"When I asked The
LORD all those years
ago, 'What do You want
out of these meetings?
What is our specifi c
purpose?' He said to me,
I want you to conduct
meetings where people
can totally immerse in
The WORD of God. Get
into The WORD of God
and stay there! Talk about
faith and the integrity of
SOUTHWEST
BELIEVERS'
CONVENTION:
When Kenneth Copeland stepped onto the
platform of the fi rst Southwest Believers'
Convention in August 1981, he took a major step of
faith in fulfi lling the vision and call the Lord had
given him nearly 15 years earlier.
In 1966, on the campus of Oral Roberts
University, Kenneth was still basking in the Lord's
Anointing after Oral Roberts laid hands on him in
C
ome
Alive
The WORD—talk about
it and talk about it and
talk about it…there is a
people in the land today
who have enough hunger
for My WORD to come
and sit under that kind of
intensive exposure. That's
our calling and we're
seeing it done!"
—Kenneth Copeland
a ministry line. Suddenly, God opened his eyes to
see the spiritual condition of believers as he had
never seen it before. The bodies of the believers
passing before Brother Roberts for ministry had
become transparent. Only their vague outlines
could be seen. Though physically healthy in most
cases, their spirits were so scrawny and sickly they
could hardly walk. Yet, on top of each emaciated,
B V O V
:
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