BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

By noon, however, my voice was gone! I could hardly make a sound. During the lunch break, I went into the speaker’s room. All I could do was whisper, so I whispered words of faith. “Father,” I prayed, “if I was to ask my voice if it was healed it would say no. But I didn’t ask my voice. I asked Your WORD and it said by Jesus’ stripes I am healed.” When I prayed that, I didn’t feel a single goose bump. My voice didn’t seem to improve at all. I could still barely talk. Yet I began the afternoon service by saying the same words to the congregation. “Good afternoon, everyone,” I whispered. “If I were to ask you if I was healed, you’d say no. If I was to ask my voice if it’s healed, it would say no. But I didn’t ask you. I didn’t ask my voice. I asked God and He said, 'Yes, you are healed by My stripes.'” By the time I got the last few words out my voice had completely come back! It sounded as strong as ever. I preached approximately 11 hours that day and then laid hands on about 500 people. Afterward, I was sitting in the pastor’s car and a little woman came up to me and said, “Brother Copeland, thank you very much. I was blind but now I can see.” She seemed so calm that I asked the pastor, “Does she mean she was spiritually blind but now she can see?” He smiled and shook his head. “No, she meant it literally. Physically she was completely blind, but she got healed today and now she can see.” What if I had quit when my body wanted to? I sure felt like quitting. I didn’t feel like I could preach another word. But that didn’t matter. What mattered was what I believed and what I said. That’s what matters in your life too. So, don’t ever quit speaking words of faith. “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). The same power that created this universe is within you. Say The WORD and let Him work miracles for you! V * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Who Do You Say Jesus Is? by Dennis Burke Not long ago, I traveled to Ireland for the first time to minister to believers in that beautiful country. While I was there, my friends took me to the site of the Ulster Revival of 1859 in Northern Ireland. The site sits on the side of a nondescript road, where you will find a small memorial plaque that describes the supernatural outpouring that occurred there. The memorial testifies of four men who united in prayer for God to move in their land. Their meetings began in a schoolhouse just a few hundred yards from where the plaque rests. Word of the meetings quickly spread, and soon others were joining them—filling up that little schoolhouse. They held meetings every day, and the Spirit of God moved in miraculous ways. Over time, tens of thousands of people came to know Jesus in Ulster. One record describes how, on one occasion, so many people dressed in black clothing were laid out under the power of God, the field outside the schoolhouse looked like a sea of black cloth. Now that’s what you call revival! * * * * * article continues on p. 10 * * * * * BVOV : 9

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