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Despite excelling in school,
living lavishly, and sometimes earning
six figures, Lyle Weber was on a fast
track to self-destruction. Alcohol held
him captive from age 13, and drugs
took hold by age 19. Today, Lyle
credits one person with leading him
to surrender to Jesus, give his life
to God, and turn his life around:
“I had a praying grandma.”
by Melanie Hemry
My
Grandmother’s
Prayers
Live In THE
BLESSING
by Kenneth Copeland
Yield to Joy!
by Keith Moore
Change Your
Routine
by Kenneth Copeland
Closer Than
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by Gloria Copeland
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AN ALL-INCLUSIVE TICKET!
The story is ages old, so likely you’ve
heard it before in one form or another.
It’s the tale of a poor, young immigrant
who saved for years, and finally had enough
money to buy a ticket to America. With
barely enough to pay his fare, he was
content to use what remained to pay for a
box of crackers and some cheese to eat
while on his journey.
Each day while on the voyage, he watched
as other passengers filled the ship’s dining
room, enjoying the lavish meals, while
he sat alone eating his meager rations of
cheese and crackers. Near the end of the
journey, a steward stopped the man and
said, “Sir, I’ve noticed that you haven’t
eaten a meal with us throughout this trip.
Is our service offensive to you? Is the food
unsatisfactory?”
“Oh no, I’m not offended,” the young
man responded. “It’s just that I only had the
money for my ticket. There wasn’t enough
left to pay for meals.”
Surprised, the steward said, “Well sir, did
you not know that the meals were included
with your ticket?”
“The meals were included with your ticket.”
Imagine how the young traveler must have
felt upon learning what he had missed—all
because he didn’t realize what was already
his. How might you have felt?
The story is a simple picture of what it
means to have something, but not realize
you have it. For the believer, the message is
about the inheritance that many don’t realize
is already theirs.
The ticket represents our redemption
through Jesus Christ. It was purchased at
the highest possible price—the blood of
the Son of God. When Christ declared, “It
is finished,” He didn’t buy us a seat on the
ship and leave us to fend for ourselves.
He secured everything necessary for our
spiritual journey—including our forgiveness,
peace, wisdom, strength, purpose, grace
and provision.
These are not extras reserved for a
select few. They are included in the finished
work of Christ. Yet many Christians spend
their lives living on spiritual crackers and
cheese; surviving on just enough faith to
make it through while never discovering
the abundant life Jesus came to give us
all (John 10:10). They live beneath their
covenant privileges because they don’t fully
understand who they are in Christ.
Though it came too late, that revelation
was the turning point for the young traveler.
Nothing about his ticket changed. Nothing
new had to be purchased. The change
came in his understanding; in his discovery
that the meals were available all along—
that they were already paid for!
When you truly realize you are a child
of God and an heir of His kingdom, you
stop thinking like someone who barely has
enough to get by. You begin living with the
confidence that Christ has already provided
everything you need to fulfill God’s purpose
for your life.
That’s the revelation of our inheritance.
Don’t spend your life outside the banquet
hall, eating spiritual crackers and cheese,
when Christ has already prepared a
banquet for you—at the Father’s table.
Ronald C. Jordan
Managing Editor
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“For ye are yet carnal:
for whereas there is
among you envying,
and strife, and divisions,
are ye not carnal, and
walk as men?”
1 Cor. 3:3
Fear
the Lord
God says people who live that way
have no want. No want! That’s a vast
statement. But read the Bible and you
can see that it’s true. God has always
taken total care of His people. When
Israel followed Him, there was no lack in
the whole nation. They had everything
they needed. They were strong. They
were prosperous. No enemy could
stand before them. There was no
sickness or disease among them.
God doesn’t have any problem
backing up His Word. The only problem
He’s had since the Garden of Eden has
been finding people who would do
what He says and allow Him to be God
in their lives.
Listen to me closely. God knows
exactly how to get you out of trouble.
He hasn’t forgotten how to part the
Red Sea. He never changes. When He
finds someone who is loyal to Him,
He’s loyal to them.
Second Chronicles 16:9 says, “For
the eyes of the LORD run to and fro
throughout the whole earth, to show
himself strong in the behalf of them
whose heart is perfect toward him.”
That word perfect doesn’t mean one
who doesn’t make mistakes. It means
“one who is loyal.”
God isn’t just willing to deliver you
from trouble, He wants to deliver you. He
is constantly searching for opportunities
to show Himself strong on your behalf!
But He won’t force it on you. You’ll have
to fear Him, give Him total respect, and
honor Him. If you want to walk in the
delivering power of God, you will have to
want it enough to let God be God every
day of your life.
by Gloria Copeland
What does it mean to fear the Lord?
It means to give Him total respect,
to honor Him, to let Him be God
in your life. If you fear the Lord,
whatever He says, you’ll do. When
you find something in His Word, you
implement it immediately. You’re
quick to make changes.
“O fear the LORD,
ye his saints: for there
is no want to them
that fear him.”
Psalm 34:9
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Inside this issue
Live In THE
BLESSING
by Kenneth Copeland
12
My Grandmother’s
Prayers
by Melanie Hemry
20
Yield to Joy!
by Keith Moore
24
Depression
Getting the
Best of You?
by Laurie Graves
26
Closer Than
You Think
by Gloria Copeland
”
“He told us
THE BLESSING
would remove
poverty.... He was
giving the poverty-
stricken the good
news that their days
of poverty were over.
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by Kenneth Copeland
If you are a born-again child of
God, you are BLESSED!
For years now, that’s the
message I’ve been preaching
to the Body of Christ. I’ve been
talking about it everywhere I go,
to anyone who will listen.
I am on a divine mission to let God’s people
know THE BLESSING God gave Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Eden that empowered them to
be fruitful and have dominion over the earth; THE
BLESSING He gave to Abraham that made him
heir of the world and a BLESSING to all the families
of the earth; THE BLESSING that empowered the
life and ministry of The LORD Jesus Himself. That
same BLESSING now belongs to all of us who are
born-again believers. We are THE BLESSED!
“Yes, I know that, Brother Copeland,” someone
might say. “How long are you going to keep
talking about it?”
I’m going to keep talking about it until we all get
it. I’m going to stick with this message until the
Body of Christ wakes up and starts living in THE
BLESSING!
Now, I’ve been around long enough to know
that won’t happen overnight. We won’t step into a
whole new lifestyle of BLESSING just because we
hear two or three sermons about it.
Sure, hearing those sermons will get us moving
in the right direction. But if we truly want to live
in THE BLESSING, we must renew our minds 24
hours a day, seven days a week. We must get to
the point where our revelation of it completely
governs our thoughts and directs our actions. We
must, as Romans 12:2 says, be transformed by
the renewing of our minds.
I learned what’s involved in that kind of mental
transformation many years ago when I first found
out how to live by Faith. I’ll never forget the first
time I heard a tape of Brother Hagin preaching on
Mark 11:23. In one hour, I learned something I’d
been hungry to know for years. I found out not
only what Faith will do, but how to develop and
release it.
But, as powerful as it was, that one message
alone couldn’t totally renew my mind. It took time
for me to change the unbelieving mindset I’d
developed over the years. Gloria and I both had
to reprogram ourselves to think and act by Faith
in our daily lives by spending months listening to
tapes, studying The WORD, and attending every
seminar on Faith we could find. Day and night, we
focused on learning about Faith. Even in casual
conversation, we constantly reminded each other
to talk and behave in accordance with it.
Those first months were intense, but I’ve found
out since then that total mind renewal always
requires that kind of intensity. To get it done most
effectively, you have to put yourself through a
spiritual version of boot camp.
Live In
THE BLESSING
“WHEN WE TRY TO
save our own LIVES, WE
CUT OURSELVES OFF FROM
THE BLESSING BECAUSE WE’RE
LOOKING TO OURSELVES—
INSTEAD OF GOD—to save us.
WE BECOME OUR OWN GOD.”
I went through basic training in the Army
so I know what that’s like, and it’s painfully
rigorous. During boot camp, the U.S. military
does everything necessary to turn a civilian
into a soldier by changing the way he thinks,
talks and acts. Obviously, transforming our
minds with The WORD and learning to think
like THE BLESSED isn’t as painful as the
boot-camp process of turning a civilian into
a soldier. It is, however, just as important
because, just as learning to think like a soldier
will keep that soldier alive on the battlefield,
becoming BLESSING-minded will ultimately
save our lives.
BLESSED Are the Poor?
No one knows that better than Jesus Himself.
That’s the reason He spent so much time during
His earthly ministry teaching people how to
understand and act in accordance with THE
BLESSING. Although most believers don’t realize
it, that’s what He was doing when He preached
the message in Luke 6 called the “Sermon on
the Mount.” Jesus delivered that entire message
to outline the process of THE BLESSING.
Because
we
haven’t
understood
that,
however, there’s been much confusion about
what Jesus said there. Most people think, for
example, that because He started His message
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thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask
them not again. And as ye would that men should
do to you, do ye also to them likewise.”
To people who have been brought up in
the traditional, worldly way of thinking, those
instructions don’t make any sense at all. In fact,
they sound like a recipe for disaster. Everyone
knows that according to the fundamental law of
the street—the worldly law of survival—you must
protect yourself from your enemies at all costs.
A lot of folks have lived by that law and made
millions of dollars that way. They’ve shoved their
way to the top and flattened anyone who tried to
stop them. They’ll tell you that ruthless system
works and they have the riches, fame and worldly
power to prove it.
But do you know what Jesus said about those
people?
He said, “Woe unto you that are rich! for ye have
received your consolation. Woe unto you that are
full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh
now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you,
when all men shall speak well of you!” (verses
24-26).
Again, many people misunderstand what He
means. They assume He is teaching that riches
are evil. But He isn’t saying that at all. He is telling
us those people are under a curse, not because
they’re rich but because they acquired their
wealth through worldly ways instead of through
THE BLESSING; and worldly wealth always brings
grief and misery. It literally brings woe.
The wealth that comes through THE BLESSING,
however, is quite different. It isn’t gained by
grabbing everything you can from people. It
comes from giving to them. That’s the kind of
wealth that makes us rich and adds no sorrow
with it (Proverbs 10:22).
Losing Your Life To Find It
“Well, I just don’t see how giving could ever
make me wealthy,” someone might say. “How can
I ever get ahead in life if I’m always throwing away
everything I have?”
Jesus didn’t tell us to throw away everything we
have. He told us to stop thinking all the time about
with the statement, “Blessed be ye poor: for yours
is the kingdom of God” (verse 20), that He wanted
us to believe poverty is godly. They think Jesus
taught it’s a BLESSING to be poor.
That wasn’t what He said at all. He told us
THE BLESSING would remove poverty. When He
said “Blessed be ye poor…,” He was giving the
poverty-stricken the good news that their days of
poverty were over. He was saying, “I’m here to
restore THE BLESSING to you. You’re not going
to be the poor anymore because yours is the
kingdom of God!”
When I think about how Jesus intended us to
respond to that news, I’m reminded of the story
Brother Oral Roberts used to tell about his once-
poor, Oklahoma kinfolk. They got rich in one day
when they struck oil on their struggling dirt farm in
Pontotoc County. Brother Roberts said when they
hit that gusher, old “Dad Roberts” took off his hat
and filled it up with the oil that was raining down
all around him. Then he slapped his hat back on
his head, let the oil drench his face until nothing
but his white teeth were showing, and hollered,
“Whew! We ain’t going to be poor no more!”
That’s what we’ll all be saying when we fully
grasp what Jesus was telling us. When we really
begin to see what God has given us through THE
BLESSING, we’ll be hollering just like old Dad
Roberts did. We’ll be holding our Bibles over our
heads and saying, “Praise God, I’m not going to
be poor anymore! I’m not going to be defeated
anymore! I’m not going to be oppressed anymore.
I am THE BLESSED!”
Watch Out for the ‘Woes’
Of course, there’s more to walking in THE
BLESSING than just jumping and shouting. There
are attitudes we must have and actions we must
take to keep it operating in our lives. Jesus told us
about them in Luke 6:27-31. He said: “Love your
enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless
them that curse you, and pray for them which
despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth
thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and
him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take
thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of
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how we can protect ourselves from other people,
and start thinking instead about how we can be
a BLESSING to them. He was trying to teach us
that by walking in THE BLESSING, we can get to
the place where someone could steal our coat
and we’d never miss it because THE BLESSING
would replace it with a better one.
That’s just what THE BLESSING does. It is raw,
pure spiritual power, and when we release it by
walking in it by Faith, it will turn any ugly, terrible
situation in our lives into a veritable Garden of
Eden. If you don’t believe it, look at Jesus. He
lived perfectly in THE BLESSING. That’s why
everything people tried to do to hurt or destroy
Him just ended up exalting Him.
“Oh Brother Copeland, surely you’re not saying
THE BLESSING will work for me just like it did for
Jesus?”
Why shouldn’t it? It’s the same BLESSING!
You inherited it by Faith in Him, so did I, and
so has every other believer. The only reason
it hasn’t worked for us as powerfully as it
worked for Him is because we haven’t lived in
the revelation of it. We’ve lived too much like
the world lives—focusing on trying to protect
ourselves and meet our own needs. Jesus said
in Matthew 16:25: “Whosoever will save his life
shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for
my sake shall find it.”
When we try to save our own lives, we cut
ourselves off from THE BLESSING because we’re
looking to ourselves—instead of God—to save
us. We become our own God; and none of us is
qualified for that position. We’re not qualified to
protect and provide for ourselves because we
don’t have the power to do it. We could work so
many jobs we wouldn’t have time to sleep, and
we’d still be unable to gain the kind of wealth God
wants to give us.
On the other hand, when we give our lives to
God, when we pour ourselves out loving Him with
all our heart, soul and strength, and loving our
neighbor as ourselves, we put ourselves under
the care of the One who is qualified to make
us more than conquerors in every situation. We
activate His BLESSING on our lives.
When God Says, ‘Thank You’
“Yeah, but that turning the other cheek stuff
is hard!” you might say. “I don’t mind being a
BLESSING to people who are nice, but do I really
have to Love those folks who act ugly too?”
You do if you want to live in THE BLESSING. For,
as Jesus said:
If ye love them which love you, what thank have
ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
And if ye do good to them which do good to you,
what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the
same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope
to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also
lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love
ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping
for nothing again; and your reward shall be great,
and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he
is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye
therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn
not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and
ye shall be forgiven: Give, and it shall be given
unto you; good measure, pressed down, and
shaken together, and running over, shall men give
into your bosom. For with the same measure that
ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again
(Luke 6:32-38).
For years, we’ve quoted that last sentence
all by itself, as if Jesus said it so we’d have
something to read in church at offering time.
But actually, that verse is not meant to stand
alone. It’s part of Jesus’ whole discourse on THE
BLESSING.
When He said, “Give, and it shall be given unto
you,” Jesus is reminding us that God never meant
for us to use THE BLESSING just for our own
personal enjoyment. He intends for us to spread
it around so others can benefit from it. Jesus is
actually reminding us of what God told Abraham
thousands of years ago when THE BLESSING
was given to him: “In thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:3). In other words,
“You are BLESSED to be a BLESSING.”
To understand why it’s so important to God
that we pass His BLESSINGS along, we must
look at things from His perspective. We must
remember He doesn’t just Love you and me; He
doesn’t just Love the good folks; He doesn’t just
Love the Christians; He loves all mankind and
wants to extend His kindness even to evil and
ungrateful people.
But He has a problem: Those people have cut
themselves off from Him. He doesn’t have any
contact with them. They won’t come to Him to
receive what He has to give.
So, how can He BLESS them?
He can BLESS them through us! Since you
and I have fellowship with Him, we can receive
His BLESSINGS and pass them along to those
who don’t know Him.
Think again, for example, about the thief who
steals your coat. That thief is more precious to
God than any coat could ever be. Jesus bled,
died and was raised from the dead for him. So
when the thief steals your coat, Jesus says to
us, “Don’t fight him over it. Give him the coat he
stole and offer to give him another one as well!”
When you do that, you end up BLESSING the
guy God wanted to BLESS all along. In return,
God says to you, “Thank you for offering that
man My BLESSING. Keep up the good work and
I’ll keep supplying the money. I’ll keep supplying
the coats. I’ll keep supplying the victory. You
keep spreading My BLESSINGS; you keep giving
them; and I’ll keep putting them into your hands
pressed down, shaken together, running over.”
Can you see it?
I believe with all my heart that in the coming
days, God is going to find a group of believers
who will actually start doing that. I believe that a
bunch of wild-eyed, Love-motivated Faith folks are
waking up and becoming such a BLESSING, the
whole world will take notice.
As they do, we’ll finally see what Jesus meant
when He said, “Give, and it shall be given unto
you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken
together, and running over….” We will finally see
what it really means to be BLESSED.
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Jesus didn’t tell us to throw
away everything we have.
He told us to stop thinking...
about how we can protect
ourselves from other people,
and start thinking instead
about how we can be a
BLESSING to them.”
“
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by Melanie Hemry
Lyle Weber danced the night away in an upscale Amsterdam
nightclub, his body moving to the pulse of the electric music.
The volatile mix of alcohol, drugs and pounding music
sent his heart racing. He’d never imagined that his humble
beginnings in Cape Town, South Africa, would bring him here.
MY
GRANDMOTHER’S
PRAYERS
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He had excelled in academics, earning a
bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s of
commerce in computer auditing. He was selected
for an exchange program in the Netherlands,
where he studied international finance and
formed connections with wealthy people from
across Europe.
When a friend sought to open a nightclub on an
island in Scandinavia, Lyle was there to provide
his financial expertise.
At 20, that was a heady experience.
Lyle’s wild lifestyle had begun when he was 13.
Shy and suffering from low self-esteem, he had
gone to a matinee at a nightclub and been given
a drink of orange juice and vodka—followed by
another, and then another. The alcohol helped his
insecurity, but it also began to drive what would
become his new lifestyle. Soon, he was running
with the wrong crowd and taking substances that
could have killed him. Several times he couldn’t
even remember how he got home.
Although he loved and enjoyed the parties in
Europe, at times he felt guilty.
He knew his family wouldn’t approve of his
lifestyle—especially his grandmother, who was
the only Christian in the family. She had had an
encounter with God when Lyle was a baby, and
had faithfully served Him daily. The rest of the
family thought it was kind of weird. She served
her God, but her God wasn’t theirs. Still, when
anyone in the family had trouble, they went to her
and she would pray for them. Soon, their situation
would be resolved.
Lyle thought if he followed Jesus, he wouldn’t
be able to enjoy himself. So, for the next few years
he continued drinking—often heavily.
“I started college at 17 and was still drinking
heavily,” Lyle recalls. “Then, I went to a party and
was introduced to drugs. I started taking a variety
of different drugs. Funny thing is that it never
affected my grades in school. Here I was doing
drugs, yet in the university I was at the top of the
class and on the dean’s list.
“At one point I got a scholarship and an
opportunity to study in the Netherlands through a
foreign exchange program. I remember arriving in
the Netherlands, where I quickly discovered that
drugs were available there, so I wasted no time
becoming involved with the culture.
“When I returned to South Africa, I was still at
the top of my class. Everything was going well for
me, even though I knew what I was doing wasn’t
right.”
Though he didn’t practice religion, or even
acknowledge God, for that matter, Lyle recognized
that someone, somehow, was protecting him.
“I had a praying grandma,” he said.
“I had decided that if I’m doing so well, if I’m
making money, living such a lavish lifestyle, and
everything is great, then why do I need God?”
Knowing he had an upcoming exam in school,
he threw out a challenge to God.
“I remember praying to God and saying, ‘OK,
God, if I do drugs again, I want to fail this exam,’”
he said. “I did drugs again, but I passed the test.”
Was it a sign that God was OK with him doing
drugs?
Lyle wasn’t sure.
“The truth is, I knew my grandma was praying
for me,” Lyle said. “She was always praying.
There were so many opportunities for me to get
caught, but God was protecting me.
An Audible Voice
“One day I was driving to the university when
I pulled up to a stoplight right next to a police
vehicle,” Lyle recalls. “I hadn’t drunk alcohol or
taken any substance, but I heard a voice say,
‘Drive.’
“I wasn’t about to drive through a red light
because the cop would pull me over. Then I heard
The truth is, I knew my
grandma was praying
for me. She was always
praying.”
“
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believed that if you did something wrong, God
would punish you. Yet that wasn’t what Kenneth
Copeland taught.
“He taught that God loved people and had a
good plan for their lives,” Lyle said.
After becoming born again, he entered a season
of isolation and seeking God. Those teachings
shaped Lyle’s new identity in Christ. Eventually he
started attending his grandmother’s Pentecostal
church. She was overjoyed.
Like his grandmother, Lyle wanted everyone
to know about Jesus. He’d been set free and
longed to see others enjoy that same freedom.
One day he was invited to come on a Christian
radio station where he gave his testimony on air.
Members of his family heard him speak. They had
known about the drinking, but the rest of his story
was new to them.
“My grandmother was over the moon when I
gave my life to Jesus,” Lyle says. “Finally, she
had someone in the family to pray and stand in
agreement with her for the rest of her children
and grandchildren to be saved. She taught me
many principles of prayer. My grandmother didn’t
have a lot of material possessions, but I’ve never
met anyone who had the sort of relationship with
Jesus that she did.
“My mother was the first to give her life to
Jesus. Eventually my father, sisters, grandfather
and the rest of my family came into the kingdom.
Many of my cousins were bound by drugs. One
by one they had encounters with Jesus and gave
their hearts to Him. Some have even stepped into
the ministry.”
Following the Leading
In 2005, while still living in South Africa and
following Kenneth Copeland and his teachings,
Lyle received his first Believer’s Voice of Victory
magazine, which advertised one of the ministry’s
upcoming meetings. Feeling a nudge from the
Holy Spirit, Lyle knew he was supposed to attend.
He had a good job but wasn’t making much
money.
Taking first things first, Lyle applied for a U.S.
visa. Though the process normally requires stacks
of documentation, which he didn’t have, Lyle was
granted a 10-year visa. After buying an airline
ticket, he encountered problems at the airport
because he didn’t have a Canadian transit visa.
By that time, Lyle had begun to grow spiritually.
the voice again, very stern and very audible, telling
me to drive. I put my foot down and sped through
the red light. When I looked in my rearview mirror,
I saw an SUV take my place. Then an 18-wheeler
smashed the SUV to pieces.
“If I hadn’t run that light, I would’ve died,” Lyle
said. “I was in a little car and wasn’t wearing a
seatbelt. I remember thinking later that God had
protected me from being harmed.”
Lyle now believes that it was the enemy trying
to discredit the fact that he had heard God’s voice.
Later that year, Lyle began noticing a change.
“I attended a barbecue at my professor’s home,
and had had one too many drinks when I began
talking with him about inappropriate things like
what kind of substances I used,” Lyle said. “I was
so upset that I told myself that I wouldn’t drink
alcohol again.
“A week later, I was supposed to go to a party
with a friend but decided to stay home and relax.
I was watching sports when I stumbled across a
program on TBN that showed young people in their
20s and 30s praising God.
“What I saw didn’t make any sense to me. They
seemed to be happy, enjoying themselves and filled
with peace. Yet I was doing all these supposedly
cool things, but I didn’t have what they had.
“The host of the show led a prayer of salvation
and I prayed it. When I did, I felt something leave
my body. Then I fell asleep and had the best night’s
sleep I’d ever had.
“The next night a friend picked me up to go to a
nightclub, but I didn’t want to go. Instead, we got
something to eat. The following week, one of my
friends was having a housewarming party. I walked
in and saw two kegs of beer and different types of
alcohol. I asked for orange juice.
“I realized that something had happened when
I prayed that prayer. I was fully delivered from
alcohol and all forms of drugs, from lust and low
self-esteem. My life changed completely, and I
never touched any of those things again.”
A Season of Isolation
Lyle’s life changed overnight. All his former
desires disappeared. He was a new person but had
no idea how to navigate his new life. Just prior to
being born again, he’d developed such a spiritual
hunger that he found himself drawn to Kenneth
Copeland and Benny Hinn.
The little he knew about God wasn’t good. He’d
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He prayed and the Holy Spirit reminded him:
I have plans to prosper you and to give you a
future and a hope. Those words brought peace.
Initially, he was not permitted to take the flight,
and faced taking a later flight and paying an
extra $800, which he did not have. After fasting
and praying, the next day he was permitted
to make the flight without having to pay the
additional fee. When he arrived in Milwaukee,
Wisc., Lyle had only $20 in his pocket. He had
arranged to stay with the relative of a friend,
but that fell through—leaving him nowhere to
stay. His friend arranged a one-night stay at
a motel that was about 45 minutes from the
convention and it would require him taking a
bus to get to the meeting.
Knowing he didn’t have the money to pay for
lodging for the rest of the trip, but determined
to make the first day of the Great Lakes
Prosperity Convention, Lyle put his concerns
on the back burner and went to the meeting.
On the first day of the meeting, he put the $20
he had in the offering.
Five minutes later, someone tapped his
shoulder.
“God told me to give you this,” the man said,
and handed Lyle $100. A few minutes later,
someone else gave him another $100, and
then someone else.
He was so blessed with money that he was
able to pay for a place to stay, plus bless
someone else with finances and a place to stay
that week.
A Difficult Decision
By 2013, with his life of alcohol and drugs
clearly behind him, Lyle got what he describes
as his “dream job.”
“I was teaching finance at a university and
loved every moment of it,” Lyle recalls. “God
started dealing with me about moving to the
U.S. and attending Rhema Bible Training
Center. I didn’t want to leave my job, my
family or my country. I didn’t mind traveling
for conferences and conventions, but I had no
desire to move.
“I had a dream that I’d been given a great
opportunity, but I procrastinated and missed it.
I asked the Lord what it meant, and He said,
Lyle, in life the window of opportunity is opening
for a season. But it’s opening and closing at
the same time. If you don’t step through this
particular window at this time, you’ll miss out
on the thing I’ve called you to do. You’ll see
“ONE OF MY COUSINS
WAS ON DRUGS AND
LIVING ON THE STREETS.
My grandmother was praying
AND HE HEARD A VOICE
TELLING HIM TO GO TO HER
HOUSE. HE DID, AND SHE LED
HIM TO THE LORD.”
somebody else doing it.
“I knew I had two options. I could either move
or stay. If I stayed, the Lord would still love me
and I would be comfortable, but I would miss the
bigger path for my life. While I wasn’t committed
to moving, I told the Lord I knew I wanted to go to
the U.S. for the Branson Victory Campaign. The
dates worked out and I flew to attend.
“I can’t say that I had peace because I had so
many questions,” Lyle remembers. “While Brother
Copeland was preaching, I asked the Lord three of
my questions. On all three occasions, he paused
his message and addressed my questions.
“Then I asked Him another question: ‘I’m 30
years old; will I get married?’ Brother Copeland
paused and turned toward the section where I
was sitting, and said, ‘The Bible says that he who
finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor
with The LORD. In this case, the word find doesn’t
mean you date and connect with everyone. It
means that she shall appear. She’s part of God’s
plan for your life. So, you need to be in the place
where God wants you to be.’ Then he returned to
his message.”
A week later, Lyle spoke at a church in Houston
where the pastor gave Lyle a word that further
confirmed that God wanted him to move to the
U.S. With his questions answered, Lyle finally
agreed to move to the U.S. and attend Rhema. By
that time, he had become financially solvent and
owned a thriving consulting company. The Lord
told him to give it away, not tell anyone about his
financial needs, and trust Him for everything.
Finding a Wife
After emotional goodbyes with his family and
friends, Lyle moved to Tulsa to attend Rhema.
During his second year in school, the Lord told
him to go to New York City and minister in the
streets.
“I had only $1 to my name,” Lyle recalls. “The
only food I had to eat was a box of Fruit Loops,
and I didn’t even have milk to go with the cereal.”
During the Sunday evening service, he gave the
only dollar he had in the offering.
The next day, a friend called and said his aunt
wanted to bless him and a friend with a trip to New
York City. Lyle and he traveled to New York where
they ministered on the streets of Manhattan. A
number of people received Jesus as a result of
their ministry.
“One holiday weekend in 2015, several of us
had a barbecue,” Lyle remembers. “It was 10
p.m. and someone suggested we go to a lake. We
put random GPS coordinates in our phones and
drove for six hours. We found ourselves in Dallas,
Texas, where we knew no one.
“I remembered that a friend had given me the
contact information for a girl she wanted me to
meet named Brittany. I had texted her a few days
earlier to introduce myself because she lived
in Texas, but that was about the extent of our
conversations.
“I remember that it was around 6 a.m., on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day that I texted Brittany
and asked if she could suggest a cool place for
breakfast. When she asked for our location, she
told me that we were literally two minutes from
her house! So, we went to her apartment to
freshen up.
“A few weeks later, the Lord began speaking to
me about Brittany. Within a few months, I knew
she was the woman He had planned for me to
marry. The following year, we married and laid
our roots in Dallas. Almost immediately, I knew
exactly why God had given me Brittany. She
taught me how to serve others, and has been my
biggest encourager to walk out the plan of God
for my life.
“Several months after we got married, I went to
work for a CPA firm where I focused on serving
nonprofit clients. Looking back, I now see how
that position equipped me for the season I’m in
now. It was my first real exposure in the U.S. to
working in the nonprofit industry.
A New Career
“When God had me move to the U.S. to attend
Rhema, I thought my career in finance was over.
I thought I’d go into a full-time traveling ministry,
preaching in Europe. However, that wasn’t God’s
plan.
“Following my time at the CPA firm, I went to
work for The King’s University in Southlake, Texas.
When we decided to move from one side of the
Metroplex to the other, Brittany encouraged me
to apply to work at Kenneth Copeland Ministries. I
applied and was hired as a senior budget analyst,
and began work at the ministry in August 2019.”
Moving to the U.S. and coming to work at KCM
transformed Lyle’s life.
“I had always loved being a Partner with KCM,”
he says, “but working here, I’m able to see all the
other ministries impacted by the teaching of God’s
Word. Unless you see it for yourself, it’s hard to
imagine how many lives we impact. Before I gave
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Change Your
Routine
So many people walk around saying things
like, “Well, I’m just so tired.... I’m so weak...
Things are looking so bad.” Then suddenly,
they think they’re going to jerk their faith out
from under the table and raise the dead with it.
Well, they’re not going to do it because
spiritual things don’t work that way. Faith needs
to be taken out from under the table, all right,
but not to just use it to get out of a jam and then
toss it aside again. Keep it in action every day
so it can grow.
According to Proverbs 4, God says you
must keep His WORD constantly in your ears
and in your heart. He says to guard your heart
diligently. To be diligent means to be “hard-
working, industrious, persevering.”
Why do you have to be so diligent with The
WORD? Because the devil is diligent with his
junk. He’s constantly throwing fiery darts at
you. He works diligently to make sure the world
is surrounding you with fear and sickness and
poverty and every other kind of garbage he can
use to destroy you.
But you can protect your spirit from those
things by conditioning yourself to respond to
every one of them with The WORD of God.
Change your routine, and make a decision right
now to begin that spiritual conditioning. Start
today and make speaking The WORD part of
your daily life.
by Kenneth Copeland
“My son, attend to my words;
incline thine ear unto my
sayings. Let them [the Words
of God] not depart from thine
eyes; keep them in the midst
of thine heart.... Keep thy
heart with all diligence; for out
of it are the issues of life.”
Proverbs 4:20-21, 23
my heart to Jesus, I stumbled onto KCM. If not
for Partners, I wouldn’t have been able to watch
those programs.”
Today, both Lyle and Brittany are employed by
KCM—he as the vice president of finance and she
works in payroll. They have two children: Evan,
age 9; and Addison, age6.
Even though Lyle works full time in finance,
that doesn’t exempt him from fulfilling the Great
Commission. He still travels wherever the Lord
tells him to go, whether it be on the streets or in a
pulpit, to share the Word of God.
One of his favorite places to minister is still
South Africa.
“There is such a hunger for God in South Africa,
that ministering there is different,” says Lyle.
“When I’m there, I always operate in the word of
knowledge. When I pray for people on the street,
I see miracles all the time.
“One of the things my grandmother taught me
is that when you pray, you must expect God to
move. Through his ministering to others, Lyle has
seen those words come true countless times. One
time in particular, he recalled, was when a friend
in Australia was involved in a serious automobile
accident.
“When I was a new Christian, while I was in
South Africa I heard the Lord tell me to pray for
a friend in Australia,” Lyle recalled. “I prayed for
him for about 30 minutes. Later, when I called to
talk with him, he told me had just been in a car
accident and that his car was totaled. He said
he should have died in the accident, but had
escaped.
“I’ve had so many encounters like that with
Jesus, and after hearing God’s voice. I’ve
watched deformed bones crack and move back
into place. I’ve witnessed deaf people hear again.
I’ve seen people condemned to wheelchairs get
up and walk.”
As far as Lyle is concerned, it all points back to
the fact that he “had a praying grandma.”
“One of my cousins was on drugs and living
on the streets,” he recalls. “My grandmother
was praying and he heard a voice telling him to
go to her house. He did, and she led him to the
Lord. Today, he runs several drug rehabilitation
centers in South Africa. He has been given many
properties and has been entrusted with millions in
currency because he is doing the Lord’s work and
impacting lives each day.
“My whole family is a testament to my
grandmother’s prayers.”
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VICTORY
Testimonies of Real-Life
Stand on
His Promises
I started watching
BVOV and listening
to your tapes starting
in the mid-1980s. We
were so far in debt
that it looked like
there was no way out.
I heard you say to
stand on the promises
of what you need and
be obedient in tithing.
Praise God, I am now
retired and debt free.
Thank you for all your
wonderful teaching.
S.W. | Florida
His Covenant
is TRUE!
KCM called me and
my wife 30 years ago
on the day our house
was being foreclosed
and prayed with us!
We are still in that
house and our kids
are doing great in
life! Praise God!
K.N. | Texas
Bless Our
Partners
My husband and
I have been Partners
with KCM Africa
for about 23 years.
During challenging
times, the prayer
ministers have often
called to pray with
me, sometimes even
before I reached
out to them. Their
faithfulness, love and
care have truly been
a blessing.God
bless you all!
P. N. | South Africa
Prayer Changes Things!
We have been Partners with KCM
since January 2005. The building-
block learning that I have been
taught through the ministry has been
remarkable.
Going
from
financial
struggles to founding a business
almost exactly seven years later was
not a coincidence. We give God the
glory and thank Him every day for KCM.
Earlier this year, my son had major
surgery on his back to correct an
S curve due to scoliosis. We were
at peace to move forward with the
surgery. By day 4, our son was in
such unbelievable pain, no medicine
would numb it. I jumped on a text
chain with four of my brothers, who
are believers, and then called the
KCM prayer line to ask the ministry to
stand in faith with us. Literally, within
just a couple of hours, the pain was
gone, and the wholeness we have
seen in our son, not just physically
but spiritually, is nothing short of a
miracle.
We give God all the glory.
G.B. | Wisconsin
Accepted and Blessed
I had been standing in faith, believing
God for finances and favor for my
daughter as she pursued her dream of
getting into dental school. During that
time, I called the KCM prayer team,
and together we stood on God’s Word
in faith and prayer.
Today, I am so grateful and blessed to
share that my daughter was accepted
into dental school and received a
$25,000 scholarship. God is faithful,
and His favor is real.
Prayer works!
N.M. | Alberta
‘The Power of Praise’
I
had
been
struggling
with
unemployment, so I called the KCM
prayer
team.
A
prayer
minister
encouraged me to begin praising God
ahead of time, so I took that to heart
and spent the evening doing just that.
Soon after, I received three callbacks
for job opportunities. I’m so grateful
for God’s faithfulness and the power of
praise. Praise the Lord!
J.L. | Quebec
Healthy Heart, Thankful Heart
I want to thank the KCM Canada
prayer team for standing with me in
prayer. I recently received a wonderful
report that my blood work came back
normal and that blood is flowing
properly to my heart. I am so grateful
for God’s faithfulness and for the
support of the prayer ministers. Praise
God!
K.L. | British Columbia
‘God Did It!’
I sent in a prayer request for a
new job with better pay and a better
environment, and God did it!
I received a job offer for a position in
a better city. The job will be a promotion
with more promotion potential! God is
good! Thank you, KCM, for your love
and prayers!
D.M. | North Carolina
Trust Him
Recently, I sowed my last $2 into
KCM ministries by faith; within minutes
I received a text that $200 was
deposited into my bank account!
Talk about a quick return. KCM is
definitely good soil!
T.L. | Colorado
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Isa. 52-53;
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Prayer is
Our Priority.
If you have just prayed
this prayer, please let us
know of your decision.
Call or go to
kcm.org/salvation.
We have a Free Gift to
help you begin your
new life in Jesus!
If you do not know
Jesus as your Savior
and Lord, simply pray the
following prayer in faith, and
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?
1300 730 433
prayer@kcm.org.au
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Sometime ago, my wife, Phyllis, and
I were walking through church when
a beautiful little girl ran up to us and
latched onto my leg. This little girl
loves Phyllis and me, and she’s a
joy to be around.
of the LORD is your strength.”
When the Lord spoke these words through the
prophet Nehemiah, the Israelites had returned
to Jerusalem and were gathered to hear the
reading of the Book of the Law of Moses. When
they heard the perfection of the Law, they
realized how short they had fallen, and were
yielding to condemnation. They started crying
and mourning, which is the typical Church
reaction. As God’s people, we’ve been trained
for centuries to think that if we mourn and cry,
we’ve had a move of God.
But the Lord instructed them, “Go your way, eat
the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions
unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this
day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for
the joy of the LORD is your strength.”
In essence God said, “Get up and get out of
here. Quit your squalling and bawling. Celebrate
with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and
share gifts of food with people who have nothing
prepared. This is a sacred day before our Lord.
Don’t be dejected and sad.”
Why were they to do this?
Because the joy of the Lord was their strength.
by Keith Moore
Yield to Joy!
I picked her up, and we continued walking
through the children’s area. A photo of a small
elephant hanging on the wall caught her eye and
all of a sudden, she started laughing a deep belly
laugh. “Look, look, look!” she said, pointing at
the picture. “He’s silly! He’s silly!”
I did a double take at the little elephant on the
wall. “He is silly, isn’t he?” I started laughing right
along with her.
That little girl and little children everywhere
know how to do something so simple, something
that so many grumpy, grouchy adults have
forgotten. They know how to yield to joy.
What’s the Deal With Joy?
Nehemiah 8:10 contains a passage that many
of us know by heart, but look at it again: “The joy