Winter Campmeeting 2008
The Lord came on me and laid heavy on me for a while Monday evening. Then today, Friday The Lord came and spoke words of life and gave me the Keys of Florida.
PLEASE FORWARD TO JENNIFER GONYON Dear Dr. Rodney Howard-Brown, I’ve wanted to share with you for a long time, which you will read, about the impact God has had through you on my life. In 1992, when I was 14, my life had hit a cross-road. I had gratefully become a Christian in ’84. However, as the 8 years passed, I’d experienced verbal abuse and rejection throughout much of my family, heavy bullying at school, and exclusion at church…I thought, “I’ll do everyone a favor”, so I’d thought, and “remove myself to get out of everyone’s way”. I cried out to God, “Please let me kill myself or show me how to get out of this.” I was terrified of God rejecting me and what His answer might be…all this on a Thursday. I’m sooo glad God picked the latter…of course He would! Sunday, I went to church and was worshipping God, still hoping for a solution. During this service, I noticed someone worshipping differently than me. Unknown to me at the time, I was seeing “intimacy” in the way this person worshipped…although not knowing what intimacy was, God pulled at me, and I wanted it (Him). I believe it was during the same service that someone told my mom and I about services you were ministering in at Calvary Cathedral in Ft. Worth, Texas. About one week later, we went.
The first service, I attended, you invited everyone to get in lines for prayer. I nervously did, I was extremely shy and afraid of rejection. You were praying about 300 ft. away from the row I was standing in. You were speaking over each person “fire, fire, fire…” Boom, boom…each person was hitting the floor. God’s presence was THICK. When you got to me, as you prayed with your finger pointing at me, I shook violently. It was unpainfully freeing…but I was nervous. You told me not to resist. As I let go of fear…I hit the floor with a bounce and hit again (completely unpainful and freeing)…and was stuck there for about 3 or 4 hours. God did surgery!!!! That was a morning service…by evening, I was dramatically different and desperate for more, more, more of God! You happened to have camp meetings in the mornings and evenings at Calvary Cathedral typically Mon.-Fri. and often Sun. for about 3 months at a time in ’92 and again, in ’93. I went to almost all of them, except for Sundays. During all the meetings I attended, God touched me powerfully, powerfully, powerfully! Sometimes through being stacked to the floor, sometimes through shaking, sometimes laughing, and a variety of other ways…for hours non-stop (no exaggeration…that would lying 🙂 )…and every time through your teaching. During many of these times, God was doing deep surgery in me or telling me about the calling He has on my life or blessing me or also, sometimes blessing others around. During one of the first times, I felt called to intercede for others. Another time I felt called to teach.
Another time I felt called to missions work. Since those times, God has revealed much more specifically about these things and other things as well. The following year after the last meeting of yours I had attended, I was 16, and while I was interceding, I felt God calling me to Ireland… and later, when I was 21 and doing missions work in Ireland, I felt called to several nations. When I was 22, God told me He was calling me to be a revivalist…immediately, I thought of you. I thought of the impact God had on my life through you. I don’t fully know what that calling looks like or what shape it will take or exactly when it will happen…but it burns in my heart. I want people to know God intimately. I want people to awaken from the slumber the enemy has brought and God wants to shatter. I want to see the body of Christ working together reaching the lost and healing it’s own. I want to reach people who are hurting. None of this is because “I can”, but because it’s God’s heart, and He can do it through me as I am lovingly obedient (1 Jn. 5:3). Bits of these things have already been unfolding as I’m still learning how to do it on a larger scale…as God leads! I wanted to validate the experiences that I had in ’92 and ’93 through you as a vessel by expressing the huge impact that it has had up to now and the huge impact it will have ahead…because of God and His promises. Thank you for blessing me so much with your willingness to serve God as you do. Blessings in Christ, Melissa M P.S. I was delighted to attend one of your meetings again tonight…first time since ’93. It was rich and life changing. I look forward to being there tomorrow and learning more on how to take what I receive to others. Thank you for being blessing!!!
Cassandra N
Vanceboro North Carolina United States
