Continued/ and I say that as a worship leader myself. The presence and power of God was tangible every evening even before the worship commenced - but as several thousand people entered into giving their all to God, He, true to His word, inhabited their praises. The Spirit of The Living God truly did fall afresh each evening.
The wonderful standard of worship from Roy Fields and his band accomplished that for which it was intended. To lead people into the presence of God. The same can be said for Heather Clarke and all the others who have led musically. Truly the best, deepest and strongest times of worship we have ever experienced.
Erika and I pray as a team, and we were so blessed and greatly privliged to be used by God to facilitate so many healings and deliverances. We have a ministry in Zimbabwe and have seen many healings and deliverances out there. But nothing like this. Demons would just leave instantly - no repeated 'coming against them' - they just went as soon as you commanded them. They could not resist in such an awesome Godly atmosphere.
We prayed for a lady who had broken her ankle 4 days before - it was in a high tech 'velcro' cast.
She felt the pain leave and took it off - totally healed!
Another lady was in a wheelchair with leg injuries - we prayed for her and she came out of the chair, almost totally healed - some more prayer completed the healing.
A dear lady came to us with terminal cancer - she had undergone chemo therapy and been told she was going to die soon - we discerned the 'Spirit of Death' - cast it out and prayed for healing - all pain left her, and later she testified on the main stage to a total healing!
A young lad around 17 had never spoken since birth - we prayed for him and he went 'out in the spirit' for about 20 mins - when he came round he was speaking! - he told us an Angel came to him and touched his throat! - He described it as a great blue white light with huge wings!
These are just a few of the many, many amazing healings we were used in. Quite a few of the people who testified up on stage with Todd were those Erika and I had prayed for. At the same time all the other Ministry Team members were experiencing similar things.
During the first week the Holy Spirit began putting it upon my heart that I was to preach on Sunday.
It seemed like an impossibility - as the preaching at the revival is all sown up - and we didn't know anyone in any of the local churches. But the feeling persisted and so I prayed accordingly. "Lord let me preach on Sunday - give me an opening!"
On the Saturday night, as Erika and I were praying for people, we were approached by a large black guy with an obvious problem in his eye. His name was Art, and he was the pastor of a church. We prayed for his eye and God healed him, and then he began to pour out all his troubles with regard to his church. People were leaving - finances were terrible - things kept going wrong - despite him trying his best and walking uprightly. We discerned that someone had placed a witchcraft curse on his church and told him so.
The result was that he invited us to come and minister the next day - Sunday - and his church was in Tampa - the city where God had told us to book our hotel! Had we been in Lakeland it would not have been feasable for us to get there!
Art picked us up from our hotel in the morning and took us to his church. As soon as we entered it we could feel a strong demonic presence. The fellowship was basically Assemblies of God and the service was a little 'traditional'. The Spirit had Erika and I go down on our faces and gradually the worship seemed to 'elevate' until the Holy Spirit was present in power. We all took communion - [at our suggestion] - and then I spoke. I spoke on Mathew Ch.3 v.11 and after about 35 mins the Holy Spirit fell on the place and all but one person was out on the floor as we prayed for them.
We felt something 'break' in the spirit realm and the dark presence lifted. We then annointed all the door and window frames with oil and breaking the curse on the place forbade the evil spirits to return.
The whole place was instantly lighter and the Peace of God descended.
We were treated to a lovely lunch by a very grateful pastor and his family, and we have an open invite to go back there anytime.
In our hotel we prayed for one of the maids who had back problems. The Lord healed her and she then bought another woman with asthma - The Lord healed her and she bought another woman and so it went on.
The lady with the asthma had a husband with cancer of the kidneys - she bought him to the hotel and when we prayed for him he felt a 'tingling' in his kidney area. We belive that God healed him too - though we don't know for certain yet.
We prayed for people in the supermarket - on the street - in restruants - in fact all over Lakeland you would see people praying for others out on the street, as Christians got to grips with what Jesus requires of them.
This annointing is one of FIRE and with it comes BOLDNESS - just as on the day of Pentecost when the Spirit fell in tongues of fire - and it burns up all the dross in each one who receives it - which is what Mathew Ch3 v.12 tells us.
At the beggining of this article I posed the question - IS IT REALLY GOD?
We saw the blind see, the lame walk, the deaf hear. Demons were cast out and there are 32 verified cases of people being raised from the dead.
This is the spirit of The Lord Jesus Christ in action - this is the Dunamis power of God manifest through believers - just as the bible says it should be. This is a wonderful - powerful - unstoppable move of God that will - and is - changing the face of the earth.
The 'church' - for the most part - has in the last 100 or so years become a weak - insipid - powerless parody of what the Bible says we should be. We have homosexual marriage - gay vicars - and all manner of abominations.
Yet Jesus said: "ALL THESE THINGS I DO YOU WILL DO AND GREATER THINGS BESIDES"
What happened in Lakeland is the fullfillent of of the promise in MattCh.3v.11+12 and other places.
The power is being supernaturally released once again - The Bride of Christ is being prepared.
We absolutely refuse to be controlled anymore - we refuse to accept 'Church' and the traditions of men - the repression - indoctrination and dissipation of power that is RELIGION.
We will no longer accept - CHURCHIANITY - RELIGIOUSITY - or PHARISEEICAL DOMINATION AND CONTROL
We are forever changed - and will never go back to 'agendas' and man made 'programmes'.
Rom 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established--
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IT REALLY IS GOD!
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