If you've needed greater faith, more anointing or increase in some area of your life, I want you to study very closely what I'm about to tell you. I don't want you to just read it lightly and take my word that it's true. I want you to get out your Bible and let the Holy Spirit reveal it to you personally.

Here's why. If you will believe and act on the principles you're about to see, you will tap into a spiritual gold mine. It is a mine so deep, so rich, you will never be able to plumb the depths of it in this lifetime. Obviously, I can only scratch the surface of it here. But if you'll spend some time on your own digging around in it, you'll realize as I have that the power of partnership is greater than anything you'd ever imagined.

"Partnership?" you ask.

Yes, partnership!

You see, contrary to what many people have thought, partnership is not a new idea some fund-raiser cooked up. It is an ordinance of God that began in the Old Testament and continued in the New. It is a system designed by God to dramatically increase the abilities, resources and rewards of every believer.

That system was officially established and recognized as an ordinance of God in 1 Samuel 30. There we find David and the men who fought under his command in hot pursuit of the Amalekites who had plundered their homes and taken captive their families.

In order to overtake their enemy, David's men had embarked on a grueling military maneuver known as a forced march. That's a march under pressure which involves moving the most men and equipment as far and as fast as possible, while remaining battle ready at all times. It's a tough assignment, and by the time David's men reached the brook Besor, 200 of them were too exhausted to go on.

David instructed the weary ones to remain behind and guard the supplies. Then he and the rest of the men went on across, found the Amalekites, and—by the power of God—jerked the slack out of them! They not only defeated the army and recovered all their own possessions, they took what belonged to the Amalekites as well. So when they came back across the Besor, they brought with them great spoil!

When the fighting men rejoined the 200 others, however, some of them didn't want to share the rewards of that war with those who had stayed behind. "Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered," they said.

It was at that moment that David, a man after God's own heart, officially established the principle of partnership.

Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us...but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike. And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
(1 Sam. 30:23-25)

What Can I Do for You, Partner?
You may think that ordinance doesn't mean much for you. But it does. After all, you're a soldier just like David's men were. You are a part of the army of Jesus, the Anointed One. You're on a mission to occupy this earth and enforce the devil's defeat until Jesus returns.

You may not be on the front lines of the fivefold ministry. You may not hold the office of an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor or teacher. But if you're in partnership with a minister who is doing the work of God, fighting alongside him or her through prayer or through giving, you'll receive an eternal reward for every person who is born again, and every believer who is strengthened or healed or delivered as a result of that minister's endeavors.

As far as God is concerned, you deserve to be rewarded just as much as Gloria and I do because your part is just as important as ours!

"Well, I'd like to believe that, Brother Copeland, but that was an Old Testament ordinance. Are you sure it's still in effect today?"

Yes! Jesus taught the first 12 disciples about it. He reaffirmed to them that principle of partnership by saying:

He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
(Matt. 10:41-42)

It would be sufficiently exciting if the reward we received from our partnership in God's work was strictly a heavenly reward. But, praise God, it's not!

There's also an earthly aspect to this reward system. Partnership is one of God's ways of providing for us, here and now, blessings so great we could never muster up enough faith to receive them on our own.

You can see what I mean if you'll read 2 Kings 4. There you'll find the account of a Shunammite woman who decided to support the ministry of the prophet Elisha. She was so determined to be a Partner in his work that one day when he was passing by she "constrained him to eat bread." She just wouldn't take no for an answer. She insisted that he stay for dinner.

She didn't stop with that, either. She and her husband built a special room onto their house so Elisha would have a place to stay whenever he was in town.

Do you know what Elisha did in return? He called in his servant, Gehazi, and said, "Go find out what I can do for this woman. Find out what she wants."

So Gehazi went, checked out the situation, then came back and told Elisha:

Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old. And Elisha said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
(2 Kings 4:14-16)

Obviously, this woman didn't have the faith to believe God for a child because when Elisha told her she would bear a son, she said, "No way! You may be a prophet, but you're lying to me now!" That was out there beyond what she could ask or think.

But Elisha didn't have any trouble believing for it, and since she was due a reward and they were in Partnership with one another, he just released his faith on her behalf. Sure enough, by the next year that Shunammite woman had a baby.

Take Advantage of the Privileges
That same principle will operate for you today just like it did for her. If you're a Partner with Gloria and me, for example, you've joined up with our faith.

Now when we started out, we just had enough faith to keep our old car running so we could get from one meeting to the next. But over the years, as this ministry has grown, we've learned how to believe for the millions of dollars it takes to pay television bills and salaries, buy equipment and such.

If you're newer to this faith life than we are, or if you haven't had the opportunities to grow in it that we have, you may have some needs that are out beyond your faith range right now. For example, you might have $50,000 worth of debt you want to pay. You know God can do it, but at this point in your life, it may be hard for you to believe He will do it for you.

Well, take advantage of the privileges of Partnership. Believing for $50,000 worth of debt reduction isn't hard for Gloria and me.

As I said, we have to believe for millions every month. So write that $50,000 debt reduction prayer request on the sheet I send you every month with my letter, and send it back. Use it as a way to release your faith in the God-ordained power of partnership.

That's why I put that sheet in there. I don't do it just because it's the traditional thing to do. I'm energizing you to take part in the prophet's reward! We have a whole prayer staff here who prays over those requests.

Plus, Gloria and I pray every day for our Partners just like we pray for our own family. We're exercising our faith on your behalf, so reach out and receive some of the blessings you have coming to you!

Increase Your Anointing
I want you to realize those blessings aren't limited to this natural, material realm, either. Through Partnership, the anointings God has given Gloria and me for ministry are also available to you.

The Apostle Paul understood that principle. That's why in the letter to his Philippian Partners he had the boldness to say:

...Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
(Phil. 1:3-7)

Notice in that last phrase he said, ye are partakers of my grace. Not God's grace. My grace! In other words, Paul was saying, "As my Partners, you share in the grace God has given me to carry out my ministry."

If you want to see how significant that really is, just read through some of Paul's letters and see the statements he makes about grace. Statements such as:

By the grace of God I am what I am...I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
(1 Cor. 15:10)

Paul was literally telling the Philippians that as his Partners, the same anointings that were on him as an apostle had become available to them!

I don't know about you, but I want all the anointing I can get. That's why I'm a Partner of Oral Roberts, Kenneth Hagin, Jerry Savelle, Jesse Duplantis and many others. I want to be a partaker of their grace!

"But I don't need those kinds of anointings!" you may say. "I'm not a preacher. I'm just a mechanic...or a housewife...or a salesman."

That may be your profession, but aren't you called to witness to people, pray for them and minister to them as you go about your daily affairs? Of course you are! And the more of the Anointing of God you have available to you, the better you'll be able to do it.

Spiritually, we'll have the full scope of the anointing of God. And materially we'll enjoy the prophet's reward, joining in faith together to receive exceeding, abundantly above what we can ask or think!

I'm convinced it was that reward Paul had in mind when, in closing his Partner letter to the Philippians, he told them, "My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus!" (Phil. 4:19).

No matter how you look at it, that deal is just too good to pass up. So don't! Make up your mind right now to seek God and find out with whom He wants you to become a partner. Then be like that Shunammite woman and start hunting ways to bless that partner.

You'll have so much fun at it, you'll be tempted to forget all about the reward. But God won't. If you'll keep your faith hooked up, He'll see to it that you're blessed with more of everything than you ever dreamed possible. He'll see to it that you receive the prophet's reward.

Excerpt permission granted by
Eagle Mountain International Church, Inc.
aka:  Kenneth Copeland Ministries