News and Updates

Thanksgiving 2009

David Copeland · November 1, 2009

Newsletter · Volume: 9 Issue: 11

Last month I stood before the casket of a young man that used to be affiliated with the church we pastored in Lanett, Alabama.  As I stood before his casket with his grieving widow, his parents and his sisters, I once again realized how precious and how fragile our life on this earth can be. Almost everyday of our lives we take so many things for granted.

We take for granted our car is going to start every time we slip the key into the ignition. We take for granted the microwave will pop our popcorn when we put it in and turn it on. We take for granted the electricity will always be on, the water will always be hot when we turn it on; and our children or our spouse will answer us when we call their name.

Thanksgiving for me this year is more than a time to be reflective or be sentimental. This year, as I celebrate my 48th birthday, my 31st year of ministry and the beginning of our ninth year of itinerant ministry, I am more thankful for the blessings God has poured on my life than ever before!

First of all, I am very blessed and thankful for my wife of almost 30 years. Nobody gave us a snowballs chance in the burning abyss of making it five years much less thirty. POW! Take that devil! I’m glad she is not only my wife, but she is the best friend I have in this whole world. She is my constant companion in travel and this ministry’s greatest support.

I am thankful for my two beautiful girls, their husbands that are the true sons I never had, and the four most beautiful grandchildren on the entire planet. Most of all, I’m very thankful Jesus is their personal Savior, and they are serving Him with all their hearts.

I am thankful for the faithful partners God has given us over the last eight years of
Traveling ministry. We have partners all across America and in other countries that are standing with us either in prayer, financial support and many, both. Partners, thank you for believing in us and standing with us, even during the darkest economic climate since the Great Depression. Thankfully, God’s Kingdom is NOT in a recession!

I am thankful for pastors who have opened their churches to us in the last eight years. I don’t have the space to name them all, but they will receive this newsletter and I want to say thank you pastor for trusting us! Thank you for allowing us to preach from your pulpit, lay hands on your people, and see God move in the tremendous ways we have seen Him move. And thank you to every pastor who has supported us financially over the last eight years! I also want to thank every pastor who has blessed us even though there was no time in their schedules available for us to speak; but they have sown into our various mission’s projects around the globe. And because of them, multitudes have come into the Kingdom of God

I am thankful for every prayer partner we have across the country and around the world! We have people praying for us in Guyana, Burundi, Kenya, Indonesia, and yes, here in the United States. Your prayers have been and must continue to be the backbone and strength of what God has called us to do.

I am thankful for the United States of America! Yes, I AM thankful for America. Acts 2:17 still states in the last days God will pour His Spirit out on all flesh. America has a lot of flesh. And I am convinced God is setting America up for the next Great Awakening. I am honored He has chosen me to live here in this day; a day in which we can usher in the greatest move of God’s Spirit since Pentecost. I say “God if not us, then who? If not here, then where? If not now, then when?”

As you gather with family and friends around your tables this Thanksgiving Day would you pray for us? God has exploded a plan in our hearts to expand our Crusade Evangelism across East Africa. We sense God is calling us to spend double the time in Africa in 2010 than we did in 2009. A Masaai Pastor prophesied to me in 2007 that God was calling Pam and I to reach the Land of Masaai with the Gospel. At the time, I couldn’t receive it because my faith was not at the level that I thought God could use someone like me to do such a tremendous work like that! Over the last month, God has confirmed that word of prophecy to me over and over. For that to happen, we need His hand of provision. And we need your prayers and support. God never calls you to do a work that you can accomplish on your own. A calling from God will always require God’s miracle participation!

On November 28th Pam and I will travel again to Kenya for the annual December Masaai Convention in the Kilgoris area. Fifty-five denominations and well over two hundred pastors will come together for 8 days of heaven on earth! Pray for a great harvest of souls as well as miracles, wonders and signs to follow the preaching of His Word!  If you would like to sow a special Thanksgiving offering toward our December Masaai Outreach, mark your checks “Kenya” and get them to us by November 25th. It will bless dozens of pastors and thousands of Masaai people as we gather together with them to receive from God!

Also, if you would like any special gift to be credited on your financial giving statement for the year 2009, please postmark your gifts by December 31, 2009 in order to claim them on your 2009 Revival Now Ministries Giving Statement.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Psalms 37:19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Blessings,
David & Pam