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Back in Jonathan Edwards time, during The Great Awakening, people’s hearts were turned to Christ.  Young men and women were so saturated by the power of God and hungry for the things of God that everyone around got set ablaze.  Revival had spread from city to city, I am seeing that in our young people and youth.  Especially here at The River, they are the most on fire and radical young people. 

They don’t care and they don’t have any reputation to try to uphold.  What I am experiencing now is people calling in for prayer from all walks of life and by the time we finish praying we see the Holy Spirit taking over and peoples lives getting transformed and changed by the power of God.  I am seeing people that are hungry and thirsty for the things of God.  This nation needs a touch from God more than ever before.  Government cannot change this nation and religion cannot change this nation.  It is time to bring prayer to our schools, and to our courts.  America needs to raise a standard. 

God is willing that America will get saved.  It is up to us to light a fire across this nation.  One person full of the fire of God can do a lot of damage to the camp of the enemy.  This is our mandate young and old to light the fire across this nation.  I believe that everyone of us has a sphere of influence that you can reach.  It is our responsibility to plunder hell and to populate Heaven.  God is on the move and we are moving with Him.  Praise God. –Gerard K.

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I’m so grateful for the power of God showing up on each and every phone call I answer. The Holy Spirit consistently shows up and does a work in each persons’ life that I pray for, God is so good, and so amazing, I am grateful to be a daughter of the king. This week has been a busy one, but praise God I am making it through only by His power and strength! The Lord has begun to soften my heart in such an extreme way, it’s been powerful and He has been changing me more than I could ever have imagined. He is taking off bondages, as I allow the Holy Spirit to work in me and through me.

Thank you Jesus for teaching me and showing me of your ways that I may be a leader, as I fallow your lead. Praying on the phone has taught me to pray powerfully and reach directly into the heart of a person with the sword that God has given us all! I am so grateful to be apart of such a wonderful move of God, Peoples’ lives are being affected and changed permanently, people are being saved, set free and filled with the Holy Ghost, set free of bondage’s, healed of all sickness and disease, the bible was not just history it’s the truth and it’s for right now! The reality of His word is powerful and it’s the only way people will truly experience The fire of God in their lives. Many times when I’m doing the phones people ask me to pray for the fire of God on them. And praise God I PRAY IT DOWN AMEN! -Sandra J.

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The Great Awakening has been an amazing experience; the first night I was here I got to do phones which were really amazing. So many people had prayer requests, they sought guidance from the Lord in different areas of their lives, and it’s really cool to think about how many people seek the Lord all around the world. God speaks to them, on the other side of the world, just like He speaks to me and you. The power of God has been so prevalent to me in these past few hours. Not only has he given me a joy in my heart, but a deeper understanding of perfection in His eyes, and the power that is within each of us as believers. We have no idea what we are empowered with when the spirit of God lives on the inside of us, it’s a light that can only create more light, which spreads through us all. I have sought God these past six months with diligence, and although it is not easy, His presence empowers me to continue on with seeking Him. The Lord has been teaching me character, which is not a reflection of personality, but a reflection of sticking to my guns and doing exactly what He has called me to, not fainting or growing wearing in well doing, because we always sow what we reap. God has guided me, and continued to reveal to me through the Holy Spirit, truths that I could not otherwise understand nor comprehend. I seek to please God; I seek to worship Him and give Him honor and reflect Him in everything I do. The joy of the Lord is my strength and what carries me through the days and especially through the nights. He is the reason for my victory, for my joy, and for my peace.-Sandra J.

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Just months ago, I would have told myself I was a fool. I would have told myself that I was wrong and why I was wrong. I would have given myself evidence upon evidence to attempt to denounce my faith. I would have disregarded myself. I would have disregarded God. I was lost, and broken. I had no intentions of ever being saved and I could be quoted of saying. “I found the capacity for faith to be disgusting.” I don’t say this because I like shock value. I say this so that you can truly understand what someone can be delivered from, and be changed into, just with one touch from God. One touch from God. With that one touch, we can become changed entirely, stripped down and rebuilt, we can see the call that God has placed on all of our lives, we can become aware of how important we all are to the kingdom of Heaven. Within that Love we find Purpose, a greater defining line that says “cross me,” a reason to continue, to aspire. Within His Grace we find reason, patience love and kindness. Without that touch, just that first touch from God, I would have never been who I am today. Just the other night during worship, I stopped, I turned around and looked at all the people I was surrounded by, I stopped and looked at the body of Christ as a whole and thought, “how did I get here, from where I am, to now?” Simply put, that one touch from God. My life has changed, I’ve seen lives around me change, I’ve seen blessing upon blessing bestowed upon good and faithful servants of the Lord most high. I’ve seen in just a few months the change in things around me at home. I’ve seen my family become structured once more, I’ve seen my family truly proud of me for the first time ever, and I’ve felt love for my family that I never knew I had. God made Himself real to me, and showed me an unrelenting love that gave me proof he was real, ever since that day I’ve never needed any more reassurance of his omnipresent existence. A person doesn’t come up to you, introduce themselves to you, save your life, and then you don’t look back a few days later and pretend they never existed and it was all emotion, so why would you with God? He has something great for you and your loved ones if you’re just willing to accept it. -Kody G.

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Wow is all i can say… The presence of god is so strong coming through the webcasts! I have been touched – sometimes weeping, crying, laughing… Overwhelmed with the goodness of the lord. These upper room meetings are doing exactly what the lord designated…. Get purged by the fire,,, get hungry for his manifest presence in our daily lives and then…. Go to the streets and give to others that are lost ! In 20 years after asking Jesus in to my heart – I came to the realization by the holy spirit revealing how really dead i had become – even though I was a spirit-filled evidenced by the manifestation of the heavenly language – believer in Jesus. Every night since New Years Eve… The fire of god has been rooting out and purging everything that is dead in me.. And bringing new life! All I can say is…. I’ve got to have going on in my life what the lord is doing in you all there at the river in t.b. And now all over!!!! I am not satisfied with anything less!!!!

That is my new and only pursuit….. Encounters daily with the living Jesus and going to the streets and sharing that with others….

Canada… Like America… Has been too steeped in dead head idolatry in the church!! We must have a river flow of the spirit moving to change our society!! We must have gathering places where people can come and get touched by the fire of god and be transformed and tell others

Thanks for being obedient messengers and igniters of that flame of fire the lord put in you in Africa!!!

As brother Reinhard B., by the spirit of the lord ,roared at a meeting here in Vancouver Bc Canada in 1994….

“all of Canada shall be saved!!!!”
 
I have hung on to that and now we are in the fulfillment of North America and a great awakening unto god!!! All i can say is wow!!!!

Cheers in Jesus Kim B.C. Canada

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The next day John saw Jesus coming to him and said, Look! There is the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world!  John 1:29 AMP

All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has made to light upon Him the guilt and iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, [yet when] He was afflicted, He was submissive and opened not His mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.  Isaiah 53:6-7 AMP

But [you were purchased] with the precious blood of Christ (the Messiah), like that of a [sacrificial] lamb without blemish or spot. 20 It is true that He was chosen and foreordained (destined and foreknown for it) before the foundation of the world, but He was brought out to public view (made manifest) in these last days (at the end of the times) for the sake of you. 21 Through Him you believe in (adhere to, rely on) God, Who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him honor and glory, so that your faith and hope are [centered and rest] in God.  1 Peter 1:19-21 AMP

At Passover, there were specific things that the Israelites were to do and specific procedures they had to follow. All this pointed to what Jesus would do and go through and was fulfilled in Him.

Comparison of the Passover lamb and Jesus, the Lamb of God:

1. Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover in this month (Deut 16:1).  

“Abib was the Egyptian word for green ears, referring to the green barley that was offered as the firstfruits to God in that month. The Septuagint calls it the month of new things. Nisan is substituted for Abib after this. It means the month of flowers or blossoms” (Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible). On the 10th day of Abib, later called Nisan, a year-old sacrificial lamb was to be selected from the flock. The chief priests and the scribes were already looking for their opportunity to arrest Jesus secretly and kill Him without causing a riot, because Jesus was popular with the people (Mark 14:1-2).

2. Sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, of the herd and the flock, in the place where God chooses to place His name (Deut. 16:2). Do not sacrifice the Passover in your homes, but at the place where the Lord shall choose to place His name (Deut. 16:6).

No family could observe the Passover in their own home. The lamb was to be sacrificed where God chose—Jerusalem—where the tabernacle was located. At the beginning of the week of Passover that culminated in the sacrifice of the perfect lamb, the disciples asked Jesus, the Lamb of God, “Where do You wish us to go and prepare the Passover supper for You to eat?” (Mark 14:12). This same 10th day was the day Jesus made His triumphal entrance into Jerusalem!

3. Thoroughly inspect the lamb for spot or blemish for 5 days (Ex 12:3+5).

Only perfect specimens were acceptable. The chief priests and the scribes had Jesus arrested. They cross-questioned Him ruthlessly and brought false accusations against Him, but no charge would stick and no fault was found. In spite of that, they dragged Him before Pilate to try to get him to do their dirty work. Pilate tried to have Him released, saying three times, “I find no fault in Him!” (John 18:38; John 19:4+6).

4. Eat no leavened bread with the Passover. Eat unleavened bread for seven days, during the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. Leavened bread shall not be seen in all your houses or land for seven days (Deut. 16:3-4).

Leaven—yeast—represented sin. Jesus had no sin in Him—He had been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning (He 4:15). The sin of the world was placed on Him. Hebrews 7:26 AMP says, “[Here is] the High Priest [perfectly adapted] to our needs, as was fitting—holy, blameless, unstained by sin, separated from sinners, and exalted higher than the heavens.”  He took our place; He took our sin upon Himself; He gave us His life in exchange. 1 Corinthians 5:7 AMP says, “Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed.” We must be washed in His blood and walk in purity before the Father.

5. Sacrifice the Passover at evening, before the sun goes down.

The acceptable animal was to be sacrificed on the evening of the 14th day—the ceremony led and initiated by the High Priest (Ex 12:6). The High Priest ordered Jesus to be crucified on this day.
6 PM was the start of the next day, so the lambs were slaughtered at 3 PM (the ninth hour of the day). At the exact time the lambs were killed, Jesus cried out to the Father and breathed out His last breath (Luke 23:44-46).  

6. Roast and eat it in the chosen place and go to your tents in the morning (Deut. 16:7).

The lamb was to be roasted and eaten—symbolizing us partaking of His body—receiving all He has for us. We look to Him for life and sustenance; we live on His Word—not bread alone.

7. Neither shall the flesh of the animals sacrificed be left overnight (Ex 12:8-10).

Jesus was taken down from the cross and buried in haste, because preparation for the next day—the Sabbath—had already begun.

8. The leftovers were to be burned—nothing left behind.

For when the blood of animals is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin, the victims’ bodies are burned outside the limits of the camp. 12 Therefore Jesus also suffered and died outside the [city’s] gate in order that He might purify and consecrate the people through [the shedding of] His own blood and set them apart as holy [for God]. Hebrews 13:11-12 AMP

9. Eat unleavened bread six days, and on the seventh day you shall have a solemn assembly to the Lord, and do no work on it (Deut. 16:8).

There is a rest for the people of God. “So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for the [true] people of God; 10 For he who has once entered [God’s] rest also has ceased from [the weariness and pain] of human labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His own.”  Hebrews 4:9-10 AMP
 
Thank God that He sent Jesus, the Lamb of God, Who was sacrificed for your sin and mine—so that we might have favor with God and receive, as a free gift, His grace and mercy.

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Minister’s Conference was an amazing time!! During my summer, I spent a lot of time reading through Deuteronomy and was stirring myself up for God to begin to show me how to take my Promised Land. My faith began to grow and direction was birthed in my heart. I began to step out in what God had spoken to my heart over the summer and it came together quickly and without a hitch!

I ran into a wall at some point, however. I was excited about stepping into what God had for me, but I began to get discouraged because of the time it was taking for me to see the results I expected. I began to have financial struggles and it began to shake my faith. The Friday before conference started, I received prayer in my Divine Healing class by the professor and also received a word. It confirmed everything that I had been pressing in for and the true desire of my heart! My faith rose and kept rising that entire weekend!

During the first night of conference, we sang Enlarge My Territory, the flagship song of the conference. It blew the top off of my faith!! I was fired up for what God was going to do! That second night, the same thing happened, however this time, God spoke to my heart. He began telling me how He was enlarging me and growing my borders. The clarity I received was incredible! I began to weep and shake because the direction that I had been seeking was being downloaded during the service. When we were called up to sing, I could barely stand and sing! The excitement was so powerful! God truly enlarged me last week!!! Hallelujah!!

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I prayed for one man to receive the Lord Jesus Christ into his life.  Suddenly, he took my hand and started to pray for me.  He prayed because, he said, “This is a good job  preaching the gospel in the world.”  At this second, I felt the presence of God come through this man.  God used this man very strongly, and his prayer was powerful.  God encouraged me through this that should not fear even though I have a language barrier.  I am happy

I went soul winning today at Winn Dixie. I saw a lady about 70 years old, and I read the script to her, but she wasn’t sure she was going to heaven.  When I got to the part “Forgive my sins,” she started crying and said, “Thank you so much.  I think that God put me at the right place at the right time.”

I led 20 people to the Lord using the script. I was also able to led a Spanish person to Jesus using the Spanish script. It was the first time I used the Spanish script this gave me a new boldness to lead a whole new ethnic group to the Lord.

In three hours, our group prayed with 71+ people.  At an apartment complex, the first man opened the door and I led him to Jesus.  His 5-year-old nephew came to the door and accepted Christ as well.

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This week at camp meeting was unlike any other. I have been regularly attending every meeting and conference that the River at Tampa Bay Church has and this has by far been the best one yet! I loved having such a diverse amount of music and teachers. Joel Stockdale was one of the ministers and his life and testimony speaks volume.

One of my favorite things that he said was “My life is a testimony of the GOODNESS of God!”

It was so refreshing to see others overcome obstacles in their life by the power of God in their life. It is encouraging to know that no matter what is going on in someone’s life, you can still live out a life that will bring glory to God.

The main focus of this week was igniting a generation. Pastor Rodney was ministering at one of the evening services and he called up all the children between the ages of 6-12. Then he began to pray for people as the spirit led him. He was walking around the sanctuary and he pointed out three girls that he wanted to pray for. So they came up to the front and he laid hands on them and they fell out under the power of God. He had the ushers pick up one of the girls and he gave her the microphone and asked her to describe what was happening to her. She could hardly speak but what she did say was very powerful.

She said, “I feel free.”

And then she fell right back out under the power. Only thirteen, we found out later. It was such an eye opener and that experience will never leave me. Even young girls and boys have the ability to feel bound and captive. No matter what the issue was in her life that she was dealing with, she is free!

Praise God that she is set free by the power of God!