ylon Le Fevre grew up in a Christian household; his grandfather was a preacher, and his par- ents were gospel singers. But even though a gifted Mylon sang about Jesus at concerts with his family, he didn’t really know Him. Mylon was a rebel- lious teenager who only went to church as a formality. Throughout his childhood and youth, Mylon’s mother and father were very strict disciplinarians. They made sure that he went to church. Mylon’s parents also sent him to two Christian academies. When Mylon’s mother told him it was time for church, his father gave him no choice but to go to church. Mylon went to church obediently but not willingly and eventually forsook church atten- dance when he left his parents’ house. Mylon had always wanted to be a musician and at seventeen wrote a song about the Lord called “Without Him.” After he sang it for his mother, she had him perform it in Memphis at a Gospel Quartet Convention. Elvis Presley was at the convention and heard his song. Elvis liked it so much that he recorded it. This event began a floodtide of opportunity for Mylon and would open doors for him that would cost him to walk through. One hundred twenty-six artists recorded his song “Without Him.” Mylon wrote more songs over the next year. Soon he was able to form his own band, enabling him to finally hear his music played the way he heard it in his heart. “Before I had my own band, I would write a song and play it for someone in my family,” Mylon explained. “Then my family would perform it if they liked it, but because they were from the mountains of Tennessee and not the city, no matter what I wrote, it came out sounding like southern coun- try gospel music.” So partly in self-defense — to pro- tect his songs — Mylon started his band. At 19, he recorded his first album and has sold millions since that time. Control was the catalyst for Mylon’s eager ambition in the music world. But control was at the heart of a yet bigger issue: Mylon’s spiritual life. “I was just running from God and His call on my life,” Mylon admitted. the process began as Mylon opened his Mylon knew that Jesus had forgiven “God had blessed me with a gift for heart to the idea that God had a des- him and let him start over in life. He music, and I wanted to take that gift tiny for him to fulfill. was intimately acquainted with God’s and turn it into something I could con- The Prodigal Returns forgiving power. He knew God would trol and use for my own end. forgive, but he was unsure if God “I knew Jesus was the Son of God, It took seven long years for Mylon would also heal. For ten years after and I knew that He was alive. I had to totally commit to Jesus. In 1980 he rededicating his life to God, he success- gone down to the altar as a child and rededicated his life to the Lord at a fully avoided the issue of healing. asked God to forgive me for my sins. Christian concert featuring a band “I knew Jesus as Savior and Lord of But I never made Him Lord of my life. called “The Second Chapter of Acts.” my life, but I didn’t know Him as the I just gave Him my problems. I made At the end of the concert, the man run- Healer of my body. I knew He could Him the Lord of the junk in my life but ning the sound, Buck Herring (whom heal and that many times, He did not Lord of my hopes and dreams. I Mylon had worked with in the past), heal. But was healing always His will? was still the lord of my life. And led the people in a prayer. Buck I wasn’t sure, so I simply avoided the because I didn’t know how to be lord, I prayed, “Lord, fill us with Your Spirit issue,” Mylon said. messed up my life big-time! I wasted a and help us think and live and do But he wasn’t able to avoid the lot of time in rock ’n’ roll pursuing a things Your way.” After praying that issue forever. In one awful moment, selfish lifestyle.” day, Mylon’s life was never the same healing went from being just an issue again. He’d finally made Jesus the to being a matter of life and death. Without Him Lord of not only his sins, but of his Late one night in August 1989, the Mylon recorded with artists includ- whole life. It was then that God turned band “Mylon and Broken Heart” was ing George Harrison from the Beatles, his life around. on their way to Nebraska for a concert Ron Wood from the Rolling Stones, Mylon quit rock ’n’ roll and served they were going to perform with the Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac, as a janitor for almost two years at his Christian band “Whiteheart” on what Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee from Ten Years church in Atlanta. It was there that he was ironically called “The Heart After, Steve Winwood, Little Richard, learned to submit to the Lord. Mylon Attack Tour.” Mylon was in the back of and The Who. was so hungry for the Word of God the tour bus talking with some of his His life had gone from drinking band members when, suddenly, his Kool-Aid and eating cookies as a child heart hurt so bad that he couldn’t even while his parents sang Gospel music to breathe. getting stoned and hanging out with “I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I rock stars who had once been only dis- thought I was on my way to meet God,” tant heroes. Mylon had everything he Mylon remembered. “I felt like I was thought he wanted, yet still felt empty trapped under water — fighting to get inside. To numb his conscience, he took to the surface, but running out of air drugs. He spent ten years of his life and beginning to panic. The difference using cocaine, which then led to 41/2 with a heart attack is you don’t get to years as a heroin addict. take a breath before you go under.” Then one night in 1973 before the Approximately one-third of Mylon’s biggest rock ’n’ roll tour of his life, heart had stopped working. The CAT Mylon overdosed on heroin. The over- scan showed only two-thirds of his dose caused him to stop breathing for heart pumping blood; the other third so long that some of his brain cells was black, which meant there was no died. When he regained consciousness, heat — no blood — flowing through it. Doctors explained to Mylon that all he couldn’t remember the words to his his years of cocaine and heroin abuse own songs, much less lead his band on and all his years of rough living in a world tour. rock ’n’ roll were the causes of his At the height of Mylon’s success, it heart attack. They also warned him was all over. His hopes and dreams Mylon the rock star before making Jesus the Lord of his life. that if he didn’t get off the road, he had been shattered by drugs. would die. Realizing his wrong choices in life that he attended Bible studies five Mylon was floored by the prognosis. were leading him in the wrong direc- days a week. He was in a good denomination with tion, Mylon finally conceded that he In 1982 Mylon and his band began many wonderful people who were needed a Savior. So he did the only traveling across the country, singing going to Heaven, but on the subject of thing he knew to do. He opened a and preaching to kids who came to his healing, they didn’t have any answers. Gideon Bible that he had picked up concerts. “I told them that if Jesus If God didn’t do something fast, Mylon somewhere in his travels and began to could deliver me, He could deliver any- was going to Heaven before everyone read it. This defining moment began one,” Mylon said. More than 211,000 else! He needed a miracle. his journey back to the Lord. Changes kids came to the Lord in the next ten “I didn’t know then what I know in his life didn’t occur overnight, but years. now,” Mylon said, “but even then I

The Word of Faith 25 change my life said. “I would pray, ‘God, I don’t under- forever. As I stand all this.’ But I continued looking wandered up the scriptures I found in Brother around the Hagin’s book. I spoke them over my shop, the title body, and I thanked God for them.” on a little orange book caught my eye Divine Appointment because it was In March 1990, Mylon finally got the only book some time off, so he went to stay at his in the store in brother’s condo in Panama City Beach, English. In Florida. He didn’t know it at the time, fact, the little but Rev. Kenneth and Gloria Copeland book, God’s were also there ministering, and they Medicine by were staying in a condo about 100 Kenneth E. yards from Mylon. Hagin, wasn’t Mylon was using his time off in even with the Florida to pray and fast. About the other books. It third day into the fast, he was walking Christian band “Mylon and Broken Heart” in 1987. In one decade the was sitting on band led more than 200,000 teenagers to Christ. along the beach, kicking the surf and a shelf next to reading T. L. Osborn’s book Healing knew that God wasn’t killing His chil- shaving cream and other similar prod- the Sick that a friend had given him. dren. He especially wouldn’t harm any- ucts. Everything it said agreed with the lit- one who was obeying Him. God was the “I didn’t recognize the author,” tle orange book God’s Medicine by One who told me to go into all the Mylon continued, “but I picked it up Kenneth Hagin. world and teach and preach and make and went to the counter to pay for it. Mylon said to God that morning, disciples. And that’s what I was doing. The lady working there said, ‘I don’t “Father, I need to understand this. I I was doing it with all my heart, and I know where that came from. We don’t know the Word says that the truth will knew He wasn’t killing me for it. I just sell those here. You can have it.’” set me free, and, evidently, there’s didn’t know what to do about being Mylon went back to his hotel room something in the Word of God that I healed. I hadn’t learned that yet.” and began to read that little book about don’t understand yet. There’s some At the time of the heart attack, God’s medicine. He read it from cover to truth in Your Word I haven’t received “Mylon and Broken Heart” was doing cover, but didn’t understand it all at well. Mylon had won a Grammy and first. At the time, he didn’t know who yet because I’m not free. I’m hurting all two Dove Awards. And the band had Kenneth E. Hagin was and wondered if the time and having fears. God, even if won two Dove Awards. They were sell- what this man was saying was true. To You need to send an angel, please send ing millions of records. God was bless- Mylon, it seemed like a breath of fresh someone to help me to understand.” ing them. But, booked a year in air to a suffocating soul, but he had As he was walking on the beach advance, they were on the road con- never been taught some of the things that day, he walked in front of a stantly. So despite the doctors’ he was reading about. It also seemed woman who would later be introduced protests, Mylon honored their schedule too good to be true. to him as Gloria Copeland. As Mylon and continued traveling with the band. Mylon had been warned by good- was pouring his heart out to God, God In January 1990, “Mylon and intentioned people that those in “word was speaking to Gloria. The moment God’s Medicine of faith” circles were out of balance, so Mylon walked past her, the Lord he studied the Bible to find out for revealed to her that He wanted her to Broken Heart” took a previously himself. With eagerness and in desper- minister to Mylon. scheduled missionary trip to the ation, Mylon began looking up the Later, by divine appointment a mutu- Philippines. Doctors had warned Bible verses that Kenneth Hagin gave al friend introduced Mylon to the Mylon not to go to the Philippines, in God’s Medicine. He read the sur- Copelands. Gloria Copeland immediate- because if anything went wrong with rounding verses and even whole chap- ly recognized him as the man on the his heart, he could die over there with- ters to make sure they were being beach that God had spoken to her about! out the proper medical attention. But quoted in context. The Copelands invited Mylon to their Mylon went on the trip, anyway. During the week-long crusade in the condo, and they shared testimonies. After approximately thirty hours in Philippines, 10,200 kids came to know Gloria said to Mylon, “When you the air, Mylon got off the plane in the Jesus. Mylon was in pain the entire time. walked past me at the beach, the Lord Philippines very tired and worn out. Back in the States, he continued to God spoke to me that He’d called you While waiting to check in at the hotel, do what the doctors told him to do. He to do something, that there was some- he wandered around the lobby and changed his diet and exercised more, thing wrong in your body, and that He went into a gift shop. but he was still hurting all the time. wanted to heal you. God also told me “I thought I was just killing time,” “Sometimes I would feel the pressure that I should teach you what He had Mylon said. “I didn’t know that what I building the way it did before the heart taught me about the things Jesus said would find in that gift shop would attack, and it really scared me,” Mylon and did concerning sickness, disease,

26 February 2000 and healing. God told me that I was to looked up every scripture that was tapes, read and confessed the Word, lay hands on you, and He was going to mentioned, the Word of God became and thanked God that he was healed. heal you.” rooted in his heart. Mylon’s excitement about the Word Kenneth Copeland got right down As soon as Mylon returned home to he was learning motivated him to dis- to business. He said to Mylon, “My Invincible Love tribute twenty copies of Kenneth wife doesn’t play church. If God told Hagin’s tape series to his band and some her He’s going to heal you, then it’s a Atlanta, he began telling everyone that of the ministers in his church. Yet to his done deal. He’s going to heal you. So he was healed. When anyone asked dismay, most did not receive the revela- don’t think about that anymore. him about the pain, he would say, “My tion that had saved his life or his rela- “But we need to be in agreement chest still hurts sometimes, but it’s just tionship with the Copelands. As a result, about this,” he continued, “because the a symptom. I know I’m healed, and I Mylon’s ministry at his own church Bible says there is power in agreement. know those symptoms are leaving my became limited. Eventually, Mylon’s If I’m praying in faith and you’re just body in the Name of Jesus.” desire to learn to live by faith and his hoping, we’re not going to be in agree- Some people told him that he was recognition of the divine appointment ment. So we’re going to get into the putting God to a foolish test by contin- with Kenneth and Gloria Copeland Word for a little while, and we’re going uing to minister when doctors were caused him to move to Texas. He now to look at what Jesus said and did con- telling him to get off the road. But he ministers under the spiritual covering of Eagle Mountain International Church. cerning sickness, disease, and healing.” just replied, “God said, ‘I sent My Word Only one year after meeting the “Brother Copeland took me on what and healed them,’ and ‘My words are life to those who find them and health Copelands, Mylon returned to Panama Touring the ‘Red Words’ to all their flesh’” (Ps. 107:20; City Beach a new man. Instead of only being able to walk along the beach, he I call ‘a tour of the red words,’” Mylon Prov. 4:22). was able to jet ski and have a great time. remembered. “We studied the New When Mylon first had the heart Nothing more accurately describes Testament to find everything Jesus attack and was diagnosed, God didn’t strike him with a lightning bolt, so to God’s love, mercy, and healing power said and did in regard to healing. After speak, and fix all his problems. God than the words of his number-one taking that tour through Scripture, I required Mylon to seek and believe song, “Invincible Love.” As related in knew that healing was a part of my Him. He had opened His Word to him, the words of the song, God’s words salvation. I was ready to ‘believe I and Mylon was responsible to apply replacing Mylon’s words was the key received when I prayed’ according to that Word in his life. to his healing: Mark 11:22-24.” Night and day he immersed himself I looked across the great divide The Copelands then laid hands on in the Word of God. For months he To a place called healed. Mylon and prayed. Even though he did- listened to “The Believer’s Authority” I needed to reach the other side n’t feel any different physically, he knew something had changed in his spirit. He believed God had healed him! The next day while riding along the beach in his car, he heard a song in his heart just as if it were playing on the radio. With tears rolling down his cheeks, he began praising God. This song, “Invincible Love,” would later become number one on the Christian charts. Afterwards, Mylon spent some time fellowshipping with the Copelands in Panama City Beach. Before they parted company, Gloria said to him, “I have some tapes I want you to listen to. God’s done a miracle for you, and you have to keep it. If I send you these tapes, will you promise me you will lis- ten to them?” Mylon responded, “Yes, ma’am.” When he received the tapes in the mail, Mylon was shocked. He thought that Gloria would send him a tape series from their ministry, but instead she sent him “The Believer’s Authority,” an audiotape series by Kenneth Hagin. As Mylon listened to Mylon Le Fevre ministering in song at Kenneth Hagin Ministries’ Campmeeting 1999 in those tapes over and over again and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Word of Faith 27 When I saw the truth revealed. album will be released later this year. Then I crossed the line If you would like Mylon to come and And saw the glory of His words minister in your church, please use replacing mine, just in time. the information below. His invincible love was all that Mylon Le Fevre Ministries could save me. P.O. Box 822148 Invincible love was the love that He Fort Worth, TX 76182 gave me. (817) 281-2700 Invincible love coming down from (817) 281-3797 fax above. Invincible love. www.mylon.org Jesus has become his Savior, Lord, and Healer. He took Mylon and his broken heart and made them both brand-new. Since making Jesus the Lord of his life in 1980, Mylon has released 11 albums, traveled more than one mil- lion miles, been honored with a Grammy award and two Dove awards, sold millions of records, and has seen more than 200,000 people come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Today Mylon and his wife Christi Left: Mylon ministers the Word of God at Eagle Mountain International Church in Fort are ministering the Word of faith in Worth, Texas. churches all over the world. They are Above: Mylon and his wife Christi work involved in teaching the Word of God, together in reaching the world with the music ministry, music videos, teaching Gospel of Jesus Christ. tapes, children’s videos, internet min- istry, and prison ministry. Mylon’s lat- est album, “Faith, Hope, and Love” focuses on worship and praise. A new

Mylon Le Fevre celebrates God’s love, mercy, and healing power in his album, “Faith, Hope & Love.” This album is the reflection of the changes God made in Mylon, his family, and his band through the promises of God’s Word. These songs testify to God’s power, love, and faithfulness to believers everywhere.

Song titles include: • Invincible Love • Holy Is the Lord • Give Thanks • Closer Than a Friend • Faithful

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