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“The Garden of Eden in You,” Kenneth Copeland, from the January 2007 edition of the Believer’s Voice of Victory magazine, © Eagle Mountain Interna-
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Day 1
Prophecy delivered by Kenneth Copeland on Nov. 11, 2010, at the 2010 Washington, D.C. Victory Campaign.
Quote from Gloria Copeland, Supernatural Provision (Fort Worth, Kenneth Copeland Publications, 2014), Day 2.
Day 2
Prophecy delivered by Kenneth Copeland on Nov. 11, 2010, at the 2010 Washington, D.C. Victory Campaign.
Day 3
Quotation from The Art Scroll Tanach Series, Tehillim, Vol. 1, Psalm 1-72 (Brooklyn, New York: Mesorah Publications Ltd., 2013), page 376.
Day 4
Quotes from “The Garden of Eden in You” are from the article by Kenneth Copeland published in the January 2007 edition of the Believer’s Voice of
Victory magazine, © Eagle Mountain International Church Inc. aka Kenneth Copeland Ministries. All rights reserved.
Day 8
Quote from Gloria Copeland, Heirs of God (Fort Worth, Kenneth Copeland Publications, 2014), Day 3.
Day 9
“Seek God First” by Gloria Copeland, as posted online by kennethcopelandministries.com, http://kennethcopelandministries.org/2009/12/seek-
god-first-by-gloria-copeland/#.VibLq8stGUk (accessed Oct. 20, 2015).
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DAY 1 Our Source of Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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OUR SOURCE OF SUPPLY
A. 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6—GOD IS OUR SOURCE
1. So many people are facing overwhelming financial challenges.
2. They look at their paycheck, then look at their needs and wonder, How are we
going to pay for this? Where will the money come from? What are we going to do?
3. “Don’t look to the government for your supply. Don’t look to other people for your
supply. No, no, pastors, don’t look to your congregation for your supply. Jesus is our
Source. THE BLESSING of Abraham is our supply. The Word is our supply.”—Word
from the Lord through Kenneth Copeland, Nov. 11, 2010
4. AMPC: “Yet for us there is [only] one God, the Father, Who is the Source of all things.”
5. The purpose of this study: to renew our minds and become fully persuaded that
God is our Source for everything we need.
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4. MSG: “You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need.”
5. JBP: “My God will supply all that you need from his glorious resources in Christ
Jesus.”
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THE LORD IS OUR PROVIDER
A. 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6GOD IS OUR SOURCE
1. We are becoming fully persuaded that God is the Source of everything we need.
2. AMPC: “Yet for us there is [only] one God, the Father, Who is the Source of all things.”
3. “Don’t look to the government for your supply. Don’t look to other people for your
supply. No, no, pastors, don’t look to your congregation for your supply. Jesus is our
Source. THE BLESSING of Abraham is our supply. The Word is our supply.”—Word
from the Lord through Kenneth Copeland, Nov. 11, 2010
4. Philippians 4:19 (BBE): “And my God will give you all you have need of from the
wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.”
5. James 1:17—Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above; it comes down
from the Father of all that gives light.
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b. By faith, he looked away from the natural into the realm of the
supernatural.
c. He looked to his Provider.
3. Verse 14: “And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh.”
a. MSG: “Abraham named that place God-Yireh (God-sees-to it).”
b. AMPC: “So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide.
And it is said to this day, On the mount of the Lord it will be provided.”
4. The act of Abraham’s willingness to offer up his only son for God initiated a
covenant obligation by God to offer up His only Son for us.
5. Thus, Jesus became the Source of everything we would ever need.
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THE GOODNESS OF GOD
A. PSALM 31:19GOD’S GREAT GOODNESS
1. NIV-84: “How great is your goodness which you’ve stored up for those who fear
you, which you bestow in the sight of men, on those who take refuge in you.”
2. The more we realize how good God is, the easier it will be to see Him as our
ultimate Provider and Source.
a. He is “Jehovah the Good.”
b. God’s goodness is His nature.
3. Great (HEB) = Abounding, abundant, exceedingly
4. Goodness (HEB) = Prosperity, good things, goods, property, supply, provision
a. Good in the widest sense of the word; good to the furthest extreme
b. Everything God is, has and desires for us
5. “The abundance which God will bestow upon the righteous is beyond the power
of mortal man to describe. The Psalmist can but exclaim: How abundant!”—
Tehillim
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3. Ephesians 3:20 (AMPC): God will do “superabundantly, far over and above all that
we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts,
hopes, or dreams].”
4. Psalm 16:2 (NLT): “Every good thing I have comes from you.”
5. Psalm 34:8-10: “O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that
trusteth in him. O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear
him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall
not want any good thing.”
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THE BLESSING MAKES US RICH
A. PROVERBS 10:22THE BLESSING OF THE LORD, IT MAKES RICH AND HE ADDS
NO SORROW TO IT.
1. Rich (HEB) = Accumulate, grow rich, become wealthy
2. GNT: “It is the Lord’s blessing that makes you wealthy.”
3. BRENTON: “THE BLESSING of the Lord is on the head of the righteous; it enriches
him, and grief of heart shall not be added to it.”
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sound that ever struck his eardrums was the sound of God’s voice empowering
him with the divine, creative ability to reign over the earth and make it a perfect
reflection of God’s best and highest will.” —Kenneth Copeland, “The Garden of
Eden in You”
D. SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Teaching Series by Gloria Copeland and Pastor George Pearsons
50 Days of Prosperity Vol. 1 CD/DVD
50 Days of Prosperity Vol. 1 Study Notes
50 Days of Prosperity Vol. 2 CD/DVD
50 Days of Prosperity Vol. 2 Study Notes
The Blessing of Abraham CD/DVD
The Blessing of Abraham Study Notes
Heirs of God CD/DVD
Heirs of God Study Notes
Prospering in Tough Times CD/DVD
Prospering in Tough Times Study Notes
Supernatural Provision DVD and bonus CD
Supernatural Provision Study Notes
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God’s Master Plan for Your Life
God’s Will Is Prosperity
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Books by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan for Complete Financial Breakthrough LifeLine Kit
One Word From God Can Change Your Life
Prosperity Promises
Teaching by Others
God’s DNA in You CD by Terri Copeland Pearsons
There Is Life in the Pages CD set by Terri Copeland Pearsons
Hello. My Name Is God. book by Jeremy Pearsons
The Blood Covenant book by E.W. Kenyon
The Name of Jesus book by Kenneth E. Hagin
The Wonderful Name of Jesus book by E.W. Kenyon
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OUR SOURCE OF EVERYTHING
A. 1 CHRONICLES 29OFFERINGS FOR THE TEMPLE
1. It was in David’s heart to build the temple.
2. Verses 3-4— David’s offerings
3. Verses 5-8—The leader’s offerings
4. Verse 9—The people’s offerings
5. David realized the Source of the offerings.
a. Verse 12 (NLT): “Wealth and honor come from you alone.”
b. Verses 14-15 (NLT): “Everything we have has come from you, and we give
you only what you first gave us.”
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blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are
united with Christ.”
7. 2 Peter 1:3 (NIV): “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life
through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”
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THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM
A. THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAMDEUTERONOMY 28:114
1. Verse 1: “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the
Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this
day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.”
a. Ephesians 2:6 (AMPC): “And He raised us up together with Him and made
us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly
sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus.”
b. MSG: “He picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with
Jesus, our Messiah.”
2. Verse 2: “And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt
hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.”
a. “All these blessings” include everything it will take to empower us to
succeed and prosper in everything we do.
b. MSG: “All these blessings will come down on you.”
c. Overtake you (HEB) = take over your life, overwhelm you, engulf you, pile
up on you, cover you over and load you up with an excessive amount;
avalanche, heap, swamp, overflow, flood
3. Verses 3-6: “Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of
thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy
basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt
thou be when thou goest out.”
a. Blessed in the city and field—wherever you are
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b. Blessed in the fruit of your body, ground, cattle, kine, flocks—whatever you do
c. Blessed in basket and store—whatever you have
d. Blessed when you come in and go out—wherever you go
4. Verse 7: “The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten
before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee
seven ways.”
a. Smitten (HEB) = Sudden, quick, decisive fate with the intent to utterly
conquer and destroy
b. MSG: “God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They’ll come at you on
one road and run away on seven roads.”
c. The enemies of lack, sickness, failure, worry, confusion, condemnation and
fear flee before you.
5. Verse 8: “The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and
in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which
the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
a. NLT: “The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill
your storehouses with grain.”
b. Psalm 128:1-2 (NIV-84): “Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in his
ways. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be
yours.”
6. Verses 9-10: “The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath
sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and
walk in his ways. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.”
a. Establish (HEB) = Raised up to become a powerful people
b. Holy (HEB) = Set apart, consecrated, purified, protected from ruin
c. Verse 10 (MSG): “All the peoples on Earth will see you living under the
Name of God and hold you in respectful awe.”
7. Verse 11: “And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body,
and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the
Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.”
a. Plenteous (HEB) = Abundance, to have more than enough, excess, too
much with much left over
b. AMPC: “And the Lord shall make you have a surplus of prosperity.”
c. MSG: “God will lavish you with good things.”
8. Verse 12: “The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the
rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou
shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.”
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a. CEV: “The Lord will open the storehouses of the skies.”
b. CEB: “The Lord will open up for you his own well-stocked storehouse.”
c. MSG: “God will throw open the doors of his sky vaults.”
9. Verses 13-14: “And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou
shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the
commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe
and to do them: And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I
command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to
serve them.”
a. Verse 13 (NIV): “You will always be at the top, never at the bottom.”
b. “You don’t need other gods. You have Me. I am the Source of your
prosperity. I will supply every need in your life.”
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OUR COVENANT OF PROVISION
A. 2 CHRONICLES 16:9“FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN TO AND FRO
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH, TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG IN THE BEHALF
OF THEM WHOSE HEART IS PERFECT TOWARD HIM.”
1. God has a covenant determination and passion to find His covenant people and
prosper them beyond their greatest imagination.
2. It is an undying covenant devotion that propels Him to extend Himself to us with
everything He is and with everything He has.
3. Covenant = An unbreakable agreement between two parties that have joined
together as one to support, provide, protect and defend each other
4. Show Himself strong (HEB) = Bestow, grant and extend wealth
5. God has extended His wealth to us.
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4. Look to God as your Covenant Source.
5. Psalm 111:5 (AMPC): “He has given food and provision to those who reverently and
worshipfully fear Him; He will remember His covenant forever and imprint it [on
His mind].”
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OUR INHERITANCE IN CHRIST
A. GALATIANS 4:47WE ARE HEIRS OF GOD
1. NIV-84: “But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman,
born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of
sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit
who calls out, ‘Abba, Father.’ So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you
are a son, God has made you also an heir.”
2. Heir (GK) = One who receives an inheritance by right of birth
3. We have been born again into the royal family of God.
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4. Hebrews 1:1-2: “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past
unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things.”
5. If we are joint heirs with Jesus and Jesus is heir of all things, that must mean we are
heirs of all things as well.
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SEEK GOD FIRST
A. MATTHEW 6:2532 NLTGOD IS YOUR SOURCE, SO DON’T WORRY
1. Verse 25: “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you
have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food,
and your body more than clothing?”
2. Verse 26: “Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for
your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than
they are?”
3. Verse 27: “Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?”
4. Verses 28-30: “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and
how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory
was not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so wonderfully for
wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly
care for you. Why do you have so little faith?”
5. Verses 31-32: “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat?
What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of
unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs.”
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3. AMP: “But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His
righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken
together will be given you besides.”
4. Proverbs 21:21 (NIV): “Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity
and honor.”
5. Psalm 37:4 (NIV): “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your
heart.”
“Whenever Ken and I talk about living by faith, I know there are some people who
think, ‘Oh, that’s easy for you. You’re preachers. You have it made!’ And, in some ways,
we do. We have it made because our calling demands that we give God our attention,
and giving God your attention always brings success.
“But we haven’t always lived that way. In fact, the first time I ever saw Kenneth
Copeland he was about as far from a preacher as I figured you could get. He flew
planes and sang in nightclubs. As for me, I was a college girl who said she would never
marry a preacher and who had never even heard about the new birth.
“Right after we got married, Ken went into a business enterprise that we thought was
going to make us rich. So I quit my job and went to work for this new company. Two
weeks later it folded.
“We ended up sleeping on a rented rollaway bed that sagged in the middle. We had a
wrought-iron coffee table Ken made in high school and a black and white TV. Nothing
else. No refrigerator. No stove. I cooked in my coffeepot and an electric skillet and used
a cardboard box on the porch to keep our food cold.
“We were flat broke. Unemployed. Deeply in debt. I had nowhere to go. No furniture.
No nothing.
“Then one day I picked up the Bible Ken’s mother had given him for his birthday. In the
front she’d written this verse, ‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added unto you.’ I turned and read Matthew 6. It said
God cared for the birds. For the first time in my life it got into my heart that God cared
where I was and what I was doing. I figured if He cared for birds, He cared for me! I
knelt in that bare room and told Jesus that if He could do anything with my life, He
could certainly have it. That’s all I remember saying.
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“I had no idea I’d just been born again. Two weeks later Ken found a new job. We
moved to a new furnished apartment and bought a better car. In the midst of it all,
something else happened—Ken got born again.
“Don’t worry if you don’t ‘have it made.’ We certainly didn’t when all this started.
“Just stick with God and let Him make you. He is a good God who is good to all (Psalm
145:9).
“Make a decision in your heart to seek HIM first. Then all the other things will be added.”
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BLESSED TO BLESS
A. GENESIS 12:2YOU SHALL BE A BLESSING
1. AMP: “And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant
increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be
a blessing [dispensing good to others].”
2. Abraham’s reason for being blessed was to be a blessing.
3. Our motivation for accumulation is distribution.
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will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop.
You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly
or in response to pressure. ‘For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.’ And God
will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you
need and plenty left over to share with others.”
7. 1 Timothy 6:17-18 (NLT): “Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud
and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable. Their trust should be in God,
who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment. Tell them to use their money
to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need,
always being ready to share with others.”
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The Garden of Eden in You
BY KENNETH COPELAND
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into being. He had said, “Light be!”…and light was. At His command, the sun, moon, stars and sea had
all been set in place. Plant, animal and marine life had all been brought forth by God’s Word. Everything
had been made ready for His crowning creation: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:26).
Personally, I believe at that moment a hush fell over the universe as all the angels and heavenly
host waited in anticipation to see this God-like being who was about to be created. Their attention
was riveted upon this being called man who was to be given authority over the earth. What would this
creature be like? What kind of power would he possess? What work would God give him to do?
All those questions were answered in an instant with what happened next.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish
of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth (verses 27–28).
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and, by speaking anointed, faith-filled words, transform the uncultivated parts of this planet into a
veritable Garden of Eden.
In other words, The Blessing empowered Adam to be a blessing wherever he went. The Garden of
Eden was literally inside Adam.
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a
land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless
thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed (Genesis 12:1-3).
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it with respect and began to operate in it by faith. He even taught it to his children and passed the
blessing along to them.
What was the result? Eden-like conditions began to blossom in Abram’s life. Just as God showed up in
the Garden to fellowship with Adam and Eve, God began to visit Abram and talk with him. Their relationship
was so strong and close that God referred to Abraham (Abram’s God-given name) as His friend.
Abraham’s physical body began to reflect the conditions of the Garden as well. The Blessing so
renewed and regenerated him that he and his once-barren wife, Sarah, were able to have a son when
she was 90 and he was 100 years old.
The great material abundance that marked the Garden of Eden began to manifest in Abraham’s life
too. He became very rich in cattle, silver and gold. Everywhere he went, he prospered financially.
Because of The Blessing, Abraham and the members of his household learned how to do things
they couldn’t do before. Without any formal military training, for example, Abraham’s servants became
expert warriors. They fought so effectively that when a coalition of foreign armies attacked, Abraham
whipped the whole bunch with just 318 of his servants. Then he freed all the captives and walked
away with all the spoil.
Those are the kinds of results The Blessing produced again and again in Abraham’s life. They didn’t
stop with him, either. They continued in the lives of his descendants because God had specifically said,
“I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee” (Genesis 17:7).
Because of that promise, The Blessing can be traced down through generations in the pages of the
Bible. We can see it in the life of Abraham’s grandson Jacob as he prospered and increased against
all odds. Even when people intentionally cheated him in business, Jacob just kept getting richer. His
household eventually grew so big the region he lived in couldn’t contain it.
Jacob’s son Joseph experienced the same kind of success in the face of even greater obstacles.
When his brothers sold him into slavery, for example, The Blessing empowered him to become the
overseer of his owner’s entire estate. Later, when a loose woman’s lies landed him in prison, The Blessing
promoted him until he was in charge of the whole place. Finally, when the prison couldn’t hold him
anymore, The Blessing brought him to the palace where he ended up as Pharaoh’s right-hand man and
prime minister over the entire land of Egypt.
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Israelites into the Promised Land. It was The Blessing that gave Samson the strength to single-handedly
slay a thousand Philistines, and gave David the guts and grace to kill Goliath. It was The Blessing on
Daniel that kept the lions’ mouths shut when he was in their den.
All those people enjoyed the benefits of The Blessing because of what God said to Abraham. They
all experienced some of its effects because He had promised to give The Blessing not only to Abraham
himself but to his seed.
“That’s all great, Brother Copeland,” you might say, “but I’m not Jewish. So what does it have to do
with me?”
If you’re a believer, it has everything to do with you because the New Testament says that when
God gave The Blessing to Abraham and his seed, “He [God] saith not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of
one, And to thy seed, which is Christ” (Galatians 3:16).
In other words, when God spoke to Abraham and his Seed, He was speaking directly to Jesus. He
was giving to Jesus (through Abraham) The Blessing that was originally bestowed on Adam.
That’s why Jesus is called “the last Adam” (1 Corinthians 15:45). He was the true inheritor of that
Blessing. His whole earthly ministry was a demonstration of it. Everywhere He went, He brought
blessing. That’s why, when sick people came to Him, He healed them. He was carrying out the mission
Adam had been given. He was releasing the power of The Blessing within Him to expand God’s
kingdom and reproduce God’s perfect will as it was first manifest in the Garden of Eden.
There wasn’t any sickness in the Garden of Eden, so healing is part of The Blessing and Jesus healed
at every opportunity. There wasn’t any poverty or hunger in the Garden, so prosperity is part of The
Blessing. Therefore He multiplied loaves and fish to feed the hungry crowds who came to hear Him.
There was no harmful weather in the Garden, so when a storm threatened destruction, He spoke to it
and calmed it down. That was The Blessing in action.
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 (verses 13-14, 29).
Do you realize what that passage is saying? It’s telling us that through Jesus, you and I have
become heirs—not just of a blessing, not just of some blessings, or even many blessings. We’ve
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inherited The Blessing! We’ve been given the power of God to create, to make available, and to
overcome anything necessary to bring into manifestation the conditions in the Garden of Eden not
only in our own lives but in the lives of others.
That’s our inheritance! We are heirs to everything God did in that Garden. Our job now is to help
expand it and do our part to fill the earth with its blessing.
That was God’s will for the first Adam and today His will is
back in place through Jesus, the last Adam.
We are heirs to everything Some people say we need to get our minds off The
God did in that Garden. Our Blessing and back on Jesus. But the truth is, you can’t
separate Jesus from The Blessing. It’s what He came to
job now is to help expand restore. It’s what He walked in and made available to others
it and do our part to fill when He ministered on the earth…and it’s what He has
the earth with its blessing. called us, as His disciples, to walk in and make available to
others in His Name.
Today, I believe the angels are once again waiting with
anticipation, watching this new-creation race of reborn men who have been given authority over the
earth in the Name of Jesus. They’re waiting to respond to our command as we go into all the world,
doing the works of Jesus, and telling everyone who will listen that He has paid the price for us all to
inherit The Blessing.
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GLORIA COPELAND & PASTOR GEORGE PEARSONS
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