Revival in Miami en Espanol
June 2nd, 2008 by Carl Thomas.I have been wanting to post about this for a while. There is a full blown revival happening in Miami that does not get a lot of press in the U.S. mainly because the revival is in Spanish. I often wonder what it is like to visit a move of God that is not in your native tongue. I have watched people travel across the world to “get some” with translation devices in their ears and wondered if I would ever do that. I no longer have to wonder. I live an hour away from a foreign country, Miami.
I first heard about El Rey Jesus listening to a David Hogan sermon one day. He said, “there is this spanish church in Miami. If you are ever down there, you need to go to it.” He went on to tell how the church is seeing miracles and how God enabled them to build their new sanctuary cash. I am down here! I must go.
After calling a friend of mine, I found out that he goes to services at El Rey all the time on the down low. This church is so anointed that Spanish speakers from as far as an hour away abandoned their English churches to join themselves. To me it is an easy choice. I would pick anointed church in my native language over dead religion just talking about the anointing but not doing anything to get it any day of the week.
Building a church without debt is always awesome, but when it is a 7,000 seat facility we are really talking about something.
The church started in Guillermo Maldonado’s living room about 10 years ago and now has multiple services. They are refurbishing their old facility (which they did not have to sell to build their new one) to have an English speaking congregation.
I normally go on Sunday night and generally have no idea what is being said during worship but I go forward and dance with the hundreds who are worshiping themselves silly.
Every time I go I see people healed, delivered and touched by the Holy Ghost. There is this really anointed song that I like that they have sung every time I went. I did not know what they were saying but I would dance to it and find myself singing, “Sube, sube, sube.” Today I found out what it means. I got a little clip of them singing the song and the lyrics are below. By the way, check out this Sunday night crowd.
Sube sube sube nuestra alabanza
Our praise goes up, up, up
Our praise goes up
Con manos extendidas y accion de gracias.
Our hands extended and lifted high
Con todas mis fuerzas alegria y danza.
With all our strength, joy and dance
Doy vueltas en el aire y grita alabanza.
We spin in the air and give shouts of joy
El tabernaculo caido de David hoy en dia lo levantamos,
David’s fallen tabernacle, today we rebuild it
para que los hombres busquen al senor.
So that all men may seek the Lord
Un lugar de danza y alabanza estravagabte.
A place of praise, a place of dance, extravagant
Yo vengo al tabernáculo de David
I come to the Tabernacule of David
Lugar de adoracion
A place of worship
Para todas las naciones
For all the nations
Donde los ciegos y los cojos se sanan
A place where the blind and the deaf all are healed
El pueblo se llena de su unción
The anointing fills his people
Para llevarla a sus casas
To carry with to their houses
Un lugar de intimidad con Dios
An intÃmate place with God
Donde adultos y ninos alaban con libertad
Where the young and the old, may praise with liberty
Pureza y luz que quema,
The purity of light that burns
donde la oscuridad no se puede quedar
where darkness can never remain
Un lugar de revelacion y guia.
A place of revelation and guidance
Jesus esta sentado en su trono
Jesus is seated on His throne
De autoridad
Of authority
El fuerte cethro de su senorio
The strong sceptor of his dominion
Sale desde sion
Rising up from Zion
Declaramos guerra, contra potestades
We declare warfare, against principalities
Gobernamos en el poder de resureccion
We govern by the power of his resurrection
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This is fascinating. Have you heard of this guy Andres Bissoni? He is a revivalist who holds meetings in both languages, and has a nice ministry of healing as well as a lot of people falling out without being touched, which is neat. Praise God, he’s bringing in the Pentecostal Hispanic reinforcements to America.
The lyrics of the song are also interesting because this thing about “The Tabernacle of David” is directly from the Latter Rain. What would seem like an obscure revival in northern Canada has affected the theology of the whole world.
And no, if I knew the presence of God was there, I wouldn’t care was language it was in, translation or no translation.
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I have been following Andres for a couple years. I posted a video of his about 2 years ago http://www.revivalblog.com/youtube-videos/ some of his meetings are really incredible. I don’t know the history of the tabernacle of david modern history but the whole church is set up like a replica. It is a really big thing. I have been told that the worship team does a complete set every morning before the staff prays.
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Checking them out now Carl…….Good translation BTW
Great stuff. I will visit their website often.
Looks like an apotolic centre a la latino
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@john, wish I could take credit for the translation. A member of their english language worship team sent it to me.
The church is apostolic minded and Maldenado leads an apostolic network now.
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