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Here is a brief history of this current move of GodThese modern day revivals are the ensuing fires still burning from the Lutheran, Methodist, Anabaptist, Wesleyan revivals, Edwards, Finney, Spurgeon, Moody, Azusa street, Wales and others as they come down through the generation by the transference of anointing through the people of God. As we trace these moves back to there origins we see that this move of God today is really the outworking of the Topeka Kansas Revival, the Azusa Street revival, the Wales revival, the Voice of healing revival, the Charismatic revival, Jesus people, the latter rain revival, etc... In short Rodney Howard Browne, Benny Hinn, and the Vineyard movement have been the main catalyst's in our time that God has chosen to use to start, ignite, and contain the methodology for these. The methodology of true revival is total and utter dependence on the work of The Holy Spirit. Mr. Rodney Howard Browne in July 1979 at the point of his conversion experienced laughing, shaking, fire and other peculiar manifestations. Here is a quote from Rodney Howard Browns book 'Fresh Fire From Heaven,' "The fire of God came upon me. It started on my head and went right down to my feet. His power burned in my body and stayed like that for four days... My whole body was on fire from the top of my head to the souls of my feet, and out of my belly began to flow a river of living water. I began to laugh uncontrollably and the I began to weep and then I began to speak in other tongues... I was so intoxicated with the new wine of the Holy Ghost that I was beside myself. The fire of God was coursing through my whole body and it did not quite... Because of this encounter my life was radically changed from that day on." Benny Hinn also had powerful encounters with God. i.e. one time his mom was walking by his room cleaning the house minding her own business, he was praying behind a closed door, she was thrown up against the opposite wall by the spirit of God (Excerpt from book 'Welcome Holy Spirit'). John Wimber was raised a Quaker, Got hungry "To see Jesus proclaimed and the Kingdom demonstrated." He excepted the gifts of the spirit to be of God in 1977. In 1977, Carol Wimber was leading a small group of people in a home meeting that evolved into the Anaheim Vineyard. Quote from Carol Wimber, "We began worship with nothing but a sense of calling from the Lord to a deeper relationship with him. Before we started meeting in a small home church setting in 1977, the Holy Spirit had been working in my heart, creating a tremendous hunger for God. One day as I was praying, the word worship appeared in my mind like a newspaper headline. I had never thought much about that word before. As an evangelical Christian I had always assumed the entire Sunday morning gathering was worship - and, in a sense, I was correct. But in a different sense there were particular elements of the service that were especially devoted to worship and not to teaching, announcements, musical presentations, and all the other activities that are part of a typical Sunday morning gathering. I had to admit that I wasn't sure which part of the service was supposed to be worship. After we started to meet in our home gathering, I noticed times during the meeting - usually when we sang - in which I experienced God deeply. We sang many songs, but mostly songs about worship or testimonies from one Christian to another. But occasionally we sang a song personally and intimately to Jesus, with lyrics like 'Jesus I love you.' Those types of songs both stirred and fed the hunger for God within me. About this time I began asking our music leader why some songs seemed to spark something in us and others didn't. As we talked about worship, we realized that often we would sing about worship yet we never actually worshipped - except when we accidentally stumbled onto intimate songs like 'I love you Lord,' and 'I lift my voice.' Thus we began to see a difference between songs about Jesus and songs to Jesus. Now, during this time when we were stumbling around corporately in worship, many of us were also worshipping at home alone. During these solitary times we were not necessarily singing, but we were bowing down, kneeling, lifting hands, and praying spontaneously in the Spirit - sometimes with spoken prayers, sometimes with non-verbalized prayers, and even prayers without words at all. We noticed that as our individual worship life deepened, when we came together there was a greater hunger toward God. So we learned that what happens when we are alone with the Lord determines how intimate and deep the worship will be when we come together. About that time we realized our worship blessed God, that it was for God alone and not just a vehicle of preparation for the pastor's sermon. This was an exciting revelation. After leaning about the central place of worship in our meetings, there were many instances in which all we did was worship God for an hour or two. At this time we also discovered that singing was not the only way to worship God. Because the word worship means literally to bow down, it is important that our bodies are involved in what our spirits are saying. In Scripture this is accomplished through bowing heads, lifting hands, kneeling, and even lying prostrate before God. A result of our worshipping and blessing God is being blessed by him. We don't worship God in order to get blessed, but we are blessed as we worship him. He visits his people with manifestations of the Holy Spirit. Thus worship has a two-fold aspect: communication with God through the basic means of singing and praying, and communication from God through teaching and preaching the word, prophecy, exhortation, etc. We lift him up and exalt him, and as a result are drawn into his presence where he speaks to us." In 1978, during a home church fellowship while there were still meeting in their home fellowships, John Wimber prayed for a women and she went toppling over furniture before flying to the floor behind the couch. About a year latter on Mothers Day 1979 a traveling evangelist from the 'Jesus People' movement came through. He gave his testimony, and then asked the Holy Spirit to come fill people. People in the audience started speaking in tongues. The guy started praying for people. The man ended up falling over speaking in tongues with the microphone jammed in his mouth. Revival broke out in John Wimbers church, 200 people were baptized by September. He started to get involved with the soon to be Prophetically named Vineyard movement (Symbolizing staying in the vine) a group of saved Jewish Christians, ex. Calvary, Jesus people, some charismatics, common third wavers, etc... and some others who were experiencing the power of God. The Vineyard was started In 1974 by Kenn and Joanie Gulliksen. After leaving Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, CA, The LORD led Kenn and Joanie Gulliksen to Los Angeles to begin a ministry that had been on their hearts for several years. Starting as a small Bible study group in the home of Chuck Girard (from the musical group "Love Song"), the fellowship quickly grew to other home studies and a Sunday service in Beverly Hills. God prophetically gave the name "Vineyard" to these gathered people. Musicians, like Keith and Melody Green, actors, business people, students, people simply hungry to know and experience God, came together in small groups and large meetings as literally thousands received Jesus Christ. The church met in a gym, on the beach, and in homes. One third of the church was made up of Jewish believers most of whom received the Lord at "The Vineyard." God worked through many mistakes and failures, as well as the successes, as people were willing to take risks to become like Jesus and to communicate the good news. Several couple went out and began other Vineyards in California: quickly growing churches with priorities of worship, relationship, healing, training and giving. In the Spring of 1982 John Wimber and several other pastors led their churches into relationship/identification with the Vineyard, as their vision coincided with and completed that of the original Vineyards. It was obvious that God had called John to pastor the pastors, and to train and encourage men and women to pursue what God had given them. As a result, the people called the Vineyard have reached out to bless and encourage churches all over the world, as well as planting churches. The Vineyard has extensive and fruitful relationships with many American denominations and pastors, the Church of England, and many churches in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, Central America, and the South Pacific. These relationships include parachurch organizations like YWAM, World Vision, seminaries like Fuller, and underground churches in Europe and Asia. Many of these relationships are through the personal ministry of John Wimber, others are relationships with various local Vineyard churches. God, showed them that His desire for us is not just to build the Vineyard, but for them to seek His Kingdom and to see Him build His church. The Vineyard is called to bless what He's blessing, to love what He loves and to give ourselves away freely, not only to win the lost but to see His church renewed. The Vineyard plans to continue to seek God and to cooperate with Him as He reveals Himself to us, as we follow after Him. In 1993 there movement exploded into a large revival which created a membership of churches of about 200 hundred churches in the first year. With a major emphasis on the prophetic and revival the Vineyard movement grew and is growing. With a strong heart for worship, and an emphasis on power evangelism. The Vineyard was of to a budding start. Next in the story is the Argentina revival having it roots in the later rain movement. The major exponent and person God used to start this revival is Carlos Anacondia a lay person with no human ordinations with any denomination, or affiliations. His ministry is definitely ordained of God. Carlos, himself being a business man from Argentina was hungry for God he got prayed for by Mr. R.H. Browne, and Benny Hinn. He was impacted by him so much he went back to Argentina. With a strong emphasis on repentance, deliverance, holiness and the restoration of the Apostolic networks and offices. Following suite of the 80's restoration of the Prophetic ministry is coming the 90's full restoration of the Apostolic church order, administration, offices, and obedience and dependence on The Holy Ghost. The first church Carlos preached in was Sergio Scantaglia fathers church. Sergio Scantaglia is major exponent of The Argentina revival. He has been exceptionally anointed for a transference of Holiness an anointing he received in a Brownsville revival service in the US before returning to Argentina. Sergio says He felt the fire of God coursing through him for an extended period of time with no strength remaining in his body. God has used Carlos Anacondia to bring God's spirit of revival so strong that there are now about five getting near ten churches that are 100,000 in membership. They are so big that they are know meeting in ballparks because there are not facilities big enough for them. In 1993 Claudio Freidzon got hungry for God he had a church of 2,000. He decided to go get prayed for by Mr. Anacondia and then he got prayed for by Benny Hinn. He want back to his church with such a powerful impact in two month his church went from 2,000 to 4,000. His church King of Kings church is know only five years latter 100,000 members strong that is God. I have heard that the numbers of salvation are up to 10,000 a day. Youth old enough to speak and up are getting filled with prophecy, calling out sin in church members and they are repenting right there. They are also walking up to the lost praying for them and the lost are getting filled with the spirit and falling out before the kids touch them. Now saying all this Steve Hill the evangelist worked in the midst of this revival as a missionary evangelist for eight years before going to London for a while. The Brownsville pastor John Kilpatrick was promised by GOD to have revival. SO Kilpatrick and some of his staff, his worship leader Lindell Cooley and there families went to Toronto. This is the first link to Toronto. Kilpatrick and Lindell know Toronto is of God. When revival broke at Brownsville Lindell lamented that he wanted it to be soft like it is in Toronto. The second link to Toronto is Steve Hill the evangelist of the revival himself he went to Holy Trinity Brompton church in England. An Angelican Parish that has been experiencing renewal since the day that the Mumford family went to Toronto and the pastor of Toronto John Arnot happened to be there. Steve Hill talked to John Arnott and they prayed for one another, Steve Hill fell on the ground. In Toronto Canada, Smith Wigglesworth had visited the Niagara falls in the Thirties and prophesied that a world-wide move of God would start close by and that it would be like the power of the Falls. Mark Dupont had prophesied the same thing two years before the Holy Spirit started moving in Toronto. Renewal broke in Toronto on Mothers day 1993, when pastor Arnott a normal Vineyard pastor got hungry for God and God told him to covet the anointing. So he started to get prayed by for everyone. He got prayed for by Benny Hinn about four times then Arnott went to a pastors conference in Argentina with Claudio Friedzon. Then Pastor Arnott went back to his church. Before he go back he heard about a Vineyard pastor named Randy Clark experiencing awesome the power of God in his services. Before this time Pastor Clark had been skeptical of Mr. Brownes meeting's because of stuff he had heard but a friend had convinced him to go. He went he was powerfully touched and had a strong inner healing. When Arnott got back from Argentina he felt God wanted him to have Mr. Clark come visit his church and preach some services. Arnott's church at the time was only about 120 members. The day that Mr. Clark, now a global revival evangelist, showed up he didn't think he had enough sermons to preach so he brought his staff he ended up preaching the whole thing for months and God kept giving him messages. Many have been renewed, refreshed, given a deeper revelation and reverence for God, A deeper passion for the lost, and healed in there services from all over the world. The Mumfords and others came from England to receive from God and they did. They went back to England and know revival is all over England. If America wont repent we wont receive the blessing from GOD. SO we see that GOD men and women of God all over this world to carry this blessing all over until it finally broke as a full blown revival in Brownsville. The Brownsville revival is still going strong today with over 300,000 people saved and over 3,000,000 people have visited the revival in the past few years since Fathers day 1995, when revival broke out at Brownsville First Assemblies of God, in Pensacola Florida. Many have recommitted there lives to Christ and taken the passion for revival back to their home churches impacting countless lives, and lost souls. The passion and heart beat of the Brownsville revival, Repentance, holiness, and lost souls. New Wine In The New Millennium
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