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On 9/8/20211, God brought much of the student body to a repentance which caused us to let go of some of the idols to which we had formerly given first place.  Today, we more fully joined Jesus when he denied himself and took up the cross.

Today’s service eclipsed all.

After the offering, the Holy Spirit began moving on people to give something special, and I brought my lunch money.  Then I was moved to give up my most precious possession.  During her kindergarten year, my firstborn had given me a silver ring with two hearts, representing our love for each other.  She and her sister had both known the Lord from the very beginning.  They spent every day of their young years in CBN’s cartoons of the Bible, reading Bible stories and their Picture Bibles.  The Lord told me one day when they were playing in the bath tub at about 3 and 6 exactly how to lead them into the baptism of the Holy Spirit.  He said my youngest would receive her language first and then faith would spring up in my oldest who would receive.   Jocelyn received first and Amanda, after an astounded look, began laughing and praying in her language also.

Their father divorced me and married his mistress after the 6-month waiting period required by the Episcopal Church.  Once when the girls were with him, he became infuriated upon finding Amanda praying in the spirit over an injured Jocelyn.  He set out to separate us.  A pathological liar, he was eventually able to alienate my firstborn from me for a number of years.  Later, she realized what had really happened, and our relationship was healed.  However, the girls lacked the fire of their childhood relationship with God.

That ring became a symbol to me of the love we shared so I wore it almost constantly.  Today, when I put that little child’s gift on the steps on the other, more costly jewelry, I was placing that very relationship on the altar.  I realized that I had, like Abraham, put my first-born child on His altar.  Immediately, inspired by God, Pastor Rodney said some of us were “sacrificing our Isaacs.”  Nothing could have been truer.

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This past week at the River at Tampa bay was our annual winter Camp Meeting! It was a week filled with phenomenal morning and night services with people attending from all over the world. What was really amazing to see was how the huge majority of people attending went out daily to go soul winning all around the city of Tampa Bay. Thousands of people came to know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior! With so many people going out to preach the gospel we had many written, video, and live testimonies each and every night. 

The power of God fell every service and more and more people caught the vision of Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne and the “Great Awakening”.  Pastor’s heart is to have every person, whether in the ministry or not out, winning souls one on one and fulfilling the great commission Jesus gave us in each of the Gospels. One testimony that truly stuck out is from an 80 year old woman who called in to the prayer center during a night service.

She was unable to walk because of an illness and so she can only move by wheelchair. She called a week prior to get prayer for healing and to get a soul winning script. The soul winning script was shipped to her house and she immediately called two of her family members and they received Christ into their hearts! She wanted to soul win so bad but couldn’t get out of her house so she figured why not call people….it works! –Timothy T.

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What another awesome and amazing week at the Great Awakening revival meetings here at the River Church of Tampa Bay.  It truly is a privilege and honor to be able to be under such anointed preaching from Pastor’s Rodney and Adonica Howard-Browne.  Every single night is totally different.  People are so hungry and thirsty for the things of God. Like the Word says,” those that hunger and thirst after His righteousness shall be filled”!  People are calling in from all over the world to our prayer line and miraculous things are taking place.  People are getting saved, set free, delivered, and baptized in the Holy Ghost right over the phone. 

This is just the beginning of what God is going to do in these last days because America is in such a great need of a revival and a “Great Awakening”.  It is so nice to see the Holy Ghost move as He wills throughout every service.  Pastor Rodney allows the Holy Ghost full reign and this is true revival.  Not one person who attends these meetings leaves the same way that they came in.  My wife and I are so excited to be a part of these “Great Awakening” meetings.  Last night’s meeting was definitely electrifying.  Talk about the fire of God falling!  I encourage everyone who can to come and attend some of these revival meetings so you can get touched, refreshed, and filled!  I love that every message is about souls and eternity because many people don’t know where they will spend eternity.  Let’s all get out there and go into all of the world and share the “Good News” with everyone!-Rickie H.

Great Awakening Tour City #14 Maui, Hawaii

Teresa–Mormon (faith) very grateful very effective

Joelle M
Kauai Hawaii United States

Spanish Night at The River
Revival That You Hold

I was suffereing from abody illiness for several months but when l opened your web and ready about the revival meetings the spirit of the lord ministerd to me the healing through your web and on that very day am healed in jesus name. ldesire to see you face to face here may the lord bless you am from east africa in tanzania .jason

Mr Jason O
Arusha (No State) Tanzania

We must be careful whom we trust in this world. People make promises they cannot keep, break confidences on a whim, and come out with statements that are untrue. But there is someone who keeps every promise, never lies, and refuses to break a confidence: almighty God.

We serve a faithful Father. Throughout Scripture, God guarantees His children He will pardon our sins (1 John 1:9), supply all our needs (Philippians 4:19), protect us (Psalm 91), answer our prayers (Matthew 7:7-8), and be with us. (Deuteronomy 31:6) With this set of divine guarantees, a promise can be applied to every aspect of our lives. In fact, we can probably remember many occasions when God has fulfilled one of these scriptural assurances. Rodney Howard Browne teaches that spending time recalling His faithfulness is an important exercise for believers because it strengthens our trust.

When we look back over the course of our life, we can also see the constancy of God. He does not change in His person or purpose. That means His faithfulness and trustworthiness are as true today as they were in Bible times, our parent’s generation, and yesterday afternoon. What great comfort we can draw from an unchanging Father during times of upheaval. Some of the most powerful metaphors in Christianity speak to this aspect of His nature—God the rock and God the anchor.

The Lord’s character is perfectly consistent with trust. Because of His love, He commits to fulfilling His promises to every generation of believers. We can trust God to do all He says He will do—and so much more. He will never fail us.

Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.2 Corinthians 2:10-11 NKJV

Rodney Howard Browne teaches that God loves us with all His heart. We are the crowning glory of His creation. He made the earth and everything on the earth before He made us and placed us in the middle of it. The devil hates God and he hates God’s creation. The devil tries to destroy man by trying to get us destroy each other. If we are ignorant of his devices and how he operates, then we won’t recognize his handiwork and he will be able to take advantage of us. If we are aware of his tactics and his devices, then we will recognize when he is at work and then he is in trouble because we will be able to deal with him and we will defeat him. One of the ways the devil gains the advantage over us is by stirring up strife between us. Then he manages to maintain an ongoing advantage by keeping the strife fresh in our hearts by getting us to walk in unforgiveness toward one another.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.James 3:13-18 NKJV

Envy and selfishness are earthly, sensual and even demonic. When we are envious, covetous and selfish, then we will inevitably strive with one another. We will fight each other for wealth, power and control. This covetousness and strife opens the door to confusion and every evil work. In other words, the devil has his way, imposing his will on us. The love of money and worldly goods is the root of all kinds of evil and it will destroy the covetous person in the end.

Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.1 Timothy 6:5-11 NKJV

Rodney Howard Browne shows us that God does not want us to be destroyed and if we do not want to reap a harvest of destruction in our lives, then it is vital that we seek peace and pursue it. It is vital that we are peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. We must flee envy, selfishness and covetousness and we must pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

Rodney Howard Browne points out that we must be aware that when we strive with each other, that we give the devil the advantage, but when we do everything we know to do to walk in love and forgiveness by the help of the Holy Spirit, then we close of any avenue that the devil might have had and instead, we give place to the Lord, Who will defend and protect us. The blood of Jesus and the Name of Jesus will give us the advantage over the devil and that is where we want to be. He is under our feet as long as we are submitted to God and as long as we are joined together in unity and peace with each other.

Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.

Ephesians 4:25-27 NKJV

Don’t be ignorant. Don’t give place to the devil. Walk in love and refuse to strive with your fellow man. Rather give place to the Holy Spirit!

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy– meditate on these things. Philippians 4:8 NKJ

As most of us were growing up, we were taught by parents, teachers and even religious leaders, to modify and control our outward behavior, but not necessarily our thought life. However, the Lord made it very clear in the Old and New Covenant that our thought life influences our behavior and therefore it dominates the success or failure of our life. Proverbs 23:7 says that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. He may say one thing with his mouth, but his thoughts represent what he truly thinks and feels.

In order to truly influence a person, you must influence their mindset, not just their behavior. You can dominate someone in order to control their behavior, but if you do not influence their opinions, then when they leave your presence they will go ahead and do whatever they have decided to do anyway. As we raise our children, we should watch over their attitudes and keep them on track as much as we watch their behavior. When you bring correction to your children you must see that your discipline influences their attitude and straightens it out and the desired behavior will automatically follow. The bottom line is that they should have a soft heart toward God, not a hard one. And, most importantly, YOU make sure that you set a good example. BE who you want THEM to BE.

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:27-28 NKJ

And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.” Mark 7:20-23 NKJ

If you have sinned in your heart, then you have sinned. Deal with sin at the root level – in your thought life – and it will not be able to destroy your life, because even at the current rate of inflation, the wages of sin is still death! Whatever we feed our heart and mind is what we will think about and what we will eventually be saying and doing. Many times even people who are born again have friends who are a bad influence. They think that the crude, worldly talk will not influence them, but before they know it they are talking and acting just like those friends and they have left Jesus behind!

If you regularly expose yourself, by what you hear and see, to any form of uncleanness – lies, bad reports and any unjust, impure, unlovely, ugly, critical, evil, ignoble things, then they will begin to play in your mind like a video. If you don’t get rid of the thoughts and stop allowing yourself to think on them then you will be in big trouble before long. The Lord looks on the heart, because our heart, with all its attitudes and opinions, is who we really are. We may be able to fool other people for a while with our outward show, but God knows who we really are and what we really think. We think that we are fooling people, because we are secure in the privacy of our own imagination, but many times even they eventually see through the façade. Your thoughts are revealed in your face more than you think they are!

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.

Psalms 1:1-3 NKJ

If you want to change the course of your life – change the way you think and what you think about. Stop thinking negative, evil, destructive, unproductive thoughts and fill yourself up with God’s word, meditating on it day and night. The devil may have lied to you and told you that you will never make it as a child of God because you are trapped in this twilight zone of evil thoughts that dominate and control you. You find yourself thinking them even when you don’t want to. Your only answer is to meditate on God’s word – constantly – and it will begin to crowd out the devil’s trash and burn it up. All that you need to do is to make a quality decision that you WILL be FREE, WHATEVER it takes!