I just want to give Glory to God!!! I am the one who has been forgiven MUCH and was on 40-45 pills a day w/around 11 diagnosed physical disabilities; depressed; divorced raising 3 daughters w/no child support (adopted, molested, raped, abused father and husband); my mother went to Jesus, no longer able to work; to say I was depressed is mild. I went to Church of Christ as a child…my mom a believer. I gave my heart back to Jesus in Aug/04 – healed & filled w/Holy Spirit 2/4/05 – volunteer secretary now at Church In Action in Arnold, Mo (Pastor Darnell & Rochelle West); learning and maturing, going wherever the Holy Spirit leads me. Keep Spreading The Joy!!! I Love You, Brother!!!

I was really touched by your revival over the past week in St. Louis. I went out to the retirement homes with one of your teams and God used me in a miraculous way! I witnessed to sixteen people and fourteen gave their lives to the Lord and one recommitted her life. I was so excited about what happened that day, that same night as I went to work I lead 5 of my co-workers to the Lord and one of them came to church with me and responded to your alter call. But that no it, the next night while I was at work at Schnooks a couple of Hispanic couples came in to shop, I Followed them outside and led them to the Lord also and even the next day after that I led another customer to the Lord, he came up to me and said thank you very much and asked if I had another soul winning script because he has a wife and kids at home. In the last three days God has used me to lead twenty-five people to the Lord and it feels great. I attend Life Christian Church and I have been inviting these families to attend one of our services, please pray for me with these individuals and their families that they would let God continue to move in their hearts! I appreciate everything you have done to help plant that seed of saving souls inside of me. Thanks!

Rodney prophesied over my husband I think back in 94 when he was in St. Louis that even though he had to close his church down because it was in a impoverished area and it kept getting vandalized that God was going to restore him back into a church and it would be much greater than the one he lost. That was many years ago and since that prophesy we have been evangelizing all over ST. Louis in Gas stations, Wall-Marts , parking lots, sidewalks and seeing people being brought back to the Lord but ever longing for the fulfillment of that Prophesy. We also worked with St. Peter’s Catholic church and God set some Catholics on fire and they with our leading began having “Healing Services” in which we were able to lay hands upon the sick and we saw many Catholics get healed! We also saw over 500 of them pray a salvation prayer!

All the while Steve was putting out applications to churches needing a Pastor. He obeyed God and submitted his application to a Baptist church even though we are both Holy Spirit filled and now he has his Pastorate back in fulfillment to the Prophesy. We have a vision to have a county-wide crusade to win the lost and work with the Baptists in and around Champaign, Il. to do it. We also have a vision to take teams of anointed people into the local university in Charleston, Il and Mattoon, Il. and get the students saved! We believe God for 1 Billion souls and laborers who will work with us to bring in the harvest.

My husband and I attended the Great Awakening in New Orleans and went witnessing with your teams. On Tues. night I was in Mobile, Ala. at a Krystal’s having a coke with my grandson. There were 4 other people in there. Suddenly a women pulled up, came in very distraught and walked straight up to me. She said she had just caught her husband in bed with another women, that she had a gun and that she was afraid she was going to kill him. I got her to come with me to a secluded table. She was very upset and kept saying she could not believe she was telling me all this stuff. She had gotten saved when she was a child and filled with the spirit. She thought that she could only pray in the Spirit “when the Spirit moved on her”. So she had only done that 2 times in her life. She was backslidden and 42 years old. I led her to the Lord and she received her prayer language. I shared with her she can do that anytime. She looked like a totally different person after she prayed. She left for another city. I called her today and she is with another sister in the Lord. This has affected my life. There was such desperation, she came out of nowhere

Last year at the summer camp meeting, I got knocked over under the Power of God so that my family could be saved. Since then, both my daughters have been saved, my nephew has rededicated his life to Christ while sobering up at the Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center in San Jose, California, and, last night as I was talking to my mom on the phone, she told me that she gave her life to Christ on Easter Sunday, 2004 at Calvary Chapel in Garden Grove, California. I asked her if she went to the altar and she said ‘yes’! Praise be to God, Ancient of Days. Hallelujah! And it was just yesterday, I believe, that I was asking God to help me envision people in my family being saved and living a different life. A Prophetic Word from this morning: God is in the midst of separating the chaff from the wheat.

Hi, There is nothing like the Joy of the Lord. Since I became a real Christian in 1995 through the Joy I have had such a hunger a real painful crying out to God, getting frustrated why it was pretty low key if I was lucky in the UK. But thanks to Revival.com and your ministry for keeping that hunger going in me. I don’t think I ever gave up and I might say that I thought the hunger would kill me at one point. I even ashamed as I am to say this thought of ending it all. On Tuesday 21/08/07 I was on my way to a local prayer meeting at work and the Joy of the Lord poured on me such Joy it was amazing absolutely amazing it was Him alright ( Jesus ) and I couldn’t believe it that the Joy was pouring out. I thought I was going to drop in the middle of Victoria Street in London and start laughing till the cows home. Brilliant absolutely brilliant. How I managed to stay upright I will never know. Thanks you Revival for keeping me going even when I almost gave up on the Joy of Jesus ever coming back. My prayers requests have been answered thankyou thankyou thankyou and thankyou. Thank you Jesus for your mercy and Love I cant live or function without you and dear Jesus keep on pouring on that Joy my Lord and Savior on me and on America. I love you Mighty King. God Bless you and I love you and go Change the world through Gods Spirit.

I had written earlier i had been to nasik in north India. i ministered at 2 churches and 3 meetings. i had been given only 1 hour. but out of 28 people 25 people had laughing anointing . in one evening conference about 35 people were there. almost every one had laughing anointing. today pastor from nasik called me to say that a believr who attended my meeting was laughing the whole night, he is a Hindu convert. i praise God for His fire work in India also. i thank you for the impartation to me. last Sunday i had been to a small church here . the pastor started laughing first.tomorrow i am gooing to another church believing Lord do the fire work there also.

Dear Mr. Rodney Howard Browne Here comes a testimony from tree boys from Norway. In May 2006 we were going to your Calling All Evangelists conference.(first we got hit by The Fire in Stockholm).When we left from Norway all of us were broke and we had only depts., but we had hungry harts. Maybe you can remember us Jon Sjoli,Per Sjoli(the Sjoli brothers)and Eigar Langso.(the holy rolers?)Jon Sjoli has a vision about big trucks getting food, clothes and the word of God out to a lost and dying world. As God told him, “not from the people to the people, but from God to the people”. He had the driving licence for big trucks, but he needed all the papers to start a own truck company. After The Fire hit him things has happened. Now as I writ to you he has all his papers and nearly a new truck. Whit this truck he is working for a Christian company. Per Sjoli was bankrupt (whit one million Norwegian kroners in depts) and had a bad working situation. The Fire hit him too and when he came home he got offered a new job in a christian company, and now he is out of depts. And now you maybe think; what about Mr. Langso. Well here it comes. A short time before we were in Tampa God told me to quit my job whiteout knowing anymore than that. I had no money and had only depts and no value. As you know by now The Fire hit me too. When I came home I started to help my brother whit building cottages in the mountains in Norway. Then suddenly I was offered a property for my self to build my own cottage on. God started to talk to my pastor about helping me financially, and now the finances is in order.I have started my own company, and I am building my own cottage. When the cottage is finished I am going to sell it. Then I can pay out my depts. and have overflow.

All this has happened after we were in Tampa 2006. I know that it is The Fire and The Anointing who has done this, and we are so grateful for the way you treated us during our stay in your church. The Fire started to burn inside of us and we know that it will not stop until we are at home in heaven. I know that God will do great things in Norway and all Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. The Fire burns inside for a reason and that reason is to bring the harvest in for God. I believe that The Fire will make us millionaires, not to have it for ourselves. No, the gospel must go out to all nations and the harvest shall be taken in for God. We need people that don’t hold on to their money, but longs for sowing it out so the gospel can come out. Our harts is whit you, your ministry and your family. We are so grateful for what God has done thru you ministry and we bless you from all our harts. May God be whit you whit all his power, glory and fire. It was a great privilege for us to have James McCurry and Debbie Rich visiting here in Norway. Many big greetings from us guys in Norway.

And baptism, which is a figure [of their deliverance], does now also save you [from inward questionings and fears], not by the removing of outward body filth [bathing], but by [providing you with] the answer of a good and clear conscience (inward cleanness and peace) before God [because you are demonstrating what you believe to be yours] through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  1 Peter 3:21 AMP

There is nothing finer than living with a clear conscience! It is a stress-free, totally peace-filled life. No money in the world can buy a clear conscience, but through the power of God and the blood of Jesus, we can be blessed with inward cleanness and peace. Through our faith in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and our obedience to go through the waters of baptism, something actually happens in our soul. Baptism saves us from inward questionings and fears—it is as if our head has a resurrection—washing away every thought and desire that are contrary to the word and will of the Father.

Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the [Holy of] Holies [by the power and virtue] in the blood of Jesus, 20 By this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated and dedicated and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil of the Holy of Holies), that is, through His flesh, 21 And since we have [such] a great and wonderful and noble Priest [Who rules] over the house of God, 22 Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.  Hebrews 10:19-22 AMP

Thank God for the blood of Jesus! It enables us to have full freedom and confidence to enter into God’s very presence. This is a fresh, new, and living way! Jesus is our High Priest and through Him, our hearts are purified from an evil and guilty conscience. There is no way you can come into God’s presence with sin in your heart and with a guilty conscience. The Lord has made a way for us to come into His presence by washing our heart and conscience clean.

Keep praying for us, for we are convinced that we have a good (clear) conscience, that we want to walk uprightly and live a noble life, acting honorably and in complete honesty in all things.  Hebrews 13:18 AMP

If you want to live an honest, noble life—walking uprightly and acting honorably—you can only do it if you protect your conscience. Honesty in all things begins with, and is dependant on, a good, clear conscience before God.

[And see to it that] your conscience is entirely clear (unimpaired), so that, when you are falsely accused as evildoers, those who threaten you abusively and revile your right behavior in Christ may come to be ashamed [of slandering your good lives]. 17 For [it is] better to suffer [unjustly] for doing right, if that should be God’s will, than to suffer [justly] for doing wrong.  1 Peter 3:16-17 AMP

Keep your heart right and your conscience clear and then even though you may experience persecution, through the evidence of your good life, your critics will be put to shame. If you have done wrong then your punishment is justified. If you have not done wrong, no matter what you go through, the Lord will vindicate you; He will reward you for your righteous, uncompromising stand.

I thank God Whom I worship with a pure conscience, in the spirit of my fathers, when without ceasing I remember you night and day in my prayers. 2 Timothy 1:3 AMP
 
Worship God with a clear conscience. Your faith in Him—your unqualified assurance and absolute conviction in the truth of His word—will give you the confidence to come boldly into His presence and ask Him for the things you need. The faith and confidence you walk in as a result of your clear conscience will provide an answer to your prayers. 

Hebrews 12:11 AMP says, “For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”

Discipline – consisting of instruction, training, and correction – is not pleasant at the time it is being administered, but it produces righteousness in the person being disciplined and ultimately it produces peace. If you value and desire the fruit of righteousness and peace in your life, you must submit to God’s discipline – through His Word and His Spirit.

My son, do not despise or shrink from the chastening of the Lord [His correction by punishment or by subjection to suffering or trial]; neither be weary of or impatient about or loathe or abhor His reproof, 12 For whom the Lord loves He corrects, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.
Proverbs 3:11-12 AMP

The dictionary meaning of chastening or chastisement is: to discipline; punish; humble; purify; simplify; to correct by punishment or reproof; to take to task; to restrain, to subdue; to rid of excess; refine. Chastening or chastisement is an infliction of punishment, usually in the form of a whipping or a beating. In the Bible, the term chastisement usually refers to punishment or discipline inflicted by God for the purpose of education, instruction, and training and corrective guidance and discipline. Chastisement, discipline and correction are not done for the benefit of the Father, but for the benefit of the child – to quench the will and desires of the flesh, and to bring them under control, and bring forth and release the fruit of the Spirit.

David was a wise man – a man after God’s own heart – and he passed that wisdom on to Solomon. David’s wisdom came from God’s Word as he spent time in God’s Word; as he submitted himself to it; as he applied it to his life. Don’t shrink from the Lord’s chastening; don’t avoid God’s correction and discipline; don’t get tired of, or impatient with, or despise, God’s reproof. Remember that God only corrects those He loves.

Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude].  Revelation 3:19 AMP

God corrects us for our good. We should love, welcome, and embrace His discipline; being willing and eager to repent; burning with zeal to be like Him – to be pure as He is pure. We must be hungry for righteousness. We must be enthusiastic about getting right with God, having clean hands and a pure heart. When the Lord corrects us, we should not be petulant or defensive; we should not pout or try to justify our actions. We should rather welcome the positive input, cheerfully make the corrections in our attitude and our life, and be grateful that we have received the truth because we know that all of it is for our good and benefit!

Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord, and teach out of Your law, 13 That You may give him power to keep himself calm in the days of adversity, until the [inevitable] pit of corruption is dug for the wicked.  Psalms 94:12-13 AMP

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.  2 Timothy 1:7 AMP

The person on the receiving end of God’s discipline and instruction is a blessed person. God’s discipline and instruction gives you the power to keep calm when everything goes wrong around you. God blesses us with a Spirit of power, of love, of a calm and well-balanced mind, discipline, and self-control. As we receive God’s discipline, we grow and learn and our senses and mental faculties become trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is good and evil (Hebrews 5:14). God disciplines us and trains us, bringing us to a place of self-discipline. Discipline should come from within and, until it does, it must come from without. Outer boundaries must be in effect until inner boundaries are properly established. Immature people need outer boundaries; mature people have developed appropriate and effective inner boundaries.

For if we searchingly examined ourselves [detecting our shortcomings and recognizing our own condition], we should not be judged and penalty decreed [by the divine judgment]. 32 But when we [fall short and] are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined and chastened, so that we may not [finally] be condemned [to eternal punishment along] with the world.  1 Corinthians 11:31-32 AMP

We must humble ourselves, search our own heart and judge ourselves and, then when we fall short, we must welcome God’s discipline and yield to it. The Lord wants to have the opportunity to burn with His holy fire through us, burning up sin and rebellion and every ungodly presence and force. He wants us to have His fire now so we don’t have to burn with hell’s fire later. God’s judgment and chastisements, here on earth, are a much better option than eternal judgment. You do not want to be judged and punished with the world! God has no desire to condemn you or judge you – He only desires to pour his mercy out on you (John 3:17-18). By respecting and submitting to His authority, you give Him that privilege and opportunity.

I am a virtuous wife and a true daughter of Sarah, who honored and respected her husband as the head of their home and family
I covenant with God to love, honor and respect my husband as the head of our home, in obedience to the Word of God
I covenant to be faithful to him
By faith, I submit to my husband’s authority in our home
I do this as a service to the Lord
I subordinate myself to my husband so that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach, blasphemed or discredited
I trust my husband’s leadership and choose to depend on him   
The Lord will protect me and provide for me, because I trust Him enough to obey His Word
Therefore I am not anxious or wrought up
I will do right and let nothing terrify me
I will not give way to hysterical fears or let anxieties unnerve me
I adapt myself to my husband
I make myself beautiful for my husband, but I know that true beauty comes from within
I have a gentle and peaceful spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God
I am temperate and disciplined and I exercise self-control
I love righteousness
By the grace of God:
I am pure and modest and discreet
I am good-natured and kind-hearted
I am gracious and good
I am wise, understanding and prudent
I am earnest and strong in character
I am a crowning joy to my husband
I am trustworthy
I do not give him an occasion to be ashamed of me
My husband can confidently trust in me and securely rely on me
The secrets of his heart are safe with me

I love my husband
I reverence him
I respect him
I regard him
I notice him and pay attention to him
I am sensitive to his needs and desires
I build my husband up
I encourage him
I prefer him
I defer to him
I revere him
I honor him
I esteem him
I venerate him
I appreciate him
I prize him
I adore him
I admire him exceedingly
I praise him
I am devoted to him
I deeply love him
I enjoy my husband

I belong to my husband and my husband belongs to me
My body belongs to my husband and my husband’s body belongs to me
My desire is toward my husband and my earnest desire is to please him
My husband is my best friend
He is a great blessing to me
Thank You Lord for my husband

I’m a part of the fellowship of the unashamed.
I have Holy Spirit Power.  The die has been cast.
I have stepped over the line.  The decision has been made.
I’m a disciple of His.
I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still.

My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure.
I’m finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planning,
smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions,
mundane talking, cheap living and dwarfed goals.

I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position, promotions,
plaudits, or popularity.  I don’t have to be right, first, tops,
recognized, praised, regarded or rewarded.  I now live by faith,
lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by power.

My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way rough, my companions few, my Guide reliable, my mission clear.

I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back,
deluded or delayed.  I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy,
ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.

I won’t give up, shut up, let up, until I have stayed up, stored up,
prayed up, paid up, preached up for the cause of Christ.
I am a disciple of Jesus.  I must go till He comes, give till I drop,
preach till all know, and work till He stops me.
And when He comes for His own, He will have
no problems recognizing me—my banner will be clear!  

Written by a young African pastor and tacked on the wall of his house

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

 

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

 

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30 KJV

 

Religious history has portrayed Jesus Christ as a skinny, pale-faced shepherd with a lamb under His arm and Elizabethan English coming out of His mouth. The connotation is that He is weak, but that could not be further from the truth. The Bible says that people marveled at the authority with which He spoke. Luke 4:32 AMP says that, “they were amazed at His teaching, for His word was with authority and ability and weight and power.” People were healed as He spoke the word to them. He also commanded demons to come out and they did.

 

He was powerfully anointed, commanding respect wherever He went. They tried to kill Him before His time and could not. Jesus was not weak. He was meek – humble, lowly, and gentle. Meek means: enduring injury with patience and without resentment. Jesus did exactly that – He endured the shame, humiliation, agony, and indignity of the cross for every one of us!

 

Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

 

2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

 

3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

 

4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

 

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

 

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

 

7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

 

8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.

 

9 And they made His grave with the wicked –But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

 

10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.

 

11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.

 

12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:1-12 NKJV

 

Jesus went meekly to the cross. He endured the injury and shame with patience and without resentment. He could have called ten thousand angels to His aid, but He chose to die alone – for you and me. That takes a man of powerful character. He did it because, by faith, He saw the final outcome! He saw you and me. He saw us in Him as He died and was resurrected. He saw the joy of our resurrection – our redemption and restoration into the family and kingdom of God! You and I are His joy and His prize!

 

Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us,

 

2 Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

 

3 Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds. Hebrews 12:1-3 AMP