FEB 2018 KENNETH COPELAND ® MINISTRIES

Hannah P. 10 Minor struggled to stay in faith after suffering three miscarriages in four years. Then she saw her faith renewed when, while attending a Southwest Believers’ Convention, Kenneth Copeland called her out and said that a fourth pregnancy would produce a healthy child. Ten months later, Hannah gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Terry Minor III.

CHILDby Melanie OF Hemry PROMISE by Kenneth Copeland FAITH WON’T WORK IN AN UNFORGIVING HEART WHEN MY GRANDSON MAX WAS A YOUNG BOY, HE DID SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL. ALL ON HIS OWN, HE WENT TO THE KITCHEN, FOUND THE WOODEN SPOON HIS PARENTS SOMETIMES USED TO DISCIPLINE HIM, AND TOOK IT TO HIS MOTHER.

Confessing to her that at such a young age that he’d repeatedly disobeyed submitting to discipline is her in a certain area, he better than staying stuck in said, “Mama, I know disobedience; that getting that’s wrong, but I’ve been corrected (even if it stings doing it anyway, so I need a a little) is better than spanking.” allowing yourself to be Max is the only child overtaken by sin. I’ve ever known who’s done That’s not an easy lesson that! He’s the only person to learn. Many people live I know who figured out their whole lives and never “EVEN WHILE YOU’RE NOT AWARE OF IT, POINTS THAT UNFORGIVENESS IS WORKING IN TO GET YOU. IT’S MAKING YOU SPIRITUALLY SICK.” YOU learn it, and those who do often curse! Faith is what continually walking in love isn’t just a THERE: tend to forget it—including delivers you from the effects of suggestion. It’s a spiritual those of us who are relatively that curse and all the ugly things law. It’s our New Covenant Protect your faith. mature believers. that are included in it. commandment, and obeying it Forgive everyone of If we don’t watch ourselves, That’s one reason you don’t is a very serious matter. everything. Walk in love all the time and FAITH we can forget how important it want to get sloppy when it comes How serious? Read be BLESSED! Here is to seek out correction from to dealing with sin. Sin will Deuteronomy 28 and you’ll see. are some points to our heavenly Father. We can stop your faith from working. There, God told the Israelites after get you there: become so casual in our attitude Why? Because “faith…worketh giving them His Old Covenant toward His commands that, by love” (Galatians 5:6), and sin commandments that their 1 WON’T God has instead of going to Him for help always violates the law of love. obedience or disobedience would when we break them, we act as if As the Scripture says: mean the difference between a commanded us, as New Testament disobeying Him is no big deal. BLESSED life and a cursed life. believers, to walk in I’m telling you right now, For all the law is fulfilled in one He said: love. WORK that’s a dangerous attitude! word, even in this: “You shall Galatians 5:14 Disobeying The LORD is love your neighbor as yourself It shall come to pass, if thou always a big deal. Breaking (Galatians 5:14, New King James shalt hearken diligently unto 2 IN AN His commands is sin, and sin is Version). the voice of the Lord thy When you keep deadly. Sin will open the door to God, to observe and to do all that commandment, the devil to come into your life For this, Thou shalt not commit his commandments which I your faith flourishes, and you can believe to steal, kill and destroy. Sin will adultery, Thou shalt not kill, command thee this day…all and receive the stop you from walking in THE Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt these blessings shall come on manifestation of UNFORGIVING BLESSING of God and cause not bear false witness, Thou thee, and overtake thee…. It THE BLESSING you to fall prey to the curse. shalt not covet; and if there be shall come to pass, if thou wilt in your life. “But Brother Copeland,” you any other commandment, it is not hearken unto the voice of Deuteronomy 28:2 might say, “I’m a believer. Doesn’t briefly comprehended in this the Lord thy God, to observe to HEART the Bible say I’ve been redeemed saying, namely, Thou shalt love do all his commandments and 3 from the curse?” thy neighbour as thyself. Love his statutes which I command When you break Yes, it does. In Galatians 3:13 worketh no ill to his neighbour: thee this day; that all these the commandment it says that “Christ hath redeemed therefore love is the fulfilling of curses shall come upon thee, of love through unforgiveness, your us from the curse of the law, the law (Romans 13:9-10). and overtake thee (verses 1-2, faith falters, and being made a curse for us.” It 15). Not a Suggestion, but a Law you become also goes on to say this: “That the vulnerable to blessing of Abraham might come This is something we, as Those words still apply to us the curse. on [us] through Jesus Christ; that believers, need to understand if as God’s people today. Even Deuteronomy 28:15 we might receive the promise we want to walk in the fullness though we’re living under of the Spirit through faith” of THE BLESSING: For us, a new and better covenant, 4 (verse 14). we, like the Israelites, have a This is why Those two verses together put commandment to keep. If we Jesus connected a very high value on faith! obey it and walk in love, faith forgiveness with the They say it’s “through faith” can flourish in our hearts and prayer of faith. Mark 11:25 that you receive redemption and the promise of the Spirit. It’s THAT’S ONE REASON YOU DON’T WANT TO GET through faith you connect with SLOPPY WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING WITH SIN. 5 THE BLESSING of Abraham Get rid of the poison and experience its benefits in of unforgiveness, SIN WILL STOP YOUR and keep your faith every area of your life. strong by feeding In other words, faith is what’s FAITH FROM WORKING. it with The WORD standing between you and the of God. Romans 10:17

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Would you say, “I Broadcasts enjoy eating that and I have no desire to give it up”? No, that would be foolish! If you believed the doctor’s diagnosis was correct, you’d obey his instruction. You would immediately stop eating the thing that was killing you, and you’d start eating things that would help restore 1971 your heart and make you healthy again. Spiritually, you want to operate with that same kind of wisdom because your spirit functions much like your body. When you feed it on The WORD of God, it takes The WORD and turns it into the faith you need to walk in THE BLESSING. When you feed on healing scriptures, for instance, your spirit produces faith for healing. When you feed on prosperity scriptures, it produces faith for prosperity. When you indulge in unforgiveness, however, your faith becomes contaminated. Your spirit gets weak and your soul suffers damage because you’re not spiritually designed to operate in unforgiveness. You’re designed by God to operate in love. Get Rid of It All I’ve learned from experience, if you’ll ask God to correct you where your love walk is concerned, He’ll not only help you deal with the obvious areas of unforgiveness in your life, He’ll start cleaning out the corners. He’ll help you get rid of unforgiveness you didn’t even know you had. He did that very thing for me one day not long ago while I was in the middle of watching a Civil War documentary £ on television! As a big fan of history, I’d really been enjoying the program until it got to the part about General Tecumseh 18 Sherman. The moment his face came up In this 50th anniversary commemorative on the screen the first thing I thought word of faith 1971 DVD series, Kenneth about was his famous saying, “The only 5 DVD set good Indian is a dead Indian.” reg. £29 Copeland shares the fundamentals of faith Because of my Indian heritage #72-0270 in this never-before-released footage. 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What’s more, The LORD began to Let’s be We must learn to by the Holy Spirit stand up in the power revealing it to you. talk to me about him. He told me some honest. of prayer and take things that helped me. Things I needed Every one of dominion, bringing the Once you receive a to understand. us has prayed will of God to pass on revelation of God’s This is very, very important! prayers we earth as it is in heaven. will, take hold of it You may have something against a felt weren’t in faith. The Spirit city. You may be mad at San Francisco answered. We’ve “I’m supposed to take actually takes hold with because it’s so liberal. You may have known people dominion?” you ask. you, strengthens you something against certain politicians. who prayed... and helps you pray If so, you’d better go before God and and prayed... Yes, you were destined “according to the will of deal with those issues. You’d better and prayed, and designed by God God” (Romans 8:27). but nothing to be a ruler on this forgive San Francisco. Forgive those happened. earth, not a victim Now, refuse to let go politicians if they’re a problem for you. of circumstance. If until this natural world “Well, I just don’t like those people!” you’re born again, submits to spiritual You don’t even know them! You Those prayers didn’t you have dominion truth and God’s will may not like their politics, and that’s make tremendous, through Jesus Christ. is carried out in that fine. You’re not required to like their dynamic power Circumstances must situation. That’s when politics. But if you want to walk in the available. Somehow bow the knee when you you’ll discover firsthand fullness of THE BLESSING, you’d they missed the mark. pray—but only if you that your prayers really better do something about the hatred pray accurately. are powerful. You you have toward them as individuals. We can’t afford to might say that through miss the mark in To pray accurately, prayer, you are to be “But I don’t really hate them!” you prayer because prayer first find the will of the executor of God’s might say. is what makes God’s God in a situation. will on the earth! If you haven’t forgiven them, you do. power available to First John 5:14-15 “Well, now you’re just being hard on us. We desperately says, “If we ask any me.” need the power thing according to his No, I’m just telling you the truth. of God released will, he heareth us: i Terri Copeland Pearsons is Unforgiveness in any form is a step out in mighty ways to And if we know that the chief of staff for Kenneth of love and into hatred, and it will open bring salvation, he hear us…we have Copeland Ministries. The eldest daughter of Kenneth Copeland, she the door to destruction in your life. It deliverance, healing the petitions that we and her husband, George Pearsons, will cost you more than you want to and restoration into desired of him.” You also serve as senior pastors of our lives, our families, can know God’s will Eagle Mountain International pay, and it’s not worth it! Church at KCM in Fort Worth. For Sometime, in the middle of the our government and through His Word—His information or ministry materials go our world. written will and also to terricopelandpearsons.com. night, you’re going to be hit with a situation where you need your faith. Something will happen that turns you absolutely upside down, and you’ll need to respond instantly by believing God March 9-10 / Sacramento and speaking faith-filled words. You won’t be ready to do that if you’ve been harboring unforgiveness. You’ll be too spiritually weak. Because of the spiritual poison in your system, your faith will fail you just when you need it most. 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CHILD OF PROMISE

She was sure it had her husband the folic acid and baby aspirin. As the HANNAH Terry’s smile, and his chocolate brown plane landed, she felt triumphant, sure eyes. Who knew, maybe this little that this time she would hold their baby MINOR one would grow up to be a Christian in her arms. STARED OUT rapper, just like his father. The next day, during a training THE WINDOW She sighed, leaning back in her seat. meeting, Hannah felt the familiar ON HER FLIGHT Maybe she was getting a little ahead symptoms of miscarriage. Slipping out TO FLORIDA. SHE of herself. After all, she had just found of the room, she called her husband, DIDN’T NOTICE out she was pregnant that morning who prayed for her and their child. before catching the flight to Florida Her next call was to her doctor. THE CLOUDS, for business. Her thoughts drifted “Fly home,” he said. “You need to THE BRILLIANT back to the first time she’d been be off your feet.” BLUE SKY OR THE pregnant two years earlier, in 2013. Hannah flew home and, as the doctor HINT OF OCEAN Early in the pregnancy, she’d started had instructed, put her feet up. A week having symptoms of a miscarriage. later, she miscarried. GLEAMING IN Her doctor told her to go home and THE DISTANCE. put her feet up. She’d done just that, Dark Days INSTEAD, SHE but a week later, she lost the baby. “That was one of the darkest times of PICTURED IMAGES The following year, in 2014, she my life,” Hannah explains. “Losing one OF THE CHILD IN had become pregnant again. This baby had been hard. Losing a second time, the doctor put her on folic acid had been devastating. Losing our third HER WOMB. supplements and one baby aspirin a child threatened to overwhelm me. The day. They seemed to help, and things miscarriages were bad enough, but it went well at first. Then, at eight weeks, seemed like we were taking hits from she miscarried again. every direction. Terry was working The loss had left her bereft. hard to get his music ministry off the This morning, as soon as Hannah ground and we were living in a poverty realized she was pregnant, she had taken situation.

8 : BVOV “Instead of becoming angry, I chose to let the situation push me even closer to God.”

“We’d lived with Terry’s parents and thought the battle was won. since we married. We loved being with “Then, when I was 3, I was them, but we both slept on a broken diagnosed with leukemia. There was futon in a room the size of a closet. a battle for my life, and the devil tried When Terry’s dad saw how we were to steal it. I was cured when I was 9 sleeping, he wept. years old. Now I was an adult and I’d “I was a cancer survivor, and it didn’t lost three children. I knew I was at seem right for things to be so hard a crossroads. I couldn’t imagine why now. When my mother was pregnant this was happening, but I somehow with me, the Lord told my dad that knew that God loved us. Instead the devil was going to try and take me of becoming angry, I chose to let out. Knowing that there would be a the situation push me even closer battle for my life, my parents decided to to God.” pray like Hannah did for her child. If I was a boy, they were going to name me Plans for the Promise Samuel. If a girl, I would be Hannah. Hannah and her mother wondered They prayed, and when I was born if her childhood battle with leukemia healthy and whole, they were relieved might have anything to do with her

9 : BVOV “GROWING UP, OUR HOUSE WAS problems carrying a baby to term. To FILLED WITH ministry in Hannah. She noticed that find out, she made an appointment with young girls were asking makeup artists [THE COPELANDS’] ® a genetic counselor. He was rude and BOOKS, TAPES, CDS on YouTube for life advice about how haughty, Hannah recalled. A waste of AND MAGAZINES. to handle depression and anxiety. A time. I KNEW FROM AN makeup artist herself, Hannah developed Afterward, Hannah made an her own YouTube channel, posting appointment with a hematologist. Taking EARLY AGE THAT fashion, makeup and ministry videos. her problems and questions to heart, he GOD’S WORD DOES In addition, she wrote two devotionals ordered a battery of blood tests. NOT RETURN VOID.” for women. “Oh, Hannah,” he said, “I wish you’d come sooner. Your body has a clotting A Sudden Shift problem. Blood clots are cutting off During that time, in mid-2015, the blood supply to your babies. A something began happening to Terry. He baby aspirin isn’t strong enough to stop developed a voracious appetite for God’s the condition. The next time you get Word. He couldn’t get enough of it, often pregnant, let me know and I’ll prescribe staying up studying late at night. injectable blood thinners.” On the evening of March 3, 2016, The next step in Hannah’s plan to Terry and his father watched the TV carry a baby to term was to leave her show Duck Dynasty together. Afterward, OB group and find a different doctor. A The single “Favor Flow” is Terry Sr. went to bed while his son new female doctor in the group told her: Terry’s newest release. stayed up studying his Bible. At some “Hannah, I had the same problem you point, Terry dozed off. He roused do. I want to be your doctor. Give me a around 1:30 in the morning as his dad chance, and I’ll walk you through this.” later I had a dream. I was standing on walked by his office, stopped and smiled Now Hannah felt better. She had a dark stage. I had a microphone in my at his son. a plan. hand, and each time I said something, “You still putting it in?” he asked. That was one of her strengths. She a light flickered on and I saw more and “Yeah,” Terry Jr. said before opening liked to plan and organize and get more people until the crowd was massive. his Bible again. things going. As it happened, Terry Then I heard these words, You’ve got a Neither knew that would be the last needed those strengths in his life. But voice. Use it. conversation they would share together Terry and his family had something “I woke knowing I was called to music. on this side of heaven. Hannah didn’t. In the back of my mind, I thought that “Dad died that night,” Terry recalls. They knew how to live by faith. when I was too old to sing, God might “It was sudden and devastating to us call me to preach.” all. Dad was the king of the house. He Life of Faith When Terry Minor Sr. realized his was our hero and leader. None of us “My dad, Terry Minor Sr., was a big son was called to a music ministry, he could imagine what life would be like man, both physically and spiritually,” took him to a store that sold the best without him. Although I didn’t admit Terry says. “He was pastor of New Life music equipment. “Make a list of what it at the time, I knew in my spirit Fellowship Church in Knoxville, Tenn. you want,” he said. “I’ll pray with you, when he passed, that I was supposed The year before I was born, he discovered and you believe you receive it.” to take over as pastor of the church. I the Word of Faith. Dad became friends Within a year, God had provided couldn’t imagine filling his shoes or with Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, the money needed to purchase that taking his place. I told the Lord right spending time in their home. equipment. away that I needed a spiritual father. “Growing up, our house was filled “In 2008, the Lord told me, Jesus is “My life changed overnight. Now I with their books, tapes, CDs and your booking agent,” Terry remembers. “I understood what God had been preparing magazines. I knew from an early age began writing music, recording it and me for all those nights in the Bible. I had that God’s Word does not return void. posting it online. Then I’d pray. People to get the Word in me to handle what “Before going into the ministry, Dad saw my posts and booked concerts. was coming. In addition to my concerts, played football for the NFL. I always Signs, miracles and wonders followed I found myself preaching on Sunday and assumed I’d follow him to the NFL, but at my concerts. God was blessing my Wednesday, and hosting a prayer group when I got to college to play football, I music ministry, but I knew we needed to on Tuesday. Meanwhile, I prayed that knew it wasn’t where I was supposed to take a stand on God’s Word regarding Brother Copeland would ordain me.” be. I dropped out and told my dad that our children. We stood on Psalm 91:11, I didn’t know what to do with my life. I Isaiah 53:5 and Isaiah 54:17.” One Word From God wanted God’s will. While Terry pursued his music career, Four months later, in July 2016, Terry “Dad prayed with me and a few weeks the Lord began cultivating a women’s and Hannah attended the Southwest

BVOV : 10 Believers’ Convention. They were give His angels charge over you, READ THROUGH sitting in the service when the Lord to keep you in all your ways’ (New FEB THE BIBLE spoke to Terry. He’s going to call you King James Version). I confessed Old New down and ordain you here. Tell Hannah. Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV), ‘But He was Testament Testament Terry leaned over and said, “It’s wounded for our transgressions, Thu 1 Ex. 23-24 Matt. 24 about to happen!” Hannah turned to He was bruised for our iniquities; Fri 2 Ex. 25-27 Matt. 25 him with a blinding smile. “Oh, OK.” the chastisement for our peace was Sat 3 Ex. 28 A little while later, Kenneth upon Him, and by His stripes we Copeland called Terry to the front. are healed.’ I declared Isaiah 54:17 Holding his hands, he introduced him (NKJV), ‘No weapon formed against Sun 4 Ps. 18; Prov. 3:19-35 saying, “This is my son, Terry Minor you shall prosper, and every tongue Jr.” He ordained Terry and said, “Take which rises against you in judgement Mon 5 Ex. 29 Matt. 26 your place and rejoice, for the time you you shall condemn.’ Tue 6 Ex. 30-32 Matt. 27 longed for has come to pass.” “The more the symptoms progressed, Wed 7 Ex. 33-34 Matt. 28 Then he called Hannah forward. the more I pressed in to the Word of Thu 8 Ex. 35-37 Mark 1 “As soon as he grabbed my hand, I felt God. I continued to bleed for two Fri 9 Ex. 38-40 Mark 2 the power of the Holy Spirit going up months. During that time, we didn’t tell Sat 10 Lev. 1-4 through my arm,” Hannah remembers. people. I just stayed home. After two “I grew up Baptist. I learned about the months, I went a week without bleeding. Sun 11 Ps. 19-21; love and compassion of God. But I’d The doctor released me to go back to Prov. 4:1-19 never experienced the heat that shot up work a few days a week. Mon 12 Lev. 5-7 Mark 3 my arm.” “Fear tried to creep back as I drove Tue 13 Lev. 8-9 Mark 4 Then Brother Copeland grabbed to work thinking of how long I’d be Hannah’s belly and said, “By this on my feet. I determined to take my Wed 14 Lev. 10-12 Mark 5 time next year, you will have a healthy thoughts captive and stay in a mindset Thu 15 Lev. 13 Mark 6 baby!” of faith. I refused to let my thoughts Fri 16 Lev. 14 Mark 7 “I knew I was healed,” Hannah says. be about fear. Six months into the Sat 17 Lev. 15-16 “I knew that this time it would be pregnancy, I finally relaxed.” easy.” On May 26, 2017, Hannah gave Sun 18 Ps. 22-24; True to God’s word, Hannah got birth to a healthy baby boy. They Prov. 4:20-5:14 pregnant again. As soon as she did, she named him Terry Minor III. Mon 19 Lev. 17-18 Mark 8 went to the hematologist’s office to pick Today, while delighting in her role Tue 20 Lev. 19-20 Mark 9 up the injectable blood thinners. By the as a mother, Hannah also livestreams Wed 21 Lev. 21-22 Mark 10 time she got home, she was bleeding. on Facebook two to three times “Terry,” she said, “I’m kind of a week on topics such as fashion, Thu 22 Lev. 23-24 Mark 11 in unbelief. I’m having signs of makeup and ministry. Her women’s Fri 23 Lev. 25 Mark 12 miscarriage.” devotionals are being used to minister Sat 24 Lev. 26-27 Terry sat her on the couch. to women working in strip clubs and “Look,” he said, “we’re going to brothels, and those being rescued Sun 25 Ps. 25-27; stand for this baby. We won’t give place from sex trafficking. Prov. 5:15-23 to fear, doubt or unbelief. We will see “Although my dad didn’t live long Mon 26 Num. 1 Mark 13 this child in nine months.” enough to see my son,” Terry says, “he Tue 27 Num. 2 Mark 14 Hannah forced herself to ignore prayed for us and was believing with us Wed 28 Num. 3 Mark 15 the bleeding and focus on God’s for this child. Word. She tuned in to Gloria’s “Being Partners with KCM means Healing School. She spoke the more now than ever. It’s one thing Word of God and prayed over her to partner with Netflix. People do JOIN TERRY, HANNAH medication. that without a second thought. But I want to partner with God’s work. & THE REST OF Partnering With God They prayed for us when my dad died. OUR HOLY GHOST “By now we were living in a They prayed for us about our child. GANG OF BELIEVERS. townhouse,” Hannah explains. They prayed for us…today. And for all “Every time I saw blood, I loudly they do in God’s kingdom, we enjoy PARTNER WITH shouted God’s Word, not caring the benefits. I got a spiritual father. KCM TODAY! what our neighbors thought. I Hannah and I received our child of KCM.ORG/PARTNERNOW confessed Psalm 91:11, ‘For He shall promise.” +44 (0) 1225 787310

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‘MARKED SAFE’ Last month my daughter grown through your ministry BVOV IN GERMAN went to Peru on holiday and thank the Lord for it. It is NO DISTANCE In 1988, there was for a month. Every day I’ve a joy to know we are actually IN THE SPIRIT a great earthquake been praying the “marked part of this ministry. I can’t I am a Partner and was safe” prayer by Pastor thank you enough for all your in Armenia, where watching the Southwest George Pearsons, and teachings and your monthly I’m from. I was in Believers’ Convention during her holiday she told magazine. I share them with ® Germany and heard me that all of the people people in hospitals and a on Dish Network. On of the disaster on she was traveling with got nursing home. Saturday night, something the news. It was a food poisoning except her. extraordinary happened. great misfortune for I praise the Lord for His P.C. | Queensland, Australia It was such a worshipful the whole Armenian protection and for looking service that night, and people, and of course after her. Thank you for your Kenneth said the glory was for my family and continuous prayer for my there. I definitely felt the myself. When I family and myself. I have presence when suddenly, as heard about it I was I was sitting in my chair, I horrified and said Watch the service. felt a tremendous spirit of emic.org/markedsafe loudly with a full peace envelope my whole heart, “There is no body, and I could not move God! If there were, and couldn’t even sense my my people would not body. Right after that, I suffer so much.” felt something start at my Read the article feet and slowly wrap me up "Marked Safe" in our Over time, I became Dec. 2016 digital issue. from my toes upward, as a Christian. In 2001, Kept Safe During magazine.kcm.org if I were being wrapped in I met [ministers] Hurricane Harvey this wonderful cocoon. I from the U.S. who I want to give thanks straight, and when they knew the glory was coming were praying for to our Lord for keeping released water from the right out of the TV and healing—then I was us safe throughout the dams! All around our town enveloping my whole healed. They gave me flooding in Houston. We 3,000 homes were flooded... being. I know how Pastor the German-language live in Friendswood, Texas. some completely. There George was declaring the BVOV magazine to The first night, the water is so much devastation glory over every service read. I immediately levels came up to our here, but praise God, He and seeing it in his own recognized the face of doorstep until we spoke is so good! He never fails church, but I had to tell Kenneth Copeland. against it, commanding and He is always faithful to you this because that same the water to recede, that perform His Word! Thank glory was transferred I liked the magazine it wasn’t allowed on our you so much, Kenneth and very much. There were properties—neither homes Gloria, and George and Terri through the airwaves to biblical explanations nor vehicles. We stood on Pearsons, for your love for my living room! I have from him and his wife, Psalm 91 and Psalm 103. the Lord and for His people. never experienced anything Gloria. Since then, I We also spoke the same We have grown so much like it. I had joined with have told other believers words of protection over in our faith and in so many everyone in that reverent in my city about the our entire neighborhood. aspects of the Kingdom! We worship, and I was blessed magazine and shared it Every day since then, the are so grateful for the free to be a recipient of the with them. water levels have not come resources and your love! glory, just as if I were in any farther than the first Thank you all again! the auditorium. What S.A. | Germany line to our driveway—even blesses me so much is that when it rained 24 hours R.S. | Friendswood, Texas I wanted to attend this year,

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Free standard UK shipping +44 (0) 1225 787310 included. Offer price valid kcm.org.uk/mag until Feb 28, 2018 small the church’s drummer had to sit on the ground beside it. Nonetheless, I was so excited to have the opportunity to preach that I preached as hard as I could— everything from Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, Oral Roberts and T.L. Osborn all rolled together. As I ran back and forth across that platform, fired up, I stepped too close to the edge and fell off the stage—right into the bass drum. Can you imagine? There I was, the preacher, my bottom in the bass drum and my arms and legs sticking out! Everyone in the audience stood wide-eyed, looking to see where I had gone. “Lord, what do I do?” Get up quick, He said. Do a Micah 7:8: When I fall, I shall arise. Don’t even mention the fall. Just get up, take up right where you left off, and act like this is the way you preach all the time. I did just as He said. I didn’t quit. I got up, stepped back on the platform and kept preaching. It turned out to be a great service. Afterward, a lady approached me. “Brother Jerry, why did you fall off the platform?” “It was an accident,” I admitted, “but did you see the getting up? That was quite a recovery!” WHEN “Do you fall often?” she asked. “No.... Did you see the getting YOU’RE up?” I repeated. TEMPTED “Is there something wrong with TO you?” she pressed. “Do you need Quit! prayer?” “I don’t want to talk about the fall,” Everyone experiences failure. I said. “Did you see the getting up?” But I learned a long time ago, even in the midst Many people are like that woman. of failure, don’t quit. When you get knocked They spend their entire lives talking down, get right back up—every time! It’s a about the fall. They think God’s lesson I’ve learned well. In fact, it’s become the teaching them something down theme of my life. there, but God doesn’t want us to Years ago, right after I started my ministry, focus on the fall. He wants us to get a church invited me to preach at a ranch in back up and talk about the recovery. Hot Springs, Ark. The members sat on lawn by Jerry Savelle The Art of Continuing chairs in front of a makeshift platform so I understand the urge to quit. Quitting used to be a way of life for

BVOVBVOV : : : 15 15 me. I’d get under pressure, and I’d look Quit.” Forty-nine years later, quitting is for the path of least resistance. It started still no longer an option. when I was young. After high school, I planned to go into the automotive Why People Quit business like my dad, but my dad had Proverbs 24:16 says, “For a just man other plans. He wanted me to go to falleth seven times, and riseth up again.” college, so that’s what I did. If the devil knocks you down seven Then two weeks before the first times, then get up eight. That’s how you semester ended, I quit. beat him. Sadly, many in the Body of “Son, what are you doing home in Christ give up too quickly. I believe they the middle of the week?” my dad asked do so for one of three reasons. when I pulled up in my ’57 Chevrolet. The first reason is that they are not “I quit,” I said. “I want to work on convinced that God will keep His Word. cars. Can you give me a job?” One day after reading Hebrews 11:1, Two weeks later, in the fall of 1964, I which says, “Now faith is the substance received a draft letter for the war. Since I of things hoped for, the evidence didn’t want to go to Vietnam, I returned of things not seen,” I asked the Lord, to college. During the day, I worked “What is Your definition of faith? Give on cars. At night, I took classes. After me something easy to relate to.” Carolyn and I married, I decided that He said, It is a deep conviction of the balancing everything was too much, so I reality that it is impossible for Me to lie. quit college again. Read what the Lord said to me again: I started doing paint and body work It is a deep conviction of the reality that it is for my dad, who was now the body shop impossible for Me to lie. foreman at a Buick dealership. About six That’s faith! 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God’s presence and word, then are ye my disciples indeed; Another reason people quit is because draw you closer to Father and ye shall know the truth, and the they’re not willing to wait. God with songs like: truth shall make you free” (emphasis Believers who give up have never “Great Are You Lord” and mine). developed the force of patience in their “After My Heart.” That little word “continue” jumped lives. Hebrews 10:35-36 says, “Cast not ONE Worship CD out of my Bible and into my heart. The away therefore your confidence [or your 11 original worship songs. Lord said, This is the missing ingredient faith], which hath great recompence of ONE Worship Live CD & DVD in your life. You have always been a great reward. For ye have need of patience, 12 worship songs, familiar starter, but you’ve never been a great that, after ye have done the will of and original. finisher. 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It may take two days, or it may to flourish like never before. Sun., Feb. 4 take 20 years, but there’s a promised Get ready to abound in God’s The Protection of completion if you stand with faith and blessings. That’s what happens to Walking in Love patience. people who refuse to quit. Kenneth Copeland A third reason I believe people quit Kenneth Gloria Feb. 5-9 is because they don’t spend enough Copeland Copeland Faith for Our Nation time in fellowship with God and His George Pearsons, David Barton, Keith Butler and Word. Acts 20:32 states, “And now, Michele Bachmann brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able Sun., Feb. 11 to build you up, and to give you an Trust in God’s Love George Billye and Be Fearless! inheritance among all them which are Pearsons Brim Kenneth Copeland sanctified.” God and His Word are one and the Feb. 12-16 same, and they’re both able to build How to Receive Your WHENEVER Healing by Faith you up as you spend time with them. 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BVOV : 17 OPEN THE

DOORby Gloria Copeland CONTRARY TO WHAT a lot of well-meaning people believe, everything that happens in this world is not the will of God. When tragedy strikes in someone’s life, it’s not because God had some mysterious purpose for it.

When bad things happen to good BLESSED in every way. people, as the saying goes, God isn’t the Why then aren’t all those BLESSINGS one behind those bad things. being experienced by everyone? He’s not withholding healing from Because God doesn’t storm into people because it’s His will for them to die. people’s lives and take over. He doesn’t He’s not withholding prosperity from just barge into your life and do whatever people because it’s His will for them to He wants. That’s the kind of thing the be poor. devil does. He’s not withholding salvation from The devil roams around like a roaring people because it’s His will for them to lion, seeking whom he may devour. He’s be lost. a thief who comes in uninvited to steal, No, the Bible is clear: God’s will is for kill and destroy. If you don’t stay on “all men to be saved” (1 Timothy 2:4). guard and resist him, even though you’re The word saved is translated from the a Christian, the devil will push his way Greek word sozo. It refers to deliverance into your life and carry out his evil will. from every kind of evil—both temporal God, on the other hand, won’t ever and eternal. It tells us that God’s will force His will on you. For Him to do is for all people everywhere to be what He wants in some area of your life, born again, protected, prospered and YOU MUST GIVE HIM PLACE.

18 : BVOV How do you give Him place? By believing what He said in His Word and receiving it by faith. And by refusing to believe and say anything else! Faith is like a door or a window in the realm of the spirit. It gives God an opening to move and change things supernaturally in your life. It hooks the spiritual realm and the natural realm together, so God’s will can be done for you here on earth just like it’s done in heaven. I know this sounds almost too good to be true, but after studying and learning to walk by faith for more than 50 years now, Ken and I can testify to this from experience: As believers, we really can enjoy “days of heaven upon the earth” (Deuteronomy 11:21). Even though this world is a dark and dangerous place, and there may be trouble all around us, if we’ll maintain a spirit of faith we can be victorious in every situation. “But Gloria, you don’t know the kind of problems I’m facing,” you might say. “They’re bad! It would take a miracle to turn them around.” Well, then, receive a miracle. Dare to believe that “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26) and “all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23). Open the door for the supernatural power of God to go to work on your behalf by standing on His Word in faith. Faith is the key of access to the whole kingdom of God! According to the Scriptures:

“We have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand” (Romans 5:2).

“This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (1 John 5:4).

“The righteous will live by faith” (Galatians 3:11, New International Version).

“[By] faith in God…whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the

BVOV : 19 by Kenneth Copeland sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but OBEDIENCE: shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have No Small Thing whatsoever he saith” (Mark 11:22-23). God’s Plan of Dominion Do you ever have “BUT HE THAT HEARETH, seasons in your life when Look again at that last verse. It says it seems like every time AND DOETH NOT, IS LIKE something about faith many Christians you go to church and A MAN THAT WITHOUT A don’t understand. For faith to work like every time you spend FOUNDATION BUILT AN it’s designed, you must have it in two time in prayer and HOUSE UPON THE EARTH; places. You must have it in your heart every time you open AGAINST WHICH THE STREAM and in your mouth. the Bible, you receive a You can’t just silently agree with God revelation from God? I DID BEAT VEHEMENTLY, AND on the inside. You can’t be content to do. Spiritually, everything IMMEDIATELY IT FELL; AND will be going great. I’ll be have what religious folks sometimes refer higher than a Georgia THE RUIN OF THAT HOUSE to as a “quiet faith.” No, for God’s will to pine. Then, suddenly, WAS GREAT.” come to pass for you, you have to speak it. something starts to Luke 6:49 You have to say about yourself what God happen. I start drying up says. You have to follow the example of in spiritual things. the Apostle Paul who wrote, “We having disobediences will dry up the same spirit of faith, according as it is It seems like it doesn’t the flow of the Spirit just written, I believed, and therefore have make any difference like the major ones will. I spoken; we also believe, and therefore what I pray or how much speak” (2 Corinthians 4:13). I read The WORD, I can’t Most of us don’t realize get anywhere spiritually. that. We’ll get on our Believing and speaking is God’s plan I’m so dry my spirit’s knees and say, “Oh LORD, of dominion. It’s how He teaches us to creaking! I want to go to China for operate because it’s how He Himself You. I’ll go to Africa. I’ll go operates. He creates and changes things That used to baffle to Russia.” But when God by calling “those things which be not as me. I didn’t know what says, Go next door, we though they were” (Romans 4:17). the cause was. I didn’t just shrug it off. You can see this all the way through have any sin in my life. the Bible. Look on the first page at the I’d taken care of that. I “I can’t do that,” we’ll account of Creation, for instance. What was still praying. Still say. “That guy next door did God do there, when He looked at meditating. Still acting doesn’t like me. Besides, the cosmos and saw that the earth was on and confessing The I want to be like Brother WORD. But instead of Schambach and get a without form and darkness was upon getting results, I was big tent.” the face of the deep? He spoke words of getting nowhere. I’d stand faith. He didn’t just silently wish things in front of my mirror and If you’ve done something were different. He didn’t talk about what confess faith over and like that, repent. Then He saw in the natural and say, “It sure over again, and the only pick up where you left is dark out there.” That wouldn’t have thing that happened was off and do what God changed the situation. that my voice got tired! directed. And from now He said, “Let there be light!” and on, remember, no matter there was light. how insignificant God’s If that’s ever happened to you, That’s how everything in this entire may I make a suggestion? instructions may seem, Backtrack and find the last obeying them is no small universe was made. It was made “through thing God told you to do that thing! It’s those simple faith” and “framed by the word of God” you didn’t do—and do it! acts of obedience that (Hebrews 11:3). As Genesis 1 says, this will make your spiritual earth and everything in it is here because, It’s probably nothing house stand...or fall. time and again, God said…God saw… big. Just a seemingly All the small things and it was good. small thing. But, believe combined become the Jesus used the same system when He me, those minor direction of our lives. was on earth. He said to Jairus’ daughter (Mark 5:41), “I say unto thee, arise,” and she was raised from the dead. He said to the storm on the Sea of Galilee,

20 : BVOV “Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm” (Mark 4:39). He declared THE BLESSING over the five loaves and two fish and they multiplied until they’d fed thousands. IT WASN’T EASY, Time and again, just like God, Jesus POINTS said…He saw…and it was good. As a believer, you can apply that in TO GET ESPECIALLY your own life. After all, you’re a new YOU AT FIRST, BUT creature in Christ Jesus. You’ve been THERE: given authority in His Name. You have WE KNEW WE the power and Spirit of God in you. Therefore, if you agree with Him and Faith is like a door in WOULDN’T GET say what He says over your life, you’ll the realm of the spirit that opens the way see it come to pass, and it will be good! for God’s will to be ANYWHERE Romans 4 calls that walking “in the done for you on earth steps of that faith of our father Abraham” as it is in heaven. IF WE SPOKE (verse 12). You’ve probably heard about Here are some points him. He was told by God, in his old age, to get you there: FAITH ONE that he and his barren wife, Sarah, were MOMENT AND going to have a baby. In the natural, such 1 a thing was impossible. Not only was God’s will is for UNBELIEF THE Abraham 99 years old, Sarah was 90 and everyone to be delivered (or saved) she hadn’t been able to have a baby even from every kind of NEX T. when she was young. evil, both temporal Even so, Abraham believed God and eternal. and began to say about himself what 1 Timothy 2:4 God said. He didn’t focus on his You Will Have What You Say circumstances and shrink back from 2 Before Ken and I learned this, declaring the Word of God because it He desires for His even though we were born again, we didn’t make sense to him. He kept faith good will to be done experienced very little victory in our lives. on earth just as it in his heart and in his mouth like God is in heaven. We’d been born again and filled with the told him to do. He started going around Deuteronomy 11:21 Holy Spirit for five years, yet we were still calling himself what God called him— in pitiful shape. When we found out how the father of many nations. 3 faith works, however, we started making Before very long the supernatural Faith opens the changes. We immersed ourselves in God’s happened: Abraham and Sarah’s baby door for His power Word, quit talking about how bad things boy, Isaac, was born! to go to work and do looked in the natural, and began to say You can see something just as the impossible about ourselves and our circumstances supernatural happen in your life. You in your life. Mark 9:23 what God said in the Bible. may not miraculously have a baby because It wasn’t easy, especially at first, but that may not be what you’re believing for. we knew we wouldn’t get anywhere But if you’ll believe and confess God’s 4 if we spoke faith one moment and For faith to work like Word like Abraham did, you can take it’s designed, you unbelief the next, so we agreed to hold whatever bad situation you may be facing must have it in two each other accountable. If one of us and turn it around. You can come from places: in your heart said something contrary to what the defeat into victory…from sickness into and in your mouth. Word says, the other would point it out. health…from poverty into prosperity. 2 Corinthians 4:13 “That’s your confession,” we’d say, “and I Why? Because God’s Word always believe every word of it.” works. When you keep it in your heart 5 Because Ken did most of the talking and speak it out your mouth it always Believing and back then, I got to correct him more comes to pass. That’s why Jesus could say speaking is God’s than he did me. But we both slipped plan of dominion; in John 15:7, “If ye abide in me, and my it’s how He operates up sometimes and said things we didn’t words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye and how we’re to want to come to pass. When we did, will, and it shall be done unto you.” operate too. we’d immediately repent and get right Mark 11:23 back on faith words.

BVOV : 21 In those days, our biggest problems says about the righteous man that were financial. We were facing a “wealth and riches shall be in his house.” mountain of debt and had very little Second Corinthians 8:9 says that Jesus income, so that’s the first area we Christ, “though he was rich, yet for your tackled. We put together a list of sakes he became poor, that ye through scriptures about God’s will for our his poverty might be rich.” prosperity and diligently read and All through the Bible God tells us confessed them. We stopped saying He wants His people to prosper and things like, “We can’t pay these bills,” increase. In scripture after scripture and started saying things like, “My He says it is His will for money to God supplies all my need according come to us. SO THAT’S WHAT to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” WE OUGHT TO BE SAYING, Sure enough, before long, those TOO. WE OUGHT TO BE words came to pass. God’s will OPERATING ACCORDING TO manifested in our lives and in less than GOD’S PLAN OF DOMINION. a year, what seemed to be a mountain WE OUGHT TO BE SPEAKING of debt was gone! We began to prosper, WORDS OF FAITH THAT and we’ve been prospering ever since. OPEN THE DOOR FOR HIM GOING UP – “But my situation is different,” TO CARRY OUT HIS GOOD PROMOTION someone might say. “I don’t have a WILL IN OUR LIVES! GOD’S WAY Christian spouse like you do—and Jesus spoke personally about this I don’t want to talk faith in front of to Brother Kenneth E. Hagin one PACKAGE unbelievers. They’ll think I’m crazy.” time many years ago. Pointing out God has a promotion plan for you Then make your confessions of that in Mark 11:23 He used the word already in place. He desires you to faith to the Lord. Speak the Word to believe only one time and used the live your life in full confidence that yourself when no one else is around, or word say three times, He told Brother advancement belongs to you. Get talk about it to people at your church. Hagin, You’ll have to preach three times ready to develop in ways that will Just be sure if you choose not to make more about saying than you will about set you up to GO UP! your declarations of faith around people believing, because the saying part is who won’t understand, that you don’t primarily where My people are missing it. end up joining in with them when they Jesus said something very similar BONUS start talking unbelief. Even if you’re just one time when He was talking to OFFER – going along with the conversation to Brother Charles Capps about the Order today and be sociable, speaking words of unbelief subject. I told you that you can have receive GOING will hinder the operation of your faith. what you say, He said, but My people are UP - Live Sermons The Lord spoke to a pastor friend saying what they have. Series; seven of ours about this a number of years That, right there, is the bottom line. messages on CDs ago after he engaged in a casual If you have a problem, and you say or MP3. Study conversation with a man at the grocery what you have, you’re perpetuating notes also included. store. The man had been in front of him that problem. If you go around saying in the checkout line. He’d paid for his things like, “I don’t have enough 4 CD & 7 CD set and Study Notes: groceries with the last few dollars in his money to pay my bills. I just can’t £15 reg. £42.50 #K1801 wallet and then turned to the pastor and make ends meet,” you’re establishing 2 DVD & 7 CD set and Study Notes: said with a chuckle, “Money goeth!” those conditions in your life. £18 reg. £45.50 #K1802 Just to be cordial, the pastor laughed Don’t make that mistake! Follow and agreed. “Yeah, that’s right,” he God’s plan of dominion. Fill your heart 2 MP3 discs and Study Notes: said. “Money goeth.” Afterward, the with His Word and say what He says. £9 reg. £25.00 #K1803 Lord reprimanded him. You ought not If you’ll do that, no matter how be saying, “Money goeth,” He said. You bad things might look right now in should be saying, “Money cometh.” the natural, you’ll be on your way to Why would the Lord tell him to victory. You’ll be calling things that be say, “Money cometh”? not as though they were, and because kcm.org.uk/mag Because that agrees with the Word. you’re operating like your heavenly It says in Proverbs 10:22, “The blessing Father, you’ll get His results. +44 (0) 1225 787310 of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he You’ll say it…you’ll see it…and it Offer valid until Please see order form for Euro prices. addeth no sorrow with it.” Psalm 112:3 will be good! Feb. 28, 2018 FREE UK shipping included. embroidered with various colors]” (verse 15, AMPC).

® GIFTS GALORE! Another way the Father gifts us is by Commander Kellie’s Corner bringing people into our lives who open new doors and understanding for us— who make us better or just encourage us Happy February, to be like Jesus. Parents, friends, family, Jesus from the dead, then He can surely teachers and pastors are gifts from the Superkids! raise you to be what He’s called you to be. Lord. What good, new things came to Then Jesus just brings out the great gifts you through these gifts last year? IT’S ALREADY SHAPING UP the Father puts in you! Psalm 139:13-16 TO BE AN EXCITING YEAR. (Amplified Bible, Classic Edition) says that I could go on for pages about how the Last month, we decided to take out any the Father put those gifts in you before Lord brings to us and unwraps gifts in trash that 2017 may have left in its wake. I you were ever born: us, and what that looks like. The ways would love to know how that went for you! are as endless and as individual as His Did you think of things you needed to be For You did form my inward parts; You did children! Take some time, Superkid, to free of? You pictured your Christmas tree, knit me together in my mother’s womb. think about it. Ask the Lord to open your after all the gifts had been unwrapped and I will confess and praise You for You are the paper and ribbons strewn about the fearful and wonderful and for the awful floor. Just like that mess makes it difficult wonder of my birth! Wonderful are to play with your new toys and gadgets, Your works, and that my inner junk that’s left in our lives can hinder self knows right well. My our ability to see the good things Jesus frame was not hidden brought to us and the extraordinary gifts from You when I was He unwrapped in us in 2017. being formed in secret [and] intricately and I am so grateful that He helped us dump curiously wrought [as the garbage of 2017, aren’t you? If you if embroidered with missed last month’s article, or you feel like various colors] in the you didn’t totally clean out last year’s junk, depths of the earth it’s worth going back to read it, because [a region of darkness 2018 is all about being free in Jesus! and mystery]. Your Woohoo! eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your When we look at what the Father has book all the days [of my life] placed in us, instead of the distractions were written before ever they of unforgiveness, anger, hurt, mistakes, took shape, when as yet there was fear or other such negative factors, we none of them. will begin to see the fruit of what Jesus eyes to the gifts He brought into your life wants to do in our lives. He is constantly SO, HOW DO THEY SHOW UP? last year. Then, take the time to express leading and guiding us out of the junk and HOW DO YOU RECOGNIZE A your gratitude to Him for each of those into what God has planned. Read what GIFT OF GOD? gifts. Perhaps it is a good time to express Hebrews 13:20-21 (BRG Bible) says: “Now Many times, the things we become thanks to the people who helped you the God of peace, that brought again passionate about have something to receive these gifts from the Lord. from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great do with our calling. Have you become shepherd of the sheep, through the blood interested in a new hobby, subject or Superkid, if you will decide today to of the everlasting covenant, make you activity? I’ve always found myself drawn to make this thought process a way of perfect in every good work to do his will, kids. Even as a kid I wanted to help and be life, taking out the trash and receiving working in you that which is wellpleasing around younger kids. I loved to sing and the gifts, then you will walk boldly into in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom to be in plays and musicals. Can you see your future—unhindered by anything. I’ll be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” how what was in me to be Commander leave you with this thought from Romans Kellie was working in me before I was even 8:28, The Passion Translation: “So we What a great word! Look at what that grown up? are convinced that every detail of our says: The God who brings peace, brought lives is continually woven together to fit JESUS all the way back from the dead WHAT ABOUT YOUR TALENTS? into God’s perfect plan of bringing good to be what He called Him to be. That Did you discover a new ability last year, into our lives, for we are his lovers who same God, OUR Father, will bring like singing, acting or sports? Or, did you have been called to fulfill his designed YOU into every good thing He has discover you excelled in a new subject purpose.” called you to! Remember what at school? Many times, these are gifts Jesus was called to do? He was that will become part of our calling that ALL THIS MAKES ME WONDER… called TO LEAD AND SHEPHERD the Father knit inside us when we WHAT GIFTS WILL 2018 BRING? YOU to be just like HIM! That is were “being formed in secret [and] NOW I’M ON THE LOOKOUT, powerful. If God can raise intricately and curiously wrought [as if SUPERKID, AREN’T YOU?

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Imagine having When Jesus offered to go to The faith that so impressed Jesus enough faith to the centurion’s home and heal his was the centurion’s willingness impress God. servant, the officer said, “Lord, I to believe without requiring a am not worthy that thou shouldest spectacular sign or wonder from Does that seem a come under my roof: but speak the heaven. All he needed in order to little far-fetched? word only, and my servant shall be believe that Jesus could heal his healed” (verse 8). servant was The WORD. In Matthew 8, Now here was a man who “Speak the word only,” he said. a centurion, a understood the power of words. He And within the hour his servant commanding officer was, after all, an army officer. When was healed. of the Roman army, he spoke, everyone listened—and Who Needs a Miracle... came to Jesus on then they did what he said. behalf of his servant In this case, so did Jesus. That same faith and greater—faith who was sick and Why was Jesus so quick to that impresses God—is available tormented. respond? Because the man’s words to every one of us through God’s were full of faith. WORD. God sent His WORD In fact, when Jesus heard to heal us. He sent it to deliver us the centurion’s reply, He was (Psalm 107:20). The WORD became astonished, and said, “I tell you flesh—in the person of Jesus—and truly, I have not found so much lived among us. In Him, in God faith as this with anyone, even in and in The WORD is life, and that Israel” (verse 10, Amplified Bible, life is our light (John 1:1-14; Psalm Classic Edition). 119:105).

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BVOV : 25 The Apostle Peter called The WORD not ours. So, we shouldn’t try to live from When God called Abraham out of of God “a more sure word” (2 Peter 1:19). miracle to miracle. God never intended it his homeland, telling him to leave his More sure than what? to be that way. He never promised a daily family and go to a new land, there was Well, to begin with, Peter had dose of visions, dreams, prophecies and no written WORD of God. There wasn’t seen his share of signs and wonders. miracles for us to live by. even an Old Covenant. All Abraham had The greatest, perhaps, was when he What God did provide, however, to go on was a spoken promise. accompanied Jesus, along with James was a book full of living promises. He “Get thee out of thy country,” God and John, to a mountain where they sent His WORD. He gave us a book had told him. “And I will make of thee a actually heard the audible voice of God, overflowing with life. He gave us a book great nation” (Genesis 12:1-2). and watched as Jesus spoke face-to-face overflowing with Himself. At the time, Abram was 75 years old with Moses and Elijah. If you think about it, the Bible is not a and married to a barren woman. Yet, he Peter was so impressed that he offered book about someone. It is Someone. It is took God at His WORD and left his to build tents for everyone and camp literally God talking to each one of us— family and homeland behind. there for a while (Matthew 17:4). But in which takes us back to why Peter called When Abram finally arrived in spite of all the glorious manifestations of The WORD of God a more sure word. Canaan, God appeared to him and said, God that he had seen and heard, Peter In 2 Peter 1:19, he went on to say, “Ye “Unto thy seed will I give this land” later had this to say: do well that ye take heed [to the written (Genesis 12:7). Then, in Genesis 13,

FAITH THAT IMPRESSES GOD IS AVAILABLE TO EVERY ONE OF US THROUGH GOD’S WORD.

For we have not followed cunningly Word], as unto a light that shineth in a God told him, “All the land which thou devised fables...but were eyewitnesses dark place, until the day dawn, and the seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy of his majesty. For [Jesus] received day star arise in your hearts.” seed for ever. And I will make thy seed from God the Father honour and In other words, you may not wake up as the dust of the earth...” (verses 15-16). glory, when there came such a voice to and hear the audible voice of God every The point is, all along the way, God him from the excellent glory, This is morning, but you do have His WORD. kept speaking the promise and speaking my beloved Son, in whom I am well You have His promises, His revelation, the promise. pleased. And this voice which came His wisdom—and it’s all as sure as the But in Genesis 15:2, after God had from heaven we heard, when we were sun rising every day. So live by it. appeared to him in a vision, Abram with him in the holy mount. We have Yes, miracles are wonderful. But asked God, “What wilt thou give me, also a more sure word of prophecy; God’s plan is for us to walk by faith, not seeing I go childless?” whereunto ye do well that ye take heed by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). He expects At this point, Abram had given in (2 Peter 1:16-19). us to live each day by faith in His to the circumstances. He was 86, WORD, not by the signs and wonders and day after day all he had been Now there is no denying that physical we might see along the way. seeing was a barren wife and no child. manifestations of God’s presence and He complained even more by saying, power can be spectacular to our natural May I Have That in Writing? “Behold, to me thou hast given no seed” senses, but even so, they still have a Think for just a moment about one (verse 3). sense of uncertainty about them. of the great Old Testament examples The truth was, God had given Abram In the first place, miracles don’t happen we have of walking by faith and not by seed. He just didn’t realize it. From the every day. They are an act of God’s will, sight—Abraham. very beginning God had given him His

26 : BVOV ininimage in Late last year, the Lord spoke the following words to Brother Copeland concerning the year WORD—and the living WORD of Abraham and everyone around him, 2018: God is seed (Mark 4). was calling “those things which be not 2018 is the Year of I will make you a great nation...I will as though they were” (Romans 4:17). In the Holy Ghost and give this land to your seed...I will make effect, Abraham was speaking the same Fire. The BIG 18 for your seed as the dust of the earth. God had WORD God had spoken, and he was 2018: the nine fruit spoken all that to Abram in the span hearing it spoken as well. of the Spirit and of 11 years. Still, Abram was having Jesus did the same thing with Peter. the nine gifts of the trouble anchoring his faith in God’s When Jesus first met Peter, his name Spirit. That time is WORD. So God gave him a little help. was Simon Barjona. Later, however, not just coming, says First, God took Abram out into the Jesus changed it to Peter, the Rock. And Brother Copeland. night and challenged him to count the if there were anyone among the disciples “It’s already here.” stars. “So shall thy seed be,” He told him. who was not a “rock,” it was Peter. But, as His sons and daughters, And Abram believed (Genesis 15:5-6). Jesus knew what He was doing. He “we’re going to have Then God cut covenant with Abram called Peter—Rock—until he became spiritual explosions using animal sacrifices, which was a one. Meanwhile, by receiving his new going on throughout sign to him that God would keep His name and speaking it and responding 2018—particularly in promise. This blood covenant was to it, Peter was actually agreeing with the areas of holiness a powerful anchor for Abram’s faith. The WORD of God. He was agreeing and cleansing.” Yet 13 years later—at the age of 99— with The WORD that Jesus had spoken Abram still had no child. to him. watch That’s when God began putting The So, we see that the process behind video HEAR BROTHER COPELAND’S WORD into Abram’s mouth. these name changes, and men fulfilling ENTIRE COMMENTS. their destinies by agreeing with what KCM.ORG/2018 New Identity—New Destiny God said they would be and do, was From the moment God first told actually meditating The WORD— Abram that He would make him a great speaking it and hearing it, over and over nation, Abram could have said, “OK, and over. God’s WORD—speaking it to himself, from now on I’m going to call myself Meditating The WORD was also speaking to others and speaking it in Abraham, because God has said I will be the plan for success that God laid out every situation. the father of many nations. And if God for Joshua when he stepped into the said it—and I agree with it—then it is!” role of leading all of Israel after Moses Can You Imagine? Abram could have done that and died. “This book of [my Word] shall When Abraham finally received by saved himself a lot of trouble. But he not depart out of thy mouth,” God told faith that he was, indeed, the father of didn’t. Remember, Abram was not born him, “but thou shalt meditate therein many nations, it still wasn’t something again or spiritually alive like us, and day and night, that thou [may be able to he could see with his physical eyes. So there was no written WORD for him see] to do according to all that is written how did he see it? to keep before his eyes. Consequently, therein: for then thou shalt make thy In Psalm 2, we find that the word all he was seeing was, “I am childless way prosperous, and then thou shalt meditate can also mean “to imagine.” and have no seed.” God fixed that too by have good success” (Joshua 1:8). The idea is, as we go about like changing his name. The Hebrew word we translate as Abraham, Joshua and Peter, constantly When Abram became Abraham, he meditate actually means “to mutter or to speaking God’s WORD—calling literally took on the new identity of go around talking to yourself.” In short, those things that be not as though they “father of many nations”—which was Joshua was promised good success if were—The WORD will spark an inner what his new name meant he went through life constantly talking image within us. That inner image in (Romans 4:18). Every time he said his name, he was saying, “Hello, I’m the father of many Don’t submit to God doesn’t WORDS ON HEALING the devil when put sickness nations.” What’s more, he tries to put on you to teach every time someone Don’t believe the Jesus paid the sickness on you, you something, called his name, they lie that healing has price for you to stand against him He teaches you were saying, “Hey, father passed away. be healed. by faith in God’s through the Word. of many nations!” Exodus 15:26; Malachi 3:6 Isaiah 53:5 WORD. James 4:7 2 Timothy 3:16 What was happening?

BVOV : 27 THE BOTTOM LINE TO God and started speaking The WORD. man heard God tell him to send us the That’s what we did for that car. money was the same time John came to ALL OF THIS After we had taken The WORD and me and said, “Let’s go get it!” agreed as a family in faith, we went So we went and got it. IS THAT around saying, “Glory to God for our new car!” “That new car is ours!” “Thank Wishing Wells Run Dry REAL BIBLE God for our new car!” We continued The bottom line to all of this is to meditate The WORD. At the time, that real Bible hope is not wishing for HOPE IS NOT our children were young, but still old something to come to pass. God is not enough to grab hold of our station sitting at the bottom of a wishing well, WISHING wagon with their faith, too. waiting for us to toss in a few pennies so One day our son, John, asked, He can work up a miracle on our behalf. FOR “Daddy, is that new car ours?” No, hope is a divine inner image. It’s “You bet it is,” I replied. a dream birthed by The WORD of God SOMETHING “Well, let’s go get it,” he said. in the soul of man. It’s the blueprint of This new car idea had become so real our faith. TO COME TO and so big inside him that he didn’t see Hebrews 11:1 tells us that hope is why we shouldn’t just go get it. I didn’t what faith must have in order to bring PASS. tell him that the reason we didn’t go our dreams to pass. We’re told that it’s get the car was because we were $3,000 also “an anchor of the soul, both sure short of what we needed to buy it. In and stedfast” (Hebrews 6:19). fact, I started to say, “Now, you know, So not only do we have a more sure John, we do have to....” But then I word of prophecy, but we also have stopped, because I realized I was about a sure hope. It’s like Peter said: The to head down the road of doubt and WORD of God—God’s promises— image in turn becomes hope, and unbelief. enters our lives bringing light to the hope is where Abraham saw himself as Instead, I said, “Yeah, praise God! circumstances we face (2 Peter 1:19). “father of many nations.” Let’s do, John. Let’s just go get it!” As we meditate on The WORD, I remember, in the early days of this Immediately we all started saying it to the light of it becomes brighter and ministry, when Gloria and I reached each other: “Let’s go get it!” brighter. It grows and develops on the the point where we needed a station In less than a week, a man called me, inside of us, eventually giving birth to wagon to get us and our children from crying. “Oh, Brother Copeland, I’m so an inner image of what we’re believing one place to the next so I could preach. ashamed of myself. God told me to send to receive from God. Like anything else we needed, we went you $3,000 a few days ago and I didn’t In the past we may have seen to God’s promises concerning our need, do it. I’ve hung on to it until I cannot ourselves as Abram saw himself— then we prayed, sowed seed, believed stand it anymore.” The first time that childless. We may have seen ourselves as moneyless, sick, desperate or whatever. But once we lay hold of The WORD, LIVING IN THE realizing that it is God Himself speaking directly to us, we give place to hope—and that hope gives life to the BLESSING dreams God has placed within us. Living and walking in a Garden of Eden all Abraham hoped against hope the days of your life is God’s will for you. This eye-opening series from Kenneth Copeland (Romans 4:18). He went against all the will help you understand what it takes to get odds. We can too. there and stay there. Receive God’s WORD for your There is no such thing as a void on this planet FREE! situation, right now. Receive the seed where there’s neither the blessing nor the curse MP3 God has for your life. Then begin in operation. It’s one or the other, so learn to stay series speaking it, hearing it, muttering it. Living in The Blessing – NOW! Meditate The WORD until you begin seeing it...and dreaming it. Download free at: Go ahead—dream BIG. Talk BIG. kcm.org.uk/mag And turn your faith loose! Offer expires Feb. 28, 2018 50TH YEAR COMMEMORATIVE EDITION KENNETH COPELAND It is important for you as a believer to realise WORD OF FAITH that God has given you the power and ability STUDY BIBLE to operate in the God kind of faith. This first-ever Word of Faith Study Bible is Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it designed to help believers grow in the practical, usable application of faith in God’s WORD. on God’s Word. —Kenneth Copeland

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