BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

The Hundredfold Principle by Jerry Savelle Brother Copeland had been invited to speak at the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Convention in Birmingham, Ala., in 1972. Before the meeting started, Brother Copeland said, “Let’s you and I fly to Birmingham and spend a couple of days in prayer together before that meeting gets underway. God’s been dealing with me about going on television, and I need the mind of Christ; I need the wisdom of God concerning this. Not only that, but God’s been dealing with me about this ministry needing a bigger and faster airplane, and I need to get the wisdom of God about that as well. So let’s you and I go early. We’ll spend a couple of days in prayer together.” So we flew to Birmingham in Brother Copeland’s little Cessna 310. We checked in to the hotel in Birmingham, and the first night he said, “I want you to meet me in my room at 6 in the morning, and we’re going to pray together and just see what we hear from God regarding these things.” I was really excited because it was the first time that he had actually invited me to participate in his prayer time. I had seen him pray publicly in meetings, but I had never been invited to be in the same room with him during his private prayer time. Usually, he isolated himself during his prayer time. Prayer Time With Kenneth Copeland The next morning we met at 6, and he said, “Let’s just begin praying in the spirit. If you get anything from God, you just go ahead and speak it out.” We started praying in the spirit. I was sitting there kind of in a corner in that hotel room, and I noticed Brother Copeland knelt down by his bed and had his notebook and his Bible out. He prayed in the spirit, and then he flipped through pages of the Bible every once in a while. I thought, That looks good. So I got down on my knees in front of the chair and prayed in the spirit and flipped through my Bible like he was doing. He would pray in the spirit a little while, and then he’d quote a verse that he saw in the Word that pertained to the wisdom of God. For instance, in Corinthians where it says, “Jesus has been made unto us wisdom.” Then, he went to James where it says, “If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask in faith, nothing wavering, because God gives liberally.” He started off finding verses that pertained to what he was believing God for, and then he quoted them. As he spoke them out, I would turn to those verses and read them as well. Not out loud, but I would follow along and read them as he spoke them out loud. Then there were quiet times. I noticed he would get real quiet and listen. We did that for about two hours that first morning. Then he said, “Well, let’s go ahead and clean up and go have some breakfast.” The next morning, we did the same thing. We met at 6, and went through basically the same process. After breakfast that morning, he called me to his room, and he said, “I believe I’ve got the mind of Christ on how we’re going to start this television ministry. I’ve got the basic format.” Then he said, “I’m believing God to pay cash for this. It’s going to take a lot of money for us to go to the television studio in Dallas. But I believe I’ve got the mind of God on this. But first, we’ve got to plant a seed in order to get a harvest to pay for this.” BVOV : 11

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