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I did not want to do second year and I decided to go like the day before school started. I actually missed the first day of school because of my work not knowing I was coming to school. I went into work and told my boss that I was coming to school and that my schedule would change. She said that it wouldn’t work out because they needed me there early in the morning. I asked her if I needed to start looking for another job. She said no I’ll make it work and then she hands me papers for review and a raise.

Thursday’s Result in my life:

I had wondered why I wasn’t seeing breakthrough in my finances because I tithe and I give I just wasn’t getting results like everyone else. I had a dream. I was standing at an airport getting ready to go out of the country. I had a duffel bag, a small suit case, and a backpack. Where I was going I couldn’t pack anything into the baggage part of the airplane because I just couldn’t. I didn’t know why I just wasn’t allowed. So I tried to shove everything I had into these three bags. I got up to go through security and they told me that I could only take two bags. So I took everything from the carry on suit case and tried to shove it into either the backpack or the duffel bag. I tried to go through security again and they said, “Ma’am you are still carrying on too much, you are not allowed on this plane until you get rid of some of your things.” I woke up right after that knowing that inside I had a hard time letting things go; in other words I had a hard time being cheerful in my giving. This dream reminded me of what God is calling me to do and that I wasn’t going to reach my full potential until I let some things go. I wouldn’t fulfill what God is calling me to do until my full trust was in him and I wouldn’t be able to step onto the plane (aka my next level in my relationship with God) until I was able to give some things up. Today something broke on the inside of me. I can’t put my finger on it but I just know something is different on the inside of me. I don’t feel like I need to hold on to everything because my trust is in Him and in Him alone…..Jill S.

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I come from Santa Ana, California and I never thought I would ever be part of such an amazing church/school. It was such a hard journey for me to get here but I am just glad God opened the door and allowed me to be here. When I first heard of The River was in the beginning of March when my friend Boris Larios called me and started to share with me of all the things God has been doing in his life ever since he arrived to The River.

He also started to share with me about the school program that The River has, as soon as he told me about the School of Worship he got my full attention. I was so happy just hearing his testimony; I just knew my soul wanted what my friend has been receiving. As soon as I hung up many things started to come into my head. Things that I am sure many students went thru, “how will I pay for everything”, “Where will I live”, “I don’t know anyone there”, and many more. All I knew was I had to be here. God started to put everything together, blessed me with a Full Scholarship, he used my friend Boris to help me find a place to live, transportation, and even helped me find friend. He has been a true blessing in my life.

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When I came back from the AMT Course with Overland Missions. My heart kept on getting hungrier and hungrier for the things of God. I was so excited to start RBI and continue walking in what God has called me to do, save Souls. When the first day of school started (RBI Revival week), I was excited and yet nervous because I had doubts of going to school. My heart was still in Africa! I fell love with the people in a way that I can’t describe. The first week of school they had pictures from Pastor Rodney in Africa and every time it was shown I had flash backs of the ministry time and the environment that I experienced. I wanted to be back in Zambia walking for miles and ministering the gospel. Yet I knew that God has called me here to be trained up. I knew that this school would help break, shape, and mold me in to the man God is raising me up to be, a servant.

The next week they extend the Revival week and God kept on showing how real he is in, through, and around my life. He started breaking me in giving, and what it means to give. I have learned that if I give because I think I will get something back I am selfish and my heart is corrupt. But if I give with a cheerful heart being selfless, my heart is incorruptible. If you can’t be selfless by giving, you can’t be selfless with God. These Revival weeks have showed me that even in financial deposition that it doesn’t matter what you think because it’s about Jesus. The more I give myself to Jesus the more I get of Jesus. God has used the RBI Revival week to break me into reality in Jesus and this is one of the things that I just take and treasure because is a honor to know more about Him!

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Since school started God has been revealing to me where in my character he wants me to improve. I have started to tackle my pride, laziness, and impatience.

I used to be worried about how I appeared to others when I worshiped in the church. God spoke to me in His Word that if I exalted myself, I would be humbled. However, if I humbled myself, He would exalt me. I realized I didn’t need to worry about what others might think of me but I should hold nothing back and press into His Presence.

In our second week of our revival, Pastor Todd gave what seemed to be an unpopular message about faith that spoke to me. I learned how to correctly apply faith to my job search. I now rest on the promise of God’s favor over the work of my hands.

God has increased my patience as well. I learned that the more I trust God, the less I worry about His timing. I started school without knowing how it would work out money-wise. I had even sown my Bible right before school started. Since I have started school, someone has already given me a textbook and I know more of God’s provision is on the way.

I am excited about what God has been doing in me. My wife said she can already see a change. I look forward to growing more in character, knowledge, and relationship with God here in RBI…..Gary W.

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I was in Tuesday night’s service and the power of God hit me hard. I was so elated with laughter. I hadn’t laughed hard in a while, so as you can see I feel like I got a second wind of energy to do what God has called me to do and that is to GO and tell the world about Jesus! In the meetings I can see joy returning to God’s people. I can see the power of God moving and changing this nation. When I watched on the video clips and I see the people from around the world share their testimony about how our telecast is touching and changing their life I am even more encouraged.

One of my highlight was on Thursday when I served in the Call Center. I love praying for people and so I was excited about this opportunity. I had back to back calls from hungry men and women of God who were watching the program and wanted the Fire of God in their life. As I prayed with each and every one of them I could feel anointing and power come upon myself and them.

The best part of it is when you finished praying and they thank you profusely for praying for them and how they feel the weight come off of them. It is such an honor to serve the Lord and His people. I am very excited about what God is doing and about what is about to take place in the lives of many around the world. -Clover W

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The anointing is real and only those who need it can get it. What I’m seeing here is more than my expectations. Last time in the soul-winning class, I saw a woman in her car and she was speaking with somebody on the phone. So I went to her to give her Jesus. After rejecting me, she told me that she would like to accept my Lord Jesus as her personal Savior and I read the script to her.

While I was talking with her, I told her that I’m from a French country and she replied that she’s from Haiti so she can speak French. When I  finished with her, I said, can you give me your phone to speak to the person you’re speaking with. She said no because that man don’t want to hear about Jesus. I insisted and she gave the phone, it was her husband. I spoke  with the man in French and that man accepted Jesus. Not knowing he was in Haiti, I pray for him and he receive the power of the holy spirit and he was just laughing.

The woman was so happy and the man gave me his number so that I can call him time to time for prayer. Coming to The River is a great blessing for me. -Bruno S.

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The fire of God has been in every meeting since Sunday night when the first meeting started, we are averaging over 300 souls per day since Monday. The airwaves are being bombarded with the Anointing every night with life changing messages delivered by a general in the faith Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne. Souls are being won for the kingdom of God through the airwaves where CTN is carrying us, and the networks DirecTv and DISH are taking the signal throughout the western hemisphere, but not only that now the signal is also getting picked up and going  down to South America and all over Asia and than down to the continent of Africa.

God is moving thru the technology of today and as a result the phone system here at RMI has been blowing up during the evenings and on a steady increase every night because the broadcast again is live every night Sunday thru Sunday, we have Pastor Bob D’Andrea, the owner of CTN, here with us every since this began on January 2nd 2011. So you need to be here to reach your city, your town , your village, come sit under the anointing and catch the fire of God for souls to be won for the Kingdom of God and set your area ablaze for God and be a soul winner.-Payne Y.

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Americas next Great Awakening began on January 2, 2011, and so far it has been a pretty wild ride for me.  It has been so amazing to see the changes that have taken place within in the church in only a few weeks. The most amazing changes came not just in the building itself, but in the people.  To see people from different back rounds and all walks of life all in one accord on the same page for the cause of Christ is so inspiring.  The Lord has been showing me that this is how the church is supposed to operate. We as the body of Christ should be moving as the body moves in unison with purpose and direction.  It’s not about us or our platform or our opportunity to speak.  It’s all about Jesus and preaching the gospel to the lost people of this world!  We need to set aside our egos and our pride a work together for the cause of Christ. Often times we are so focused on building our own castle that we forget all about building to Kingdom of God. This is one church moving in unity and the results have been astounding imagine what will happen when two or three churches begin to move as one. When one church acts as a hand and another as the foot ….  That is what it is going to take for this nation to be shaken by the power of God. -Kai C.

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Zikeya O.

Blessed Saturday night, I literally saw Jesus standing next to you up front, not sure if it was a vision or what. Power of God came over me.And no matter how hard I tried to stand.. I keep like “bowing down” , if that makes sense!! But I am on FIRE FOR GOD.. I really want to go to your bible school, and I went up front yesterday when you called up people who wanted to be soul winners.. I got my script in hand.. and have begun my journey..I will keep you updated with the amount of souls I win!!!
 
Nadine M.

My 60 yr. old farming boyfriend, was having great pain in his legs as we watched your web cast until midnight Friday…he layer down & I put my hands on his leg & prayed for a pain free healing in the Mighty Name of Jesus…he fell asleep..And 2 minutes later gave a couple kicks with his legs & then said “Thank You Jesus” in his sleep. I knew the Lord had touched him…he is still pain free today & walking very well doing his entire farm work.

Thank You Jesus & Thank You Rodney for showing us the way.

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“I have told you all these things, so that you should not be offended (taken unawares and falter, or be caused to stumble and fall away). [I told you to keep you from being scandalized and repelled.] 2 They will put you out of (expel you from) the synagogues; but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think and claim that he has offered service to God. 3 And they will do this because they have not known the Father or Me.”  John 16:1-3 AMP
 
After Jesus has told His disciples “all these things” in John chapters 14 & 15, He tells them, in the opening verses of John 16, that He told them “all these things” so that they would not be offended by the persecution which would inevitably come. He had started off in John 14:1 AMP by exhorting them with these words, “Do not let your hearts be troubled (distressed, agitated). You believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely on God; believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely also on Me.”  
 
His emphasis is on trusting the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit because they will protect and provide for you–spirit, soul and body–always–no matter what you are going through. He talks to them–and us–to focus us on God and His Word and not what we are experiencing in the flesh. He talks about Himself–the Way, the Truth and the Life; about the Father–if you have seen Me you have seen the Father; about praying to the Father in Jesus’ Name; about the Comforter and Helper–the Holy Spirit–who would be in you and with you and never leave you; about what was to come–His death–the laying down of His life and returning to the Father; about the importance, and also the benefits, of obedience and keeping His commandments; about how they–and we–would be witnesses of Jesus and everything He did and said; about the persecution that would result from our commitment to Him and our preaching of the Word.
 
Jesus told them, “If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with affection and would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world [no longer one with it], but I have chosen (selected) you out of the world, the world hates (detests) you. 20 Remember that I told you, A servant is not greater than his master [is not superior to him]. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word and obeyed My teachings, they will also keep and obey yours. 21 But they will do all this to you [inflict all this suffering on you] because of [your bearing] My name and on My account, for they do not know or understand the One Who sent Me.” (John 15:18-21 AMP)
 
Persecution will inevitably come to the child of God, who walks in obedience to His will and His Word. Jesus warns us about it so that we are not surprised and especially so that we are not offended by it. The Greek word translated “offended” in John 16:1 is “skandalizo”, which means “to stumble, to cause one to begin to distrust and to desert the one whom he ought to trust and obey.”

It doesn’t take much to offend some people. The devil has a real easy time with people who are not deeply connected into the Word of God–they immediately blame God, instead of the devil, for the discomfort they experience when the persecution starts. Mark 4:16-18 AMP says, “And in the same way the ones sown upon stony ground are those who, when they hear the Word, at once receive and accept and welcome it with joy; 17And they have no real root in themselves, and so they endure for a little while; then when trouble or persecution arises on account of the Word, they immediately are offended (become displeased, indignant, resentful) and they stumble and fall away.”   
 
Matthew 13:21 AMP says about the man who is not solid in the Word of God, that, “when affliction or trouble or persecution comes on account of the Word, at once he is caused to stumble [he is repelled and begins to distrust and desert Him Whom he ought to trust and obey] and he falls away.” The devil uses persecution at every level to cause people to back away from God and the Truth. Even the disciples were scattered, scared and tempted to deny Jesus when He was arrested. Jesus forewarned them in Matthew 26:31-34 NIV: Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: “’I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ 32 But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” 33 Peter replied, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.” 34 “I tell you the truth,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.”
 
The first purpose of persecution is to get you to get mad at God and mad at the Word of God so that you will cut yourself off from God and backslide. Jesus said, in Matthew 24:9-10 AMP, “Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended and repelled and will begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.”
 
The second purpose of persecution is to get you to get mad at your fellow Christians and even to betray them and to turn around and persecute them along with the ungodly. There are many people who will do anything to someone else if they think it will save their own skin. They would throw their own family “under the bus” to prevent any discomfort from coming their way.
 
It is only those who know their God and know His Word; who have committed their lives into His hands; who have given up–lost–their own lives and found His; who trust God with their life; who can say with Paul, “for me to live is Christ and to die is gain”; who will be willing to endure the hardships of persecution for the joy of what lies before them.
 
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.  Matthew 10:22 KJV