Kenneth’s Partner Letter
“The LORD has blessed me with many good friends over the years, but the best friends I have are the people who have partnered with me in this ministry. Those are the people I write letters to every month.”
And every month since penning his first Partner Letter in February 1986, Kenneth Copeland has faithfully fulfilled his commitment to write a letter and send it to all his Partners, year in and year out, without fail. It’s timely, it’s real and it’s personal…because as far as Brother Copeland is concerned, he’s writing to his closest friends.
A Lifelong Commitment
Kenneth Copeland learned the importance of letter writing from his spiritual father, Oral Roberts, years ago when the two met early one morning at Brother Roberts’ request to have Kenneth “help him” write his own partner letter. Sitting across the desk, Brother Roberts held up his Bible and asked Kenneth a pointed question:
“What is this?”
“That’s The WORD of God.”
“What is this?” Brother Roberts asked again.
Kenneth knew he hadn’t given the right answer, and he tried again.
“Well, it’s the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.”
“What is this?” Brother Roberts asked a third time.
“It’s the Bible.”
Wham! Without warning, Brother Roberts “shovel-passed” the Bible across the desk and hit Kenneth right in the chest with it—nearly knocking him over in his chair.
“Those are letters!” he said, the anointing all over him. “And they’re just as anointed today as they were the day they were written!”
Letters!
The word reverberated to Kenneth’s core. He thought, The New Testament is mostly letters from the Apostle Paul to his partners in the churches at Ephesus, Philippi, Galatia, Corinth, Rome, Colossae and Thessalonica—letters written to encourage them and to help them overcome every obstacle!
Then, Brother Roberts spoke again:
“I’m going to ask you to make one of the most serious commitments you’ve ever made in your life,” he told Kenneth. “I want you to commit to God that every 30 days, for the rest of your life, you will pray in the Holy Ghost until you have something anointed to write to your Partners, just the way Paul wrote to his.”
That day, Kenneth made a lifelong commitment. The LORD then led him to study Philippians—a letter from Paul to his ministry partners—as an example of how the Holy Spirit could use him to write his own letters.
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