BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

for Brother Roberts as co-pilot on his airplane, and I'd own him to a meeting in Georgia. He preached on the principle of partnership and at the end of the service he invited the people to become partners in his ministry. Thrilled at the opportunity to become a partner, I lled out the partnership envelope. I didn't have any money. I don't mean I didn't have any money with me, I mean I didn't have any money, at all. None. But I put the little pencil they'd given us inside the envelope and said, "LORD, this represents my $10 partner o ering." After the meeting I started to leave and a woman in the congregation hollered at me. (This was Georgia, remember. So, yes, she did holler.) "Hey you!" she said. "The LORD has been worrywarting me this whole meeting to give you $10." "God bless you, lady!" I said, and grabbing the money I chased down the usher. He gave me my envelope back and I replaced the pencil with my $10. I was so excited I could hardly stand it. "Praise God!" I said to myself. "I'm a partner with Oral Roberts!" Almost immediately, his anointing began to manifest in my ministry. It came on me so clearly that Brother Roberts' wife, Evelyn, actually commented on it. After watching me minister to people in a prayer line she said, "Kenneth, it's the strangest thing. You and Oral don't look anything alike but when you're praying for people, somehow it's like I see glimpses of him in you." These days, people who partner with Gloria and me in our ministry experience the same kind of thing. If they believe and act on the partnership principle, they nd they have available to them every gift that manifests in our lives. They become partakers of our anointing and grace, and as they put that grace to work, we all increase! This is what I mean when I say that partnership isn't just about money. Finances are included in the increase we all experience, but money is the lowest form of power in the kingdom of God. The highest kind is prayer power. So in this ministry, prayer is front and center. Gloria and I, as well as members of our sta , pray 2 2 : B V O V for our Partners every single day. We also treasure their prayers for us, because we know prayer can do things nances cannot. It can release additional supplies of God's power into our lives and ministry. It can turn situations the devil meant for evil and cause them to work for our good. The prayers of the Apostle Paul's partners certainly did that for him. When he wrote to them, he was in prison facing a possible death sentence, yet he had such con dence in the power of their partnership he wrote, "I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:19). Of course, at the end of his letter he also thanked them for their nancial support. "No church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving," he said, "but ye only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacri ce acceptable, well pleasing to God. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:15-19). Look again at how Paul put that. He said, "My God shall supply all your need." Why did he say, "My God?" Because he wanted his partners to know their needs would be divinely supplied, not on their level, but on his level as an apostle. Unlike Paul, the Philippian believers, as individuals, didn't have international ministries. Personally, they couldn't take the gospel to that whole part of the world like he did. Yet because they partnered with him, Paul said God would BLESS them nancially at a worldwide level! If you're a Partner with Gloria and me, I can say the same about you. Our God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. As Partners in the seed we sow, He'll give you an equal share in the harvest. That's the power of partnership! 2025 Omaha Victory Campaign Nov. 6-8 | Omaha, Neb. Kenneth Copeland will also be speaking here: For His Kingdom Conference Living Word Aug 12-17 | Brooklyn Park, Minn. lwcc.org International Faith Conference Living Word Christian Center Sept. 11 | Forest Park, Ill. For updated event information visit: KCM.ORG/EVENTS events Join us! Schedule is subject to change without notice.

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