What about 2010?
Will it be good? Will it be hard? The answer to both questions is “Yes!”
For some, it will be the best they’ve ever had. For most, it will be more of the same—only more intense. Jesus has the answers, and it’s good news for anyone who will seek and follow Him all the way through.
And that’s what this service was about: what’s coming and how to prepare for it!
The Copeland Family Meeting was December 4 – 6th in Orlando, Florida, and for those that are unable to attend this great meeting we wanted to give you a sample of some of the teachings from Kellie, Stephen, and Jeremy.
In this time of global upheaval and economic recession we’re delivering God’s Word with confidence, not just to cope but to overcome. Bring your family and friends for an outpouring of the blessing. We’re bringing the good news of God’s Word…No Fear. No Doubt.
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Nov 26
The Bible says if you pray according to God’s will, you know He hears you and you have the petitions you desired of Him (I John 5:14-15). God’s Word is His will.
God is faithful. His Word can be relied on. Don’t wait until you can see the manifestation before you believe you have it. That will put you over into an area of waiting and hoping. If you believe you receive when you pray, begin to praise God for the answer.
Faith involves thanksgiving and praise. Philippians 4:6 says, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Thanksgiving and praise are integral parts of prayer.
You and God are working together. It is your prayer and His power.
Praise is more than just words. There is power in it. God did not ordain praise just so we could brag on Him. Psalms 8:1-2 says, “O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.” Jesus quoted this verse of scripture and said, “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise” (Matthew 21:16). Strength and praise are the same according to the Word of God. God ordained praise to stop Satan in his tracks.
Once you have believed that you received because of the Word, your faith is in action. Through praise, you are throwing your faith up against that mountain of adversity in your life. Jesus said if you have faith and doubt not, you can speak to the mountain and it will be removed. You will have what you say. If you quit applying the force of faith, the mountain will not be removed. You want the mountain to keep moving until it sinks into the sea and is completely out of sight! Apply the force of faith by praising God that it is gone!
The only way Satan can stop you and your faith is through unbelief. He does not have power to stop God. He cannot stop that mountain from moving into the sea. The only way he can succeed is to make you quit applying the pressure.
The mountain may be sickness, disease, alcohol, family trouble, financial trouble or any evil work. Jesus bought and paid for the answer to all of it. You cannot face any problem that has not been taken care of through Calvary’s Cross.
The psalmist David said, “I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence” (Psalms 9:1-3). He did not say if. He said when the enemies fall back! As you praise God, those enemies will retreat. The Bible says He inhabits the praises of His people (Psalms 22:3).
Praise is not something you just feel once in a while. God is worthy of your praise. The Bible says to offer the sacrifice of praise. What did Israel do in the Old Testament when they had problems they could not overcome? The priest would offer sacrifices to God to bring Him on the scene and God would stop the onslaught of the enemy. As a new covenant believer, you are a priest of God. No other sacrifice can be offered. Jesus offered the ultimate blood sacrifice. As a priest, you offer the sacrifice of praise. Hebrews 13:15 says, “By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.”
In Luke 17, Jesus ministered to 10 men who had leprosy. They said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed” (verses 13-14). Verse 15 says, “And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified [praised] God.” They were all cleansed. But only one praised God unashamedly. Jesus said, “Were not the ten cleansed? but where are the nine?” Then He said to the man, “…Thy faith hath made thee whole” (verse 19). The others were cleansed but he was made whole! His faith kept working. His mountain did not stop at the seashore or sink halfway into the sea! No trace of his mountain was left. Whatever the disease had destroyed was restored.
That is the kind of power you can have right now in your own life. If you are not familiar with praising God, or it makes you feel uncomfortable, ask God to show you how. You can start by reading the Psalms aloud. They speak of the great and mighty works of God. They praise Him for His goodness, power and mercy. God is faithful to perfect your praises!
Happy Thanksgiving from Kenneth Copeland Ministries!
At the 2009 Copeland Family Meeting, a new Kenneth Copeland Ministries event, George Pearsons shared a message titled “It’s Time To Thrive, Not Just Survive.” In the clip below he starts his message with a declaration of faith.
“It is my time to thrive not just survive. I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I hear. I’m not going under. I’m going up higher. It is time to thrive. We are prospering, flourishing, succeeding, advancing, and increasing. I may be in this world, but I am not of it. I am separated from the curse, joined to the blessing.”
Pastor George Pearsons, the pastor of Eagle Mountain International Church on the grounds of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, then goes on to discuss the difference between surviving and thriving. He says that surviving is just “one step above dead.” In other words, it means to just barely get by. In contrast, Pastor Pearsons gives the meaning of the word thrive. In the greek thrive means to prosper, flourish, and succeed.
Check out the video clip of Pastor George Pearsons’ message at the 2009 Copeland Family Meeting or watch it on Blip.tv.
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You may have heard that Kenneth Copeland Ministries Headquarters sends out nearly half a million copies of the Believer’s Voice of Victory magazine around the world. But did you know each KCM international office sends out its own version of BVOV to its region—enabling us to reach more souls than ever?
Each month, KCM Africa sends the BVOV magazine to nearly 21,000 people. KCM Australia mails the publication to more than 21,000 households in over 40 countries on three different continents, and KCM Canada reaches another 18,484 households. KCM Ukraine translates the magazine into Russian and distributes it to nearly 48,133 homes in 57 countries. And KCM Europe sends out more than 21,000 copies of BVOV to 40 countries. There is also a German edition of BVOV that is sent to 2600 households, predominantly in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
In addition to reaching individual households, the BVOV magazine is regularly distributed to prisons, airports, secular businesses, mission outreaches and other areas. And now, the full BVOV magazine is also available online each month in downloadable format, making it available literally everywhere! That’s because of the generous partnership of believers like you—a partnership reaching more people in more places through every available voice, including the powerful printed word!
To view the BVOV magazine online or subscribe to the free printed version, visit Kenneth Copeland Ministries magazine page.
This story is continued from Kenneth Copeland’s “Jonah” Experience
Shortly after the car wreck Kenneth and Gloria attended an Oral Roberts partner meeting and that’s where Kenneth Copeland received his anointing for ministry.
At the end of the five-day meeting, Oral Roberts laid his hands on Kenneth. Moments later, while sitting in a chair, Kenneth looked up and saw a transparent vision of the people in the meeting. On the inside, their spirits looked weak and starved, but their heads were grotesquely enormous.
“It hit me so hard, I began to weep. I cried and asked, ‘What is this? What’s the matter with these people?’” Kenneth Copeland recalled.
And the Lord replied, These are people whose spirits-even though born again-are so untaught and so unfed with the Word of God, and their heads are so full of religion and tradition, they’re so untaught and their faith is so shriveled, they are spiritually helpless. Then the Lord added, Kenneth, you’re looking at the cream of the crop right here. You ought to see the bad ones…I have called you and anointed you to do something about this.
That’s when Kenneth Copeland learned what he was called to do.
“When Oral Roberts laid hands on me, that was the moment this ministry was born in my spirit.” Then Kenneth added, “Well, to tell you the truth, I think it was in there before. Because the day I was born, they brought me in to my mother and she took me in her hands and the first thing she did…she held me up and dedicated me to the ministry of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, there isn’t any way you can get away from that.”
In 1966, Kenneth Copeland had a “Jonah” experience when he was suddenly swallowed up one night in Marshall, Texas. Only God didn’t send a whale to turn Kenneth Copeland around.
“God, who is my Deliverer, was waiting on me in Tulsa,” Brother Copeland recalls of that life-changing incident. “But instead of heeding the call of God to head on over to where I belonged–where my deliverance was–I went the other way.”
For a while, Brother Copeland tried his own pursuits such as working at an insurance company. But he couldn’t get away from the call of God on his life. He just kept thinking, Man, I’m not supposed to be here. I’m in the wrong spot. I’m doing the wrong thing. Every time he prayed, God would say, I want you in Tulsa, Okla., at Oral Roberts University. And Brother Copeland, who never enjoyed school, would respond, “Oh, I can’t do that.”
Then, after attending a Holy Ghost meeting in Houston, someone approached him about being their church’s music minister. Kenneth Copeland accepted, though on the inside he kept hearing, ORU! ORU! Tulsa! ORU!
“I decided we were going to Houston,” says Kenneth Copeland. “I knew it was wrong.”
On Oct. 31, 1966, while driving on Highway 59 through Marshall, Texas, en route to begin that job, Kenneth and his family were involved in a car wreck. His young son, John, was flung into the front, breaking his arm and some ribs. Gloria’s face slammed into the car’s dashboard. Kellie, also a small child, was-thankfully-fine.
“If it hadn’t been for the grace of God, it would have killed us all,” Kenneth later said of the incident.
Sitting in a rocking chair in the hospital following the accident, Kenneth prayed in the spirit, repenting to God. He told God he was tired of running and that he’d been “a Jonah too long.” Something miraculous happened on the inside of him-and Kenneth was touched by the Spirit like never before.
The next day, Kenneth’s parents drove down to get them, since his car was totally destroyed. They took the family back to Fort Worth. “We were driving along,” Kenneth recalls, “and there’s silence in that car. I’m just sitting there praying, thanking God my family is alive.”
Suddenly, from the silence, Kenneth’s father said he had received two extra invitations to an Oral Roberts partner meeting-and asked if Kenneth and Gloria wanted to go. Kenneth asks, “Do you think I’d pass up another chance to go to Tulsa? No!”
At that meeting, Oral Roberts laid his hands on Kenneth Copeland and the vision for Kenneth Copeland Ministries was born.
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7 Steps to Walking Fear Free
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