Rodney Howard Browne South Africa

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Prior to the 2011-2012 RBI Revival The Lord had done so many things for me.  He had broken off doubt and unbelief in order to increase my faith.  He removed anger and depression and all of the bondages associated with them.  He took away fear and anxiety and replaced it with peace and joy.  He had already removed pride, arrogance and a judgmental spirit.  He had not only removed all debt to sin, but He had also removed all monetary debt to the world.  He broke all co-dependency to man and replaced it with a co-dependency to Him.   He is in the process of renewing and restoring my marriage and  is in the process of healing and setting free my wife.  He broke off greediness, covetousness and jealousy and if that was not enough he also saved my son.

So what can I say at a time like this.  I am not the same person that came through the doors at RMI over a year ago.  I really am a new creation, the old me is truly dead.

So what  has The Lord done for me during the last two weeks?  Glad you  asked.    During this time, The Lord blessed me and my wife with a beautiful and affordable new apartment.  He has also blessed me with a new job that will allow me to stay in  school and still pay for all of my expenses.  He has opened new doors of opportunity in business so that I can move beyond my needs and focus on the needs of others and the harvest.

I have in the last two weeks personally come to a deeper realization that I need The Lord in every area of my life.  I  need Him in my marriage, in my finances, in my schooling, in my ministry work, and in my job.  I can do all things much more effectively and efficiently and with better results, if He is directly involved in ALL of my situations and circumstances.

I am looking forward to a great year and an even deeper and meaningful walk with The Lord…..Lorne Y.

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Week two a lot of troubles in my family started to happen like I could never imagine, things that really hurt, but I was not going to let the enemy take my Joy away.  I was a lot more blessed that week that I had been before.  Even though I was going threw a lot of troubles the most beautiful thing was when I would call Jesus name and he would show up where ever I was, He helped me understand a lot of things and that it was all necessary so I would see he his Glory.  Being in RBI on week two helped me understand that no matter where ever you are when you call Jesus he always shows up it dose not necessary has to be son Sundays in church.  Friday night on week two we decided to make it another youth prayer night and it was better than the week before,  this time a lot more youth showed up because they had herd of what had happened last Thursday and they experienced them selves what God had showed us last week.  That night again Gods power was all over me, we wore going to make the last prayer of the night and we made a circle but I started to become really dicey till I had to hold on some one I couldn’t see straight any more than I fall on the floor I started crying like no other till I couldn’t cry any more than the spirit of Joy was there and hit the place again and filled the youth with Joy.

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I knew attending to RBI was going to change my life, a lot of people don’t understand that when  I chare this with them, just because I been attending for 3 weeks.

Week one was amazing, I had herd about how amazing it was going to be and I thought I understood that but I actually had no clue of  what amazing really was till I had experience it my self.   The hole week I just received and received more and more of Gods love, of his power, I was just been blessed by the Holy Spirit.  Now during that week one of the pastors said that we wore going to receive in a way that we wore going to pass it on to others and I believed and I took that word for me.  Week one on Thursday my Youth pastor told us that it was going to be prayer night, not a lot of Youth showed up.  But man it was there lost, prayer night never been so powerful like that night, it was so powerful that we wore all filled with the spirit of Joy, something I had never seen in our youth.  That night adults went to our room to see what was going on because everyone had left already and we wore the only ones left.  I had to be carried out of church of how drunk in the Spirit I was and some one had to drive my car because I was not capable of driving, I remember been in bed and still laughing by myself.

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A couple of months ago, Pastor Daniel and Jackie Gonzales were in my church as the Tabernacle of God trainers take to the streets and save souls, and the last training day Pastor Daniel talked about the opportunity to get scholarships to go to the RBI to study. Explains the feeling of the Dr Rodney to give an opportunity for Hispanic churches to attend the institute to find clear our call and deepen a relationship with God. I immediately signed up to win that scholarship and not lose the blessings God was putting in my way at the time, since the first day of that  RBI I could give thanks to God for the opportunity to stay in school even though my first language is not English because I’m Hispanic from Colombia.

I have not stopped to pray every day asking God over you my God opens my mind to give me wisdom to understand more in English because I want to bring to others the word of God in English and Spanish. mother of two children, divorced single in this country, I could find in RBI but a family I could feel the love of God as my Father in heaven watching over me, filling me with his power of his love and renewing my strength every day more and more.

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Fist off I want to say that I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to come to R.B.I.   Even though I have been a Christian for some 30 years, there is no doubt I was lukewarm at best. I knew I had to get back to my first love so my wife and I started a fast at the end of December 2010.  We hadn’t watched T.V. for some three and a half years but for some reason I turned it on the evening of January 2, 2011 and there was Pastor Rodney.

I almost didn’t recognize him because it had been several years since I had seen him and obviously he had lost a huge amount of weight.  We had watched for only a few moments and we knew we had to come to Florida to check out this Great Awakening thing.  We flew down from Montana for the winter camp meeting and got hooked.  When we came back home, even though we didn’t have a church home we immediately went out and started winning souls.  That was back when the states were just lighting up and we got the first souls in Montana!  Hallelujah.

We were watching on February 28, 2011 when they first announced they were giving away scholarships and we lost it.  The wife called twice that night and once the next morning to make sure they had our names.  We both felt this was our last call so we had to come no matter what.  The enemy naturally wasn’t big on the idea, for a while there we thought we must be the only to coming because everything went wild.  We finally decided to put some suitcases in the car and just leave.  We got here three days before school started and all I can say is “you’re stuck with us now.”

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For me the first two weeks of the RBI revival, I was in Texas planning not to attend my second year of RBI. I had already signed up for another school there making other arrangements.

So coming into the second week of revival, I knew I was to come back. Like as if God shook me and woke me to come. two days before I knew I was to come my oldest brother gave me his car, which I had been expecting a car because God had me sow my car into someones life last year in school. So then I was blessed with gas money to get down here and me and my younger brother drove down here in faith not knowing how it would work out or where we would live and arrived to Tampa at the end of the second week. When we got here I felt the peace of God and have felt it ever since, because I obeyed the Holy Ghost. The full week that I was here was when Pastor Rodney preached all week on the subject of giving, and some people were like ok it’s good but do we need a whole week of it. And yes we do because money is everything in this world, things are everything in this world, we are constantly surrounded by it and challenged by it daily. So daily we have to give it all to God for it not to be a god in our life.

So it really hit me hard and I can say that I will never be the same from that week and especially the day where it broke on the whole school. So i can say that i will never be the same again on giving and the heart of my giving. I cant imagine myself not here this year and the breakthroughs that have happened and are still to come….Priscilla R.

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Words can not begin to describe the things that have been happening lately.  While there have been attacks in the flesh that have been fought off this week there were also some pretty awesome things that I have seen God do as well.  One of the most amazing things was my last soul winning time on the street.  I was part of a team that was sent out to scout new areas.  We had completed the scouting portion of the assignment and had time left to start knocking on doors and soul winning. 

The trailer park area that we went into we were approached by the head of the home owners association.  He asked what we were doing and when we told him he said that we had to have prior written permission  and told us that we had to leave.  As we were leaving I reminded God that He said in His Word that what the devil intended for our harm He would turn to our good. 

I asked Him to show us what to do next.  As we pulled out of the trailer park we looked down the road and saw a couple of small groups of school children coming down the sidewalk.  So we pulled over, jumped out and began witnessing leading them all to the Lord.  Before we could move we looked up and school kids starting coming from every direction and we started witnessing to them by the groups.  Over the course of about 40 minutes time we went from 17 decisions to 90 decisions and led 14 people to the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues.  What an awesome thing that God did! -Darrell G

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Debbie from New Port Ritchie Florida came to soul win her first time, and the team leader paired Debbie and I together.  She over came her fears of being totally out of her comfit zone and God used her to lead 4 too the Lord.  She also prayed for a lady with an ear infection the pain instantly left her ear!  Amen!  And she also testified about it live on TV across America Wednesday evening!  Great job Debbie!    

Both in the phone call center and on the streets of Tampa I’m preaching the Gospel with a passion and God’s Fire.

On the phones Tuesday several that I prayed with gave their hearts to the Lord one woman was so excited she couldn’t stop saying Halleluiah God set her free, another man started to weep as I was ministering prayers, another man 22 years old rededicated his life to the Lord and wants to be emailed with everything that’s happening he has musical gifts and was excited when I mentioned our School of Worship, wow it would be tremendously awesome to see him as a student! God is awesome there is so much that is happening. Glory to God!

On the streets yesterday a lady approached me curious what I was doing I lead her to the Lord also in the Baptism she spoke in tongues and instantly got deliver from anger she was carrying in her heart against someone it was awesome God flooded her with so much of His peace and you could see it. 

Also on the streets 2 groups of young women prayed to receive the Baptism in the Holy Ghost and I felt such a presence upon me along with a greater authority. And as I was preaching to the second group they had actually come to us to hear what we had to say after they had initially walked away 1 or 2 minutes earlier it’s like they where arrested by God and they had to surrender give it up and come back.  Glory to God!

Tuesday evening when I logged off the phones on the second floor everyone was gone so I thought the building was empty and when I got off the elevator there where people stuck to the floor all over the place even in the church foyer for sure I thought Pastor Rodney had gone home but no he was still in the pulpit.  So I took a back seat in the church sanctuary well the presence of God was so strong that I became inebriated intoxicated plan old drunk in the Holy Ghost.  You know it had to be past midnight hour it seemed like everyone was just the same drunk and intoxicated on the New Wine of Heaven.  Thank goodness I didn’t have far to drive.  Amen! Well these meetings across the air waves on TV are really creating a shaking all over and everywhere and I get to be right here in the middle of it. -Margarita J

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Coming in to the great awakening I had an excitement, but nothing like I have now. It’s amazing to be right in the middle of history being written. In the past I had read books about what had happened here in America. However I’m so blessed to be apart of what God is now doing in our nation. My heart is being changed, and my mind is being renewed with the revelation of the seriousness for the time in which we are living in. 

These meetings have ignited a new passion to do what the bible says “Go ye therefore…” I’m so thankful for Pastor Rodney relentless pursuit to have people ablaze and mobilized to reach the harvest for Christ.  This year my goal is to take all that is being poured out through the great awakening to a lost and dying world.   -Darrain M.

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This week has been amazing; God has been doing awesome things here as we broad cast live from the river at Tampa bay church. It’s powerful what is happening here; people around the word are watching and getting tuned in with what we do here as a life style. different church’s are coming on board with us to bring in the harvest of Souls.

In my life personaly this week the Holy Spirit really fell on me Wed night service as I pressed in to the presence of God. I feel like that night my spirit man really got hold of the weight and the awesome opportunity that has been set before us as we go live in peoples homes. This is just so awesome I can’t wait to see all that God is going to do in America. –Angela T.