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What God did this past Sunday morning at the River Christmas outreach was absolutely amazing. I had the privilege of being a part of the bus ministry. I was able to go into the neighborhoods of people, parents, children living in poverty. One of the things that impacted me the most was the expectation level of people getting on the bus that morning. Specifically the children’s hunger and expectation level shocked me. Even before we would arrive at a stop, you could see the children running out so they wouldn’t miss the bus. I was amazed at the excitement that these people have; not just for the food boxes they were to receive, but to get on the bus, to experience the love of God.

Even when praying for people on the bus you could see the hunger and desperation in their eyes for hope.
I was able to be a helper in the Kids Church as well. Just realizing that for a lot of kids you are the only they have to who God is and knowing His love is once a week.

When I saw these people on the way home, many of them had totally changed. Their was not a person who didn’t get on the bus to go home that day that hadn’t been impacted for eternity. When you see the same people that you’ve met on the streets; the same people that you prayed with and invited to come to get on the bus to come to church; when you see those same people not only get on the bus, but get radically touched and changed, it is the greatest reward. To know that God is using me to plant seeds and not only that but also to see the harvest of souls being reaped at the same time- it’s all there is to live for. This Sunday engrained in me even more the reason Dr. Rodney Howard Browne does what he does; the reason I’m here is to carry out the Great Commission- to see lives rescued from the pit of hell and given the blessed hope of going to heaven. To see despair, depression and hopelessness, exchanged for eternal purpose and eternal hope is what I live for. It’s the only thing worth living for.

The more lives you see impacted these people it’s breaks your heart and challenges you use every moment for eternity.

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The first thing that really jumps out in my memory about the Matters of the Heat lecture was the way Pastor Adonica explained how to deal with situations and speak to circumstances. She said to think of the word of God as a court of law and say, “This is what the word says! It says I can have it! It is my right!” Then we should stamp it as a done deal! I’ve never heard it put that way. It was like a light bulb came on.
I learned a great deal about obedience and that delayed obedience is disobedience. The Holy Spirit is speaking to us all the time and we should let him guide us, but we shouldn’t just sit around and wait for him to speak. It is easier to direct something if it is already moving. We should always be sensitive and discern whether something is coming from the heart or if it is coming from some emotion. God always speaks to the heart. We should always obey and be faithful to what God is speaking to our heart because someone’s life depends on it. Matthew 16:27 says that there is a reward for what we do in obedience to the Holy Spirit. Rebellion and disobedience always have negative consequences.

Pastor Adonica also taught us that sometimes we have to let people deal with their own “can of worms”. We should not carry our own or other peoples offenses and we shouldn’t let what other people say affect us. We should not put up walls, but we should guard our heart. We also need to watch our mouth as we watch the attitude of our heart for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

These are all things I have learned from Pastor Adonica. I could still go on much further about what I gained out of her class. It was an awesome week! I hope that she will be teaching many more classes.

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Imagine going to bed hungry or even as a child waking up with nothing under you Christmas tree. Even better yet imagine a world where you feel completely unloved. This is what Dr. Rodney Howard-Brown of the River Tampa church in Tampa Fl is working against. I am not only proud to be a part of this group under Dr. Rodney but I am honored to see how many lives’s we are truly changing.
At the River Church Dr. Rodney has set up an amazing food ministry were they feed over 500 families a week with a box of food that will last them through the week. This part of the ministry is my favorite; we see people’s lives changing every day when we go out telling them about the food ministry. To see mothers eyes go from sad to happy when she realizes that she will have food for her children that week.
This past week we handed out toys to needy families and in the process of doing that we had 374 people turn their lives over to God. I unfortunately did not get to be a part of this even. However I wish I was there the testimonies of my friend about the event touched my heart so much hearing how people were crying and thanking them or how kids who just need someone to show them love got just that.
You see for me what this church is doing to reach out to families in the city of Tampa is amazing to see. How many people can say that they truly have impacted the lives of people around not only by giving those gifts but by loving them and showing them how much Jesus Christ loves them? How many people can say that they have made an impact on the people around them and know that beyond a shadow of a doubt that those people will forever be changed? This is what Dr. Rodney Howard- Brown is doing in Tampa Fl he is making a change in the lives of people in the community and the city but not just any change he is making the greatest change of all he is showing the people that he truly cares about them.

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The “Winter Campmeeting 2010” for me was one of the most powerful ones to date. The afternoons were so awesome; it would have been easy just to continue on for the evening service at 7:00 pm without breaking.

I operated the camera for the afternoon meetings and a few of the night services. We have pre-production meetings an hour before each service and a few times the joy of the Holy Ghost would hit us and all we could do was laugh. We would stagger out to the Lobby, get stuck there for a few minutes and then on to the cameras.

During the services it seemed the Holy Spirit was touching the ushers, the singers, and the camera operators. These are usually the ones that try to stay focused and they were getting blitzed. One night in particular, I believe was Thursday, all Heaven broke loose and all I can say is WOW!

A first year student named Steve was leaping all over the place and then took off in a run. I was on Camera 2 laughing so hard and yet still able to get the important shot. Joy was breaking out over the whole crowd. Steve went all the way around the building and I could see he was going to come over to where another first year student was standing. I had the camera ready for when he came and man, he hit John and they took off running and I think my tally light was on so we were capturing it. I was standing up and ready for crowd shots.

Then Pastor Rodney went after the shoulder cam guy, Braxton. He went down and Pastor grabbed the Klearcom and began to shout “Filled “into the speaker. The first time he said it, I was holding on with everything in me. Then he said it a second time; I grabbed my chair, feeling the fire inside and knowing I was losing it. I finally just let go, hit the deck and began laughing so hard.

The next night, a lady came up to me to share what happened to her husband when I hit the deck. She said her husband used to work as Control Room Engineer. He was in a wheelchair sitting real close to my camera podium. She said he knew what was going to happen when Pastor got the Klearcom. He saw me get hit with power of God and tried to get up to help me so I wouldn’t fall on the floor. LOL! When I hit the deck the power of God jumped on him and he fell out under the power of God in his wheelchair.

The meetings would go from one degree of His glory to the next. I didn’t want them to stop and many people’s lives were dramatically changed.

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Winter Camp Meeting was life changing for me. Every service left me hungrier for God, and I found myself placing a greater demand on the Anointing than ever before. Coming into the meetings, I had a lot of questions for my life that I was really struggling with; leaving me feeling spiritually weighed down. Being under the Anointing from the very first night broke that stuff off me. I felt so free in the presence of God, and I felt peace in my heart over these things that had been” looming mountains”, faded away. These seemingly giant things became nothing. My heart was filled with joy, and I experienced peace. Also during the camp meeting, I was now able to enter into worship like I hadn’t been able to in a long time, because of having all this weight on me. Free in the presence of God. Throughout the week, his became more and more evident to me, as every meeting built on the previous one. Every word that was spoken, and every song that was sung, was exactly what I needed to hear, as if they were all aimed directly at me. I learned just how to be free in the Holy Ghost, how to shut my mind off and just be in His presence. I learned that everything I need, every question that I might have, every little detail of my life that I’m trying to figure out, fades away in His presence – and that He will show me the answers I’m looking for there, in His presence. Thursday night, out of all the nights, probably sticks out the most to me. Encountering God like I never had before, being completely drunk in the Holy Ghost, and also seeing my friends, my classmates, and even Pastor Rodney under the power. That night, my roommates and I, didn’t leave the church ‘til 2:30am, because we were just soaking in the anointing. I’ve said so much about the presence of God, but that’s what this Camp Meeting was to me. A time of refreshing, a time of getting hungrier for the things of God, and getting the Word in me, so that I can touched by the fire of God and be a carrier of it to all those that I encounter. My family, my friends, my coworkers, not just those I meet on the street when I’m soul winning, but in my every day life.

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I was witnessing in a nursing home in Concord. As I entered one room I noticed a woman with a painful/agonizing look on her face. The minute she saw me she tried climbing out of the bed and was grabbing at me. The woman could not speak and was moaning as if in agony. I walked up to her and layed hands on her praying for deliverance, salvation and healing. After I was done praying for her, she layed back in the bed. Her face was relaxed and she was no longer moaning, but smiling and nodding her head “yes”. It was awesome to watch God touch her.

Elizabeth H
Mango Florida United States

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Before you came we downloaded your script and began to share with people, we saw people at the mall, at the cancer center & other places accept the Lord. We knew that having Rodney Howard- Browne & his team here was exactly what Athens needed. Since Sat. we have led 121 people to Christ. Bud led 74 and Frankie 47. It has been a trill of a lifetime focus. We praise the Lord that what we’re doing will be on going process of winning souls and seeing Athens changed!

Bud & Frankie B
Georgia United States

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People who are “afficted” mentally have always made me nervous and I have tended to avoid them. I led three such people to our Lord today awe it amazes me the love and affection I have in my heart for such handicapped people now. Lady afflicted- she was making noises and moving her arms. Add when he asked first question she got very quiet and as he said the salvation prayer she made noises to notify she was receiving.

Bob and Diana H
unknown Georgia United States

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Some friends and I went to the Summer Campmeeting from July 5th to July 8th 2007. Rodney asked if we were believing for a house and land to put money in a special envelope that they were handing out; so I did. God is so amazing, he answered my prayer big time. I’ve been praying for a while now for a bigger place with land. Most of you know that one of my daughters and 3 grandsons live with my hubby and I. We were living in a 3 bedroom mobile home like sardines. I kept believing and trusting in God for a breakthrough. In the natural there was no way. However, in the supernatural nothing is impossible with God. Where doors were being shut the Lord was opening others. We were able to purchase a 4 bedroom home with land. It was a mobile home but since it is on permanent foundation it is considered a house in the state we live in. We have so much space that I get lost. We were able to move in October 17th 2007. My hubby is so excited that he is even helping me decorate. Before the move I just kept quoting these scriptures below every day. Thank you Jesus for our new home!

Rebecca A
Moncks Corner South Carolina United States

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I prayed with a Jewish person to receive Jesus. Eight years old. Today a brother from Tampa Florida took me out to win souls. Now I have been in the ministry for thirty-two years. I have been serving in Kenya, Africa for sixteen years. This approach for building the Kingdom of God is the most powerful I have ever witnessed. We had a 95% conversion rate. I was so blessed to be apart of this anointing. Thanks.

Pastor Joe F
Kenya