June
2 0 2 5 / PA R T N E R L E T T E R
What is faith? Faith is a spiritual unseen
force. Let's look and see what THE Book
says in Hebrews 11:1 in the Amplified
Bible, Classic Edition: "Now faith is the
assurance (the confirmation, the title
deed) of things [we] hope for, being the
proof of things [we] do not see and the
conviction of their reality [faith
perceiving as real fact what is not
revealed to the [five physical] senses]."
Faith is always now. Hope is future. Far
too many Christian people do not know
the difference between hope, or
expectancy, and just wishing. For
example: "Will you receive your healing
when I lay my hands on you?"
"Well, Brother Copeland, I sure do hope (I
wish) so."
Contrast that with, "Brother Copeland, I
know I will!"
How do you know?
"Because my Covenant with the Healer
Himself says in 1 Peter 2:24 that He, Jesus,
bore my sins in His own body on the tree,
that I being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness, and by His stripes I was
healed!"
Look at that verse in the AMPC: "He
personally bore our sins in His [own]
body on the tree [as on an altar and
offered Himself on it], that we might die
(cease to exist) to sin and live to
righteousness. By His wounds you have
been healed." That's the first witness.
First John 4:4, AMPC, is the second
witness: "Little children, you are of God
[you belong to Him] and have [already]
defeated and overcome them [the
agents of the antichrist], because He
Who lives in you is greater (mightier)
than he who is in the world."
Witness No. 3 is found in Chapter 5:4-5,
AMPC: "For whatever is born of God is
victorious over the world; and this is the
victory that conquers the world, even our
faith. Who is it that is victorious over [that
conquers] the world but he who believes
that Jesus is the Son of God [who
adheres to, trusts in, and relies on that
fact]?"
Witness No. 4 is found in 3 John 2, AMPC:
"Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in
every way and [that your body] may
keep well, even as [I know] your soul
