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DIGITAL : MAGAZINE.KCM.ORG JULY 2020 KCM.ORG.ZA/BVOV-MAGAZINE TM SOUTHWEST BELIEVERS’ P.9 CONVENTION july cover.indd 1 5/14/20 10:12 AM Aug. 3-8, 2020 | Fort Worth, Texas | FREE ADMISSION 6 FULL DAYS | 26 FAITH-BUILDING SESSIONS | 7 ANOINTED SPEAKERS Kenneth Copeland | Jerry Savelle | Jesse Duplantis Creflo Dollar | Keith Moore | Bill Johnson | Bill Winston HEALING SCHOOL | PRE-SERVICE PRAYER 4 Bring your children and teens for a life-changing experience as we come TOGETHER in a spirit of faith. Superkid Academy (Ages 6-12) | 14forty Youth Meeting (Ages 13-18) Together in Faith. Together in Victory. REGISTER TODAY KCM.ORG/SWBC Believer’s Voice of Victory is published monthly by Eagle Mountain International Church Inc./Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a nonprofi t 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 United States of America. Because all Believer’s Voice of Victory issues are preplanned, we are unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts. Director of Marketing & Communications/ Bradi Van Noy Hays Managing Editor/Ronald C. Jordan Assistant Editor/Debby Ide Writers/Melanie Hemry Gina Lynnes Gena Maselli Proofreaders/Jean DeLong Michelle Harris Karen Wirkkala Senior Designer/Michael Augustat Project Manager/Deborah Brister Type Coordinator/Joyce Glasgow toc.indd 2 5/14/20 10:33 AM Editor’s Letter to a virtual platform, where you can attend them via live streaming. At this writing, 40th Southwest immersed in an atmosphere of faith, no decision has been made regarding surrounded by thousands of fellow whether the SWBC will be a public event Believers’ Convention Christians and saturated in God’s or virtual. KCM is continuing to monitor I attended my first Southwest Word. travel and event restrictions. For updates Believers’ Convention in August 1997, on SWBC and our other events, please just two months after coming to work I’m reminded of those days every visit kcm.org/events. for Kenneth Copeland Ministries. But it year at this time as we prepare for Aug. 3-8, 2020 | Fort Worth, Texas | FREE ADMISSION was long before that when I first heard another SWBC. The difference, On page 9, we look back at the first about the annual six-day meeting though, is instead of being SWBC and the anointed word from that took place at what was then the 1200 miles away, the Fort God that was delivered to the Body Tarrant County Convention Center in Worth Convention Center, of Christ. The articles by Kenneth Fort Worth. and the SWBC, are only and Gloria Copeland, and Jerry about a 20-minute drive. Savelle, were adapted from During the mid-1980s, when we lived That’s where we plan messages they preached during in Winston-Salem, N.C., hardly a to be in August—armed P.9 that meeting. Also in this issue, weekday went by that I didn’t slip a with the same excitement Brother Copeland encourages cassette into the tape player to record and expectation we had 23 believers to pray, listen to and the 15-minute radio broadcast called years ago when we attended obey God’s voice, and VOTE in the Believer’s Voice of Victory. As young our first live convention after moving upcoming election. Take time to read this believers, my wife, Edna, and I were to Texas. We look to be blessed by the encouraging article, as well as the other hungry for the Word of God and never preaching, teaching and fellowship. insightful articles we’ve prepared for you wanted to miss anything Kenneth I’m saddled up and ready to go. Hope this month. Copeland taught. Our excitement was to see you there! always heightened each year when Ronald C. Jordan the announcer invited listeners to join As you know, due to the impact Managing Editor Kenneth and Gloria, and thousands of COVID-19 has had on our nation and believers, in Fort Worth for the SWBC. other nations around the world, for a In those days, a trip to Texas wasn’t while all public events were canceled in our budget. But that didn’t keep us or rescheduled for health and safety from believing to one day be part of reasons. At KCM, all scheduled those meetings, or imagining being meetings up to now have been moved VOL. 48 : No 7 : IN PRINT SINCE ’73 6 FULL DAYS | 26 FAITH-BUILDING SESSIONS | 7 ANOINTED SPEAKERS Kenneth Copeland | Jerry Savelle | Jesse Duplantis Creflo Dollar | Keith Moore | Bill Johnson | Bill Winston INSIDE JULY 4 100% Committed HEALING SCHOOL | PRE-SERVICE PRAYER by Kenneth Copeland 12 Living Out Loud 4 by Melanie Hemry Bring your children and teens for a life-changing experience as we come TOGETHER in a spirit of faith. P. 22 18 “God wants every Pray, Listen Christian’s faith and Obey Superkid Academy (Ages 6-12) | 14forty Youth Meeting (Ages 13-18) to grow, but that by Kenneth Copeland growth depends 22 on you.” 12 How to Increase Your Faith by Jerry Savelle Together in Faith. Together in Victory. Digital 26 issue Growing Together MAGAZINE.KCM.ORG in the Glory of God REGISTER TODAY KCM.ORG/SWBC by Gloria Copeland Believer’s Voice of Victory is published monthly by Eagle Mountain International Church Inc./Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a nonprofi t 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 United States of America. Because all Believer’s Voice of Victory issues are preplanned, we are unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts. Director of Marketing & Communications/ Bradi Van Noy Hays Managing Editor/Ronald C. Jordan Assistant Editor/Debby Ide Writers/Melanie Hemry Gina Lynnes Gena Maselli Proofreaders/Jean DeLong Michelle Harris Karen Wirkkala Senior Designer/Michael Augustat Project Manager/Deborah Brister Type Coordinator/Joyce Glasgow toc.indd 3 5/14/20 10:33 AM by Kenneth Copeland 100% COMMITTED 4 : BVOV kenneth.indd 4 5/14/20 10:34 AM WHEN I WAS PLAYING HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL, I ALWAYS GRINNED WHEN GUYS SHOWED UP AT THE START OF THE SEASON SAYING, “I’M GONNA TRY THIS OUT!” I KNEW RIGHT AWAY WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. When they got out on the fi eld, they were going wait-and-see attitude. It doesn’t produce results to get hammered…and they weren’t going to for people who just hear a few messages about it make the team. and say, “I think I’ll give that faith stuff a try.” If One reason I knew this was because I you want to win at the life of faith, you have to understood what they were up against. ey were really want it. You have to take the same attitude 100% COMMITTED going to be facing guys whose greatest thrill in Abraham did in the Bible. life was to fl atten each other. Guys who pushed Talk about someone who wanted to walk by themselves almost to the breaking point all week faith! Abraham set the standard! long to get in shape. Guys who put up with sore He wanted to walk in the manifestation of muscles, bruises, bloody noses and whatever else God’s power more than anything else on earth. they had to endure—all to play a game they didn’t He wanted it more than he wanted his family. He even get paid for. wanted it more than he wanted his own life. He When you’re playing against a bunch of guys wanted God so much, that he’d believe and act on like that, the “try this out” mentality doesn’t cut His WORD no matter what anyone else thought it. You have to absolutely love the game. You have or said about it. to be determined to play—and play to win. You You can see that by how he responded when have to want it so much, that even when you’re God told him, at 100 years old, that he and his getting slammed from all sides you’re saying, 90-year-old wife were going to have a baby. He “Somehow, I’m going to succeed at this!” not only had audacity enough to believe it, he Otherwise, you won’t last long at all. You’ll get made a public announcement: “I’m the father of the wind knocked out of you and end up running many nations,” he said. “From now on, don’t call for the locker room while the rest of the team is me Abram. Call me Abraham, the Father of a still out there on the fi eld punching and pounding Multitude!” one another and calling it “fun.” Can you imagine how people reacted to that? ey must have treated Abraham like a laughingstock. ey might not have mocked Winning at the Life of Faith him to his face because he was the richest man In my years as a believer, I’ve discovered around; but behind his back, I’m sure they something similar is true about living by faith in pointed at him and snickered, “ at old man God.