You’re one with Him in the spirit, you have
the mind of Christ, you are bone of His bone,
so you might as well be attitude of His attitude!
His attitude is “Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven.” See yourself as God sees you.
One time the Lord showed me a vision of a
man holding a big banana. The man began to
peel the banana, and as he did, I saw that there
was no banana inside, but standing in the bottom
was a little man. That little man was me!
The Lord said, Son, that’s your attitude toward
yourself. It was true. I presented a big front to
the world, but actually felt very small on the
inside. The Lord told me I needed to change
my whole attitude.

He began to show me from His Word what
it meant to be in Christ and to have Him in me.
I began to see that a born-again believer is a
limitless creature of God—an unlimited powerhouse
of the very life of God Himself!

You, too, need to change your attitude by
renewing your mind to the Word. Allow God
to reveal Himself to you and to give you this
winning attitude—this world-overcoming attitude—
in Jesus Christ.

Now that you see that God is not your
problem and that you have the very power
of God at your disposal to make you an
overcomer, you are in the position to be
more trouble than your troublemaker—
Satan—can handle! Now, you can put Satan
under your feet where he belongs.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

“Compacted by that which every joint supplieth,
according to the effectual working in the
measure of every part.” In other words, it
works according to the effect brought about by
the direct amount, or the measure, that each
and every joint supplies. The amount which you
supply—the power you supply—affects the entire
plan of God. Whatever you supply—none, some,
much, or all you’re called to do—affects the entire
Body of Christ.

“According to the effectual working in the
measure of every part, maketh increase of the
body unto the edifying of itself in love.” Here
again, God will not build up the Body—it
must build up itself. Some people are waiting
for Jesus to return so that the Body will rise
without spot or wrinkle at the resurrection.
But the Body of Christ is rising now, and the
Bible says He will present Himself a body that
is without spot or wrinkle. This will happen as
she edifies herself in love, grows up into Him
and is washed of water by the Word.

Can you see how God’s faith was operating
through the years? The Word of God had been
written long before the Dark Ages, yet because
it was inaccessible to the people, most could
not get born again. It had been shoved deep
into monasteries, and they couldn’t reach it.
But God kept believing. There was enough
faith in God’s winning attitude to reach a little
Catholic priest named Martin Luther. That little
priest began to scratch in the Word and he
found a sentence, “The just shall live by faith”
(Romans 1:17). He found God through that
one little sentence and generated enough
power to begin a revival that is still going! God
had a winning attitude, and He refused to let
go! Today the gospel is being preached in every
nation on the face of the earth!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

You can’t afford to think like a loser. Change
your attitude. The whole Body of Christ is
counting on you. There will be times when you’ll
run into trouble, times when it looks like failure
is inevitable. But follow your Father’s example
and keep believing that you’re going to win. You
know, during the Dark Ages, even though God
had given His written Word, it had been shoved
deep into monasteries, and the people couldn’t
reach it. Few if any, were being born again. It
appeared as though God’s plan was failing. But He
didn’t give up. He kept on believing.

There was enough faith in God’s winning
attitude to reach a little Catholic priest named
Martin Luther. He began to scratch in the Word
and found a sentence, “The just shall live by faith”
(Romans 1:17). He found God through that one
little sentence and generated enough power to
begin a revival that is still going!

God had a winning attitude, and He refused to
let go! Today the gospel is being preached in every
nation on the face of the earth!

Remember, you’re one with Him in the spirit,
you have the mind of Christ and you’re bone of
His bone, so you might as well be attitude of His
attitude! He sees you as an overcomer, so you
need to see yourself that way too!

One time the Lord showed me a vision of a
man holding a big banana. The man began to peel
the banana, and as he did, I saw that there was no
banana inside, but standing in the bottom was a
little man. That little man was me! The Lord said,
Son, that’s your attitude toward yourself. It was
true. I presented a big front to the world but
actually felt very small on the inside. The Lord
told me I needed to change my whole attitude.

He began to show me from His Word what it
meant to be in Christ and to have Him in me. I
began to see that a born-again believer is a limitless
creature of God—an unlimited powerhouse of the
very life of God, Himself! You need to realize this
is your life. Allow God to supernaturally change
your attitude. Allow Him to reveal Himself to you
and give you this winning attitude—this worldovercoming
attitude—in Jesus Christ!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

What is Jesus’ attitude? A good example is the
Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). It is full of
outright confessions of faith. Look at verses 9-10:
“Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy
name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in
earth, as it is in heaven.” This is a statement of
faith that shows Jesus’ winning attitude. He was
standing there in the face of people who wanted
to stone Him when He prayed that! He didn’t say,
“Father, if it be Your will….” He didn’t just say,
“Thy will be done.” He said, “Your will be done in
earth as it is in heaven!” Is there sickness, poverty
and suffering in heaven? No! Then there shouldn’t
be any of it here on earth. Can you see His
attitude in this? God doesn’t have sickness in
heaven, so He doesn’t want any here on earth!

Our attitude needs to be the same as His. Jesus
is the eternal winner—He always wins! God can
tell you what will happen 6,000 years from now.
Why? Because the events taking place in the next
6,000 years or the next 6 million years will not
happen just by chance. They are established.
Where? In the mind of God. He has faith
operating in His own ability. He is a faith being.
He can tell you what will happen in the future
because He intends for it to come out that way!
He can give you His wisdom because it’s going to
be the way He decides.

How does He do it? With His faith. He doesn’t
expect to fail. He doesn’t prepare to fail. Satan will
get in and try to destroy things, but God doesn’t
worry—He knows it will come out all right.
That’s how we’re to be. Roll all your cares over on
Him. Don’t be moved by what you feel or by what
you see. You’re a faith person, so you know how
things are going to come out. You’re going to win,
praise God!

The Church—the Body of Christ—has lived
far below her privileges. We have lived as far
below our spiritual privileges as Israel has lived
below her political privileges. Israel should be the
head and not the tail. She should not have to
borrow from any nation on earth, and every
nation on earth should be indebted to her. That’s
what God said. Well, that’s how far below our
spiritual privileges the Body of Christ has lived.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Think about that. You are one with Almighty
God. Is He a loser? Of course not! He’s the greatest
winner of all time. And that makes you a winner.
Take His innermost feelings into your heart, and
conform your own will and attitudes to His.

How do you do that? By listening to and
acting on His Word. This is a much higher calling
and a greater form of life than just submitting
yourself to God.

Is that possible? Yes! The Word says we are
predestined to be conformed to His very image—
to be one spirit with Him. It says we have the
mind of Christ and are bone of His bone. Thank
God, we’re connected to Jesus—spirit, soul and
body—through the Holy Spirit and by His Word.
We are completely and totally ONE with Him, so
let’s put ourselves in His position for a moment.

Is there any part of your life God can’t handle?
Certainly not!

Have you ever caught God asleep? No, the
Bible says He never slumbers.

Have you ever gone to Jesus with a problem
He didn’t know how to solve? No.

Have you ever heard Jesus say, “Well, I thought
I had overcome the world, but evidently I
haven’t”? No!

Well, we’re one with Him. If that’s His attitude,
then praise God, it should be our attitude. We are
overcomers with Him!

If I said, “All things are possible with God,”
everyone would smile and quickly agree. But the
same Bible, the same Jesus, the same Word of
God says, “All things are possible to him who
believes” (Mark 9:23, New King James Version). If
you believe the first statement, then you have to
believe the second.

You and I need to change our perspective in
all this. We are one with Him, so we need to set
our attitudes to match His. If we are one with
Him in spirit, soul and body, then we ought to be
one with Him in attitude as well!

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

God wrote the Bible as a code book. The
book of Proverbs says that God has hidden
godly wisdom for His people. That’s the way
He wants it. But in this portion of Scripture,
God goes an unusual step further and asks,
“Who is he that overcometh the world?” In
other words, God is spelling it out, so we can’t
possibly miss it. He is saying, “This is the way
I see it—whatsoever is born of Me overcomes
the world; and who is he that overcomes the
world, but he that believes that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of the living God?”

This statement can also be read another way:
“None but those who believe that Jesus is the
Christ will ever overcome the world.” No matter
how smart, how strong or how rich you become,
you can never truly be a winner—you can never
really overcome the world—without Jesus as
your Lord.

That means this world will never be overcome
by a government, a political system or a monetary
system. Money will never overcome the world!
When the Bible talks about “the world,” it is
speaking of the dominion of darkness, the god of
this world, the evil spirit—Satan—that operates
in the world. Without Jesus Christ as their Lord,
no man or system will ever in any way, form or
fashion, be able to overcome the world. It simply
can’t be done.

But, on the other hand, if you are born of
Him, you have an absolute, perfect, God-given,
blood-bought right to overcome every aspect of
the world—everything it could possibly send
your way!

It doesn’t matter how much you feel like a
loser. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve
failed in the past. If you believe Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of the living God, then you’ve
committed yourself to overcoming the world. And
you’ve been given the power to do it. You’ve
become more than a conqueror (Romans 8:37). If
you believe the Word of God, then you should
respond to every challenge by saying, “Well,
praise God, I’m an overcomer!” That should be
your attitude. Does having this attitude guarantee
you won’t have any more trouble? No! It simply
means you can go through that trouble and
emerge triumphant.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

But, you know what? You have an even better
reason to have a winning attitude than the general
did. God has guaranteed your success. Let me
show you what I mean. Imagine you’re about to
tackle a really tough job. Before you even get
started, God speaks to you right out loud and
says, “I just want you to know, I’m going to
personally see to it that this project you’re
working on succeeds.” Wouldn’t that give you a
tremendous feeling of confidence? Even if you ran
into some rough spots, you wouldn’t worry about
failing because you would have God’s word that
you were going to succeed. That would make it
easy to have a winning attitude, wouldn’t it?

Well, let me tell you something. You do have
God’s promise that you’ll succeed. He said in His
Word that you’re an “overcomer”! In Him, you can
overcome any problem the world throws your way.

Read 1 John 5:1-5:

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God: and every one that
loveth him that begat loveth him also
that is begotten of him. By this we know
that we love the children of God, when
we love God, and keep his commandments.
For this is the love of God, that
we keep his commandments: and his
commandments are not grievous. For
whatsoever is born of God overcometh
the world: and this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith.
Who is he that overcometh the world,
but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son
of God?

God is being unusually explanatory here. He
doesn’t normally give such in-depth explanations
of things that are written in the Word of God. The
reason: He intends that we take what He says by
faith, go to Him, and allow the Holy Spirit to
reveal it to our hearts. That way the devil isn’t
tipped off to what it means.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

You’ve probably heard it said, “It’s not whether
you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.”
Do you believe that?
I don’t!

Man was created to be a winner. The Bible
tells us so! In Genesis, for example, we read that
man was originally put on earth as dominating
lord (Genesis 1:26-30). God gave him dominion
over the earth and everything that crept, flew,
crawled and breathed there. In fact, man didn’t
even know what it meant to lose until he
separated himself from God through disobedience
in the Garden of Eden. It wasn’t until then that
man ran headlong into defeat. He was forced to
accept failure as his lot in life, lowering himself to
a subordinate position—a position he was never
meant to occupy.

It’s a sad story. But if you’re a born-again child
of God, I have good news. Your story has a happy
ending. Through faith in Christ Jesus, you’ve
been transformed from the inside out. You’ve
been made a winner once again!

You may be thinking, I don’t feel like a winner.
I feel like a loser—and I have plenty of failures in
my life to prove it. If that’s the case, don’t worry.
You just need a new attitude. And you can get it
from the Word of God.
In the book of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul
told the Church to be renewed in the spirit of
their minds. That’s what you need to do. Renew
your mind to the Word of God—base your
thinking on the fact that Jesus has overcome the
world. Begin seeing yourself as a winner in Him!

I’m reminded here of something Gen. George
Patton said. He was a great commander of the
United States Army with a God-given insight into
war, and knew how vital a winning attitude could
be. Once while addressing his troops, he put it this
way: “Some of you men have come with your
minds made up to die for your country. That’s not
the way to win a war! The way to win a war is to
make your enemy die for his!” Patton had his mind
made up to win—and he knew dying wasn’t the
way to do it. He had a winning attitude.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries