Sixty years into ministry, Kenneth Copeland still runs on advice he received in the front seat of his car those many years ago. Episode three of the Kenneth Copeland Podcast, released May 27, builds an entire conversation from questions his Partners sent in, and the answers keep circling back to the people who trained him.
Each weekly episode pairs the 89-year-old founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries with his granddaughter and host, Courtney Copeland, who reads listener questions submitted from as far away as Ghana. Episode three covers how Copeland learned to discern God’s voice, the healing accounts he witnessed early in his ministry, and the daily routine he keeps to this day.
Partner-driven content was the show’s stated plan when it launched May 11, and this installment delivers the format in full: Every segment begins with a name, a city, and a question.
Three Rules From the Front Seat
A listener named Solomon from Ghana asked what Copeland learned from Oral Roberts that still encourages him. Copeland answered with a driving memory from Oklahoma City, when the evangelist turned to him mid-trip.
“People will always say that you can’t do it,” Roberts told him. “Do these three things, and you will always be a success.” Copeland recited the rules in order:
- Find out the will of God
- Confer no longer with flesh and blood
- Get your job done at all costs
“That’s simple. But it is absolutely profound,” Copeland said, adding that he and his wife, Gloria, have applied the three rules repeatedly across six decades.
Copeland worked as a pilot for Roberts’ crusade flights in the 1960s before launching his own ministry, and the episode treats that season as formative. He also described a moment most people never knew about his mentor: Roberts would not leave a room for a service unless he sensed God’s power manifesting in his right hand.
How Do You Learn to Hear God’s Voice?
Joshua from Fort Worth, Texas, asked how Copeland learned to tell God’s voice from his own thoughts. The answer started in a closet.
Copeland described holding up two pairs of socks and asking, “Father, which would you rather have me wear?” He held the choice in prayer until he sensed an answer, then repeated the exercise until hearing inwardly became familiar. Small-stakes practice, he said, trained him for larger decisions.
Aviation supplied his other framework. A longtime instrument pilot prior to his years in full-time ministry, Kenneth Copeland told Gloria years ago that walking by faith came naturally to him for one reason: “I’m an instrument pilot and I use my checklist. But this Bible is my checklist. It’s my faith checklist.”
He still prays over every airplane before flying, he said, and pleads Psalm 91 over the aircraft (whether he is flying it personally or as only a passenger) without fail. Much like he does over his Partners and other friends of the ministry, Copeland ardently believes speaking the Word of God carries the power God’s people possess to do His will.
As Copeland has shared many times before, “Remember this: It’s the Word that does the work, not the one holding on to it. It’ll work for anyone who puts it to work. It’ll work for you just like it worked for Jesus when He walked the earth.”
A Prophecy He Tried to Refuse
That practiced listening led somewhere Copeland resisted. He first glimpsed the direction in Hereford, Texas, and by his own account refused it on the spot, then forgot about it entirely.
A 1977 camp meeting brought it back.
Copeland sensed an instruction in his spirit to kneel, then heard a message he was reluctant to deliver: He would minister in the office of the prophet and see situations “run off in front of your eyes just like on a TV screen” while standing in the pulpit.
Kenneth E. Hagin, the Word of Faith teacher Copeland credits as one of his primary theological influences, confirmed the direction and told him not to force it. “He said, ‘I’ll teach you as you go,'” Copeland recalled. “And he has.”
Two Nights in Jamaica
Asked about the first healing he witnessed under his own ministry, Copeland reached back to a trip through the Jamaican hills. A deacon there told him the congregation had fasted and prayed once a week for about a year for someone to come teach them the word of faith, and Copeland was the answer they had been waiting on.
A local pastor drove him to a remote house without electricity to pray for a woman the community had written off. By Copeland’s telling, he spoke directly to the tormenting spirit, then to the woman: “The Lord sent me to tell you how much he loves you.” Her eyes cleared, he said, and she returned to church.
A second account of that trip involved a 12-year-old girl with a rheumatic heart who had collapsed and, by his recollection, gone cold. Copeland said he commanded her in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to walk, and on the third command, she stirred and cried out for her father. She went on to earn her teaching certificate, he said, and worked as a schoolteacher.
Both accounts are Copeland’s own recollections, offered on air as testimony rather than documentation. They sit squarely in the healing tradition his ministry has taught since 1967.
Scriptures on the Shaving Mirror
A final listener question covered his mornings. Copeland keeps handwritten scriptures taped to his bathroom mirror, including the Ten Commandments, John 13:34, Isaiah 53, and Matthew 8, and he reads through them all while shaving every morning and every night.
“I do that every morning,” he said. “Right there as I shave.” Those verses center on healing and redemption, themes that anchor most of the teaching from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, which reported reaching 165 nations and territories in 2025.
A Prayer Before the Credits
The episode closes unusually for a podcast: Copeland leads listeners through a full prayer of salvation, line by line, at his granddaughter’s request. “This is fun,” he said afterward. “Let’s do it again.”
New episodes of the Kenneth Copeland Podcast arrive every other Wednesday morning on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the ministry’s YouTube channel. Episode three arrived as the ministry prepared for its biggest week of the year: the Southwest Believers’ Convention, now underway in Fort Worth through Aug. 1, free to attend for the 46th consecutive year.
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