Rodney Howard Browne New Years Ablaze

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What an awesome week in the presence of the Lord. This conference was more than I’ve expected. God touched me in a way like never before. Clarity was given to me by the grace of God. No limits, no boundaries have increased my look out on life. It gave me new hope and just made me realize that God has no limits when it comes to blessing His children.

I am a first year bible school student, and God just placed a fire for nations in my heart, and once your heart has caught that fire there is no turning back. If we are good stewards of what we have now, God will entrust us with even more! I’ve learned that we have to be faithful with what we’ve got, so that we can be blessed with even more.

If we place everything at God’s feet and just surrender all, we will get to the place where God wants us and where He can fulfil His plan for our lives. God revealed to me that He has a plan for my life, I just need to trust him with ALL I’ve got and everything I have to offer Him. God can’t go back on His Word, that’s why all those promises are ours. We need to check our heart daily and be sure that we stand pure and yielded to His presence. Let Him mould you, let Him work through you and most of all, let Him guide you.

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Ministers Conference 2010 was amazing for me and for all the people that God brought to Tampa, Florida. Every day you come expecting the Lord to do great things and He does. The Lord brought in great speakers  from around the world that have forever changed my thinking and the way that I live by bringing me to deeper realization of God’s goodness. It is a week of dedication to press in and receive all that God has for you.

I personally enjoyed the praise and worship this conference. I enjoyed getting into God’s presence and worshipping Him because “God inhabits the praises of His people.” (Psalms 22:3) I also spent a couple of services serving in the call center taking phone calls of people needing prayer. I heard the cries of God’s people and know that when I pray and give them the encouragement from the word of God it uplift their spirit. To bring joy through the love of God has blessed me. When serving you realize that you are doing it unto God and your whole heart is in bringing Him glory.

This conference we were blessed to have been ministered not only by our pastors, Pastor Rodney and Adonica Howard-Browne, but also by Phil Smithers, Andre Ruebert, and Guilermo Maldonado.  When sitting and hearing the amazing sermons and testimonies of these great men and women of God, you can’t help but to be forever changed. I encourage all to come and attend and let the presence of God change your life.

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On Sunday, December 13, our church, the River of Tampa Bay, my wife and I helped out with a large outreach to the local communities of Tampa Bay. One of the tools our church uses to bring in the lost is our bus ministry. My wife and I have personally been soul witnessing on one particular route, route 3, almost every Saturday. The bus we were on serviced this route. As we were driving from the church to the bus route 3 area to drop off the local residents, I struck up a conversation with an older man. He had an interesting story as he told me about his family and the Pentecostal church they owned back in Tennessee and how he had gotten away from the Lord for many years while he worked for the circus hustling people. He said that he gave his life to the Lord in 2006 and gave all indications that he was saved. I began to share my testimony with him, about how God had brought me from a long way. I spoke of the goodness of God. I spoke of winning souls in his area. As we passed, certain areas I told him about the different people I had meet and seen saved. Street after street. Block after block. I noticed that he had a Spanish soul winning script and asked if he had an English one. He did and I asked him if someone had prayed with him using the script. He said no, so I thought I would do some training with him so that he might possible use the script himself. I went through the script and he answered no if he would go to heaven. I figured he was just working with me on the script. It was not until we were half way through the prayer of salvation that I realized for him, it was real. At the end of the prayer I asked him if he really prayed the prayer. He said yes. I presumed that he was either witnessed to either on the way to church or answered the alter call at church. Sometimes you just never know. Luke 15:7.

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This past Sunday I was working in Children’s Church and I have never seen anything like it before. Before service started the room was starting to get filled 20 minutes before service actually started. Kids began pouring in from both doors with cheerful faces as they saw their friends in the room. I started to play the Hillsong Kids DVD on the projector and the kids loved it. When service began it started off just like any other Sunday, a few games, a few giveaways, Joe Manno came up on stage and there was a new kind of energy coming from him. He began to throw candy out into the crowd of kids and began to start telling stories. When he finished telling his stories he asked if anyone wanted a bike. The kids went crazy! He brought a few kids on-stage along with his helpers. He made the kids have a dance off to see who would win the bike,that was one of 3 bikes that he gave away. After that he got in a serious attitude and told the kids to sit around the front of stage. He began to preach about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and he described it in a way that even I have never heard about. He described the whips that were used by the Roman soldiers to beat Jesus, he used so many descriptions that you could close your eyes and see everything he said. It was amazing how the kids responded. Many got touched by the Holy Spirit, a lot of those for the first time. Many lives were transformed there. He then proceeded and gave an alter call and over 150 kids gave their lives to Christ for the first time! It was an amazing thing to witness because you know that these kids will never be the same for as long as they live. And its amazing because we don’t know what God has for their lives, many of them will be nation shakers, many even generation shakers. God moved in a mighty way that will only grow and grow each week and I thank God for the opportunity to be a part of the mighty move of God that day.

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Campmeeting was awesome and very powerful in my life. During the meetings I developed so much more of a hunger for spiritual things and really pressed into the deep things of God. God really spoke to me and touched me during the meetings. Even after the end of services God was still doing awesome things in my life. Whether it was the financial realm from sowing seed during that time and his supernatural provision or working on fruits and issues of the heart, God was constantly moving. It is amazing how every meeting is different and just how the teachings really sink into your heart. When the Pastor from Turkey spoke and they rolled the clip of what God was doing in Turkey was incredible. The way God is touching people in other areas of the world is amazing to me and the hunger that is being stirred up all around. God is truly getting ready to shake nations, if he hasn’t already started doing it yet. It is also amazing to see Pastors Rodney and Adonica Browne celebrate 30 years in ministry. What an accomplishment! I just think it is amazing that I am 33 years old and they have been doing this for 30 years. It is incredible! That showed me personally how the anointing will sustain you and that one touch from God will keep you running even decades later! The deep things of God are so awesome!

Another thing that was great to me during those meetings was to see my friends and family members get touched by God. It was my mom and aunt’s first time at the River Church and what a great time to come during winter camp meeting. My mom got touched with the joy of the Lord and is still getting touched weeks after the meeting. We are so fortunate to be able to sit under the anointing that is here and not have one hour dry cleaning services. Isn’t the Lord wonderful!!