Story -Article's  Theresa Forkins-Phillips

 

I HAVE BEEN TO LAKELAND

I LOVED IT AND IM GOING BACK! 

The Waking Up Of A Sleeping GIANT

The Look of Hunger is every where.

What are they hungry for…. GOD!! Yes GOD!!!

I was in Lakeland Florida where the “outpouring is happening “

 I needed more than just two services… But I will go back…

What did I see?....

I saw so many people hungry for a touch of GOD. Thousands yes thousands starved like children who had no bread.

I saw something that disturbed me , and it was not about the man who is preaching.

It is about the People who are desperate for far more then they ever have had with GOD!

Some want a rekindling some need healing…

What was the biggest surprise to me is that most of them are CHRISTIANS…

Scripture says Judgment begins in the House of the Lord so I would guess that so do blessings!! AND they are FLOWING!!  Praise GOD from whom all Blessing flow….

Yelling Bam and Fire is so extraordinary why? Because BAM BAM is breaking hard places (remember the Flintstones?)

Todd Bentley is reminding me of Bam Bam

We landed late and got to the meeting late but it was not going to stop me!

I had to see for myself what was happening in Florida...Lakeland that is!

I stepped on the grass outside the large tent (seats 10,000) and I felt the earth move beneath me…

I could hear the enthusiasm inside I was being charged …I was being changed..

I had watched this outpouring from a sick bed and from a tea room and from every place  my lap top could go I just had to watch..

I had to hear I had to feel. Something, anything I needed a change..

One night I heard a pop in my neck and I knew my healing there started I just knew it ..

I still watched..

 I need to be IN THE ATMOSPHERE I NEEDED TO SMELL IT!! BUT I HEARD IT!!

So we got on a flight and headed to Florida…My husband Robert My assistant Karen and one of our Interns Richard who is a newbie to all of this.. All 4 of us went …

I believe in miracles I am one… but this was a bit different.

Todd Bentley did not sound like Benny Hinn or Kathryn Kulhman He is different..Something was different..

I knew I was hearing about the dead raised sick healed deaf ears opened etc….BUT that was not what got  to me. I have seen that before in our small church …. Truly I had …

And I believed every word of the healings and the raisings ….Because experience can make you believe faster..

I was hearing another sound… A sound that stirred my soul….My Eyes were seeing beyond the norm. Maybe beyond reality I do not know…

It was a cry for more. More  than any other I had ever  heard of before.

 I entered the “Upper Chat Room” and got involved and “The Sound” was there too.

I became over whelmed by this sound …Id sit and weep and mourn and then sit in awe…

People in Desperation crying in total desperation GOD help save heal do, do, do O GOD do……Still it sends a chill up my spine…Tears to my eyes and my heart aches like never before All because of that sound!

Not a people just in need of a healing but in need of the truth that GOD is the GOD of the Bible and will do what He says in His word He can do…..

This was a sound I had not believed could happen in America. YET here there is a whole lot of sound going on.

I have seen the religious people in America diminish the word of GOD trying to make everyone their friend; Forgetting Jesus was a friend of sinners and the “church hated him”.

I have seen ministers who once worshiped the Lord in such a  passionate manner that “things happened “ Stop doing that in order to make the mortgage on the building…

“let us no offend our brother” became the motto and the church empties out.

We all have witnessed the media and film industries accuse the “church” mock it and make it a form of ridicule to the point many have walked away from it.

Children of Preachers run away from the pulpit because their friends won’t accept them because they are looked upon as week …..

BUT I hear a sound. It comes from deep within THE CHURCH

The Sound is being shed abroad the earth in a vast proportion like a wild fire spreading like never before .Uncontainable!

This Sleeping Giant is in the American Church filled with Biblical Miracles and unforgettable mercy which has fed many a nation thru its vast kindness.. “It” being stirred by a man with the heart of a lion named Todd Bentley .

A Canadian Ministry comes to the USA to stir up the once extra ordinary passionate Judeo Christian Values and extremes. That once had a strong voice inside these borders....

All thru the 70+ days and counting we have seen this man who roars like a lion insist Jesus is the way Jesus is the Healer and Jesus is Lord.. The American Church arises because GOD is in her…He take no credit of himself He only tells stories of his own expiernces ...

And they keep coming AND COMING from all OVER THE WORLD!! TO TAKE IT BACK WITH  THEM..

He is not preaching a new message He is preaching a biblical message that Jesus can..

Jesus is the Son of GOD and GOD can..

That is the message BUT it is causing many of us preachers to once again look inside ourselves and allow it to stir us up and believe that GOD really Can!

Can do what you ask? He can do anything the Bible says He can and will do!

O yes if we dare to allow ourselves to listen we will hear ourselves crying in a desperate mode GOD, GOD, and GOD… JESUS, JESUS, JESUS!!!!!

I did I cried Jesus Help and save and Heal me and Im born again and Spirit Filled!

  Todds speaking did not cause me to feel this way it is the atmosphere of an invasion of a Heavenly kind saying I need this to keep going! We all do! GOD give it to me!!!!

The passion of one man on the platform is so catching that you cant help but get excited it is not a frenzy it is a passion of a bride for her groom like in the Song of Solomon..(Bible)

It is intense to listen to Roy Fields sing his Love Songs to Jesus. (HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY))))))

 It is extreme to feel the weightiness of a tangible presence illuminating from the platform NO media effects can copy this!

Either you feel it or you don’t BUT even if you don’t you will walk way with something I can assure you.

I did and im going back for more   Because I am making the  same sound I am desperate for The GOD of the Bible  and I am desperate to see the People Healed and set free and I am desperate for the Church to awaken out of its slumber.

 Yes I have become a desperate women of GOD yielding to the sound of the lament of one man who dared to say yes in spite of the odds.

 He is still going and our prayers  are with you Todd and we thank you for saying Yes to this awesome  move and letting GOD use you to get us motivated to go and do and be all HE has called us to be  and most of all Let us not be ashamed in doing so .