What another awesome and amazing week at the Great Awakening revival meetings here at the River Church of Tampa Bay. It truly is a privilege and honor to be able to be under such anointed preaching from Pastor’s Rodney and Adonica Howard-Browne. Every single night is totally different. People are so hungry and thirsty for the things of God. Like the Word says,” those that hunger and thirst after His righteousness shall be filled”! People are calling in from all over the world to our prayer line and miraculous things are taking place. People are getting saved, set free, delivered, and baptized in the Holy Ghost right over the phone.
This is just the beginning of what God is going to do in these last days because America is in such a great need of a revival and a “Great Awakening”. It is so nice to see the Holy Ghost move as He wills throughout every service. Pastor Rodney allows the Holy Ghost full reign and this is true revival. Not one person who attends these meetings leaves the same way that they came in. My wife and I are so excited to be a part of these “Great Awakening” meetings. Last night’s meeting was definitely electrifying. Talk about the fire of God falling! I encourage everyone who can to come and attend some of these revival meetings so you can get touched, refreshed, and filled! I love that every message is about souls and eternity because many people don’t know where they will spend eternity. Let’s all get out there and go into all of the world and share the “Good News” with everyone!-Rickie H.
The fire of God has been in every meeting since Sunday night when the first meeting started, we are averaging over 300 souls per day since Monday. The airwaves are being bombarded with the Anointing every night with life changing messages delivered by a general in the faith Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne. Souls are being won for the kingdom of God through the airwaves where CTN is carrying us, and the networks DirecTv and DISH are taking the signal throughout the western hemisphere, but not only that now the signal is also getting picked up and going down to South America and all over Asia and than down to the continent of Africa.
God is moving thru the technology of today and as a result the phone system here at RMI has been blowing up during the evenings and on a steady increase every night because the broadcast again is live every night Sunday thru Sunday, we have Pastor Bob D’Andrea, the owner of CTN, here with us every since this began on January 2nd 2011. So you need to be here to reach your city, your town , your village, come sit under the anointing and catch the fire of God for souls to be won for the Kingdom of God and set your area ablaze for God and be a soul winner.-Payne Y.
Americas next Great Awakening began on January 2, 2011, and so far it has been a pretty wild ride for me. It has been so amazing to see the changes that have taken place within in the church in only a few weeks. The most amazing changes came not just in the building itself, but in the people. To see people from different back rounds and all walks of life all in one accord on the same page for the cause of Christ is so inspiring. The Lord has been showing me that this is how the church is supposed to operate. We as the body of Christ should be moving as the body moves in unison with purpose and direction. It’s not about us or our platform or our opportunity to speak. It’s all about Jesus and preaching the gospel to the lost people of this world! We need to set aside our egos and our pride a work together for the cause of Christ. Often times we are so focused on building our own castle that we forget all about building to Kingdom of God. This is one church moving in unity and the results have been astounding imagine what will happen when two or three churches begin to move as one. When one church acts as a hand and another as the foot …. That is what it is going to take for this nation to be shaken by the power of God. -Kai C.
Blessed Saturday night, I literally saw Jesus standing next to you up front, not sure if it was a vision or what. Power of God came over me.And no matter how hard I tried to stand.. I keep like “bowing down” , if that makes sense!! But I am on FIRE FOR GOD.. I really want to go to your bible school, and I went up front yesterday when you called up people who wanted to be soul winners.. I got my script in hand.. and have begun my journey..I will keep you updated with the amount of souls I win!!!
Nadine M.
My 60 yr. old farming boyfriend, was having great pain in his legs as we watched your web cast until midnight Friday…he layer down & I put my hands on his leg & prayed for a pain free healing in the Mighty Name of Jesus…he fell asleep..And 2 minutes later gave a couple kicks with his legs & then said “Thank You Jesus” in his sleep. I knew the Lord had touched him…he is still pain free today & walking very well doing his entire farm work.
Thank You Jesus & Thank You Rodney for showing us the way.
“What we have seen and [ourselves] heard, we are also telling you, so that you too may realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us. And [this] fellowship that we have [which is a distinguishing mark of Christians] is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah). And we are now writing these things to you so that our joy [in seeing you included] may be full [and your joy may be complete]. And this is the message [the message of promise] which we have heard from Him and now are reporting to you: God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all [no, not in any way]. [So] if we say we are partakers together and enjoy fellowship with Him when we live and move and are walking about in darkness, we are [both] speaking falsely and do not live and practice the Truth [which the Gospel presents].” 1 John 1:3-6 AMP
The distinguishing mark of Christians is their fellowship with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. If you want to stay in
fellowship with the Father, you have to walk in the light because God is light and there is no darkness in Him. Walking in the light requires walking in the Truth, walking in integrity, walking in love and walking in purity. If we sin and lie and break His commands and then say that we are in fellowship with Him, we are lying.
“I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know (recognize, be aware of, and understand) Him Who [has existed] from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have been victorious over the wicked [one]. I write to you, boys (lads), because you have come to know (recognize and be aware) of the Father.” 1 John 2:13 AMP
• By the fullness of joy in our heart
“And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.” 1 John 1:4 NKJV
Joy is a fruit of the Spirit. In other words, the more of Him you have the more joy you walk in.
• By keeping His commandments
“Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” 1 John 2:3-6 NKJV
Anyone who says that they know God, can prove it by the way they keep His commandments. Many people say they love Him, but in actual fact, they are doing their own thing – proving that they don’t. We should all check our own heart and judge ourselves in this area. Do we say we love Him? Are we keeping His commandments? If we truly love Him, we will be diligent to keep His commands.
“And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” 1 John 3:22 NKJV
God’s blessings will be evident in our lives, when we obey the Lord’s commands and do the things that please Him! He is pleased to bless His obedient children!
• By walking even as He walked
“He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 NKJV
If we know the Lord then we must obey Him by walking in His footsteps – doing what He did. It is not presumptuous for us to imitate Jesus; it is what He wants us to do.
• By loving one another
“He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. 10 He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.” 1 John 2:9-11 NKJV
“In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the
message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous. Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.” 1 John 3:10-19 NKJV
“And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.” 1 John 3:23 NKJV
Don’t worry about what everybody else is doing – you do what you know is right. The world and the world’s system are opposed to the Spirit of God. The bottom line is this: if we know Him, we walk in love – if we don’t walk in love, we show that we don’t know Him at all!
I’m so thankful that The River has conferences and camp meetings so people can come and be refreshed. It’s a lot of work for staff and students but it’s an honor to be able to minister to people, especially during this past ministers’ conference where so many men and women of God came in for a touch from our Father.
After the first couple of days, I was waking up with the theme song playing in my head. No limits…no boundaries… I thought on that continually while I was getting ready to go to church. The next day it was in my heart. No matter what was happening that song was rolling around in my spirit.
Near the end of the week, I realized that the God who had no limits and knew no boundaries wants His people to live the same way He does. In the Lord’s Prayer it says “thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven”. His will is no limits or boundaries. There are no boundaries in Heaven. He wants us to have no boundaries on earth. That’s why seedtime and harvest are so important. It takes us from the world’s economy and places us in God’s realm. The church is slow to move in obedience when the Lord tells us to give because so many of us are living in the Babylonian money system. It has limits. It has boundaries. We are afraid to obey because we think that we won’t have enough. Until we are able to step out of finite reality into His glorious unlimited realm, we are doomed to mediocrity and just barely enough. It’s time to step up into God’s realm and live the way He wants us to live.
The minister’s conference was powerful! I really got a vision of no limits and no boundaries. Pastor Rodney told us to operate off the commandment of “go ye”, not on invitations. This opened my eyes because if we are operating like that, we will not be people pleasers and getting off course. We will be listening and ready. He said not to operate on what we have, but to operate on God’s orders. We are vessels being filled up with living water and we must be poured out. The anointing is not to increase our ministry or make us feel good, it is to set the captives free.
There is a harvest of souls out there waiting for people to come and tell them about Jesus and free them from the bondage of sin. Listening to the different speakers and all the Lord has done in their ministry helped my faith in believing anything really is possible. We just need to be able to risk all. Jesus gave us his all. We are the ones who limit God, he has no limits, all things are possible with him. I learned that we have to use our mouth to enlarge our territory by keep speaking the vision by faith.
We can’t look at people in the flesh, but see them as God sees them. God is waiting for people full of faith to go forward in obedience to his word. We have to stay filled with the word, stay in the presence of God and believe if we step into the sea it will part and God will take us to the other side. If we really are believing, listening and waiting for our orders, fear has no place and cannot limit us in any way.
I am interning in the outreach department with Pastor Daniel. In the past few weeks that I have begun my internship, I have seen the amazing things that God is doing in the lives of people outside the church on the streets. I have been learning how to run soul winning classes, how to set them up with supplies, and how things run behind the scenes in a major outreach. Our goal is to reach the city of Tampa with the good news of Gospel of Jesus, and it has been an honor for just this short period of time. Interning in the outreach department is more than just soul winning out on the streets, although that is a crucial part of it. There is a lot of back work to do first before that can be accomplished.
I have been learning how to contact pastors to get them onboard with the vision of winning the lost in their community. We call them, follow up with them, and visit their churches to help them establish the ground work. We also work with the bus routes and create fliers for cook outs and Bible studies in each community that we are targeting. It is so amazing to me to see what God is doing in every facet of this department. People are so willing and excited to help in seeing Tampa brought to the Lord, every cook out and Bible study we have, there is an altar call and people come rushing forward to give their hearts to Jesus, to surrender their all to Him. Literally, communities are being changed, crime rates are dropping in this city dramatically, and they are really growing in the things of God as they come to church. God is so faithful to fulfill His Word, Tampa will be saved!!!
Internship, at one time, was nothing more than an inaccessible enigma calling from the heights of impossibility. But by grace undeserved I was given the opportunity to embark on the beginning of a divine purpose so much larger than myself. Two weeks into this internship I had opportunities to minister the love of Jesus on a weekly basis to a community lost and forgotten. The community name is Sulpher Springs, but my partner and I believe that after the power of God transforms this place it will be like the Rose of Sharyn; like the Lilly of the Valley. On a daily basis I have the privilege of ministering the truths of God’s word to many people both near and far through prayer and communication. We help support and hold up the hands of the Man and Woman of God continually by endeavoring to walk out the vision divinely imparted to them.
This internship is a dream of mine being realized. I am pouring out of me what the Lord had sown into me even from infancy. I believe that I am walking out not only the call on my life, but putting my hand to the only cause that I have ever given myself too, and the only cause that truly matters. My one desire is that I receive from this the mind of God concerning the rest of the call on my life and the spiritual and practical wisdom to continue to minister not as I will but as he wills. “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” Colossians 3:1-3
Went to Glendale community college. It was on lunch time and students were in cafeteria. I met this group of 8 students while they were eating. I sat down with them and shared with them. 5 of them said the prayer with me. Also bus stop I prayed with a group of young people.
Our group had the awesome opportunity to lead 18 people to Christ. Many of which prayed the prayer were Spanish speaking. (Which none of us were) Although it was a bit challenging to communicate we simply asked them to read the card. We trust that the word read and declared will not return void! We praise God for multiplication of souls harvested as a result in Jesus’ name!
(the soulwinner is 13 yrs old)A young boy Bill once was saved-rededicated. A girl Ann-didn’t think she could say prayer but Ashley encouraged her then she prayed.
Our team of six went to a low income trailer park and spoke with 56 people. 36 received Christ. The testimony is that 99% spoke only Spanish and we had no one on our team that spoke any Spanish. We used the script in Spanish and followed them with the English side. They were so grateful and happy. Wow what a faith builder for our team.
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