Brian Zahnd:
"I am…” whatever you want to be successful at. And, and you can start saying, “Money cometh to me. Now!” Do we have that book in the bookstore still? I don’t know if we do or not. If we do, you ought to get it."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"Now, I still don’t understand – I really don’t. There’s things I understand, things I don’t. I don’t understand why some Christian people fight so strong against this doctrine. They still do. I suspect, if I had to guess, I’d say I’d think it has something to do with the fact that it offends their fatalistic religious world view. They kind of want to think that, you know, “Que sera, sera. Whatever will be, will be.” And they would make far better Hindus than they are Christians, at the moment. And they think, “Well, you know, whatever is going to happen. God’s sovereign, and whatever’s going to happen is going to happen,” and they don’t like a teaching that says, “No, you are directing the course of your life, by the words you speak.” But I know people don’t like that."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"Now, your tongue is the rudder of your life. You are going where you are talking. What you are saying is where you are headed. If you are talking sickness, and poverty, and failure, that is the direction you are headed. If you want to change the direction of your life, change the way you talk. Hallelujah."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"Now notice, He doesn’t say anything about praying about it. Now sometimes you pray about it to find the will of God, and I’m not saying you don’t pray. You pray all the time. You fellowship with God all the time. I’ll tell you what I do. When I get ready though, I mean, I fellowship with God, and I pray, and I worship, and we talk, but then when I get ready to make faith declarations, I don’t ask God to do it – I start speaking things, and I walk around and start declaring things. I loose things and I bind things, and I release my faith by the words that I speak. And Jesus said it would obey me."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"See, we want God to do all the work. Just like Moses before the Red Sea, “Oh God, what we….” God said, “Moses, stand up and you take care of that situation.” “What shall I do?” “Well, divide the sea.” Moses didn’t have the slightest idea how to divide a sea but he made some attempt; and that was good enough for God, and there it was. So, that the fact is, if you ask me, or you ask Moses who divided the Red Sea, he’ll say, “Well God did.” You ask God who divided the Red Sea, He won’t say, “I did,” He’ll say, “Moses did it. Moses did it.”
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
Note: Brian teaches that Moses parted the Red Sea rather than God. The Bible teaches otherwise, God parted the Red Sea:
"And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness," Psalm 78:8-17.
"Somebody told me, “Well, you know, your, your, your grandmother got it at this age and your dad got it at this age. You’ll get it even earlier.” And I said, “I will never have diabetes.” I won’t have it. I won’t have that. Oohhh, are you kidding me? I will not have that. Now, somebody might have – oh, I don’t know, that’s pretty radical going around acting like that. You can be as radical as you don’t want to be. But I don’t want to have any of that stuff. I don’t want to have a cold. I don’t want to have diabetes or anything in between. No, I’m not going to say it. You can say it if you want. I’m not going to. I believe that death and life are in the power of the tongue. Now, if you don’t want to use your faith to live in divine health, I guess that’s up to you. You can do what you want. But if you do want to use your faith to live in divine health, then you have got to use faith words. Oh, yes you do. You have to use faith words."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"How many of you have ever heard me teach on mouth confession? How many of you have ever heard anybody, any preacher, any teacher, minister along the lines of faith confession or mouth confession? This has been emphasized. It’s an eternal truth recorded in the Word of God, but it has been emphasized by the Holy Spirit for just about a generation, just about forty years. Coming along in the early sixties, God began to raise up some strong voices along these lines – most prominently Kenneth Hagin, and then coming along a little bit behind him, Kenneth Copeland."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"This is a prophecy that was given by Brother Kenneth Copeland on New Year’s Eve – December 31st, New Year’s Eve. I want to read it to you. I know Brother Kenneth Copeland a little bit. Know of him, you know, tremendously well and have met him a few times and know him a little bit. I respect him as a prophet of the Lord, and this is his prophecy....I bear witness with it in my spirit; not only because of the vessel through whom it has flown [Ken Copeland], that he has proven himself over many years to be reliable and a faithful prophet of the Lord, but because in my spirit something leaps up and says amen to that."
(Brian Zahnd, "Prosper, Succeed and Achieve: A Covenant of Prosperity," February 07, 2004)
Note: Brian Zahn calls Ken Copeland "to be reliable and a faithful prophet of the Lord." Kenneth Copeland teaches that, "God is the biggest failure in the Bible!" He also teaches that Jesus did not pay for our sins on the cross! Copeland also teaches that Christians are gods! He also teaches that Jesus never claimed to be God! How much evidence do you need to recognize that Ken Copeland is a false teacher that you need to avoid?
"Now, I figure you know me. I’m a, I’m a faith man. I believe in faith confession and I figure you’re going to be on your best behavior around me, and I still hear people with all kinds of unbelief, and failure, and sickness being confessed out of their mouth."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"I’m telling you, Proverbs 18:21, Mark 11:24, James 3:4 work all the time whether you like it or not. 'Death and life are in the power of the tongue.' You will have what you say."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"I’ve said this many times, You live in the world you have created by your words, and it is possible to speak new words in a new way and build a new world."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who indulge in it will eat it’s fruit for death or life. In other words, what that is saying is, death and life are in the fruit of the tongue, and if you are going to indulge in speaking, and you do, and you will. If you’re going to indulge in speaking, then just know that you’re going to eat the fruit of what you speak; either for life or for death. It, it, it just works that way. See, you are a spirit being created in the image of God, and there is power in your words."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"Alright go to Mark 11. Lord, I pray don’t let anybody sit here and, “I’ve heard this before.” Mark 11, verse 23, because some of you are just not going to believe it until you see it in red. Oh yeah, that’s the New Testament. What do they know? Alright, here’s the New Testament words of Jesus, in red. “For assuredly,” or amen, “I say to you, whoever…” See, the first word is this just works for whoever. This works. “Whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” Now, do you believe that? You know, people get critical of this doctrine and they make fun of it, and they put funny names on it, “Well, that’s the ‘name it, claim it.” That’s the name it, claim it.” “That’s the blab it, grab it.” Just, you know, believe you can have what you say. Well, I want to know what these people do with Mark 11:23? Do they get out one of those razor blades and just cut it out? Jesus, I mean, am I reading this right? Tell me if I’m reading this right. “Surely, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed, be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, believes those things which he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” Your Bible say that? (Audience: “Yes.”) So, I don’t have a trick Bible in other words. “He will have whatever he says.” Jesus taught that. You can have whatever you say."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"And, and in fact it was Adam –God created the animals, but God didn’t name any of the animals. God said, “What do you want to call it?” And Adam named the animals. He exercised his dominion, and he gave the names to the animals, and the Bible says they were what Adam called them. Things are going to be what you call them. Do you have a financial life? Well you all do, I mean whether it’s good or bad you have one. Alright. What do you name it? What name do you put on it? Why don’t you name it, “Prosperous?” Why don’t you name your body “Healthy?” Put that name on it, say, “I’ll call you healthy. I’ll call you healthy.” See, see, I don’t say, “I have a family history of diabetes.” I say ever, I mean everyday when I say, “Everyday,” I mean, everyday. Everyday, I make the confession, “By His stripes I am healed,” and I don’t check with how I feel. “Oh, I feel good today..”
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)
"Just about a year ago, I was at the gym, and this fellow came up to me, and he said, “I listen to you on the radio.” And I was getting ready to say, “Thank you very much,” but then I found out it wasn’t a compliment. And, ah, he said, “I listen to you on the radio. I’ve even listened to some of your tapes, and you teach that death and life are in the power of the tongue.” I said, “Oohh, oh yeah, I sure do.” He said, “You, you teach that you can speak things and it\'ll change things.” “Ohh yes, I do teach that.” He said, “Well, my pastor,” and he told me who he was, I won’t tell you. “My pastor talked about you from the pulpit last Sunday.” I said, “Really?” Now I, now I was interested, you know. I said, “Really, what did he say?” He said, “Well, that man out there, out there, out there under that blue roof, doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” That’s what he said. He said, “That verse ‘Death and life are in the power of the tongue,’ that’s just talking about the king. And the king, you know, if you’re before the king, you know, whether if he speaks, ‘you live,’ you live. If he speaks, ‘you die,’ you die.” I said, “Really? Where is that in there? I can – I missed that part in there, about this being about the king, and all that, and whether, you know.” But then, I’ll tell you something. We are kings. (Agreement from the audience) Oh yeah, someone says, “Well, that’s just, that’s just talking about the king.” Well, so be it. I’m a king. I’m a king. I’m a king. I speak life, it lives, I speak death, it dies. So be it! Amen."
(Brian Zahnd, "You've Got To Speak Faith Words," March 04, 2001)