This past month of internship I’ve learned a lot about planning… and how plans never goes the way I plan. I’m very big on planning things: my day, my week, my month, my year. You get the picture. However, I’ve learned that I can plan as much as I want to but God always has his own plan! I’ve learned to be flexible, more flexible than I’ve learned to be in just years one and two of RBI. I’ve learned to be ready at any time, any place, to do anything! That’s ministry. Just need to follow the leading and guiding of the Holy Ghost! Oh. It’s been a stretch!! But it has helped me in so many ways! Its help me grow and die to my flesh more than a few times. Die and die and die again to my planning flesh, but as it says in John 12:14, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit.” I must die to bear fruit in my life. SO that is what I have learned this month in internship.

–Michelle

The word is sown in our hearts but the enemy wants to come in and take it by offenses in our lives and when we yield to the flesh and our mind.  I learned from this teaching the ways the enemy wants to come in and steal what God is doing in our lives. I saw why Jesus said the enemy comes to seek and destroy but He has come to give us life and life more abundantly.  I also saw how unforgiveness can hinder us from receiving the word of the lord and stunts our growth in Christ. That’s why Jesus told us to forgive so we won’t be affected by unforgiveness.  I’m going to guard my heart and make sure no offense comes in and I have forgiven everyone who has hurt me . So then Jesus is telling us that those who will reap are those who have no unforgiveness or the cares of the world affecting them. If we don’t get affected we can reap 30 60 or 100 fold to the degree we surrender.  From this I see that I need to surrender to the Lord in more areas and give some extra things up for the Lord.  Because of this, my life is already radically changed; thank you Jesus.  I’ve learned about renewing the way I’ve been thinking so I don’t yield to the devil and his plans for my life. I don’t want to be like a dog that returns to its vomit.

I have always heard that if you want something you never had you have to do something you have never done. I have prayed in tongues more since I got here in August than I have since I received my prayer language in 1994. I had to repent and ask the LORD to forgive me. Eating GOD’s word day and night and building myself up on my most Holy Faith praying in the Holy Ghost is the only way we will be overcomers in these last days. It is a never ending process, get filled up to over flowing with the anointing and then go give it away. Set the captives free and be a blessing to everyone you meet. Learning to pray the Word of GOD over the people on the telephones and to see them receive the Fire and the Joy has blessed me also.

–Gary

I didn’t heal her, but it was Jesus that did the healing because of our faith in Jesus and we agreed together and believed all thing are possible even using my cell phone to get me there to pray with her. AMEN! I never realized that the more I give the more he blesses me. I cannot out give God. It has been amazing to see how God has met my needs in all type of circumstances or situations.  Just when I think I can’t, that is when God steps in and says, YES YOU CAN!! Psalms 37: 3-5 Through all the challenges I have faced, I have keep the Joy of the Lord in my heart which strengthens me as I keep getting my refills of the Holy Spirit at the River Church and each time is a new level I gain in becoming more Christ-like and less of me.       Heb. 12:2 James 1:2    GOD IS GOOD!!   Amen!!

–Betty

there are many areas of life where the word has to be sown into.

Most important for me as a believer is to have an open and clean heart when hearing the word. Let me give a picture of it. When a farmer is preparing his soil where he wants to sow seeds, he does first set fire on the ground to burn away all weeds.

When he finishes with that, he plows the ground so that all weeds are damaged. When the farmer has done that, he starts sowing the seed. When he does that, he knows that the soil is prepared for the seed to grow. Then he starts to water the ground with much water, clean water because he know that the seed need clean water to start making roots for the plant. He also knows that he has to water the ground every day – so he could have a good harvest.

When I stay in the presence of the Lord and let the anointing come into me, the Lord is starting to plow my heart so I can see what is in there. He brings it up to the surface so I can throw it out. By His anointing, He can sow His word (seeds) into the heart (soil) that He has prepared by the anointing. My job is to water the seed that He has put into me and let it grow. I do that by reading, confessing and acting on the word of God that He has put in me.

–Rudi

It is funny how you can hear the Word over and over and understand it with your mind but it doesn’t become a reality until you catch it with your spirit.

According to Mark 4, there are many types of ground and the ground represents the heart. Whether the Word penetrates the heart and grows, or is scorched or choked, depends on the condition of the heart.  I have to guard my heart with diligence and keep it pliable and soft so the Word can continually be sown in my heart and yield fruit. One of the changes I made was to control what is entering my eye and ear gates. I am selective of the movies I watch and I stopped listening to people complain and gossiping. I realized I was polluting my spirit and hardening my heart.

I learned is to take action. As a Bible school student, I made excuses as to why I was not spending more time with God such as I was too busy doing kingdom work and I didn’t have a place to meet since I live with 5 roommates. But then I started sowing the Word in my heart “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” I meditated on that Word for a week, and then all of a sudden spending time with God became a priority.  I would literally feel a pressing need to go home and be alone in my room with God. Then I realized that I wasn’t waiting on God but God was waiting on me all along.

–Rose

I came to The River church last year February, and stated RBI in August 2010. Before coming here I had been a believer for almost ten years but had never experienced anything like what I saw in the River. The first was the soul winning script that made easy for me to lead people to the lord something I have struggled with for so long. The greatest day of my life was the RBI revival of 2010.

I got touch and laugh like a mad woman, what you have to understand is that before I came here I was a believer but bound Like Lazarus when he came out of the grave. I was bound with fear self pity confusion rejection just to name a few. But August 23rd 2010 something happened that turn my whole life around. Pastor Rodney called me out of the crowd and lay his hands on me and I started laughing, because I had hardly laughed before, my rips started cracking up I laugh for 24 hours.

Rodney Howard Browne – I got home at almost midnight and my land lady was still awake when I walked in she looked at me and screamed and I was wondering what had happened to her so I ask her and she said immediately I walked in she saw light on my fore head and she shouted I have joy and she started laughing  before I know she was speaking in tongues ,You have to Understand that my Landlady is a staunch catholic and will even hardly laugh I was amazed with what I was seeing but did not have the time to figure it out because I was over whelmed with joy so we both laugh our heads off till 1 AM. Valentina A.

Rodney Howard Browne says that since I started The River School of Worship, God has really been doing a lot in my life. I had so much hurt from the past that God just took away. At one point in time, I found it very hard to trust in men. At the same time I still wanted to be loved. I realize that people will always let you down, but God is, and always will be there for you. What I have learned since I have been here is to become dependent on God for all my needs. I’m usually the kind of person who worries. Rodney Howard Brown I always wonder how things are going to turn out, and how I can fix it. I don’t even know why I bother going through the unnecessary emotions because God always, always, ALWAYS, comes through. He provides time and time! It made me repent because I had put God in the same category as the people who have hurt me in the past, by not trusting in him.

Through this experience God has also opened my eyes to the way I was treating certain people. Because of my past I would not handle situations very well. God is really teaching me to be patient. I was really set in my ways, and thought that if I wanted something done right I would have to do it myself. My way is not always the best way, and my ways were not Gods’ ways. Rodney Howard Browne stated that God is really working on me because he has put a multitude of people in my path that all have a different way of doing things. I really thank God for those people because I’m learning so much from them.

I guess the point is, I have tried my way of doing things. God’s way is the only way and no matter how uncomfortable I feel, I’m going to do what he tells me because I know that I’m nothing without him. He is really changing my way of thinking, and I want to be used by him. I want my ways to be his ways, always! He is making me a mighty woman of God….Tanyta B.

Rodney Howard Browne indicates that where to even begin, I realize that you wanted us to sum up what the last three weeks have meant to us; however, not filling you in on how and why we’ve even come to be here seems like jumping in midstream.  When my husband and I came to the River for Summer Camp Meeting in July, we were coming to have you pray with us for God to open up doors and reveal His plan for our lives. Rodney Howard Brown says that my plan consisted of His plan starting us in the school of ministry at RBI in 2012, giving us enough time to get our ducks in a row and our bank account padded to make us self-sustaining and secure.

Little did I know that you would, without hesitation I might add, offer our family FULL scholarships to the school of ministry for 2011 – with school starting just seven weeks from the time of the offer.  What looked like an impossibility in the natural, God made happen. Rodney Howard Browne says that and not just happen in seven weeks, but in three.  I knew that God had called us, but was still struggling with the how’s and the securities; trying to figure it all out for myself.  God asked me what my Isaac was, to lay it down before Him and to let Him be God.  My Isaac was security.  Moving to a new place, establishing our family there, being prosperous and financially stable with sufficient income to sustain ourselves and our family was huge!  I knew what our bank account said and that was certainly NOT going to cut it. The Great Awakening Tour

Rodney Howard Browne says that my Change started before I left Canada. My husband had more faith than I had because we drove our car down to Tampa 23hrs. God did a miracle for us because we would have never been able to make the trip in the natural.

When I arrived at RBI I thought it would be impossible for me to go soul winning. For eleven days I was worried. During RBI Revival the Lord showed me that I had anger and bitterness. That same day, I was able to go soul winning with no more worries. That day I won twelve souls to Jesus. That night I shared my testimony by Rodney Howard Brown.

Rodney Howard Browne says that last week when the giving broke-out God continued cleaning me. He told me on to give up the new clothes that I bought since I moved here. Sunday morning, God said the same thing about giving up my new clothes plus the shoes. So, I sent my husband home to get me some more shoes and when He gave them to me to put on the Lord told me to take them off too. I obeyed, but after I gave I started to cry because God was showing me about myself. I needed to change and trust God and not to borrow money to shop. When I don’t have the money would I go to the bank line of credit and borrow money in Great Awakening Tour.

When I moved to Florida, I went to the bank and did the same thing because I didn’t trust God. I was making sure I had what I need, so I don’t have to depend on anybody. I cried out for God to do a cleaning the same way He did for the soul winning. This is good for me to trust God and not the bank. It is painful and not easy, but I know that with Him everything is possible. Rodney Howard Brown says that I believe that I am changed and I want to continue to change. I never had a problem to give money away, but I’ve had a problem giving ‘stuff’ away.

Finally, last night Pastor Eric and Jennifer prayed for me and my shoulder was healed and all the pain left.

Thank you Jesus for your healing and thank you Pastors Rodney and Adonica and God bless you!