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MAR 2020 KCM.ORG.AU/MAGAZINE TM Remembering Reinhard Bonnke: P.10 He Plundered Hell and Populated Heaven! PATSY CAMENETI PATSY TERRI COPELAND PEARSONS TERRI COPELAND GEORGE PEARSONS MARGARET COURT BRISBANE - SpiritPRAYER CONFERENCELed 2020 12-14 MARCH 2020 | KCM.ORG.AU/SLPC20 VOL. 48 : No 3 : IN PRINT SINCE ’73 INSIDE MARCH Ever 4 Increasing Impact Gloria and I consider by Kenneth Copeland partnership a very Our impact for God sacred thing and are should always be convinced that the principles of partnership increasing so that are key to victory people can see Jesus in in these last days. us. For that to happen, we must continue to develop and practice the Partnership fundamentals of faith. can change your life! Remembering 10 Reinhard Bonnke: He Plundered Hell Visit or call to and Populated find out how! Heaven! kcm.org.au/partner At 10 years old, Reinhard Bonnke already knew he 1300 730 433 wanted to be a missionary (within Australia) or to Africa. His passion and +617 3343 7777 determination led him NZ 0800 903 100 to become one of the greatest soul winners of all time. The World 16 Is Waiting by Melanie Hemry After graduating from Rhema and working full time as a pastor for 24 years, Becky Haas felt she’d never made the impact for God’s kingdom that she was PATSY CAMENETI PATSY TERRI COPELAND PEARSONS TERRI COPELAND GEORGE PEARSONS MARGARET COURT P.10 called to make. In February 1984, Keeping Your Kenneth Copeland 22 FOCUS by Terri Savelle Foy prophesied that Reinhard God has an assignment Bonnke would one day preach that only you can fulfill. Find out how to avoid to millions, a prophecy that distractions and stay was fulfilled in November focused on the plan God Get your has for you. 2000 in Lagos, Nigeria. free magazine BRISBANE 26 Faith Is the kcm.org.au/magazine Substance 1300 730 433 or by Gloria Copeland +617 3343 7777 Faith brings into the NZ 0800 903 100 natural, material world what’s already been established in the - spiritual realm. As you PRAYER CONFERENCE 2020 keep putting the Word FACEBOOK Spirit Led in your heart, faith will come. TWITTER YOUTUBE Believer’s Voice of Victory is published monthly by Eagle Mountain International Church Inc./Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a nonprofit corporation, Fort Worth, Texas. © 2020 Eagle Mountain International Church Inc. aka Kenneth Copeland Ministries. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. Believer’s Voice of Victory and the JESUS IS LORD globe logo are registered trademarks of Eagle Mountain International Church Inc./Kenneth Copeland Ministries. Printing and distribution costs are paid for by donations from KCM Partners and Friends. Printed in the Australia. Because all Believer’s Voice INSTAGRAM PINTEREST of Victory issues are preplanned, we are unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts. Managing Editor/Ronald C. Jordan Assistant Editor/Debby Ide Writers/Melanie Hemry Gina Lynnes Proofreaders/Jean DeLong Michelle Harris Karen Wirkkala Senior Designer/Michael Augustat Project Manager/Deborah Brister Type Coordinator/Joyce Glasgow PASS THIS MAGAZINE ON TO A FRIEND. 12-14 MARCH 2020 | KCM.ORG.AU/SLPC20 IT’S A GREAT WAY TO RECYCLE! by Kenneth Copeland EVER INCREASING IMPACTOn the morning of At the time I was thinking about the after day, month after month for the next May 4, 2018, I was ministers at the conference, who were 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 years. preparing to preach for the most part full-time preachers. “But I’m 50 years old,” someone in Lagos, Nigeria, at a But I’ve realized since, that e LORD’s might say. “For me to keep increasing for ministers conference statement didn’t just apply to them. It another 70 years I’d have to live to 120.” on sustaining impact applies to every born-again child of God. Good! As far as God is concerned, in ministry. As I was No matter what our natural vocation that’s a normal lifespan. He said in praying about the might be, as believers we’re all called Genesis 6:3 that man’s “days shall be to ministry. We’re all called to have an an hundred and twenty years,” and service, I heard The impact for God on this world and that He never changed that number. It’s LORD say, Impact impact should always be increasing— His standard of longevity all the way should always be whether we’re behind a pulpit, at home, through the Bible. increasing. in our neighborhood, at school, in the In Exodus 23, where He said, “I will take workplace or somewhere else. sickness away from the midst of thee… Having the same impact today that the number of thy days I will fulfil” (verses we had five years ago is not enough. God 25-26), He was referring to a 120-year is a God of increase. He intends for our lifespan. In Psalm 91:16, when He said spiritual influence to grow: for us to put about the believer who dwells in the secret more pressure on the forces of darkness place of the Almighty, “With long life will with every passing year. For the impact I satisfy him, and show him my salvation,” of our ministry upon people’s souls (their He was talking about 120 years. minds, wills and emotions) and their God needs us to stay here for a long physical health to keep growing…day time. He needs us to keep growing in God1 never Daniel2 reveals Faith3 and Praying4 in Don’t5 let the intended for His how much a excellence tongues will mistakes of the POINTS people to die at 70 believer’s impact are also help you past drag you TO GET or 80; He meant for on the world inseparable. increase in down, forget YOU us to keep going can increase if Heb. 11:4a spiritual power them and press THERE: and expanding our he will walk in and influence forward. influence. excellence Jude 1:20 Phil. 3:13-14 Gen. 6:3 Dan. 6:3 4 : BVOV “We’re all called to have an impact for God on this world and that impact should always be increasing!” BVOV : 5 our walk with Him and increasing in our spiritual brightly in that secular, ungodly environment impact. that eventually he became so highly respected Why? Because, if we do that, by the time that during the reign of King Darius: “It pleased we’re 120 years old we’ll be walking in so Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and much of the power and life of God, that people twenty princes, which should be over the whole will say about us what they said about Peter and kingdom; and over these three presidents; of John in Acts 4:13, that surely “they had been with whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give Jesus!” accounts unto them, and the king should have no at’s what believing for long life and damage. en this Daniel was preferred above the increasing impact in ministry is all about. It’s not presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit just about us chalking up a lot of birthdays, or was in him; and the king thought to set him over people being impressed with us. It’s about them the whole realm” (Daniel 6:1-3). being impressed with Jesus. It’s about us being ink about that! Daniel went from being a vessels through which God can increasingly servant in the palace to essentially being the prime touch people’s lives and manifest the light of His minister. His influence grew until it affected the kingdom in this sin-darkened world. entire nation. Why did it happen? What caused One of the people in the Bible we can look him to be preferred above others? to as an example of this is Daniel. An Old An excellent spirit was found in him. Testament Jew, he was taken captive as a teenager to Babylon and conscripted into the service of Mastering the Fundamentals King Nebuchadnezzar. He started out as simply If Daniel could operate with that kind of a servant, but he kept being promoted from one excellence and have that much impact under the government position to another. He shone so Old Covenant, think what we can do as New Covenant believers! We’ve been born again in the image of Jesus, about whom God said “from the excellent glory, is is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” We’re partakers of His “excellent ministry.” We’ve been made one with Him and inherited His most “excellent name.” (See 2 Peter 1:17; Hebrews 8:6, 1:4.) By our very nature in Christ, we’re created to excel! To excel means “to go to the highest place or to prosper.” It’s what God was talking to me about that day in Lagos. He was saying that, like Daniel, we’re to operate with such excellence that in our walk with Him and our ministry to other people, we continually advance. “But Brother Copeland, how exactly can I make sure I do that? What practical steps can I take to make sure I keep moving forward, so that I don’t wake up in five or 10 years and find that I’m still in the same place I am now?” For one thing, you can continue to develop yourself in the basics of faith. Faith is the secret to spiritual success! No WITH KENNETH COPELAND & JERRY SAVELLE matter how much you study it, there’s always more to learn; and whatever you learn about it is always under attack by the thieving devil.