Greetings from Lakeland, FL.... (The Florida Healing Outpouring)
Wow.. what a trip on this "Highway to Revival!"
To begin, I have to apologize for not getting reports out sooner. I had a major communication problem...MY LAP TOP CRASHED as soon as we got into Lakeland. I'll explain further below:
We left Stephenville, TX early Saturday morning arrived in Mobile, Al for the night. Our day of travel was jammed with ministry. We began the morning with a conference call with other Circuit Preachers International leaders, Robert Fitts, Daniel Markoya and Michael Tummillo. Of course most of the talk was centered on Revival, our trip to Lakeland and our upcoming meeting with Robert Fitts in Texas. These Brothers are the "cream of the crop!" The cell phone then rang and I dialed it pretty much ongoing for the balance of the nearly 12 hour trip to Mobile. It's amazing how this Revival is increasing activity. We also did a lot of "cell phone ministry." God's using new technology for spreading His Spirit!
Sunday morning the three of us (Rascal is traveling with us too. His new name is, "Rascal the Revival Budgie!), arrived in Lakeland very late Sunday afternoon. We were pretty tired from the trip and by the time we got checked in, got something to eat, we crashed, feeling the need to rest before getting into the meeting schedule here. Again our day was filled with "cell phone ministry!"
Monday morning I discovered a very grave situation....my laptop crashed! It seemed to work OK Sunday night before bed, but when I awoke Monday morning it wouldn't start up, no mater what I tried. Our Oakland, PA pastor, Lance Rhodes and wife Mandy, were here for the meetings and needed a ride to the morning session at Ignited Church and a ride later to the Tampa Airport. Pastor Lance knows computers! He checked my laptop out and gave me a bad report....It's Fried!
We all went into the morning session with me thinking "new laptop... " This was not a good beginning to a very great day! The morning meeting was great, with Corinne getting prayer for her prophetic ministry. Our fellowship with Lance and Mandy was great too. It really worked good to be able to hear their insights into this move of God and hear first hand testimony from the weekend's meetings at Tiger Stadium.
After getting back to our motel from our Tampa Airport journey, it was time to go "Puter Shopping!" Thank the Lord, laptops are coming down some in price, but still this was not an expected situation so....Larry chokes some!!! However I kept in mind that I am a Child of the Kingdom on my King's business, so I handled this situation pretty good. We got back to the room, unpacked the new computer knowing that we didn't have too much time before we had to ready ourself for the evening meeting at the Lakeland Center, a huge 8,000 seat auditorium in downtown Lakeland. I soon discovered that I still needed more things done before I could get the new computer on-line. When we travel I use a Sprint wireless air card for Internet access. I had just purchased a new one for the old computer 2 weeks ago, and of course it would not fit the new computer... different access ports. So after yesterday's morning meeting I was able to swap it for the proper card at a local Sprint Store.
Monday's evening meeting was just plain powerful! At one point worship leader, Roy Fields, just quit playing the keyboard and quit singing and laid on the platform floor as waves of worship went up from the crowd. There must have been about 6,000 people in attendance. How's that for a Monday night crowd! As these waves began to spread, I had the vision of the worship just taking off into high Glory. It was as if the Holy Spirit Himself was leading this event. I've NEVER seen this happen and I got a vision of what could have happened if Roy would have let it go. I don't think he realized what was going on, because from his position on the floor he began to sing. I think that if he hadn't done that something very wonderful would have happened! I fully understand Roy's actions however, as we're all learning how to move in Revival, especially this new wave.
Todd Bentley soon took the meeting and all of sudden things changed. This is the first time I've been in a live meeting with Todd. I can't speak for him before Lakeland, but what I saw Monday night was a very powerful move of God coming forth from this young evangelist. The only thing I can say is that Todd is the "Real Deal!" The miracles rolled over us like giant waves. There were way too many miracles taking place to even begin to talk about here. (If you would like a daily Revival Report from Pastor Stephen Strader send me an email at: nhministry@yahoo.com and I'll let you know how to subscribe to his daily Revival Report written by him while he's in the nightly meetings...put "revival report" in your header so that it will get through spam filters)
Tuesday morning's meeting at Ignited Church was great. We stood in line for an hour and had a blast talking with other Seekers of the Flame. Pastor Stephen Strader ministered. Corinne and I know him personally and were not at all surprised when he became totally transparent and shared what Revival has cost him and his family. He then began to share some great suggestions on how to get healed, mixing in some great, solid Revival Theology.
After the morning meetings Corinne and I ate some lunch, got the new Sprint Card, and I began working on trying to get this new computer on-line. Before we knew it we were getting ready for the evening session at the Lakeland Center.
The evening meeting was another powerful one! Heather Butler lead worship. Great job! Last night's crowd was even larger than Monday nights. God showed up right away. Again there is a sensation in these meetings that worship could take off without any human leading. I saw that same thing occur last night as in Monday night's meeting, the potential to see the thousands of people, completely led by the Spirit worshiping God without any human leadership. I feel that this will eventually happen as we humans learn how to flow in this extreme anointing. Again when Todd Bentley took the meeting things just happened to flow even higher.
Now this may be hard for some to digest here. Everyone that knows me fully understands that I believe in, teach and completely flow in raising up true Body Ministry. However, there is just no getting around it, Todd Bentley is carrying the anointing for these meetings! This may be a very difficult pill for some to swallow, but it's the truth! Todd's not preaching, he's just flowing in the Spirit and "things" are happening as a result. Get ready folks, this move of God is going to upset your religious apple cart! Of course the "Revival Police" don't like a thing that is going on here! But again, I have to state, "This is the Real Deal!" I would also warn people not to be critical of things they don't understand!
We met Roger Webb both Monday and last night. We had a bite to eat after the meeting with Roger and it was great to not only share fellowship with an old friend, but to get his perspective on whats going on as well. Today we're having lunch with Pastor Dennis See and Jim Morda from Meadville, PA. They've been here a few days and I got a glimpse of Dennis pretty drunk in the Spirit last night. I can't wait to hear what these guys are saying.
I am sorry for the length of this post! I was intending to write short, daily blog posts. I guess my computer had other ideas! You know there is no way I can document all that is happening here in just a few words! This Revival is real folks! The good news is that it is spreading like wild fire all over the world. We got word yesterday that people living in Belfast, Northern Ireland could not get flights to Tampa as the flights are being booked by Revival Seekers. Even better news is that all over Europe and other Regions Revival is breaking out. We had word last night about extended meetings taking form in the UK.
Get ready, we've been praying a long time for this! Now, take a breath too. This Revival does have some rough edges. But we have to give it time. God's on the move and as I've been saying, "The bottom line is the bottom line!" In other words, how do we judge a move of God? By the words of Jesus, "The blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk, the dead are being raised, and the Gospel is being preached to the poor!" This is happening in Lakeland, it's happening all over the world. And it will happen with you too!
Get ready... the Fire is falling!
More from Lakeland later...
More Lord!
Larry the Revivalist!
My website: www.larrysilverman.com
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