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    Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan

    Healing

    WellnessKenneth & Gloria

    Copeland

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    Healing & Wellness: Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan

    How to UseYour LifeLine Kit

    We believe thisHealing & Wellness: Your 10-day Spiritual Action Plan willchange your circumstances. Its our prayer that you experience life like never

    beforefull, complete, strong and healthy in God. To accomplish this, weve

    created one of the most in-depth resources Kenneth Copeland Ministries has ever

    made available on this subjectall in one place! Here are some practical tips to

    get started and to help you make the most of this kit:

    Commit to making the next 10 days yourdays for renewing your mind.

    Set aside any distractions and be prepared to make adjustments in your lifeso you can get the most out of this kit.

    This plan should be a blessing, not a burden. If you miss a day or cant

    quite get through one days materials, at your next opportunity, just start

    whereyouleftoff.Ifyouhaveto,beexiblewiththekittoensureyou

    makeittotheend.Ifyouonlyhaveone-halfhouraday,thatsne

    commit to that! It may take a little longer to complete the kit, but you can

    becondentyoullexperiencesomeofthemostlife-changingdaysyouve

    ever had.Use this LifeLine workbook as your starting point each day to guide your

    reading, listening, watching and journaling. Before you know it, youll be

    saturating your life with Gods Word like never before.

    We recommend that you:

    Read and journal in the morning

    Meditate on the scriptures daily

    Watch the video in the evening

    Read and journal again at night

    Remember, the goal is to do just a little every day. Steady doses are the best

    medicine.

    Points to remember:

    This is an action book! Have a pen handy for underlining and taking notes.

    Fully engage with all the materials. Write in your workbook, speak the

    scriptures, pray the prayers, sing with the music and take time to enjoy the

    materials in every way.

    Carry your daily action card and refer to it throughout the day as a

    connecting point with God.

    Make your study time focused. Do your best to remove distractions and

    ndaquietplace.

    Your total healing and wellness are closer than ever! God loves you and He is

    for you. We are standing with you, and remember that Jesus Is Lord!

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    1Chapter OneGods Will Is Healing

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    Morning

    Connection

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    God does not play favorites. It is His willfor you to be healed. Period.Now, you may hear me say that God wants

    you well and want to believe itbut yourfaith cannot operate beyond your knowledge

    of His Word. Thats a large part of what this

    study is about: getting the Word inside you

    concerning healing.

    Gods Word says, My people are destroyed

    for lack of knowledge... (Hosea 4:6). In

    the physical realm this is true. The bodies

    of born-again believers are being destroyed

    because they do not have the knowledge ofGods Word that it is His will for them to be

    healed. Many die young even though it is not

    Gods will. God said, I will take sickness

    away from the midst of thee.... The number

    of thy days I will full (Exodus 23:25-26).

    He says in Psalm 91:16, With long life will

    I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. It

    is not His will for you to die young. It is His

    will for you to live long and satised on theearth without sickness and disease!

    Healing is not just a New Testament

    blessing. God has always provided healing

    for His people. Psalm 103:2-3 says, Bless

    the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his

    benets: who forgiveth all thine iniquities;

    who healeth all thy diseases.

    Many have forgotten Gods benet of

    healing for their bodies. If you had beentaught that it is Gods will to heal you the

    same way you have been taught it is Gods

    will for you to be saved, you would have

    a different attitude toward sickness. Jesus

    bore your sicknesses and carried your

    diseases at the same time and in the same

    manner that He bore your sins. You are just

    as free from sickness and disease as you are

    from sin. You should be as quick to refuse

    sickness and disease in your body as you are

    to refuse sin.

    Plant the Word

    To live free from sickness, you must plant

    the Word of God concerning healing in yourheart. Well be doing that throughout the

    10 sessions in this workbook. Gods Word

    is the incorruptible seed. First Peter 1:23

    says you are born again, not of corruptible

    seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of

    God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

    You are healed the same wayby the

    incorruptible seed of the Word of God.

    Incorruptible means that the seed cannotbe destroyed or spoiled. Disease cannot

    stop it. Men cannot spoil it. Satan cannot

    stop the power of it. I can prove that to you

    with salvation. Once you hear the Word of

    God and decide to make Jesus Christ the

    Lord of your life, there is no power that

    can stop the new birth from taking place in

    your spirit. No devil in hell can stop you

    from being born again. It is the same waywith healing. You receive everything from

    the Lord the same wayby faith. Results

    God Wants You Well!by Gloria Copeland

    And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his

    disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from

    the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their

    diseases; and they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. And

    the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed

    them all. (Luke 6:17-19)

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    Healing & Wellness: Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan1come when you hear the Word, receive it

    and act on it. You receive healing exactly

    the way you received the new birth: by

    hearing the Word and believing it enough to

    act on it.

    You have to put the supernatural seed

    of the Word of God in your heart. Plant itand it will grow and produce fruit. When

    youre dealing with God, His time is always

    now. He doesnt have to wait 60 days to get

    a crop. When you plant the Word in your

    heart, you get the harvest. Today is the day

    of salvation.

    Your Power of Authority

    Some people accept sickness as Gods will.

    Yet, the same people will take medicine, be

    operated on, or do anything else they can in

    order to get well.

    Christianity is not just on Sunday morning.

    Spiritual things work every day of the week.

    The Bible makes sense because it works! It

    works on Monday just like it does on Sunday.

    It is Gods wisdom written in mans words,so that we can be victorious every day of

    the week.

    Some people say, Well, maybe God

    doesnt put sickness on you, but He allows

    Satan to do it. There is only one person

    who allows Satan to put sickness on you,

    and thats you.

    As a believer, you have authority in the

    earth over Satan, sickness and disease. Ifsickness has come upon you, you have

    allowed it, not God. God doesnt have

    to allow Satan to make you sick. Satan

    is always ready to do the job! Sickness

    incapacitates you and makes you no threat

    to him at all.

    You need to lay aside what tradition has

    taught you and realize that only Satan could

    be the source of such powerless, defeated

    beliefs. The Word of God is the incorruptibleseed. If Satan does not have the power to

    stop it and disease cannot overcome it, then

    only you have the power to keep it from

    working in your life.

    As you study the incorruptible seed of

    the Word of God in this LifeLine kit, keep

    your mind and spirit open to the Word to

    change your thinking. Doubt and unbelief

    will try to come against you and say, Now,you know what they say about all this....

    Who are they? Well, they will be the

    ones who bury you early if you listen to

    their traditions. Cast out the doubt and keep

    the Word.

    Receive the Word of God. The power

    and blessing you receive from it will be

    according to how you hear it. You must

    receive it as God talking to you, as the Wordof the living God and the authority in your

    life. You must decide that whatever you see

    in it, youll act on. If you just receive a little

    here and a little there, thinking, Well, now,

    that could be true..., youll get nothing from

    it. But, when you allow the incorruptible

    seed to go into your heart, it will produce

    the crop you desireevery time!

    (From: And Jesus Healed Them All by Gloria Copeland 1981

    International Church of the Word of Faith Inc. now known as Eagle

    Mountain International Church aka Kenneth Copeland Publications)

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    Gods Will Is Healing 1

    MorningRefection

    How are salvation and healing related?

    What must you do to live ree rom sickness and disease?

    How will you commit to changing your thinking in this area?

    Todays

    Connection PointsHealing PraiseCD: There Is a Way (Track 9)

    Healing may seem impossible right now, but as you focus on todays track, feed your spirit

    with the truth that there is a way!

    Healing ScripturesCD: Tracks 1-2

    Feed your spirit over and over with these powerful scriptures, proving that Gods will is for

    you to be healed.

    1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Proverbs 4:20-22; Exodus 15:26; Psalm 103:1-3, 107:19-20;

    Isaiah 53:3-5; Matthew 4:23-24, 8:2-3, 5-8, 13, 16-17, 9:18-30, 35

    DVD: Great Is the Lord (Chapter 1)

    Listening to the Word about healing will strengthen your faith! Watch as Gloria talks about

    the Lords greatness and His ability to heal as we believe we receive.

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    Healing & Wellness: Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan1

    Faithin Action

    Realize that God wants you well!Commit to studying the Word like never before and allow it to change your way of thinking.

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    Sometime ago, God dealt with me on the

    subject of healing and how importantit is for believers to live free from sickness

    and disease. His words to me then were so

    strong, they echoed in my spirit for weeks.

    He said,I want My people well!

    God wants every believer to be healed

    and whole. He says in 3 John 2, Beloved,

    I wish above all things that thou mayest

    prosper and be in health, even as thy

    soul prospereth.After Jesus was raised from the dead,

    He appeared to His disciples and issued

    certain decrees that would affect the world

    forever. Healing was one of those decrees.

    Jesus said:

    Go ye into all the world, and preach

    the gospel to every creature. He that

    believeth and is baptized shall be

    saved; but he that believeth not shall

    be damned. And these signs shall

    follow them that believe; In my name

    shall they cast out devils; they shall

    speak with new tongues; they shall

    take up serpents; and if they drink any

    deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;

    they shall lay hands on the sick, and

    they shall recover (Mark 16:15-18).

    These words are vitally important to

    every believer today. Jesus commanded the

    Church to go forth in His Name, and part of

    this Great Commission is that believers lay

    hands on the sick. At that moment, Jesus set

    the Church against sickness and disease.

    Healing is Gods masterstroke of evidence

    that He is alive and doing well. It is physical

    proof of His existence and willingness to

    meet our needs on every level.

    Spiritual Maturity

    No two people are exactly the same

    spiritually. Each is at his individual level

    of spiritual growth. But generally, there are

    three categories of spiritual life:

    1. The worldsinners or unbelievers,

    who do not know God

    2. The carnally minded Christian

    spiritual babies, who do not

    have Gods Word working

    prociently in their lives

    3. The mature Christianspiritual

    adults, skillful in the Word of God

    Gods Word is designed to minister to

    individual needs at each level of spiritual

    growth. In 1 Corinthians 3:1-3, Paul refers

    to the two levels of spiritual maturity within

    the Body of Christ, the Church: And I,

    brethren, could not speak unto you as unto

    spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto

    babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and

    not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able

    to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye

    are yet carnal: for whereas there is among

    you envying, and strife, and divisions, are

    ye not carnal, and walk as men?

    Paul could not teach the Corinthian

    believers about deeper spiritual things

    because they were not mature enough to

    understand. They were babes in Christ,

    and he had to feed them with milkthe

    basic principles of faithas you would

    feed a tiny baby. Hebrews 5:13 says, For

    every one that useth milk is unskilful in the

    word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

    First Peter 2:2 says, As newborn babes,

    desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye

    may grow thereby.

    I Want My People Wellby Kenneth Copeland

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    Healing & Wellness: Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan1When you accepted Jesus as Savior and

    made Him the Lord of your life, you were

    born of God (1 John 5:1). According to

    1 Peter 1:23, you were born again, not of

    corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the

    Word of God. At that moment, you joined

    the family of God and entered into spiritual

    life as a newborn baby. If, since that time,

    you have never fed on the milk of the Word,

    you are still a spiritual baby. You will not

    yet be able to operate prociently in faith

    without knowledge of the Word.

    A baby does not grow to adulthood

    overnight, so a new believer should not

    expect to operate as a mature Christian after

    only a few days. It takes time spent in Gods

    Word to grow and mature spiritually.

    The frst step to spiritual maturity is to

    realize your position in God. You are His

    child and a joint heir with Jesus. Romans

    8:16-17 says: The Spirit itself beareth

    witness with our spirit, that we are the

    children of God: and if children, then heirs;

    heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if

    so be that we suffer with him, that we may

    be also glorifed together. You are entitled

    to all the rights and privileges in the

    kingdom of God, and one of these rights is

    health and healing.

    You will never fully realize nor understand

    healing until you know beyond any doubtthat Gods will is for you to be healed. As

    we have seen, God wants you healed! He

    wants you whole! He wants you to grow in

    the Word and walk in His perfect will just

    as Jesus did. Whether or not you accept this

    and purpose to walk in the reality of the

    truth is your decision.

    I urge you to accept it now and begin to

    see His will carried out in your life. Beginseeing yourself healed and whole. Put Gods

    Word concerning healing in your heart,

    meditate, or think about it, then speak it

    out boldly. His Word will not return to Him

    void, but it will accomplish what it was sent

    to do (Isaiah 55:11). Praise God!

    (From: You Are Healed, by Kenneth Copeland 1979 Eagle MountainInternational Church Inc. aka Kenneth Copeland Publications)

    EveningRefection

    How does the Great Commission refect Gods will toward healing?

    What does Gods healing power demonstrate to the world?

    How will understanding Gods will about healing increase your

    spiritual maturity?

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    Gods Will Is Healing 1Notes:

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    Prayer o FaithThank You, Father, that I am born again by the incorruptible seed

    of the Word of God and free from the law of sin and death! I choose

    to live by Your Word, and I trust You to help me grow and mature.

    In Jesus Name. Amen.

    REAL-LIFE TESTIMONIES

    To Help Build Your FaithNNo More Pain

    Two years ago I was in a car accident that let me in a lot o pain. There was

    also an injury to my spine. Ater eight months o pain, lack o sleep, nausea

    and the inability to care or my amily, God told me to listen to Glorias healing

    CDs. I played them repeatedly and listened to them as I drited in and out o

    sleep. As the days went by, I was able to sleep more and more. I was able to

    stand longer and the pain lessened. Ten days later, when I went to the doctor,

    he verifed that my spine was healed. We have continued to see amazing things

    God has done. Thank you or your ministry.

    C.V.

    Wisconsin