Again there is so much to say, so I need to focus again on some key highlights. The crowd was huge last night. They had to put 10,000 chairs out. The space at the front was totally packed for worship.
The worship went on for over two hours, and I don’t know exactly how long, because I got ‘lost’ in it! After about an hour I was really feeling tired, and then I felt a huge wave of God’s presence over me and I was crying and hearing God. His presence is so tangible here. I am also aware that I am being ‘given’ something. Or in the words of many here, something is being ‘imparted’ to me. There is something in my being that I want to give away! The other day we went to TGI Fridays to get lunch and people were praying for their waiter. We ended up praying for our waiter. Yesterday morning someone was praying for a woman’s legs at breakfast. There’s a boldness that comes over people here to pray God onto people.
Interestingly, in the worship, I felt that the deeper glory that was coming tonight was going to be an increase of this anointing going to the nations. Not long after that we went into a corporate prayer/worship/intercession time contending for the nations. Kathryn and I also felt that there was a contest tonight, with the sense that this may well get more costly for some people from now on. Todd then got up and spoke about the personal cost of this revival for him.
Todd’s message showed what God has done in this man to enable him to front what is a move of God beyond a man. How God has broken him and brought a deeper humility into his life. When he says (and he did several times) that this is not about him or his ministry being built you can sense the integrity. The integrity needed for God to be able to put so much on one man’s shoulders. It would be so hard for me to capture what he said, a very personal story from his recent last years. Watch it on god.tv.
Again, healings broke out, again too many to mention. I absolutely love it when God heals someone before anyone can get near them! Todd called out a specific word of knowledge for a woman with a neck problem that had been operated on and it had not solved it, but made it worse. He pointed in the direction of the back, and we saw a woman in red coming up. By the time she had got to the stage she was healed!
We’re coming home today, and I believe I have a new fire in my belly!
Tags: healings, revival, revivalist, Todd Bentley
So glad that you have kept us in touch with Lakeland through your personal blog. I was particularly encouraged by your stories of individuals and your concern for those who were not healed during the meetings. Thank you.