“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and

his righteousness; and all these things shall

be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33).

My journey to the prosperous life began

years ago when I read Matthew 6:33 in a
Bible Ken’s mother had given him.
—Gloria Copeland

P rosperity is more than financial blessings. It includes

healing, protection, favor, wisdom, success, well-being and
every good thing you could possibly need—all the good things
Jesus desires for you to have. He took your place and bore the
curse of sin so you could live in true prosperity.
But a prosperous life doesn’t happen overnight or by chance.
It begins with a prosperous soul. Gloria Copeland has learned
what it takes to build that foundation and shares seven keys to
lead you to a truly prosperous life.
If you’re tired of struggling to prosper your way, find True
Prosperity God’s supernatural way!

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“Beloved, I wish above all things
that thou mayest prosper and be in
health, even as thy soul prospereth”
(3 John 2).
The beginning of a prosperous life
is a prosperous soul. But how do you
get there?
My journey to the prosperous life
began years ago when I read Matthew
6:33 in a Bible Ken’s mother had given
him: “But seek ye first the kingdom of
God, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you.” In The
Amplified Bible it says to seek “His way
of doing and being right.” That’s the
foundation of God’s prosperity. When
I found this verse, I was ready to try
God’s way. I needed a lot of things
and my way wasn’t working.
I discovered that God’s prosperity
isn’t just financial blessings. It also in-
cludes healing, protection, favor, wis-
dom, success, well-being and every
good thing you could possibly need—
all the good things Jesus paid for you
to have.
He took our place and bore the
curse of our sin so we could live in the
blessing. “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…” (Galatians 3:13-14).
Isaiah 53:5 says, “The chastise-
ment [needful to obtain] peace and
well-being for us was upon Him,

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and with the stripes [that wounded]
Him we are healed and made whole”
(The Amplif ied Bible). The Hebrew
word for peace in this scripture is
shalom. It basically means “nothing
missing, nothing broken,” or whole-
ness in every area of life—spirit,
soul and body.
That kind of prosperous life doesn’t
just happen. And it doesn’t happen
overnight. But the foundation for
true prosperity begins with these
seven steps:

1. Walking in truth
2. Faithfulness
3. Diligence
4. Tithing
5. Sowing
6. Believing
7. Saying

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 So let’s briefly take a look at each
one of these key elements to walking
in prosperity.

Walking in Truth
“I have no greater joy than to hear
that my children walk in truth”
(3 John 4).

If I told you about heaven, I couldn’t

give you any firsthand information be-
cause I haven’t been there. But when
I teach on prosperity, it’s something I
have experienced from minus zero to
abundance. Kenneth and I have been
walking by the laws of abundance for
39 years.
We weren’t exactly walking in pros-
perity when we married. I wore a $2
veil with the white cotton dress my
mother made for the wedding. Ken’s
friend married us at his home. His

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wife baked a cake. We even borrowed
$100 for our honeymoon. We had no
money and no wisdom. You would be
hard-pressed to find a couple more
pitifully ignorant than we were at
that time.
But then something happened that
totally changed our lives. We began to
hear the truth of the Word of God.
First we were born again. We were
changed inside, but outwardly you
couldn’t tell much difference. Once
we were filled with the Holy Spirit,
there was some outward change, but
not much because we were still igno-
rant of the Word. The real changes in
our outer lives came when we began
walking by the Word and letting the
wisdom of God become our way of
life. Everything began to change!
We found that the first step to in-
crease is walking in truth. This means

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walking in the light of God’s Word,
according to His ways, His wisdom
and what He says is right. You can’t
do that and not be blessed. Jesus said,
“If ye continue in my word, then are
ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free” ( John 8:31-32).
I’m not talking about just reading
scriptures about prosperity. You pros-
per when you walk in all the words
God says to you. That’s the wisdom
of God.
Walking in truth is living a godly
lifestyle—living in obedience to what
God says is right. The blessings God
outlined in Deuteronomy 28:1-14
manifest as a result of obedience. “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

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command thee this day, that the Lord
thy God will set thee on high above
all nations of the earth: And all these
blessings shall come on thee, and
overtake thee…” (verses 1-2).
God has always blessed an obedient
people. Isaiah 1:19 says, “If ye be will-
ing and obedient, ye shall eat the good
of the land.” God can do something
with a person who has a willing heart.
In fact Psalm 25:12-13 in The Living
Bible promises that when you fear the
Lord, “God will teach [you] how to
choose the best. [You] shall live within
God’s circle of blessing….”
One of the first things God taught
us was to stay out of debt—and we
obeyed Him! That was big to us in
those days. We started where we were,
which meant believing God to pay the
overdue bills. But increase came as we
were willing and obedient to walk in

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the truth of the Word.
And increase can come to you, too.
God desires for you to live within His
circle of blessing. It is His will for you
to increase.

Faithfulness and Diligence

“His lord said unto him, Well
done, thou good and faithful
servant: thou hast been faithful
over a few things, I will make
thee ruler over many things: en-
ter thou into the joy of thy lord”
(Matthew 25:21).

The force of faithfulness is part

of the fruit of the spirit you received
when you were born again. Webster’s
dictionary defines faithful as “full of
faith, believing, strong or firm in
one’s faith, firmly adhering to duty, a
true fidelity, loyal, true to allegiance,

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constant in the performance of duties
or services.”
A faithful person consistently
does what is right, even if it looks
like it could be to his disadvantage.
Psalm 106:3 says, “Blessed are they
who maintain justice, who constantly
do what is right” (New International
Version). We can’t be godly without
being faithful because faithfulness is
God’s character:

It is because of the Lord’s

mercy and loving-kindness
that we are not consumed, be-
cause His [tender] compassions
fail not. They are new every
morning; great and abundant
is Your stability and faithfulness.
God is faithful (reliable, trust-
worthy, and therefore ever true
to His promise, and He can be

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 depended on); by Him you were
called into companionship and
participation with His Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord (Lamentations
3:22-23; 1 Corinthians 1:9,
The Amplified Bible).

Second Chronicles 16:9 says God is

looking for faithfulness, “For the eyes
of the Lord run to and fro through-
out the whole earth, to show himself
strong in the behalf of them whose
heart is perfect toward him….” The
Hebrew word for perfect there means
“loyal, devoted, dedicated, faithful.”
Kenneth and I have had financial
trouble, challenges with sickness and
other things, but when we have stood
on the Word and refused to give up,
God has always answered our faith
with His action!
Once you find a promise in the

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Word, don’t disqualify yourself from
receiving by saying, “God would never
do that for me.” Be transformed by
the renewing of your mind (Romans
12:2). Let God’s Word change your
thinking. You will prosper in any area
as your soul [mind, will and emotions]
prospers in understanding about that
area from the Word, and you act on
it. Your inner man prospers when you
believe the Word. Your circumstances
prosper when you receive what He
says and act on it.
Be faithful to keep meditating the
promises in the Word until they over-
take your life. Everything you receive
from God starts with the Word in your
heart. Proverbs 4:20-23 says, “My son,
attend to my words; incline thine ear
unto my sayings. Let them not depart
from thine eyes; keep them in the
midst of thine heart. For they are life

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unto those that find them, and health
to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with
all diligence; for out of it are the is-
sues of life.”
Faithfulness will energize you to
be diligent even if you have never
been that way in the natural.
The Word repeatedly says we are
to diligently seek God, hearken to
what He says and obey His com-
mands. Why? Deuteronomy 28:1-2
says when you hearken diligently,
blessings overtake you, because “…
he is a rewarder of them that dili-
gently seek him” (Hebrews 11:6).
Diligence increases you. As Proverbs
10:4 says, “The hand of the diligent
maketh rich.”
Be diligent and faithful to God in
your natural life as well. Make a decision
to be faithful on your job, at your church,
in your prayer life and in putting the

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Word first place in your life.
Our souls prosper as we spend
time in the Word, believe it and
create a lifestyle of obeying God.
The result will be what 1 John
3:22 says: “And we receive from
Him whatever we ask, because we
[watchfully] obey His orders [ob-
serve His suggestions and injunc-
tions, follow His plan for us] and
[habitually] practice what is pleas-
ing to Him” (The Amplified Bible).
The No. 1 law of receiving is
don’t quit! Stay with the Word. Stay
with what God has told you to do.
Even if you make a mistake, repent
and get back on track. That’s faith-
fulness. It’s part of the prosperous
life because “a faithful man shall
abound with blessings…” (Proverbs
28:20).

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 Tithing and Sowing
“Honor the Lord with your capi-
tal and sufficiency…and with the
firstfruits of all your income; so
shall your storage places be filled
with plenty, and your vats shall be
overflowing with new wine”(Prov-
erbs 3:9-10, The Amplified Bible).

Tithing is a covenant transaction

that gets God involved in what you
are doing. The first 10 percent of your
income—the tithe—belongs to God.
The Bible calls it firstfruits. It’s de-
voted to God, and it goes to support
ministries that feed you spiritually.
Tithing is how you honor God
with your money. It makes a way for
Him to bless you supernaturally.
Ken and I never had any financial
growth until we became faithful in
tithing. At first it looked impossible

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to give that 10 percent. But when
we did, the 90 percent we had left
went further than the 100 percent
we had before.
Notice Malachi 3:8-10 says we
are to bring all the tithes to God. It
also says by doing so God will open
the windows of heaven and bless you
“that there shall not be room enough
to receive it”! You don’t want to keep
anything that belongs to God. Leviti-
cus 27:30 declares, “And all the tithe
of the land, whether of the seed of the
land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the
Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.”
Real tithing is done with the heart
and with the mouth, in faith. God’s
people were commanded to bring
their firstfruits: “And thou shalt set
it before the Lord thy God, and wor-
ship before the Lord thy God: And
thou shalt rejoice in every good thing

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which the Lord thy God hath given
unto thee, and unto thine house…”
(Deuteronomy 26:10-11). They were
to recount how God had delivered
them out of bondage and then wor-
ship Him and rejoice for all the good
He had given them.
Whatever we do must be in obedi-
ence and faith for God to be pleased
with it.
Everything we do toward God
must come from our hearts. Other-
wise it doesn’t count. Jesus said, “It is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing…” ( John 6:63). We
are to give with a willing heart, as an
honor to God, and worship Him with
our tithes. Then He is in partnership
with us.
After we tithe, we are to sow accord-
ing to what the Lord lays on our hearts,
with the right attitude. The Hebrew

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word for offering comes from a root
word that means to “draw nigh.” We
draw nigh to God with our offering.
Second Corinthians 9:6 says: “He
which soweth sparingly shall reap
also sparingly; and he which soweth
bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
The Scripture plainly says you reap
what you sow (Galatians 6:7). If you
desire to be a receiver, you have to be a
giver. “Give, and it shall be given unto
you; good measure, pressed down, and
shaken together, and running over,
shall men give into your bosom. For
with the same measure that ye mete
withal it shall be measured to you
again” (Luke 6:38).
Tithing is supernatural—don’t miss
out on the benefits. God has an inter-
est in your finances. He desires to
increase you and bless you because He
loves you.

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 Believing and Saying
“We having the same spirit of
faith, according as it is written, I
believed, and therefore have I spo-
ken; we also believe, and therefore
speak” (2 Corinthians 4:13).

The Bible says several times, “The

just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17;
Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38).
Abraham was blessed because he lived
by faith. He believed God. We’re sup-
posed to live the same way: “So then
they which be of faith are blessed with
faithful Abraham” (Galatians 3:9).
Faith must be in two places—in
your heart and in your mouth. “The
word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth,
and in thy heart: that is, the word of
faith, which we preach” (Romans 10:8).
Believing in your heart and saying with

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your mouth produce the operation of
faith. Jesus said, “For verily I say unto
you, That whosoever shall say unto
this mountain, Be thou removed, and
be thou cast into the sea; and shall not
doubt in his heart, but shall believe
that those things which he saith shall
come to pass; he shall have whatsoever
he saith” (Mark 11:23).
Kenneth and I began to take the
Word literally as God speaking to us.
We learned that if we put it in our
eyes, put it in our ears, and let it get
down into our hearts in abundance,
it would come out of our mouths in
faith-filled words that would change
our lives and circumstances.
We realized all that stood between
us and walking in the dream God had
for us was knowing what is in the
Book and doing it. “This book of the
law shall not depart out of thy mouth;

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but thou shalt meditate therein day
and night, that thou mayest observe
to do according to all that is written
therein: for then thou shalt make thy
way prosperous, and then thou shalt
have good success” ( Joshua 1:8).
The seven keys I’ve shared are
how Ken and I laid a foundation for
the prosperous life—and this is how
we maintain it. I can tell you from
experience, these are the first seven
steps to increase, no matter what
you need.

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 Prayer for Salvation and
Baptism in the Holy Spirit
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name
of Jesus. Your Word says, “Whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21).
I am calling on You. I pray and ask Jesus to come
into my heart and be Lord over my life according
to Romans 10:9-10: “If thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in
thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.” I do that now.
I confess that Jesus is Lord, and I believe in my
heart that God raised Him from the dead.
I am now reborn! I am a Christian—a child
of Almighty God! I am saved! You also said in
Your Word, “If ye then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your children: HOW
MUCH MORE shall your heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
(Luke 11:13). I’m also asking You to fill me
with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, rise up within
me as I praise God. I fully expect to speak with
other tongues as You give me the utterance
(Acts 2:4). In Jesus’ Name. Amen!
Begin to praise God for filling you with the
Holy Spirit. Speak those words and syllables
you receive—not in your own language, but the
language given to you by the Holy Spirit. You have
to use your own voice. God will not force you to
speak. Don’t be concerned with how it sounds. It is
a heavenly language!
Continue with the blessing God has given you
and pray in the spirit every day.
You are a born-again, Spirit-filled believer.
You’ll never be the same!
Find a good church that boldly preaches God’s
Word and obeys it. Become part of a church family
who will love and care for you as you love and care
for them.
We need to be connected to each other. It
increases our strength in God. It’s God’s plan for us.
Make it a habit to watch the Believer’s Voice of
Victory television broadcast and become a doer of the
Word, who is blessed in his doing ( James 1:22-25).
 About the Author
Gloria Copeland is a noted author and minister
of the gospel whose teaching ministry is known
throughout the world. Believers worldwide know her
through Believers’ Conventions, Victory Campaigns,
magazine articles, teaching audios and videos, and the
daily and Sunday Believer’s Voice of Victory television
broadcast, which she hosts with her husband, Kenneth
Copeland. She is known for Healing School, which
she began teaching and hosting in 1979 at KCM
meetings. Gloria delivers the Word of God and the
keys to victorious Christian living to millions of
people every year.
Gloria is author of the New York Times best-
seller, God’s Master Plan for Your Life and Live Long,
Finish Strong, as well as numerous other favorites,
including God’s Will for You, Walk With God, God’s Will
Is Prosperity, Hidden Treasures and To Know Him. She
has also co-authored several books with her husband,
including Family Promises, Healing Promises and the
best-selling daily devotionals, From Faith to Faith and
Pursuit of His Presence.
She holds an honorary doctorate from Oral
Roberts University. In 1994, Gloria was voted
Christian Woman of the Year, an honor conferred
on women whose example demonstrates outstanding
Christian leadership. Gloria is also the co-founder
and vice president of Kenneth Copeland Ministries
in Fort Worth, Texas.

Learn more about Kenneth Copeland Ministries

by visiting our website at kcm.org
 Materials to Help You
Receive Your Healing
by Gloria Copeland
Books

* And Jesus Healed Them All

* God’s Prescription for Divine Health
* God’s Will for Your Healing
* Harvest of Health
Words That Heal (gift book with CD enclosed)

Audio Resources

Be Made Whole—Live Long, Live Healthy

God Is a Good God
God Wants You Well
Healing Confessions (CD and minibook)
Healing School

DVD Resources

Be Made Whole—Live Long, Live Healthy

Know Him As Healer

* Available in Spanish
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