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In Matthew 13, I can find a way to match every parable according to what is going on in my life. Like the parable of the seeds and which ground they were sowed into. When it says that the Word was sown in the stony place, I think of a “hard heart” in which your heart can’t receive the Word, when you hear the Word and it convicts you, it causes offense. This parable reminds me of how I used to be, I thought I was always right and whenever someone would “throw” the Word at me, I got resentful towards the Word.

Now, the ground that had thorns in it, ended up choking the Word out. This convicts me of when I let something slip out of my mouth that’s not from the Word of God. I get convicted when I act in the flesh, I can completely relate to this seed. But it has been getting better as I get the Word inside of me. Most of the time, I end up catching myself before I let the thorns choke the Word out of me.

Just by working on adjusting my actions and attitude by the Word, I can see some fruit starting to come up. I notice that I am starting to love people like I need to, and look past their flesh and see their great future through Christ. Another great fruit I can see is gentleness, because I used to be a rowdy person, always getting uptight and wanting to physically release anger by using a punching bag or listening to crazy worldly music. Now I find myself calm, gentle, and soaking in godly anointed music now that the Word has taken root over the months.

–Taylor

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My heart is full of praise and thanksgiving to our Lord and also to Pastors Rodney and Adonica Howard-Browne for granting us the full scholarships to one of the best Bible Institutes on the earth. It’s such a privilege and honor for me to be right in the middle of the great awakening and the great revival that is about to pour out on this country. It’s a privilege to live in the times of God’s glory that we are about to see.

When I came to one of the recent conferences in the River church, God showed me the vision. It was my grandmother’s village in the western part of Ukraine. I used to come to visit her a lot. I’ve seen a huge field of ripe wheat that was ready for harvest. The Lord spoke to me “I am giving you your grandfather’s harvest.” I understood, the harvest was souls. You see, my grandfather was the pastor in that village up until the communists came to occupy west Ukraine in 1939.

One night the loud rude knock on my grandfather’s door took him forever.  His mission was not finished; he was only about thirty seven.

Now I have been preparing for that mission in such a fine school. The Lord is stretching my faith and teaching me to stay still and wait upon Him in this school. I just started RBI1 in January.

Thank you, Pastor Rodney again for paying the price and making it possible for me and many others.

–Natalya

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The Lord has been so wonderful to us. He showed us a scripture when we were praying for direction for our life. It was Isa. 45:1-3. God told us we would do more than we can ever image and things that are impossible with man but in order for that we had to step into our high calling and live a supernatural life. That required total dependence and trust on Him.

We had such peace after we decided to come here and everything worked out great. We have been so blessed in every way since we landed here. God has provided everything very quickly for us and more. We have been given seed to sow and we have been able to sow and bless other people as well.

Rodney Howard Browne – The very first day in bible school the Lord touched me with His fire and totally changed my level of trust in Him. This is what the Lord said ”You are safe here. I have put you under authority. I have set you apart. You will go to the next level.” He is doing a deep work inside of me concerning trusting only in Him. Sirkku T.

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Rodney Howard Browne states that 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 Rodney Howard Brown 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 Rodney Howard Browne and his 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.  Rodney Howard Brown  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.

Rodney Howard Browne 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 Rodney Howard Browne 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 Rodney Howard Brown 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.  Rodney Howard Browne states that on 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 Rodney Howard Brown 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 Rodney Howard Browne 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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Rodney Howard Browne 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 Rodney Howard Brown thought he 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 Rodney Howard Browne 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, Rodney Howard Brown remember been in bed and still laughing by myself.

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Rodney Howard Browne states that 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. Rodney Howard Brown 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.

Rodney Howard Browne 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 Rodney Howard Brown 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 Rodney Howard Browne is 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 Tours 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.  Rodney Howard Brown said that 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, Rodney Howard Brown 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 Rodney Howard Browne 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 Rodney Howard Brown 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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Rodney Howard Browne said that the 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.  Rodney Howard Brown 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.

Rodney Howard Browne states that 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.

Rodney Howard Brown 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.  Rodney Howard Browne believes that before we could move we looked up and school kids starting coming from every direction and we started witnessing to them by the groups.  Rodney Howard Brown said that 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