Revival Blog

Last night I took a fellow minister friend of mine and a handful of students to see Todd Bentley for a one night impartation service. My friend did not know Todd and was not familiar with his ministry. I told him, “If there is anything religious in you it will be offended.” Todd is out there no doubt. But the point of this is not to talk about that. It is just about the meeting.

It took us about three and a half hours to get to Ignighted Church in Lakeland, the host church. Man do they have a nice facility! We got there right before the doors opened and got the entire front row on one side.

If you have ever been to a Holy Ghost / Charasmatic meeting they are pretty much the same. The anointing may be different and God may do something different but they are all marked by free worship, preaching with a prophetic edge and a demonstration of the power of God.

The worship was great and really free. The ended the set with a song the worship leader wrote that I must get a copy of. The lyrics were something like

I believe in miracles
I believe in wonder
I believe all things are possible for God

or something like that. It was really good though.

Then Todd came up and did 20 minutes of healing miracles from the past couple days followed by praying for the crowd en mass. One thing of note. You can always tell the maturity of a church’s ministry team by how they handle the oppressed. A woman ran to the front during the healing call basically losing her mind. After about 15 minutes she began to seriously manifest - you had the shrieking, screaming, growling thing begin to happen. Todd asked for the church’s deliverance ministry to come and minister to her. They did not freak out. A bunch of burly guys did not wisk her to a back room. A couple older ladies and a man came and ministered deliverance to her. No yelling, no grandstanding. They just did it.

Church did not stop. Todd never stopped preaching.

There were lots of healing testimonies. After that he preached on the recovery of all things. If you follow his ministry you know that this is a common theme in Todd Bentley meetings. After that he said he was going to pray for everyone in the room. And this is where it got exciting.

We all lined up all over the church, in the halls, in the overflow room, in the kids ministry. Todd went down the line and anyone who did not look affected, they got prayer from one of his assistants. When he got to me, I bent over. I really felt the presence of God. Right then his assistant came and began to pound on my back and yell “Bamm! Bamm! Bamm!” with each thump. I think he was yelling. It may have just been the noise of him thumping me.

Either way, I went to the ground and felt the strong presence of the Lord. I was going to stay on the ground but I said, “I did not drive almost eight hours round trip for that.” So I got up and got in line somewhere else. A disciple of mine followed.

Todd came by and it was much the same. I was laying on the ground and said again, “I did not drive almost eight hours round trip for that.” So I got up again. This time to the children’s church room where there were maybe a hundred people singing and worshiping in the tell-tale lines. I lined up at the end of a row with my disciple at the end of the row behind me. I was desperate for a touch from God and was almost worried that I would go home empty.

Todd was walking the rows doing the “touch, touch” thing. When he got to me at the end of the row I put my hands out in front of me in kind of a “hold on” motion. I said, “I need an impartation.” in an almost desperate voice.

Right at that moment, he began to manifest the Holy Ghost. He began to shake wildly and started yelling. Right then the anointing hit me like a bolt of lightning and I began to scream WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (You know what I am talking about) And so I was shaking and screaming, and he was shaking and screaming and I thought to myself in a surreal moment, “Todd Bentley and I are screaming at each other.” Except he was screaming in some sort of prophetic impartation, put the anointing on him Lord, kind of way and I was screaming in an Oh My God I may explode at any minute kind of way.

Todd touched my body and I staggered forward. He touched me again and I fell on my face. literally. Then instantly I began to scream from the unbelievable touch I was receiving. As I writhed on the ground I turned almost completely behind be. I wanted to see if my disciple got touched when I saw something I had never seen in my life. I tell lots and lots of stories about things I have seen in Holy Ghost meetings and thought I had seen it all. I hadn’t.

My student said that when Todd and I were yelling he said to God, “I want something like that.” He had no idea.

I looked over at my disciple and I see his feet about a foot off the ground. I thought to myself, “That’s something new.” I managed to look up and Todd had him in a bear hug…lifted a foot off of the ground…and yelling. After a few seconds he dropped him and moved on the line. He hit the ground like a sack of potatoes. We both resumed laying on the ground yelling.

A few moments later I saw his ministry assistant walk by and say, “That’s what he does when he puts his gifting on someone else.” pointing to my friend. Cool stuff. I was unable to walk for a while and did not drive till after we ate at the pizza hut across the street. Who knows what the waitress thought of the Holy Ghost manifesting men at the table that night.

update: I just found the Senior Pastor’s recollection of the night here. Pastor, if you ever see this, you have a really nice church. I love the flags!

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