How Can You
Make Your Plans
Succeed?
Kenneth Copeland shows you how,
by aligning your thinking and your
actions with The Word,
you will be able to deal
wisely in all the affairs of
life. You’ll succeed. And
no matter what’s going on
in the world’s system, you
can prosper because you’re operating
according to the wisdom of God.
Don’t accept the logic of the world, or
follow after its plans and ideas. Follow
after God’s way of thinking and follow
after The Plan That Never Fails.
Kenneth
Copeland
30-0069 Publications
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Kenneth
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The Plan
That Never
Fails
Have you noticed how many
people are coming up with plans
for us these days? Politicians, media
pundits, financial advisors—they all
seem to have a plan for our future and
our economic security.
I’ve never heard so many plans as I
have in recent times. They have plans
to get rid of our clunker cars. Plans to
help us buy houses. Plans to fund our
retirement. Plans for our health care.
To put it as politely as I can, I’ve
never heard so much bull.
Of course, that’s not what the plan-
ners call it. They think their ideas are
brilliant. But they’re wrong. Because
their ideas don’t include God, they
fall into the scriptural category of
the “way which seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof are the ways
of death” (Proverbs 14:12).
That’s why the Lord warned me
about them in advance. In October
2008, He spoke to me one morning in
my study in a powerful way and said:
Don’t pay attention to or make any
plans based on what the media say
or what the politicians are saying.
Pay attention to Me.... All the
other voices will have a plan, a
word, an idea, for your future and
security. Don’t listen to Babylon’s
system. It has fallen apart. My
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system is stronger than ever. My
kingdom is flourishing and THE
BLESSING is the place to be. Keep
your eyes on My Word. Listen to it.
It will guide you. I will perform
it. Love Me. Love My people as I
have loved you.... Love never fails
and neither does My plan. Be very
cautious to stay completely clean
from covetousness. First Timothy
6:10 must live in the forefront of
your thinking. If you will do these
things and continue therein, you
will come into your wealthy place.
Covetousness Is Crippling
When the Lord said that to me, I
began studying and praying especially
over the part about covetousness. I had
always assumed it just meant coveting,
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“wanting to take for yourself some-
thing that belongs to someone else.”
I equated it with the command in
Exodus 20:17 which says, “Thou shalt
not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou
shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife...
nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
But actually, coveting and covet-
ousness are two different things.
Covetousness is a way of thinking
that eventually leads to coveting. It’s
a natural, carnal mindset that doesn’t
include God.
Most of us were trained in it by our
parents’ generation. We were raised to
believe as the world does—that we
are responsible for meeting our own
material needs and wants. We were
brought up to think we have to go out
and gather up money for ourselves—
that we have to make our own living.
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We grew up hearing Mom and
Dad and Grandma say things like,
“Now listen to me, child. You better
make good grades in school because
if you don’t, you won’t get into college,
and if you don’t go to college, you’ll
never be able to get a good job. You’ll
be poor your whole life.”
It never occurs to most Christians
that there’s anything wrong with that
perspective. They don’t realize it’s
based on the logic of the world and
doesn’t include an ounce of faith in
God. They just accept it, and make
their financial decisions accordingly.
Instead of asking, “What does
God want me to do? What does He
have planned for me?” they ask, “How
can I make enough money to meet
my needs?” Then they come up with a
way that seems right to them but ends
up in death.
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That kind of thinking—not the
world’s economy—is what is crip-
pling believers financially these days.
It’s a covetous mindset and it is
cutting them off from THE BLESS-
ING of God. Even worse, it’s a deadly
way of thinking that eventually leads
to financial manipulation, cheating,
theft and all other kinds of evil.
“Wait a minute, Brother Copeland,”
you might say, “I thought the love of
money is the root of all evil.”
It is. But covetous thinking is
what turns people into money-lovers.
First Timothy 6:9-10 says it this
way: “They that will be rich fall into
temptation and a snare, and into
many foolish and hurtful lusts, which
drown men in destruction and perdi-
tion. For the love of money is the root
of all evil: which while some coveted
after, they have erred from the faith,
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and pierced themselves through with
many sorrows.”
Notice that passage refers to “they
that will be rich.” It’s not talking about
people who trust THE BLESSING
of the Lord to make them rich and
add no sorrow with it (Proverbs
10:22). It’s talking about people who
are trying to get rich by their own
willpower and human ingenuity. It’s
talking about “the ungodly, who pros-
per in the world” (Psalm 73:12) by
gathering up finances for themselves,
and God isn’t any part of it.
That’s covetousness, and it leads
to the love of money and all kinds of
sorrowful, evil things. It leads people
to make decisions that seem right but
turn out to be deadly.
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Right Question/Wrong Answer
There’s a story in Luke 12 that
reveals how truly dangerous covetous-
ness is. Jesus told it in response to a
man who called out to Him right in
the middle of a teaching meeting and
said, “Master, speak to my brother,
that he divide the inheritance with
me” (verse 13). I suppose the guy was
expecting Jesus to issue a financial
judgment right then and there. But
instead He gave him (and all the rest
of us) an earful about the underly-
ing issue. He said: “Take heed, and
beware of covetousness: for a man’s
life consisteth not in the abundance
of the things which he possesseth”
(verse 15).
The phrase take heed means “wake
up; look and listen; beware or be very
cautious.” It describes a state of mind
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referred to in aviation as situational
awareness. To a pilot, situational
awareness means he knows what’s
going on around him every minute of
the flight, so if something malfunc-
tions, he detects it and deals with it
before it wrecks the airplane. That’s
the way we must be where covetous-
ness is concerned. We must always be
aware and on guard against it.
Jesus drove home that point by
telling about a man—not a fictional
character but a real person—who
lost his situational awareness and let
covetousness wreck his life.
The ground of a certain rich
man brought forth plentifully:
And he thought within himself,
saying, What shall I do, because
I have no room where to bestow
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my fruits? And he said, This will
I do: I will pull down my barns,
and build greater; and there will
I bestow all my fruits and my
goods. And I will say to my soul,
Soul, thou hast much goods laid
up for many years; take thine
ease, eat, drink, and be merry
(verses 16-19).
Notice the initial question the rich
man asked was a good one. I believe God
actually inspired it. He put it in the rich
man’s spirit to get his attention because
the man had been focusing completely
on himself. He wasn’t thinking about
anyone else at all. Now that he’d run
out of storage space, God was trying to
lead him into the revelation that he had
enough to give. He was blessed enough
to be a blessing to others.
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So He put the question in him:
What shall I do now that I have no more
room to store my wealth?
It was the right question. But, sad
to say, the man came up with the
wrong answer. He decided to tear
down his barns and build bigger ones.
Think about what a foolish deci-
sion that was. He was going to have
to empty out his old barns before
demolishing them. What was he
going to do with the crops he’d been
storing there? Was he just going to
leave them out in the weather while
the new barns were being built?
They’d be ruined.
Meantime, he was going to spend
money like there’s no tomorrow,
hoping there’d be no crop failure
this year. He was not only going
into major expenditure mode, he
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was putting everything at risk. One
bad storm, one bad crop year, and he
would be destroyed.
It sounds crazy, but that plan
seemed right to him.
Why? Because his thinking was
clouded by covetousness. He was not
looking to God as his source. He had
gathered those riches by himself for
himself. His purpose in life was to
take it easy and have a party. He was
making his own way and coming up
with his own decisions. Instead of
seeking the will of God and listening
to Him, the rich man was listening to
himself, and he didn’t know much.
Covetous thinking had turned him
into a fool.
That’s not just my assessment—
according to Jesus, that’s what God
called the man. “God said unto him,
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Thou fool, this night thy soul shall
be required of thee: then whose shall
those things be, which thou hast
provided?” (verse 20).
Act Like a Wise Man
Here’s the sobering end to the story.
The man never got a chance to tear
down his barns. He never got that far
because the decision he made opened
the door to death in his life. Covet-
ousness cost him his protection from
God and he died that night.
The Bible doesn’t say how it
happened. Maybe he was murdered.
Maybe someone wanted to steal what
he had in his barns. Maybe he had a
heart attack. We don’t know.
But we do know this: God was
trying to get his attention before it
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happened. He was prompting the man
to ask the right question. But instead
of going to God and saying, “Lord,
what’s the answer to this?” he made
up the answer himself. He became his
own god.
Whether the economy is good
or bad, trying to be your own god is
stupid. It makes people think and act
like fools.
So don’t do it. Act like a wise man
instead. Jesus told us how. He said,
“Whosoever heareth these sayings of
mine, and doeth them, I will liken him
unto a wise man” (Matthew 7:24).
Notice, He didn’t say we have to be
wise on our own. All we have to do is
act like a wise man to get a wise man’s
results, and we do that by hearing and
obeying God’s Word. We do it by
following the instructions God gave
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to Joshua when he was about to lead
the Israelites into the Promised Land:
“This book of the law shall not depart
out of thy mouth; 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 prosper-
ous, and then thou shalt have good
success” ( Joshua 1:8).
If those instructions worked for
Joshua (and they did) they will work
for us. He was facing a far more pres-
surized situation than the one we face
today. He was heading into combat,
going back to Canaan to fight the giants
who had scared the Israelites back into
the wilderness 40 years earlier.
You can imagine what the devil
was saying to him about it, trying to
get him knotted up in fear and worry.
He was telling Joshua the giants had
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gotten bigger since he last saw them.
They’d multiplied. They were stronger.
Face it, Joshua. There’s no way you and
your little ragtag bunch can beat those
monsters. You don’t know anything about
war. They’ve spent the past 40 years
developing their military might while
you and your little group of grasshoppers
have been wandering around in the
desert. Blah...blah...blah...
But Joshua didn’t listen. He kept
his attention on God’s Word. He
believed that if he’d meditate on that
Word, think the way it taught him
to think, and do what it told him to
do, no matter how bad the situation
around him became, he’d prosper.
He’d have good success and, as one
translation puts it, deal wisely in the
affairs of life.
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It’s the Same Old System
That’s just as true for us today as
it was for Joshua. If we’ll align our
thinking and our actions with The
Word, we’ll deal wisely in all the affairs
of life. We’ll succeed. We’ll prosper
because we’re operating according to
the wisdom of God.
Don’t you think He has this economy
figured out? Do you think He’s sitting
up in heaven wondering how we came
up with such a complicated system? Do
you think He is saying, “Oh my, I’ve
never seen anything like that!”
No, this is the same old system
that’s been around since the tower of
Babel. It’s an economy designed by
men trying to meet their own needs
without God. It’s nothing new.
Even the socialist agenda that
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people are so upset about these days
made its debut at the tower of Babel.
Socialism first reared its head when
the builders said, “We’ll make this
tower out of brick.” Unlike the stones
with which God builds His temple,
bricks are all just alike. God never
made any two things alike in all of
history. There aren’t even two finger-
prints alike.
Why is that significant?
It tells us God is interested in the
success of the individual. His way is to
bring successful individuals together
and make them a thousand times
more successful together than they
were by themselves. That’s God’s way.
Man’s way is to make everyone just
alike. Make them all look alike. Don’t
let anyone get ahead of anyone else.
Except, of course, those who are in
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charge because they’re the only ones
who know anything and they have to
run it all.
That sums up the Babylonian system.
But you and I aren’t in that system.
We’re in the Eden system. We have a
covenant with God. We’re BLESSED
with THE BLESSING of Abraham
and God has given us His Word to
live by, so no matter what’s going on
in the world’s system we can deal
wisely and have good success.
“Brother Copeland, do you really
think that’s possible in these messed-
up financial times?”
I know it is.
That October morning when the
Lord spoke to me about the economic
disturbance that was coming and the
plans people would devise to deal with
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it, He said if we’d keep listening to
Him and doing what He says, if we’d
stay completely clean of covetousness,
we can live in heaven on earth right in
the midst of all the trouble.
Sure enough,that’s what’s happened.
Gloria and I have marveled over it
time and again. Right in the middle
of all the financial turmoil that’s gone
on, we’ve felt almost like we’re in
heaven. Without any debts and with-
out any cares, we have unhooked from
Babylon’s system and we’re having
the time of our lives enjoying THE
BLESSING of the kingdom of God.
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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
Kenneth Copeland is co-founder and president of
Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Fort Worth, Texas,
and best-selling author of books that include How to
Discipline Your Flesh and Honor—Walking in Honesty,
Truth and Integrity.
Since 1967, Kenneth has been a minister of the gospel of
Christ and teacher of God’s Word. He is also the artist on
award-winning albums such as his Grammy-nominated Only
the Redeemed, In His Presence, He Is Jehovah, Just a Closer Walk
and his most recently released Big Band Gospel album. He
also co-stars as the character Wichita Slim in the children’s
adventure videos The Gunslinger, Covenant Rider and the
movie The Treasure of Eagle Mountain, and as Daniel Lyon
in the Commander Kellie and the Superkids TM videos Armor
of Light and Judgment: The Trial of Commander Kellie.
Kenneth also co-stars as a Hispanic godfather in the 2009
movie The Rally.
With the help of offices and staff in the United States,
Canada, England, Australia, South Africa, Ukraine and
Singapore, Kenneth is fulfilling his vision to boldly
preach the uncompromised WORD of God from the top
of this world, to the bottom, and all the way around. His
ministry reaches millions of people worldwide through
daily and Sunday TV broadcasts, magazines, teaching
audios and videos, conventions and campaigns, and the
World Wide Web.
Learn more about Kenneth Copeland Ministries
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Copeland about starting the Believer’s
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Jesus Is LORD!
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
