The past couple months God has changed my life, DRAMATICALLY. I went on a mission’s trip to Honduras fully expecting to come home and move to Pennsylvania for college. While I was in Honduras I knew that God had called me to the mission field. I did not know exactly where, but I wanted to know. That I wanted to go deeper in my walk with God, I wanted to become intimate with him! I wanted to truly experience his love! I told God that I would do whatever it took to get where I need to be, he has to provide, but I will take the step. So I soon was informed about RBI. I instantly knew that that  is where God has called me to be. Soon after I was informed that I received a full scholarship and my pastor Rodney Howard Browne in Plant City found me a place to live for a great price!! God taught me then that he will always provide for me!

When I got here I was excited, but not sure what to expect. I was 10 hours away from home and the lifestyle that I had always known. Soon God showed me how to adapt. He became my best friend! He became the lover of my soul! He has overwhelmed me with blessings and wonders! Over and over he continues to touch me. Being a part of RBI I have already found so many things in my heart that need to go. Things that I never even noticed before; but God has revealed them to me. I have been touched by his fire, embraced by his presence, set free from dead religion, self-doubt and confusion. God has opened up so many doors for me and has blessed me with amazing people who are not afraid to correct me. I have fallen in love with the most Holy King; I have a new realization of his Word AND his Spirit…Kaitlyn S.

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Rodney Howard Browne shows us that each service was another touch by God in the fire, burning more out and leaving me cleaner, fresher, freer and more joyous. Three hundred words are not near enough to describe the amazing experiences that I have been through since school began! I can only say that I don’t even recognize myself, and I am in awe of my God! I know He is real and that He loves me and desires to have an intimate relationship with me!

I am working on security and while on duty I pray in tongues the entire time. I am literally on fire and have such a heightened sense in the spiritual realm! Last night on duty the Holy Ghost had me zoned in on a certain woman all night. She got up to leave early and I felt the prompting to go after her. I left my post and went outside to catch her. I introduced myself to her and after talking with her found that she had planned to kill herself. I brought her back in and got a pastor to pray with her. She came back in to the service, and Pastor was walking around slowly praying for only a couple of individuals. I began to intercede for this woman in the spirit and prayed that the anointing would seek and find her. He only prayed for maybe 7 individuals that night and the 2nd to last one was her.

He came out from the front into the aisle and stood in front of her and gave a word of knowledge for her, telling her that God was aware of all that she was going through, etc. and then he laid hands on her! I was so overwhelmed at the glory of God that I ran to the back and began jumping up and down in joy and then he asked that I be brought to Him where he laid hands on me. God is so good. I feel like He wants me to know that He is moving in and through me. That being effective in God’s hands is a miracle coming from my past! I am a new creature in Christ! I will never be the same again! I am sold out completely to Christ!

In Great Awakening Tours one morning, a few short weeks after I had been living here in Tampa, pressing in, and starting to attend services regularly at The River, my mom came to visit us. We were sitting in Sunday service, and a young lady came up on stage to give a testimony. Rodney Howard Brown tells us that she was talking about trusting God and sewing and reaping. She gave a two hundred dollar offering, and then the next morning the young girl went to check her mail. There, sitting in a blank white envelope – was double the amount of money she had given the day before.

I remember looking over at my mother’s face and seeing nothing but discouragement. I asked her what was wrong, and she simply replied with, “nothing like that ever happens to me.” I got to share with my mom about how I had been praying months before moving here for school, about the apartment and about my car. I told her all we had to do is believe, and receive. It was that easy. She listened, and we went home, nothing more was said. The next day, my mom was checking OUR mailbox, and in it, was not only a envelope from the bank for her, but envelopes for me, and my brother as well.

She sat down on the sofa, and slowly opened hers, handing me mine. Immediately I started laughing. God is so good. With tears rolling down my mom’s face, she read her check from the bank out loud, and in it was eight hundred dollars. Thank you Jesus! We both sat in the living room of our new place, laughing and crying. God’s love washed over me. Not even caring about opening the check, all I could do was thank Him – realizing and seeing everything that he has done for me. Holding the check in my hands was a wakeup call. Just to remember what he is doing daily, and to not become complacent or selfish. He promised us he was going to take care of us, and we have to try not to take things for granted. We have to count our blessings daily. Carly H.

Great Awakening Tours wants us to know that when we were asked to write about what God has been doing in us since we got here for school, I have to say I was a bit at a loss. Not because God hasn’t been doing things in me, they just haven’t become concrete yet. I know for sure that this season is a season of demarcation in my life. From when God first called me out of California and the apathetic, backslidden life I had allowed myself to degenerate into, to this day, I can, in fact, see the fruit of this decision. Tonight Pastor Eric was giving an alter call and a sentence he spoke summed up my life in California exactly.

Drinking, smoking pot, living in sensuality, and yet yearning constantly for God to change me. I knew all of those things were empty and futile, but I felt alone, had no community, no body of believers or even friends to spur me on to what was right. At every turn people were encouraging me down that road of self fulfillment, of instant gratification. Thanks be to God that He spoke clearly enough for me to hear Him in the state I was in to FLEE California. Great Awakening Tours shows that there were many acts of supernatural provision made by Him just to get me here. I had no idea, at all, what was in store for me. I had never even heard of Pastor any of this ministry before my mom started watching in the early spring.  Frances H.