BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

He wasn’t! Up until the time He went to the Cross He was extremely prosperous. He not only had the finances to fund His entire ministry team, He was famous for giving money to the poor. His resources were so great He even needed a treasurer to oversee them. Poor people don’t need a treasurer! So, clearly, Jesus wasn’t poor during His life on earth. When He became poor was on Calvary when He took on Himself the curse that came on mankind through sin. That curse is threefold: It includes spiritual death, sickness and poverty—and Jesus redeemed us from all three. He gave life to our spirits, He provided health for our bodies and, as Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 8:9, “…though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” This is something we, as believers, need to get clear about: Poverty is not a money problem. It’s a spiritual problem. You can throw as much money at it as you want and, when you get finished, the poverty will still be there. President Lyndon Johnson proved this. Back in the 1960s he spent literally billions of dollars in his “war on poverty,” yet more people in this nation are living below the poverty level now, than back then. The president’s intentions were good; he just didn’t realize that poverty, as a spiritual problem, requires a spiritual solution. Jesus, however, did. So He provided that solution for us on the Cross. He took on Himself the spiritual curse of poverty and became poorer than the poorest person who’s ever lived. He became more poverty-stricken than we can even imagine so that we could be delivered from every trace of poverty and be made rich. “How rich has Jesus made us?” you might ask. As rich as He is! When you got born again and became His joint heir, you didn’t just inherit half of what He owns. You got the whole load! You inherited “richly all things to enjoy” (1 Timothy 6:17), PLUS you inherited everything you need to be a BLESSING wherever you go. When you tap into your inheritance in Christ Jesus, and give with faith and joy, financial BLESSING will flow abundantly through you because “God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:7-8). “But what if a depression hits, Brother Copeland?” What if it does? As long as you keep walking in THE BLESSING, you can still be always having, especially in bad times, so we can be a BLESSING to those who are in such need. ***** article continues on next page ***** ON EVERY AVAILABLE VOICE 1967…Kenneth Copeland Ministries began 1973…First BVOV newsletter/magazine was printed 1976…KCM Canada opened 1976…Radio broadcast began 1978…First Believers’ Convention, Anaheim, Calif. 1979…Sunday broadcast began 1979 …First Healing School 1979…KCM Australia opened 1981…First Southwest Believers’ Convention 1982…First worldwide satellite Communion Service 1982…KCM Europe opened 1982…KCM Africa opened 1983… Monthly Partner Letter began 1986…HQ moved to Eagle Mountain property 1989…Daily TV broadcast began 1993…Broadcast began airing in Eastern Europe 1994…KCM Ukraine opened 1996…Website launched 1997…Groundbreaking for Eagle Mountain International Church 2005…Disaster Relief Team established in response to Hurricane Katrina 2006…Spanish Sunday broadcast began on TBN ENLACE 2008…24/7 prayer line began 2011…Asia magazine began 2011...Sunday broadcast in German began 2012…Spanish magazine began 2012…First HD broadcasts 2012…Reaction Tour held first event in Uganda 2014... Chinese website launched 2015...bvovn Believer’s Voice of Victory Network began 2015…Colombia office opened 2015...Spanish radio began 2015…Believers’ Academy launched 2015…Online Partner Community launched 2017...50 years of ministry BVOV : 9

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