Hello everybody I'm Kenneth Copeland. Let's get into this thing this morning.

Are you ready? Yeah, I was born ready.

Let's go back over here to the fifth chapter of the book of Mark, please.

Faith prepares ahead of time.

Now we read from Weymouth's translation, faith must have corresponding action. Now that corresponding action most of the time would come after you have exercised your faith and believed, but now you're standing on the word of God.

Well, the King James said faith without works is dead, but Richard Francis Weymouth, thank you very much, said corresponding action.

Now I had heard Brother Hagen say that over and over again.

I didn't know where it came from until number of years ago, I mean this New Testament, the

New Testament in modern speech was out of print and so Kenneth Copeland publications we put it back into print and it's just it is a

marvelous, marvelous translation of the new testament.

Corresponding action.

That corresponding action can and should come before

as easily as after

because you're expecting something to happen,

but yet that something is in the future.

But you're expecting it to happen, so you're preparing for it.

We had testimony, this one that I remember so well.

Her son was in prison and so she was she was she was going to do this she's preparing

preparing ahead of time and she's praying for him he's unsaved and she's praying for him and he's unsaved, and she's praying for him, and he's in prison. So she sat a place for

him at the table at breakfast. Now listen, I wouldn't have done this. I would have set the table. But after, she would sit there and talk to him.

But then she got up and washed the dishes.

They were clean.

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