RAINMAKERS

My first ever trip to Africa was life changing. I visited South Africa for two weeks. My host, a man called John, gave me an eye-opening missions trip. I ministered at his church in the suburbs of Johannesburg, a church that John G Lake had planted almost a hundred years before, and we visited the villages of the northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo and Pretoria). One of the most notable meetings was held in a marquee on a calm day. It was a hot day, and there was no wind to help clear the hot air from inside of the tent, until a lady in her seventees stood up to tell of her story of becoming a follower of Jesus. (I have this interview on video somewhere).  As soon as this  former Witch Doctor  took the mic, a wind blew into the tent and swirled around, it was blowing the tent walls outward. I turned to John, because I knew it had to do with her testimony, and John simply said, "Yes, that is an angel" (we had talked about angels a lot before this). My eyes grew wider,...

  I used to hold to what I called my "purest definitions" on revival. I am fifty years old and have studied revival since I was fifteen years old. It has been a large part of my life, and identity. Over the years I developed my "purest definitions". I had experienced two powerful moves of God, the first through Rodney Howard Browne in 1994. God picked me up and shook me like never before. It took me a few days to recover from that encounter. The second was through the Florida Outpouring in 2008, where God used my friend Todd Bentley to impact the world. What's crazy is that both revivals started at the same church in Florida, and then impacted the world. But my encounter with Browne first happened in London 1994, and then the real shaking happened in Cardiff 1994. With Bentley, I attended the revival there in Lakeland in May 2008. I still process and live off of what God did in me during that visit to Florida.  Fast forward a few years. I was confident in my de...