My goal was 10.I didn't have much time because I had to leave early for an appointment. When it was time for me to leave, I looked at my card and nine people had prayed the prayer of salvation, but as I drove away from the projects I knew there was another person I was supposed to talk to. As I rounded the corner to pick up my 12 year-old son from a week at Scout camp, the Holy Spirit nudged me to make sure my son was saved. When we returned home, I asked if he knew for certain he was going to heaven. I was expecting he'd answer correctly, after all, he's recited the sinner's prayer at my leading before, we go to church, and he's in children's choir. To my sorrow he replied, "No one can be sure they're going to heaven, you never know if you've been good enough." Blinking back tears, I read the message and asked if he'd like to accept Jesus and be certain of his eternal destiny. He said, "Yes" and prayed the prayer of salvation. Thank you for teaching me this simple method to share Jesus with others. Thank you for a week of refreshing and encouragement.
Jhon Mathews
I had back pain since I was 14 years old, I am now 22.I had a lot of pain and could not do many things others my age could. My sleep was affected and my daily life were affected. I had a disc hernia, my vertebrae were messed up from repeated falls and I also had scoliosis as a teen. I was worshiping God in service, when Pastor Rodney Howard Browne picked me out, told me to stand and raise my hands. I fell to the floor, no one caught me, I landed very hard...but was COMPLETELY healed as soon as I hit the floor!!! By all means, in the natural, that landing should have landed me in the ER!!! I took my time to report this healing because I wanted to be 100% sure, and now I am, PRAISE GOD!!! Thank you.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Mary
In late October 2007 I went to my first Great Awakening Tour. I was so excited, because I had been crying out to God to show me a way to tell people about Jesus. In twenty-four years of being saved I had led only two people to the Lord. Yet when I stepped in front of that first door on my first souls-winning day at the GAT, the lady who answered the door prayed and asked Jesus into her heart. At that moment my life changed forever! I knew this was why I was on the earth. This was what God created me for. This was His call on my life to "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel."
Since that day in October I have prayed the prayer of salvation with over nine hundred people. Soul winning, I have come to realize, is not only a calling (to all Christians), it's a passion and a lifestyle. In January of 2009 God called me into full time evangelism. Next week I start the fourth quarter of my first year at the River Bible Institute where I am receiving training to fulfill the call of God on my life. RBI is an unprecedented training ground to launch students into worldwide ministry. As a student I have stepped out of the gray zone, shed false doctrine, searched my heart, returned to solid basic doctrine, plumed new depths and heights of knowing the Word, and come into a radically wonderful relationship with the Lord. It has been the most riveting, the most necessary, and the most awesome experience of my life. I am deeply indebted to Pastors Rodney and Adonica Howard-Browne, the RBI staff, and all those at The River at Tampa Bay Church who have so sacrificially poured into my life. Thanks be to God, I shall run my race and finish my course, and by His grace, I shall finish strong!
Mary Fields
Yesterday, I sent in an urgent prayer request for my elderly mother who was rushed to the ER with unbearable pains in her stomach area. She is a cancer survivor and last year had surgery for hernia. The Lord heard our prayers! THE SAME DAY, all her tests for growths and hernia came back NEGATIVE, and she went home!! Glory be to God! Thank you for praying for my mom.
