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Twice-Sown Seed YOU CAN COUNT ON THE FACT THAT 10% OF EVERY DOLLAR YOU GIVE TO KCM IS SOWN INTO OTHER MINISTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. When you give to Kenneth Copeland Ministries, people all over the world are set free...and in more ways than you might imagine! KCM’s outreach goes far beyond the powerful voices the Lord has entrusted to us, such as the "BVOV" broadcast, BVOVN, national and international meetings, and this magazine. Our outreach extends to other ministries—trusted, effective ministries—all around the globe. This is because the first 10 percent of all gross income received by KCM from donations and sales is placed into a special, earmarked fund we call Twice-Sown Seed. In other words, when we receive a gift from you, we sow a portion of it again into another ministry—so that a portion of your contributions is twice sown. It’s twice as effective and will yield twice the eternal reward. Together with the Lord, we are meeting needs and changing the world through the miracle-working, eternal equation of Twice-Sown Seed. Your seed not only supports KCM and its worldwide ministry operations, but it also goes to help ministries in Africa, Canada, Australia, Haiti, Central and South America, Ukraine, Europe, and Mexico. It reaches behind prison walls with Mike Barber Ministries; shares love with “at risk” young women through Mercy Ministries homes for girls; flies medical missionary teams to those in pain via Air Transport for Christ; comforts people during disasters; shouts out at evangelistic outreaches; teaches children about the Lord and much, much more. The list goes on and on, but the bottom line is this: When you give to KCM, your gift is immediately and globally multiplied with the greatest of stewardship. So when we say thank you for your faithfulness, we’re not just speaking for ourselves. We’re also speaking on behalf of many other ministries around the world. Through Twice-Sown Seed, when Partners and Friends like you give to KCM, you’re literally changing the face of the earth! V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ****** article continues below ****** A Servant Called Faith Think about it. You have a servant to take care of you! Jesus' own personal servant called faith. If you want a glimpse of how to put that servant to work, just look at Jesus' ministry. He had it working all the time. You can see an example of it in Luke 17. There we see 10 lepers crying out to Jesus for healing. They didn't come near Him. The Bible says they “stood afar off: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us" (verses 12-13). Jesus said to them, “Go show yourselves unto the priests." He didn't go near them. He just sent them off in the other direction to show the priests they'd been healed. Now they could have said, “We can't go to the priests! We have leprosy. That's the reason we're hollering at You, Jesus!" But they didn't. They just obeyed. They just took those words of faith He'd spoken and headed toward the priests. The Bible says as they went, they were cleansed. One of those lepers came back to Jesus, fell at His feet, and began praising God. Now notice what Jesus said to him. “Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?" (verse 17). Jesus had not seen the other nine lepers. He had not examined them. He could not have seen whether they'd been cleansed or not. Yet He knew good and well they were cleansed. How did He know that? Because He had some special X-ray vision? No. He knew it because He was and is Faith House. He didn't have to see it. He'd released the faith command and He knew the job was done. You can see Him do the same thing in Mark 11 when He cursed the fig tree. He just spoke to that tree and said, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever” (verse 14). Then He turned and walked away, never looking at it again. When He later passed by it again, He didn't run over there to see if His faith had worked. He just walked right on by. If Peter hadn't said something about it, Jesus would never have even mentioned it again. He just took it for granted that His faith did its work. “Oh well, that was Jesus. I can't operate like He did." Yes you can! You're His joint heir in the House of Faith. He's given you that same faith servant that healed the lepers and withered the fig tree. It will work for you today just like it worked for Him. He was and is our example of faith. You don't have to be some kind of spiritual giant, either. You just have to be willing to plant that seed! Years ago, I heard about a man who threw a $5 bill into the offering container in one of Oral Roberts' meetings. He'd retired from his job and was struggling to get along on a little pension that didn't even make ends meet. On top of that, he had very severe stomach ulcers. That night, after he heard Brother Roberts preach, he grabbed the offering bucket and said, “Jesus, this $5 is all I have left to get me through to the end of the month. I'm in Your hands now, ulcers and all." Then he just threw that $5 into the bucket and passed it on to the guy next to him. That fellow's attitude may not have been very pious but he left that meeting totally healed. A few days later he was in his house vacuuming the carpet when something inside him said, 'Go up into the attic.' He ignored it for a while, but he couldn’t shake that urging. So, he shut off the sweeper and went up into the attic. He got to rummaging around up there and found some old plans he had drawn of a clutch for a four-wheel-drive vehicle. He'd presented them to some of the major automobile manufacturers years before and they'd laughed at him, so he'd stuck them up in the attic and forgotten about them. The Holy Spirit told him where to take those plans. Sure enough, he sold them. That one transaction made him a rich man. One idea from God solved all his financial problems. He became for many years the largest contributor to Oral Roberts University. 22 : BVOV

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