KENNETH: Welcome everybody to
the Believer's Voice of Victory broadcast. I'm Kenneth and this
is Gloria Copeland and happy anniversary sweetheart. t's only
next Monday. GLORIA: How long? KENNETH: 58 years. Praise God.
GLORIA: We did it, we did it. 58 years. KENNETH: I met you on the
30th day of October in 1961. I remember the day I first laid
eyes on you and I thought- her dad came up to me. Arkansas was
playing TCU and you know, there's no, you can't buy a room
in that town, but my dad was with national old line insurance
company. GLORIA: Yeah, I remember. KENNETH: And um, so he
called up there. My boss took a charter trip, and I rode the
ride seat. I didn't have multi engine rating back in those
days. And, um, so they had an extra seat and I asked, I asked
Bill, I said, uh, could my dad go? And of course you know Bill
and dad were close friends and, and so, uh, he said sure. So had
an after game party at the country club and all that.
Anyway, her dad came up to me and said, my daughter's best
looking girl in the state of Arkansas. I said, is that right?
And he came back a little bit later and he said, you don't
believe me, do you? I said, I believe you man. He said, how
you going to airport in the morning? I don't know, cab I
guess. Nah he said, where are you staying? I'm going to come
pick you up. I really never, I really never thought I'd ever
see this guy again. But we were staying in the pent house of
national old line insurance company and, and my, my dad had
been with that company for a long time and so he called him
and said, they said, yeah, A.W. You and Kenneth stay up there is
fine. Cause they all going to the ballgame. TCU is playing
Arkansas. So, um, wow. The next morning, Sunday morning, bright
and clear and a fall day as in October, you know, I don't
remember who won the game, but that the elevator came all the
way up there and then when it opened there Gloria and her dad
and her mother and I saw her, I thought, man, he's right. That's
the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life. So we
walked out on the balcony there. It's five stories high and, and
back there that many years ago there, the city wasn't built up
as high as it is now, and we stood out there and there's a
bright pretty fall day like I said, and, and Gloria and I
walked out on that balcony and we're looking out over it and
she put her arm around me and just patted me on the back. And
I, and I know right then that moment I just fell head over
heels in love with her. I just, I thought... GLORIA: Don't make
me cry. KENNETH: And it wasn't long after that my boss came in
and he said, Kenneth, I've taken over the operation in, he said
over in Camden, Arkansas. And, and he said, uh, you know, he
said, uh, it is a mess. That place needs cleaning up. And I
thought, maybe you'd like to go over there? And I said, I'll go.
Yeah, I'll go. He said, don't you want to think about it? And
I said, I thought about it. I'm starting to thinking that girl
is over there somewhere. So sure enough, and we had a bunch of
weather come in there two weeks later and just grounded
everything. And so I asked Mack Tate was my boss there then in
Camden. And so I said, Mack, can I have the airport car? I went
in and called Gloria and she answered the phone. She said
later, she's, her mother and dad asked if she'd like to go to
Little Rock. She said, no, that boy is going to call. And I
called her and made a date with her. And so I had this old wore
out airport car and I drove that thing over to Blevins to pick
her up which is a few miles away. And then we went to Camden
and went to the rocket room. And so, and we had, I don't know
where I got money enough to feed her, but I did, I guess I got it
from Mack, I guess. I'm pretty sure I got it from Mack because
Gloria used to come over there and when she's come over where
we were and she'd stay with Mack and his wife, and you've heard
me tell this story, but I just love it. And after which I drove
her back to Blevins and stepped up there on her dad's front
porch. I said, Gloria, will you marry me? She said, okay. And
just went in the house. GLORIA: It's the truth. KENNETH: I stood
out there on the porch like that. And then the rest is
history. GLORIA: I said, what? What did you want, a
speech? I said I'll marry you, that's what I should've said.
KENNETH: Yeah. But she said, what about done? I don't even
know this guy. Oh well I get out of it later. Next Monday, which
is the 13th of April, we celebrate our 58th wedding
anniversary and I love you more today. GLORIA: I don't want out
anymore. KENNETH: No, I don't either. Never did. And the rest-
Six months later we got married. Six months later we got born
again. Three months later we got baptized in the Spirit and the
rest is history. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you so much.
Thank you for this, these radio and television broadcast going
out all over this world when we need it so badly. And thank you
sir for the faith of God. We praise you and we look to you
sir, for revelation from heaven. GLORIA: Thank you Lord. KENNETH:
And Lord help Gloria and me, help us to deliver this word
today with special anointing to fit these time. And we give you
praise and honor for revelation, the peace of God, and the
healing of God, in Jesus name. Amen. Well, we're not in center
point today in our prayer cabin. But you know I miss word bird.
Yeah, we got boat. Glory to God. Open your Bibles with me again
today. Uh, where we're going to, we're doing a refresher on the
fundamentals of faith. And you, I mean, you have to do this. You
have to go back and refresh. You don't say, well, Oh God, now I
need to use my faith. Oh yeah, yeah, I know how to do that.
Yeah, I know how to do that. Oh yeah. Yeah. I don't need to go
back to the Bible. Yes, you do. You need to go back and refresh.
Particularly when it's tough times. You can quote Mark 11:23
and 24 and 25 and quote it, quote it, quote it, quote it,
quote it, quote it, quote it. You better be careful, you will
wind up quoting little parts of it a little bit differently than
what it says and go back and read it and thought. You know,
for a long time I would say in the book of Romans, for I have
made thee the father of many nations. That's not what it
says. He said, I have made you a father. Well, what difference
does that make? Not much in that case, but that's how easy that
is to do you just quote it, quote it, quote it, quote it,
and change little pieces of it. So you go back to the
fundamentals. Now remember this, you've heard me say this a lot,
I'm going to say it to you again this morning. What are you
watching when you watch the Super bowl? What are you
watching when you watch the world series? Masters of the
fundamentals. It's the same game whether you're playing
basketball, football, baseball, amen. The rules are the same.
Now, depending on the size of the players, you know, the
diamond may be squished down a little bit if it's little league
guys, particularly if it's t-ball, amen. But it's the same
game and they practice and practice and practice and
practice and practice and practice at those fundamentals
over and over and over and over and over and over and over
again. The great Green Bay Packer coach man, thank you
Lord. When Vince Lombardi had a losing season and he never had
another one, he walked in there, Gloria. Now these guys are the
best in the world, but they got beat. He started out, gentlemen,
this is a football. That's about as basic as you can get. Now
during world war II, they had kids coming in from the country
that, some of them hardly old enough to drive yet, but they're
there in the military, and they're just training people
just as fast as they could because this war got just thrown
on them. Man, I remember it. You know, uh, I was born, the day
before I was born on December the 6th, 1936. December the 7th,
1941 I was five years. So by the time they ended that war, Hey, I
was eight or nine years old. I remember, I remember things
going on when I was in grade school and vividly. But I want
to say here, here's, here's the way they started flight training
on a little, little, little, little Piper Cub. For some of
these guys, the first time they'd ever been up close to an
airplane, theses country kids. It's hard to wrap your mind
around that today, but man I remember this and they started
out that way. This is an airplane. Well, yeah, and it
they started in the front end. Now listen to me, particularly
those of you that don't know how to fly, and this is a propeller.
This is the engine. Well, duddy duddy dud. These the
fundamentals, right Tim? Wait a minute, you're going down this
is the wing. Everybody knows that. Now this is the aileron.
What? An aileron. What? An aileron. What in the world is an
aileron? That is so basic fundamental every pilot on earth
knows what an aileron is. It's the little flappers out on the
wings. It makes the airplane bang. Fundamentals. Yesterday
you heard that jet that flew through here. He's got ailerons.
Hey, the difference is the guy that flew through here yesterday
is supersonic. That little J3 back there then, it everything
it had to do 85 miles an hour, but it's an airplane. Gloria
remembers that because she's got a little over 80 hours and she
quit. She was working on her multi engine rating. Cause I
didn't want to have to have a copilot when I got a jet. Praise
God. She finally decided, I don't want to do this. She said
you do to it, but she'd ride up there in the front, she learned
enough to read a chart. She could help me and she could read
the charts. She knew what all she was talking about because
she knew how to fly. Fundamentals. Now the
fundamentals of faith, the fundamentals that go along with
faith, because above all, you'd take the shield of faith. The
breastplate of righteousness. Oh yeah. The helmet of salvation.
Oh yes. Glory to God. Feet shod with the preparation of the
gospel of peace. Oh yeah. But above all, the shield of faith.
Whereby you shall quench all the fiery darts of the wicked,
including covid-19. GLORIA: That's right. KENNETH:
Right, just got it. Glory to God. Don't you hit me with it.
My faith is in place. My shield is up. Gloria, I don't know
where my shield is. I was going to put on the full armor, but I
don't want to did with my shield. GLORIA: You left it at
the airport. KENNETH: I guess so. That's sad. You know what?
You're not spending any time in the Word, you're not even
thinking about where's that shield? Was that in first,
second Corinthians? Oh no, it's in the 6th chapter of the book
of Ephesians. Now you haven't finished up, we wrestle not with
flesh and blood, but principalities and powers of
darkness so forth and so on. You haven't finished it till you get
that 18 verse, pray always all kinds of prayer in the Spirit,
that's in tongues, perseveringly for all the saints. Praise God.
That means your partners. Amen. I pray for you every day. This
ministry prays for you everyday. Now- GLORIA: Think about the
shield of faith. You can't leave your shield laying on a table.
KENNETH: That's right. GLORIA: If you don't got it up, you
don't got it. KENNETH: No, that's right. GLORIA: It could,
it may be your shield. You may have your name on it. KENNETH:
Oh. Oh, that. That is good, Gloria. GLORIA: But you gotta
keep it up. KENNETH: Yeah, it's uh, yeah. And, oh listen, you
know, glory to God. That means if your shield of faith is
somewhere else, the first fundamental of faith, believe it
in your heart and say it with your mouth. It's not in your
mouth. You got something else in your mouth. Something else.
GLORIA: Keep it up. KENNETH: Something else. Well, I hope I
hadn't got this thing. Where could I have possibly got it? I
didn't go anywhere, but no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hey, you
know what I've heard Gloria say so many times? Get over it. Get
over that. Amen. Get back in the Word, get back in the Word.
Right. And especially at a time like this, not only watching
these broadcast is important, but now listen to me, get those
CDs out. Gloria and I, we, my phone, we go to bed at night
just a lot of the time, and, and we've still got a Brother Hagin,
the one that taught us faith, I've got a telephone full of his
messages and man, we'd go to bed at night and we just go start
pumping that faith in there. Well, why? We have to have it.
GLORIA: Faith has to be fed. KENNETH: It does. That's what
Smith Wigglesworth used to say. He would- Now here's a man,
completely illiterate. God taught him how to read the Bible
and he never read anything else. Never been to school a day in
his life. He carried a little Testament with him and he did
this every time he ate a meal, whether he was in a restaurant
or wherever he was, he said, well, we have fed our bodies and
now let's feed our faith. So he would feed his faith and he
would go to the New Testament and he would feed his faith. He
would read, he did it about this loud, booming voice. Just a
booming voice. He was so bold. Why? Cause his faith. Read the
Bible every day and never read another publication in his life.
GLORIA: Full of faith. KENNETH: Full of faith ever increasing
faith. Amen. So, we don't even have to do that, dear Lord. You
got it. If you got any sense at all, if you got seven or eight
translations right there in your phone, if you don't get the
Bible app, and do it. Amen. Verily I say unto you,
whatsoever, you shall, who so ever shall say unto this
mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall
not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things,
those words which he says will come to pass, he will have
whatsoever he saith. Therefore, now because of that, I say this
to you, whatsoever thing, whatsoever thing, how many
things? How many things? GLORIA: Everything. KENNETH: Whatsoever
thing you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them.
Believe that you take them and you shall have them and when you
stand praying forgive, right there at that same, forgive,
it's all one motion. You believe it in your heart, you say it
with your mouth, you believe you receive it, and you forgive
right there, right there. When you stand praying, forgive if
you have ought against any that your father also, which is in
heaven, may forgive you your trespasses. Now, Matthew chapter
21. Yeah, but Brother Copeland, you know, they told me that this
is just a spiritual mountain, this is a spiritual tree. I'm so
glad you brought that up. 24 chapter of Matthew, praise God.
You know the 11th chapter of Mark is the classic teaching on
faith. Oh 21st verse. Now verse 21 verily, I say unto you, if
you have faith and doubt not, listen, you shall not only do
this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say
to this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea.
It shall be done and all things whatsoever you shall ask in
prayer, believing you will receive. Wow, I will receive it?
It didn't say you might receive it, it said you will. Well
that's fundamental. Jesus said it, I say it. Glory to God. I
will receive. So today I received it. I take it, I take
my absolute immunity from covid-19, I take it today.
Praise God. Well, I can go out without a mask. No, you can't.
Well, why not? I'm a person of faith. Render under Caesar what
is Caesar and then unto God's what is God's. Amen. We do as
our leaders have set out for us to do. You obey the laws of the
land. In this case, we are obeying the leadership. Well, I
don't like that Donald Trump. It didn't say you had to like him.
He said, you have to do what he says. Yeah, but I hate him. How
do you like the flu? How do you like Covid-19? Well, I don't
like it. You better shut that kind of talk up cause you're a
candidate. Well, where there is strife, confusion, there's every
evil. Now you can look back and see why this nation was so
absolutely vulnerable to this thing because of the hate and
the strife and the confusion going on in this government, but
that's all in the past. This is the victory that overcometh the
world. Say it, even our faith. We're out of time, Gloria, and
I'll be back in just a moment. ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed
today's teaching from Kenneth Copeland Ministries, and
remember Jesus is Lord.
