BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** When I asked The LORD all those years ago, “What do You want out of these meetings? What is our specific purpose?” He said to me, 'I want you to conduct meetings where people can totally immerse in The WORD of God. Get into The WORD of God and stay there! Talk about faith and the integrity of The WORD—talk about it and talk about it and talk about it…there is a people in the land today who have enough hunger for My WORD to come and sit under that kind of intensive exposure.' That’s our calling and we’re seeing it done! —Kenneth Copeland ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** 'Son,' the Lord said to Kenneth, 'I have called you to feed My people. They are out of balance. They are physically developed. They’re mentally developed. Some are so developed mentally that they can hardly hold their heads up. I’ll show you how to feed My people and build them up spiritually until they become balanced.' The fulfillment of that calling to feed God’s people was the target goal, as the doors of the Tarrant County Convention Center in Fort Worth swung open on Aug. 17, 1981, for the first-ever Southwest Believers’ Convention. Free and open to the public, the convention was designed to do just what God had commissioned—feed His people by teaching them how to use their faith in God and His Word; to take the Partners and Friends of Kenneth Copeland Ministries from the milk to the meat of the Word. In a word delivered through the late John Osteen, one of several guest speakers who had joined Kenneth and Gloria for the six-day meeting, the Lord said: 'I’m sending a Word revival to cause the Church to know who they are in Jesus Christ. And they will arise like a giant and they will go forth into a darkened world saturating them with My glory and My power. And they’ll cast out demons and heal the sick and bring deliverance to mankind. And I will show My glory in your generation.' From then until now, those words have rung true as the power of God has been evidenced in every meeting. In the 37 years since it began, the Southwest Believers’ Convention has continued to thrive and be a catalyst for change, remaining committed to total immersion in God’s Word and the teaching of faith by some of God’s most anointed ministers, including current speakers Jerry Savelle, Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar, Keith Moore and Bill Winston. Year after year, new Kingdom keys have been revealed, restoration has come, and new strength has been infused into the lives of the hundreds of thousands who have come from all around the world to attend. No longer spiritually emaciated, believers are learning how to walk by faith as mature, Word-filled, faith-confessing Christians. They are becoming believers who are filling the Body of Christ with the knowledge of how to stand and contend for spiritual reality in the face of temporal circumstances. Many of you are part of that Holy Ghost gang—our faithful Partners and Friends who have been along for most, if not all, of the journey. You know what it means to experience God’s overwhelming presence flowing through these powerful meetings. You have learned not only how to live by faith, but how to use it. For those attending for the first time, the rich atmosphere of faith will provide a powerful opportunity to grow and mature spiritually. Southwest Believers’ Convention. Experience it! V 10 : BVOV

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