Out of
Darkness,
Into the Light
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Growing up in
India as a Hindu,
Deepa Sukumar
worshipped many
gods. When darkness
threatened to
overtake her, none
of them helped.
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“God declared
all the promises
contained in His
WORD long before
sin ever existed,
long before satan
tempted Adam,
long before the
universe was
even created. ”
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Inside this issue
Nowhere But Up
by Kenneth Copeland
12
Out of Darkness,
Into the Light
by Melanie Hemry
20
Dealing With
Temptation
by Andrew Wommack
26
Are You Ready?
by Gloria Copeland
VOL. 54 : No 2 : IN PRINT SINCE ’73
From
The Editor
TODAY IS YOUR DAY!
Ever wake up on the proverbial “wrong
side of the bed”?
In other words, your attitude is bad even
before your feet hit the floor. You lay there
thinking, Here I go again. Another day of the
same old, same old. A bunch of things to do,
and not enough time or strength to get it all
done!
I know I’ve had mornings like that—plenty
of them, actually! But I also know not long
after entertaining those negative thoughts,
I’ve found myself shamefully before the Lord,
confessing my wrong feelings and asking His
forgiveness.
The Bible tells us in Psalm 118:24, “This is
the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice
and be glad in it” (New Living Translation).
Rejoice and be glad—even when my
day is likely to be filled with hardship and
disappointment?
It may sound difficult, but that’s what the
Lord desires from each of us. Regardless of
what our day may bring, He wants to see us
always receive it with a merry heart, rejoicing
in the truth that He loves and cares for us—
that in every circumstance He will give us the
grace and strength to make it through.
He says the same thing to us that He told
the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9: “My
grace is all you need. My power works best in
weakness” (NLT).
The truth is, we all have those days when
we feel we just can’t make it. But we don’t
have to let our feelings ruin the day, or our
Christian testimony. Not when we can call
on the Lord for help. He’s there to provide
the strength and ability we need to move
forward.
Now when I find myself on the brink of
throwing what amounts to a tremendous
“pity party” because I don’t feel I can make
it, or that no one loves me, I remind myself
of something I once heard Gloria Copeland
say: “Don’t let the devil steal from you!
Don’t let him talk you into dying young and
telling you that nobody loves you…. Get
over it! Go love someone if you want to be
loved. Give and it’ll be given unto you, good
measure, pressed down, shaken together,
running over.”
That’s good advice for all of us.
Quit crying and whining and just get over
it. God made today just for you. Embrace it.
Rejoice in it, and in Him!
Go love someone! And watch that love
come right back to you.
Ronald C. Jordan
Managing Editor
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you likely recognize that
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every Believer’s Voice of
Victory television broadcast,
every BVOV magazine and
every KCM meeting that has
taken place around the world.
It’s been that way now for
nearly 60 years, as Kenneth
and Gloria Copeland have
declared, “Jesus Is Lord!”
over the world and its nations
time and again. They have
confessed it over families and
individuals. They have boldly
declared it over national
elections and government
leaders on every level. They
have used their faith year
after year to profess Jesus
is Lord over every kind of
sickness, disease, famine and
global calamity.
He wrote “Jesus Is LORD!”
every time he had a pen in his
hand, and ended his letters with
the same confession. He even
had a plaque made for the front
door of his home, announcing to
every person who stepped onto
the porch, “Jesus Is LORD!”
“Jesus Is Lord!” not only became
the theme for his ministry, it
was the theme for his life.
The Bible says every knee will
bow, and every tongue will
confess Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father
(Philippians 2:10-11). The
day is coming when everyone,
Christian or not, will bow and
confess, “Jesus is Lord.” He is
the undisputed Savior of the
universe.
Every person on earth can be
saved by believing and making
that declaration now! We hope
each of you has had your own
personal moment when you
came to the same conclusion
Brother Copeland did nearly
60 years ago.
The entire staff of KCM joins
Kenneth and Gloria in declaring:
“God loves you, we love you, and
JESUS IS LORD!”
It began in 1967 when, as
Brother Copeland was reading
his Bible in his bedroom,
1 Corinthians 12:3 exploded
with meaning in his heart:
“No man can say that Jesus
is the Lord, but by the Holy
Ghost.” At that moment,
Brother Copeland decided
he was going to declare those
words all the time, and over
every situation.
The rest of that afternoon he
walked around declaring the
lordship of Jesus: “Jesus is
LORD. Jesus is LORD over my
body. Jesus is LORD over my
mind. Jesus is LORD over my
spirit. Jesus is LORD over this
bedroom. Jesus is LORD over
my clothes. Jesus is LORD
over my car. Jesus is LORD
over this ministry. Jesus is
LORD over anything that has
to do with me, because I make
Jesus The LORD over my life.”
Jesus Is Lord!
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Nowhere But Up
Before the
Foundation
of the World:
Part 2
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by Kenneth Copeland
Have you ever gone to God with a problem, for
instance, and expected Him to be anything less
than right—100% of the time?
Of course not. God is God. You can always
count on His being right. The Bible is full of
His unwavering excellence revealed to mankind
down through the ages.
What’s more, when Jesus stepped out of
heaven and into this natural realm, He was
no less excellent than His Father. The New
Testament recounts how His life and ministry
on this earth was one of excellence.
So where does that leave you and me?
We are, after all, the children of God, too. We
are sons and daughters of the Most High God—
the Most Excellent God.
Shouldn’t there be some mark of excellence in
our lives, as well?
Excellence Takes Heart
Throughout the Scriptures there are many
accounts of God-fearing men and women who
demonstrated excellence in their lives. One of
those was Daniel.
In Daniel 6:1-3, we are reminded of the favor
Daniel received during his lifetime from the
different kings of Babylon, and why:
It pleased [King] Darius to set over the kingdom
an hundred and twenty princes, which should
be over the whole kingdom; and over these three
presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the
princes might give accounts unto them, and the
king should have no damage. Then this Daniel
was preferred above the presidents and princes.…
Here was Daniel, an exiled Hebrew slave,
basically running the entire Babylonian empire.
In fact, Darius actually trusted Daniel more than
he did all the other people who had political
authority in the land.
What made Daniel so special?
Verse 3 goes on to tell us that it was “because
an excellent spirit was in him.”
Daniel had a spirit of excellence.
In studying the life of Daniel and others like
him, it’s obvious that a spirit of excellence does
not come easily, and that it does not come by
being lazy. Walking in a spirit of excellence—
walking in excellence of thought, excellence of
action, excellence of speech—only comes with
diligence.
The Apostle Paul gave us a good idea of what it
takes to lay hold of the spirit of excellence when
he said: “I press toward the mark for the prize
of the high calling of God in [the Anointing of]
Jesus” (Philippians 3:14).
Excellence in spirit requires pressing toward
the mark, pressing toward the finish line for the
prize of the high calling—which is simply another
Have you ever expected
anything less than
excellence from God?
foundation of the world (Hebrews 4:1-3). What’s
more, everything God did, He did to get us to our
wealthy place in Him.
To reach that place of abundance, however, we
must have a spirit of excellence.
Excellence Takes Passion
For the Apostle Paul, excellence in life and
ministry was far more than a desire. It was the
air that he breathed. It was what drove his entire
existence 24 hours a day.
In Philippians 3:13-14, he wrote, “Brethren, I
count not myself to have apprehended: but this
one thing I do, forgetting those things which are
behind, and reaching forth unto those things
which are before, I press toward the mark for the
prize of the high calling....”
If you drop the italicized words this and I do,
which were inserted by the Bible translators,
the thrust of what Paul said becomes even more
powerful.
“Brethren, I count not myself to have
apprehended: but one thing, forgetting those
things which are behind....”
Those “things” that Paul chose to forget were
his worldly credentials.
After all, if there ever were a man who had
all the advantages to set him solidly on a path
to what the world would define as a life of
abundance, it was Saul...the Paul who had not yet
been born again.
He had been born into the right family. He had
been given the finest education. He had become
a Pharisee, and was a Roman citizen. His entire
life had been carefully planned and plotted to
lead him down the road to a prosperous life
(verses 4-6). The only difference, however, was
that he was well on his way to a wealthy place in
the world, not in God.
But then Saul encountered Jesus—and after
that happened, the born-again Paul wrote this:
“What things were gain to me, those I counted
loss for [the Anointed One and His Anointing].
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for
the excellency of the knowledge of [the Anointed]
Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the
loss of all things, and do count them but dung...”
(verses 7-8).
As far as Paul was concerned, all his fleshly
efforts and achievements of the past were a waste
way of saying, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God,
and his righteousness,” and as you do, things will
be added unto you (Matthew 6:33).
To be excellent in something, or to excel, means
“to go to the highest place.” To excel can also be
defined as “to prosper.”
So when we talk about a spirit of excellence,
we’re talking about prospering in the things of
God, desiring and walking in the highest place,
the highest realm of God’s power, His WORD,
His goodness, His grace, His mercy.
Psalm 66:12 speaks of a wealthy place in God, a
place of abundance in Him. It is a place of divine
favor (such as Daniel knew), divine health,
divine protection. It includes a wealth of goods,
properties, assets, influence and so on.
Jesus referred to this wealthy place when He
said, “I am come that they might have life, and
that they might have it more abundantly” (John
10:10).
Later, the Apostle Paul expanded the revelation
of this life of abundance when he wrote:
For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His
workmanship), recreated in [the Anointed]
Jesus [and by His Anointing], [born anew]
that we may do those good works which God
predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking
paths which He prepared ahead of time], that
we should walk in them [living the good life
which He prearranged and made ready for us to
live] (Ephesians 2:10, Amplified Bible, Classic
Edition).
Notice that Paul said we are to live a good
life—a life “prearranged and made ready for us.”
When were all those arrangements made?
Before the foundation of the world.
God
promised
eternal
life
before
the
foundation of the world (Titus 1:1-2). He
ordained Jesus before the foundation of the
world (1 Peter 1:19-20). The Lamb was slain
before the foundation of the world (Revelation
13:7-8). We were even chosen in Him before the
foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:3-5).
God declared all the promises contained in His
WORD long before sin ever existed, long before
satan tempted Adam, long before the universe
was even created. Then, He sealed those
promises so we couldn’t lose them.
In short, God finished all His works before the
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in comparison to the high calling he was after in
God. Consequently, he did what we must all do if
we want to live a life of excellence. He chose to
pursue a spirit of excellence. He decided to press
toward the mark for the prize of the high calling,
while forgetting all that lay behind.
So excellence in life begins with a decision.
It was Paul who also wrote, “But in a great
house there are not only vessels of gold and of
silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some
to honour, and some to dishonour” (2 Timothy
2:20). His point was that there are vessels of gold
and vessels of mud, vessels of honor and vessels
of dishonor. We have the right to choose which
we want to be.
Yes, God loves the little mud pots in life. But
every time it rains, He has to put them back
together. On the other hand, a golden pot will
not fall apart in the rain. Nor can the rain even
tarnish it.
Excellence Takes Work
Once we’ve made the decision to become a
vessel of honor—a vessel of excellence—we must
take the next step, which is found in verse 21: “If
“Even before the foundation
of the universe, God made
every man and woman...
wealthy beyond their wildest
dreams and imaginations. ”
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a man therefore purge himself from these, he
shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and
meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto
every good work.”
Notice that Paul didn’t tell Timothy, “If you
cry long enough, God will purge you.” No, he
said, “Purge yourself.”
To reach our wealthy place, or high calling,
in God and walk in all the good works He
ordained for us before the foundation of the
world, there is some purging we will have to
do.
Taking this principle a step further and
applying it to his own ministry, Paul wrote:
“Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as
we have received mercy, we faint not; but have
renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
not walking in craftiness [manipulating
people to do what we want them to do],
nor handling the word of God deceitfully...”
(2 Corinthians 4:1-2).
The bottom line is, the only way to walk
in excellence in any area of life is for us to
be brutally honest with God, brutally honest
with ourselves, and then brutally honest with
others.
Now, I’m sure you can imagine that our
flesh won’t like this part of the process. But
that’s the only thing that makes purging
ourselves difficult, because it’s not difficult
to do when we follow The WORD of God and
do it in the power of the Holy Spirit. Actually,
it’s when we try to purge ourselves by the
strength of our flesh and work it out with our
minds that it doesn’t work, and it seems like a
tough road to take.
We are reminded, however, that God’s
WORD is a lamp unto our feet and a light
unto our path (Psalm 119:105). We don’t have
to stumble around in the dark when God has
given us His WORD. All we have to do is turn
it on.
The Apostle Peter said it like this: “We
have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as
unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until
the day dawn, and the day star arise in your
hearts” (2 Peter 1:19). Revelation from God
and revelation from His WORD comes up like
a little light in a very dark place.
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The glory of God is the Anointing of God.
And it was this same glory that raised Jesus
from the dead (Romans 6:4).
So having been given the light of the
knowledge of God’s glory—that is, His
Anointing—we
now
have
a
working
knowledge of it being available to us. That
means, we have a working knowledge of
His WORD. We have a working knowledge
of His Love. We have a working knowledge
of His Faith. We have a working knowledge
of His honor. We have direct access to the
knowledge of how the entire kingdom of God
works.
Paul went on to say in 2 Corinthians 4, “But
we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that
the excellency of the power may be of God,
and not of us” (verse 7).
The treasure that you and I have is this
knowledge of the glory of God. And, yes, we
have it in earthen vessels. But, even though
we may have started out as a bunch of mud
pots, God is treating us as vessels of honor. He
is treating us as vessels of His glory. As far as
He is concerned, we are of the purest gold.
Why?
Because we’re allowing His WORD to strip
away all the old flesh, all the old soulish parts
of us—all the old waste.
Meanwhile, God sees us as He did before
the foundation of the world. He sees us
as vessels of honor on the pathway to our
wealthy place in Him.
Even before the foundation of the universe,
God made every man and woman who would
ever be born into this earth wealthy beyond
their wildest dreams and imaginations. He
did that by creating a place of abundance—a
place of Love, a place of Faith, a place of
honor, a place of His WORD.
My friend, God is calling us to that place
in Him, today. He is calling us up into His
excellence.
Have you ever stayed in a hotel, and when
you got out of the bed in the middle of the
night, you nearly hurt yourself stumbling
around in the dark? Well, in an unfamiliar
room like that, it’s smart to give your eyes a
couple minutes to adjust to the dark, then
look for that little sliver of light that shines
in underneath the hallway door, or around
the curtains on an outside window. Once
you locate even the tiniest bit of light, you
can orientate yourself to the room, making it
easier—and safer—to find a light switch.
In the same way, no matter how dark or
unfamiliar a situation may seem to you,
God’s WORD is at hand. It’s always available.
It will talk to you and guide you—but only if
you let it.
Excellence Takes Commitment
The decision to become a vessel of honor
and live a life of excellence and abundance
in God is a decision to live by The WORD of
God. In other words, we have to commit to
putting God’s WORD first place in our lives.
Whatever The WORD says, we will do, even
when it means making adjustments in our
words, our actions or our thinking.
If we want to be like Daniel, and other men
and women of excellence, we must allow
ourselves to be taught, trained and corrected
by God. We must walk in the Love of God. We
must walk in the Faith of God. We must be
vessels of honor unto God, prepared and able
to be used by Him.
Once we make the decision to live in
excellence, to purge ourselves of our old
fleshly ways, and to live by The WORD of God,
we open the door to the road of our wealthy
place.
Paul described the end result of this life
of excellence, when he wrote: “For God, who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus [the Anointed One, and in the face of
His Anointing]” (2 Corinthians 4:6).
When did God shine in our hearts to give us
that light of the knowledge of His glory? Again,
it was before the foundation of the world.
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Everything in her life was based on her
performance. She had to do well in school. She
had to be a good daughter. What if, like many
of the patients she treated in medical school,
she reached a place where she could no longer
perform? Who would love her then?
“I grew up in a close, conservative family. In
India at the time, the very best academics were
found in Catholic schools. My parents sacrificed
a lot to send me there. The nuns were excellent
teachers in all subjects, and insisted, while in
school, we only speak English.
“Although they never tried to convert us, during
assemblies I sang ‘Jesus Loves Me.’ But I shook
my head so no one would think I believed in Him.
When Catholic students took catechism classes,
we Hindu students took a class on moral science.
I was always very hardhearted about Jesus. The
way I saw it, we had our gods and they had Jesus. I
didn’t believe He was divine. I thought, He couldn’t
even save Himself.”
God Answers
One night in December 1997, her internship
year, Deepa was tired, weary after long hours. But
she was also exhausted from trying to fight back
the darkness that threatened to consume her.
Alone in the call room at the hospital, Deepa
spoke out loud.
“If there’s a force in heaven, do something with
my life. Otherwise, in five days, I’m ending it.”
She shared, “Suicide was a major problem
in India. For example, in 2016, Indian women
accounted for over 36% of female suicide deaths
globally, despite representing less than 18% of the
world’s female population.
“It was just a way of life. My father’s sister died
by suicide in her 20s.”
When one of her good friends from medical
school converted from Hinduism to Christianity,
they remained friends, Deepa recalls, because
“she knew better than to talk to me about Jesus.”
However, over time that changed.
“For several years, when darkness overtook me,
I would go to her,” says Deepa. “At first, she just
held my hand and looked at me with such love and
peace streaming out of her eyes. Then she started
reading from the Bible. Those words always gave
me hope and peace.
“But this visit was different; the morning after
my sleepless night, she saw me and said that
my face looked like death. She led me to a little
room with a Bible. Opening it, she read from
Hebrews 13. She read verses 1, 2, 3 and 4, and was
reading verse 5 when she said these words: ‘I will
never leave you. I will never forsake you.’
“It’s hard to describe what happened. It felt like
those words lifted out of the book and landed in my
heart. At that moment, the spirit of hopelessness
and suicide left. Nobody explained the gospel to
me. Nobody told me I was a sinner. Nobody told
me to pray. It’s a good thing, because I wouldn’t
have listened.
by Melanie Hemry
Out of
Darkness,
Into the Light
Deepa Dorisamy
pushed her medical books aside.
Growing up in India as a Hindu, she worshipped many gods.
When darkness threatened to overtake her, none of them
helped. What helped was focusing her mind on academics.
Until now.
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“That time is frozen in my memory. The room.
The Bible. The yellow sari I wore. I didn’t say
anything to her. I just stood up and walked out. As
I did, three things were impressed on me.
“First, I knew beyond a doubt that Jesus was
divine. I didn’t hear but felt these words: Deepa,
you’ve always looked to people for help. From now
on, I’ll take care of you. I’ll take care of you like a
queen. Then Jesus impressed on me to stand up
straight with no shame.”
The Way and the Truth
Deepa knew that converting to Christianity
would devastate her family. She loved them and
didn’t want to dishonor them. So, she added Jesus
to the other gods and continued going to the
Hindu temple.
Over the next two years, not once did she feel
judged by God. She never felt condemned. What
she felt was overwhelming compassion. He
understood the love of family.
One day, He spoke to her while she was at the
temple.
Deepa, what are you doing here? You don’t belong
here.
Not long after that, back at her home, Deepa
read her Bible and then knelt to pray.
“Lord, You’re the Way, the Truth and the Life.
From now on, You are my only Lord and Savior.”
March 11, 2000, was Deepa’s birthday. Birthdays
are important to Hindus. The priests perform
specific rituals on those days. At home with her
family, her mother and distant aunt were already
in the car. “Let’s go,” her father said, “I’ll take you
to the temple.”
Two things rose up in Deepa: a love of Jesus and
a new, raw courage.
“Dad,” she said, “I’m a Christian. I can’t go.”
Although her family was shocked, she knew
that there was nothing better than having Jesus
in her life.
As for My House
In India, a woman had no choice about whom
she married. Even if a Hindu girl accepted Jesus,
her parents would arrange her marriage to a
Hindu man.
A group of Christian women met at the hospital
once a week for a prayer meeting. One week, a
young woman described being born again and
marrying a Christian.
“I was just a baby Christian,” Deepa recalls,
“but out of the blue I said, ‘As for my house, we
will serve the Lord.’ I didn’t even know where that
verse was in the Bible, but I kept saying it.
“There was a doctor in the hospital named
Sukumar who was very interested in me. He was
from a very staunch Hindu background. He wore
a chain around his neck with many idols. I never
wanted to marry outside my faith.
“When I told him I’d decided to move to the
U.S. for my residency in pediatrics, he decided to
do the same thing. I arrived in the U.S. in August
2001, one month before 9/11.
“In February 2004, Sukumar was working as a
research intern at Vanderbilt. On Valentine’s Day,
he gave me a portrait of Jesus.
“I gave him a Bible. Inside I’d written: To my
future husband, who is a believer in Jesus Christ.
He was furious.”
The next month during spring break, Sukumar
talked to his friend who was a Christian. “Why
don’t you read the Bible?” his friend asked. “After
all, it’s the most read book in the world.”
A Date With Destiny
Intrigued, Sukumar read the Old Testament in
two days. “It was like watching a movie!” he said.
“So full of drama!”
Then he read the New Testament. He kept
thinking, Why do they crucify the man again and
again? Four times in four books. When he read the
book of John, he wept. He’d been raised in a loving
family, but he’d never felt love like this.
One thing that impressed Sukumar about
the Bible was that God had blessed everything,
including time. In Hinduism, there were good
times and bad times. If he was scheduled to take
a test and it was a bad time, his mother kept him
home, and she sent him late for the exam.
When Hindus married, they had to get up
very early in the morning on their wedding
day, according to the time predicted by the
astrologers. As he read the Bible, Sukumar
grasped that the blessings of God included time,
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and all time is blessed.
The next day, he went to the temple. Only now,
he felt…uncomfortable. All the idols looked like
rocks. Back at his apartment, he picked up the
Bible and read, “I stand at the door and knock….”
Sukumar gave his life to Christ.
“We married in February of 2005,” Deepa says.
“Ours was the first Christian wedding either of
us had ever attended. When an Indian woman
marries, she takes her husband’s first name as her
last name. My name became Deepa Sukumar.
“As I thought back over my childhood, I realized
that I’d always had a spirit of fear. I worried
all the time. Yet my life was simple and good.
There was nothing to worry about. In India, you
can go to medical school straight out of high
school. However, looking back I realized that the
oppression became much worse when I started
medical school.
Spiritual Covering
“I believe the answer is that while I attended
Catholic schools, the nuns prayed for us. They
provided a spiritual covering to drive back the
darkness. When I started medical school, I no
longer had that covering.
“Sukumar told me that when his mother
went into labor with him, there was a flood
while they were on the way to the hospital.
They had to change routes and stopped at a
Catholic hospital instead. For the first 24 hours
of his life, the nuns prayed over him. We both
believe that their prayers were instrumental in
Sukumar accepting Christ.
“We lived in New York City until we finished our
residencies. I earned mine in pediatrics. Sukumar
became a pediatric cardiologist.”
In 2014, while listening to an online message by
Bishop David Oyedepo, Deepa and Sukumar heard
about Kenneth and Gloria for the first time.
“Bishop Oyedepo was talking about Kenneth
and Gloria and their ministry, and I thought,
Let me start listening to them,” Deepa said. “We
started listening to their teachings, reading their
books, and watching the broadcast; and we’ve
been hooked ever since. I just love listening to the
broadcast.
“I love how they teach and how they stay with
the Word of God,” says Deepa. “It’s so refreshing
for somebody to teach the Word of God that gives
so much hope. That’s what the Word of God does;
it gives hope. I listen to their teachings and it’s like
receiving meat, not just milk. It’s the Word of God
that brought me and Sukumar out. No preaching,
just the Word of God.
“That’s a big part of the reason we love KCM so
much. They focus on teaching the Bible. It was the
Bible that brought both Sukumar and me out of
darkness and into the light. We’ve been Partners
for 10 years. We love and appreciate the spiritual
covering KCM provides. I, along with Sukumar
and our 16-year-old daughter, Sarah, listen to all
their messages.
“We have such a good heavenly Father that He
counts the number of hairs on our heads. Most
people have between 90,000 and 150,000 hairs.
He loves us so much that He counts them.
“We draw our worth from Him. Letting that love
shine through like Rohini did for me, is being the
hands and feet of Jesus. It’s been 25 years since I
stepped out of Hinduism. Like everyone, I’ve had
difficult times. But thoughts of suicide have never
returned. God has been such a faithful Father to
both of us.”
“It’s so refreshing for
somebody to teach the Word
of God that gives so much
hope. That’s what the Word
of God does; it gives hope.”
—Deepa
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Strife
Will Keep
You Carnal
In his letter to the Corinthians, the
Apostle Paul gave us even more
information about the damaging
effects of strife. He wrote:
“And I, brethren, could not speak
unto you as unto spiritual, but as
unto carnal, even as unto babes in
Christ. I have fed you with milk, and
not with meat: for hitherto ye were
not able to bear it, neither yet now
are ye able. 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 Corinthians 3:1-3).
Carnal Christians are miserable
people. They’re born again and
they know enough about God not
to enjoy sin, but they aren’t
committed enough to stay out
of sin.
If you don’t want to find yourself
trapped in that condition (and I
know you don’t) then stay out of
strife, because strife will keep you
carnal! It will inhibit your ability
to digest the meat of the Word, and
without that meat you won’t be able
to grow into a strong, victorious
Christian. If you fuss and bicker
with others, your spiritual growth
will be stunted. You’ll remain in a
perpetual state of spiritual infancy
and the devil will run over you
regularly!
So grow up. Don’t stay a baby. Get
out of strife and into the Word.
Soon you’ll be the overcomer the
Word says you are!
by Gloria Copeland
It’s bad enough that strife opens the
door of our lives to confusion and
every evil work (James 3:14-16).
That alone should make us resist it
with all our might. But that’s not all
the Bible has to say about it.
“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
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Strife
Will Keep
You Carnal
In his letter to the Corinthians, the
Apostle Paul gave us even more
information about the damaging
effects of strife. He wrote:
“And I, brethren, could not speak
unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto
carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I
have fed you with milk, and not with
meat: for hitherto ye were not able to
bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 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 Corinthians 3:1-3).
Carnal Christians are miserable
people. They’re born again and
they know enough about God not
to enjoy sin, but they aren’t committed
enough to stay out of sin.
If you don’t want to find yourself
trapped in that condition (and I know
you don’t) then stay out of strife,
because strife will keep you carnal! It
will inhibit your ability to digest the
meat of the Word, and without that
meat you won’t be able to grow into a
strong, victorious Christian. If you fuss
and bicker with others, your spiritual
growth will be stunted. You’ll remain
in a perpetual state of spiritual infancy
and the devil will run over you
regularly!
So grow up. Don’t stay a baby. Get
out of strife and into the Word. Soon
you’ll be the overcomer the Word says
you are!
by Gloria Copeland
It’s bad enough that strife opens the
door of our lives to confusion and
every evil work (James 3:14-16).
That alone should make us resist it
with all our might. But that’s not all
the Bible has to say about it.
“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 Corinthians 3:3
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Our Faithful Father
I want to thank you for the prayer
line. I am a widow and when my
husband went to heaven, I called
the prayer line for prayer for so
many things: finances, health, even
loneliness. I also called for healing
for my son’s eyes; he works on
computers. After prayer, he called
and told me a miracle happened
He Still Answers Prayer!
I had asked for prayer for my
husband who was having a
cardiac stent placed last fall.
On that day, the cardiologist
performing the procedure
dissected his artery which
caused him to have a
heart attack. He had to be
transported 40 miles away
to have emergency cardiac
bypass surgery.
for him; his eyes are healed. Thank
You, Lord Jesus!
I have been a Partner since 1992,
and I am very thankful for the
prayer partners and for VICTORY
Channel. Blessings to you all!
S.T. | Texas
I praise God that my
husband did well and
recovered nicely. It was
through many prayers from
you all and so many others
that Jesus was there with
him all the way. I just give
Him all the glory and honor
and praise! Thank you,
KCM! H.D. | Oklahoma
VICTORY
Testimonies of Real-Life
Restored and Renewed
In October 2015, I read through
the BVOV magazine. There was
an article that featured Dr. Don
Colbert. After I finished reading it,
I was stirred to take action. I began
exercising self-control and removed
gluten, sugar and dairy from my
diet. At the time, I weighed 250
Abundantly Blessed
I decided to send an offering to KCM, and I believe
that my business is profiting as a result, and also
because of connecting with KCM. My business is
up 123% this year. I give glory to God! T.C. | Idaho
Jesus the Healer
I received prayer from KCM before
going to see the doctor about a lump
that had been found in my body. Later,
the doctor examined me, and they
couldn’t find any lumps at all! I know
the hand of God was on me. I am so
grateful for His faithfulness and for
the prayers lifted up on my behalf. All
praise to Jesus, my Healer!
P.B. | British Colombia
pounds. A year later, I was healed
from morbid obesity, high blood
pressure, chronic pain, fatigue
and sleep apnea. I now weigh 138
pounds and have been keeping my
weight at this level for six years.
Thank You, Lord! E.H. | Ontario
‘Live Fear Free’
Recognizing that
my thoughts were
too often focused
on negative and
discouraging
things, I purchased
Minister Copeland’s
book Live Fear
Free. Previously, I
watched programs
and accessed other
resources on the
topic, but they were
not as practical
as Live Fear Free.
It contains the
formula needed
to successfully
conquer thoughts
that keep us from
focusing on what
really matters…our
relationship with
our Lord and Savior.
Such as, meditating
on the appropriate
scriptures and
also practicing
application of
His Word.
A.A. | Texas
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THROUGH
THE BIBLE
MARCH
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Num.
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John 2
Num.36
Deut.1
John 18
Num.
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John 10
Deut.
15-16
Acts 5
Deut.
30-31
Acts 13
Num.7:79-89,
8: 1-26
John 1
Num.
34-35
John 17
Num.
22-23
John 9
Deut.
13-14
Acts 4
Deut.
28-29
Acts 12
Num.
11-12
John 3
Deut.
2-3
John 19
Num.
26
John 11
Deut.
17-18
Acts 6
Deut.
32-33
Acts 14
Num.
13-14
John 4
Deut.
4-5
John 20
Num.
27-28
John 12
Deut.
19-20
Acts 7
Num.
15-17
John 5-6
Deut.
6-8
John 21; Acts 1
Num.29-
31:1-24
John 13-14
Deut.
21-23
Acts 8-9
Num.
18-19
John 7
Deut.
9-10
Acts 2
Num.31:25-54,
32:1-42
John 15
Deut.
24-25
Acts 10
Num.
20-21
John 8
Deut.
11-12
Acts 3
Num.
33
John 16
Deut.
26-27
Acts 11
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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?
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!
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prayer@kcm.org.au
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Dealing
With
Temptation