05/02/2026
Some religious men today, who advocate that believers should welcome suffering, teach that God is allowing the loss of your business, your health, or some other curse in order to teach you something. Therefore, if God is allowing it, you have no defensenagainst it. You are just supposed to brace up and suffer “like a good little trooper.”
If you believe this teaching, you automatically put yourself in position for Satan to whip you and whip you badly. This is directly opposed to the operation of faith and your God-given authority. It is contrary to God’s Word that says, “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man... Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is
no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:13, 16, 17).
How can you resist if you think God is blessing you with cancer?
That sounds so blasphemous that it is hard for me to say. Yet that is just what some would have you believe. Satan and God have not changed places. Satan is not making believers rich while God makes them sick. When you examine it with your religious head turned off,
it is not hard to figure out where this error originated. Religious error trains you to
enforce your own defeat. Every believer who embraces suffering certainly makes Satan’s job to kill, steal, and destroy much easier. You are told in God’s Word to believe that God is the rewarder, not the destroyer.
“For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out]” (Heb. 11:6, The Amplified Bible).
This error does, however, have an element of truth in it. GOD IS ALLOWING WHATEVER YOU ALLOW! He has given you authority, and according to His Word, you can have what you say. He will allow you to be sick, lost in sin, and bound in poverty. God will allow you to die before your time. It is not His will for you, but He remains true to His Word.
“If we are faithless... He remains true (faithful to His Word...), for He cannot deny Himself” (2 Tim. 2:13, The Amplified Bible).
If you take your God-given authority in the earth and use it against yourself, God will allow
it. Adam proved that.
Don’t feed on error. Don’t feed on anything that robs you of your faith—that creates doubt, fear, defeat, discouragement, or distrust. If there is one false teaching in the Church that can defeat you permanently, it is that God is making you suffer in order to teach you. It will get you killed. Do you understand that? It will get you killed! And what an insult to God who has gone to such lengths to make you free! Isaiah, by the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says that Jesus bore your sicknesses and carried your
diseases.
For God to turn around and put them on you would be a miscarriage of justice. The sacrifice of Jesus was not in vain. He suffered for you and for me, so we would not have to suffer. We are to enter into His suffering (Phil. 3:10).
We are to receive what He bore for us and go free from sin, sickness, demons, and fear (Gal.
3:13).
And shall not doubt in his heart. At this point you should have already built the Word into your spirit and taken the time to meditate in God’s Word until His Word carries more authority in your life than Satan, circumstances, and people. Doubt is eradicated from your heart by time spent hearing and meditating on God’s Word. This
is not doubt of the head but of the heart. Doubt in the heart (the spirit) is not so much an action taken now as the condition of the heart (the spirit). Doubts in the head are dealt with individually as they attack the mind.
You will have to fulfill the second step in God’s success formula—meditating in the Word day and night—in order to successfully operate in faith. We will consider that you have done that and are daily continuing to meditate in the Word. (If this is new to you, get started immediately.) You must continually keep your spirit above all that you guard because out of it flow the forces of life (Prov. 4:23). If you want what you say to come to pass to your advantage, KEEP YOUR HEART FULL OF THE WORD OF GOD.
God’s Word is His part of our prayer life. We have His answer to our need right here in the written Word. There is no problem in the universe that can stand against God’s Word. He tells us what to do in the spiritual world in order to change the physical world.
God’s Word is law in the spiritual world and in the physical world. The physical, material world is the servant of the more powerful world of the spirit.
Faith is released in both worlds by words. Words are the bridge between the physical world and the spiritual world. Jesus said, The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Jesus spoke from a physical body, but His words were spirit. God’s words are the bridge between God and man. Man’s words are the bridge between man and God. Both worlds operate on words. Think about that.
- Gloria Copeland (God's Will Is Prosperity)
- Spiritual Notes
