God is pouring out His Spirit like never before. But with all that anointing He's placed in and on us, He's also given us great responsibility at the end-time Church.

So, to catch hold of what God is telling His people today, let's look at Psalm 2:2-4: "The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh…."

In Psalms 37:12-13, we read: "The wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming."

As this Age draws to a close, I'm hearing the Lord say, Hey! Give Me a couple of days here. There are a lot of things I've been wanting to do, but my hands have been tied. But now that they're untied, let's have some fun. Let's have a good time - and win billions of souls before we go!

What do you think all this laughing in the Spirit is about, anyway?

Satan's time is up, and God is laughing at him!

God is having one BIG time of it. He is laughing at the devil all over the world. He's laughing at him in churches. He's laughing at him in meetings. He even has preachers going around preaching and teaching laughing.

The bottom line is, you can go ahead and laugh at the devil, too. He's through! He's finished!

In Hebrews 10:12-13, the Bible tells us that Jesus, "After he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool."

Notice that Jesus didn't sit down to do nothing. No, He sat down expecting till His enemies be made His footstool. He sat down, or He entered into God's rest.

Would you please tell me how in the world will Jesus defeat His enemies with Him sitting down? It's simple: He has already defeated the enemy. What's more, He gave you and me authority over the enemy, with the command to go into all the world and preach the gospel and tread on His enemy.

Ephesians 2:6 says God has "raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." And in Hebrews 3 and 4, we are commanded to enter God's rest. Paul says in Hebrews 4:1: "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it."

The Word is actually saying we ought to be afraid of getting out of God's rest.

Afraid of it? We haven't even heard of it!

Religious doctrine has told us to get agitated, sorry, bawl, squall or beat the altar with our fist. Yet all the while, God's Word is commanding us to enter into His rest…and then stay there.

Now, I'll be the first to admit that entering God's rest has been the hardest thing for me to get hold of since I've been in the ministry, though I have done it more on a personal level. I have taken the Word, stood on it, believed God and entered into His rest when I've been faced with an attack of the devil, or the like.

But I'm seeing that God intends for us to rest over the whole thing, over every situation - particularly with all that we have facing us in this sliver of time.

When those hungry folks came up to Jesus, He didn't fall on His face and start sobbing and kicking the dirt, saying, "Oh, God! Oh, God! I just don't know what I'm going to do. There's 5,000 of them - and that's just the men. We don't have enough money. Besides, we're out here in the middle of nowhere. And that idiot I've got for a treasurer…."

No, Jesus just rested in God. He trusted and rested in His Father.

Today, as men and women of faith, our goal is to walk in the promises of God with such faith that, no matter what challenge or need comes our way, we do just like Jesus did when that multitude came to Him: We just smile and say, "Bring the loaves and fish here to me."

Then we take our seed, look to God, give thanks for it, bless it, break it and expect the abundance. Then we just rest.

We are living in the last little sliver of time, a time of great harvest, a time when we can laugh, and a time when we can rest.

So go ahead, laugh. God is. Go ahead and rest, too. Jesus is. But do it expecting. Do it expecting, until your financial enemies, until your physical enemies, until your family's enemies - or whatever enemies - be made your footstool.

Source: Living At The End Time by Kenneth Copeland
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers