BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

1 2 : B V O V KCM.ORG/PARTNERNOW was strictly a heavenly reward. But praise God, it's not! There's also an earthly aspect to this reward system. Partnership is one of God's ways of providing for us, here and now, BLESSINGS so great we could never muster up enough faith to receive them on our own. You can see what I mean if you read 2 Kings 4. There you'll fi nd the account of a Shunammite woman who decided to support the ministry of the prophet Elisha. She was so determined to be a partner in his work that one day when he was passing by she "constrained him to eat bread." She just wouldn't take no for an answer. She insisted that he stay for dinner. She didn't stop with that, either. She and her husband built a special room onto their house so Elisha would have a place to stay whenever he was in town. Do you know what Elisha did in return? He called in his servant, Gehazi, and said, "Go fi nd out what I can do for this woman. Find out what she desires." So Gehazi went, checked out the situation, then came back and told Elisha: "Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old. And [Elisha] said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid" (verses 14-16). Obviously, this woman didn't have the faith to believe God for a child, because when Elisha told her she would bear a son, she said, "No way! You may be a prophet, but you're lying to me now!" That was out there beyond what she could ask or think. But Elisha didn't have any trouble believing for it, and since she was due a reward and they were in partnership with one another, he just released his faith on her behalf. Sure enough, by the next year that Shunammite woman had a baby. Take Advantage of the Privileges That same principle will operate for you today just like it did for her. If you're a Partner with Gloria and me, for example, you've joined up with our faith. Now when we started out, we just had enough faith to keep our old car running so we could get from one meeting to the next. But over the years, as this ministry has grown, we've learned how to believe for the millions of dollars it takes to pay television bills and salaries, buy equipment and such. If you're newer to this faith life than we are, or if you haven't had the opportunities to grow in it that we have, you may have some needs that are out beyond your faith range right now. For example, you might have $50,000 worth of debt you'd like to pay. You know God can do it, but at this point in your life, it may be hard for you to believe He will do it for you. Well, take advantage of the privileges of partnership. Believing for $50,000 worth of debt reduction isn't hard for Gloria and me. As I said, we have to believe for millions every month. So write that $50,000 debt-reduction prayer request on the sheet I send you every month with my letter, and send it back. Use it as a way to release your faith in the God-ordained power of partnership. That's why I provide that sheet. I don't do it just because it's the traditional thing to do. I'm energizing you to take part in the prophet's reward! We have a prayer sta that prays over those requests. Plus, Gloria and I pray every day for our Partners just like we pray for our own family. We're exercising our faith on your behalf, so reach out and receive some of the BLESSINGS you have coming to you! Increase Your Anointing Realize those BLESSINGS aren't limited to this natural, material realm. Through partnership, the anointings God has given Gloria and me for ministry are also available to you. The Apostle Paul understood that principle. That's why, in the letter to his Philippian partners, he had the boldness to say: I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, for your fellowship [or partnership] in the gospel from the fi rst day until now; being confi dent of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch HOW TO USE THEIR FAITH. JOIN US IN TEACHING BELIEVERS Partner with KCM. KCM.ORG/PARTNERNOW

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