If you haven’t been following my twitter/facebook flow you may not know this: New Day the Church at High Point is in REVIVAL! This is the HIGH POINT BLESSING! We are having intense encounters with God at church – and at home – and on the streets – everywhere we go, God is pouring out His Spirit upon us.
Someone asked me (in a Christian online forum) the other day… Kathi, what IS revival anyway?
I’d like to offer two quotes. One my my initial response, the other a story John G. Lake told about an angelic encounter.
My response:
a word was given at our church recently: “this is THAT” … when it hit on Weds night we knew… that this was that which the this is that prophecy was talking about.
how do you know? when notable miracles start occurring. when people walk into the room and are healed without anyone praying for them. when people start speaking in tongues and they don’t even know what that is. when you are so consumed with the glory of God you sit and shake like i have all morning. my brain is burning. i might have to leave and go over to the church and just lay on the floor again. when you walk into a restaurant and people turn and STARE at you because the glory is on you. when services go for five hours and no one leaves the room even for a potty break. when you have bodies stacked up like cordwood. when the word “repent” is mentioned and people do by the hundreds. when the thought of a television being on makes you throw up a little. when you can see the fire of God in the air. When you look over and the same angel that was at Lakeland and I can see on the Brownsville videos and people have told me was in Toronto is in the front of the church. when a second even bigger angel that looks like that joins him….
And here is John G. Lake’s encounter:
It reminds of the vision known as the “Portland Vision,” where John G. Lake asked the angel, “What constitutes real Pentecost?” The angel reached for Lake’s Bible, opened it to the Book of Acts and ran his finger down the second chapter, that portion where the Spirit of God came down from heaven. Proceeding through the Book of Acts to its great outstanding revelations and phenomena, he said,
“This is Pentecost as God gave it through the heart of Jesus. STRIVE FOR THIS. CONTEND FOR THIS. TEACH THE PEOPLE TO PRAY FOR THIS. For this, and this alone, will meet the necessity of the human heart, and this alone will have the power to over come the forces of darkness. Pray. Pray. Pray. Teach the people to pray. Prayer and prayer alone, much prayer, persistent prayer, is the door of entrance into the heart of God.”
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