God has established His covenant in the earth. Everything
He does is determined by this covenant. Jesus of Nazareth
was born into this world, died on the cross, went to hell, paid
the sin price, and was raised from the dead because of the covenant
God made with man. God does not show partiality by
choosing certain people to save or to heal; His blessings are for
all the people who meet the conditions of the covenant (see
1 Peter 2:24).

God has established His covenant—for salvation, for healing,
for deliverance, for prosperity—and these provisions of the
covenant are set out in God’s Word. His Word is His covenant,
His bond. When you consider a person’s word, you think of his
integrity: Will he do what he says? Is his word good? Is his name
good? A person’s name is judged as good or bad by whether or
not he keeps his word. Your name doesn’t make your word
good. Your word makes your name good. Herein lies the power
in the Name of Jesus; His Name is good because His Word is
good. God has magnified His Word even above His Name (see
Psalm 138:2).

God’s covenant has been established in the earth. Now man
must establish his heart in God’s covenant. It is the combination
of the established covenant of God and your established heart
in this covenant that produces results. If your heart is not
established in the covenant, then the covenant will never mean
anything to you. Ephesians 2:12 says, “That at that time ye were
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without
God in the world.” Being without God is spiritual bankruptcy.
It doesn’t matter what God has done—if you don’t know about
it or can’t get in it, you are spiritually bankrupt. Eventually, you
will become physically bankrupt in one form or another. You
will have nowhere to turn. You can’t depend on your physical
capabilities because your flesh just isn’t enough to get you through.
Certainly, this is true of your mind, your mental capabilities. Men
with the strongest minds in the world are committing suicide at
an alarming rate!

A man without God in the world is a man without a covenant.
He has nothing to believe. He has nothing to rely
on. There are many Christians who actually do not know what
to believe. They say, “How does this work? I’m trying my best
to believe God, but I just can’t seem to do it!” There are many
fine, upstanding people—born again, filled with the Spirit of
God—who are absolutely defeated in every area of their lives
(physically, mentally, socially and financially). Why? Because
they don’t know the covenant. If they don’t know what God has
said, there is no way He can reach them.

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland