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To God be all the glory. I am very grateful as well as thankful that I am in such a spirit filled Bible Institution. Since I have been at the River School of Worship I’m beginning to understand about the spiritual realm, and how it affects our daily lives. As Ephesians 6:12 states, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”.

On August 22, 2011 Pastor Rodney gave us the five principles that we will need to accomplish are goals at RSW or RBI. I really respect him highly for letting us know what is important and how to reach as well as obtain these goals. The goals include:

Integrity – The state or quality of being ethically sound, morally well adjusted.

Humility – A Christian characteristic. It is a mental attitude of lowliness the opposite of pride.

Morality – Is a sense of behavioral conduct that differentiates intention, decisions and actions between those that are good or bad.

Prayer Life – Spending time with God. Developing a relationship with him.

Accountability – Mans responsibility to God.

Since I have been a part of RSW the Lord has touched my life. I have a desire to read Gods word and really get to know him. I want to be all that he wants me to be. I believe with all my heart that the Lord will heal me within my physical body and I am ready.  I should have been dead but he kept me, and I know that God is a healer. As Isaiah 53:5 states, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

I feel within my heart that all of the Pastors are knowledgeable and awesome; and I am so ever grateful that I was chosen to be a part of the River School of Worship. May God continue to send down his fire….Marlena B.

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In April of this year I was watching the Great Awaking broadcast through my computer at home in Buffalo N.Y.  It was all about Bible school and people giving testimonies of bible school.  I felt a stirring and than from within came, “You need to go to bible school”.  I thought this is crazy there were so many obstacles.  My husband did not watch that evening, so I decided not to say anything.  Well the next day after working outside all day.  My husband comes in very serious and with urgency to tell me that he needs to talk to me.  Well I thought something happened and something did.  He told me how all day the Lord was speaking to him about going to Bible school.  Well I just started laughing.  He was looking at me shocked with wonder at why I was laughing so hard and then I told him what happened the night before.  The Lord has provided everything that we needed to make the transition to Florida.  He provided people for our ministry and businesses, even someone to rent our house and a place to live here in Florida that accepts all three of our dogs and a Christian School for our son.

So many things have happened since the first week of school revival.  I feel like I’ve been here longer than 3 weeks.  I came to Florida with a broken heart.  It first started with our baby going to be with the Lord.  Then came the blow that I know was meant to take me out since the first did not.

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We believed that God will take care for our living in Tampa. And it happened. First place we lived God provided everything, including all payments on time! After 10 month God moved us to new place, where we don’t need to pay at all plus we have almost own swimming pool and beautiful view! And I have to add, that for our living in Tampa we have bought only can opener and something like that from Dollar tree. Everything we needed was prepared for us!

We are givers. But I am thankful to my Lord and the River Church for teaching me to live not from my income but from my giving. Through this time we have sown different kind of things and resources which God gave us. It is so awesome to see how He is taking care for our needs! We live from giving and it works!

Many Bible schools can teach people memorize Bible verses but here in RBI I have learned to live them! (Psalm 23:1)The Lord, King of Kings and Lord of Lords; my Creator, my Savior, my Teacher and best Friend is my shepherd; I shall not want! And as Pastor Eric says: Get it – live it – Give it!

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Since I’ve been here at RBI, God has touched and changed my life in many different ways. I have learned how to trust the Word of God like never before. My faith has grown stronger and I continually see the Word being activated in me and through me. I have learned to see who I am in Christ and the authority He has given to me. I know that I am what the Word says I am, I have what the Word says I have. I am learning to take hold of the scripture and claim it.

During the last few weeks God has supernaturally provided for me on many occasions. I have learned to sow in faith and I have seen amazing harvests. People will bless me unexpectedly with many needed items and even some random blessings that I want but don’t need.

God has given me a strong passion for soul wining and a heart for the lost. All I want to do is lead people to the Lord and spread the gospel anywhere and everywhere. I used to be timid about sharing the gospel, but now I have no fear at all. God has given me boldness and a fire for soul winning.  I have seen people healed, transformed, and baptized in the Holy Spirit. I’m learning to simply yield to the Holy Spirit and let God work through me to touch other people.

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The lord has been so good it’s been three weeks in the revival. God has been touching and revealing things to me. I had a stomach problem so bad that I had to go to the doctors. I had my mother, friends, and mentor praying for me. Because I could not keep my food in my stomach. So one day in service the lord put in my heart to take flaxseed. So when I did my stomach immediately cleared up. I tell you what you have to trust the Holy Spirit that lives within you. He will not let you down. God has been showing me about getting right in the area of my finances. He’s been taking me from glory to glory. The Holy Spirit is the best teacher you can ever have. He does not condemn, he is understanding, and gentle.

You can trust him with your life. He wants you to go from glory to glory. I’m a second year student and I tell you that these three weeks have been more powerful then the whole 1st year of RBI for me. God is really doing something big. In these times that were in it is crucial that you allow God to do the work in you. The more he can do in you, the more he can do through you. So God has been taking things out of my life that I did know needed to be taking out of my life. Let God do the work, he knows what he is doing the meetings have been great, you have to stay teachable and not have an offence. Because it is very easy to get offensive but you just have to allow the Holy Spirit to do the work in you. We need to be effective outside of the four walls of the church. Jesus is so soon to come back, so let God do the work. Amen……David R.

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Working in the call center is such a blessing! I had so many calls the other night. I had a woman who is ninety-two call in and want the fire and the soul winning script to go win souls. Wow, that is awesome. Another woman called and wanted prayer for healing for her eyes because they are deteriorating and she can’t read the soul winning script to go out and win souls.

She was crying, she wants so desperately to do it. Now that is hungry for souls!  If only everyone thought like that then the whole world would hear the Gospel. I had one woman call with a praise report about her granddaughter was healed and got out of the hospital after she called the prayer line and someone prayed for her.

Praise God! A lot of people calling in for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues before they hang up and then there are some who got to get out of there heads and stop thinking so much because God filled them. It is so awesome to talk to people from all over the world and be used by God. When I was helping out in the room after the alter call this little boy was waiting there on the chair for his mama.

I was talking to him about the Holy Spirit and asked him if he wanted to be filled, he said yes so I prayed for him to be filled and he had tears running down his precious little cheeks. The Lord was touching Him. Praise God.

We are living in the state of shaking the nations.

This Tuesday night I had the privilege to lead praise and worship during the Great Awakening. It was an amazing time of praising the King of Kings.

It has been a week of a great hunger for the presence of God and for his fire. It’s easy to tell when the congregation that you lead before the throne of God, are hungry and thirsty for the presence of God to fall. All hearts are reaching out and pressing in deeper into his presence.

This night God’s presence was tangible in the sanctuary and it was preparing peoples hearts to receive something more powerful than ever before. It was a real praise party and people got healed and set free from bondages while worshiping God.

Right now we are living in the state of shaking the nations. For God to be able to shake all nations and this world he starts in small places were he can find people who are hungry for him and who will obey his commandments. He starts in a church just like at The River at Tampa Bay Church with shaking people’s lives so that they never will be the same again. People get touched and shaken to go out and be the messengers of the fire of God to shake the rest of this world. A week like this during the Great Awakening proves that God is about to do something greater than man has ever seen. In a time like this when the hunger for God is dominating people’s lives, God is starting an explosion of the fire of God to shake the nations of this world. -Sara B

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Camp-meeting has really confirmed a lot of things in my life that the Holy Spirit has been revealing to me since the beginning of school, as well as bringing things that weren’t so clear to me into  focus and making it clear. God has been illuminating the plan for my life and touching me like never before. I’ve been hearing Him more clearly and have been more sensitive to the Holy Spirit and His promptings. I actually see the Lord taking me from faith to faith and Glory to Glory.

The awesome thing for me too is that I’ve noticed my children watching me and my walk with God closely, and seeing how He comes through for us as a family, and He’s taking them from faith to faith as well and getting them more hungry and thirsty for the things of God. I have the privilege of seeing Gods goodness unfolding right before my eyes. I not only want to share His goodness with others but I also want to express my gratitude of His goodness, mercy, grace, love, and all that He is in my daily walk, talk, and in all that I do.

He’s been too good to me in every way that all I can do is live for Him. I thought at times that I might have not been doing the right things or may not be in the perfect will of God, but He let me know otherwise. It’s been awesome to be able to see Gods plan for my life unfold and be a part of others’ lives being impacted as well so that the Glory of God can be shown through their lives too. God is good. -Kelly R.

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It was Saturday night and I was home. My heart was so hungry.  I just had to have more of God.  I just had to have another touch from his hand.  I found myself praying in the spirit. Face booking people to watch the service online.  Here I was close to midnight glued to the computer screen.  It felt like electricity going through my body.  I

 had no energy before I logged in.  All I could think about was how I wanted to change. How I want the heart of God.  How I want His heart to be my heart.  I need him so.  One thing I’ve learned from the last couple of nights is that YOU CAN NEVER be too free.  Freedom is relative.  Just when you think God can put no more he squeezes even more into our heart.  May God burn through me, in me, may every fiber of my being be dipped in the kerosene of his Holy Spirit.  I thank the Lord for all he is doing.  I would never have even dreamed using my face book page to soul win.

Several people watched the live service and even more were amazed to find out that I had been healed.  I couldn’t stay quiet. I had to tell everyone how wonderful the presence of our Lord is.  There is none like Him.  To God be the glory.  I was touched in Lakeland and I was never the same.  Now the circle has been completed and here I am.  I am so grateful for Jesus.  –Bianca P.

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The Great Awakening tour is happening! Get on a train, Get on a plane, Get on a bus! Get down here anyway possible! God is doing awesome things through the time that CTN has allowed Pastors Rodney & Adonica Howard-Browne to minister the Good news and to stir up revival in this land, which is America. People are constantly on the phone lines because the people are calling in are so hungry and desperate for a move of God in their lives and in their cities and in their nations even. We have people praying for the people calling in and the people are getting healed, People are seeing financial needs met, People are getting demons cast out of them, People are getting filled with the Holy Ghost! God is moving in people lives and they will never be the same again.

Men and women of all ages, races, backgrounds and ways of life are coming from afar or even right next door to come and apart of what God is doing in these revival meetings to just see what they’ve only hear about on TV or from a friend. And they are getting ignited and learning how to win souls using the Gospel Soulwinning script and taking what they have learned back home with them and leading ten, fifty or even hundreds of people to the Lord. Just as Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne said “There is another Great Awakening happening in America!” So come out and be apart of what God is doing, Or even watch on CTN or Revival.com –Xan H.

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This week God is shaping and molding me into the person He wants me to be only so I can be a better servant for His Kingdom. While at work I’m being stretched this world is not nice sometimes and living it out is not hard but challenging I’m learning how to be a role model not just to talk about it but to actually live it I’m not perfect now but I strive to be. You see I was use to the world before because I was the same as everyone else you get an attitude with me I get an attitude with you but that’s not who I really am never was but that’s how I acted because that’s all I seen when God continues to touch my heart and show me what real love really is the same love I have to share with everyone else I cant be bitter or let things get to me because I have nothing to be angry or bitter about so through all the rough bumps or mountains storms hurricanes and bad attitudes this week I’ve learned to continue to praise God and thank Him for saving me while keeping my heart humble and remembering that without Jesus I am no one and it’s not my will but His therefore I must put a smile on my heart and show the love of God at all times not only to help others but to keep my heart right as well. God is truly doing so many amazing things in my life but this weeks main focus was definitely about keeping my heart pure. Thank you for listening until next week…God Bless! –Angel A.