J.I. Packer once said, “Love and generosity, unity and joy, assurance and boldness, a spirit of praise and prayer, and a passion to reach out to win others are recurring marks of a people experiencing revival.”There was something about giving that unspokenly flowed during revival at our church.  People constantly would be seen slipping money to other people. […]

“You can always tell what someone loves by how they respond to it.” If you love a football team, you might wave your arms, shout, holler, jump up and down.  If you love your fiance, you might prepare for them the best of what you have in your cupboards, you might run to them with arms […]

She wails big walrus cries.  Her head goes back as water flushed from her eyes.  What did I say? What did I do to make her act this way? I didn’t know. All I did was lay hands on the woman kneeling on the carpet.  All I did was “obey the rules” of how to pray […]

Bowed heads and hunched backs fill the sanctuary. Bowed heads, humble hearts….often the first sign God is moving in a place. Often times, we look at people jumping up and down, or hear laughter and weird sounds…and think that could be revival. Yet, history tells us that when a Holy God meets an un-holy people….there is […]

Little did I know, as the worship slowed, the people kneeling on the floor were exactly those who I was instructed to go pray over. Though I had been set free from horrific fears, I was still pretty shy.  So to walk in front of the church and lay hands on people horrified me. But who […]

Tears flooded my face like Niagara Falls that first time I stood in front of the church to pray before service started. “Are you o.k.” The pastor who had requested me to be on the prayer ministry investigated me wiping my eyes over and over. “Who was I?”  I thought.  Just six months earlier I was […]