Near the end of May last year, tornadoes ripped across Central Texas, causing massive destruction. One tornado hit the little town of Jarrell and nearly wiped it out—and I don't say that just as a figure of speech. Several blocks of houses, including some businesses, were literally flattened.

In fact, just to give you an idea of how violent this tornado was, as meteorologists from the National Weather Service tracked it, they had originally classified it as an F-4, which meant it was a whirlwind of destruction going somewhere to happen.

Later, however, they reclassified it as a level F-5 tornado—a severe storm that is rarely ever seen. The funnel-shaped cloud was calculated to be more than half a mile wide, and had surface winds of more than 250 miles per hour.

Of course, when any sort of local or national disaster like this happens, one of the first things our KCM staff does is pray. But we also check our computers and get on the phones to find out if we have any Partners who have been affected by the disaster, especially pastors and churches. We make every effort to find out what we can do to help them, as well as their communities.

In this case, we learned that we had a Partner right in the middle of that tornado's wide path of destruction. It took some time, but when we finally got a call through to our Partner in Jarrell, this is what he said: "Tell Kenneth and Gloria we're all right. That tornado got within half a block of our house and we took authority over it. We just started talking to it, and it went around us and on to downtown where it wiped out all the others."

My friend, if there ever was a generation that needed to live and walk in faith and love every moment, it's the generation in which you and I now live. Thank God we have His Word and His powerful Anointing. But also thank God we have each other. We need each other! We need each others' faith. We need each others' prayers.

In these days especially, it is important that we be hooked up with anointed, praying people, because—as we are about to see—our individual anointings and our individual prayers of faith flowing in one direction are far more powerful than any one of us alone could ever be. They're certainly more powerful than any storm the Devil might throw our way, which is how God intended it to be.

The list of KCM partners is long—and actually, it's about to get even longer, because the Spirit of God recently told Gloria and me that we will have one million partners—and we will! But that list of names, however long it may be, is not set up to be some tool for us to use when we decide to mail something.

No, that list of names represents real, flesh-and-blood, Holy Ghost-Anointed people who are in covenant with us—and with each other—helping us serve the God of covenant. Gloria and I hold these precious souls in our hearts every moment of every day. Not a day goes by that we don't pray for our Partners, using a list of specific scriptures that the Lord has given us to pray, and believe, on their behalf.

You see, when Paul wrote this letter to his Partners in Philippi, he wasn't just scratching out some nice words to make them feel all warm and good about themselves. No, he was explaining some very important spiritual principles where ministry was concerned. He was explaining the exchange, or two-way flow, of God's grace and power in partnerships established for the purpose of ministry.

Certainly, prayer is a major part of this partnership exchange. But Paul was saying that there was even more being transferred in the exchange. We read about it in Philippians 1:6-7: "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 defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace."

Basically, Paul was telling his Partners, "Hey, we're in this together. And the grace - or anointing - that God put on me, He has put on you by having joined us together. So expect every anointing and blessing that I have operating in my life to operate in yours as well!"

Remember our Partner in Jarrell, Texas? There's no telling how many times I prayed for that one Partner as I lifted my hands toward heaven and said, "Father, I pray for my Partners...." and then went through all the scriptures I pray, and ended by praying in other tongues.

My point is, it is important for us to understand, where covenant partnership is concerned, that when you pray for me, you're praying for Gloria. When you pray for Gloria, you're praying for me. When you pray for us, you're praying for a Partner in Jarrell, Texas, and others around the world. And when Gloria and I pray for them, we're praying for you.

Do you see the exchange and flow of prayer and anointing? Do you see the strength of it? That's how God designed it. That's what partnership is all about. It's about partaking of each others' grace.