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

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