SEVIERVILLE, TN -- The Restoration of
ministers is the job of Deer Path Resorts, according to Sandra Bass the
hope and the vision of this resort is to change peoples lives.
Sandra once trained as an Assembly of God Missionary with Steve and
Jerry Hill. She spent ten years in the Assemblies of God as a
missionary. She has served as the Women's Ministry Director for
the Assemblies of God in North Carolina. "My main ministry
purpose is to bring people to Jesus Christ." Sandra is a
sought after speaker among the many women's conference in the United
States, but her vision of the restoration of ministers led her to Deer
Path Resorts. While it sounds more like a business make no mistake
about the commitment of these people. Dan Stetson has a vision for
the restoration of ministers and Sandra Bass was called to his side to
help direct conferences at the resorts. Today was a very important
date as the foundational work for the new conference center began on
Douglas Lake. The center will be opened in October, and
reservations are being taken for the fall. The Remnant is on the
road and has moved up to Kingsport, Tennessee to be with Rodney
Howard-Browne the next two nights at Meadowview Convention Center.
MIAMIBURG, OH -- "I believe I am seasoned enought to know the things of God. I’m not going
to tell you anything but the truth -- this man, colapsed dead of a heart
attack and he was brought back to life in that meeting at the Synagogue
Church in Lagos, Nigeria. I First heard three years ago about the
place , and I checked it out for myself, my brother went and got saved
there. We had prayed for my brother a long time. There’s nothing new
under the sun. I have been to Pastor T.B. Johusa’s Church on six
different occations and the powerful move of God continues there. I have
seen healing after healing and people repent with their sins written on
a sign," says Evangelist Yan Vintor of South Africa. A group of
Pentecostal leaders who desided to go to Charisma Magazine,
desided to label the church as a church of witchcraft and deception. It’s
no different than the days Jesus walked the earth. The people who are
religious and are not in revival always attack a true work of God, the
only differecne here is that they used Charisma Magazine
to do it with. If there is any kinds of deception going on, its the
article that was printed in Charisma Magazine. That was a
grave injustice to Pastor T.B. Johusa and The
Church of All Nations in
Legos, Nigeria.
Pastor Joshua has been
led of the Holy Spirit to do what he is doing. He started with just
eight people and as the healings began to manifest in the Holy Ghost
sometimes his mid week services contain more that 225,000 people who
come seeking healing in their bodies. There are altar calls for
salvation and it functions like a normal church, the only thing that is
not normal about the place are the thousands of people coming and
staying and entire 24-hour-period seeking the healing power of
God."
"Many of the
people know that healing is associated with repentance. When someone
comes seeking a healing for aids or HIV positive they have a sign which
includes their sins. What does witchcraft have to do with repentance. In
the six times I have come I have seen cancers of the skin, cansers of
the rectum and crippled legs walk. Many of the people who are seeking a
healing from aids come back with medical reports of the miracle. You can
see their original diagnosis and then you can see the diagnoisis of
health."
"In November we plan to go back
to The Church of All Nations, I am very excited to see what God is going
to do next the3re. I am an eyewitness account of what is going on there
and believe me, it’s real."
PENSACOLA, FL -- There is stirring at the
great revival in Pensacola. The pastor has become very active in
the order of the church and last week Pastor John Kilpatrick called the
church to a weeklong fast. The events on Friday night with Jensen
Franklin from Georgia is reveiling that the fasting is calling forth the
Spirit of God. The great revival has been trimmed to one night a
week on Friday but the hunger of the people still is calling for
more.
Jentezen Franklin did
not preach because he said the Lord through Lyndell had said what he was
planning to preach. Jentezen called for the people to get so deep in the
Lord that we are not in control. He talked about how revival had
been in the first four years and how he cried because he missed most of
it. But he will not miss the next outpouring. God’s outpouring of
signs, miracles, and wonders.
A CALL FOR HOLINESS
It is past time for the church to repent for the sins that have been
allowed to exist. God is calling the church to be holy as He is holy.
How can an unholy church witness to a lost world? Examine every thought
and action. Examine what is watched on television. If it does not lift
Jesus up then it must go. 9/11 was a wake up call. It was very bad. How
will you handle situations that are worse than 9/11? How much evil can
be handled without caving in if the heart is lukewarm? In Revelation God
says I would that you were hot or cold rather than lukewarm. Lukewarm
people have no idea that anything is amiss. Come back to your first
Love, come back. Be revived.
Praise and worship Friday
night was wonderful as always but Worship Leader Lyndell Cooley felt
that the people were holding back. After about an hour of singing Pastor
Kilpatrick encouraged the people to walk around the church and pray to
remove distractions and hindrances from the sanctuary. Then Pastor
called the people to pray that the bondage and distractions be broken
from the minds of the congregation.
We are seeing a great change in the outlook at revival in Pensacola, the
people are more focused on the presence of God that the place continues
to hold and are now in the mood of reaching for a newer level through
fasting, praying and intercession. The things that they are doing
before they meet in the main sanctuary are now showing results in the
Friday night service. It was the same the week before when Claudio
Ferzon visited the church.
MOBILE,AL–His name is Marvin Gorman and
he has seen God’s move at various times in the United States. At one
time in New Orleans between the 1973 and 1984 more than 200 people a
week were coming to God at his church. He has been through many changes
since that time. Overturning a scandal in his own ministry, today he is
more in demand than ever. We sat and talked with him about the end time
revival and his travels into Africa.
"I believe revival will return to
our country a second time and it will be normal for God to return a
second time. Most people who seek revival look for it to come the same
way as it had come before, and that’s why God will not honor their
requests. God never does anything the same way twice. I see God coming
to us very soon because the time clock it ticking. The next revival will
be very quick – I look for the Holy Spirit to sweep the earth in a
period of weeks and months – the next move of God will not be tied to
a big ministry but absolute nobodies will be raised up over night.
People who have no names will lead this move of God."
"In 1983 I had a vision of the last
days revival and it was marked by holiness and worship. The power of God
will come through holiness and the praise of the one who will send it on
the wings of the Holy Spirit. I heard a man say that Jesus left the
church to 12 men to run and I said Jesus didn’t leave it to these men
but he told them to go and wait for the Holy Ghost in Jerusalem. On the
day of Pentecost great miracles were done and Jerusalem was turned
upside down. You could name the twelve on that day but in that upper
room were people with no names who had the same power bestowed on them
as the twelve. Believe me once again the no names are going to have the
same power as those who have walked in ministry for years. These
individuals are going to be raised up for this particular time. They
will have never been churched and they will have great faith to
accomplish very much in a short period of time. There will be a new
generation of believers who will understand the power of God but will
separate themselves from religious form. I see a day when the
supernatural of God will separate itself from the traditional church. It
was like that in the days of Jesus, tradition could not handle the
raising of the dead by Jesus, and new wine will never be able to be
captured by old bottles."
One of the most amazing things Marvin
Gorman had to share during his time at River of Life Church in
Mobile, Alabama was the tremendous healing revival that is going on in
Lagos, Nigeria right now. "Last year Charisma Magazine
labeled the move of God in Nigeria as a cult and something that was not
valid. We were asked to go as observers to see if what was going on
there was the real thing. We flew KLM all the way to the Ivory Coast
and got there on a Tuesday – the next morning I got up and looked
across the compound of where we were staying to see people lining up for
the Wednesday evening service. All day long we watched people gather on
the outside of the church. What started as a crowd of 125,000 would be
swelled to almost 250,000 during the night. I walked with Brother Joshua
as we saw miracle after miracle happen right before our eyes. The place
was as large as a football field and the whole church had closed circuit
television so when Brother Joshua was moving everyone could see what was
going on. An entire section of people infected with HIV positive were in
the huge building. They stood with a sign that named their illness and
also the sins they were repenting of, you could see fornication,
adultery, lying and many other sins written out on the signs. The claims
made by Charisma were that they were not a real church but what
we saw was different from what their article claimed. As I walked with
Brother Joshua he led me to a women who’s belly was swollen as if she
was in her ninth month of being pregnant. She was infected in the belly
and as I layed my hands upon her water began to gush out of her belly as
her stomach went as flat as a 16-year-old girl. It was amazing. The
night we were there we saw in the gallery of the healed a Medical Doctor
from Botswanna with his wife. He was infected by the HIV virus along
with his wife. They had come to the meeting in November of 2001 and had
returned in February. She was a computer analysis. They had two sheets
of paper that showed they were HIV positive and one in January revealed
that HIV was not in the blood system anymore. They still had their signs
that listed their sins but this time they had the written medical
evidence from a medical hospital showing that they were completely free
of HIV. It just was these two who had come from just a few months back,
but we saw more than 30 other individuals who had the same testimony of
the before and after."
"We saw cancer of the rectum healed,
we saw the before and after video tapes of when they had been their
before. We saw a journalist who hadn’t been able to walk for 12 years
get up out of a car and start walking. Lagos, Nigeria is a city of 16
million people and this man had worked for the leading newspaper there.
In a documented video tape of before and after with validated medical
records, we could see that the story that was printed in the Charisma
Magazine was not valid at all. They didn’t even send a reporter to
the church. We saw true repentance at the Church of All Nations
– The Synagogue was a place of healing and testimony. We prayed
for people until 12 midnight and then we rested for a short period of
time and then we went back out again. Around 3 A.M. I told Brother
Joshua I was tired and was suffering from jet lag, I returned to the
compound to sleep. The service that had begun at 5 P.M. ended Thursday
morning at 5 A.M. – by the end of the service more than 250,000 people
had come to seek God in healing. Some were instantly healed and some
will come back to tell the story later but what we saw was true
repentance and the power of God right out of the Book of Acts."
Whether we realize it or not, Israel is a detriment, an
impediment, to certain groups hostile todemocracies and hostile to what
we believe in, hostile to that which makes us the greatest nation in the
history of the world. They have kept them from taking complete control
of the Middle East. If it were not for Israel, they would overrun the
region. They are our strategic ally.
SEVEN
REASONS WHY ISRAEL SHOULD EXIST
WASHINGTON,
D.C.-- I was interested the other day when I heard that the de facto
ruler, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Abdullah, made a statement which was
received by many in this country as if it were a statement of fact, as
if it were something new, a concept for peace in the Middle East that no
one had ever heard of before. I was kind of shocked that it was so well
received by many people who had been down this road before.
I suggest to you that what Crown
Prince Abdullah talked about a few days ago was not new at all. He
talked about the fact that under the Abdullah plan, Arabs would
normalize relations with Israel in exchange for the Jewish state
surrendering the territory it received after the 1967 Six-Day War as if
that were something new. He went on to talk about other land that had
been acquired and had been taken by Israel.
I remember so well on December 4 when
we covered all of this and the fact that there isn’t anything new
about the prospect of giving up land that is rightfully Israel’s land
in order to have peace.
When it gets right down to it, the
land doesn’t make that much difference because Yasser Arafat and
others don’t recognize Israel’s right to any of the land. They do
not recognize Israel’s right to exist.
I will discuss seven reasons, which I
mentioned once before, why Israel is entitled to the land they have and
that it should not be a part of the peace process.
If this is something that Israel wants
to do, it is their business to do it. But anyone who has tried to put
the pressure on Israel to do this is wrong.
We are going to be hit by skeptics who
are going to say we will be attacked because of our support for Israel,
and if we get out of the Middle East—that is us—all the problems
will go away. That is just not true. If we withdraw, all of these
problems will again come to our door.
I have some observations to make about
that. But I would like to reemphasize once again the seven reasons that
Israel has the right to their land. The first reason is that Israel has
the right to the land because of all of the archeological evidence. That
is reason, No. 1. All the archeological evidence supports it.
Every time there is a dig in Israel,
it does nothing but support the fact that Israelis have had a presence
there for 3,000 years. They have been there for a long time. The coins,
the cities, the pottery, the culture—there are other people, groups
that are there, but there is no mistaking the fact that Israelis have
been present in that land for 3,000 years.
It predates any claims that other
peoples in the regions may have. The ancient Philistines are extinct.
Many other ancient peoples are extinct. They do not have the unbroken
line to this date that the Israelis have.
Even the Egyptians of today are not
racial Egyptians of 2,000, 3,000 years ago. They are primarily an Arab
people. The land is called Egypt, but they are not the same racial and
ethnic stock as the old Egyptians of the ancient world. The first
Israelis are in fact descended from the original Israelites. The first
proof, then, is the archeology.
The second proof of
Israel’s right to the land is the historic right. History supports it
totally and completely. We know there has been an Israel up until the
time of the Roman Empire. The Romans conquered the land. Israel had no
homeland, although Jews were allowed to live there. They were driven
from the land in two dispersions: One was in 70 A,.D. and the other was
in 135 A.D. But there was always a Jewish presence in the land.
The Turks, who took over about 700
years ago and ruled the land up until about World War I, had control.
Then the land was conquered by the British. The Turks entered World War
I on the side of Germany. The British knew they had to do something to
punish Turkey, and also to break up that empire that was going to be a
part of the whole effort of Germany in World War I. So the British sent
troops against the Turks in the Holy Land.
One of the generals who was leading
the British armies was a man named Allenby. Allenby was a
Bible-believing Christian. He carried a Bible with him everywhere he
went and he knew the significance of Jerusalem.
The night before the attack against
Jerusalem to drive out the Turks, Allenby prayed that God would allow
him to capture the city without doing damage to the holy places.
That day, Allenby sent World War I
biplanes over the city of Jerusalem to do a reconnaissance mission. You
have to understand that the Turks had at that time never seen an
airplane. So there they were, flying around. They looked in the sky and
saw these fascinating inventions and did not know what they were, and
they were terrified by them. Then they were told they were going to be
opposed by a man named Allenby the next day, which means, in their
language, "man sent from God" or "prophet from God."
They dared not fight against a prophet from God, so the next morning,
when Allenby went to take Jerusalem, he went in and captured it without
firing a single shot.
The British Government was grateful to
Jewish people around the world, particularly to one Jewish chemist who
helped them manufacture niter. Niter is an ingredient that was used in
nitroglycerin which was sent over from the New World. But they did not
have a way of getting it to England. The German U-boats were shooting on
the boats, so most of the niter they were trying to import to make
nitroglycerin was at the bottom of the ocean. But a man named Weitzman,
a Jewish chemist, discovered a way to make it from materials that
existed in England. As a result, they were able to continue that supply.
The British at that time said they
were going to give the Jewish people a homeland. That is all a part of
history. It is all written down in history. They were gratified that the
Jewish people, the bankers, came through and helped finance the war.
The homeland that Britain said it
would set aside consisted of all of what is now Israel and all of what
was then the nation of Jordan—the whole thing. That was what Britain
promised to give the Jews in 1917.
In the beginning, there was some Arab
support for this action. There was not a huge Arab population in the
land at that time, and there is a reason for that. The land was not able
to sustain a large population of people. It just did not have the
development it needed to handle those people, and the land was not
really wanted by anybody. Nobody really wanted this land. It was
considered to be worthless land.
I want the Presiding Officer to hear
what Mark Twain said. And, of course, you may have read
"Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer." Mark Twain—Samuel
Clemens—took a tour of Palestine in 1867. This is how he described
that land. We are talking about Israel now. He said:
A desolate country whose soil is rich
enough but is given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We
never saw a human being on the whole route. There was hardly a tree or a
shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a
worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.
Where was this great Palestinian
nation? It did not exist. It was not there. Palestinians were not there.
Palestine was a region named by the Romans, but at that time it was
under the control of Turkey, and there was no large mass of people there
because the land would not support them.
This is the report that the
Palestinian Royal Commission, created by the British, made. It quotes an
account of the conditions on the coastal plain along the Mediterranean
Sea in 1913. This is the Palestinian Royal Commission. They said:
The road leading from Gaza to the
north was only a summer track, suitable for transport by camels or
carts. No orange groves, orchards or vineyards were to be seen until one
reached the Yavnev village. Houses were mud. Schools did not exist. The
western part toward the sea was almost a desert. The villages in this
area were few and thinly populated. Many villages were deserted by their
inhabitants.
That was 1913.
The French author Voltaire described
Palestine as "a hopeless, dreary place."
In short, under the Turks the land
suffered from neglect and low population. That is a historic fact. The
nation became populated by both Jews and Arabs because the land came to
prosper when Jews came back and began to reclaim it. Historically, they
began to reclaim it. If there had never been any archaeological evidence
to support the rights of the Israelis to the territory, it is also
important to recognize that other nations in the area have no
longstanding claim to the country either.
Did you know that Saudi Arabia was not
created until 1913, Lebanon until 1920? Iraq did not exist as a nation
until 1932, Syria until 1941; the borders of Jordan were established in
1946 and Kuwait in 1961. Any of these nations that would say Israel is
only a recent arrival would have to deny their own rights as recent
arrivals as well. They did not exist as countries. They were all under
the control of the Turks.
Historically, Israel gained its
independence in 1948.
The third reason that
land belongs to Israel is the practical value of the Israelis being
there. Israel today is a modern marvel of agriculture. Israel is able to
bring more food out of a desert environment than any other country in
the world. The Arab nations ought to make Israel their friend and import
technology from Israel that would allow all the Middle East, not just
Israel, to become an exporter of food. Israel has unarguable success in
its agriculture.
The fourth reason
I believe Israel has the right to the land is on the grounds of
humanitarian concern. You see, there were 6 million Jews slaughtered in
Europe in World War II. The persecution against the Jews had been very
strong in Russia since the advent of communism. It was against them even
before then under the Czars.
These people have a right to their
homeland. If we are not going to allow them a homeland in the Middle
East, then where? What other nation on Earth is going to cede territory,
is going to give up land?
They are not asking for a great deal.
The whole nation of Israel would fit into my home State of Oklahoma
seven times. It would fit into the Presiding Officer’s State of
Georgia seven times. They are not asking for a great deal. The whole
nation of Israel is very small. It is a nation that, up until the time
that claims started coming in, was not desired by anybody.
The fifth reason Israel
ought to have their land is that she is a strategic ally of the United
States. Whether we realize it or not, Israel is a detriment, an
impediment, to certain groups hostile to democracies and hostile to what
we believe in, hostile to that which makes us the greatest nation in the
history of the world. They have kept them from taking complete control
of the Middle East. If it were not for Israel, they would overrun the
region. They are our strategic ally.
It is good to know we have a friend in
the Middle East on whom we can count. They vote with us in the United
Nations more than England, more than Canada, more than France, more than
Germany—more than any other country in the world.
The sixth reason
is that Israel is a roadblock to terrorism. The war we are now facing is
not against a sovereign nation; it is against a group of terrorists who
are very fluid, moving from one country to another. They are almost
invisible. That is whom we are fighting against today.
We need every ally we can get. If we
do not stop terrorism in the Middle East, it will be on our shores. We
have said this again and again and again, and it is true.
One of the reasons I believe the
spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of
America is that the policy of our Government has been to ask the
Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant
way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.
Since its independence in 1948, Israel
has fought four wars: The war in 1948 and 1949—that was the war for
independence—the war in 1956, the Sinai campaign; the Six-Day War in
1967; and in 1973, the Yom Kippur War, the holiest day of the year, and
that was with Egypt and Syria.
You have to understand that in all
four cases, Israel was attacked. They were not the aggressor. Some
people may argue that this was not true because they went in first in
1956, but they knew at that time that Egypt was building a huge military
to become the aggressor. Israel, in fact, was not the aggressor and has
not been the aggressor in any of the four wars.
Also, they won all four wars against
impossible odds. They are great warriors. They consider a level playing
field being outnumbered 2 to 1.
There were 39 Scud missiles that
landed on Israeli soil during the gulf war. Our President asked Israel
not to respond. In order to have the Arab nations on board, we asked
Israel not to participate in the war. They showed tremendous restraint
and did not. Now we have asked them to stand back and not do anything
over these last several attacks.
We have criticized them. We have
criticized them in our media. Local people in television and radio often
criticize Israel, not knowing the true facts. We need to be informed.
I was so thrilled when I heard a
reporter pose a question to our Secretary of State, Colin Powell. He
said:
Mr. Powell, the United States has
advocated a policy of restraint in the Middle East. We have discouraged
Israel from retaliation again and again and again because we’ve said
it leads to continued escalation—that it escalates the violence. Are
we going to follow that preaching ourselves?
Mr. Powell indicated we would strike
back. In other words, we can tell Israel not to do it, but when it hits
us, we are going to do something.
But all that changed in December when
the Israelis went into the Gaza with gunships and into the West Bank
with F-16s. With the exception of last May, the Israelis had not used
F-16s since the 1967 6-Day War. And I am so proud of them because we
have to stop terrorism. It is not going to go away. If Israel were
driven into the sea tomorrow, if every Jew in the Middle East were
killed, terrorism would not end. You know that in your heart. Terrorism
would continue.
It is not just a matter of Israel in
the Middle East. It is the heart of the very people who are perpetrating
this stuff. Should they be successful in overrunning Israel—which they
won’t be—but should they be, it would not be enough. They will never
be satisfied.
No. 7, I
believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel; that it has a
right to the land. This is the most important reason: Because God said
so. As I said a minute ago, look it up in the book of Genesis. It is
right up there on the desk.
In Genesis 13:14-17, the Bible says:
The Lord said to Abram, "Lift up
now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and
southward, and eastward and westward: for all the land which you see, to
you will I give it, and to your seed forever. ..... Arise, walk through
the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give
it to thee."
That is God talking.
The Bible says that Abram removed his
tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and
built there an altar before the Lord. Hebron is in the West Bank. It is
at this place where God appeared to Abram and said, "I am giving
you this land,"—the West Bank.
This is not a political battle at all.
It is a contest over whether or not the word of God is true. The seven
reasons, I am convinced, clearly establish that Israel has a right to
the land.
Eight years ago on the lawn of the
White House, Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat.
It was a historic occasion. It was a tragic occasion.
At that time, the official policy of
the Government of Israel began to be, "Let us appease the
terrorists. Let us begin to trade the land for peace." This process
continued unabated up until last year. Here in our own Nation, at Camp
David, in the summer of 2000, then Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak
offered the most generous concessions to Yasser Arafat that had ever
been laid on the table.
He offered him more than 90 percent of
all the West Bank territory, sovereign control of it. There were some
parts he did not want to offer, but in exchange for that he said he
would give up land in Israel proper that the PLO had not even asked for.
And he also did the unthinkable. He
even spoke of dividing Jerusalem and allowing the Palestinians to have
their capital there in the East. Yasser Arafat stormed out of the
meeting. Why did he storm out of the meeting? Everything he had said he
wanted was offered there. It was put into his hands. Why did he storm
out of the meeting?
A couple of months later, there began
to be riots, terrorism. The riots began when now Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon went to the Temple Mount. And this was used as the thing that lit
the fire and that caused the explosion.
Did you know that Sharon did not go
unannounced and that he contacted the Islamic authorities before he went
and secured their permission and had permission to be there? It was no
surprise.
The response was very carefully
calculated. They knew the world would not pay attention to the details.
They would portray this in the Arab
world as an attack upon the holy mosque. They would portray it as an
attack upon that mosque and use it as an excuse to riot. Over the last 8
years, during this time of the peace process, where the Israeli public
has pressured its leaders to give up land for peace because they are
tired of fighting, there has been increased terror.
In fact, it has been greater in the
last 8 years than any other time in Israel’s history. Showing
restraint and giving in has not produced any kind of peace. It is so
much so that today the leftist peace movement in Israel does not exist
because the people feel they were deceived.
They did offer a hand of peace, and it
was not taken. That is why the politics of Israel have changed
drastically over the past 12 months. The Israelis have come to see that,
"No matter what we do, these people do not want to deal with us.
..... They want to destroy us." That is why even yet today the
stationery of the PLO still has upon it the map of the entire state of
Israel, not just the tiny little part they call the West Bank that they
want. They want it all.
We have to get out of this mind set
that somehow you can buy peace in the Middle East by giving little plots
of land. It has not worked before when it has been offered.
These seven reasons show why Israel is
entitled to that land.
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of God and was dramatically touched at a revival service at the North
Cleveland Church of God where the leaders of the Brownsville Revival
came in October of 1996. That night Pastor Reid came back
from that service and prayed over his family and the entire
group was slain under the power of God before revival ever touched the
church. The glory hit the church in the same way the next night and this Church
of God has never been the same. 
when
Joel's kidney's completely shut down. He hasn't lived a normal
life but one thing he did not come up short with was his ability to
deliver the word of God. Joel said that he had been at deaths door
more than five different times hovering over deaths door.
"Surely God has a purpose for this 23 year old young man, these two
brothers have powerfully impacted the ministry at Bethany. The
glory that is upon them is the same glory that was on his father.
$3
million dollars and once again God dealt with me on giving. I often
asked him, "Isn't it working the way you want it to, but God dealt
with me so I could go to another level." 
business
owner who lost everything and accepted the call to God. This
former millionaire knows the power of giving and has a great
testimony. 
the
floor. Pentecostal revival is different as people who were touched
were given microphones to talk and under the power of God they were
rendered speechless. Incredible power near the end of the night
saw more than 75 people saved as the altars were filled and another 100
accepted the call to ministry and this is just the first day of Camp meeting
here in Tampa, Florida. 
with
repentant church members and visitors. Mike Evans a young black
man played the part of James Seymour at Azusa Street. He was on
his knees with his head in couple of orange crates preaching when the
power of God touched him as he began to preach. What was reenactment
turned into the real thing. As Evans called people forward the
power of God pulled people and young people from the pews to
repentance. Pastor Bob Rodgers called the young people
forward. It was a God moment as the power of God fell in the
sanctuary that has seen revival before. 
that
dealership. Much like James Seymour he was a waiter in a place
where a divine call was at hand. The prophetic word of God has
spoken that in the last days people who are nobodies would be raised up
to carry the message of God. Make no mistake about Sunday morning
at Evangel, the power of God came through a porter as a signal to those
to understand how God chooses the message and the messengers
sprung
forth and the has exploded in the last few weeks. Evangelist John
Davis is the evangelist at this fire and Pastor Charles Bowman knows the
power has struck a new measure of glory. In its fourth year
the power has increased. 
Thursday
that was very odd but has to do with end time events. I received
a word that kept going over and over in my spirit. The word was ubiquitous,
I couldn't go to sleep last Thursday night so I went up stairs to my
wife office pulled out a dictionary and read its definition. To
be omnipresent. God spoke to me and said He is going to pour out
his Spirit everywhere. It was the next day when I was watching
CNN during the bombing at the bus stop that a sound was heard in the
background while the commentator was interviewing someone. One
person said what is that and the commentator said that's the sound of
the shofar to signal the Sabbath. 
Cleddie Keith is the father of
Jacob Aranza.
