Kenneth Copeland - Help Others Access THE BLESSING Through Partnership
— Hello, everybody. We're the Copelands, Kenneth, Kellie and John. I want to thank Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, and Kenneth and Gloria were responsible for this.
— Thank you.
— You're welcome.
— I want to thank you, too. I told Kellie, I said, you know, I've known you about all your life. I want to thank Gloria... Anyway... Kenneth and Gloria Copeland for their TV broadcast. When I was in prison, I was able to watch the BVOV and learn about my redemption, read Faith to Faith, front to back. That's a devotional that Gloria and I put together, the first one. For two years straight, and I still read it today, my whole life was lived in wickedness because I was lost, but prayer led me to where I needed to be, and God sent me in the right direction. I'm very grateful for your ministry because it taught me what the love of God can do in my life. This year, I have learned to focus on gratitude, thanks to BVOV, AJ in Indiana. Don't you love it?
— I do. You have no idea how much that blesses us to hear from you, and we've set up a great way for you to share your story at kcm.org/BVOVstory.
— So now, when we were discussing the fact that what is said in this book carries over to this book, people thought Jesus was a poor man. He was not.
— I was going to say, when you said that yesterday, I had this thought, the old covenant and that blessing didn't pass away, but we were sealed in it. In this book, we were sealed in Deuteronomy 28, the blessing. We were sealed in it. It was ratified.
— Well, I need to show you something from Deuteronomy 30. I'm glad you brought that up, Kellie. Deuteronomy 30:19. I call Heaven and earth to record against you this day. In other words, I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, you choose life, that both you and your seed may live, that you may love the Lord your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave unto him, for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land, which the Lord swore unto the fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and to Jacob to give them. Jacob is the one who changed his name to Israel. Whoa. That's what this is all about.
— That's pretty big that we have the ability to choose.
— Do you know that the records of the genealogy that's in the early, for a lot of part has been lost, but it's in the book forever. Now, come over. Let's bring Abraham over into the book of Romans, chapter four, verse one. What shall we say then, Kellie and John, and class? Abraham, our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found, for if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof the glory, but not before God. For what says the scripture? This is not his opinion or idea. What does the Word of God say? Verse 11, He received a sign of circumcision, the seal of the righteousness of faith, which he had yet being uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised. The circumcision was what marked him. Now, class, you read it, television, you go read it, for the sake of time. Therefore, it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end that the promise, the blood-backed promise, might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but that to which is the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations before, or like unto him, before him, or right in front of him, whom he believed, even God, who makes alive the dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were. Do you have the Amplified? Oh, you put your ears on this.
— Where do you want me to start?
— Verse 17.
— As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. He was appointed our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and speaks of the non-existent things that he has foretold and promised, as if they already existed.
— That is faith, as if they already existed. So I call my body well. I heard Brother Hagin say, "Why do we put up with that"? Oh, and he told several stories about it. Well, I don't care. I'm not moved by what I see, and I'm not moved by what I feel. I'm moved only by what I believe. I believe this. There's blood back in there. Amen. So, and I've told you this before, when they were just children, two things. The Lord said, I jumped out and said, boo, and they went like this. How dare you? Who do you think you are? I've already told you that fear is the enemy. Don't you ever do that again. I called them in and apologized to them. Got down on my knees and apologized to them. And both of them said, "Well, that's all right, daddy". I said, "No, it isn't all right. And you grow up, don't you do your children that way". Anyway, fear is an enemy. Praise God. As it is written, I have made you. He had the authority to do that. Before him whom he believed, even God who quickens the dead and calls those things to be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations. Now listen, being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years old, neither the deadness of Sarah's wound. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, being fully persuaded that he, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. We should be fully persuaded because Jesus said, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father". He went to the cross, bled and died and went to hell for three days and nights. So we don't have to go. And this great apostle said, if the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he'll quickly, he'll make alive your mortal body. So that's the connection.
— Dad, this says in the New Living, his faith was so strong, it could not be undermined by the fact that he and Sarah were incapable of conceiving a child. So the benefit of living in the Word and constantly in communication with the Lord and talking to him, hearing from him, getting the Word makes our faith so strong that facts cannot undermine what he promised us.
— And those of you that are not partners with us yet, you need to be, you need to be. I write a letter down these lines every 30 days and have since 1967, every 30 days. I have never rerun another, another letter.
— And you've never asked anybody to write it.
— No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And I had a man when Doug was a CEO, he came in and he said, Doug said, he said, "Reverend Copeland, if you'll let me write your Partner Letter, I know I can get a lot more money for you". I said, I turned my back on him and I said, "Leave my office".
— Oh no, brother. I said, "Leave my office before I knock you out the door".
— I didn't mean to offend. I said, "Well, you did, whether you know it or not. Now get". Okay. Okay. I just tried to help.
— Doug is my mother's brother, our uncle, and knowing Doug, he probably just wanted to see that guy get you. He knew for sure what you'd say about it,
— But I write it myself and scribble out this and scribble out that. And I may call somebody and say, you may have a hard time unraveling this, but let me know if you do. And I'll rewrite it. And every 30 days since 1967, that's a lot of letters.
— I've always told him, I thought y'all would like to see all the scribbles sometime just once, because it's really a work being before the Lord that you in the natural labor over that. It's not the simple little thing that deserves to be just unopened and set aside because it really is. You get a word from the Lord on purpose.
— Well, and I'll sit there. Sometimes I pick it up a day or two before and, but I'll sit down in my study and I have a lounger chair that lounge back with my lined ledger and my pen and, uh, huh. Okay. By the blood he entered in. All right. Or whatever dropped in my heart that time. And, uh, I keep a little small little ledger line ledger about this big, a little smaller right there next to my bed. And sometimes, well, it had, it happened early, early, early, early, early this morning. And I got up and I guess just things kept coming and kept coming. So I wrote these things down and then I thought that's not any good. So I just... I just got them, looked, looked up all the scriptures and I made this outline this morning about four o'clock, four or five o'clock. Well, now as I went into this one, all it, it gave birth to all these other things, which that's the way the Partner Letter does.
— Well, I know that we were not intending to talk about partnership today, but that's part of my responsibility. Well, I need to talk about it all the time because they pay the bills. Well, and it's, it really is more than that. And in sitting in, you know, for 61 years, walking with you and mom and the Lord in this ministry, partnership is so misunderstood. And I'm going to take a minute of liberty here. partnership in the world isn't something people fight for to make partner in a firm and an ad firm or a legal firm or to make partner in a doctor's office is like everything they've put all their hours and work and study to do. because it means you're reaping the benefits and in partnership with God, Abraham partnered with the Word of the Lord and he moved and he, you know, even though it looks at times like he wasn't partnering with it, he stuck with God's Word and he saw, he saw it come to pass. And people get to thinking that when we talk about partners or your letter or whatever partner word we use to communicate an opportunity to join this mission with what God's put on your heart and called you to do, it's not, it's really less about the money than it is about the people. We've been reading testimonies to you about people who have watched the BVOV and then they employed what they heard of the Word and their life changed. And I get to meet with longterm partners that have been with us for up to 50. We met with a 50 year the other day and the story is the same. It's not that they just gave you money. They partnered with the Word they heard, the Word produced in their life, and then they are in it to a higher degree to help get this out to other people. And when we partner together with God's Word and the words you hear here, things change. And, I just wanted to point that out because it's a precious thing. Partnership is, you could never boil it down to something as common as money, getting money.
— And it's not just, it's not just the blessing that they have in their life. Partnership is also about making sure other people get that same message and that same blessing. Because without them, we don't do this. We don't sit here, right here, putting this out for millions of people to see, to have their life changed without partnership. It just doesn't.
— Right now, we're calling for a million partners because things have gotten so large. We can't do what the Lord has told us to do without it.
— The vision is big.
— And it's huge from the top of the world to the bottom and all the way around the middle. That's not just a slogan. And partners, we have an accredited college, but I've already seen the university. And the university has to have a-
— endowment.
— No, a college doesn't have to, it's not required what a university does. A university has to have graduate schools. So in my heart, I know what the graduate schools are. And we're going there.
— And the blessing will bring it. Yes. It's already done because I know that because I know it's the will of God to do it. So this, we put this out so you can be blessed. And so that's the reason the Lord said, "Don't try to ways to get the money in, try to ways to get the word out". And so that's the reason we'll give this to you. Only we're doing it.
— The nice one. The hard copy is coming.
— And this one, the blessing of the Lord is God's original plan for you.
— You know, you said you wanted to read the... I don't know when you were planning to do that. You said you wanted to read the chapters. Well, yes. The blessing loves ultimate. How much time do I have? Yeah, that's perfect. Chapter one, the blessing loves ultimate gift. Chapter two, the one thing sin couldn't change. Chapter three, project Eden filling the earth with glory of God. Chapter four, the day the light went out. Chapter five, activating plan B restoration begins. Chapter six, tracking the bloodline of the blessing. Chapter seven, 10 commandments of love, teaching the Israelites to live in the blessing. Chapter eight, the day all Heaven broke loose. Chapter nine, from the cross to the throne. Chapter 10, a reborn race. Chapter 11, the Lord and High Priest of the blessing. Chapter 12, following the faith of Abraham. Chapter 13, breaking the fear connection. Chapter 14, the royal law of the Kingdom. Chapter 15, come and sit with me.
— I like that part.
— In Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
— You've taught on all those things and it's changed our lives. And even as we progress talking about the blessing, I just, I thank you for letting me say that. I just want people to understand what the heart of partnership is from you and mom.
— And that's the reason for a length of time. You order it, we send it to you free.
— Amen.
— And there'd be on there how to order it. And don't just get it online, get the paper where you can highlight it and mark them. I can do that online. You have it. You hear me? You obey the prophet, you prosper. I don't care what you can do on that computer. This hardback paper, you get done with it and you hand it down and you hand it down. One of these days they're, the children are going to come in and say, "We found Pawpaw's iPad". Are you kidding me? You found Pawpaw's Bible and the inscriptions and all that.
— The things God said to you while you were reading. Yes. And I've marked this thing. Always stay on the God side of everything. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you. Be gracious to you. The Lord turn his face towards you and give you his peace to your whole family. Numbers 6:24 through 25. 5/9/09, I put this Bible in the service. And a certain president on a rally, it was President Trump. I didn't go in there to go on a rally. You know what I did? I took him a copy of the MEV and a copy of my Bible in the New Testament of notes. And I just, I just went in there to show him how to cast his care upon the Lord and wound up doing a rally. I didn't intend to go on a rally. It was not my intention. Well, that's fine. We got off and he said, I looked over there at his Bible and got on his airplane. Well, I just sat down in there. I was about four hours from here. Oh, a little further than John in the Boeing. And I was sitting here and Paula was sitting here. She's the one that set it up. I just got my Bible out there. There was a bunch of stuff going on. I got my Bible out and started reading it. It was this one. I had it redone, but he looked at it. And he said, when I looked over there... he didn't miss anything. I looked over there and he took his Bible and read it. He said, best I could tell is this about worn out. Well, it was so worn out. I had to have it rebound. And, uh, cause it's just anyway, is yours in the book of revelation like that? I don't know. Revelation, the Apocalypse, hallelujah. And the blessing is in it.
— President Trump told everybody I looked at his Bible. What did he say? I looked at his Bible-
— And he said, it looked to me like it's almost worn out and makes me want to read mine more.
— You know, I love that you, you know, Paul said, "He makes us the fragrance" He lets us partner with what he's doing. And he lets us be the one that makes a fragrance to other people.
— And we're out of time.