Testimony

It was a Saturday about 3 p.m. in 1980, when I entered my barracks room and turned on the television. A familiar song started the program so it grabbed my attention: "Bless the Lord, O My Soul," then on came a preacher named Kenneth Copeland. He started to speak and within five minutes my heart just exploded in joy, as the things he was talking about concurred with what I had been reading in the Bible.

For the next few weeks I made it a point to watch BVOV every week. One morning I started to watch and, to my dismay, a woman was behind the podium. My first thought was that I wanted to hear Kenneth, but the Spirit of the Lord suddenly spoke to me as directly as He ever has. He said, At any time you make the decision to listen to this woman, you shall be blessed. Of course, you know the woman was Gloria Copeland. I have lived under that blessing for 45 years.