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JULY 2026
Gateway
to the
Supernatural
by Kenneth Copeland
Every Minute,
Every Day
by Jeremy Pearsons
Better Than
a Miracle
by Gloria Copeland
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VOL. 54 : No 6 : IN PRINT SINCE ’73
From
The Editor
JUST DO IT WELL!
“The talent of success is nothing more than
doing what you can do well; and doing well
whatever you do, without a thought of fame.”
I was reminded of this quote by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow not long ago while
watching a rerun of the TV show Shark Tank,
the reality show featuring entrepreneurs making
business presentations to a panel of investors
(sharks) in hopes of acquiring financial backing.
Among those pitching their products was an
older gentleman I recognized as Wally Amos—
the guy behind the world-famous chocolate
cookies known as Famous Amos.
In the mid-1970s, Amos had become an
established businessman in the entertainment
industry. He had just left his job as the first
African-American talent agent at the William
Morris Agency to manage his own clients.
Having a flair for cooking, he often baked
cookies and passed them out to people while
attending meetings or visiting TV and motion
picture studio sets. The cookies soon became
as much a hit with people as Amos was.
“It reached a point where people wouldn’t
say ‘Hello’ when they saw me,” Amos would
later recall. “They’d say, ‘Where are my
cookies?’” Before long, those same people
were advising Amos to go into the cookie
business. It was good advice.
In March 1975, Amos borrowed $25,000 and
opened his first freestanding gourmet cookie
store on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard. Within
months, he had two more stores and was
selling his family-recipe cookies to many of the
same people he used to manage. The media
even dubbed the Famous Amos product “the
cookie of the jet set.” By 1980, Famous Amos
cookies had grossed $5 million. Five years later,
sales had doubled and Wally Amos became a
millionaire.
Unfortunately, Amos turned out to be better
at crafting cookies than running a business.
Financial woes led to him selling the Famous
Amos brand, including the rights to use his
own name and image on marketing materials.
Appearing on Shark Tank in 2016, the
then-80-year-old Amos sported a new brand
name—The Cookie Kahuna. It was the name
he adopted after losing his cookie business
and making a last-ditch effort at starting over.
Amos was seeking $50,000 from investors in
exchange for 20% equity in the new business.
When asked why his first business failed,
Amos told the sharks: “I’m a good promoter,
but I’m not a business guy. My focus was
not on how much money I was going to
make, I just wanted to have a good time.”
Respectfully, the sharks chose to not bite
and Amos left the tank empty-handed.
To repeat Longfellow, “The talent of
success is nothing more than doing what you
can do well; and doing well whatever you do,
without a thought of fame.”
The Bible says in Zechariah 4:10, “Do
not despise these small beginnings, for the
LORD rejoices to see the work begin” (New
Living Translation). It doesn’t always take
doing something big to become someone
famous. Fame is sometimes achieved simply
by making someone happy. Wally Amos, who
died in August 2024 at 88, did just that. He
became a success by doing what he did well.
And he made lots of people happy along the
way. That’s the legacy he leaves.
Ronald C. Jordan
Managing Editor
@Copelandnetwork
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Inside this issue 6
Gateway to the
Supernatural
by Kenneth Copeland
14
‘Uncle Sam’
to the Kids
by Melanie Hemry
20
Every Minute,
Every Day
by Jeremy Pearsons
26
Better Than
a Miracle
by Gloria Copeland
“You have divinity
on the inside of you!
Your spirit has been
re-created by God in
the image of Jesus
and He’s called you
to live supernaturally,
just as He did.
Kenneth Copeland >> page 6
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by Kenneth Copeland
As a born-again believer, you will never be
satisfied just living a natural life. You’ll never be
truly fulfilled just operating in the flesh as if there
were nothing to you except your humanity.
You have divinity on the inside of you! Your
spirit has been re-created by God in the image of
Jesus and He’s called you to live supernaturally,
just as He did.
What’s more, in your heart, you know it. When
you read John 14:12 where Jesus said, “He that
believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also; and greater works than these shall he do,”
your spirit leaps because you know that verse is
talking about you!
If you’re like a lot of believers, however, you
may wonder how you’re actually supposed to live
up to that standard. You might think, I can’t do the
kinds of things Jesus did in the Gospels. I’m just a
normal Christian. He’s God!
Yes, He is, but when He came to earth, He
didn’t minister as God. He ministered as a man
baptized in the Holy Spirit.
That’s why there’s nothing in the Bible about
Jesus working any miracles until after He received
the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Until the Anointing
of God’s Spirit came upon Him, Jesus didn’t have
the power to work miracles. “The Son can do
nothing of himself,” He said in John 5:19.
As believers, we’re in the same position. We
can’t do anything of ourselves either. Even though
we’re born again, until we’re baptized in the Holy
Spirit, we’re like Jesus’ first disciples were right
after His resurrection. They had His Spirit within
them (see John 20:22) but they didn’t have the
power to carry on Jesus’ supernatural ministry.
So, before He ascended back into heaven, He
told them how to get it:
Wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith
he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized
with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy
Ghost not many days hence…. [And] ye shall
receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come
upon you… (Acts 1:4-5, 8).
They took Him at His word, and if you’ve read
Acts 2, you know what happened.
Ten days later, as 120 were praying in the upper
room in Jerusalem, they heard a sound from
heaven like a mighty wind, saw heavenly tongues
of fire engulfing them, and “they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance” (Acts
2:4).
Because it was Pentecost, Jews from every
nation were in Jerusalem at the time. They heard
what was happening, and the multitude came
together and were confounded. “Behold, are
not all these which speak Galilaeans?” they said
(verse 7). “And how hear we every man in our own
tongue, wherein we were born?” (verse 8).
Notice those verses don’t say the disciples
were speaking the languages of all those people.
It says the people heard in those languages. So,
the miracle may have been in the ears of the
multitude as well as in the mouths of the disciples.
Gateway
to the
Supernatural
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God’s will is for all believers
to pray in other tongues. His
plan is for every one of us to
go through that gateway to the
supernatural because there
are a lot of benefits to it.”
But either way, it was undoubtedly a miracle.
Think about that! Speaking in tongues was
the first miracle the Holy Spirit empowered
those first believers to do. It was their gateway
to the supernatural—and the good news for us
is that God hasn’t changed His plan since then.
Praying in tongues is still the gateway to the
supernatural for believers today.
Ask and You Shall Receive
Why is this good news?
Because speaking in tongues is something
every believer can and should do. We don’t have
to wait 10 days for God to give us the ability to
do it, either. Unlike the first believers who had to
wait for Pentecost to come, we can be baptized
in the Holy Spirit whenever we’re ready. All we
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gives us some kind of special spiritual feeling.”
Sadly that’s what a lot of believers have been
told, but it’s not true. There’s no basis for it in the
Bible at all. It’s just religious tradition.
Happily, when I received the Baptism in the
Holy Spirit in 1963, I’d never been taught that
tradition. I’d been born again about six months
and I hadn’t yet spent enough time around
churches to have much religion to unlearn. Gloria
and I had attended a service with my parents. At
the end, the man conducting the service invited
anyone who wanted to receive the Baptism in the
Holy Spirit to come forward.
I turned around and asked my mother, “Is that
something we ought to have?” She said, “Yes.”
So, Gloria and I both jumped up and went to the
front of the room.
We didn’t know what to expect, and no one
gave us any instruction about how to receive. The
women of the church just gathered around Gloria
while the men gathered around me, and they all
started praying for us. Some of them hollered,
“Hang on!” Others shouted, “Let go!” I had no
idea what to do.
When they got tired of praying and sat down,
Dr. Reed told me to lay hands on Gloria. At first, I
said, “No.” (Can you imagine? I wouldn’t even lay
have to do is ask our heavenly Father, believe
we receive, and start speaking out of our spirit,
trusting the Holy Spirit to give the utterance.
“But Brother Copeland, what if I say something
wrong? What if instead of getting words from the
Holy Spirit, I get words from some evil spirit?”
That’s a biblical impossibility!
In Luke 11:9, Jesus told us it will never happen.
“Ask, and it shall be given you,” He said.
“If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is
a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a
fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he
shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye
then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto
your children: how much more shall your heavenly
Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
(verses 11-13).
Any fear you have about praying in tongues is
unfounded. It’s just carnal junk the devil is using to
try to keep you from doing it. He knows that once
you start speaking in other tongues, he’s had it.
You’ll be able to open your mouth and go through
that supernatural gate whenever you want, and
he won’t be able to stop you.
“I don’t know,” someone might say. “I’ve been
told, even after receiving the Baptism in the Holy
Spirit, we can only pray in tongues when God
“YOU CAN STEP
OVER INTO A supernatural
PLACE WHERE THERE’S NO
TIME AND NO DISTANCE. A
PLACE WHERE YOUR awareness
OF THE REALITY OF GOD
SUPERSEDES THE REALITY OF
THE NATURAL REALM.”
hands on my own wife!) But in his big booming
voice he said again, “Lay your hands on her!” so
I did.
Afterward, I was sitting in a chair on the
platform praying in English and he touched me
on my forehead and said to me, “That’s enough
English!” and I took off praying in other tongues!
Later that night, I was flying back to Little
Rock, Ark., to be at work the next morning, and
I kept thinking about what had happened to me.
So I prayed, “LORD, I’m not really sure what
happened to me tonight,” I said, “but I’m going to
say some of those words again. If there’s anything
to it, anoint it.” (I don’t know how I came up with
the word anoint. I guess I’d heard it during the
meeting.)
I tried to remember something I’d said in
tongues, spoke the first syllable, and that’s all
it took. I took off again praying in tongues and
prayed all the way to Little Rock. When I saw the
lights of the city on the horizon, I realized I was
going to have to talk to the control tower and
wondered what was going to come out.
I was shocked when I said, “Little Rock
approach,” and it came out in English. Hey, that’s
good! I thought.
After I landed, I was so thrilled I jumped out of
the airplane and danced around. Still talking and
shouting in tongues, I BLESSED the airplane…I
BLESSED the hangars…I BLESSED the concrete
I was standing on and everything else I could find.
And I’ve talked in tongues just about every day
since!
Not Just for a Select Few
“But Brother Copeland, that was just God’s will
for you. Not all Holy Spirit-baptized believers can
pray in tongues like that.”
Sure they can. The book of Acts confirms it. In
every account it gives of believers receiving the
Baptism in the Holy Spirit, there’s an indication
they spoke in tongues. You can just go down the
list:
In Acts 2:4, the 120 in the upper room “were
all filled with the Holy Ghost, and [they] began to
speak with other tongues.”
In Acts 8, the believers in Samaria received the
Baptism in the Holy Spirit and, verse 18 says,
Simon (who’d previously been a sorcerer) “saw
that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands
the Holy Ghost was given.” Obviously, what he
saw was believers speaking in tongues, and it so
impressed him that he actually asked the apostles
if he could buy this supernatural gift. Peter said no
and rebuked him. “Thou hast neither part nor lot
in this matter” (verse 21). Or as it literally says in
the Greek, “in these spoken words.”
Acts 9 records how Saul (later known as Paul)
received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit after his
conversion on the road to Damascus. We know
he spoke in tongues because he later wrote in his
letter to the Corinthians, “I thank my God, I speak
with tongues more than ye all” (1 Corinthians
14:18).
The pattern continues in Acts 10 in the account
of the Gentiles receiving the Baptism in the Holy
Spirit at Cornelius’ house. It says, “that on the
Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy
Ghost,” and they began to “speak with tongues,
and magnify God” (see verses 45-46). In Acts 19,
the newly born-again Ephesian believers did the
same. “When Paul had laid his hands upon them,
the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake
with tongues” (verse 6).
Put all those passages together and the
message is clear: God’s will is for all believers to
pray in other tongues. His plan is for every one of
us to go through that gateway to the supernatural
because there are a lot of benefits to it. According
to the New Testament, by praying in other
tongues:
We can speak mysteries to God and pray
out
beyond
our
natural
understanding
(1 Corinthians 14:2)
We can build ourselves up in the spirit on our
most holy Faith (Jude 20)
We can intercede for others according to the
perfect will of God in utterances given to us by
the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26-27)
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We can receive revelation from the Holy Spirit
whom Jesus promised “will guide you into all
truth…and he will show you things to come”
(John 16:13).
If you pray in tongues long enough, you can
find out from God anything you need to know
about your life and future. You can get into a place
in the spirit where you experience what Jesus was
talking about when He said that the Holy Spirit
“shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and
shall show it unto you” (John 16:14).
Have you ever heard athletes talk about
“getting in the zone”? The zone is the place
where, after pushing themselves until, physically,
they don’t have anything left, athletes experience
a breakthrough. They get a second wind, and
suddenly something other than just their five
senses takes over.
When you pray in tongues, if you persist long
enough, you can experience that in the spirit! You
can step over into a supernatural place where
there’s no time and no distance. A place where
your awareness of the reality of God supersedes
the reality of the natural realm.
When you’re in that place, the divinity on
the inside of you rises up and dominates your
humanity. You’re able to receive from God
whatever you need to walk in victory through
whatever situation you may be facing.
I’ve experienced this time and again. I
remember one time, for instance, in my early
years of ministry, I was preaching some meetings
in Oklahoma City and woke up one morning
aching all over with symptoms of the flu. When
I tried to stand up, the room would start spinning
and I’d fall over. I couldn’t even get out of bed.
Unable to stand up to shave, I asked Gloria to
help me. With me still lying in bed, she caught me
by the hair, lifted my head up off the pillow and
shaved my face. I don’t know what I looked like
when she was finished, but with her help I made it
to the church.
When I walked up to the pulpit to preach,
however, the room started spinning and I almost
fell on the floor. “I’ll be right back,” I said. Turning
around, I walked into the little choir room behind
the platform. Once there, I let the devil have it.
“Get your filthy hands off my body! This body
belongs to Jesus, not you!” I said. Then I let loose
in other tongues at the top of my voice. After a little
while I got over into that place in the spirit where
the body doesn’t count, and I went back into
the auditorium. Grabbing the pulpit, I began to
preach.
That pulpit started trying to sway a little, but I
didn’t care. I’d gotten into the zone. So, ministering
under the power of God, I did what He called me
to do. I preached on healing for a couple of hours
and walked out of there not only completely well
but satisfied because, like you, I know that’s how
I’m called to live.
Jesus said you’re
called to do the same
kind of supernatural
things He did when
He was ministering
on earth. (John 14:12)
Speaking in tongues
is the gateway to the
supernatural.
(1 Cor. 14:2)
KEY
POINTS
You receive the
power to do the
works of Jesus the
same way His first
disciples did, through
the Baptism in the
Holy Spirit. (Acts 1:8)
The first supernatural
thing the Holy Spirit
empowered the
early believers to do
was speak in other
tongues. (Acts 2:4)
When you pray, you build up your spirit so
that the divinity on the inside of you rises up
and dominates your humanity. (Jude 20)
How It Happened
In 1967, a newly born-again friend told me she
was going to receive the Holy Spirit and speak
with tongues.
“Oh, no you’re not,” I said. “That is of the devil.” I
simply parroted a headline in our denominational
magazine, “Speaking in Tongues Is of the Devil.”
The next week my friend and I were speaking
in tongues. Someone took us to a seminar where
Kenneth E. Hagin was teaching on what the Bible
says about the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. He’d
seen a vision of denominational people coming
into the fullness of the Holy Spirit. And he was
instructed to teach them.
In 1970, I became an editor for Brother Hagin.
An early book I edited was The Woman Question.
I’d known from childhood I was called to preach.
But my denomination did not allow women to
preach. Over the typewriter, I wept to the Lord,
“You mean I can do what I’ve felt called to do and
not get in trouble at the judgment seat of Christ?”
Yes. And one day you will leave here and preach
around the world. But right now you don’t know
much. This is your Bible school.
A Seminar on Love
I thought I knew more than I did. My Christian
upbringing provided a good foundation. I felt
qualified to bring my husband, Kent, into the paths
of righteousness. Kent and his father were born
again when Kent was 16. His family, a loving one,
hadn’t regularly attended church. I pressured him
into tithing and church attendance by begging,
accompanied with tears.
And when Brother Hagin announced he was
going to teach on walking in love and I was to put
it into print, I felt qualified. Steno pad in hand, I
came to the seminar with confidence.
To sum it up, Brother Hagin taught that the
love we are to walk in is not natural, human love.
It is the God kind of love. Natural human love is
selfish. The God kind of love is God Himself. For
God is love (1 John 4:8).
At the new birth, the God kind of love is shed
abroad in the newly created spirit by the Holy
Spirit (Romans 5:5). It is not in the mind or the
At the same time, Kenneth E. Hagin showed
me how to do it—and I did it. It saved my
marriage, my ministry, my life. Now I can tell
you how to do it, and it will do the same for you.
by Billye Brim
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Most Christians know to walk in love.
But they struggle with how to do it.
In the early 1970s I learned the how to
of it. It came as a revelation. In one moment
I realized I was not walking in love.
How to
Walk in
Love
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down on the table. He didn’t seem to notice. When
he came home at noon, lunch was on the table, but
I was in our bedroom with the door shut. That night,
there was no supper. I was still in the darkened
bedroom where I’d cried all day saying, “He doesn’t
love me. If he did, he’d remember my birthday.”
Kent opened the door and said, “What’s wrong
with you? Is it your birthday or something?” Then
came the old excuse, “I thought it was Dec. 8.”
Space doesn’t permit me to tell other such
incidents, or to say how loving, giving and faithful
Kent was. But until I heard Brother Hagin comment
on the love thermometer, I thought I was so right
and Kent was so wrong. When the light dawned,
I saw that I was wrong for noticing. My heart
convicted me. I wanted to walk in love. I wanted my
faith to work (Galatians 5:6). So I listened intently to
what Brother Hagin said and I did it.
Victory
He said, “You will locate your problem area in one
of these verses. When you do, write that verse on
3-by-5 index cards and put them in your places of
attack.”
I wrote out several cards and strategically placed
them. One I placed inside my kitchen-cabinet door.
Our old house had a big country kitchen where
much of our family life took place. It was here that
my love walk knew attack. I shall tell you about two
attacks.
One evening when Kent came in the back door, a
pot of vegetable soup was simmering on the stove.
After sampling it, he wrinkled up his nose and
asked, “What did you put in this soup, anyway?”
My flesh wanted to react, but I ruled over it. I
opened the cabinet door and read silently, Love
is not touchy…it pays no attention to a suffered
wrong. Then I answered him with a smile. Victory!
He took another bite and said, “I wish you’d
call Mom and ask her what she puts in her soup.”
Counterattack! I opened the cabinet door, read the
card again and assured him I would do that. Victory!
I especially remember another attack that came
body. It is in the heart, the spirit. To walk in love, the
spirit must dominate the flesh.
I remember what he taught as if there were steps.
1. Be born again. Walking in the God kind of
love is possible only to children of God.
2. Know Romans 5:5. “The love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is
given unto us.” The love in our hearts is released
by faith through words and deeds.
3. Know the definition of the love of God in 1
Corinthians 13:4-8. The Amplified Bible, Classic
Edition has the fullest revelation of the Greek.
4. Judge yourself to see if you are walking in the
God kind of love.
I can almost hear his voice as he taught from the
AMPC phrase by phrase. “‘Love endures long and
is patient and kind’ (verse 4). Some people endure
long, but they’re not patient and kind while they’re
enduring. A husband or wife may be putting up with
a lot of things, but they want everyone to know,
including their spouse, what they’re suffering.”
His comments on every phrase were enlightening.
You can read them in his book Love: The Way to
Victory.
I felt pretty good about myself until he said, “Now
this is the divine love gauge—love’s thermometer.
‘Love…is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes
no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention
to a suffered wrong]’ (verse 5).”
What! I thought. My beloved grandmother is
touchy; and she’s Holiness. My mother is touchy.
Sometimes one needs to notice what others do
in order to get them to do right. I’d practiced this,
particularly with Kent.
For instance, Kent never remembered my
birthday. Almost every year, beginning with our
anniversary a short while before that, which he also
never remembered, I’d start building up steam. One
Dec. 6 morning, I remember slamming his breakfast
“Natural human love is selfish.
The God kind of love is God Himself. For God is love.”
on a cold wintry night. I’d made chili. Kent thought
my chili was better than his mother’s. I’d also made
cornbread, pouring the batter into a hot iron skillet so
the crust would be dark brown. I timed it to come out
of the oven when Kent walked in the door.
“Oh good, chili!” he exclaimed. I was about to
walk out the door to go teach a class at Victory Bible
Institute, when Kent called after me, “Where are the
crackers?”
“We don’t have crackers,” I said nicely, “I made
hot cornbread. You like that with chili.”
“Somehow,” he said, “I just don’t feel like
cornbread.”
What! How could anyone not feel like cornbread?
My flesh wanted to tell him he had two good legs
and a new pickup. If he wanted crackers he could go
get crackers. But I didn’t. I ran to the cabinet door,
opened it and silently read what I’d written there.
When I turned around toward Kent, something
supernatural happened; the Lord let me feel love.
From deep within, I felt love rise like hot lava in a
volcano. It bubbled up from my spirit, and flowed
through my flesh, out my arms, out my legs, out my
eyes. As I looked at Kent, I was totally possessed
with divine love toward him. Overcome with desire to
get that man crackers, I dramatically proclaimed, “I’ll
get you some crackers.”
Oblivious to what was going on in me, he said,
“Oh, by the way, we’re out of coffee.”
When I arrived at the store, I saw a butcher-paper
sign taped in the window. Two items were offered as
loss-leaders, advertised below cost to get you into
the store. They were, crackers and coffee. A sign
from God!
Life’s Victories
I’ve put these simple steps into practice many,
many times. Learning how to walk in love has
blessed my family, saved my ministry, and helped
me walk in health and strength. I’m not perfect at it,
but I know how to do it. Thank God!
Billye Brim is president and
founder of Billye Brim Ministries
aka Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks.
For information visit her website at
billyebrim.org.
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14 : B VOV
by Melanie Hemry
“That’s a wrap!”
Those words signaled the live show had
ended.
Eighteen-year-old Terry Horn climbed a 12-
foot ladder inside the studio to adjust a light
fixture.
Pete Sumrall, the owner’s son, stepped onto
the set.
“Hey guys, my dad wants to see you in his
office right away.” He called everyone’s name
except Terry’s.
This can’t be good, Terry thought.
Terry had never wanted to be a fireman,
policeman or lawyer like others he knew, growing
up, had expressed. His desire was always to
work in television—going to New York City and
working at a major TV station. In high school,
Terry had even taken courses in television and
radio.
He’d never imagined that one day someone
would come to his hometown and buy a million-
watt television station, much less hire Terry as
part of the production crew.
Terry had been raised in a Christian home
by godly parents. But instead of following the
path of his parents, who chose to make Jesus
the Lord of their lives, Terry had fallen in with
a wild crowd. Yet here he was working at a
Christian television station when he wasn’t even
a Christian.
A few minutes passed, and finally the other
workers returned with their last paychecks.
They had all been fired.
“Terry, now Dad wants to meet with you,” Pete
said.
Trembling, Terry walked into the office of his
boss—Lester Sumrall.
“I’ve listened to the way those guys talked
through their headsets since we hired them,”
Lester told Terry. “They griped and complained
all the time. They never showed any respect for
what we do here. We’ve watched you for months
and, even though you don’t profess to know
Christ, you at least bow your head and show
respect when we pray. That’s why we decided
to keep you. I’d like for you and Pete to run the
station until I can hire a new crew. How does
that sound to you?”
Surprised, Terry’s words were short: “Fine,
thank you.”
As he turned to leave, Sumrall pointed at Terry
and said, “I believe someday God’s going to
really use you.”
‘Uncle Sam’
to the Kids
B VOV : 15
“That’s how I became Brother Sumrall’s No. 1
camera man,” Terry remembers.
Pete and Terry ran the station for weeks before
new crew members were hired.
The Prodigal Returns
“A children’s evangelist, who had a TV show on
the station, dressed like a pirate and called himself
Captain Hook,” Terry recalled. “He needed a live
actor, so Brother Sumrall asked if I would help out.
I became Captain Hook’s sidekick, Scurvy.
“I heard a lot of amazing testimonies while
working at the station. But one day in May 1974,
during a three-day telethon the station was
conducting, they interviewed someone I had
known for years. He was a muscle builder who had
dreamed of someday becoming Mr. America. One
day, the man said, he noticed a lump just above
his belly button. Exploratory surgery revealed it to
be one of the fastest growing cancers in the world.
They sewed him up and gave him 30 days to live.
“God had healed him. He didn’t die in 30 days
but went on to win Mr. Indiana and other titles. I
knew this guy. Now, here I was on the camera, and
hiding behind the viewfinder because I was crying
so hard.”
That night, after his shift ended at 11, Terry
grabbed a bite to eat and just went home. Lying
in bed, Terry kept rehearsing in his mind what he
had heard earlier that evening through that man’s
testimony.
“God, if You really want me to get saved, wake
me up early and I’ll get saved,” he said.
“The next morning, my eyes popped open at
around 6:50,” Terry recalled. “I got dressed, went
for a walk in the woods, knelt beside a log, and
gave my life to Jesus. When I told my dad, he gave
me the silver ring he’d made for his father. He put it
on my finger. It felt like the ring the father gave his
prodigal son. I’ve worn it now for 52 years.”
Soon after giving his life to Jesus, Terry received
his calling.
Through his experience working alongside
Captain Hook, he realized God was calling him
to minister to children. He decided to move to
Dallas, Texas, where he enrolled at Christ For The
Nations Institute. At the end of the first semester,
Terry returned home to Noblesville, Ind., during the
Christmas break. While there, he visited the old TV
station.
“I received a phone call from Lester Sumrall
shortly after that visit,” Terry recalled. “He said,
‘Terry, I want you to understand something. I’m the
only Bible college you need. Will you come back
and work for me?’”
“OK, Brother Sumrall.”
“I’ve never regretted that decision,” says Terry.
‘Uncle Sam’ Is Born!
Terry later learned that not only was Brother
Sumrall aware that he had received Jesus as his
Lord, but that Terry was actively involved in ministry.
By asking him to “come back and work for me,”
Sumrall wanted Terry to become a recognizable
fixture at the station.
“He wanted to personify someone unique,”
Terry said, “not a clown or an Easter bunny. So, I
decided to dress up like Uncle Sam.”
Terry’s “Uncle Sam” character quickly became a
popular and recognizable fixture to all who visited
the station on business. Pastors from cities across
the nation began inviting “Uncle Sam” and his
puppet ensemble to minister to children at their
churches.
Over the years, Terry also served as a children’s
pastor at several churches, including Bob Nichols’
Calvary Cathedral in Fort Worth, Texas; Robert
Tilton’s Word of Faith Family Church in Farmer’s
Branch, Texas; and Jimmy Swaggart Ministries in
Baton Rouge, La.
It was at Calvary Cathedral that Terry first met
Kenneth Copeland, he recalls.
“Kenneth Copeland Ministries offered Bibles
and supplies as rewards and incentives for the
children we ministered to at Calvary Cathedral,”
Terry explains. “Dressed as Uncle Sam, I’d been
ministering in a nearby neighborhood one day,
when I went to pick up supplies. I met Brother
Copeland and he took a liking to me.
“It was through my connection with Brother
Copeland that I got to know Jerry Savelle, R.W.
Shambach, Happy Caldwell and Marilyn Hickey. I
also ministered to kids at the Full Gospel Business
Men’s Association.
“Every time I saw Brother Copeland he’d say,
‘Uncle Sam, it’s good to see you again!’”
In May 1986, Terry met and later married
Cynthia Sights, in July. The couple moved to
16 : B VOV
over the branch of a tree. I put the rope around my
neck and kicked the box over. I wouldn’t be here to
tell this story today if a businessman in town hadn’t
decided to go home for lunch. For some reason,
he took a route he’d never taken before. As he
drove by our house, he glanced over and saw me
dangling at the end of a rope. He saved my life.
“Despite being raised by Christian parents and
being in church, I let the ways of the world woo
me away as a teenager. For a long time, I didn’t
see that choosing my own path meant being led
by the enemy.”
In 2010, the Lord instructed Terry to move to
Jacksonville, Fla., and start an inner-city kids’
ministry. He said it would be unlike anything Terry
Washington, D.C., in 1990, where they established
a mobile ministry called the Inner City Children’s
Church and then later the D.C. Dream Center.
“For 21 years I ministered to children in the inner
city, focusing on underprivileged youth, poverty,
outreach and evangelism,” says Terry. “As much as
I regret some of my choices as a youngster, those
experiences gave me an understanding of how the
mind of a child works.
“For example, when I was about 5 years old, I
watched a cartoon character get hung. The next
day, he was in the cartoon again. I didn’t really
have a concept of death, and I didn’t realize it was
final. So because I was intrigued by the cartoon,
I went outside and stood on a box to toss a rope
“CHILDREN ARE
EVERY COUNTRY’S MOST
PRECIOUS national treasure.
OF COURSE THEY ARE THE
FUTURE OF THE NATION.
EVEN MORE—THEY ARE THE
future OF THE CHURCH.”
B VOV : 17
had ever done. After moving there, Terry went
to work with the Lane Learning Center. Several
months later, he and Cynthia founded Metro City
Kids, a ministry that featured a 15-foot box truck
complete with a jumbotron screen that was used
to show videos.
The owner didn’t need help with children, Terry
said. He needed help with teenagers. Although
Terry had never worked with teenagers, he agreed
to give it a try. Within three months, the number
had grown from four to 35.
“It was like working in Dodge City during the Old
West days,” Terry remembers. “There were shoot-
outs all the time. Drug use was so prevalent that
the area was called ‘The Rock’ because there was
so much crack cocaine sold there.”
It was hard to get people to minister in The Rock,
Terry admits. But even the drug dealers appreciated
what Terry was doing for the community.
Still Going Strong
Throughout the years, Terry and Cynthia’s
work with children and youth has garnered much
recognition—both on local and national levels.
In January 2023, for example, during a session
of the House of Representatives, their Metro City
Kids ministry was recognized for its 50th year of
“active children’s ministry aimed at teaching good
citizenship, along with biblical moral values.”
“Dr. Terry Horn is affectionately known as Uncle
Sam, and he and his wife, Cynthia, began their
ministry 52 years ago to teach Christ’s love, hope
and healing in poverty-stricken areas,” the state
representative, Congressman John Rutherford,
said. “The Horns have brought the gospel message
to major cities throughout the
United States before finally
being called to relocate to
Jacksonville in 2011.
“Their current organization,
Metro City Kids, is a faith-
based
mission
serving
Jacksonville’s
inner-city
children. Their efforts have
had notable and tangible
importance in our northeast
Florida community. Metro
City Kids works to connect
children living in public-
assisted housing to Christ,
and
encourages
them
through weekly mentoring, Bible study and prayer
to live a Christian lifestyle….
“The Duval County Sheriff’s Office, which I was
sheriff of, reported that juvenile crime in public
housing areas where Metro City Kids operated saw
a 40% reduction in their first five years of service.
That was an amazing, amazing accomplishment.
“Metro City Kids’ impact on Jacksonville is far-
reaching, and hundreds of children and families
have been blessed by their dedication to our
community. I thank Pastor Terry Horn (Uncle Sam),
and his wife, the Rev. Cynthia Horn, for their ministry
in the parts of our community that were most in
need. Their investment in our next generation has
made northeast Florida a safer, more loving place
to live, and I thank them for that.”
Terry Horn has been ministering to children for
so long that he now meets the fruit of his labors in
churches across America. Sometimes they stand
behind pulpits. Sometimes they step out of the
choir.
One young man introduced himself to Terry and
said, “You’ve got fruit in China. I’ve been part of a
mission team that goes behind the Iron Curtain in
China. We train locals to lead others to the Lord
and how to pastor churches. Brother Terry, I’ve
trained thousands of them. Those thousands have
won thousands.”
“Only through ministering to children do you
get to see a whole lifetime of fruit,” says Terry.
“Partnership with KCM has been a great blessing
in my life. I love the excellence of the ministry. KCM
has poured into our ministry over the years. They
pray for us. They’ve helped us purchase equipment
and other ministry tools.
“The connection between Brother Copeland and
me is far deeper than my Uncle Sam persona. We
both have a core belief that while everyone needs
the gospel, children are no different. Children are
every country’s most precious national treasure.
Of course they are the future of the nation. Even
more—they are the future of the Church.”
For information please visit metrocitykids.com or
scan
this QR code.
18 : B VOV
‘Increase After Increase’
In 2007, I was watching a
broadcast with Kenneth and
Gloria when they started talking
about provision through THE
BLESSING of the Lord. That
message completely changed my
life!
I have had MIRACLES of not only
debt elimination, but increase
Bring Home
the Prodigals
A few months ago, I watched
the broadcast with Dr. Greg
and Ms. Courtney when they
were praying for prodigals. I
was prompted to pray over my
family’s prodigals. My niece,
who had been on the streets
for 20 years, came
back to herself
to get treatment.
At that point, my
sister spoke with
her and was able to
pray the salvation
prayer with her.
J.S. | New Jersey
after increase after increase!
I NEVER dreamed I would
accomplish so much in my lifetime.
I am still in awe of what the Lord
will do when you apply His Word!
GOD IS SO GOOD. Kenneth
and Gloria CHANGED my life
by teaching the WORD in FULL
meaning! C.V. | Tennessee
VICTORY
Testimonies of Real-Life
Perfect Timing
I watch Kenneth and
Gloria Copeland
almost every morning;
one particular morning
during the broadcast,
I received a call that
was infuriating, to
say the least. So I got
dressed to leave and
confront the matter.
The broadcast was
playing as I walked
to my front door, still
very angry. Brother
Copeland stopped
talking about the
subject he was
discussing and said to
the cameras, “Don’t
you go over there
angry,” and then he
elaborated. I was
astonished—the
timing was perfect.
I had to sit down
and listen. God,
through this broadcast,
literally stopped me in
my tracks. Who knows
what kind of trouble
awaited me if I had
gone there that
day. I stayed home
instead.
God protected me
through a message
delivered by Brother
Copeland over
the airways.
I am grateful!
D.B. | Missouri
‘Respect One Another’
The Believer’s Voice of Victory broadcast
with Courtney, Grant and Greg was so
refreshing. Their conversation helped me
see that the strongholds of misplaced,
nonbiblical hierarchies are being torn
down in the Church! I learned how
we can love and respect one another
without seeing some as more important
because they hold a religious
title given by man. In addition,
as we open up the doors
of the Church, we need to
experience the cleansing
power of the Holy Spirit and
receive His freedom from
man-made formalities like
never before! J.G. | Texas
‘The Wonderful Name of Jesus’
A few months ago, I had severe pain in my back. It was
difficult to stand upright and even walk. I exercised the
authority we have in the Name of Jesus, like I learned from
Brother Copeland many years ago.
Shortly after I experienced relief, and within days I was
completely pain free. Thank God for His Word and the
wonderful Name of Jesus that has been given to us!
Glory be to God forever! R.G. | New York
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27
30
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31
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17
10
24
18
11
25
Ezra
4-5
Jas. 5
2 Chr.
25-26
Heb. 10
Neh.
9-10
2 Pet. 3
Job
1-2
Jude
Job
7-9
Rev. 3
Job
3-4
Rev. 1
Job
10-11
Rev. 4
Ezra
2-3
Jas. 4
2 Chr.
23-24
Heb. 9
Neh.
7-8
2 Pet. 2
Est.
9-10
3 John
Job
5-6
Rev. 2
Ezra
6-7
1 Pet. 1
2 Chr.
27-28
Heb. 11
Neh.
11-12
1 John 1
Ezra
8-9
1 Pet. 2
2 Chr.
29-30
Heb. 12
2 Chr.
14-15
Heb. 4
Neh. 13;
Est. 1
1 John 2
Ezra 10
Neh. 1-2
1 Pet. 3-4
2 Chr.
31-33
Heb. 13; Jas. 1
2 Chr.
16-18
Heb. 5-6
Est.
2-4
1 John 3-4
Neh.
3-4
1 Pet. 5
2 Chr.
34-35
Jas. 2
2 Chr.
19-20
Heb. 7
Est.
5-6
1 John 5
Neh.
5-6
2 Pet. 1
2 Chr. 36;
Ezra 1
Jas. 3
2 Chr.
21-22
Heb. 8
Est.
7-8
2 John
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Jesus will be your Lord!
Heavenly Father, I come
to You in the Name of Jesus.
Your Word says, “Whosoever
shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be saved” and
“If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved”
(Acts 2:21; Romans 10:9).
You said my salvation would
be the result of Your Holy
Spirit giving me new birth
by coming to live in me
(John 3:5-6, 15-16; Romans
8:9-11) and that if I would
ask, You would fill me with
Your Spirit and give me
the ability to speak with
other tongues
(Luke 11:13; Acts 2:4).
I take You at Your Word.
I confess that Jesus is Lord.
And I believe in my heart that
You raised Him from the dead.
Thank You for coming into my
heart, for giving me Your Holy
Spirit as You have promised,
and for being Lord over
my life. Amen.
Do You
Know
Jesus?
20 : B VOV
by Keith Moore
Fully Persuaded,
Completely at
Have you ever noticed when a child has
something he or she doesn’t want you to have,
they will hold it tightly and say something like,
“No, it’s MINE!” They won’t let go of it or let you
pry it out of their hands without a fight! They
have what they want, and they’re not afraid to
say it’s theirs—that it belongs to them!
If only Christians had the same tenacity
when it comes to their fight against the devil!
It’s a fight, all right! In fact, in a letter he wrote
to encourage Timothy, Paul called it “the good
fight of faith.” He said, “Fight the good fight of
faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou
art also called, and hast professed a good
profession before many witnesses” (1 Timothy
6:12).
How do we fight this good fight of faith?
That verse we just read tells us. It says to
“lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou
art also called, and hast professed a good
profession.” Profession is a King James word
for confession. So, we can see that laying hold
is a part of fighting the good fight, and so is
confession. Like that child, we have to lay hold
Rest
B VOV : 21
Walking In Faith Doesn’t
Mean You Won’t Have Challenges
Why does God tell you not to lean to your
own understanding? Because you’ll be tempted
to. He’s telling you upfront not to lean to your
own understanding—your own head, your own
reasonings, thoughts or feelings. If the enemy can
get you in the reasoning realm, he’ll defeat you.
But if you’ll stay in the faith realm, he can’t do
anything with you. No matter how many negative
thoughts he brings to you, no matter how many
bad feelings, you won’t yield. You’ll push them
aside and say, “No. I’ve decided what I believe.”
You’re settled in your heart.
Second Corinthians 4:8-9 says, “We are
troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we
are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted,
but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.”
“We are troubled on every side.”
That word troubled means “to be crowded,
pushed or pressed.” Do you ever feel like
something
is
pushing
against
you?
That
something is pressuring you? Paul said it’s on
every side. It’s not a lack of faith to acknowledge
something you’re dealing with. Faith is not calling
those things that are as though they are not. No,
faith is calling things that are not as though they
are! The physical is real! It’s temporary, but it’s
real. Something is going to push on you. That’s
of what we want, confess that it’s ours, and not
give up without a fight!
What do we use to fight?
Our faith!
Second Corinthians 4:13 says, “We having the
same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I
believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also
believe, and therefore speak.” Here, Paul refers
to the spirit of faith. The Bible also says we’ve
not been given the spirit of fear (2 Timothy 1:7).
The spirit of faith is not knowledge of faith, and
the spirit of fear is not just feelings of fear. Faith
is not knowledge, and faith is not understanding.
Understanding is not required for faith. You don’t
have to understand in order to believe or trust.
That’s because faith is a choice. Believing is a
choice, and trusting is a choice.
You hear people say, “I just can’t believe that!
That’s not true!” But that’s an untrue statement
because faith is not based on any kind of
understanding or any kind of knowledge. It’s a
choice. Brother Kenneth E. Hagin once said that,
as a little boy, he could not understand how a
brown cow could eat green grass and give white
milk, and then that milk would be churned to
make yellow butter. Yet all the while he’s trying to
figure it out, he’s enjoying milk and butter. He’s
enjoying ice cream. You don’t have to understand
in order to believe. You don’t have to understand
to enjoy.
Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the LORD with
all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding.” So faith and understanding are
not the same thing. He’s drawing a contrast.
What part of your being do you trust with? Not
your head. In fact, Brother Hagin used to say,
“Faith will work in your heart with doubt in your
head.” The enemy will try to make you believe
that a fleeting thought is the same as wavering
and that you won’t receive a thing (James
1:6-7). Just because a feeling or thought crossed
your mind doesn’t mean you changed your
decision to believe in your heart.
"You don’t have to understand in order to believe or trust.
That’s because faith is a choice. Believing is a choice, and
trusting is a choice."