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to help them overcome every obstacle! Then, Brother Roberts spoke again: "I'm going to ask you to make one of the most serious commitments you've ever made in your life," he told Kenneth. "I want you to commit to God that every 30 days, for the rest of your life, you will pray in the Holy Ghost until you have something anointed to write to your partners, just the way Paul wrote to his." That day, Kenneth made a lifelong commitment. The LORD then led him to study Philippians—a letter from Paul to his ministry partners—as an example of how the Holy Spirit could use him to write his own letters. "From that time until now," says Kenneth, "I've written a letter every month to my friends who are in partnership with me. They aren't money-raising letters. I don't write them for that reason. God is my Source, and He meets all my needs. I write the letters because I want to BLESS my Partners. Since they are partakers of my grace (Philippians 1:7), I want to share with them the revelations God has given me." And they aren't off-the-cuff revelations. Each letter represents hours upon hours of prayer on Brother Copeland's part. Through them, he personally shares the things The LORD is teaching him with a desire that they will strengthen and encourage all who receive them. "I agonize over those letters," says Kenneth. "I pray...and pray...and pray...and pray. Then I go back to prayer until I hear what's on God's heart. Sometimes it comes to me in the middle of the night. But one thing's for sure—I wait until I hear from heaven. I don't just sit down and put something on paper." Perhaps no one knows better the time and commitment Kenneth spends each month writing his Partner Letter than members of his own family. "Mother and Daddy have always been committed to our Partners," says daughter Kellie Copeland, who remembers growing up watching her dad handwrite the Partner Letter each month. Kellie recalled how her dad would routinely spend hours, with pen and legal pad at hand, "praying over the Partner Letter until he hears from the Lord." "We would go on vacation, and if it was time for the Partner Letter, Dad wouldn't do anything until it was written. He wouldn't ski. He wouldn't go to the lake. He wouldn't budge from his chair until it was nished. It was like the Partners were on vacation with us. "And when he had nished writing, if he couldn't hold that letter up and say from his heart to the Lord, 'This is what You're saying to the people, and this is to get their needs met—not mine,' I don't care how great a letter it was, he would wad it up, throw it on the oor, and start over again." The Heartbeat of Ministry Since its inception, Kenneth Copeland's Partner Letter has been not only an encouragement to Partners, but also a source of truth and victory. For instance, when a recession hit Canada several years ago, one Partner there remembered the instruction the Lord had given her through Brother Copeland's Partner Letter in February 1992: Don't join the recession! So she didn't. After heeding that word, the Holy Spirit instructed her to take it a step further and pray the recession would work for her and not against her. against her. against I would estimate that 85-90% of what I preach in meetings…I receive the revelation of it while I'm writing that letter. HOW TO USE THEIR FAITH. JOIN US IN TEACHING BELIEVERS PARTNER WITH KCM. 1 0 : B V O V KCM.ORG.AU/BECOME-PARTNER

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