BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

B V O V : 1 1 soldier, just like David's men were. You are a part of the army of Jesus, the Anointed One. You're on a mission to occupy this earth and enforce the devil's defeat until Jesus returns. You may not be on the front lines of the fivefold ministry. You may not hold the office of an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher. But if you're in partnership with a minister who is doing the work of God, fighting alongside him or her through prayer or through giving, you'll receive an eternal reward for every person who is born again, and every believer who is strengthened or healed or delivered as a result of that minister's endeavors. This year alone, for example, millions of people made Jesus The LORD of their lives through the outreaches of Kenneth Copeland Ministries and, as a Partner, God is giving you credit for every one of them. Why is that? It's because, just like the soldiers who stayed and guarded the stuff, you did your part. You prayed. You gave. You helped us by joining your faith with ours. So as far as God is concerned, you deserve to be rewarded just as much as Gloria and I do because your part is just as important as ours! "Well, I'd like to believe that Brother Copeland, but that was an Old Testament ordinance. Are you sure it's still in effect today?" Yes! Jesus taught the first 12 disciples about it. He reaffirmed to them that principle of partnership by saying: "He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward" (Matthew 10:41-42). It would be sufficiently exciting if the reward we received from our partnership in God's work Partnership...is designed by God to dramatically increase the abilities, resources and rewards of every believer." " You see, contrary to what many people have thought, partnership is not a new idea some fundraiser cooked up. It is an ordinance of God that began in the Old Testament and continued in the New. It is a system designed by God to dramatically increase the abilities, resources and rewards of every believer. That system was officially established and recognized as an ordinance of God in 1 Samuel 30. There we find David and the men who fought under his command in hot pursuit of the Amalekites who had plundered their homes and taken their families captive. In order to overtake their enemy, David's men had embarked on a grueling military maneuver known as a forced march. That's a march under pressure which involves moving the most men and equipment as far and as fast as possible, while remaining battle-ready at all times. It's a tough assignment, and by the time David's men reached the Brook Besor, 200 of them were too exhausted to go on. David instructed the weary ones to remain behind and guard the supplies. Then he and the rest of the men went on across, found the Amalekites, and—by the power of God—jerked the slack out of them! They not only defeated the army and recovered all their own possessions, they took what belonged to the Amalekites as well. So, when they came back across the Besor, they brought with them great spoil! When the fighting men rejoined the 200 others, however, some of them didn't want to share the rewards of that war with those who had stayed behind. "Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered," they said (verse 22). It was at that moment that David, a man after God's own heart, officially established the principle of partnership. He said: "Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us.... but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike. And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day" (verses 23-25). What Can I Do for You, Partner? You may think that ordinance doesn't mean much for you. But it does. After all, you're a

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