BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

MAY Broadcast Calendar Featuring: Kenneth Copeland, Gloria Copeland, George Pearsons Apr. 29-May3 The BLESSING of The LORD: Receiving the Promise Kenneth Copeland Sun., May 5: Your Wealth Is in the Hundredfold Kenneth Copeland May 6-10 The Laws of Prosperity—Part 1 Gloria Copeland and George Pearsons Sun., May 12: Jesus Provided Your Heart’s Desire Kenneth Copeland May 13-17 Jesus, God‘s Heavenly Gift to You Kenneth Copeland Sun., May 19: Your Time for Abundant Harvest Kenneth Copeland May 20-24 God’s Way of Doing Things Kenneth Copeland Sun., May 26: Faith Works From the Inside, Out Kenneth Copeland May 27-31 Total Immersion in God’s WORD Brings His Results Kenneth Copeland _________________________ WATCH ON: dish® CHANNEL 265 Roku® apple tv® 4th Generation bvovn.com YouTube® KCM.ORG KCM APP PODCAST DAYSTAR Network Trinity Broadcasting Network Broadcasts subject to change without notice SPANISH BROADCAST ENLACE or ES.KCM.ORG/MEDIOS kcm.org/watch/find-a-station * * * * * from p. 14 continues * * * * * * “Shelly was an LPN and wanted to become an RN. I decided to go into nursing too. It took a while, but we each graduated as registered nurses. In 2010, my mother accepted the Lord Jesus as her Savior before she died that year.” Years passed, as Jessie and Shelly carved out a good life for themselves and Matthew. In 2014, Jessie accepted a job with a good salary and excellent benefits. Although he had stopped doing drugs years before, on occasion he would gamble. Over time, he became more and more obsessed with gambling. Mountain of Debt In April 2016, Shelly stumbled across a deleted email in her computer that revealed that almost $28,000 of a student loan she had taken out to get her master’s degree had been used. Problem was, she hadn’t used it. Livid, she picked up her phone to call Jessie, who was out of town on a job assignment. Jessie was at the airport, preparing to board a flight for home, when he answered the call. “I know what you did,” he heard Shelly say. Not trying to cover his deception, Jessie told Shelly, “I have a problem. We’ll talk when I get home.” Shelly went through all their finances, adding up the debts. The number was staggering. It was impossible. She saw no way to get out of debt. No way to trust Jessie again and save their marriage. The pain from his betrayal felt overwhelming. Shelly realized that she was at a crossroad. If she handled this in the flesh, they would have to declare bankruptcy—and probably end in divorce court. Should she stay, or should she go? Her world felt as though it had tilted on its axis. With sudden clarity, she knew what to do. Pulling out their checkbook, she wrote a check to KCM. “We had listened to Kenneth and Gloria off and on for years,” Shelly said. “We’d given to their ministry sporadically, and I knew that giving into their ministry was the key to a miracle. I didn’t want to declare bankruptcy. I wanted to get out of debt God’s way. Part of doing that was through giving. Another part was responding to Jessie with the love of God—not hammering him with guilt and anger. They needed more than a financial miracle, Shelly said. They also needed God’s power to repair and restore what had quickly become a broken marriage. “I knew what I had to do to make that happen, but for it to work Jessie had a huge part of his own,” said Shelly. “It wasn’t going to happen overnight. This was a process that we had to work through. It took work. But I trusted God to help me learn to trust Jessie again. Back to Basics “We’d always been tithers, but we didn’t understand the power of giving as part of our covenant. We hadn’t understood the concept of sowing seed. But I did know this: When I wrote that check to KCM, I made a withdrawal on God’s power for help. “As we worked through paying off debts, we gave $25 a month to KCM. Then $50, and then $100 a month. We weren’t just giving money. We gave possessions. Once, when a pastor needed a refrigerator, we gave him our good one and kept the old one. We gave clothes to those in need. We made giving a lifestyle. We also immersed ourselves in the Word of God and took our stand in the Scriptures. “We both needed healing, but I knew Jessie had to experience God’s love through me. We had an accountability structure in place, but as months passed he was more accountable than he needed to be. I realized that he was floundering because for months he’d been beating himself up. The turning point came when he experienced true forgiveness from me. I don’t believe he was able to get free until then.” Jessie took an important step of his own. He went to the church for healing prayer. Sharing what he’d suffered as a child, they prayed over that abuse. While he’d had prayer before, it was nothing as deep and thorough as now. Chains that had held pain and addictive behaviors in place were broken. 16 : BVOV

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