Tampa Bay Channel 10 sent a reporter to check out the revival in Lakeland. Todd Bentley has challenged the secular media to come check it out.
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I have been crying out for revival almost as long as I have been proclaiming that Jesus is Lord. I have traveled near and far in the hopes of carrying the anointing. I have prayed, fasted, and sought the Lord in the hopes of seeing an outpouring.
When the revival broke out in Brownsville, I was too religious to travel the four hour drive to visit. I learned that “if God wanted me to be in revival He knows where to find me.” A few years later I got free and traveled to Toronto (and got more free).
So revival has broken out just over three hours away in Lakeland. I have been twice and will definitely go again. But since I am going to go again, the questions becomes, why leave? If God is moving in Lakeland, why would I stay in Delray Beach?
Todd is laying hands on people every night to receive the anointing and it is the anointing that I desperately want to walk in. It stands to reason that if I can go every night, I can get more anointing. If I live near the meetings, I can sleep in the anointing. It just makes sense.
There is just one problem. I have been called to be a carrier of revival. And revival is what Delray Beach desperately needs. It does not matter how man times Todd Bentley lays hands on me, it will not get one single person in Delray Beach saved. He can spend half the day interceding for me, throw his coat on me to symbolize his mantle, let me wear his shoes to symbolize walking in his footsteps, brush my teeth with his toothbrush to symbolize the words that come out of his mouth but it will not do one thing for my ministry if I don’t leave Lakeland and minister to my city.
I think some people go to see Todd not in the hopes of receiving the anointing, but to receive their ministry. I believe that the anointing is transferable. And I do believe in impartation. But you can’t give me a ministry. You can train me for ministry. You can activate my gifts for ministry. You can prophecy my ministry but I am the one that has to preach the Gospel. I am the one who has to reach the lost. I am the one that has to raise up the future revivalists in south Florida.
Even if Todd hires me to do this with him I have not received my ministry. I am just helping with his. I want mine. It is my inheritance and it is in Delray Beach. No. I won’t be moving anywhere.
So if you go to Lakeland, go hungry. Go prayed up and fasted thoroughly. Get all the prayer you can get and receive everything you can. But if you don’t do something with it, you will have received nothing and wasted your time.
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A little girl was healed. Let this bless you.
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God.tv has announced that they will show the Florida Outpouring live on their channel every night. Makes you wonder how long this thing is gonna go.
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Before Todd came to Florida he received a prophecy in New Zealand. Here is a video of it:
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The Florida Outpouring has made it to the front Page of Lakeland’s newspaper.
“Tumors are going to be pulled right out of people’s bodies tonight. … Someone has a growth on their face, on their neck, a woman in this room right now. Put your hand on your face. It’s being burned off by the fire of God. … Somebody else uses an oxygen mask, and the Lord’s touching you tonight. God wants to open your lungs,” he said, while pacing the stage.
A line of people formed at the foot of the stage. Bentley’s assistants talked with them before bringing them up to Bentley, who asked a rapid-fire series of questions of those who approached him - “What are you feeling? What’s happening? Can you move your arm?” He labored over several people who said they had hearing problems, shouting at one, “I command this deafness - go! - in Jesus’ name” and asking, “Can you hear me now?” Responses varied from uncertain to yes.
I went there Saturday night and my report will follow but let me say this, this thing is real.
Here is a video the secular newspaper has on its site:
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A planned upgrade of my server / computer have severely limited the posting here but all the new hardware should be in shortly.
There is a move of God happening in Lakeland, FL. I went there two weeks ago when it was first ramping up and the presence was think the whole service. There has been questions regarding the moves similarity to either Toronto or Brownsville. The question is somewhat trivial due to the fact that Brownsville was directly connected to Toronto.
The morning meetings at Ignited are done by one of Todd Bentley’s associates. They vary in focus but all the ones I have heard had a miracle focus. The evening service is done by Todd himself. I think he has preached for three straight weeks now. To me, Toronto focused on the Father heart and the love of God. Brownsville focused on repentance. The meetings I have been in and seen at Lakeland were nothing like the healing conference I went to at TACF. TACF was mellow. This thing is in your face. The power is there the entire meeting. It is different than the two others in the same way they were different from each other.
The pastor of Ignigted church, Stephen Strader, is the son of Karl Strader. When Karl Strader sold Carpenter’s Home Church, they bought and refurbished this building for the son, and another for Karl’s son-in-law. This building used to be a Scotty’s. It is not huge but it is really nice.
I know the Straders used to be AG but I don’t know if they are still affiliated but when you hear Stephen
preach you can tell he is nowhere near vineyard. I don’t mean that as bad or good. They are different movements and if you are familiar with both you can tell the difference. But Todd is way more Vineyard than AG though he is not vineyard.
These days, there seems to be far less emphasis on affiliation in the renewal / revival movement. It would seem that people are just hungry for an outpouring and would go to a presbyterian church to get it if that’s where it could be found.
Check out this picture of people waiting for the 7 p.m. meeting. If you notice, the sky is nowhere near dark. People are waiting to get in and there have been reports of people getting healed in the parking lot.
Time will tell the impact of these meetings but God is surely doing something. At the same time there seems to be a move in Alabama. They had The Call last week and David Copeland seems to be having extended meetings everywhere he goes. The latest in Beauregard is in its fourth week.
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I can’t wait to finish the following story with the words, “But God.”
We have our next preview service this Friday. Thats like, four days from now. . . and I don’t have a location. I have spent another day not getting anywhere on trying to find a meeting space. Where we have been sent does not have hotels, conference rooms, civic centers or anything of that sort. There are a few liquor stores and bars but they are being used on Friday nights.
There are plenty of churches, but they must have a collective voicemail issue because I can’t seem to get a single one to call me back.
Would you please pray that we find our location? When it happens, I will finish the following sentence.
It seemed like we were down to the wire. Even though I know I was sent to start a work in downtown Delray Beach I did not have a location four days before the meeting. I could not even send invitations because I did not have a place to invite people. But God…
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Lots of churches in America are drumming up support regarding the slavery of Christians in Darfur but what about the sexual slavery of children in America? Where is the outrage from the Church about what is happening in Mormon compounds in the American West.
It is my prayer that our President is called on this by every foreign leader he meets until his term ends and then that it would begin again with the new president. This is a national embarrassment. Nobody could say we did not know this was happening. We all know that polygamous groups were systematically raping and enslaving teen girls to please the sexual fantasies of their owner/husbands and reap a new check from the government.
I am calling the church in America to repent of being silent. Fear of offending the Mormons has stolen the voice of the Church. It is our moral obligation to see that this stops. I know how passionate we are about ending abortion. We need to not stop that passion after birth.
What would you have done in the days of slavery? The same thing you are doing right now. What will you tell your children when this chapter of our history is retold in the future? Will you have a testimony or will you say you looked the other way?
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Think you have problems with Joel Osteen? This video gets good at about the 1 minute mark.
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This is going to be a bit of a techy post but if you blog it is an important one.
A few months ago I had someone from Russia hack a site targeted to Christian youth. They used an exploit in the website to takeover my site and plaster every page with the most horrible hardcore gay pornography and slurs against Christians. I am not sure how long the site had been like that before I found it.
I have around 30 websites give or take. On them, I have a half dozen or so Wordpress installs. Between those installs I have a gaggle of plugins. In the past I was not that diligent about updating every WordPress install and plugin. I have repented of that and you should also.
Hackers are always looking for a hole to exploit on your server and they have found plenty of them on mine. In the past year hackers have hijacked my server to relay emails all over the world for a variety of products. I am confident that I personally would not endorse any of them. When I finally found the root of the problem, my server was relaying over 30,000 emails a day. What gave the hackers access? An outdated mail script.
Last month I found that someone had installed an irc bot on my server. This caused a nightmare for me. The culprit? An outdated upload script.
Wordpress is constantly updating the script because they are constantly finding holes. But if you are not updating your installs, and updating them the proper way, you are setting yourself up for problems.
The new version of Wordpress 2.5 goes a long way toward helping you keep updated. Now when a plugin has an update available, you can click a link, add some info, and it will update itself.
Really a great benefit.
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