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April 2012 Happy WeddingAnniversary50 th Kenneth Day 164 Day Kenneth i h — 153 Day Gloria Day 28 d ay oy eFaith Works by Love t a ng b e rac ica S Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor ea h a d the u e mcision; but faith which worketh by love.” Galatia s 5:6 at c i ns a a tiv live in your dreams live in love e Thughts tne ply in the importance and the power of faith. Yet, I’ll be e sickn s disease produced enough stra to make ns f sease us more than conquerors. We must th tells us that faith works by love. ging in tha b hav or a foundat on to build on. You might even say e love of God, for example. His love for us is the ill us! Wal lov He “so loved the world that he gave his only om o sn kes When c fo ldn’t perish but have everlasting life. us and what prompted Him to do it was ro d while sti p a cing everything He does for us. It’s His love lov n t et bless healing us oboth hem in this life and in the en i God di ge healing tha e new toward us every morning giving the r l to Him l God’s love aren’t able to have f it becauseWith same your en push comes to shove, their ng in lo e an heal muc f love+ to back it up! amage disease has riencebook, how full you of will odies running righ mises to us. When we e co have faithreceive that He’ll 2 FREE know messages on aith rise dawn uponlove to download m e & enjoy! yearnsth he LORD. to and act Spen work on perfect bound :: #B120201 Sign up for FREE samples at limitlesslove365.com New! 365-Day Devotional + Shipping AUD $ 25 by Kenneth & Gloria Copeland —Kenneth Copeland “As you learn to trust and obey God, He’ll see that you graduate from one good place to another. You will be surrounded by practical manifestations of His love. You will be lodging in His goodness and living in your dreams.” kcm.org.au 1300 730 433 or +617 3343 7777 order NZ 0800 903 100 today $ 25+ shipping contentsApril The Faith When the Lord first 4 of Abraham by Kenneth Copeland spoke to us about start- THE BLESS NG of Abraham is yours the moment you ing the Believer’s Voice are born again. Find out how to exercise your checking of Victory magazine, He said: This is your seed. privileges and get those promises from heaven to earth. Give it to everyone who ever responds to your ministry, and don’t ever allow anyone to pay for a subscription to it. For 39 10 14 18 years it has been our joy to bring you good news It’s Not Quittin’ Time through the teachings of by Kenneth Copeland ministers who write out Believers everywhere are under of living contact with pressure like never before. The God, and the testimo- pressure we’re experiencing is just nies of believers who the devil trying to steal The WORD, took God at His Word contaminate our faith and cut our and experienced His vic- lives short. So set your jaw, and tory in everyday life. don’t quit! A Better The Faith Business Journey by Melanie Hemry Continues Blaine Smith, 20-year-old This month, Kenneth 20 entrepreneur, had planned and Gloria celebrate to expand his illicit drug their 50th wedding business by growing his anniversary. Join us in 23 KCM Events Love Live your faith and share the Word—bring own “magic mushrooms” celebrating what God h someone you know to a KCM event! when he heard God’s voice has done in them and o e ” and received healing in his through them. body. Shortly thereafter, 24 Good News Gazette y th nor Read about real-life faith triumphs from he surrendered his life to The Enemy’s people just like you. Jesus, met his wife, Anita, and in obedience to the Weapon of Envy features Lord, they moved to North by Creflo Dollar Carolina where they now The devil uses envy to stop God’s people from doing pastor a church. what He has called them to do and receiving what He has provided for them. Have a 26 smartphone? Now you can scan QR codes in the An Offering BVOV magazine to see additional content! by Gloria Copeland of Worship Get your QR code reader in your Our tithes and offerings open the door for God to get involved in our smartphone’s app market. Learn more finances and cause us to prosper! But our willingness to give means by visiting far more to God than the amount of our offering. kcmQRcodes.param.mobi. facebook.com/ KennethCopelandMinistriesAustralia BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY VOLUME 40 NUMBER 4 April 2012 BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY is published monthly by Eagle Mountain International Church Inc./Kenneth Copeland Ministries Inc., a nonprofit corporation, Fort Worth, Texas. © 2012 Kenneth Copeland Ministries Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY and the twitter.com/CopelandNetwork logo on the back page are registered trademarks of Eagle Mountain International Church Inc./Kenneth Copeland Ministries Inc., in the United States and international countries where BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY circulates. Printing and distribution costs are paid for by donations from KCM Partners and Friends. Printed in Australia by Torque Digital. For a free subscription write to Kenneth Copeland Ministries, Locked Bag 2600, Mansfield Delivery Centre, Queensland 4122, Australia; or sign up online at kcm.org.au. Because all BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY issues are preplanned, we are unable to accept unsolicited manuscripts. Communications Manager/Cindy Hames Managing Editor/Ronald C. Jordan Editors/Deborah Ide Camille Wilder Writers /Darlene Breed Gena Maselli Proofreaders/Jean Pass this magazine on to a friend. DeLong Michelle Harris Eileen Hooley New Product Supervisor/Leah Lee Senior Designer/Michael Augustat Designer/Larry Warren Project Manager/Deborah Brister Type Coordinator/Joyce Glasgow It’s a great way to recycle! the FAITHof by Kenneth Copeland This article was adapted from Kenneth Copeland’s new book, THE BLESSING of The LORD Makes Rich and He Adds No Sorrow With It Proverbs 10:22. The first question That’s something we all need to know because, as we’ve seen, that comes to mind incorporated in that BLESSING is everything we’ll ever need: health and healing, victory and dominion in every area of life, abundance— once you grasp the spirit, soul and body, and the power to be a BLESSING to all the awesome magnitude families of the earth. of THE BLESSING is All those things became ours the moment we were born again because this: How do I get it to that’s when THE BLESSING of Abraham came on us through Jesus operate in my life? Christ. That’s when we were “BLESSED…with all spiritual BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ.” Christianity is God and His family– a family made up of people who are saved, made righteous and BLESSED through faith, that lives, not by a set of religious rules, but by the love of God and the same kind of faith Abraham had. as joint heirs with Jesus, we are— right now— I said, “Son, you listen to me and never forget what I’m co-possessors of everything in heaven and earth. every about to say. If you committed the most heinous crime in the promise God ever made to abraham and his Seed has history of mankind and they threw you so deep into prison been fulfilled in Christ Jesus and deposited into our that you couldn’t see the light of day, you’d still never get heavenly account. What we must find out is how to rid of me. If you get yourself into trouble, I’ll pray for you exercise our checking privileges and get those promises and help you in every way I can. I will never leave you nor from heaven to earth. forsake you even to the end of the world. you’ll never get the bible explains it to us with one short phrase in Galatians away from me because I’m yours and you’re mine. We’re not 3:14: We receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. just father and son, we are brothers in Christ.” those two simple words are the key to the bleSSInG that kind of relationship isn’t something you can earn. door. It’s a blood covenant relationship. It has served us well, too. It’s through faith we are born again and become the seed of today, John and I are the best of friends, and he is head of abraham. all the business affairs of Kenneth Copeland Ministries. It’s through faith we become legal heirs of the he’s a good man. he’s matured in the loRd, works hard bleSSInG. and does what’s right in his service for the ministry. but he It’s through faith we release its operation in our lives. doesn’t do those things to earn my bleSSInG. he does the faith of abraham is what originally activated the them knowing he already has it. bleSSInG of abraham, and it still does. that’s why God as God’s children, we ought to be the same way.