Saturday, May 24, 2008

We’ve Soaked Todd Bentley and the Florida Outpouring: NOW WHAT?

We have decided to return to a regular services today (Saturday, May 24, 2008). Todd Bentley is great and we will continue to be an overflow room, but we are not in Lakeland, we are in Albuquerque and we need to be doing the Father’s will, here. One of the first steps in this, is to begin drawing the Holy Presences for ourselves.
We started with a simple prayer, and then we went into worship. This was an hour and half with a mixture of live and CD worship. It is amazing how powerful the Holy Spirit can move through both forms. There is several accounts of people getting healed from reruns or recording of the Lakeland Revival. This idea seems to be holding true, with “canned” worship music.While live worship is always the way I preferred to come into the presences, I seemed to find myself listening to CD to soak (or even clean house to). Today though I could really feel the weight of the Holy Spirit enter the room, and His joy spread through the faces of those in our home group.
So the “sermon”, all though more of a group discussion, was “What now?” We have sat, soaked and become saturated with the anointing of the revival for over a month; the question is “what now?” This is actually a discussion I think many of who have been watching God TV and the Lakeland Revival need to start asking. If you are part of an established church, how can you take what you got and apply it with your church identity, then move out into your field.If, however, you are a small overflow room/home group (like us) how does this anointing and what has been received, shape what you are to become? How does this shape what you, as individual, are to become? This is the question facing us know. This is the question that I am facing. The honest answer is I am not sure. The honest answer that we (and I on an individual bases) is “I don’t know.”
Let me end by saying: We are still blessing the Outpouring and what Fresh Fire and Ignited Ministries are doing. There seems to be no stopping this Outpouring now or any time in the near future. We will continue be an overflow room and open our doors to those who care to join us and “get you some.” These thoughts are based on the idea that we are called to go into all nations and make disciples. We are not doing this if all we do is watch the Outpouring. We are now at a tipping point; we can stay saturated and do nothing or we can take the transferable anointing and continue to transfer it. We, at Extreme Encounter, are choosing to “go out.”

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