Dear Partner,
I heard The LORD early on in 2025 say, 2026 will be the year of THE BIG FIX! Acts 1:1-3, Amplified Bible, Classic Edition says:
- In the former account [which I prepared], O Theophilus, I made [a continuous report] dealing with all the things which Jesus began to do and to teach until the day when He ascended, after He through the Holy Spirit had instructed and commanded the apostles (special messengers) whom He had chosen. To them also He showed Himself alive after His passion (His suffering in the garden and on the cross) by [a series of] many convincing demonstrations [unquestionable evidences and infallible proofs], appearing to them during forty days and talking [to them] about the things of the kingdom of God.
Continue reading verses 8-9, AMPC:
- But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth. And when He had said this, even as they were looking [at Him], He was caught up, and a cloud received and carried Him away out of their sight.
You shall receive what? Ability, efficiency, and might! For what? To “BE MY WITNESSES TO THE VERY BOUNDS OF THE EARTH”!
Let’s look at verses 10-11, AMPC: “And while they were gazing intently into heaven as He went, behold, two men [dressed] in white robes suddenly stood beside them, Who said, Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into heaven? THIS SAME JESUS, Who was caught away and lifted up from among you into heaven, will return in [just] the same way in which you saw Him go into heaven.”
IT IS WRITTEN! It’s in The BOOK! Remember now, these are tatements of FACT, not just promises of future events backed by the sinless blood of Jesus! Now with all of that in mind, let’s go back in the life of Jesus to John 3:1-3. There IT IS—being a “born-again” believer. Now go to 2 Corinthians 5:6-7, AMPC:
- So then, we are always full of good and hopeful and confident courage; we know that while we are at home in the body, we are abroad from the home with The LORD [that is promised us]. For we walk by Faith [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.
“We walk BY FAITH…NOT BY SIGHT OR APPEARANCE.” Now remember what Jesus said? “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN.” John 3:16,AMPC, says: “For God so greatly Loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.” “GOD SO GREATLY LOVED AND DEARLY PRIZED THE WORLD!” Now look at verses 17-18, AMPC: “For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation—he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ’s name.]”
Go back and read John 3:16 again, but this time, read it like this: “For God so greatly LOVED and dearly prized me and my family…!” Let’s continue, then, with the writings of the great Apostle John in 1 John 3:2-3, AMPC: “Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is. And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless).”
What? Notice the word beloved and the phrase “be like Him.” How is that possible? Let’s stay in The BOOK, and with the Apostle John, because he became known as “The Apostle of Love.” In John 13:33-35 in the AMPC, Jesus said: “[Dear] little children…. I give you a new commandment: that you should Love one another. Just as I have Loved you, so you too should Love one another. By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you Love one another [if you keep on showing Love among yourselves].”
Was this a divine suggestion? Absolutely not. The Master said, “I give you a new COMMANDMENT!”
“Brother Copeland, how are we ever going to do that?”
Do what? Be like Him and walk in that kind of Love? In the first place, everything that pertains to life and godliness is written! However, first things first. Turn in your Bibles to Romans 10:9-10 in the AMPC:
- If you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is LORD and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his Faith) and confirms [his] salvation.
Now verse 13: “For whosoever shall call upon the name of The LORD shall be saved.” Now back to “The Love question.” First Corinthians 13:4-8 in the AMPC says:
- Love endures long and is patient and kind; Love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s Love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth]
Now then, Partner, place your name in these verses and declare by Faith: “With God’s Love in me, I endure long, and I’m patient and kind.” To deal with the “passing away” part in verse 8, one must continue reading through verse 15, but we’ll talk about that in a future letter. Let’s continue reading 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, AMPC:
- Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him]. It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor). So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ’s personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God. For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].
What? For my sake, He MADE Christ virtually to be sin. “By His goodness that in and through Him [Jesus] we have become the righteousness of God through Him, now.” This should be our confession of Faith! Let’s close by reading again Chapter 5:17-18. Say it out loud: “I am in Christ, so I am a new creature altogether!” What passed away (verse 17)? “THE OLD YOU”! “The fresh and new has come” and is from God (verse 18)!
Now let’s refer once again to Acts 1:11, AMPC: “[Angels] said [to Jesus’ disciples], Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into heaven? This same Jesus, Who was caught away and lifted up from among you into heaven, will return in [just] the same way in which you saw Him go into heaven.” The great Apostle wrote in his first letter to the Thessalonians in Chapter 4:3-4 (AMPC): “For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice, that each one of you should know how to possess (control, manage) his own body in consecration (purity, separated from things profane) and honor.”
Now let’s go to Galatians 5:22-23, in the AMPC. It says: “But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is Love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].” Now back to 1 Thessalonians 4, but this time let’s look at verses 16-18, in the AMPC:
- For The LORD Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first. Then we, the living ones who remain [on the earth], shall simultaneously be caught up along with [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet The LORD in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with The LORD! Therefore comfort and encourage one another with these words.
We understand that all of the prophecies concerning the return of “This same Jesus” have been fulfilled! Acts 2:4 in the AMPC says: “And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].”
If, dear Partner, you are born again and have not yet experienced being filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking with other tongues, it belongs to you because it belongs to ALL “new creatures” in Christ! Gloria and I received it in January 1963.
In Acts 2:16-17, the AMPC says: “But [instead] this is [the beginning of] what was spoken through the prophet Joel: And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels] and your young men shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream [divinely suggested] dreams.” “IN THE LAST DAYS….” We are now in the last days!
Now look at verse 21, and shout! “And it shall be that whoever shall call upon the name of The LORD [invoking, adoring, and worshiping The LORD—Christ] shall be saved.” Verses 24-25 in the AMPC, talk about how God raised up Jesus from the dead: “[But] God raised Him up, liberating Him from the pangs of death, seeing that it was not possible for Him to continue to be controlled or retained by it. For David says in regard to Him, I saw The LORD constantly before me, for He is at my right hand that I may not be shaken or overthrown or cast down [from my secure and happy state].” But the most wonderful scripture in The BOOK is verse 27. Let’s look at it in the King James Version: “Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” Think about it—Jesus went to hell so that you and I don’t have to go! First Peter 2:24 says, “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree [cross], that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed”!
As you sow your BLESSING seed this month, stand with all of us according to Ephesians 4:16, AMPC: “For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in Love.” Glory to God! And the whole body of KCM is firmly knit together by 1 million joints of supply right here in the USA, together with 1 million International Partners! Philippians 4:19, in the AMPC, says: “And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” Jesus is our Source—He uses many channels.
Partners, Remember I pray for you, especially at every meal, on every leg of every trip in the airplane, whether I’m flying it or not! And, the entire team of KCM ministry intercessors prays for you every day—spirit, soul, body, financially and socially. God Loves you, we Love you, and Jesus is LORD!
Love,
