Once Pam was on board with the message of faith, she and Larry agreed to begin to apply it in every area of life, including their finances. That meant investing in their own spiritual growth, and into the kingdom of God.
“We became Partners with KCM in 1983,” Larry says. “I’ll never forget sending them our first check for $15. That was a lot of money for us. We used some of the money we earned from selling aluminum cans to buy resources for our spiritual walk and for our business. The first teaching series we bought were "The Authority of the Believer" and "God’s Laws of Prosperity" by Kenneth Copeland. I also bought "The Power of Confession" by Fred Price.
“I can’t quantify how many times I heard them. For the next three or four years, I listened to them day and night. I’d started a lawn care business and listened to Kenneth every day while I mowed. I immersed myself in the Word.
“Kenneth Copeland taught me how to read the Word, understand the Word and stand on the Word. I let him teach me how to sow and how to receive. As I put those principles into practice though—things got worse before they got better.
“We were always behind on our bills. There was one financial fire after another. I don’t blame our financial problems on the devil. I was making bad financial decisions and mishandling money.”
Forming a Spiritual Partnership
One day, Larry came home and found his wife in tears. Day after day of being hounded by calls from bill collectors had pushed her to her limit. Larry knew it would help if they had an answering machine to screen the calls. But how could they spend money on that when they were behind on their water bill? The $11 bill had jumped to $22, and now was $33.
He sat beside Pam on the bed.
“I can’t take it anymore,” she said. “I just want this to be over. I want it to go away.”
“If we stop what we’re doing, will that help anything?”
“No.”
“Then we just have to keep going, standing in faith, speaking God’s Word and doing everything we can do in the natural,” Larry told her. “Let’s pray, because if you’ll help me, I promise that as we succeed you can have anything you want.”
“It’s not about things,” Pam said. “I just don’t want to be losing every day.”
That evening, Pam and Larry prayed. By the time they finished, they had something stronger than just a marriage. They had formed a spiritual partnership. No matter what happened, they wouldn’t be moved. No matter how bad things got, they would refuse to change their stand on the Word or change their confession.
BVOV : 15
