BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Greg took his request to the Lord in prayer, and soon after he heard the Lord say, Elijah and Elisha. Go see Brother Hagin. Not knowing exactly what the Lord meant, Greg traveled to Tulsa to attend the 2003 Winter Bible Seminar at Rhema. Suddenly, Kenneth E. Hagin and an usher came down the same hallway where I was standing waiting on a friend. He stopped and stared at me while I stared at him. I knew this appointment was divinely orchestrated. In that moment, I knew what I was to do and say, yet failed to do it. Then, in September of that year, Brother Hagin went home to be with the Lord. “I repented and asked God’s forgiveness, and then I asked Him to give me another chance.” Second Chance, New Beginning! In 2006, Mandy had been praying about a spiritual father for her husband when she heard the Lord ask, 'What about you? Wouldn’t you like to be like Gloria Copeland?' “Well, yes!” Mandy responded. From that point, Mandy began listening to Gloria Copeland’s teachings online. Several months later, she was on the ministry’s website when she saw that Brother Copeland was scheduled to speak at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola. “Having served as a chaplain there for seven years, we were granted permission to attend the meeting, which was closed to the public,” said Greg. After the meeting ended, Greg and Mandy saw Brother Copeland in the parking lot and decided to speak. “As we approached, Brother Copeland looked up at me, looked away and then looked back at me again,” Greg recalls. “Then, he came up and greeted me and said: ‘The same anointing that is on my life, marriage and ministry be upon you this day.’” With that, Brother Copeland got into the car and left. Surprised by what had just happened, Greg gathered his senses and proceeded on to the prison warden’s home for a visit. “To my surprise, in walked Brother Copeland,” Greg said. “This time, Brother Copeland invited me to attend the upcoming Southwest Believers’ Convention in Fort Worth, Texas. When I didn’t respond immediately, he asked me a second time. Then, before I could respond, he pointed a finger at me and said, ‘I’m telling you I want you to come to the Southwest Believers’ Convention. And I don’t care if you have to stand up on a chair to get my attention, I want to know you are there.’” Greg’s response was clear and direct: “Yes, sir, I will be there.” In July 2007, Greg and Mandy Green drove from Louisiana to Fort Worth to attend their first Southwest Believers’ Convention. Admittedly, at the first meeting that morning they sat near the back of the auditorium. But during the evening session, Greg moved near the front. “I can remember thinking if I stood up on the chair and yelled, ‘Brother Copeland, I’m here,’ I could see all the ushers carrying me out of the building,” said Greg. “But, I knew the words he spoke to me were orders from God, and I did not want to disobey them.” Instead, Greg caught the attention of an usher and told him about Brother Copeland’s instructions. “He said Brother Copeland didn’t usually see anyone during the time he ministers, but instructed me to sit in the same seat the next day in case Brother Copeland wanted to see me,” Greg recalled. After service the next day, Greg and Mandy were escorted backstage to meet with Brother Copeland, who prayed with them. Two years later, the Lord instructed Greg to fly to Fayetteville, N.C., to attend another KCM meeting—the Word Explosion. When the meeting ended, Greg was again taken backstage to meet with Brother Copeland. This time, Greg shared with him what the Lord had instructed him to say to Kenneth Hagin, and how he failed to obey that instruction. “This time, he prayed for me and then said, ‘I make myself your spiritual father.’ Then he told me: ‘You will never fail again. It will never happen again.’” ***article continues on page 21*** ***ADVERTISEMENT*** I’m one in a million “‘We are preparing for the largest, most unusual gathering of souls into the kingdom of God in the history of mankind, and we are preparing the message that will explode throughout this earth and cause men to come to the foot of that Cross and come to the glory of His resurrection and walk in the kingdom of God, kings and priests along with their King and their Priest,’ thus saith The LORD.” —Kenneth Copeland* Partner with us today! kcm.org/partner 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) +1-817-852-6000 * Prophecy delivered by Kenneth Copeland on Feb. 5, during taping of the April 15 edition of the Believer’s Voice of Victory broadcast. ************************************ BVOV : 19

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