And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom
of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind
on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven (Matthew 16:19).

This familiar passage on the keys of heaven
and binding and loosing brings up some interesting
questions: What is the realm of faith like? Why
should we be so vitally, constantly, continually
interested in faith?

Think about how we protect the feeding of our
physical bodies. We may claim that we have no time
to spend in the Word of God, but we don’t miss any
meals! There is no such thing as not having time to
eat—not for long. The same should be true of our
spiritual nourishment.

We must do something about this attitude, especially
as we move forward toward the catching away
of the Church. The Church that has already gone to
heaven and the Church that is still on earth are going
to meet one day and never be separated again. The
Bible says that one day we will be like our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ (1 John 3:2).

The closer we get to that day, the more is required
of us. As the time grows shorter and shorter, the more
we in the Church are going to have to learn more
and more how to schedule our work time around the
Word instead of trying to schedule the Word around
our work time.

This is not something we ought to do. It is something
we must do. If we do it, there will be more revelation
poured out on the Body of Christ than there
has been in the past 2,000 years combined. We will be
either the most spiritually knowledgeable or the most
spiritually ignorant generation in history.

The faith realm must come first, because faith
is the catalyst that hooks the natural world and the
spiritual world together. We cannot get from one to
the other without the spiritual force of faith.

The Bible says to be carnally minded (in debt
to the flesh) is death, but to be spiritually minded
(free from debt to the flesh) is life (Romans 8:4-13).

If we are operating in the realm of the spirit, there is
no way the flesh can dominate us, because we will
be dominating it. That truth is so vital in the day in
which we live.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries