BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Karen remembered that six years earlier the Lord had warned her, Your mother has done something. In her mother's naiveté, she had gone to a spiritist. She'd never imagined that dabbling in the occult had opened a door to the enemy. Not only for her, but for the entire family. Warring With the Word In addition, during the six months prior to the diagnosis, Karen recalled that someone had spoken sickness and disease over her. The person had said the devil was going to try to kill her and that she would become very sick, but that Karen would not die. She and Stephen broke those cursed words. But now they realized they were dealing with witchcraft and sorcery. Along with spiritual warfare, the Lord directed Karen to pray through her house. He even instructed her to get rid of some of her mother's things. "Both my parents received the Lord before they died," Karen explains. "My mother had no idea what she opened the door to when she saw a spiritist. It opened my eyes to the fact that the devil doesn't play fair." God had told Karen that He was not only going to deal with the fruit of the cancer, but the root as well. The fruit was lymphoma. The root was not only the doors her mother had opened, but also the bitterness in Karen's heart. "The oncologist put me on a medical regime," Karen says. "But I was completely uneducated about biblical healing. I knew that I needed to learn it fast. Although I knew the Lord, I never knew Him to be the Healer. I was online when the Lord led me to the Copelands' product Healing and Wellness: Your 10-Day Spiritual Action Plan. I ordered it. "We read the book and confessed the scripture cards that were included. We B V O V : 1 7 played the healing CDs when we were awake and when we slept. Within two weeks, Stephen heard from the Lord that the scriptures were pushing back the disease. We knew without a doubt that this was God's answer for us. We became Partners with KCM shortly after that, and it changed our lives." Trading Sorrow for Laughter Still, the journey wasn't an easy one. The treatments made Karen sick and weak. Some days, she felt like she was falling off a high cliff—in slow motion. She felt weighed down with depression. Karen decided what she needed to do was to get alone and "cry it all out," she said. Because Stephen has walked so closely with her through everything, she didn't want to cry in front of him. Karen had begun writing the book on wisdom she'd promised the Lord she would write, when one day Stephen said, "Why don't we check you into a hotel? You'll get a lot more done with no distractions." Karen agreed, but not because she was excited to write. She just wanted to be alone so she could cry. Once she was alone in the hotel room, however, Karen heard the Lord speak. Do not cry. "What?" I'm commanding you not to cry. "Lord, I need a cryfest to get it out." Silence. "Lord, if this is You, please give me a "The first thing I did was use the Word to pull down every thought into obedience to Christ. I pled the blood of Jesus over my mind and thoughts. I had to keep my thoughts on God and His Word."

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