Category: Rodney Howard-Browne
Great Awakening Tour City #20 North Miami Beach, Florida Extended
A guy I lead to the Lord in the middle of the gospel asked me if I drove a white car and if I was on 95 North yesterday around 5 pm. and yes I was and I told him it was a divine appointment, for out of all the people in the world he remembers me and here God has me talking to him and he got saved.
Donald N
unknown Florida United States
Great Awakening Tour City #20 North Miami Beach, Florida Extended
I prayed with shone and he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
daniel C
unknown Florida United States
Great Awakening Tour City #20 North Miami Beach, Florida Extended
In our region, we have won 231 souls as of 1–5-08. Most won since Dec.1 of 07. 51 were won in Apts., 171 in nursing homes and 9 just as we have gone about life. Some at work, service stations, cafe’s, etc. We led a couple to the Lord and Jesus healed his heart and back so that he was able to walk without a cane. His wife’s ankle was healed as she watched us minister to her husband. Upon meeting my new step brother for the first time, I led him to the Lord and Jesus healed his buldging discs in his neck and lower back. He was immediately pain free and began calling people and telling them. We are trying to duplicate ourselves. One 17 yr old young man, went with me and led 6 people to the Lord within 4 weeks of his own salvation. Another Christian, after I just went over how to use the script, immediately went to a man and led him to the Lord, by himself.
Jim T
Ocean Springs Mississippi United States
Great Awakening Tour City #20 North Miami Beach, Florida Extended
25 People saved-saved six months-goes to the Spanish church. She witnessed to a man just released from jail. The man got saved and then started smiling from ear to ear. He said “Thank You for what you have done. If I had met you before the things I have done, if I had met you before I would have been different.”
Hedley
N/A Florida United States
Great Awakening Tour City #20 North Miami Beach, Florida Extended
Patricia-Lunch table She began to cry when everyone began to pray for her. Then she received Christ. At the end she began thanking everyone and was very grateful.
Eugene B
N/A Florida United States
Great Awakening Tour City #20 North Miami Beach, Florida Extended
This was my first day. It was hard that so many people are ready and willing to pray and glad they did. In two hours I spoke to 19 people and 9 gave their life to Christ, 2 rejected it, the rest were believers thanking me for being out there.
David A
N/A Florida United States
Great Awakening Tour City #20 North Miami Beach, Florida
Spoke with 2 young ladies bothaccepted the Lord. One lady was very touched. I asked her if she need specific prayer. I prayed for her. She thanked me and said that she really needed this today!
Kathie F
N/A Florida United States
Rodney Howard Browne talks about independence. Independence is a quality highly valued in America. We teach it to our children and we demand it for ourselves. There’s even a statue called the Independent Man on top of the state capital of Rhode Island, a tribute to liberty and self-sufficiency. In the tale of the prodigal boy, we see one who took charge of his life and announced independence from his pa. In it, the downward spiral of sin and the restoring grace of God are made public. Sin means acting independently of God’s will. It starts with a wish that is outside His plan. Next comes a call to act on the need.
When we act, we find ourselves, like the prodigal, in a distant country, which is anywhere outside the will of God. To stay there needs deception. We cheat ourselves by thinking that we think we know better than God and ignoring any implications.
Defeat comes next.
For a period all will appear fine but, like the reckless child in the tale, we’ll find our way leads to conquer. Ultimately , we’re going to arrive at despair springing from famine of spirit, feelings, or relations. That leads into despondency where our decisions are few and all sickening. The prodigal boy ended up there. But desperateness isn’t the end of the prodigal’s storynor is it the end of ours when we sin. Why did Jesus give this account of the forgiving love of an earthly father? To indicate us to the restoring grace of our heavenly Father who waits with open arms for us, His wandering children. One more thing.
Our trust in God is based on His unwavering personality. Scripture claims He solidly loves us, forgives us, and makes provision for our wishes. But many followers worry that God might reject them if they sin too much, don’t read the Bible each day, or displease Him in some other way. The fake concept that God will bin one He saved springs from a simplistic view of His nature. We incline to attribute one emotion to God at a time either he is indignant or loving. Instead, the Father’s nature is as complicated as our own.
We are able to love a kid completely while we are upset over their actions. The same is true of God. For example, the righteous hate that led Him to threaten the Israelites did not replace His care for them. Though His holiness desired justice for their sin of idol worship, His mercy heard Moses’ plea and pardoned them. Our heavenly Father has many feelings and traits, and He handles each circumstance according to His perfect nature. That is why we will say he is unchangeable. Even so, some folks point at passages like Exodus 32 to falsely prove that God changes His mind.
But God is omniscient. He knew Moses would intercede for his folks, just as He knows when we may stumble and how frequently we are going to fall short of His standards for goodness. The Father saved us from death any way and will not turn His back on us for whatever reason. The immutability of His nature means that God will adore us forever, even if we fail.
Rodney Howard Browne Fragrant Calamus
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.
“Yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for me, O Israel. You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense. You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence. Your first father sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me. So I will disgrace the dignitaries of your temple, and I will consign Jacob to destruction and
Israel to scorn. Isaiah 43:18-28 NIV.
Rodney Howard Browne teaches that God created us to proclaim His praise. He loves us with an everlasting love – a love that gives all, without holding anything back. It is hard for us, as people who have experienced a world contaminated by the presence of evil and sin and death, to comprehend or even fully appreciate just how much God does love us. And yet He continues to reach out to us and demonstrate His mercy and grace at every opportunity. He makes a way in our wilderness and He causes rivers to flow through our dry places. He says that even the animals have the good sense to recognize, acknowledge and appreciate Him as the source of provision and blessing.
He is the God of the second chance. He is always ready to forget yesterday and to forgive our past sins, mistakes and rebellion. He encourages us, also, to forget about yesterday. He offers us a new day and a new beginning over and over. And yet instead of appreciating all He does for us and all that He is to us, we offer Him nothing but trouble in return. We burden Him with our sins and weary Him with our iniquities. We take, but we don’t give. We take His graciousness for granted as we continue in our sin and rebellion and selfishness – expecting Him to step in and pick up the pieces every time we mess up and then to step back out of our lives again until we need something more from Him.
Rodney Howard Browne shows us that God goes out of His way to take care of us, but we are too lazy or too self-absorbed to take the time or to make the effort to press into His presence and to seek His face. We won’t do anything that requires more than the minimum of effort. We want everything done for us, but we are not prepared to put ourselves out in the slightest for the Lord. We let our flesh rule us – we don’t rule our flesh.
He has been infinitely patient with us, while making very few demands. We ought to love Him, appreciate Him, and generously lavish Him with gifts and offerings. We should offer Him the best we have – not just the dregs. We should honor Him with our lips and honor Him with our gifts. Every day we should be looking for ways to please Him and to bless Him and make Him happy. Many people say that they love God, but they don’t act like it. If we truly love God, we will affectionately reverence Him, promptly obey Him and gratefully recognize His blessing! We will bring to Him the best we have – we will lavish Him with our offerings. We will give it with open heart and open hand – holding nothing back! For He is our light and the length of our days – our Rock, our Fortress and our Provider – our Savior, Healer, Deliverer and Lord! He is worthy of the very best that we have to give!