The things that stick out the most are how my youngest daughter the age of 9 is pressing in to a whole other level. She wants to help in any way possible. My prayer is that everyone would catch the same fire that she has and put others first. My heart broke last night when I saw some people that were putting themselves first and not really grabbing a hold to the vision of reaching the lost. These meetings are beyond anything I’ve ever imagined, we are having such a great movement of God that I don’t know how people wouldn’t want to be a part this. And if my daughter can press in and put others first, we should all be willing and able to do it as well. I can only imagine if everybody would catch hold of this and take it with them every day, everywhere this world would not and could not be the same world as we know it. And for the people that don’t feel the same I don’t apologize and will continue to pray for you so that you can download the script and read it to yourself or possibly answer the altar call and receive Jesus in your heart with a passion for the lost. I love you and pray that you don’t take offence to anything I’ve said, and would encourage you to take yourself out of your comfort zone and press in to the things of God for yourself and not due to the things I’ve said.-Kelly S.
We are to write about the Great awakening and the workings of the Holy Spirit in our lives during the meetings .But first you have to know where I’m coming from. I was bound by depression, anger just totally disappointed with life. I had buried both parents before I was out of my teens. Had many failed relationships. Lived a life of drug addiction. Run over twice by a car, left for dead both times. Had a botched abortion. I was told to leave the clinic because I was not allowed to die there. I turned to heroine. Even after I was born again the feelings of being forsaken never left me. I met a man when I was in the military, after two years of marriage he left me in a hotel with a 18 month old baby in Frankfort , Germany. I was numb and said ;no more. Speed up seven years later. I was going down the highway and heard a voice over the airways in Ft Worth Texas. I had been crying out to God saying ; where is the power God.? Its missing in the church .My present husband and I were pasturing a small church that was so dead the roaches even left. I was ready to cash my chips in. So what has the Great Awakening done for me. The Power of God has Awakened the dead. Me. I literally owe my life to revival, there is no other way so say it. Forever eternally grateful. The song I sing come straight from the heart. The Fire of God has burned out hate and sorrow. He has given me beauty for ashes. The oil of joy for mourning, and the Garment of praise for the Spirit of heaviness. The Lord be Glorified Forever…….-Dollean M.
Colon was so close to heaven didn’t want to come home……awakened to see each and every believer as so special to Jesus. His love for each one of us…Bless ya’ll so much!
Tony A.
Pastor Rodney many Christians and churches have been trying to come up with ways to reach the lost in the 21st century. What’s going to change the world? Is it the gospel packaged in socialism?
Since watching your program this year it feels like everything has gone up another dimension. Started praying in an unknown language I knew I was touching heaven, just felt tremendous power. You could say I was caught up in heaven. I’m not trying to get mystical when I say this but everything was very bright around me, and I knew God was going to down load a message to me.
God gave me a message of how to reach the world in the 21st century. God gave me these words “JESUS IS THE ANSWER FOR THE WORLD TODAY”. I started weeping because the message is simple; all I need to do is tell people about my best friend. He is Ps Rodney He is still the answer.
“Yes, God’s riches are very great! His wisdom and knowledge have no end! No one can explain what God decides. No one can understand his ways. 34 As the Scriptures say, “Who can know what is on the Lord’s mind? Who is able to give him advice?” 35 “Who has ever given God anything? God owes nothing to anyone.” 36 Yes, God made all things. And everything continues through him and for him. To God be the glory forever! Amen.” Romans 11:33-36 ERV
All of creation originated with God. He made it – every intricate, complicated, exquisite atom of it. We are such a small particle in the great universe and our finite minds are totally inadequate to even try to begin to understand even a little bit of God’s great handiwork! There is no way we can ever know or understand everything there is to know about God – we know only a very, very little and understand even less. We cannot say that we know what He is thinking and we certainly cannot begin to think that we could ever advise Him. There is nothing that we could give back to Him that He did not personally make and that He does not already own.
The things that God wants us to know about Him are revealed by the Holy Spirit and recorded in His mighty word. Above all else, He wants us to know just how much He loves us. He tells us in Genesis how He created the entire earth and the universe just for us. He made everything, saw that it was good, formed man in His image and likeness and then gave it all to man to take care of and enjoy. Man was God’s crowning creation!
In the Garden, Adam and Eve respected God, but were not afraid of Him. They did not need to be afraid. He was their creator – they knew Him personally and therefore they knew only His goodness and His complete love and acceptance. They had never experienced sin, fear, guilt, pain or death – therefore they had nothing to hide and no one to hide from – they were naked and unafraid.
“If anyone imagines that he has come to know and understand much [of divine things, without love], he does not yet perceive and recognize and understand as strongly and clearly, nor has he become as intimately acquainted with anything as he ought or as is necessary.” 1 Corinthians 8:2 AMP
“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:8-11 NKJV
“So we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love. Everyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them. 17 If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear on the day when God judges the world. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like Jesus. 18 Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear. It is his punishment that makes a person fear. So his love is not made perfect in the one who has fear.” 1 John 4:16-18 ERV
God does not just love – He IS love. All He knows is love. All that motivates Him is love. His goodness is revealed in His acts of love. Even if you have memorized the entire Bible, if you do not understand this fact – that God is love – you will not understand the Word of God. God has placed great importance on these facts – that He is love, He loved us first and He sacrificed everything to restore us back into His love. Because we know He loves us, we trust His love for us and therefore we do not fear Him. The person who is afraid of God does not know God’s love. He/she is either a sinner, or a Christian who has not come to know God or His nature and character very well yet. He/she fears the punishment reserved for the sinner. There is no fear of death and punishment for the believer. As we are perfected in God’s love – being made complete in His love – we lose all fear. We learn to trust God and His love completely.
This is how much God loves us: Zephaniah 3:17 KJV says, “The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.” And in the ERV it says, “The Lord your God is with you. He is like a powerful soldier. He will save you. He will show how much he loves you and how happy he is with you. He will laugh and be happy about you, like people at a party.” The Father rejoices over you – yes you!
God is good. God is good to His people. God is kind and good toward even sinners. God is good to ALL.
For you have been granted [the privilege] for Christ’s sake not only to believe in (adhere to, rely on, and trust in) Him, but also to suffer in His behalf. Philippians 1:29 AMP
The Bible speaks about Christians suffering with and for Christ. This is not the undeserved suffering of sickness and disease as some misinformed, religious people have taught, because that is unscriptural. The only suffering that is appropriate and even inevitable for a true Christian is persecution and the pressures and opposition that come from obedience and yieldedness to God’s will. Opposition and persecution come from the devil and demons and from ungodly people. Sometimes, even lukewarm or backslidden Christians are the ones who are used by the enemy to persecute those who are living godly lives and who are on fire for God. Persecution is a consequence of faithfulness toward God and His word and being a doer of the Word and will of God.
1. It is not strange or unusual for Christians to suffer—godliness attracts persecution
1 Peter 4:12 AMP – Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you.
2 Timothy 3:12 AMP – Indeed all who delight in piety and are determined to live a devoted and godly life in Christ Jesus will meet with persecution [will be made to suffer because of their religious stand].
2. You should rejoice when you become a partaker ofthe sufferings of Christ—you are not alone—and great is your reward
1 Peter 4:13 AMP – But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph [exultantly].
Matthew 5:10-12 NIV – Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
3. The greater the suffering you experience, the greater also your joy and glory
Romans 8:17-18 AMP – And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory. 18 [But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!
4. Not only is there a greater glory that is to come, but Christians also have the Holy Spirit upon them now to help them and enable them to endure
1 Peter 4:14 AMP – If you are censured and suffer abuse [because you bear] the name of Christ, blessed [are you—happy, fortunate, to be envied, with life-joy, and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of your outward condition], because the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God, is resting upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
Romans 8:26-27 AMP – So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance. 27 And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God’s will.
5. Christian sufferings glorify God and it is an honor and not a shame, to suffer as a Christian
1 Peter 4:16 AMP – But if [one is ill-treated and suffers] as a Christian [which he is contemptuously called], let him not be ashamed, but give glory to God that he is [deemed worthy to suffer] in this name.
6. Christians should patiently bear sufferings according to the will of God, realizing that God is always faithful toward those who are His own, in the midst of their sufferings
1 Peter 4:17-19 AMP – For the time [has arrived] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will [be] the end of those who do not respect or believe or obey the good news (the Gospel) of God? 18 And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the godless and wicked? 19 Therefore, those who are ill-treated and suffer in accordance with God’s will must do right and commit their souls [in charge as a deposit] to the One Who created [them] and will never fail [them].
1 Corinthians 10:13 NKJV – No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Jesus suffered major persecution and when we accept Him as Lord and Savior, that is what we sign up for as well—whether we like it or not. But for those who endure and don’t buckle under the pressure—there remains great rewards from our Father in Heaven! You will not be tested beyond your ability to endure—God’s grace is always enough for you. So don’t back off; don’t give in, keep hanging in there and praising God, and you will finish your race and win your prize!
