The first few days I was here I really did not feel much, but I kept pressing in! A couple days later I was released from a spirit of grief! Then, a few days later the power of God really touched me BIG TIME! Two consecutive days in the morning the fire of God came inside my body. The first time the fire was so overwhelming that I had to go outside for fresh air. The breeze felt like cooling water. God was supernaturally showing me the things of heaven! I felt as I was walking in the realm of heaven here on earth! It was like a slow dream like what you see in movies. I was mesmerized by the trees and grass and butterflies.
I walked down the side walk as if so high in Gods presence. I saw miracles happen right in front of my eyes! The next day my heart burned with an intense compassion. I literately felt my heart on fire and it was racing really fast! A glow came upon my skin, and my eyes grew wide from enlightenment. I’ve felt holy spirit possessed since I been here, and that’s very wonderful because that was my prayer before even knowing I was going to come here. I feel like my mind is soaking in the word and eating and loving it! I feel like my brain is growing! The spirit of God has kept me in perfect peace and we have walked simultaneously for days! I have grown in boldness and my fear is driving out! The anointing has also hit me at night while sleeping and in places outside the church. I have been able to carry it out with me past these four walls and I will continue to put it into practice…Melissa P.
Rodney Pastor Rodney, after you offered our family the scholarships on Fourth of July weekend, the Lord told me to step out of the boat, not look at the waves, not to listen to the thunder, not to fear the lightening, to keep my eyes, mind and heart wholly focused on Him and to just RUN, that he would open the windows of heaven.
My wife and I were both working at Shands Hospital fulltime, the first time in our 17 ½ year marriage that we had a two person, full-time income, making the most money annually that we had ever made since being married. Previously, one of us had either been in school furthering our education and my wife had been a stay at home mom with our two children. The day we gave our resignations, we received a phone call from newly acquired friends that live in Ruskin, offering us the opportunity to rent a house of theirs for only $300 a month, the cost of the insurance. We arrived at the house the weekend before school started. Since coming to RBI we have grown so much and even though we had to put our children into Florida Virtual School because of the atmosphere of the public schools they are zoned for here, we know and believe that this will be a wonderful year and that the Lord will continue to bless them and us.
RBI has changed my life completely. I grew up in the church and in revival with this ministry since 1993 in Carpenters Home church. That’s where I was saved, in those meetings. But it wasn’t until years later when I went to RBI that I learned to fully grasped start to grasp the word and the things of God for myself. Now that I have one year of RBI under my belt I know that I have a better handle on what Christianity is all about…. And what the heartbeat of God is all about…souls. And I now have a better view on the provision of God because I’ve seen it firsthand for me as well as other people that I have been able to help and bless along the way.
God’s birthed a whole new boldness in me that has blossomed in soul winning on the streets and on the phones as well. I love to witness… where before I was too scared to even think of walking up to a stranger just to say hello. God’s brought me out of my shell into what He’s had for me all along…and I know that it’s only the start of what He has for me. He’s slowly showing me what my callings are in Him, and that is something I’ve been believing Him to find out for a very long time. I know that I am called to kids and youth. And I’m also called to worship and teaching as well. God is really showing me how He is building a strong foundation in me that will not be shaken when these end times come. And so I’m determined to let the fire of God purify me now more than ever. All for God, Nothing else, and def, nothing less. ….Melissa A.
I came to The River church last year February, and stated RBI in August 2010. Before coming here I had been a believer for almost ten years but had never experienced anything like what I saw in the River. The first was the soul winning script that made easy for me to lead people to the lord something I have struggled with for so long. The greatest day of my life was the RBI revival of 2010.
I got touch and laugh like a mad woman, what you have to understand is that before I came here I was a believer but bound Like Lazarus when he came out of the grave. I was bound with fear self pity confusion rejection just to name a few. But August 23rd 2010 something happened that turn my whole life around. Pastor Rodney called me out of the crowd and lay his hands on me and i started laughing, because I had hardly laughed before, my rips started cracking up I laugh for 24 hours.
I got home at almost midnight and my land lady was still awake when I walked in she looked at me and screamed and i was wondering what had happened to her so I ask her and she said immediately I walked in she saw light on my fore head and she shouted I have joy and she started laughing before I know she was speaking in tongues ,You have to Understand that my Landlady is a staunch catholic and will even hardly laugh I was amazed with what I was seeing but did not have the time to figure it out because I was over whelmed with joy so we both laugh our heads off till 1 AM. Valentina A.