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“From that time until now,” says Kenneth, “I’ve written a letter every month to my friends who are in partnership with me. They aren’t money-raising letters. I don’t write them for that reason. God is my Source, and He meets all my needs. I write the letters because I want to bless my Partners. Since they are partakers of my grace (Philippians 1:7), I want to share with them the revelations God has given me.” And they aren’t off-the-cuff revelations. Each letter represents hours upon hours of prayer on Brother Copeland’s part. Through them, he shares personally the things The LORD is teaching him with a desire that they will strengthen and encourage all who receive them. “I agonize over those letters,” says Kenneth. “I pray...and pray...and pray...and pray. Then I go back to prayer until I hear what’s on God’s heart. Sometimes it comes to me in the middle of the night. But one thing’s for sure—I wait until I hear from heaven. I don’t just sit down and put something on paper.” Perhaps no one knows better the time and commitment Kenneth spends each month writing his Partner Letter than members of his own family. “Mother and Daddy have always been committed to our Partners,” says daughter Kellie Copeland Swisher, who remembers growing up watching her dad handwrite the Partner Letter each month. Kellie remembers how her dad routinely spends hours, with pen and legal pad at hand, “praying over the Partner Letter until he hears from the Lord.” “We would go on vacation, and if it was time for the Partner Letter, Dad wouldn’t do anything until it was written. He wouldn’t ski. He wouldn’t go to the lake. He wouldn’t budge from his chair until it was finished. It was like the Partners were on vacation with us. “And when he had finished writing, if he couldn’t hold that letter up and say from his heart to the Lord, ‘This is what You’re saying to the people, and this is to get their needs met—not mine,’ I don’t care how great a letter it was, he would wad it up, throw it on the floor and start over again.” The Heartbeat of Ministry Since its inception, Kenneth Copeland’s Partner Letter has been not only an encouragement to Partners, but also a source of truth and victory. For instance, when a recession hit Canada several years ago, one Partner there remembered the instruction The LORD had given her through Brother Copeland’s Partner Letter in February 1992: Don’t join the recession! So she didn’t. After heeding that word, the Holy Spirit instructed her to take it a step further and pray the recession would work for her and not against her. Brother Copeland recounts, “The first thing that happened was, instead of being a victim of downsizing in her company as a result of the recession, she was promoted to a position in human resources.” Soon after, she was given the opportunity to finish her education. “As the world around her was going through a recession, she chose to participate in THE BLESSING of provision and promotion in God!” Moreover, Kenneth Copeland’s Partner Letters have become the heartbeat of the ministry itself. “I would estimate that 85-90 percent of what I preach in meetings…I receive the revelation of it while I'm writing that letter,” Kenneth said. “I’ve been doing it for a number of years and it’s a constant flow and a constant fountain of revelation for me.” Today the Partner Letter, which is mailed to nearly 300,000 people worldwide each month, is one of the most important ministry tools extending from Kenneth Copeland Ministries. It travels the world, from the top to the bottom and all the way around, providing strength and resulting in thousands of testimonies of salvation, healing, deliverance, restoration and increase. Though most material by KCM takes several months to produce, the Partner Letter is considered top priority and takes only a matter of days from conception to completion. “These letters have changed lives—my Partners’ and mine,” says Kenneth. “Thanks to God, and to the Holy Spirit working through the Apostle Paul and Brother Roberts, we have all been blessed!” Throughout the years, we have seen that partnership is indeed dynamic. But partnership is not a one-sided relationship. By definition, partnership means “to take a part in.” As the Apostle Paul said, “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now...because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace” (Philippians 1:3, 5, 7). V JULY '14 : 19