BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

How is that going to happen? I can tell you this: It’s not going to happen by us acting like lone rangers. It’s not going to happen by each of us doing our own thing all by ourselves. It’s going to happen as we come together in Christ. For as Ephesians 4:16 says: “From [Him] the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love” ("New King James Version"). Joint Problems That verse reveals a vital truth: The Body of Christ is joined together by Jesus, but it’s held together by what the joints supply. What’s a joint? It’s where body parts are joined to one another so that they can operate together. One of the reasons the Body of Christ has been slow to fully grow up into the Anointing of Jesus, is that we’ve had joint problems! Too many believers have neglected to find out from God who they’re supposed to be joined to and gotten with the program. They’ve not come alongside the ministers and ministries with whom God has called them to be connected, so they (and all the rest of us) are missing out on the anointing their joint is meant to supply. I’ll be forever glad I didn’t miss out on the supply that has come from the connection between Jerry Savelle and me, for example. I still remember the day The LORD said to me, 'Jerry is going to come over and tell you he’s decided to go full time in the ministry.' I thought, Well, that’s wonderful! I didn’t yet know all The LORD had in mind for us. But I knew there was something special in my heart about Jerry’s ministry. Jerry and I have been a ministry team now for 50-plus years, and it’s been a BLESSING both to us and to the Body of Christ. When God put the two of us together, He joined the anointing that’s on Jerry with the anointing that’s on me and created something that in the realm of science is called synergy. In the natural, when two oxen are yoked together to a plow it creates a synergy that enables those two oxen to pull with the power of three. I don’t know how that works, but it does. It’s been scientifically proven. In the spirit, when God’s people come alongside one another to do the work of the Kingdom, the synergy principle kicks in even more powerfully. As God put it in Leviticus 26:8, “Five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight.” That’s the power of biblical partnership! I first discovered this power back in 1966, when I was working for Brother Oral Roberts. As part of his ministry transportation team, I was assigned to drive him to the first one of his partner meetings I’d been in. There, I heard him preach from Philippians about the believers who partnered with the Apostle Paul. About how through their prayers and giving they’d entered into partnership with him in the gospel, and that he said to them, “Both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace” (Philippians 1:7). Wow! Grace is God’s supernatural empowerment and supply. It includes the anointing that’s on a person and THE BLESSING in which they walk. Paul’s partners in Philippi knew full well the power of the anointing and BLESSING that was on Paul. Their church was a result of it. It began when Paul and Silas were chained up in the local prison and, as they were praising God and praying, the anointing on them got so strong it caused an earthquake. All the prisoners’ chains fell off, the prison doors flew open, and the jailer started crying out asking how to be saved. Paul told him, and he got born again. Historians believe that jailer became the pastor of the Philippian church. So, no doubt, the whole congregation there remembered that incident. They understood that when Paul referred to the grace that was on him for the defense and confirmation of the gospel, he was talking about signs and wonders. Can you imagine how thrilled the Philippians must have been to hear that because they’d partnered with Paul in ministry, the anointing that was on him was now on them too? I can, because I remember how excited I became in the meeting that day when I realized that by partnering with Brother Roberts’ ministry I could become a partaker of his grace. I wanted to become his partner so badly that day I could hardly stand it. But I didn’t have any financial seed to sow. My first inclination was to pull a button off my shirt and give it. But then the ushers passed out offering envelopes with little pencils attached to them and I got a better idea. I’ll go ahead and commit to partner with Brother Roberts for $10 a month, I thought, and I’ll put this little pencil in the offering to represent my $10. Then, as soon as I get the $10, I’ll send it in. 6 : BVOV

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