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Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:33
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. (Continued below...............)
Seek God First
.........................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 coffee pot 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.
I had no idea I had 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 (Psalms 145:9).
Make a decision in your heart to seek Him first. Then all the other things will be added.
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 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.
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 (Psalms 145:9).
Make a decision in your heart to seek Him first. Then all the other things will be added.
Scripture Reading:
Psalm 128
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