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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

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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. It’s the most thrilling, powerful adventure has taken leave of his senses! ere’s no way there is, but it doesn’t work for those who take a he and his old, barren wife are going to have

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kenneth.indd 5 5/14/20 10:34 AM children at their age. It’s impossible.” human being ever had that kind of faith until Abraham outcome was certain. God had said, “In Isaac shall While they were scoffi ng, however, Abraham came along. But he caught hold of it and once he did, thy seed be called” (Genesis 21:12); and Abraham was believing. He was refusing to be moved by he used it to the max. He actually believed God to absolutely believed it. He fully expected to sacrifi ce that impossibilities. As Romans 4:19-21 says: “Being not the point that he perpetuated his seed to a thousand boy and then watch God raise him up from the ashes. weak in faith, he considered not his own body now generations. He put so much faith in his covenant Of course, God sent the ram to take Isaac’s place so his dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither with God that there was no way God could ever annul blood was never shed…but ultimately what Abraham yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not that covenant or call it off . As He said to Abraham in believed came to pass. at the promise of God through unbelief; but was Genesis 22:16-18: “By myself have I sworn…for Jesus died on the cross as God’s sacrifi ce to set us strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld free from sin and the curse, and after He spent three persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, days in the heart of the earth, Abraham’s faith fi nally also to perform.” and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the bore fruit. His faith for resurrection slammed together When it came to living by faith in God’s stars of the heaven, and as the sand which with the power of Almighty God and Jesus was raised WORD, Abraham was as rugged and is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall from the dead! determined as they come. Like those possess the gate of his enemies; and in If you’re wondering how Abraham’s faith, which guys I used to play football with, he There’s too thy seed shall all the nations of the was released thousands of years before the cross, could was all-in. One hundred percent much at stake here earth be blessed; because thou hast have anything to do with Jesus’ resurrection, it’s because committed to believing God. for us to let petty obeyed my voice.” there’s no time in God. It doesn’t make any diff erence doctrinal differences Notice that according to those to Him if it’s a thousand years, 10 minutes or a split verses, Abraham’s faith in God was second. God doesn’t forget anything except the sins we and offenses drive so strong he didn’t withhold from put under the blood of Jesus. Every ounce of faith any The Same Kind us apart. Him even his own son. He went up of us have ever released is still on record with Him. of Faith God Uses the mountain and put Isaac on the You might have believed God for something 35 You and I, as born-again believers, altar of sacrifi ce simply because God years ago and then let go of it, but as far as God is can have the same kind of attitude! When asked him to. As a result, he obligated God, concerned that faith is still in force. If you’ll stand on we see in God’s WORD that by the stripes of as his covenant partner, to do the same. He put your covenant rights, you can reconnect with it and Jesus we were healed, we can choose to consider not the God in the position where He was bound by covenant pick up right where you left off . You can get back on symptoms of sickness in our bodies. We can jump up in to sacrifi ce His own Son for the sake of all mankind. your faith in that area and receive the fulfi llment of the faith and say, “Yes, Sir! I am the healed of e LORD!” Up until Abraham, God hadn’t found that kind of promises that are yours through Abraham’s covenant When we see that our covenant with God declares faith on the earth. He’d found some people who would with God. that His BLESSING makes us rich and adds no sorrow believe Him for fi nancial BLESSINGS or for healing. to it, we can say, “Yes, amen! I am BLESSED and I am But no one had ever believed God to raise someone A Covenant With rich!” We can believe God 100%, regardless of what our from the dead—and when Abraham off ered Isaac, that’s God on Both Ends bank accounts or other people might say. exactly what he was believing God would do. “Yeah, but Brother Copeland, I just don’t have that Abraham wasn’t brokenhearted and crying the day “But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “as a New kind of faith.” he took Isaac to the altar, like the silly Hollywood Covenant believer, God’s promises to me aren’t through e Bible says you do. It refers to all of us, movies portray him. He had the fi re of faith Abraham, they’re through Jesus. ey’re mine because who believe in Jesus, as those who “walk fl ashing in his eyes. He was “accounting that of what He did.” in the steps of that faith of our father God was able to raise [Isaac] up, even from at’s absolutely true. It was also true for Abraham. Abraham” (Romans 4:12). the dead; from whence also he received him His was a covenant with God on both ends. Read in Exactly what kind of faith did Abraham in a fi gure” (Hebrews 11:19). Genesis 15 about how God established it and you’ll have? He had the same kind God uses! No As far as Abraham was concerned, the see what I mean. When He cut His covenant with Abraham He came down Himself, walked in the blood of the sacrifi cial animals, and made covenant promises to Abraham’s Seed. “He saith not, And to seeds, as of Abraham1 We have2 the same When God3 cut His We can4 follow in God is5 calling many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ” believed God’s faith as that of our covenant with the footsteps of believers who love (Galatians 3:16). POINTS promises and father Abraham. We Abraham He came Abraham’s faith, Him, love each other Abraham’s covenant had God Almighty on one side TO GET refused to can believe God 100%, down Himself, walked because we’re and love living by faith YOU be moved by regardless of what our in the blood and made in on the same in His WORD—who and His Son, Jesus, on the other! THERE: impossibilities. circumstances or other covenant promises to covenant. are 100% committed. God basically said to Abraham, “If you’ll believe Rom. 4:19-21 people might say. Abraham’s Seed. Gal. 3:9, 26-29 Eph. 4:13-15 this covenant and act on it, I’ll treat you just like I treat Rom. 4:12 Gal. 3:16 6 : BVOV

kenneth.indd 6 5/14/20 10:35 AM human being ever had that kind of faith until Abraham outcome was certain. God had said, “In Isaac shall came along. But he caught hold of it and once he did, thy seed be called” (Genesis 21:12); and Abraham he used it to the max. He actually believed God to absolutely believed it. He fully expected to sacrifice that the point that he perpetuated his seed to a thousand boy and then watch God raise him up from the ashes. generations. He put so much faith in his covenant Of course, God sent the ram to take Isaac’s place so his with God that there was no way God could ever annul blood was never shed…but ultimately what Abraham that covenant or call it off. As He said to Abraham in believed came to pass. Genesis 22:16-18: “By myself have I sworn…for Jesus died on the cross as God’s sacrifice to set us because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld free from sin and the curse, and after He spent three thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, days in the heart of the earth, Abraham’s faith finally and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the bore fruit. His faith for resurrection slammed together stars of the heaven, and as the sand which with the power of Almighty God and Jesus was raised is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall from the dead! possess the gate of his enemies; and in If you’re wondering how Abraham’s faith, which “HE’S SAYING TO thy seed shall all the nations of the was released thousands of years before the cross, could earth be blessed; because thou hast have anything to do with Jesus’ resurrection, it’s because US, ‘I’VE WIPED obeyed my voice.” there’s no time in God. It doesn’t make any difference Notice that according to those to Him if it’s a thousand years, 10 minutes or a split OUT YOUR SIN AND verses, Abraham’s faith in God was second. God doesn’t forget anything except the sins we so strong he didn’t withhold from put under the blood of Jesus. Every ounce of faith any I’M NO LONGER Him even his own son. He went up of us have ever released is still on record with Him. the mountain and put Isaac on the You might have believed God for something 35 HOLDING IT altar of sacrifice simply because God years ago and then let go of it, but as far as God is asked him to. As a result, he obligated God, concerned that faith is still in force. If you’ll stand on AGAINST YOU.’” as his covenant partner, to do the same. He put your covenant rights, you can reconnect with it and God in the position where He was bound by covenant pick up right where you left off. You can get back on Jesus. You’ll be able to approach Me with the same to sacrifice His own Son for the sake of all mankind. your faith in that area and receive the fulfillment of the confidence He does, and I’ll receive you and treat you Up until Abraham, God hadn’t found that kind of promises that are yours through Abraham’s covenant like you’ve never sinned.” faith on the earth. He’d found some people who would with God. God has said the same thing to us in the New believe Him for financial BLESSINGS or for healing. Covenant. He’s not saying, “Get away from Me, you But no one had ever believed God to raise someone sinner.” He has invited us to come boldly to His throne A Covenant With from the dead—and when Abraham offered Isaac, that’s of grace. He’s saying to us, “I’ve wiped out your sin God on Both Ends exactly what he was believing God would do. and I’m no longer holding it against you. You’ve been Abraham wasn’t brokenhearted and crying the day “But Brother Copeland,” you might say, “as a New washed in the blood of the Lamb and if you’ll walk he took Isaac to the altar, like the silly Hollywood Covenant believer, God’s promises to me aren’t through before Me by faith in Him, I’ll treat you like you never movies portray him. He had the fire of faith Abraham, they’re through Jesus. They’re mine because sinned!” flashing in his eyes. He was “accounting that of what He did.” This is the reason we can follow in the footsteps God was able to raise [Isaac] up, even from That’s absolutely true. It was also true for Abraham. of Abraham’s faith. We’re in on the same covenant. the dead; from whence also he received him His was a covenant with God on both ends. Read in Galatians 3 confirms this. It says clearly, “They which in a figure” (Hebrews 11:19). Genesis 15 about how God established it and you’ll be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.... For ye As far as Abraham was concerned, the see what I mean. When He cut His covenant with are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For Abraham He came down Himself, walked in the blood as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have of the sacrificial animals, and made covenant promises put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is to Abraham’s Seed. “He saith not, And to seeds, as of neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: God is5 calling many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ” for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, believers who love (Galatians 3:16). then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the Him, love each other Abraham’s covenant had God Almighty on one side promise” (verses 9, 26-29). and love living by faith in His WORD—who and His Son, Jesus, on the other! Look again at the last verse. It refers to you and me, are 100% committed. God basically said to Abraham, “If you’ll believe as believers, as Abraham’s “seed.” The word seed there Eph. 4:13-15 this covenant and act on it, I’ll treat you just like I treat is singular, talking about us just as it is in verse 16

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kenneth.indd 7 5/14/20 10:35 AM when it’s referring to Jesus. at’s important. It lets us know that when it comes to walking in the faith of Abraham, we’re all in this together. We’re one with Jesus and He’s one with us. In times past our failure to realize this has hindered our walk of faith. We stumbled around more than we should have because we fragmented the Body of Christ. We divided ourselves up until we forgot that when we’re talking about believers, we’re talking about Jesus; and when we’re talking about Him, we’re talking about the whole Church. He’s the Head and we’re His Body. You can’t separate a head from a body and expect it to keep functioning. For life to keep fl owing, the two must be united. at’s why no one ever says when I walk into a room, “Here comes Kenneth and his body.” ey just say, “ ere’s Kenneth,” because my head and my body are one. e same is true spiritually with the Body of Christ. As Jesus said in John 17:23, we’re one with Jesus and with each other just as Jesus and the Father are one. Jesus is in us, God is in Him, and we’re in God “made perfect in one.” It’s time we renewed our minds to this and stopped separating ourselves from each other. We need one another! We have to have one another to walk “in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God” (Ephesians 4:13). ere’s too much at stake here for us to let petty doctrinal diff erences and off enses drive us apart. Believing God for the fullness of the manifestation of God’s power among us is too important! It’s worth more than anything else in the world, and the only way we’re going to have it is by working together in unity—by clinging to each other in love (faith works by love), praying for each other and releasing our faith on each other’s behalf. Do you know what happens when we come together like that? We become more than just individual Christians wandering around on the fi eld of life trying to do something for God. We become a faith team! We become a spiritual version of that wild bunch of winners I played football with in high school. at’s the kind of team God is putting together in these last days before Jesus returns. It’s a team of believers who absolutely love God, love each other and love living by faith in God’s WORD. It’s a team of believers who are in this for keeps and who are 100% committed to running roughshod over the devil. It’s a God-squad of people like you and me who were born again to walk in the footsteps of Abraham’s faith!

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kenneth.indd 8 5/14/20 10:35 AM SOUTHWEST BELIEVERS’ CONVENTION It was 1966, on the campus of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. Kenneth Copeland was still basking in the anointing after Oral Roberts had laid hands on him, when God showed him something in the spirit—opening his eyes to see the spiritual condition of believers as he’d never seen it before.

Suddenly the bodies of the believers standing before Brother Roberts in the prayer line were transparent. Only a vague outline could be seen. Though physically healthy in most cases, their spirits were so scrawny and sickly they could hardly walk. Yet, on top of each emaciated, little spirit body was a huge head.

Son, Kenneth heard the Lord say, I have called you to feed My people. They are out of balance. They are physically developed. They’re mentally developed. Some are so developed mentally that they can hardly hold their heads up. I’ll show you how to feed My people and build them up spiritually until they become balanced.

That commission was the goal as the doors of the Tarrant County Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, opened on Aug. 17, 1981, and Kenneth stepped onto the platform for the ﬁ rst Southwest Believers’ Convention. He was taking a major step in fulﬁ lling a vision and call the Lord had given him nearly 15 years earlier.

Set to minister alongside Kenneth and Gloria Copeland during the six days of meetings was a powerfully anointed lineup of speakers that included Jerry Savelle, Norvel Hayes,

(From left) T.L. Osborn, Hilton Sutton, John Osteen, Pat Boone, Jerry Savelle and Charles Capps

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kenneth.indd 9 5/14/20 10:35 AM Charles Capps, John Osteen, Hilton Sutton and meetings? What is our specific purpose?’ T.L. Osborn. He said to me, I want you to conduct meetings where people can totally immerse It was evident God was raising up a new in The WORD of God. Get into The WORD generation of believers. In a word delivered of God and stay there! Talk about faith and through the late John Osteen about the the integrity of The WORD—talk about it meeting, the Lord said: I’m sending a Word and talk about it and talk about it…there is revival to cause the Church to know who they a people in the land today who have enough are in Jesus Christ. And they will arise like a hunger for My WORD to come and sit under giant and they will go forth into a darkened that kind of intensive exposure. That’s our world saturating them with My glory and My calling and we’re seeing it done!” power. And they’ll cast out demons and heal the sick and bring deliverance to mankind. And I Since it began, the SWBC has continued will show My glory in your generation. to thrive, remaining committed to total immersion in God’s Word. From then until now, those words have rung true as the power of God has been evidenced in Free and open to the public, the convention is every convention. Southwest has continued to designed to build up the Partners and Friends be a catalyst for change in the lives of hundreds of Kenneth Copeland Ministries and to take not all, of the exciting journey. Others have of thousands as new Kingdom keys have been them from the milk to the meat of the Word. connected with us along the way. We rejoice revealed and new strength infused into their Southwest continues to meet that goal as it that each year you chose to allow the SWBC lives. ministers to people of all ages and all walks to play a role in your spiritual growth and of life, through its adult services, children’s maturity. And we thank you for being part of Reflecting on the beginning of the ministry through Superkid Academy, and this exciting piece of history. Southwest Believers’ Convention, Kenneth ministry for youth in 14forty. said: “When I asked The LORD all those years ago, ‘What do You want out of these Many of you have been with us for most, if —Ronald C. Jordan, Managing Editor

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kenneth.indd 10 5/14/20 10:40 AM Many of you have been with us for most, if if most, for us with been have you of Many and Academy, ministry for youth in14forty. Superkid through children’s services, ministry adult its through walks life, all of and ages all of people it to as ministers goal that meet to continues Southwest Word. the of meat the to milk the from them take to and Ministries Copeland Kenneth of Friends and Partners the up build to designed is convention the public, the to open and Free total to committed continued remaining immersion inGod’s Word. has thrive, SWBC the to began, it Since calling andwe’re seeing itdone!” exposure. intensive of kind that forhungertounder comesit WORD and My enough have who today land the in people a is it…there about talk and it about talk it and about WORD—talk The of integrity the and faith about Talkthere! stay and God of conduct WORD The into to Get God. of WORD you The in want I immerse totally can people me, where meetings to said He purpose?’ speciﬁc our is What meetings? hts our That’s kenneth.indd 11 —Ronald C. Jordan, Managing Editor this exciting pieceofhistory. and of growthpart being for spiritual you thank your we And maturity. in role a play to SWBC the allow to chose you year each that rejoice We way. the along have us with Others connected journey. exciting the of all, not KCM.ORG/EVENTS June 29-July4|KCM.organd VICTORY Channel Washington, D.C. VIRTUAL Believers’VIRTUAL Convention Word Explosion Military Salute “West Coast” Believers’ Convention Nov. 12-14| Woodbridge, Va. VIRTUAL Event Aug. 3-8|Fort Worth, Texas Southwest Sept. 3-5|Columbia, S.C. Victory Campaign TM emic.org Dec. 31: Newark, Texas New Year’s EveService canaanland.com Nov. 5: Autaugaville, Ala. atCanaan Land Greater Glory wolfc.com/events Concord, N.H. Sept. 26-27 Fellowship Church Word ofLifeChristian billwinston.org orlivingwd.org Forest Park, Ill. Sept. 14-15 Conference Faith2020 International pathpointfellowship.com Amarillo, Texas Sept. 11 Pathpoint Fellowship Church cofaz.org Springs,Hidden Ariz. Aug. 28 Motorcycle Rally Healing oftheNations lwcc.org Brooklyn Park, Minn. Aug. 20-21 Faith Explosion 2020 UpperMidwest champions4christ.org/rally Branson, Mo. July 27 of Champions4Christ 20th Anniversary also speakinghere: Kenneth Copelandis We are monitoringtravel information—including information—including and event restrictions. new, onlineandon-air Coronavirus events, pleasevisit: (COVID-19) (COVID-19) For updatedevent kcm.org/events UPDATE 5/14/20 10:40AM BVOV

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by Melanie OUTHemry LOUD TODD WHITE stepped into the mobile had been fi red or quit each of them. In all that home where he lived with his girlfriend, time, he’d never brought home a paycheck. Jackie, and their daughter, Destiny. He’d snorted it. Smoked it. Empty. at’s how the house felt. Todd White was a grown man. But his life Not temporarily, as if they had just run out had been in a downward spiral since he was 11 to the store for ice cream. is was diff erent. years old, and his parents had called him and A feeling of despair washed over him. his siblings to the kitchen table to announce Todd picked up a note left for him by his they were getting a divorce. daughter. Each word felt like a knockout “Your mom doesn’t love me anymore,” his punch. She and her mom had moved in with dad explained as he walked out of the house Jackie’s mother and stepfather, the note read. carrying a suitcase. “Mommy’s not coming back.” Todd had tried running after him, but was e crooked letters of the child’s scrawl stopped by his mother before he could get out stripped him of his bravado. the door. Overcome with anger and hatred, Dropping onto the sofa, he leaned back he’d destroyed his room, breaking vinyl and closed his eyes, not wanting to see the records and chipping the plaster off the walls. holes he’d punched in the walls. Todd’s mother’s boss was a 32nd-degree In nine years, he’d had about 30 jobs. He Mason.

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profile.indd 13 5/14/20 10:42 AM “There’s a place Todd can go,” he explained. said. “He isn’t real! Jesus died!” “They’ll take care of him.” “That’s what I wanted to tell you. He’s alive.” Todd was sent to live in a Masonic home for Todd paused. He believed in ghosts. He believed in orphans. His mother said he could come home at UFOs. He believed in Dracula and haunted houses. the end of summer, but later she changed her mind. Maybe Jesus was alive. By the time he was 12, Todd was a full-blown “Listen, since you don’t want your life, why don’t you drug addict. He lived in the orphanage until he was give it to Someone who does?” 16½, when he was finally kicked out. He returned “Who would want what I have?” home only to find that his mother had remarried. That didn’t go well. “You could never be a Marine,” Todd’s stepfather A Small Seed taunted. “Marines are real men. You’ll never be a “I figured if Jesus wanted my life, He could have it,” real man.” Todd recalls. On a dare, Todd joined the Marines and went “Later, I talked Jackie and Destiny into coming through boot camp. It looked like everything had home. When I put Destiny to bed, I told her Jesus “What do you want?” the kid asked. changed, but it hadn’t. He was still an addict. was in my life and that things had changed—that “As much as you’ve got.” Todd began a cycle of going AWOL, running I would be there for her. A couple hours later, my He pulled out cocaine in separate bags. As soon as to hide from the military police, being arrested body screamed for cocaine. I stole Jackie’s debit card Todd took the bags, pretending to be an undercover and sent back. In time, he was given a bad conduct and went on a binge. When I got home, Jackie and cop, he said to the kid, “You have the right to remain discharge. Destiny were waiting up. Jackie screamed that she silent. Anything you say, can and will be used against That’s when he met Jackie, and Destiny was later hated me. Destiny sobbed. you in a court of law….” born. “I called Pastor Dan and told him that Jesus didn’t “I knew you were a cop! I knew it!” Jackie was never going to be the little woman work! He told me that there was a seed growing inside Todd pulled his Jeep over. who went to sleep hoping he would come home me. I exploded, telling him it needed to grow faster!” “Get out and put your hands on the hood,” he said from his latest binge. No matter what time he to the kid. dragged himself home, Jackie and Destiny were Before Todd could move, the kid got out of the car, there, waiting on the sofa. Shots in the Dark spun around, and began firing his 9 mm handgun Jackie would scream at him. Along the way, Todd had connected with some at close range, shooting until the gun was empty, as Destiny would sob, “Daddy, you promised!” people and began singing with a band. “We played in Todd sped away. Now they were gone. clubs and had a good following,” Todd recalls. “I wrote I’m dead! I’m dead! Todd thought. I’ve been shot! All he’d ever done was hurt and disappoint them. our music and we were pretty good. During our band I’ve got to get out of here! Enough was enough. practice, I kept talking about Jesus. Three of the guys Fueled by adrenalin, Todd floored the Jeep and Todd went to get a gun. He would put a bullet told me that if I mentioned that Name again, they rushed through red lights as he made his getaway. As in his mouth and end everyone’s suffering. First, he would leave and never play with me again. I had the he drove, he heard an audible voice that was louder would write a letter telling them goodbye. mic and taunted them, and they walked out. Bobby, than the gun blast: On the way to the gun cabinet, Todd saw a phone our guitarist, stayed because I was his best friend. I I took those bullets for you. Are you ready to live for book. When he picked it up, it fell open to reveal got high with him, partied with him, did “coke” with Me yet? a number of churches. Todd hated Christians— him, and talked about Jesus to him. He didn’t believe As he drove out of the city, Todd realized he didn’t order on thought they wereshop.kcm.org.za hypocrites. Yet, for some reason, in Jesus.” feel any pain from the bullets. When he reached a he ended up driving to one of the churches he saw Late one night, Todd was standing at a pay phone safe place, he started using the drugs. For the next listed in the phone book. It was a Word of Faith trying to call his dealer when he turned and saw Jackie three and a half hours, Todd used up all the crack church, whatever that meant. and Destiny. They were wearing pajamas. It was 1:30 cocaine. But for some reason, he recalled, he didn’t A pastor named Dan met him at the door. in the morning, and they had followed him when get high. Each time he took a hit, he heard that voice Todd exploded, telling him what he had planned he left the house. Todd jumped into his black Jeep he had heard earlier: I took those bullets for you. Are you to do. Wrangler and sped away. ready to live for Me yet? “Well, can I tell you about Jesus?” Shortly after, he picked up a kid who was dealing “I drove home and got out of my car,” Todd “I didn’t come here to hear about Jesus!” Todd drugs. remembers. “I used a flashlight to see how many

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said. “He isn’t real! Jesus died!” bullet holes were in the car. There wasn’t one. Not “That’s what I wanted to tell you. He’s alive.” even a scratch. Todd paused. He believed in ghosts. He believed in “It was early August 2004 at about 5:30 in the UFOs. He believed in Dracula and haunted houses. morning. I went inside and Jackie started screaming Maybe Jesus was alive. at me. I knew that something greater than me had “Listen, since you don’t want your life, why don’t you saved my life. Those words were still playing in my give it to Someone who does?” head. Earlier they had been audible, coming from “Who would want what I have?” the outside. Now the words were quiet, but internal. “I contacted Pastor Dan and he said a bed had opened for me at Teen Challenge, and that I could A Small Seed be admitted in three days. I agreed to go. It was a “I figured if Jesus wanted my life, He could have it,” one-year commitment. Todd recalls. “Jackie was glad I was leaving. She hated me. “Later, I talked Jackie and Destiny into coming Destiny was sad. Bobby was glad I was going home. When I put Destiny to bed, I told her Jesus “What do you want?” the kid asked. to rehab until he learned that it was a Christian was in my life and that things had changed—that “As much as you’ve got.” program. That made him furious. I would be there for her. A couple hours later, my He pulled out cocaine in separate bags. As soon as body screamed for cocaine. I stole Jackie’s debit card Todd took the bags, pretending to be an undercover and went on a binge. When I got home, Jackie and cop, he said to the kid, “You have the right to remain Teen Challenge Destiny were waiting up. Jackie screamed that she silent. Anything you say, can and will be used against “I was not only a drug addict, I had ADHD, hated me. Destiny sobbed. you in a court of law….” dyslexia and bipolar disorder. I was on antidepressants. “I called Pastor Dan and told him that Jesus didn’t “I knew you were a cop! I knew it!” Teen Challenge wasn’t your typical rehab program. work! He told me that there was a seed growing inside Todd pulled his Jeep over. They didn’t discuss 12 steps. They didn’t talk about me. I exploded, telling him it needed to grow faster!” “Get out and put your hands on the hood,” he said drugs or alcohol. They never mentioned chemical to the kid. imbalances. They didn’t discuss serotonin levels. They Before Todd could move, the kid got out of the car, only talked about one step: submitting to God. They Shots in the Dark spun around, and began firing his 9 mm handgun talked about Jesus. They taught the Bible. Along the way, Todd had connected with some at close range, shooting until the gun was empty, as “I’d never been able to read, learn or memorize, people and began singing with a band. “We played in Todd sped away. but I started reading, learning and understanding clubs and had a good following,” Todd recalls. “I wrote I’m dead! I’m dead! Todd thought. I’ve been shot! the Bible. I was stunned that so many people knew our music and we were pretty good. During our band I’ve got to get out of here! about Jesus, but no one had shared the gospel with practice, I kept talking about Jesus. Three of the guys Fueled by adrenalin, Todd floored the Jeep and me in 34 years.” told me that if I mentioned that Name again, they rushed through red lights as he made his getaway. As Two months into the program, Todd’s heart was would leave and never play with me again. I had the he drove, he heard an audible voice that was louder settled as he sat on a bench across the street from mic and taunted them, and they walked out. Bobby, than the gun blast: Teen Challenge. He watched as a homeless man our guitarist, stayed because I was his best friend. I I took those bullets for you. Are you ready to live for with a scruffy beard and wearing a baseball cap, army got high with him, partied with him, did “coke” with Me yet? fatigues and swimming goggles, walked by pushing him, and talked about Jesus to him. He didn’t believe As he drove out of the city, Todd realized he didn’t a shopping cart. in Jesus.” feel any pain from the bullets. When he reached a Looking up, Todd said, “Hey, Jesus loves you. I Late one night, Todd was standing at a pay phone safe place, he started using the drugs. For the next hope you know it.” trying to call his dealer when he turned and saw Jackie three and a half hours, Todd used up all the crack The man pushed his cart to the side. and Destiny. They were wearing pajamas. It was 1:30 cocaine. But for some reason, he recalled, he didn’t “I know how much He loves me,” he told Todd. in the morning, and they had followed him when get high. Each time he took a hit, he heard that voice “Do you know how much He loves you?” he left the house. Todd jumped into his black Jeep he had heard earlier: I took those bullets for you. Are you “Tell me.” Wrangler and sped away. ready to live for Me yet? The man began to share the gospel in the most Shortly after, he picked up a kid who was dealing “I drove home and got out of my car,” Todd compelling way Todd had ever heard. drugs. remembers. “I used a flashlight to see how many “Why are you pushing a shopping cart?” Todd asked.

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profile.indd 15 5/14/20 10:42 AM READ THROUGH THE BIBLE “Years ago, the Lord told me to pick up my on life support and not expected to live. In the don’t believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I’ve JULY cross and follow Him,” the man said. “I sold hospital room, Todd apologized to Bobby for preached for years that those things died with Old New everything and I’ve been pushing this cart across not being a better friend. the apostles.” Testament Testament America.” “Bobby,” Todd said, “Jesus is real.” “That’s strange, because your leg is healed,” Wed 1 1 Chr. 7-8 Rom. 14 The cart was filled with Bibles. That night, Bobby died. Todd responded. “What are you going to do Thu 2 1 Chr. 9-11 Rom. 15 “I’m going to pray for you,” he told Todd, “and “I was just crushed,” Todd recalls. “Jackie held with that? You can’t walk into church without a that thing that’s plagued you will never touch me while I cried. ‘This is what happens when limp because people will notice.” Fri 3 1 Chr. 12-14 Rom. 16 you again.” you don’t live your life out loud for Jesus. It “Oh, they’ll know. This changes everything. Sat 4 1 Chr. 15-16 After the man prayed, Todd thanked him and comes from not living a consecrated life. This I’ve got to tell them that I’ve preached a lie.” walked back across the street. When he turned will never happen again.’” Sun 5 Ps. 79-81; to look back, the man and his cart had vanished. Bobby’s wife asked Todd to speak at the funeral. Preparing for the Harvest Prov. 17:1-18 For some time, Todd had been plagued by Standing in front of the casket, Todd shared Mon 6 1 Chr. 17-20 1 Cor. 1 night terrors. After that prayer, they left— that he had not been a good friend to Bobby. He “I’ve seen thousands of people healed,” Todd replaced by sweet dreams about a valley between said that real friendship means you lay your life explains. “This is a mobile gospel, it isn’t just for Tue 7 1 Chr. 21-23 1 Cor. 2 two mountains. Over and over the Lord told down for your friends. the Church. The same Spirit that raised Jesus Wed 8 1 Chr. 24-26 1 Cor. 3 Todd not to fear. Then, one night during the When the minister gave an altar call, half the from the dead dwells in every son and daughter. Thu 9 1 Chr. 27-28 1 Cor. 4 dream the Lord said, This addiction will never people responded, giving their hearts to Jesus. God wants us to share the good news. He wants Fri 10 1 Chr. 29 1 Cor. 5 touch you again. Go and restore friends and family. us to heal the sick. He wants us to prophesy over The next day, Todd called Pastor Dan and people and give words of knowledge. God wants Sat 11 2 Chr. 1-3 asked him to come get him. All the way home, A Seed Full Grown compromise to be cut out of the Church and Pastor Dan told him all the reasons he was going True to his word, Todd got a job and began to out of our lives, so we represent Him properly. Sun 12 Ps. 82-85; to make it—that everything was going to be all support his family. He never touched drugs or “Jackie and I have been married for 16 years Prov. 17:19-18:9 right. At home, Destiny came running outside alcohol again. He submitted himself to the local now. For 13 of those years, I’ve traveled the Mon 13 2 Chr. 4-6 1 Cor. 6 and threw herself in Todd’s arms. church and lived his new life out loud. world preaching the gospel. In 2015, I started “Daddy, something’s different about your “When I first got saved, I discovered Kenneth traveling back and forth to Texas. While I was Tue 14 2 Chr. 7-9 1 Cor. 7 eyes.” Copeland on television,” Todd recalled. “I watched doing that, the team from 14forty, the youth Wed 15 2 Chr. 10-12 1 Cor. 8 Jackie stepped outside. She wasn’t screaming. his program, read his books and ordered his ministry at KCM, asked me to come help

Thu 16 2 Chr. 13-15 1 Cor. 9 “I’m so sorry for everything I’ve put you Word of Faith Study Bible, which is still my out with their sessions during the Southwest Fri 17 2 Chr. 16-18 1 Cor. 10 through,” Todd said. “I love you and hope favorite. He just fascinated me. I realized that Believers’ Convention. Jesus showed up and the you can forgive me. I met Jesus and He really he and Gloria were two of the greatest teachers next year the attendance doubled.” Sat 18 2 Chr. 19-20 changed me. In time you’ll see that. I’m going to I’d ever heard. I followed their ministry, always Eventually, the Lord spoke to Todd and told get a job and provide for my daughter.” looking up to them.” him to move to Texas. Sun 19 Ps. 86-88; One day, Todd was delivering ice on his job “He said to build a team around me and Prov. 18:10-24 when he noticed a man limping to his car. build a ministry training center,” Todd said. “He New Creatures in Christ Mon 20 2 Chr. 21-23 1 Cor. 11 “Sir, what happened to your leg?” Todd asked. told me to raise up people who would take the “I know you will,” Jackie said. “While you “I had polio as a kid.” gospel around the world. It would be a training Tue 21 2 Chr. 24-26 1 Cor. 12 were away, I gave my heart to Jesus.” “Can I take a look?” hub, like an incubator for revival. I didn’t have Wed 22 2 Chr. 27-29 1 Cor. 13 Pastor Dan had been pouring the gospel into “Why?” a team or an office. My ministry was just me, Thu 23 2 Chr. 30-31 1 Cor. 14 Jackie and Destiny. “Let me see your legs.” an itinerant preacher. What God asked was far “I can’t live here because we’re not in covenant,” The man sat down and stretched out his legs. more than I’d ever even thought. Fri 24 2 Chr. 32-33 1 Cor. 15 Todd told Jackie. Todd could see one leg was several inches “We moved to Texas in January 2016. I was Sat 25 2 Chr. 34-35 “Of course not,” Jackie replied. “We need to be shorter than the other. “In the Name of Jesus,” thinking about renting a space until the Lord married first.” he said, “I command your leg to grow.” Suddenly, told me that the building would seat 3,000. I saw Sun 26 Ps. 89; “We’ll do it Sunday between services,” Pastor the man’s leg grew to match the length of his a property that was far bigger than I imagined. Prov. 19:1-17 Dan said. other leg. It was a 200,000-square-foot building on 37 Todd went through the house, cleaning “What just happened?” the man asked, with acres. It could seat 3,000. The price was around Mon 27 2 Chr. 36; Ezra 1-2 1 Cor. 16 out drugs, alcohol and pornography. He put tears in his eyes. $20 million. I asked the Lord what to do. He everything in a trash bag, smashed it with a “I just prayed for you in the Name of Jesus,” told me to sow seed with purpose—to give Tue 28 Ezra 3-6 2 Cor. 1 hammer, and then set it on fire. On Sunday, he Todd said. $200,000 to KCM as seed and believe Him for Wed 29 Ezra 7-8 2 Cor. 2 and Jackie were married. Then Todd shared his story with the man. the rest. Thu 30 Ezra 9-10 2 Cor. 3 The next day, Todd went to see Bobby. “God delivered you from drugs?” “I’d met Brother Kenneth before at meetings, The day Todd left for Teen Challenge, Bobby “He sure did, but He healed you.” and now I met with him in his office. I told him Fri 31 Neh. 1-3 2 Cor. 4 had suffered a brain aneurysm. Now, he was “I’m a pastor, and I don’t believe in miracles. I what the Lord had said and handed him the

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Todd responded. “What are you going to do “I was just crushed,” Todd recalls. “Jackie held with that? You can’t walk into church without a limp because people will notice.” you don’t live your life out loud for Jesus. It I’ve got to tell them that I’ve preached a lie.”

Bobby’s wife asked Todd to speak at the funeral. Standing in front of the casket, Todd shared Preparing for the Harvest that he had not been a good friend to Bobby. He “I’ve seen thousands of people healed,” Todd said that real friendship means you lay your life

When the minister gave an altar call, half the from the dead dwells in every son and daughter. people responded, giving their hearts to Jesus. God wants us to share the good news. He wants us to heal the sick. He wants us to prophesy over people and give words of knowledge. God wants compromise to be cut out of the Church and True to his word, Todd got a job and began to out of our lives, so we represent Him properly. Kenneth grabbed my hands support his family. He never touched drugs or “Jackie and I have been married for 16 years alcohol again. He submitted himself to the local now. For 13 of those years, I’ve traveled the and pulled me to the fl oor. He world preaching the gospel. In 2015, I started “When I fi rst got saved, I discovered Kenneth traveling back and forth to Texas. While I was prayed, asking God to give me Copeland on television,” Todd recalled. “I watched doing that, the team from 14forty, the youth his program, read his books and ordered his ministry at KCM, asked me to come help the building. which is still my out with their sessions during the Southwest ht ht ta Believers’ Convention. Jesus showed up and the he and Gloria were two of the greatest teachers next year the attendance doubled.” I’d ever heard. I followed their ministry, always Eventually, the Lord spoke to Todd and told check. Kenneth grabbed my hands and pulled him to move to Texas. me to the fl oor. He prayed, asking God to give One day, Todd was delivering ice on his job “He said to build a team around me and me the building. build a ministry training center,” Todd said. “He “I love him so much. I would give my life for “Sir, what happened to your leg?” Todd asked. told me to raise up people who would take the his any second of any day. We have an amazing gospel around the world. It would be a training relationship, and he pours into my life on a hub, like an incubator for revival. I didn’t have regular basis. a team or an o ce. My ministry was just me, “Of course, God gave us the building. Right an itinerant preacher. What God asked was far now, I have 43 full-time sta . We started JOIN more than I’d ever even thought. Lifestyle Christian University and graduated Todd could see one leg was several inches “We moved to Texas in January 2016. I was 350 students in the spring of 2020. We will start TODD IN shorter than the other. “In the Name of Jesus,” thinking about renting a space until the Lord another class in September. We will also launch TEACHING he said, “I command your leg to grow.” Suddenly, told me that the building would seat 3,000. I saw the church in September.” BELIEVERS the man’s leg grew to match the length of his a property that was far bigger than I imagined. Today, Todd and Jackie’s oldest daughter, It was a 200,000-square-foot building on 37 HOW “What just happened?” the man asked, with other daughters, 14-year-old Zoey, and 9-year- $20 million. I asked the Lord what to do. He TO USE “I just prayed for you in the Name of Jesus,” told me to sow seed with purpose—to give born addicted to heroin, who is now smart $200,000 to KCM as seed and believe Him for and unscathed. And they are in the process of THEIR the rest. adopting another baby, 9-month-old Asher. “I’d met Brother Kenneth before at meetings, As we move into the greatest harvest of souls FAITH. and now I met with him in his o ce. I told him on planet Earth, Todd White asks one thing of KCM.ORG.ZA/PARTNERNOW “I’m a pastor, and I don’t believe in miracles. I what the Lord had said and handed him the you: Live your life for Jesus…out loud.

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That was the problem. she said, “This God is greater than any For years now, we believers have let Satan do a number on us about money I actually knelt there on the bed in I’ve ever known.” Then she summoned MONEYand, in many ways, it has blocked the work of God upon the earth. :: We’ve the hotel room and wept over it. Finally her servants and they brought all their let Satan lie to us and tell us that money doesn’t matter to God. But look at I gave in. “OK, God, I’ll do it.” But He treasures too and said, “We will now Deuteronomy 8:18: “Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that said, No, I don’t want you just to make worship your God.” giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which yourself do it. I want you to be totally willing. You see, it not only has an impact on he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.” I had to pray a little longer to get God when we worship Him with our willing, but eventually, I did. money—it has an impact on the world That night I went over to the meeting, as well! found this preacher, called him over, A few years ago, at my church in wrapped that coat around his shoulders Little Rock, Ark., we took up an and said, “The Lord told me to tell you, offering of $10,000 and gave it to ‘This is a coat of love....’” the Little Rock Police Department. The next night that preacher came Sometime later, I heard that during back to me and said, “Brother Caldwell, a meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Larry when I got home last night, I asked the Lea had taken up an offering of Lord why you gave me this coat. I don’t $10,000 and given it to the mayor of need a coat. But the Lord told me that Anaheim. Do you have any idea what MONEY DOES MATTER TO GOD! important. What God cares about is our you needed to give it.” would happen in the United States In fact, God said He gives us the power hearts.” What they don’t realize is that “That’s right,” I answered. “I did.” if churches all over the land started to get wealth so that He may establish you can’t separate the two. When you “Well, the Lord told me to receive doing that? His covenant. What covenant? The bring God your money, you bring Him it and then to give it back to you,” he A worldwide revival has already one He made with Abraham when He part of yourself. You bring Him what said. Then he laid his hands on me and begun. But the only way we’re going to promised him that He would bless him you’ve labored for, what you’ve studied prophesied, “Yes, indeed, this is a coat see the completion of it is if we make and make his name great in the earth for, what you’ve given your time for. That of love. And because you were willing to this last adjustment of worshiping (Genesis 12:1-3). money is part of you. It represents you. give it, I’m giving it back.” God with our money. If we’ll do God wants to bless us as believers. He God wants us to worship Him with Listen, God wants us to be willing to that, we won’t have any problems in wants to make our name—the name of our money—all of it! He doesn’t want worship Him with everything we have. the Body of Christ ever again. And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ— us to say, “Well, I’ll give God the 10 He wants us to be willing to give all. through us, God will make His Name great. But before He can do that, we’re percent, but the other 90 is mine.” He Then He can bless it, multiply it and great throughout the earth. going to have to let Him straighten us didn’t say, “I so love the world that give it back to us. out where money is concerned. We’re I’ll give them 10 percent of Jesus.” He Have you ever read about how the going to have to let Him teach us how gave all. Israelites gave toward the building of to have and how to handle money Several years ago, the Lord told God’s Temple? King David gave more according to His Word. me that He wanted me to give away a than $612 million of his personal wealth i Exactly what does that involve? In a leather coat my dad had given me, to a to get it started. Then the priests gave word: Worship. preacher I knew. I was at a meeting in several hundred million dollars more. Happy Caldwell For years now, God has been showing San Antonio, Texas, at the time, and I and his wife, Finally, they called the people together Jeanne, are me that He wants us to worship Him had to go back to the hotel room and and they gave too. founders of with our money. Some people say, pray because I didn’t want to give away And when the Queen of Sheba Agape Church in “Well, I don’t think material things are that coat. I loved it. came from the South and saw it all, Little Rock, Ark.

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Th at was the problem. she said, “Th is God is greater than any I actually knelt there on the bed in I’ve ever known.” Th en she summoned the hotel room and wept over it. Finally her servants and they brought all their I gave in. “OK, God, I’ll do it.” But He treasures too and said, “We will now said, No, I don’t want you just to make worship your God.” yourself do it. I want you to be totally willing. You see, it not only has an impact on I had to pray a little longer to get God when we worship Him with our willing, but eventually, I did. money—it has an impact on the world Th at night I went over to the meeting, as well! found this preacher, called him over, A few years ago, at my church in wrapped that coat around his shoulders Little Rock, Ark., we took up an and said, “Th e Lord told me to tell you, offering of $10,000 and gave it to ‘Th is is a coat of love....’” the Little Rock Police Department. The next night that preacher came Sometime later, I heard that during back to me and said, “Brother Caldwell, a meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Larry when I got home last night, I asked the Lea had taken up an offering of Lord why you gave me this coat. I don’t $10,000 and given it to the mayor of need a coat. But the Lord told me that Anaheim. Do you have any idea what you needed to give it.” would happen in the United States “Th at’s right,” I answered. “I did.” if churches all over the land started “Well, the Lord told me to receive doing that? it and then to give it back to you,” he A worldwide revival has already said. Th en he laid his hands on me and begun. But the only way we’re going to prophesied, “Yes, indeed, this is a coat see the completion of it is if we make of love. And because you were willing to this last adjustment of worshiping give it, I’m giving it back.” God with our money. If we’ll do Listen, God wants us to be willing to that, we won’t have any problems in worship Him with everything we have. the Body of Christ ever again. And He wants us to be willing to give all. through us, God will make His Name Then He can bless it, multiply it and great throughout the earth. give it back to us. Have you ever read about how the Israelites gave toward the building of God’s Temple? King David gave more than $612 million of his personal wealth i to get it started. Th en the priests gave several hundred million dollars more. Happy Caldwell and his wife, Finally, they called the people together Jeanne, are and they gave too. founders of And when the Queen of Sheba Agape Church in came from the South and saw it all, Little Rock, Ark.

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happy.indd 19 5/14/20 10:58 AM Forever Grateful for Healing December 2018, I had a hysterectomy and had to TM go back to the doctor after four weeks. In my last week of recovery, I had a major Fear Out, Faith In setback and was in extreme pain. The pain medication I Multiplied I am a Partner with KCM, and had didn’t help. I remembered Benefi ts the prosperity broadcasts reading and meditating on I want to thank with George and Gloria have healing scriptures and realized the Lord and the prepared me to stand in a I had tried ghting this battle KCM prayer team on my own. I called KCM time of famine. Due to the and asked for prayer to have for praying for my COVID-19 virus, my employer husband to get someone stand in agreement benefi ts on his job cut back my hours so I was only with me for my healing. The lady who answered prayed of a little over two working two days a week. Right before this happened, however, the Lord opened up another with me, and not long years. He received after I received an email: his benefi ts of channel for income so the cutback did not aff ect me “Confession for Healing.” I did vacation, holiday at all! I thought back to the broadcasts where George that every day until I had no pay and personal and Gloria talked about Isaac reaping in a time of pain and knew I had made time as of Jan. famine. Having this Word inside me before the a full recovery. 1, 2020. He also chaos began helped me to keep fear out and faith in! received a raise. After eight weeks I was A.D. | Sarasota, Fla. able to exercise again and B.C. | Louisiana continue my journey. I thank God for my healing and all who prayed with me. I will be forever grateful. ‘I’ll Take That’ ‘God Had I was listening to the KCM broadcast Another Plan’ South Africa Thank you for your as I always do while getting ready for many prayers over work. Kenneth said someone was the phone. The A Quick Lord had already Answer to Prayer being healed of a sinus infection. delivered me I was scheduled to Well, I had just woken up with that from the human close on my fi rst home traf cking mob last December, but the and said, “I’ll take that.” Right then it when they decided they were going funding had not come was gone! Praise God. D.R. | Ohio to take my home through. So, I waited from me. God had through Christmas, not another plan for knowing where I would Blessed in Tithing me—not theirs! The live. When I called the We have been blessed so much Lord has answered KCM prayer line, the my prayer—I now young lady prayed with since tithing on our gross! We are have electricity and me and told me to be sure heat throughout to let you all know when living better in retirement than we most of my home. the Lord provided. On Jan. did when we worked! We’re able to At His hand, I now have what I call 17, 2020, I closed on my give offerings also, which is a great God’s warmth. home. Praise God for the blessing. It doesn’t add up on paper Thank you. KCM prayer line! but it’s real! S. and K.W. | Texas M.S. | North Carolina B.G. | Madison, Miss.

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gng.indd 21 5/14/20 11:16 AM thousand! But Brother Copeland followed the voice of the Holy Spirit and gave the plane away. About 11 days later, God brought a bigger airplane into the ministry—completely paid for—as well as the cash to pay for the television ministry. I was so impressed that I started thinking, What can I give away? But the truth is, I faced two problems. First, the Holy Spirit hadn’t led me to do what Brother Copeland did. Second, my faith wasn’t at a level to believe for an airplane. If I had tried to follow Brother Copeland’s example, I would have failed. I needed to increase my faith first. by Jerry Savelle How to Understand Your Measure The Bible is clear: Every Christian in the Body of Christ has been given the same amount of faith. Romans 12:3 puts it this way, “…according Increase as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” In the Greek, the word measure is the word metron, which means “a determined extent.” Let me illustrate that definition. Your Faith Imagine that I have a large pie that I want to share with every person reading this article. So no one misses out, I would give each person a “measure” of the pie. No one person would receive the whole thing. Instead, I would count how many people we needed pie for, then I would calculate how much of the pie each person would receive so that the portions would be equal. It’s the same with faith. “Faith God gives every believer the same measure of cometh by faith. The question then becomes, What are you HEARING, going to do with your measure? and hearing by the word Strength Fluctuates of God.” You, right now, have the same measure of faith YEARS AGO when I Romans 10:17 given to me and Brother Copeland and every worked for Brother other believer. But the strength of your measure Copeland, we had of faith can fluctuate. Now, of course, God After about three days, he told me, “I received “And you know what else I’m going to do?” gone to Alabama wants every Christian’s faith to grow, but that the wisdom of God I needed.” Brother Copeland continued. “I’m going to get to hold a meeting. growth depends on you. If you want your faith “You did?” I asked. it in tiptop shape before I do.” Every morning of to increase in strength, then you must follow “Yes, I know how we’re going to pay for this “How much will that cost?” I asked. the meeting, he and Romans 10:17, which says, “Faith cometh by television ministry. God just told me. I’m going “About $8,000.” I met at 5:30 to pray hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” You to give my airplane away.” “You’re going to add another $8,000 to what about the needs of must feed your faith every day with the Word. At the time, an airplane cost at least $30,000. is already worth $30,000 and then give it away?” KCM’s television People often try to live on the strength I’d never heard of anyone giving away $30,000 I was shocked. At the time, I was believing ministry. of the faith that got them through the past before. God for $38. I couldn’t imagine sowing $38 month, but your faith needs to be fed daily.

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jerry 3.indd 22 5/14/20 11:17 AM thousand! You need to look at your faith like a bank But Brother Copeland followed the voice of account and your heart as a treasury. When YOU the Holy Spirit and gave the plane away. About you go to the Word, faith cometh, making 11 days later, God brought a bigger airplane into deposits into your heart. Every time you use MUST the ministry—completely paid for—as well as your faith you’re making a withdrawal. If the cash to pay for the television ministry. you’re not careful, you can get to the point FEED I was so impressed that I started thinking, that you are making so many withdrawals What can I give away? that you are facing a defi cit. You’ve got more YOUR But the truth is, I faced two problems. First, demands on your faith than you’ve got Word the Holy Spirit hadn’t led me to do what Brother in your heart. Copeland did. Second, my faith wasn’t at a level Instead, you need to increase the strength of FAITH to believe for an airplane. If I had tried to follow your faith by depositing the Word into your Brother Copeland’s example, I would have failed. heart daily. EVERY I needed to increase my faith fi rst. If you need to believe God for your health, deposit the Word. DAY If you need to believe God for your fi nances, Understand Your Measure deposit the Word. WITH Th e Bible is clear: Every Christian in the Body If you need to believe God for your marriage, of Christ has been given the same amount of deposit the Word. THE faith. Romans 12:3 puts it this way, “…according Never let a defi cit exist in your faith bank as God hath dealt to every man the measure of account. faith.” In the Greek, the word measure is the word WORD. metron, which means “a determined extent.” Increasing Your Faith Let me illustrate that defi nition. Imagine that I have a large pie that I want to In 2 Corinthians 10:1 the Apostle Paul said, share with every person reading this article. So “Not boasting of things without our measure, that no one misses out, I would give each person a is, of other men’s labours but having hope, when “measure” of the pie. No one person would your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged receive the whole thing. Instead, I would count by you according to our rule abundantly.” how many people we needed pie for, then I would While Romans 12 said, “God hath dealt to calculate how much of the pie each person would every man te measure of faith,” this scripture, receive so that the portions would be equal. which was written to the Christians at Corinth, It’s the same with faith. says, “When your faith is increased....” Clearly, God gives every believer the same measure of the measure that God dealt to you can be faith. Th e question then becomes, What are you developed and strengthened. going to do with your measure? If you have te measure of faith residing in

Strength Fluctuates You, right now, have the same measure of faith given to me and Brother Copeland and every other believer. But the strength of your measure of faith can fl uctuate. Now, of course, God “And you know what else I’m going to do?” wants every Christian’s faith to grow, but that Watch Brother Copeland continued. “I’m going to get growth depends on you. If you want your faith it in tiptop shape before I do.” to increase in strength, then you must follow Jerry on “How much will that cost?” I asked. Romans 10:17, which says, “Faith cometh by TM “About $8,000.” hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” You .com “You’re going to add another $8,000 to what must feed your faith every day with the Word. is already worth $30,000 and then give it away?” People often try to live on the strength GOVICTORY I was shocked. At the time, I was believing Te of the faith that got them through the past annel A 4h God for $38. I couldn’t imagine sowing $38 month, but your faith needs to be fed daily.

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FAITH IN you (and you do)…and if you discover that “faith JESUS’ cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word” NAME (which you have)…and if you apply that law (which you can)—then while you’re meditating on God’s Word, God is imparting the faith in that hen you speak in Our two-year program, based on more than 50 years of Word into your heart. You already had a measure Jesus ae, all of of faith, but now it’s growing stronger. heaen will back what What happens to your original measure? you say, as if Jesus It matures. Whether it’s reading the Word on was personally present your own, joining in a corporate Bible study saying the words or immersing yourself in a Spirit-ﬁ lled, faith- Hiself. John 14:12-14 charged atmosphere like the Southwest Believers’ Convention, God is strengthening your faith. eter used the power of Of course, if your faith can increase, it can also Jesus ae to heal the decrease. Referring to people who hear God’s lae an at the eple Word, Jesus said, “For whosoever hath, to him gate. Acts 3:6 shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath” (Matthew 13:12). In other words, if you choose to hear God’s The healing Word, mature faith will come to you. If you choose not to hear God’s Word, even the measure didn’t happen you were dealt originally will diminish—not in Located on the grounds of Kenneth Copeland Ministries measure, but in strength. because Peter And if your faith isn’t developing, if you’re not listening to the Word, then you’ll be susceptible was an apostle to the words of the enemy—words which breed fear. And when fear is present, faith can’t ﬂ ourish. but because he had faith in The Word Is the Answer A lot of people have very little spiritual Jesus’ Name. strength because they won’t get into the Word Acts 3:16

living on since they got ﬁ lled with the Holy ecause you are one Ghost 20 years ago hasn’t grown. So how do spirit with Christ, the you increase your faith? We’ve already seen it ae of Jesus is your nae too. Eph. 3:14-15

shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; As you spend tie in he R and deelop Jerry aelle faith in Jesus ae, bolster our faith. is president and youll increasingly see Right now, wherever you’re reading this, take founder of Jerry aelle inistries nternational of salation. Ps. 91:14, 16 the measure of faith He has given to you as a and founder of born-again believer, and then say, “Father, I’m Heritage of aith going to take my measure and let it increase Christian Center. by the Word. I thank You that my measure is or inforation or inistry to do it. Begin studying the Word and applying aterials, isit Everything” it to your life so that your measure of faith can errysaelle.org 2 mature…and you can be ready for anything that magazine.kcm.org.za comes your way!

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by Gloria Copeland Growing Together in the Glory of God

Something She’s about to come into “the The Holy Spirit has the ability to reveal to astounding unity of the faith, and of the believers all over this planet the truth of God’s is about to happen knowledge of the Son of God, Word and bring us all into agreement with it. unto a perfect man, unto the He can cause every one of us to see the same to the Church of the measure of the stature of the thing in the Scriptures. He lives on the inside of Lord Jesus Christ. fulness of Christ” (Ephesians us as our own private Tutor, and He can make She’s about to grow 4:13). the Word of God so plain to us that, as we give up into what God That’s what the Word of God our attention to it, we think more and more like ordained for her to says, and you can count on it. It’s God thinks! be from the very coming to pass—soon! We’re in That’s really the bottom line, isn’t it? It doesn’t beginning. the last of the last days. The signs matter what we think. It doesn’t matter what are all around us. Jesus is coming! our denomination thinks. It matters what God He’s about to catch away the thinks. He’s not going to change His thoughts Church, and when He does we’re going to be to accommodate us and our denomination. He’s unified, glorified and ready to go. going to change our thoughts to align with His, Now, you might wonder, How are we so that when Jesus comes, He can present us going to get that way? With so many different to Himself the way Ephesians 5:27 describes denominations disagreeing and arguing with one us—as “a glorious church, not having spot, or another, how is the Church ever going to come wrinkle, or any such thing”! together? A glorious church isn’t just a wonderful church. By the Spirit of God. He’s the One who’s been It’s a church where the glory of God is manifested. sent to unite us, and even if it looks impossible It’s a church where God’s power flows so freely from a natural perspective, He is up to the job. that lives are transformed, crippled legs are made

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gloria 2.indd 26 5/14/20 12:53 PM “He’s the One who’s been sent to unite us, and even if it looks impossible from a natural perspective, He is up to the job.”

“He’s the One who’s been sent to unite us, and even if it looks impossible from a natural perspective, He is up to the job.”

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gloria 2.indd 27 5/14/20 12:53 PM We don’t have time anymore to sit around just remembering the great miracles and outpourings of the Spirit that happened in the past.

POINTS TO GET YOU THERE: 1 s ead strong, cancer disappears, and demonic spirits When we believe for healing to manifest in preachers preached because they thought that te d let te l leave people’s minds and bodies. our midst, healing manifests. When we believe was the sole purpose of the gospel. ey thought t eeal A glorious church is a church where God’s for people to be fi lled with the Holy Spirit, the plan of Redemption was only designed to ts meann t s an presence is revealed in signs and wonders and people are fi lled. When we believe we can do the keep people out of hell. tn me le visible demonstrations of miracle-working works of Jesus, we do them. But that’s not the plan God had throughout d tns power that people can see! e Church is heading toward the fi nish line the ages! He doesn’t just want to keep people out h 14: and we need to believe God for everything He’s of hell. His plan is to have a family. He wants promised! We don’t have time anymore to sit spiritual sons and daughters He can fellowship 2 What We Believe around just remembering the great miracles and with on His own level who will do His will on t Determines What Happens at t elee outpourings of the Spirit that happened in the earth as it’s done in heaven. He wants sons and ds we Truth be told, that’s the kind of church God past. We can’t be content to wait passively for the daughters who will walk in His BLESSING and and l t has always wanted. He started the Church on Church to be fi lled with God’s glory some day reign in this life just like He would if He were manest n le the Day of Pentecost with the outpouring of in the distant future. e hour is late. We need here in full manifestation. . 3:1 the Holy Spirit and signs, wonders and miracles; to rise up in boldness right now and declare, as and He made every provision for those things Jesus did in Luke 4:18-21: “ e Spirit of the to continue in full force. ey would have, too, if Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed Only One Restriction elee3 and it had all been up to God. But it’s not just up to me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath at’s been God’s will from the very beginning. delae tat Him. It’s also up to us. sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach It’s what He had in His heart when He created tda s te da ds What happens in the Church is what the deliverance to the captives, and recovering Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden. As male Church believes for! of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that Genesis 1:27-28 says, “God created man in his wn we 4:1 are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of own image, in the image of God created he “He wants sons and the Lord…. is day is this scripture fulfi lled him; male and female created he them. And in your ears.” God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be et4 t d te dauhters who will ose are exciting words, aren’t they? Yet fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, ws ess when Jesus fi rst said them in Nazareth, people and subdue it: and have dominion….” st as e sad walk in His got off ended. ey weren’t ready to believe for By making Adam in His image, God made wld h 14:1 and rein in this life.” Scripture to be fulfi lled in their day. “We believe Adam as much like Himself as it was possible for God moved in the past,” they said. “We believe Adam to be. He clothed him in divine glory and He’ll move in the future. But we’re not going to breathed into his spirit His own zoe, eternal life. ae5 t start expecting Him to do supernatural things Adam looked like God, inside and out. He had se right now!” the same power in his spirit that God had. He ee da t For many years, the contemporary Church took had authority on earth just as God had authority dest te dels ws the same attitude. Preachers and congregations in heaven. God gave him dominion and put the and mnste alike relegated the fulfi llment of God’s plan to rulership of earth into his hands. le t ele another generation or a diff erent dispensation. e only restriction God put on Adam was eewee But in recent years a wonderful change has been this: “Of the tree of the knowledge of good 1 . 3: taking place. More and more believers have and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day started expecting the Scripture to be fulfi lled in that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” our day. We’ve started expecting God to move (Genesis 2:17). Even after giving him that among us now and change us into the image of command, however, God let Adam choose. He Jesus, “from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit let him decide whether or not he would obey. of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18)! God didn’t force Adam to do anything because Why did it take so long for the Church as a He didn’t want him to be a slave. He wanted him whole to expect this? to be a son. He wanted him to serve God of his One reason is because, for a long time, people own free will and to only know good and never didn’t know anything about it. All they’d been know evil. But Adam made the wrong choice. taught was that if they believed on Jesus they’d He sinned. He disobeyed God, bowed his knee go to heaven when they died. For years, that’s all to the devil, and opened the door to spiritual

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When we believe for healing to manifest in preachers preached because they thought that It doesn’t our midst, healing manifests. When we believe was the sole purpose of the gospel. They thought for people to be filled with the Holy Spirit, the plan of Redemption was only designed to people are filled. When we believe we can do the keep people out of hell. works of Jesus, we do them. But that’s not the plan God had throughout matter The Church is heading toward the finish line the ages! He doesn’t just want to keep people out and we need to believe God for everything He’s of hell. His plan is to have a family. He wants promised! We don’t have time anymore to sit spiritual sons and daughters He can fellowship what our around just remembering the great miracles and with on His own level who will do His will on outpourings of the Spirit that happened in the earth as it’s done in heaven. He wants sons and past. We can’t be content to wait passively for the daughters who will walk in His BLESSING and Church to be filled with God’s glory some day reign in this life just like He would if He were denomination in the distant future. The hour is late. We need here in full manifestation. to rise up in boldness right now and declare, as Jesus did in Luke 4:18-21: “The Spirit of the Only One Restriction thinks. It Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath That’s been God’s will from the very beginning. sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach It’s what He had in His heart when He created deliverance to the captives, and recovering Adam and put him in the Garden of Eden. As matters what of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that Genesis 1:27-28 says, “God created man in his are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of own image, in the image of God created he the Lord…. This day is this scripture fulfilled him; male and female created he them. And God thinks. in your ears.” God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be Those are exciting words, aren’t they? Yet fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, when Jesus first said them in Nazareth, people and subdue it: and have dominion….” got offended. They weren’t ready to believe for By making Adam in His image, God made Scripture to be fulfilled in their day. “We believe Adam as much like Himself as it was possible for God moved in the past,” they said. “We believe Adam to be. He clothed him in divine glory and death. He lost THE BLESSING and the glory of He’ll move in the future. But we’re not going to breathed into his spirit His own zoe, eternal life. God, brought the curse upon all mankind, and let start expecting Him to do supernatural things Adam looked like God, inside and out. He had the devil steal God’s family. right now!” the same power in his spirit that God had. He How did God respond? He immediately went For many years, the contemporary Church took had authority on earth just as God had authority to work to get His family back! Right there in the the same attitude. Preachers and congregations in heaven. God gave him dominion and put the Garden of Eden He said to the serpent, the devil, alike relegated the fulfillment of God’s plan to rulership of earth into his hands. who had tempted Eve, “Because you have done this, another generation or a different dispensation. The only restriction God put on Adam was you are cursed…. And I will put enmity between But in recent years a wonderful change has been this: “Of the tree of the knowledge of good you and the woman, and between your seed and taking place. More and more believers have and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall started expecting the Scripture to be fulfilled in that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:14-15, New King James our day. We’ve started expecting God to move (Genesis 2:17). Even after giving him that Version). among us now and change us into the image of command, however, God let Adam choose. He From that moment, God began working toward Jesus, “from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit let him decide whether or not he would obey. the day when He could once again have sons and of the Lord” (2 Corinthians 3:18)! God didn’t force Adam to do anything because daughters on earth who were made in His image Why did it take so long for the Church as a He didn’t want him to be a slave. He wanted him and filled with His glory. That was His plan. It whole to expect this? to be a son. He wanted him to serve God of his was His will, and because He never changes, even One reason is because, for a long time, people own free will and to only know good and never though it would cost Him a dear price, He intended didn’t know anything about it. All they’d been know evil. But Adam made the wrong choice. to see it come to pass. taught was that if they believed on Jesus they’d He sinned. He disobeyed God, bowed his knee I’m telling you—the patience of God is go to heaven when they died. For years, that’s all to the devil, and opened the door to spiritual something to behold! For thousands of years He

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THE GOOD SHEPHERD KNOWS MY NAME

Superkid, YOU are strong! YOU are ﬁ lled with Jesus and YOU

are going to WIN! How do I know that? Because your Savior, matter to him” (verses 11-13). Jesus, has already won the fi ght for you! He has a victory plan Someone who is paid to care for the sheep will for you and if you stick with Him and let Him lead you, He not give his life for them. If he sees a wolf coming, promises you’ll win! he will leave the sheep BECAUSE THE SHEEP ARE NOT HIS. This is NOT how Jesus looks at us! told this simple story, but they had no idea what Satan has attacked the he was talking about. So he tried again. ‘I’ll “I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep whole world with a virus that has affected many be explicit, then. I am the Gate for the sheep. and my own sheep know me. In the same way, people. Never before have people all over the All those others are up to no good—sheep the Father knows me and I know the Father. I world changed their way of life: staying home stealers, every one of them. But the sheep put the sheep before myself, sacrifi cing myself if from school, work, shopping, playing and being didn’t listen to them. I am the Gate. Anyone necessary” (verses 14-15). around other people. It can be scary when who goes through me will be cared for—will panic has gripped the media, government freely go in and out, and nd pasture.’” 2 leaders and perhaps those around you. Hurts It WAS necessary for Him to range from the loss of a loved one to the loss of give His life for us, His sheep. When He died on the normal, everyday life. and sheep will only follow their Cross, He gave His life to free us from sin, and at shepherd’s voice. Superkid, Jesus Himself said the same time, He paid for us to be free from ALL You may have lost part of your school year, time that sheep know their shepherd’s voice. He sickness and disease! First Peter 2:21-25 says: with friends, your birthday party or vacation knows His sheep by name and He takes care plans. Whatever loss or change you have of them, safely leading them out to pasture and “This is the kind of life you’ve been invited into, experienced, Jesus is right there with you, even back home. Sheep follow only their shepherd! the kind of life Christ lived. He suffered everything if you feel like He doesn’t care. Satan would But there is a stranger who wants to lead the that came his way so you would know that it love for you to believe that you can’t count on sheep into trouble. could be done, and also know how to do it, Jesus in times of trouble. But Satan is a liar! step-by-step. He never did one thing wrong, not “A thief is only there to steal and kill and once said anything amiss. They called him every Let Him destroy” (verse 10). Satan is the thief—the name in the book and he said nothing back. He strengthen you in the truth. When struggles and enemy of the Shepherd and the sheep! suffered in silence, content to let God set things hardships come, we choose what we believe. right. He used his servant body to carry our sins Some people choose to believe that God brings “I came so they can have real and eternal life, to the Cross so we could be rid of sin, free to live sickness, death and loss. That is what Satan more and better life than they ever dreamed of” the right way. His wounds became your healing. wants us to think! (verse 10). You were lost sheep with no idea who you were or where you were going. Now you’re named and Jesus tells the story of the Good Shepherd in Jesus is letting you know what kept for good by the Shepherd of your souls.” John 10:1-9, The Message. He is clear about His whole life is about in these who is for you and who the enemy is! scriptures. Not only is He NOT the one who is trying to hurt until it really sinks into your heart that “‘Let me set this before you as you, He came to take care of you can count on Jesus. He is here to defend you, plainly as I can. you! He came to PROTECT heal you and take care of you. Jesus, your Savior, is If a person climbs over or you from here to give you the BEST life! Your enemy, Satan, through the fence of a sheep the enemy! comes ONLY to STEAL, KILL and DESTROY. pen instead of going through Whenever someone says that God is making the gate, you “I am the Good people sick, don’t listen. know he’s up Shepherd. The Good to no good— Shepherd puts the a sheep rustler! sheep before himself, The shepherd sacrifi ces himself if walks right up to the necessary. A hired gate. The gatekeeper man is not a real opens the gate to him shepherd. The sheep and the sheep recognize mean nothing to his voice. He calls his own him. He sees a sheep by name and leads them wolf come and out. When he gets them all out, he runs for it, leaving leads them and they follow because the sheep to be they are familiar with his voice. They ravaged and won’t follow a stranger’s voice but scattered by the will scatter because they aren’t wolf. He’s only in it for the used to the sound of it.’ Jesus money. The sheep don’t Commander Kellie

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