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PROPHETIC WORDS 1984 In February 1984, in Soweto, South Africa, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland sat in a small trailer, across from a "young German man, full of fi re"—Reinhard Bonnke, and his wife, Annie. It was the fi rst time they'd met the intense evangelist, and suddenly the spirit of prophecy came upon Brother Copeland. First, he prophesied that Bonnke would one day preach to millions—which happened in November 2000 in Lagos—but when they shook hands to leave, the moment their hands clasped, Kenneth prophesied, "Reinhard, stay prepared. There is coming an hour when I'm going to send you back to Germany to do some things because I am going to take that Berlin Wall down and I'm going to do it miraculously and I want you to be ready with the gospel when I do." Five years later, the Lord made that prophecy about the Berlin Wall public. On Sunday morning, June 4, 1989, at Eagle Mountain International Church, Kenneth stood up and prophesied that bold message again: "The Berlin Wall will come down." Of course, at the time it was totally outlandish to even think about the Berlin Wall coming down. But fi ve months later, on November 9, 1989, it did! Though God delivered the word prophetically through him, Brother Copeland said that "bringing down the Berlin Wall was above my thinking when it came down. Especially the way it happened. It was there in full strength one day and gone the next. No one was allowed to preach openly in Eastern Europe one day and suddenly all of Europe was open the next. When our God decides it's time for change, the impossible melts before Him like butter on a griddle." BERLIN WALL B V O V : 9 Let's go home and get on TV." "OK," Gloria said. New Direction By May 1979, a new one- hour Sunday program called the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast was airing on two stations. It was comprised of taped recordings of Kenneth Copeland Ministries' Victory Campaigns that were taking place across the nation. From May to December of that year, the broadcast expanded to 29 stations throughout the United States. But God had even greater plans for KCM—and its TV ministry. As Kenneth explains, in 1988 the Lord reminded them of a command He had given them in 1967: 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 new direction—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. at was all God needed! Speaking about the commission God had given them, Kenneth said by faith in 1988, " at's what God has told us to do, and we're going to do it.… Gloria and I are already totally committed to fulfi lling this assignment e 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." ose early eff orts to get the uncompromised Word of God onto daily telev ision were a

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