BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

1 0 : B V O V It just didn't look doable—until 1978. One weekend while heading home to Fort Worth from a trip to Arkansas, Kenneth and Gloria stopped for breakfast. They ordered their food, prayed, and then, as they ate, they began to discuss going back on television. "We just couldn't see how we could possibly do it," Kenneth has recalled. But suddenly, God's plan for the television ministry just dropped into Kenneth's heart, and snapped into place like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. He looked at Gloria and knew from the look on her face she had heard the same "snap." In that moment, they both knew that Jesus was saying to them, OK, let's do it! "Gloria," Kenneth said, "tomorrow is Monday. Let's go home and get on TV!" "OK!" Gloria agreed. New Direction During the month of March 1979, airtime was bought across the country with a one-hour special aimed to introduce Kenneth Copeland to a TV audience. By May 1979, a new one- hour Sunday program called the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast was launched. The setting was simple—just show the people at home this fiery young preacher from Texas as he opened the Word of God in meetings across America. The new TV audience loved it. In less than 2 years the BVOV TV broadcast was in the top 10 among religious broadcasters. But God had even greater plans for KCM— and its TV ministry. As Kenneth explains, in 1988, while he and Gloria were ministering in Australia, the Lord reminded them of a command He had given them in 1976: I told you then that I was coming so soon that I wanted this uncompromised message of faith on every available voice. I haven't changed. I have not released you from that assignment. Now, the Lord was adding another voice—giving them an assignment that would be the biggest step of faith they had taken up to that time. He told them: I want you to begin airing daily, 30-minute broadcasts through which you will teach believers who they are in Christ Jesus. Bring them from religion to reality. Use these programs to teach, not preach. Continue your weekly broadcasts on Sunday and do your preaching there. While the ministry still lacked the money to go on daily television, the personnel, the equipment and a studio to operate a TV ministry, what Kenneth and Gloria did have was that one word from God. And they had their faith. That was all God needed! Speaking about the commission God had given them, Kenneth said by faith in 1988, "That's what God has told us to do, and we're going to do it.… Gloria and I are already totally committed to fulfilling this assignment The LORD has given us. We're going to give everything we have to see to it that this job gets done. We're going to help arm believers across this nation with the mighty weapons of spiritual combat. We're going to teach them how to put on the breastplate of righteousness and how to wield the shield of faith. We're going to see believers turn on the devil and run him and his gang out of their lives, out of their families, out of their churches, and even out of their communities. "God has commanded us to launch a major offensive, to aggressively attack the forces of darkness. And we are committed to taking that step, no matter what the cost. We will see the wounds that have been inflicted on the Body of Christ in recent times begin to heal. We will see individual believers set free from the bondage of sickness, sin, poverty and fear. We will see the Church truly begin to glorify the Name of The LORD!" Those early efforts to get the uncompromised Word of God onto daily television were a resounding success, and laid a solid foundation for KCM's television ministry and its availability around the world today. Kenneth explained it so well: "So how did we jump from weekly television to a daily broadcast? By faith. We meditated The WORD. We confessed our success. We built our faith. We called those things that be not as though they were. We did all the same things you'll have to do to reach your next faith goal... we looked to God. As always, God was faithful to His WORD." "So how did we jump from weekly television to a daily broadcast? By faith. We meditated The WORD. We confessed our success. We built our faith." —Kenneth Copeland

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