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How to Activate
Fully Persuaded Faith
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To live fully
persuaded, you need to become a person who understands what it means to be
under authority — who knows how to obey orders. God is the Master, and when He
gives orders, we are to obey them immediately. That’s the kind of faith that is
pleasing to God — to have faith in the One who gives the orders. You are not
just a child of God — you’re a soldier in the army of the Lord, and your
promotion comes from following orders. When you look past your circumstances,
take God at His Word, and obey without hesitancy, you will activate fully
persuaded faith that brings manifested victory every time - you can live a life
that supersedes all reason and expectation - you can live in victory
Kenneth Copeland
“And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised,
he was able also to perform.” – Romans 4:21 (KJV)
No
matter what your need is today — finances, healing, promotion or a miracle in
your family — only one thing is needed to bring it to pass: fully persuaded
faith.
The
good news? You can activate your fully persuaded faith today and start taking
what rightfully belongs to you.
What
kind of faith does it take to move the mountains in your life?
The
money you need, the healing you’re seeking, the family restoration you desire
so deeply… what kind of faith will deliver it into your hands?
Fully
persuaded faith
What
is fully persuaded faith?
It
is highly developed faith — the kind that cannot be moved and always takes the
victory.
It
takes possession of everything that grace has made available and doesn’t leave
anything on the table.
When
you find out what it means to be fully persuaded, and what it takes to stay
that way, your whole life will change.
When
you look past your circumstances, take God at His Word, and obey without
hesitancy, you will activate fully persuaded faith and see manifested victory
every day.
1. Look
Past Your Circumstances
“And being not weak in faith, he considered not his
own body.” – Romans 4:19 (KJV)
Have
you ever noticed when you begin to stand on the Word of God, your circumstances
seem to cry out all the louder?
Symptoms
in your body seem stronger than ever, your bank book shouts, “Mayday!”
and your family seems to get along even less! Why?
If
the devil can get you to focus on your circumstances, or what seems real in the
natural, he has your eyes right where he wants them — off the Word of God.
He
knows if you’re looking at natural circumstances, that is likely what you’ll
speak.
And
whatever comes out of your mouth is what will come to pass. That’s spiritual
law.
So,
whatever has come out of your mouth in the past is what you’re living right
now.
You
might say, “Well, I don’t believe that.”
Not
believing it doesn’t make it any less true. A law is a law.
At
one time, people didn’t know what gravity was. They had all kinds of ideas that
you could fall off the earth in one place or another — they really believed
that.
But
just believing it didn’t make it true, because there is a law of gravity.
Spiritual
law brought that law into existence, and it’s the same spiritual law that gives
your words power.
Abraham
received the promises of God again and again, because he was fully persuaded
and refused to look at his natural circumstances.
When
God promised to make him the father of many nations, he didn’t consider his own
body, his feelings or the medical facts.
He
only considered what God had said. He was fully persuaded.
Another
great example is the time when Smith Wigglesworth went to visit a church member
whose family member had recently passed away.
Smith
and his wife went to pay their respects. When they arrived, there were two
glass French doors separating the entry from the parlor.
Behind
the glass doors was the dead man lying in the coffin.
Smith
walked in, didn’t say hello to anyone — just opened the glass doors, walked up
to the coffin, yanked the lid open, and pulled the man out of the box.
He stood him in the corner, pointed his finger at him,
and said, “In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!”
The man slid down the wall. He went over, caught him
by the suit, picked him back up and said, “I said, walk!”
He
slid down on the floor again.
Finally, Mr. Wigglesworth went over, picked him up, threw him in the corner and said, “I said, walk!”
And
the two of them came walking out of the parlor, shouting, praising and
glorifying God.
That’s
the definition of looking past circumstances and being fully persuaded!
2. Take
God at His Word
“And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised,
he was able also to perform.” – Romans 4:21 (KJV)
Most
of us truly desire to believe — fully believe — God’s promises.
We
want to receive them, we want to be fully persuaded.
Yet,
often, the battle is on to defeat unbelief and walk in that perfect faith that
doesn’t doubt for a moment.
So,
how do you get to the place where you are fully persuaded?
If
it came by praying for it, Jesus would have said so. But it doesn’t. You have
to reach out and take it.
The
kind of faith you need comes only one way: by hearing the Word of God.
You
can’t feel it coming. If you’re trying to recognize it by the way you feel — you’ll
miss it.
Being
fully persuaded means you know that something is God’s will for you.
How
do you know if something is God’s will? By whether it happens or not? No.
The
Word of God is the will of God. All the promises of God are yes and amen.
So
why would God promise you something that was not His will for you to have?
When
you’re fully persuaded, nothing can keep you from taking God at His Word.
No
“fact” is bigger than the truth in your mind and spirit, and you cannot be
moved.
Abraham
never moved from God’s promise that he would be the father of many nations,
even when natural circumstances continued to challenge the promise after
Isaac’s birth.
By
faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice.
He who had embraced the promises was about to
sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is
through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” – Hebrews 11:17-18 (NIV)
When
you take God at His Word, if you see or feel something that is opposite from
the Word, you will not be moved by it because you are moved only by God’s Word.
You
see, Abraham wasn’t “trying” to believe God — he wasn’t just mentally assenting
to it.
He
had immersed himself in God’s Word until that Word was more real to him than
the things he could see.
If
you don’t have that kind of faith for healing or finances or anything else
right now, then stay in the Word until you get it!
After all, “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God” (Romans 10:17, KJV).
Read,
study, meditate, listen to good, faith-filled teaching, watch the Believer’s
Voice of Victory broadcasts EVERY DAY until God’s Word about your situation is
more real to you than the circumstances you can see with your natural
eyes.
Keep
on keeping on until, like Abraham, you don’t stagger at the promise of God
through unbelief, but grow strong in faith as you give praise and glory to God (Romans 4:20, KJV).
Being
fully persuaded does not come by experience in the natural — it comes from
being rooted and grounded in the Word of God.
3. Obey
Without Hesitancy
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he
would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not
know where he was going.” – Hebrews 11:8 (NIV)
Some
people want all the answers before they obey God.
They
want everything to make sense and feel safe before moving forward. They want to
know what they’re getting into.
There’s
just one problem — that’s not faith!
When
God gives an instruction, He rarely gives us the full blueprint of the plan
ahead. He expects more.
Think
of all the people in the faith hall of fame — Hebrews 11 — who were given
instructions that made no sense in the natural.
Noah
could have questioned the idea of building a giant ark, using a lot of
resources, and risking his reputation, when rain had never before been seen on
the earth.
Moses
could have abandoned the whole exodus plan when Pharaoh said no time and time
again.
The
Israelites could have resisted the order to march around Jericho seven times to
get victory, when it didn’t make much sense in the natural.
Yet,
each of these faith heroes obeyed God without hesitancy — and they all got the
victory.
Moving
forward without all the answers was the only way they were going to reach their
destination — the promises of God.
It
may seem safe to sit back and wait to see the full picture, but it can be
dangerous both physically and spiritually.
That’s where Corrie ten Boom was when she said, “The
center of His will is our only safety.”
When
the Lord first called Kenneth Copeland into ministry, He instructed him to
attend Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla.
But
Kenneth didn’t want to go back to school, and all he could see was the financial
distress he and Gloria were facing.
Common
sense told him if they couldn’t make a living working six days a week, they
certainly couldn’t survive his going to school.
(Common
sense will keep you bound to the natural when it’s time to step out in faith.)
So, he didn’t obey.
When
a pastor friend invited him to lead worship at a church in Houston, he
accepted.
But
as he and Gloria, along with their two small children, headed back to Fort
Worth to pack for the move, they were in a terrible car accident.
Kenneth recalled it this way: “You could have named
me Jonah. I fit every symptom of Jonah. I was going in another direction and we
had this terrible, horrible car wreck. Now don’t you ever get the idea that God
brought that car wreck on us. No,
no. I brought that car wreck on us.”
Gloria
was sick with the flu, and Kellie, just a toddler, was in shock.
John
was a 4-month-old baby who suffered a broken arm and four broken ribs.
As
Kenneth sat in the hospital with his family, he began repenting and asking God
to forgive him for being a Jonah — one who delayed obedience.
As
he repented for his disobedience, he felt the power of the Lord come upon him.
As it did, healing came into the room.
Baby
John finally fell off to sleep, Gloria went to sleep and Kellie went to sleep —
all of them peaceful.
Right
then, he agreed to obey the Lord and go to Tulsa — not Houston.
There’s
safety in obeying God, and stepping out of His will can put you in danger.
When
you’re fully persuaded, you won’t hesitate to follow orders.
God
is the Master, and when He gives orders, we are to obey them immediately!
That’s
the kind of faith that is pleasing to God — to have faith in the One who gives
the orders.
That’s
why Jesus was so impressed by the faith of the centurion in need of healing for
his servant.
Jesus
said, “I will come and heal him.”
But the officer said, “Lord, I am not worthy to
have you come into my home. Just say the word from where you are, and my
servant will be healed. I know this because I am under the authority of my
superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say,
‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’ and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do
this, they do it.” (Matthew 8:7-9)
To
live fully persuaded, you need to become a person who understands what it means
to be under authority — who knows how to obey orders.
You
are not just a child of God — you’re a soldier in the army of the Lord, and
your promotion comes from following orders.
That
means we can’t go AWOL (absent without leave), and expect to see a
manifestation of THE BLESSING in our lives.
Have
you gone AWOL?
Did
you go AWOL from a church you were called to be in because they didn’t treat
you like you wanted them to?
Were
you called to be in a certain city, but you didn’t stay or didn’t go?
Are
you loving others the way you love yourself, and loving fellow believers as God
loves them?
If
you haven’t been obedient — repent — and get right back where God told you to
be, and quickly!
The
centurion was a man under authority, and who had been given authority.
When he said, “Just say the word from where you
are, and my servant will be healed,” (Matthew
8:8) his feelings had nothing to do with
it!
The
same goes for you — your feelings don’t have anything to do with your
obedience. When God says it — you just obey!
When
you look past your circumstances, take God at His Word, and obey without
hesitancy, you will activate fully persuaded faith that brings manifested
victory every time!
You
don’t have to live in the here and now, with only what makes sense to the
world.
You can live a life that supersedes all reason and expectation. You can live in victory!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries' mission is to minister the Word of Faith, by teaching
believers who they are in Christ Jesus; taking them from the milk of the Word
to the meat, and from religion to reality.
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