THE BLESSING Makes You Prosperous 06/02

Summary

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Podcast Summary: THE BLESSING Makes You Prosperous

Podcast: Believer's Voice of Victory Audio Podcast
Host: Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Episode Date: June 2, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the biblical principle that "The Blessing of the Lord makes you prosperous." Kenneth Copeland, joined by his children Kelly and John Copeland, discusses how God's blessing extends beyond finances into every aspect of Christian life—family, health, and spiritual well-being. Using scripture, personal family stories, and doctrinal explanation, the Copelands affirm that God desires for His people to live abundantly and victoriously, debunking the myth that poverty is virtuous in God's sight.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Foundation: The Blessing Is More than a Sneeze Response

• Kenneth Copeland starts by clarifying a widespread but shallow understanding of "blessing," quoting Proverbs 10:22:

  "The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he adds no sorrow with it." (00:54)
  He laments that people often reduce 'blessing' to an empty phrase:
  “My people have boiled down my blessing to the answer of a sneeze. God bless you. He said, I don't have any idea what my blessing is.” (02:58)

2. The Biblical Roots of Blessing and Prosperity

• Kelly Copeland reads the Amplified translation to emphasize the depth of the promise:

  "The blessing of the Lord—it makes truly rich, and he adds no sorrow with it; neither does toiling increase it." (03:43)

• Kenneth Copeland points out that Abraham’s material wealth was specifically noted as part of God’s blessing—proving that prosperity is biblically sanctioned and not limited to spiritual matters.

  “Abraham was very rich in cattle, silver, and in gold. Well, it's all right for him to be. It's all right for you to be. Amen.” (05:40)

• The concept is further illustrated with family anecdotes showing blessing manifest in unity, peace, and support during hardships. They underscore that families can face tragedy while reliant on God’s blessing for unity and healing. (06:35–07:32)

3. Prosperity through Grace: Christ’s Redemptive Work

• Discussion includes 2 Corinthians 8:9, emphasizing Christ’s self-imposed poverty to enrich believers:
  • John Copeland (reads from Amplified):

    "That though he was so very rich, yet for your sakes, he became so very poor in order that by his poverty you might become enriched, abundantly supplied." (09:32)

  • Kelly Copeland (adds from The Passion translation):

    “He impoverished himself for our sake, so that by his poverty we become rich beyond measure.” (10:05)

• Kenneth Copeland explains:

  “He became as poor as poor could be, so that we in his poverty might become rich because we've been redeemed from the curse of poverty.” (10:17–10:35)

4. Opposition to the Message of Prosperity

• John Copeland addresses misunderstandings and criticism toward the "prosperity gospel":

  “Satan has attacked this message of God wants you blessed... If I’m poor, how do I help somebody else?” (11:31–12:45)

• They highlight that biblical prosperity is about capacity to bless others—finances, health, influence—not self-indulgence.
• Kelly Copeland notes:

  “I don't know if they get mad about being prosperous. They get mad about you being prosperous. Are you teaching it?” (15:09)

5. Old and New Covenant Continuity: God’s Unchanging Will

• Kenneth and John Copeland note that the principle of blessing is consistent from Genesis through the New Testament.

  “God hasn't changed during the Old Testament and New Testament, right? The Old Covenant, New Covenant—all the same.” (14:10)

• The illustration of Solomon’s wisdom and wealth underlines that asking for right things brings prosperity. (13:12)

6. Creation, Dominion, and the Original Blessing

• Kenneth Copeland shares a powerful vision and scriptural reflection on Genesis, depicting God bestowing the foundational blessing on mankind:

  “That's the first thing that ever hit a human ear. Be blessed and you bless. God blessed the man.” (20:32)

• The idea is that God’s first words to humanity were a command and empowerment for blessing, fruitfulness, and dominion.

7. Practical Application and Family Testimonies

• Real-world blessing is described through the Copelands’ family unity—no lawsuits, no division, but togetherness even through struggles.

  “Our families...nobody's fussing with one another. Nobody's suing one another. We've had tragedies, yes, but we moan together and we cry together, but we're together.” (05:35, 25:50)

• Kenneth Copeland reiterates that prosperity is “not just money, it's rich in family. It's rich in all matters of life.” (26:46)

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Notable Quotes

• Kenneth Copeland:

  “My people have boiled down my blessing to the answer of a sneeze... It's the blessing of the Lord, which became the blessing of Abraham, in which you dwell.” (02:58)

• Kelly Copeland:

  “The blessing of the Lord—it makes truly rich, and he adds no sorrow with it; neither does toiling increase it.” (03:43)

• John Copeland:

  “If I'm poor, how do I help somebody else? ...How are you supposed to be a blessing if you don't have enough blessing yourself?” (12:07)

• Kenneth Copeland:

  “He made Abram very rich. What did it happen after the slaughter of the kings? ...He tithed... He brought bread and water and became under God, richness and the error of the world... Glory to God forevermore.” (10:17)

• Kelly Copeland:

  “Families go through hard things... and then the blessing is that we have been encased in him to get us through it.” (07:20–07:32)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:54 – Kenneth introduces Proverbs 10:22 as the foundation for prosperity.
• 03:43 – Kelly reads Amplified translation; focus on true richness and absence of sorrow.
• 05:35–07:32 – Family unity and the lived experience of blessing through hardship.
• 09:32–10:05 – Reading and unpacking 2 Corinthians 8:9; Jesus' poverty enables our richness.
• 11:31–12:45 – John addresses Satan’s opposition to Christian prosperity and the logic for believers being a blessing to others.
• 13:12–15:18 – Critique of society’s double standards regarding wealth and Christian teaching, linking back to wisdom and wealth in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.
• 20:32 – Kenneth’s vision and reflection on the very first blessing spoken to humanity.
• 26:46 – Affirmation that prosperity covers far more than money—encompasses family, health, and wholeness.

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Memorable Moments

• The heartfelt testimony from a listener and discussion about the importance of licensed prayer ministers, stressing deep training in intercessory prayer. (02:12–02:58)
• Kenneth's childhood anecdote about the airplane propeller and its spiritual parallel—God setting creation and blessing into motion. (22:09)
• The Copeland family’s ongoing unity as a living example of the blessing discussed. (25:50)

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Conclusion

This episode robustly affirms that God’s blessing encompasses all aspects of believers’ lives, rooted in scriptural precedent and exemplified in the Copeland family’s experience. Through biblical exposition and personal testimony, Kenneth, Kelly, and John emphasize that prosperity is a divine mandate—not merely for personal gain, but for empowerment to help others and to reflect God's abundance.
Listeners are invited to renew their minds about the nature of the blessing, recognizing its broader reach beyond finances, into relationships, health, and spiritual vitality.

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For additional resources, testimonies, or to access the referenced book, listeners are encouraged to visit kcm.org

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Transcript

[Kenneth Copeland]

I move by what I feel. I don't live by what I see.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Because my God has made a way.

[Kenneth Copeland]

For me. Hello, everybody. I'm Kenneth Copeland. Kelly Copeland. John Copeland, in the order in which they came. You know, back in the day, you had to have two names. Yeah, you had no idea. So we had both names picked before the first baby was born. There's Kelly, solid black hair, just letting out a howl. Anyway, the thing I want to tell you this morning, the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich. That's our golden text. And we'll talk about that in a moment. Now, testimonies kcm.org story we want to hear from you about the broadcast and what it's done in your life. I've been watching Brother Copeland every day on daystar, especially when COVID 19 was a serious issue. I became a born again Christian through his ministry. And thank God, every day I remind myself that God is in control. We must read and believe his word every day and put the whole armor of God on every situation. May God bless KCM and all who partner with his ministry. Mt Trenton, New Jersey. Amen. Yeah. Glory to God. And when they put the prayer number up there on the screen, what does it mean, licensed prayer ministry? It just means they've been well trained in intercession, the prayer of faith, prayer of supplication, the prayer of agreement and everything. And this simply means license that they have been thoroughly trained in the intercessory ministry of prayer. It doesn't go to some now other ministries. And I'm not criticizing them. That's what they believe the Lord told them to do. But my spiritual father, Oral Roberts, said, kenneth, the major failure of Christian people is a prayer failure. Amen. Did you realize the prayer tower was the first thing he put on the campus? He said, that's the reason I had them build a prayer tower with the eternal flame headed up toward God. Because he said, I go up in that prayer tower and I seek God. It's a prayer for you not knowing what prayer to pray and so forth. And the Lord said to me, when I wrote this book, I was praying in the spirit. And he said, kenneth, my people, and my blessing has been boiled down to the answer of a sneeze. God bless you. He said, I don't have any idea what my blessing is. He said, it's the blessing of the Lord, which became the blessing of Abraham, in which you dwell. The blessing of the Lord makes rich and he adds no sorrow with it. Proverbs 10:22. And in the Amplified number.

[Kelly Copeland]

I got it right here, Dan.

[Kenneth Copeland]

Okay, read it. Proverbs 10:22.

[Kelly Copeland]

The blessing of the Lord. It makes truly rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. Neither does toiling increase it.

[Kenneth Copeland]

I don't care how hard you work at it. It's his blessing. Blessing. And it's more than a sneeze response. And when you say, bless somebody in the name of the Lord, and he said to renew your mind. Bless, Blessing. Blessed in capital letters to renew your mind that it's my blessing that I'm bestowing upon you. So now, I checked it out today in just the regular dictionary blessing, but I want to show you what Noah Webster said about it. You have that, Carleigh? Can you see it from there?

[Kelly Copeland]

Tell me.

[Kenneth Copeland]

Read it. Yes.

[Kelly Copeland]

All right. Rich, wealthy, opulent. Possessing of a large portion of land, goods or money or a larger portion than is common to other men or to men of like rank. A farmer may be rich with property, which would not make a nobleman rich. An annual income of 500 sterling pounds would make a rich vicar. But rich bishop men more willingly acknowledge others to be richer than to be wiser than themselves. Abraham was very rich in cattle and silver and in gold. Is the sentence they used to.

[Kenneth Copeland]

Well, it starts out, Abram. Abram before he was Abraham.

[Kelly Copeland]

Yeah.

[Kenneth Copeland]

It says, very rich in cattle, silver, and go. Well, it's all right for him to be. It's all right for you to be. Amen. And it may be in some other way. And at breakfast this morning, we were discussing it. The Owens family, which is my mother's background. The Copeland family was my dad's background. The niece family, which is Gloria's background. Nobody's fussing with one another. Nobody's suing one another over anything. It's just this. We've had tragedies, yes, but we moan together and we cry together, but we're together. Sally Briggs, my second cousin, and she looks so much like her mother. Sharon, that's on my dad's side, texted me with a very sad thing. And so I texted her back and sent her many, many, many scriptures and stood on. I said, sally, we're standing with you, sweetheart. She said, thank you, Kenneth. This is a very hard thing that we're going through. I said, yeah, I understand that. Would you give Sharon my love and Joe my love? And so that's the way you do family.

[Kelly Copeland]

Families go through hard things.

[Kenneth Copeland]

Yes, we do.

[Kelly Copeland]

And then the blessing is that we have been encased in him to get us through it.

[Kenneth Copeland]

But the thing of it is, none of Us are causing it. That's it. We're so blessed. We're just taught better than that, all of us. Now, I want to. That was Proverbs 10:22 in the Amplified. Second Corinthians 8, 9. And John, you have the Amplified there?

[John Copeland]

No, I have King James. Kelly has amplified. You gonna make me read?

[Kelly Copeland]

Yeah, right here.

[John Copeland]

I'm gonna do this in school.

[Kenneth Copeland]

I'll tell you what, do, Kelly, you read it. I'll read it in the King James, and then I want you to read it there.

[John Copeland]

Yeah, I like that better.

[Kenneth Copeland]

Second Corinthians 8. Great apostle. Now, y', all, don't start that.

[John Copeland]

What's this? Second Corinthians. What?

[Kenneth Copeland]

Second Corinthians.

[Kelly Copeland]

Amen.

[Kenneth Copeland]

Oh, Jesus. Thanks. And now this was. Moreover, brethren, we do you to know the grace of God bestowing upon the churches of Macedonia, how that in a great trial of affliction and abundance of their joy in their deep poverty, abounded unto the riches of their liberality. For to their power I hear, I bear record. Yea, beyond their power, they were willing of themselves, praying us. They had to beg him, praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift of which takes upon the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. Oh, right.

[John Copeland]

All right. For you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more strongly and clearly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, his kindness, his gracious generosity, his undeserved favor and spiritual blessings, that though he was so very rich, yet for your sakes, he became so very poor in order that by his power or by his poverty, you might become enriched, abundantly supplied.

[Kelly Copeland]

The passion ends that with. He impoverished himself for our sake, so that by his poverty we become rich beyond measure. Those are good.

[Kenneth Copeland]

So what did the Lord say there? Now, think about it. He made Abram very rich. What did it happen after the slaughter of the kings? What did he do then after the slaughter of the kings, huh? He tithed. He brought bread and water and became under God, richness and the error of the world. Whoa. And he is the author of our faith. So he became as poor as poor could be, so that we in his poverty might become rich because we've been redeemed from the curse of poverty. Because he went to that cross and went to hell for three days and nights. Glory to God forevermore. That's Galatians 3.

[John Copeland]

And you know, Satan has attacked this message of God wants you blessed. I mean, think about it. If you were adversary, that's where you would attack, right? You don't want God's people blessed because God wants all of his people blessed. That's where you're going to attack and you're going to twist it and say we're supposed to be poor. But it doesn't make any logical sense when you think about it from a standpoint. Okay, just go through the Old Testament, right? How many people, his people were blessed. Abraham, Job, I mean, go down, go down to the list. Solomon, I mean, the richest people in the land. They weren't just, okay, they were, you know, the Elon Musk of today or the Bezos today, except, you know, more godly. And so it's like. But they were the richest in the land. Like Bathsheba fainted because of the wealth that Solomon had, right? So it's like Satan has tried to twist that. Satan's twisted that right and tried to tell us that we're supposed to be, have, be in poverty. But from just a logical standpoint, if I'm poor, how do I help somebody else? You know, I don't have the ability. If you need help with your medical bills and I'm poor, how can I help you? I can't help you if you need help, you know, to pay off your car or fix your car. How can I help you if I'm the one that needs help? And so from a just logical, common sense standpoint, how are you supposed to be a blessing if you don't have enough blessing yourself? And so Satan has just perverted it. He's turned it around.

[Kenneth Copeland]

If I were to put it general theme on the book of Proverbs, that's it. And the book of Ecclesiastes says it just comes out and says it. But they had no revelation. They had no idea Jesus was coming to ratify all of that. And you know, a poor man's poverty, who will listen? A rich man's. A rich man's word, all will hear. Well, Solomon's the richest man the world has ever seen. And because instead of asking for wealth, he asked for wisdom. And that's what you have in the book of Proverbs is the man's wisdom.

[John Copeland]

So you know how the Bible has just carried this. God hasn't changed during the Old Testament and New Testament, right? The Old Covenant, New Covenant, all the same. But his themes and his, the way he, his modus operandi is all the same, right? So why would he all of a sudden now when you get into the New Covenant, which is even better, covenant change that, like, why is. Okay, now you're supposed to be poor. It's like, no. And it's like you read the scriptures we just read. Jesus went to the cross for our prosperity, which is not just money, you know, it's prosperous in your whole life, your family, your relationships, your business. I mean, prosperity, your soul, your happiness. It goes. It's more than just money, but it's like he shows us right here. It's very plain, but yet still, people get mad about being prosperous, you know, and it just makes no sense to me at all, actually.

[Kelly Copeland]

I don't know if they get mad about being prosperous. They get mad about you being prosperous. Are you teaching it?

[Kenneth Copeland]

And that's the spirit of the devil.

[John Copeland]

They don't care about, you know, Paris Hilton or some movie star or Taylor Swift or any of these people being wealthy. They just idolize that.

[Kenneth Copeland]

Right?

[John Copeland]

But when you're a minister of the gospel. No, you need to be poor. I'm sorry.

[Kenneth Copeland]

Oh, yeah, yeah. You keep him broke, you keep him humble. We'll keep him poor. Anyway, let's go back to book one. Genesis, beginning now. Read this the way the Jews read it in the beginning. Elohim, the one blessed, the blessed one plural, El God, lohim, Father, Son, and holy Ghost created the heaven and earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep and moved upon the face of the waters. And Elohim said, now, in the beginning of our ministry, we had meetings. Two abandoned drugstores, and the very first one, Wichita Falls, Texas, looking for a place to have the morning services. Aline Arnold was in the real estate business there, and she said, the only place in Wichita Falls that I found for the morning services, you know, why want to have anything to do with me? I preach prosperity, you know. No, we don't think he's ready. Anyway, she said, the only place I have is a synagogue. Would that be all right? I said, sure. So we had our morning services in a synagogue. And he said, brother Copeland, here's my study and all. He said, just study and meditate yourself at home in my books and so forth. And he just turned around and walked out and left me in there. I could see it in my mind. And I began to look at several things, and I picked. I know God led me right straight to it. And God said, light be light. Was light. B. 186,000 miles a second, not sunshine. That is the fourth day. Light B. 24 hours. 16,074,764,800 miles of universe. Whoa. And it's still expanding at the speed of light. We only Know one galaxy, and that's ours now. He made the two great lights so that it was good. And God created great whales and every living thing that moves in which the waters brought forth abundantly their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let foul multiply in the earth. Blessed be there. When he said blessed, they were all there at once. But how do we know what to call them? And he saw that it was good to let us make men in our image after our likeness, and give them dominion over every fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle and all the earth and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. And God created man in his own image. The image of God created he, him. Male and female created them. And God blessed them and said, be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, shall subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. I saw this whole thing in a vision, lasted quite some time. Let us make man in our own image. And he was holding me, this gray looking, this. And he was exactly the same size. It had to be Jesus. Elohim, plural, Father, Son, Holy Ghost. And the Spirit was moving. And God said, man, be in our image. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air. And he blessed him, saying, bless them. God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply. Replenish the earth, subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. That's the first thing that ever hit a human ear. Be blessed and you bless. God blessed the man. Psalm 1.

[Kelly Copeland]

You know, dad, while you're turning there, when you said that about. He put. He made all the firmament, he made all the animals, and he set it all into motion. I saw, like, that split second when I was a kid. And we would fly in an airplane with a Turbo, with a prop. And I would watch you go out there and you would hit that, and it would start spinning like you would push that prop down. Sometimes I don't remember the kind of airplane you were on when that would happen, but somebody would be out there and would start the prop.

[Kenneth Copeland]

It only happened to us one time. Gloria had learned how to fly. And so on a Sunday, we had some partners in, oh, down South Texas, not San Antonio, but close to there. And we were going down there to see them. Well, I have to explain something. It is actually called the P lead. And an airplane flies by magnetos, not spark plugs. So they're constant. But you start on a battery, and the P lead connects the battery to the ignition. So we came back out to the airplane. I mean, we flew it in there and took off from here. And so I sat down in the airplane and I went through all the checklists and everything and nothing. What is this? Oh, well, I'm gonna have to prop it. I said, all right, now, Gloria Jean, you get over here in the left seat, because we were talking about her flying home. So I said, you get over here in the left seat and don't put that switch over here yet. And we're out of time. How do you do me like that? We'll finish this tomorrow. Praise God. Amen.

[Narrator/Announcer]

When there are obstacles that seem insurmountable and nothing seems to be going right, God already made a way to empower you to succeed. In his book the Blessing of the Lord Makes Rich and He Adds no Sorrow with it, Kenneth Copeland reveals God's original design was for you to thrive. He always intended for you to live enriched and whole in every area. Spirit, soul, body, financially and socially. Jesus gave you the authority to rule and empowers you by the Holy Spirit to succeed. He set you free from the law of sin and death. You were created in God's image, called to live in his victory. Fear, lack and confusion have no hold when you're living in the blessing. Jesus connects you to the blessing and your faith receives it. Develop your faith and let God's love drive fear out. Step into the Blessing of the Lord and accomplish God's will for your life. To get your free copy of Kenneth Copeland's book, the Blessing of the Lord Makes Rich and He Adds no Sorrow with it. Go to kcm.org tvspecial or call 800600 7395. No matter where you are in the progress of your life as a Christian, learn more about God and his relationship with you as you dig deeper into the vital message of the blessing. This special offer is good for 60 days outside of the US shipping charges may apply.

[Promotional Voice]

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[Kenneth Copeland]

If you are in Christ, then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise, you ought to be loosed from that infirmity. Bless God. You ought to be free. You ought to be debt free. You ought to be pain free. Glory to God. You ought to be sick free.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Kenneth Copeland]

When you get our book the Blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich. This you need to get this. It's not just rich in money, it's rich in family. It's rich in all matters of life. And we were discussing it this morning. Our families, the Owens families, the Neis family, nobody's fussing with one another. Nobody's suing one another or fussing with one another. And we have a text you just get us all at one time. And we celebrate birthdays and we do all that. Our lives are rich because God has blessed us and we know it and we stand on it in faith. So we want to give it to you free and postpaid for you. Call and ask us for it. Praise God and forget that one. That's the blood covenant. That's why it all works. We'll see you again tomorrow. Until then, these are the Copelands reminding you once again that God loves you. We love you and Jesus is Lord. Give him a praise. Hallelujah. Glory to God forevermore.

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