(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
ANNOUNCER: Acknowledging God for all He does in your life
is the mark of being truly successful, and promotion is a
result of that gratitude. Join Gloria Copeland and Pastor
George Pearsons next on the Believer's Voice of Victory.
GLORIA: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Believer's
Voice of Victory broadcast. Pastor George Pearsons
is back with us again, and we are hearing some good
things. This one we're coming up on is promotion. Is that right?
GEORGE: Mm-hmm. That's right. GLORIA: Promotion God's way.
GEORGE: Yep. GLORIA: Now, if you're interested in promotion,
you don't want to miss it. If you're not interested in
promotion, go get your head examined, because promotion is
good. GEORGE: That's right. It is God's will for us to be
promoted. GLORIA: That's right. It is. GEORGE: Thank you for
having me on this week. GLORIA: Oh, George, we're glad to have
you. GEORGE: And I'm looking forward to our time next week
together. GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: And those of you that have been
following us for all of these years, you know that we make all
of the outlines available to you. You can just go to kcm.org
and go to the picture of Gloria and me. Click onto it and it'll
take you to the outlines that we're preaching on this series
here. GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: And it will also take you to all of
the outlines, all of the ones that we've done for all of these
years-- GLORIA: Praise God. GEORGE: --on prosperity. And we
are talking about promotion. We're talking about--and this is
what I had in my heart for the people for these two weeks that
we have, is that the Lord wants us to have a promotion
mentality, that it is His desire that we advance-- GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: --that we rise up, that we continue to develop
and go from--from glory to glory-- GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE:
--from faith to faith, from level to level. And He has
supernatural favor, opportunities, open doors that
are available to us, and He wants to see His body, He wants
to see His people get the best positions-- GLORIA: That's
right. GEORGE: --have the best raises. He wants some
billionaires out there, a lot of billionaires out there. GLORIA:
I'll volunteer. GEORGE: Yeah, me, too. And--but He's teaching
us here about promotion, what it takes, the fact that it is the
will of God. And, Gloria, what I thought we would do-- GLORIA:
Let me add--let me add this before you go to something else.
GEORGE: Yeah, please. Please. GLORIA: What is an--what is
another word for "promotion"? Blessing. GEORGE: Mm-hmm,
mm-hmm. GLORIA: It's the blessing at work. GEORGE: That's
right. GLORIA: And you're--when you yield to promotion, you're
letting the blessing come out-- GEORGE: That's right. That's
right. GLORIA: --do what it's called to do. GEORGE: When God
spoke the blessing over Adam, over man-- GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE:
--that was promotion. GLORIA: That was, wasn't it? GEORGE: He
said, "I want you to be fruitful, and multiply,
replenish the earth, subdue it: have dominion over it." GLORIA:
Have dominion. GEORGE: Well, He was imparting that blessing to
him, and that--He was--as Brother Copeland has said
before, He wanted Adam to expand the garden of Eden all over the
world and the universe-- GLORIA: Yes, that's right. I believe
that. GEORGE: --to take it everywhere he went. That's--that
is producing fruit. He wants us to be fruit producers. He wants
us to be producing fruit. And He wants us to have the best jobs.
GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: He wants us to be leading in these
companies and these corporations that need Godly wisdom-- GLORIA:
Yes. GEORGE: --in the same way that--that Joseph led Egypt, he
led a nation with Godly wisdom. Well, he's looking for people
like us to do the same. He wants us to be promoted. And so we're
developing that mentality, that inner understanding and
revelation that it is God's will for us to be promoted. GLORIA:
That's right. GEORGE: Well, what we did, Gloria--I have before
Gloria here--she and I both have this, it's a summary of what
we've been talking about since Monday. And I just want to go
through it quickly, Gloria. And I'll start with this day one.
GLORIA: Okay. GEORGE: On the first day, on Monday, we talked
about God's will is promotion and that the Lord--one of the
ways that the Lord prospers us is through our work. It's
through our vocation, our-- GLORIA: Our calling. GEORGE:
--our calling, exactly. And in Psalm 90:17 in the GOD'S WORD
Translation, it says, "Make us successful in everything we do."
GLORIA: Praise God. What a great Scripture. GEORGE: "Make us,
Lord, successful in everything that we do." And then the
foundation Scripture for what we've been teaching on is Psalms
75:6-7. This is The Living Bible, "Promotion and power come
from nowhere on earth, but only from God." GLORIA: Isn't that a
marvelous Scripture? GEORGE: Mm-hmm, it is. It is. GLORIA:
Ooh! GEORGE: "He promotes one and he deposes another." So last
Monday-- GLORIA: And one of the versions says, "He puts down
another." GEORGE: He puts down, yeah. And a good example of
that--we read it yesterday, talking about David and Saul.
God was done with Saul. GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: He had just pushed
his limit. GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE: And it was time for him
to go, so He removed him from that position, and He replaced
him. And He replaced him with a shepherd. He replaced him with
somebody who had a heart to fulfill the will of God. GLORIA:
Yeah, but somebody who knew Him. GEORGE: Who knew Him, yeah. Yes,
that's exactly right. GLORIA: He--David recognized God.
GEORGE: That's exactly right. And that's why we've been
praying over Mr. Trump, that he is choosing the right people in
those positions in our government. GLORIA: Amen. Yes,
that's right. GEORGE: And, you know, exciting things are
happening in our nation. And we keep praying for our nation,
keep believing for our nation. GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: But I'll
tell you something, I believe that--that there are promotions.
I believe--mm, thus I say that, that there are people in the
senate and the house that need to be removed because they are
no--they are doing no good for our nation. And I believe we're
going to be seeing the time where those people are removed
and they're replaced. They're replaced by born-again,
Spirit-filled, Bible-believing-- GLORIA: Yes, people that know
God. GEORGE: --Word-of-God-standing people
who will do what God desires to be done in this nation. GLORIA:
Amen. GEORGE: So they're--we discovered last Monday that it
is God's will for you to be promoted. Now, on
Tuesday--Gloria, why don't you go through that with us, day
two. GLORIA: Okay. "Prosperity always accompanies promotion."
GEORGE: Mm-hmm. GLORIA: You're not going to prosper--unless you
get promoted, you're probably not going to be in prosperity.
GEORGE: Prosperous, yeah. That's exactly right. GLORIA: "God's
will for us is to advance and receive responsibility with
raises and bonuses." And you're probably not going to be
promoted unless you do a good job. GEORGE: That's exactly
right. That's exactly right. GLORIA: Matthew 25:21 in the New
King James Version says, "You were faithful over a few things,
and I will make you ruler over many things." GEORGE: Mm-hmm.
GLORIA: Now, as I look back upon our lives, I see that that was
true. You--He lets you grow and you come up to a level. GEORGE:
Yeah, yeah. GLORIA: And if you're faithful there, you grow
and you come up to another level. And if--you keep going.
But, if you're not faithful, you stagnate. GEORGE: You stagnate,
yeah. GLORIA: If you don't do what God says or-- GEORGE: Yeah.
GLORIA: --follow His lead or spend time in His Word where you
can hear from heaven, you just stay where you are or worse--
GEORGE: Yes. GLORIA: --you get worse off. GEORGE: Yeah. Well,
you had just mentioned that, and something came to my mind that
we read--we read some of these last Tuesday. And--but we didn't
finish and these were some of the people who were promoted and
started at very small positions in a corporation. GLORIA: Huh.
GEORGE: I've got--let me read this to you. GLORIA: Okay, go
ahead. GEORGE: I've got this here. This is interesting. This
is the Xerox Corporation, and I don't know anything really about
the people themselves, but I just looked up online just
various people who started in low positions who eventually
became the leaders of the company. Well, this woman named
Anne Mulcahy started out as a field sales representative at
Xerox Corporation in 1976. She was named CEO in August of 2001
and then chairman in January of 2002. So she was
faithful--evidently, she was faithful over a few things.
GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: Well, she eventually became the chairman
of Xerox. Well, listen to this: Ursula Burns began at Xerox in
the summer of 1980 as a mechanical engineering intern.
GLORIA: Hmm. GEORGE: She became the CEO in June of 2009 and the
chairman in May of 2010. GLORIA: Wow. GEORGE: Gloria, she came in
as an intern. GLORIA: Well, what about George? What about Pastor
George? GEORGE: What about Pastor George? Pastor George--
GLORIA: Where did you start, Pastor George? GEORGE: Pastor
George came to-- GLORIA: This place. GEORGE: --Kenneth
Copeland Ministries in May of 1976. GLORIA: And your first
job? GEORGE: My first job actually was to insert a
cassette and a flyer into an envelope. It actually was the
flyer that Brother Copeland--you and Kenneth were sending out,
where the Lord spoke to him and said, "The Lord has spoken to me
and He's told me to get this uncompromised Word of faith on
every available voice--" GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: "--from the top of
the world to the bottom and all the way around." GLORIA: Yes. I
remember that. GEORGE: And that was my first job. GLORIA: And
you were faithful at it. GEORGE: And I was faithful with it. Now,
Kenneth brought me in to start the in-house art department. But
the day that I sat down with him, before I started my job, he
said, "George, now, you're also going to be traveling on the
road. Are you willing to work the book tables?" "Yes, sir. I
am willing to work the book tables." GLORIA: You were
willing. GEORGE: "Are you willing to tear down after we're
done?" "Yes, sir, I'm willing to tear down." He said that, "If a
truck backs up to the building out here and they need help
unloading it, will you help them unloading it?" And I said, "Yes,
sir." And so I did that. GLORIA: Isn't that interesting? GEORGE:
And I did that and started-- GLORIA: He who is faithful over
little will be ruler over much. GEORGE: Faithful over little.
And then from there, I was the art director. And then the
editorial director left and so you all made me the editorial
director. So I took-- GLORIA: Here's what we said-- GEORGE: It
became-- GLORIA: --over and over and over, "Let George do it."
GEORGE: "Let George do it." GLORIA: Yeah, "Let George do
it." And he did it. GEORGE: So I became the publications
director. And then this was-- GLORIA: You're moving on up.
GEORGE: I walked by a little room out there at Lake Arlington
when we were out there, and I was walking by this office. And
Doug, your brother, stepped out, pulled me in, pointed at a
little keyboard, and said, "Can you play that?" I said, "Yeah."
He said, "You're going on the road to play that." So it was a
synthesizer. It was the first synthesizer. So I did that. And
then I became the executive director in 1988-- GLORIA: Now
you're moving on up. GEORGE: --and then became the pastor in
1993. And then, in 2010, Gloria Copeland asked me to do two
weeks of broadcasts because she couldn't do them herself. And I
did two weeks of broadcast on prosperity and made the notes
available. And you called me the week after it aired and said,
"George, I have a brilliant idea. Why don't you come and do
broadcasts with me, and you can bring your notes." And so, over
260 broadcasts later-- GLORIA: It worked, too, didn't it?
GEORGE: (Laughs) It did work. It did work. GLORIA: Helped people.
That's great. GEORGE: But point being, I started out stuffing
envelopes. That was my-- GLORIA: You were faithful over little.
GEORGE: I was faithful over little. GLORIA: God made you
ruler over much. GEORGE: Over much. GLORIA: So you might
think, "Well, I don't have a very important job." It's
important. If it's your job, it's important, and you treat it
that way, and you begin to do things that you don't even have
to do, but just do what God tells you to do in that job and
be faithful. You'll get promoted. GEORGE: If I could put
anything into young people about that, that would be, "Do not
despise small beginnings." GLORIA: Yeah, small beginnings.
That's what the Word says. GEORGE: Do your best. Be
faithful at it. GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: You know, when I was at
ORU, I went and I applied as an artist in their graphic
department. And, Gloria, this is interesting. They had a stack of
applications to do that. And out of all those applications, he
chose me. And I became very close with the art director.
Now, this is interesting because the Lord is always preparing
you. GLORIA: Yes, that's right. GEORGE: He's always getting you
ready for something that's coming up. What you're doing
right now is preparation for the next promotion for the next
level. GLORIA: Be faithful where you are. GEORGE: When I was
at--be faithful where you are. When I was at ORU, I had no idea
that this was what was happening. But the Lord
basically showed me the end from the beginning. Gloria, I was at
Oral Roberts University at the height of Oral Roberts
television ministry. Terri was there. I met her. She was taking
TV. And even more than the classes that I was in, the
German that I was taking or the history class that I was in, I
was observing a ministry that the Lord was going to take me
and bring me to you. He showed me the end from the beginning.
GLORIA: Mm-hmm. GEORGE: I mean, a lot of what we're doing now is
what Oral was doing back then, without the university part.
GLORIA: Yeah. GEORGE: But all I'm saying is that whatever
stage of life that you're at-- GLORIA: That's right. GEORGE:
--you are always in a state of preparation. The Lord is always
preparing you and qualifying you. GLORIA: That's right.
GEORGE: And this is a wild thing, too. Going to ORU and
being a student there and just serving however I could, I
was--I was around some phenomenal things, Gloria. I
was--I got to watch Oral Roberts up close doing his television
broadcasts and things like that. And the-- GLORIA: What a
blessing. GEORGE: --funny thing about it was I eventually became
chairman of the board at Oral Roberts University. Isn't that
amazing? GLORIA: It is. GEORGE: It's amazing.
GLORIA: See? GEORGE: It's amazing. GLORIA: Promotion.
GEORGE: Promotion. GLORIA: You know, the Bible
says, "Promotion comes from above." GEORGE: It does. GLORIA:
Do you believe that? GEORGE: Yes. It does. GLORIA: I believe
it. GEORGE: It does. GLORIA: I certainly do. GEORGE: Well, on
Wednesday, we talked about--that's day three, God's
system of promotion. "The world's system of promotion is
self-advantagement with no regard for God or others. God's
system of promotion is trusting Him--" GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE:
"--to set us where we are most valuable to the kingdom."
GLORIA: That's right. That's right. It's in His will. GEORGE:
He's going to put you--in Genesis 12:2, it says, "I--" to
Abram, "I will make you a great nation, I will bless you, and
make your name great; and you shall be a blessing." GLORIA:
Praise God. GEORGE: So in all of the promotions that we are--and,
you know something? I'll tell you, Gloria. My--I think about
this often because this is my--one of my favorite
scriptures, and this is what I tell people that work here at
Kenneth Copeland Ministries: "I am among you as one who serves."
GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: After 41 years, that is still my
scripture, "I am among you as one who serves." Number one, it
keeps--it keeps pride from setting in. Number two, it keeps
your heart right with God and others. And, number three, it
always keeps you in line for promotion. GLORIA: Praise God.
That's right. GEORGE: If you do what Jesus did, and that was to
be a servant, then you're going to continue to be promoted.
GLORIA: That's exactly right. That's good, George. That's good
insight for people. GEORGE: Tell us about day four. GLORIA: Day
four, "God sent Samuel to Jesse to locate a replacement for King
Saul." GEORGE: Mm-hmm. GLORIA: I Samuel 16:7, "Man looks on the
outward, God looks on the heart." GEORGE: Yeah. That's it,
that's it. GLORIA: And then, I don't see this right here, but
it says--I think we might have already mentioned it, "Promotion
comes from above." That's where God looks. GEORGE: Yeah, Psalm
75. Yeah. GLORIA: He looks and sees what's in there. GEORGE:
That's--yeah, he's looking-- GLORIA: He sees if you're ready
for a promotion-- GEORGE: That's right. GLORIA: --or if
promotion--you know, sometimes promotion damages people--
GEORGE: Promotion's not--it does. GLORIA: --if they're not
ready for it. GEORGE: That promotion's not ready for you.
That's interesting. GLORIA: I believe you're ready, George.
(Both Laugh) GEORGE: Oh, good, good. I'll take it. I'll take
it. GLORIA: "Man looks on the outward. God looks on the
heart." "I have found David--" in Acts 13:22, "I have found
David, a man after my own heart. Promotion is a result and not a
goal. Promotion is not something we seek, it's a harvest we
reap." GEORGE: There you go. There you go. GLORIA: Oh, that's
good, Lord. I like it. GEORGE: "Promotion is not something we
seek, it's a harvest we reap." What are we sowing? GLORIA: What
is it from? Being faithful, doing what you're told, being
faithful-- GEORGE: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. GLORIA: --not being a
griper or a complainer. GEORGE: Yeah, that's exactly right. Oh,
Gloria, I have to tell--how much time do I have left? Oh, what?
Oh, a minute and a half. I'll just ignore him for a moment. I
was on the road early on when I came here. And I won't tell you
who or what, but I was called to a hotel room when I was at--the
first year I was on the road with Kenneth. I was called to
one of the hotel rooms with one of our workers who was over some
things. And he said, "We're going on strike." GLORIA: Oh,
no, George. I never heard that story. GEORGE: Going on strike?
Are you kidding me? He said--he didn't like another leader that
was on the road. And so he was telling me and another guy--he
said, "We're going on strike tonight," and tonight was the
start of the meeting. And I looked at the other guy that I
was with and we just started laughing and we walked out the
door. On strike? Are you kidding me? GLORIA: I never heard that
story. GEORGE: Are you kidding? GLORIA: You'd be going on more
than strike. GEORGE: Yeah. GLORIA: You'd be gone. GEORGE:
You'd be gone. (Laughs) GLORIA: But he hadn't been around very
long, was he? GEORGE: No, he wasn't around. (Both Laugh) No.
"Promotion is not something we seek, it's a harvest that we
reap." GLORIA: Amen. GEORGE: And then, Gloria, we're going to
leave it with this because this is what we're going to do next
week. GLORIA: Okay. GEORGE: We're going to talk about the
five prerequisites to promotion. GLORIA: Oh, that'll be good.
GEORGE: Next week. GLORIA: Oh, people, don't miss that. GEORGE:
And we're going to take one each day. To be promoted, you've got
to have a servant's heart, you have to walk in humility, you
must be diligent-- GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: --you must be faithful--
GLORIA: Yes. GEORGE: --and you must be a person of integrity.
GLORIA: Praise God. I look forward to that.
GEORGE: So we're going to cover that all next week. And
you're going to qualify for promotion. GLORIA: Yes,
amen. Don't miss it. George and I'll be right back.
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