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I was about to quiet school, but I couldn’t do. God really spoke to me in New York and I end it up here, at the Bible School. These meeting that we had last weekend was amazing I am telling you. The power of God in this place is just fantastic.

You can explained. The extended meeting for the students last weekend was awesome, my faith in the Word of God has growing since this meeting that we had. I have no words to say thanks for what God does through the school. Dr Rodney Howard Brown, I like to thank you for all the things you have done for us. I love you Pastor. God bless you and every single Pastor….

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I arrived here at R.M.I/The River on 6-12-11 and I only had a bag with the bare necessities, $3, and a pillow. I ended up sleeping outside in a makeshift hammock. I woke up the next day at 6:00am to clean up at the Shell gas station to be ready for my first day of Summer school. After class was over I meet Jeff who was also attending the class with me. We have now become good friends. Jeff introduced me to Payne who allowed me to stay at his house for a little over two weeks. Jeff then invited me to stay with him and Payne also ended up staying with us as well. I lived with them at that house for just under two months. Now God has super naturally provided a house for all three of us that we rent. God has furnished it as well and filled the cabinets with food. I am a living testimony that God will supply all of our needs and more over and abundantly. I believe that this is just the beginning of what God has planned for my life. God is so amazing it’s awesome to see the provision come to me and flow thru my hands for my needs and also to be a blessing to others. God has been taking me from faith to faith and glory to glory. The stretching hurts so good but I love it because I know it will be worth it in the long run. What God can do to me he can and I do thru me. Now classes have just begun and I am so excited for what God has for me and to be in the perfect will of God. I never want to get out of it! I just want to be his yielded vessel and grow to be who he has planned for me to be and fulfill the call of God on my life. I want God to be able to say well done my good and faithful servant enter into the Kingdom of God.

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I was living in the state of Pennsylvania when I had a dream with pastor Rodney. In my dream I TOLD Pastor Rodney I wanted to go to Bible school and I was speaking in tongues. I felt in my spirit to share my dream with Pastor Corey.  So I emailed Pastor Corey and to my amazement he replied that same day.  Pastor Corey asked me if I wanted to go to Bible school. And I replied; my finances are not good right now.  Pastor Corey told me about the scholarship program.  And I came to Bible school and God has provided everything for me. I have a place to live, clothing and food. The meetings have been so amazing.

One particular meeting Pastor Eric was preaching and he laid hands on everybody after service. That night I felt the fire of God and his Glory touch me. After that night I was talking to my dad who is a non-believer.  My dad is a Muslim and in the past he was never receptive to anything I said. Now when I talk to him he pays more attention to me.  One night I was placed in the call center. One of the phone calls I received was from a woman who wanted prayer for her finances because she didn’t have a job. I asked the women do you want to be baptized in the Holy Ghost. She replied yes and when I prayed for her she began to speak in tongues. And I asked her do you feel the fire of the Holy Ghost.  And she said yes.  So I prayed for her to receive the fire of the Holy Ghost. Then I prophesied to her that she would find a job in two weeks. Amen!

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One night I just happened to turn on the television to the Great Awakening.  My spirit witnessed with what they were saying and how they were reaching out to people.  When I heard they were offering a $2,000.00 scholarship.  I prayed if it was Gods will for me to go to Bible School, He would open the door for me.  I always wanted to go to Bible School but never had been able to go.  I called in that same night and requested an application form, which came very promptly.  After completing all the requirements I submitted my application.

About six weeks later I received a voice-mail saying I had been accepted to River Bible Institute.  Halleluiah!  I was so happy at first but then I began to think that the voice-mail didn’t say I had received the scholarship, only that I had been accepted to the school, so the next day I called River Bible Institute and kept playing phone tag with the people I was trying to reach that afternoon.  The next morning I called the number back and the operator told me the number could not be completed as dialed, so, I tried about four or five times with the same results.  I called information and asked for the River Bible Institute telephone number in Tampa, Florida.  The information operator told me they had no such listing.  I told her I had used the same number yesterday with no problems.  She asked me if I wanted to speak to her supervisor and I replied yes.  He looked up the number on the computer and said the same thing.  I realized there was no sense in arguing with him so I hung up.  As soon as I hung up my mind took off like a rocket ship.  It started telling me this was a fly-by-night deal and it was a scam and the people had pulled the plug and had run off. James M.

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I came to The River in 2005 with my mother and father. My dad attended The River Bible Institute for first year in 2006. I was always one of those people who said, “I will never, ever go to The River Bible Institute.” But, God had different plans. In the summer, before my first year I finally decided to move full speed ahead towards the things of God. I was sitting in my seat at the last night of Igniting a Generation when Pastor Todd started a River Bible Institute and River School of Worship alter call. I sat in my seat, and when it came time for people to go to the alter; I realized my heart was beating fast.

I thought “no way, not me!”, but I knew I should be up there. I fought it for a good five minutes, and Pastor Todd kept the alter call open for a while. I finally decided to just go up, and I lifted off of my chair, and sat back down… twice. I did not want to come. But, little did I know that it was going to have such an incredibly positive impact on my life. Finally, I got up and actually went up to the alter call.

The moment I got to the front I began to cry uncontrollably. I got an application, and didn’t apply for a long time. I actually changed my mind about going a couple weeks later. I was sure I was not going to go. But, then the day that Momentum got back from camp, right when we got off the bus Rom Dacosta pushed me up to Pastor Todd and told him I am coming to school. It became official; I am just going to go…..Rachel P.

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The Great Awakening meetings that started this Sunday have been building momentum within just a short time span of five full days. We have been going live across the world into homes all over America and across the world and the impact has already been tremendous. CTN has been airing the meetings every single night this week and lives are being touched and changed for eternity. People who are flipping through the channels on their tv are stopping to watch the services where the power of God is falling.

While they are watching they are getting saved right where they are, healed from all types of sickness, and set free from addictions and bondages that have been holding them captive. This is only the first week that the meetings have been aired and people are already coming in from all over the world to be a part of what is happening at the River church. This will only pick up momentum as the days and weeks go by. The purpose of these meetings is to bring a Great Awakening to America and bring this nation back to God as our national pledge says, “One nation under God…”

This nation will see a Great Awakening sweep across it from every house. I am so excited to be a part of this and to have the honor of serving during these meetings; to be a part of making an eternal difference in the kingdom. It is so amazing to see what a large group of people we can reach through the airwaves and how they are being touched and changed by the fire of God. -Laura P

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God is moving in the Tampa Bay, Florida. If you are hungry for God, come join us and see how he has been touching lives . The Bible tells us that we will see miracles , The blind eyes will open, we will lay hands on the sick’s and they shall recover. One morning, we went out soul winning in a neighborhood in Tampa where I  meet a very sick and blind woman.  I went to her house with a sister in Christ and we prayed for her healing that she may have sight- after we left I called her and she said that she felt a lot better. 

A couple days afterwards I called her to check how she was doing she told me that she was totally healed, and now able to freely walk around her home. Last week,  I went to pray with her after I finished praying miraculously, she told me she can see me her eyes opened partial / I brought a new convert with me in her house she saw the guy and started to prophesy to him she described him totally. Hallelujah! Also since, she’s been going around the house, walking and praising God. Praise God her grandson accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior also. Praise God.  -Ruth M.

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It’s the third week of the great awakening and God is still doing incredible things in the lives of people around the world.  This week the presence of God was so thick every single service. I did the Great awakening prayer calls on Tuesday and the presence of God was there. There was one lady that called and she said she needed healing, so I prayed for her and I heard the phone drop. I got worried cause I thought he had fallen but she picked up the phone and ask “are you still there?” I said “yes ma’am what’s going on” she said Praise the Lord I’m walking, I’m walking!!! I haven’t walked in years!! At that point I was completely smacked.

God will never fail it’s just completely amazing to see what God is doing to and through people and I’m excited for the things that he is going to do this year.  It’s so awesome we had a Celebrity that was watching us online totally gave his heart to the Lord and he said it himself “I just got the fire of God” and now he’s watching service everyday and God is changing his families life and it’s so awesome!  Who knows who’s watching, God can touch anybody anywhere. Pastor Rodney has been blessed with another level of sharing the Gospel and that’s through television and many lives are being changed right there in many homes. God is so good!! It’s such an opportunity to be apart of this ministry.   –Rom D.

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What another amazing week here at the River Church.  God has been doing so many things in the lives of those that have sought Him and have been hungry for His presence.  There have been many things that God has been doing in me and showing me through the course of this week.  One of the biggest things that has become more and more of a reality to me this week is that what God is doing in me is not as much for me as it is for those around me and those that I encounter.  This has been a topic that has been preached for a long time here at the River but it has become more and more real to me over the course of the last couple of weeks. 

When God touches me He does it so that I may allow Him to flow through me to touch others.  The calls that I have been taking in the call center have been amazing as I hear the joy and the release in the voice of those that God has touched. The ones that I have encountered on the streets have been so amazing that it is almost hard to put into words.  Everything that God has done in me and for me is so that I may go and touch a generation of people who are desperate for a touch from Heaven.  Seeing people react when they realize that God is not mad at them but rather loves them is something that I personally will never get tired of seeing.  People who were hooked on alcohol, drugs, pornography, and even self despair and defeat until this one encounter with the Spirit of God and will forever have their lives altered and are now bound for an eternity with Jesus is one of the greatest miracles that we will ever have the privilege of witnessing.-Darrel G.

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The last couple of services I’ve had the privilege of serving people all around the world.  I am thankful for the chance to pray with callers that call in.  While I am praying for others God is doing a work in me.  I’ve begun to meditate on the scriptures we read and it empowers me to further understand the hope to which we’ve been called.  In light of this everything else we do in life that does not honor God is futile.  I find myself convicted, repentant, and recreated each time I serve.  I am not saying I’m perfect because all have fallen short of the glory of God, however, I can see God perfecting me each time I serve, each time I pour myself out. 

I don’t have to put on a show because it is God that does the work.  I am learning to yield to him and not to my flesh.  I have also observed that when I release myself into the hands of the master.  When I cast my cares upon him, there is always a resolution.  I’ve also found that being in the services the presence of God keeps you, nourishes you, and energizes your mortal body.  When we strive to do these things in the flesh we grumble, complain, moan, and groan.  I pray that I no longer walk after the flesh but continue to walk in the spirit so that I not entertain any moaning and groaning.  Thank you Father God for giving me a new heart and placing your spirit within me; I will overcome the flesh in Jesus’ name.- Jeremy P.