It took me five months to decide to come down here. I didn’t know how I was going to do it.  I had no money at all and I didn’t want to ask for any. I figured that if this is where God wanted me to be than he would make a way! And he did. I never saw it coming.

One week later my friend Tia really started pushing me to go and speak to her youth group at The Torch Church. After I got done speaking a man came and got me to go minister to a young lady who was outside the church. I had no idea that the youth group had taken up a love offering for me. When I got back inside Tony the youth pastor handed me the money and right then God showed me that he had made a way for me. When I left there I counted the money and it was the exact amount that I needed to get down to Florida.

God blows my mind all the time, it was such a blessing. I have now been alcohol, drug, and men free for three years. All the glory goes to God!!! I was a monster in every way but then Jesus came and turned me into a butterfly…Brittany A.

I came to Tampa with one goal in mind, to be trained up and then sent out into the four corners of the world and minister The Gospel of Jesus Christ. I have such a love for people and a desire to see them forever changed by The Fire of God, and want nothing more than to be a vessel God can use to reach a lost and dying generation.

My life would be absolutely purposeless without walking in his calling. That being said I came here hungry and willing to do whatever it takes to get to that place.

Within these past 3 weeks God has already given me a completely new mindset. I walk past people and see them differently than I ever have before. They’re no longer just a face in a crowd, but someone with a soul that I long to know if they know Jesus.

The bible says in 2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

God doesn’t want anyone to die, and I truly believe he has spared people in order for them to see His Grace, repent from their sins, experience His mercy, and find redemption through His blood. And we are the tools he will use to reach those who need that very thing.

God’s also reignited a new fire on the inside of me. Pastor Todd called me out one morning and I have never felt The Fire of God the way I did in that present moment. I literally was consumed from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet in The Fire of God.

He took me to a place where it was just Him and I and He spoke to me the clearest I’ve ever heard Him. He spoke to me on specific things I have been believing for and told me that He would give me my hearts desires as long as I fixed myself on Him. He told me my life is not my own, but His to give. He gives me breath, and with that breath I must proclaim His good news and go where he tells me to go, do what he tells me to do.

Since attending the River Bible Institute three weeks ago my life will never be the same.  Dr. Rodney Howard-Browne I want to thank you for the scholarship and giving me this great privilege to train under the Anointing of the Holy Ghost receiving the Fire in unlimited measure.  The training of the word and impartations of the spirit working together that I have received under this ministry has changed me from the inside out.  I am completely sold out to the Lord surrendering to the will of God to do His completed work in me.  I am totally broken in giving all that which I left behind does not compare to what I’m yet still willing to give to win the lost.  I am no longer bound by the traditions of men but set free by the word of Almighty God.

My heart has been ignited by the Fire of the Holy Ghost as I hunger and thirst in the presence of God for more of the Fire and the things of God.  I’ve received Boldness to preach the Gospel to the lost and win souls to Christ winning 20 people to the Lord. God has revealed that the Kingdom is now, now faith, prosperity now, provision now.  Something on the inside of me changed during the message on seated with Christ Jesus in heavenly places it transformed me completely.  What a revelation!  I have been transformed from natural to spiritual from believing to operating from the heavenly realm with Christ Jesus in the Kingdom cooperating with the Holy Ghost in my everyday walk.  I pray from the position that it already have been done in the realm of the spirit instead of operation out of the natural realm waiting for things to happen, because of the work of Jesus Christ on the Cross at Calvary.

It all started by the broadcast, one day I was home and a friend of mines told me about The River church she attended and she was talking about the presence of god felt strongly in the church, After she was done talking she told me “Watch Channel 2” and so I was curious about what she told me I turned it to the channel and started watching .Well, at first, I was being kind polite by listening to what she was saying but really I didn’t want to hear it because I was brought up catholic and my families beliefs are also witch craft So I believed in many things but all that I was hearing and watching on TV was a bit like “Oh wow all they talk about is winning people to the lost”. Well sooner than later I ended  up attending the river and they mentioned the River bible Institute and School of worship. That day I filled out the paper and placed it in the box I honestly was not planning on attending a bible College I was prideful and I thought that it would be a waste of time , BUT also remember I’m not only prideful but I had such a religious mindset that I didn’t know the truth from the lie and I was not yet even SAVED .

Well , I keep attending the River – something keep on pulling me back (it was the love of god ) my spirit cried out and my flesh didn’t want nothing to do with what I was feeling inside. Till one day I was laying in bed and I put CTN P.Adonica was preaching and what she said touch my heart in such a way that I couldn’t refuse Jesus Into my heart I called the prayer line and accepted Christ in my heart. So, remember in the beginning how I was saying that on The broadcast all they talk about was souls, once I got saved and saw the passion that the Pastors had for the lost I understood everything in a different way.  Edisandra C.

Since I have been here at Bible College the Lord has been providing for me financially and a place to live. I have not stretched my faith in such a way like I have since I came down to Bible College. God has healed my broken heart and taken away grief from losing my Mother last year. God has rekindled the flame that once had burned bright but through hardships in life went very dim.

Growing up in church I knew God but I ran from my calling and God had his hand on my life in a powerful way. When Pastor Rodney came to my Grandfather’s church I was a young girl and when he laid his hands on me I never experienced the Holy Ghost like I did that night. When I was 16 I lived in Tampa with my Father and I remember sitting in the service seeing people with joy and thinking that it was crazy….little did I know I was going to get it a short time after, it was like the scripture talking about a strong and mighty wind and before I knew it I was on the floor laughing uncontrollably……that lasted from 10:30 pm until 2:00 am!!!! I had never experienced the joy until that night.

I had got a touch from God but I didn’t have a change that needed to happen. Now being back and also going to Bible College has changed my life completely; I have been getting smacked with the fire from crying uncontrollably to laughing uncontrollably!! I have been out soul winning leading people to the Lord. I have a Holy boldness like never before and I love it. I thank God for using Pastor Rodney and Pastor Adonica to be lead by the Spirit…..Amber S.

During this Great Awakening broadcasts on CTN, I’ve been able to plug in for maintenance, security, as well as the call center prayer line. There have been amazing testimonies coming in from around the world. I remember just yesterday, praying for a woman in South Carolina who got totally healed on the phones. I have never been used in that realm before and realized that it was all Him and no pressure was on myself to do anything. She felt all the pain leave her back and body and felt the fire of God coming in and healing her through the phone. Seeing the transferable anointing was amazing. I also was graced with the opportunity to pray for the fire of God for another lady in Wisconsin and she started crying and screaming. And another call I picked up, and they wanted to donate $5000 to a ministry of one of our speakers being interviewed.

This month is another opportunity to keep my heart right. The enemy tried to get me down with offenses thrown at me. But I had to forgive and let them go and stay focused on the will and the call of God and the move of God that is taking place. The enemy even tried to have me focused on my own body with pains going on. But I have declared my healing and received it in Jesus’ name!

I am really looking forward to all that God is going to do in the month of January, with the ministry and in America and the rest of the globe, as persons are being set ablaze to bring in the harvest of souls!!! -Tony C

This the first week of February finds us with camp meeting at an end and the meetings still continuing at full boar. From the amazing meetings that happened last week, it is hard to imagine that the Great Awakening Tour meetings that have been going live around the world could get any better; that we could top last week is beyond thought. But that is just exactly what happened. The Lord is always giving new things, He is always fresh and not stale so He is going to keep changing you. Last week pastor taught again on staying hungry for the things of God, staying hungry for His presence and I have been trying to apply that to myself even more than before.

Trying to get into as many services as possible and pressing into God is how I am trying to apply this. This morning, we had corporate worship with all the RBI students and there was a hunger as we sang the song “All I Need Is You.” When praise and worship was over, all the staff and interns usually go to have staff prayer but today only a handful showed up to pray. As we prayed, we went around the room and several people led us in different things. At the end of our designated prayer session, the presence of God fell while we were just finishing up.

You could have heard a pin drop but His presence was so strong in that room that no one even was paying attention each other. We all went down on our faces before the Lord; all I can say is that it felt like God was literally in that room with us. I do not know how long we were like that but it changed my whole perspective on some things. His presence is so wonderful; all I can say is that He is worthy and so holy. -Laura P.

On Tuesday night, I got relieved from Kids Church early, so I went to do phones in the call center and as always, it was a powerful night. I was praying with this lady named Janice and she had called for prayer for her two unsaved sons and to be broken free from a nicotine addiction. So I prayed over her, for that addiction to be broken off of her in Jesus name and for Holy Spirit to do a work inside her and for a fire to burn inside of her so that she can take a soul winning script and lead her sons to Jesus. HALLELUJAH!

Also that night a man named Arnie called and wanted prayer for the Fire of God, so I prayed with him just that. While I was praying I could just feel the power of God on me as well as him. It was amazing. I also encouraged him to download the gospel soul winning script and go out soul winning on the streets winning souls for the kingdom of the Lord. It made me want to go out and soul win! [Mark 16:15] “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”  It was a great night!  -Michelle Y.

The Great Awakening has been an opening for the lost to come pouring in. The souls have always been there ready to be reached, but now the time to reach them is running out. The Holy Spirit is positioning us to minister to the lost, but not just our location. We are being cleansed at the body. Christ is coming for a spotless bride. We must want to be the spotless bride, we must accept God’s grace on our lives to be made perfect as He is perfect.

Our character and integrity must carry us into God’s will. It is the yielding to His voice the has resulted in the Harvest of The Great Awakening Tour. It is the purity of the body that will position us to take hold of the harvest globally. God is calling us to challenge our flesh daily, hour by hour. I am learning more and more that the preaching of the good news of Jesus is all that matters and that news requires Godly character. Being who God has called us to be under the spotlight and behind closed doors.-Patrick H.

It has been apparent that in both the last year and week God has accelerated the movement and revival in His house all across the world.  A sweeping of God’s presence has rapidly been brining the lost to Him.  The Church in many places around the world has been moving with Him to play their part.  Even though I have just finished my first week being involved with River Bible Institute I have seen a great increase in the souls won. I believe God is challenging me by being a part of the River Bible Institute by the harvest that the students and instructors are taking part in.

The work that The Holy Spirit is doing in The Great Awakening services is stirring The Body of Christ in Tampa as well as others around the world to become passionate about seeing the lost saved.  We can no longer deny that there is not fruit to be harvested while such testimonies are flooding the ears of believers. In my life there is being anguish birthed inside me to see the present generation won for our Savior.  It is impossible to not have the conviction to do all that I can in my own strength to work in this harvest.

The compromised church has begun to sink and brought to light so that the true image of Jesus can be seen by lost.  He has shown me that seeing the fruit of the harvest must be brought in and if the workers a few then we who work must do all that we can.  Jesus is seeking for those that will step out and do exactly what He is asking.  I want to be found as one who is burning with passion for vision God has spoken. –Patrick H.