BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

“After taking an X-ray, the doctor explained that Gabriel had a dislocated bone in his elbow and a broken bone. The next day, the whole family came along as he went to Children’s Hospital for treatment.” Kristy and the other children stayed in the waiting area while David went with his son. After putting Gabriel to sleep, the doctor moved the dislocated bone back into place. Then, because of the fracture, a cast was put on his arm. Slits were sawed in the cast to allow for swelling. Still groggy from the procedure, Gabriel looked at his cast and almost wept. “I’m not going to be able to go to the Great Wolf Lodge and get in the water now,” he said. The Truth Revealed There had been a time when Kristy wouldn’t have known how to respond to that in faith. In 2013, however, a friend asked that she and David watch his house in Houston while he attended the Southwest Believers’ Convention in Fort Worth. “Watch it on television,” he said, “maybe you’ll see me.” David decided to do just that. After watching the convention awhile he called to Kristy, telling her, “You’ve really got to listen to this!” Kristy joined David to watch as Jesse Duplantis was speaking. “Some of you think we’re lying when we say that we’ve been healed although we still have symptoms,” Jesse said. “That’s right,” Kristy acknowledged. “God’s Word is Truth,” Jesse continued. “That Truth trumps sickness. Therefore, we speak the Truth when we say that ‘by Jesus’ stripes we were healed.’ We speak the Truth until circumstances line up with it.” For the first time, Kristy saw the truth of what he said. “In our denomination, we were taught that God answers prayers with yes, no and not right now,” Kristy said. “I struggled with that my whole life because I never knew what He was saying to me. When I was in middle school, I felt so desperate that I borrowed someone’s magic eight ball. “I said, ‘God, I’ll take the magic eight ball and flip it over. If it says, YES, DEFINITELY, I’ll know Your answer is yes and I’ll believe You.’ I had no idea that God’s will was spelled out for us in the Bible. We’d never been taught that! “Years later, our eldest son, Matthew, asked questions about the Cross that I didn’t know how to answer, even though I’d been a Christian schoolteacher. I went into my room and shut the door. I said, ‘Lord, I’ll throw out everything I’ve ever known if You’ll just teach me what happened at the Cross so that I’ll know how to teach my kids.’ What Jesus Did on Calvary “That was 2013, the year our friend introduced us to KCM. I wondered how Kenneth Copeland would answer my son’s questions. In hopes of finding out, I started watching "Believer’s Voice of Victory" on TV. They were offering a book called "He Did It All for You." “I ordered the book and read it cover to cover. I was amazed. I had no idea Jesus had done so much for us on Calvary. Soon afterward, Creflo Dollar taught about the differences between the first and second covenants. He taught how much God loves us and how our new covenant was established on better promises. I hadn’t known any of that. “We started listening to everyone the Copelands mentioned. We soaked up teachings by Kenneth Hagin and Charles Capps. We received revelation after revelation. Our faith grew, and we started teaching it to our children. It changed our lives. “We were living in Houston at the time, but we were getting fed primarily through KCM and EMIC. We prayed, asking the Lord to make a way for us to move to the Dallas/Fort Worth area.” David worked as a construction administrator in the architectural business. In 2014, when they decided they wanted to move, all the big projects were in Houston. In addition, the industry had been hit hard by the earlier recession and was still recovering. David applied for work with architectural firms in Dallas, but they couldn’t compete with what he made in Houston. By faith, David and Kristy continued praying while they packed boxes. Standing on Scripture, they danced around their boxes, rejoicing in the fulfillment of God’s plan for their lives. Then, in October 2015, David was interviewed by three different architectural firms in the DFW area. Two of them wanted him and kept increasing their offers. He was hired by a firm that gave him a good salary and a $1,000 moving package. They moved to the Fort Worth area, and soon after joined EMIC. They plugged into the church, taking opportunities to serve. Their faith grew faster than their children. 18 : BVOV

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