So this is my testimony of how coming to the River Bible School has helped me so far. A member who goes to the River Church presented the idea for me to go and so I thought to myself wow I never thought about doing that. I had alot going on and for the time put in on the back burner in my life. Well it kept coming to my mind about my going and was something I couldn’t get off my mind. Mean while I was attending the River church and kept being told by my friend that I needed to go to the school. The thought of coming scared me but excited me. I was scared to step out of my comfort zone and do things that I hadn’t done before yet.

I was trying to trust God since I had changed churches but was struggling with not having my friends there. I was struggling with my relationship with God and had been for a while. I then decide that I wanted a full relationship with God and not a half hearted one. I was praying God if it’s meant for me to go to the River School then the door will be open for me to go and if not then the door will be closed. So I prayed and asked God how to go about everything. In the mist of my praying things started to change in my life and things started to move and doors started to be opened.

One of the Pastors from the River was put on my heart to go and talk to and so I did. I was so encouraged after my meeting and had the best new out look on things and was forever grateful for this Pastor. This Pastor helped me in many ways. I said to this Pastor that I wanted to go to the school but hadn’t fully decided yet. This Pastor said well I wouldn’t discourage you I would certainly encourage you. That many people that go thru the school say it’s the best thing they could have done. So we prayed and this Pastor said go sit in service and was blessed and that I was. Still not fully sure if I was going to go to school or not all the while God already had it all planned out.

That same morning Pastor Rodney asked everyone to stand and gave an alter call and said, “If you feel that your suppose to be going to the school or if you didn’t sign up yet due to finances then come up here right now.” Well I stood in my seat not sure if I wanted to do this or not and Pastor Rodney said “There are more of you I no it” come down right now!! So I said ok God if I’m going to do this I have to step out of my comfort zone and put my trust in you!! So I came down and decide that I was going to school.

Like this particular Pastor said so far it’s been one of the best choices I could have made for myself. Since starting school I have learned so many things. I saw that I was relying more on friends then I was God. It took me being taken out of my comfort zone to see that. It was like one of those I had to be taken out of the picture so I could see my own picture but from the outside. I have been taken out of my comfort zone already and am learning to put all my trust in God and no body else but him. Because with God by my side I can get thru anything!!

I have made lots of new friends that have helped me thru things that I was going thru by sharing there testimony of things there going thru. God put who I needed in my path at the time I needed them. I just had to trust in him that he would. I now have a better understanding of things and have grown a lot already in my relationship with God. I had that same friend who told me I should go to the school tell me that I am looking like a total new person.

How that since going thru this school so far I have so many more smiles and I just look awesome!! Hearing that encouraged me all the more and encouraged me that I had made the right choice. I am really learning a lot about everything and all the while a lot about my Faith and how to use it more. I no that my God is bigger then any fear I have!! I just have to step out and know that he is there to catch me when I fall. As well as being there with continued encouragement when I have to step out of my comfort zone. I can’t wait to see what God has in store for me thru this next year. I no that the best is yet to come…..

So this is my testimony of how coming to the River Bible School has helped me so far. A member who goes to the River Church presented the idea for me to go and so I thought to myself wow I never thought about doing that. I had alot going on and for the time put in on the back burner in my life. Well it kept coming to my mind about my going and was something I couldn’t get off my mind. Mean while I was attending the River church and kept being told by my friend that I needed to go to the school.

The thought of coming scared me but excited me. I was scared to step out of my comfort zone and do things that I hadn’t done before yet. I was trying to trust God since I had changed churches but was struggling with not having my friends there. I was struggling with my relationship with God and had been for a while. I then decide that I wanted a full relationship with God and not a half hearted one. I was praying God if it’s meant for me to go to the River School then the door will be open for me to go and if not then the door will be closed. So I prayed and asked God how to go about everything.

In the mist of my praying things started to change in my life and things started to move and doors started to be opened. One of the Pastors from the River was put on my heart to go and talk to and so I did. I was so encouraged after my meeting and had the best new out look on things and was forever grateful for this Pastor. This Pastor helped me in many ways. I said to this Pastor that I wanted to go to the school but hadn’t fully decided yet. This Pastor said well I wouldn’t discourage you I would certainly encourage you.

That many people that go thru the school say it’s the best thing they could have done. So we prayed and this Pastor said go sit in service and was blessed and that I was. Still not fully sure if I was going to go to school or not all the while God already had it all planned out.  Naomi H.

Last summer I came down to visit my sister and mom, and came to The River with them. The Holy Spirit convicted me, and I immediately began to change my life. I rededicated my life to the Lord and stopped drinking. I still lived and went to college in NC, so I was only able to visit Florida a couple of times a year. Within a few months of my new walk with the Lord, I knew I wanted to move to Florida. I still had a lease on an apartment, until this summer, so I had to stay and wait it out. I took this time to press into God. I watched The Great Awakening every night as God continued to work in my life and change me. The more I pressed in, the more I hated my old life. As I began my walk with the Lord, I lost all of my friends from the world. This only made it easier to leave it all behind.

I moved to Tampa in June of this year. Summer Camp Meeting changed my life. I became even more hungry for God. The lord then planted Bible school on my heart. At the time, I had already made arraignments to be a transfer student at USF, for my senior year. However, God had another plan for me. I decided to sow the money for the application fee for RBI and prayed that if it was the Lord’s will for me to go then the money would come back to me. Two days later my application fee was paid for and I had changed my whole life path. God even blessed me with a new bag and expensive laptop, to confirm I was making the right choice.

In Bible school has begun I already notice so many changes in myself. I notice that in the small things there is a big change. I have more patience, integrity, wisdom and self?control. I am also learning how to walk in love towards everyone around me. I am happier than I have ever been. The Lord has already done so much for me and in me that I can only be excited to see what He has in store for my future….Joy M.

My Pastor didn’t approve of me coming, so I started to pray to God to show them I had to be here. God did just that, he spoke to my Senior Pastor and my church blessed me for my plane ticket and my first month rent of housing. As I was flying to Florida I was nervous but I just kept asking God for strength and peace, because coming to a new place all by your self is not easy. The Great Awakening Tour shows that leaving your comfort zone is never easy, but I could say to anyone, “It’s so worth it”.  Once I arrived I was ready to start classes but they told us classes won’t start yet until after revival week. After one week of revival god decided to make another week of revival, which I was super happy about because God knows that I needed another week, there was so many things God still needed to break inside me.

Rodney Howard Browne shows that now in that week God little by little started to break down many walls that I didn’t even know I had. I thought this whole time I was good and I didn’t need anything, but I was so wrong. On Thursday September 8^th God did something amazing in my life. Not only in mine but I believe in all the students in RBI/RSW. I have been asking God to show me how I could be a true giver, not because I wanted something in return but just because I wanted to be a true blessing to someone else. On Thursday every student started to give anything that God would put in their hearts.

Rodney Howard Browne says that when I made the decision to go to R.B.I God started opening up doors left and right in my life. I had no idea how I was going to pay for it or where I was going to live so I just believed God and Pastor Rodney ended up giving me a scholarship which was a huge blessing. Rodney Howard Brown tells us that when I went looking for apartments the manager of the first apartment I checked out went to R.B.I a few years ago. She ended up giving my roommate and I a great deal. God has really had his hand upon me and has been doing a quick work in my life. On July 31st he dropped it into my spirit to go to bible school and within that week I got a scholarship and an apartment. Since coming to bible school God has been doing miraculous things in my life. Orientation week was amazing! I got touched by the fire of God and my life will never be the same again.

God is downloading things into my spirit and I am being used like never before. There is a holy boldness on the inside of me to go out and preach the gospel and I have such a burden for souls. 34 people have already come to know Christ as their Lord and savior through one on one ministry.  That three of them got baptized in the Holy Ghost and three others have gotten healed by praying the word of God. My prayer life has grown. I have become so yielded to the presence and the things of God and God has been speaking to me. I am already learning so much and it is not just head knowledge but it has gone directly into my spirit. According to the Great Awakening Tour that praying out the things I have learned has been awesome and God has been moving in power. I am stepping out of my comfort zone and I am amazed about what God has been doing. My life has already drastically changed in the past 3 weeks and God is doing some amazing things in and through me. This next 9 months is going to change my life forever and I can’t wait to see what God has in store for me. I am yielding completely to his work!

My life has change so much . I pray to re-dedicate my life to Christ Jesus, at the beginning of this year. I was really complacent. I always wanted to witness and wont people to the Lord. Going out to the street and talk to people about the Bible and tell that God loves them. And I had no result, when I saw all testimonies on TV, and that they winning people to the Lord, I had to get down to Tampa to get trained. Since I had started used the script, I have led around about 150 people to the Lord. In 20 years before that,  probable about 10 people to Jesus Christ.

I wanted to go to the Bible College since I was 18 years old, I always had reason not to go. Any how since I’ve being here I have more peace on the inside, and more of sensitivity to Holy Spirit. I now listening to more worship music, and when I do the Holy Ghost comes over me. I stated to laugh and cry. That didn’t happen before. I can feel the Holy Spirit welling up  in my stomach. I’ve also got more of hunger for just wanted to read the Bible. I believe my mind is been renewed by the Word of God every day. I feel the presence of God every time I witness to people, and I learning a lot of sowing and planting seed.

My experience during the student great awakening conference.

I have during this meeting falling under the power of God, and I have seen many people touch.

In that during one of the morning meeting, the anointing fall strongly, I did feel the rivers of water inside of me, like I never before have sense it. Lord did do something deep in my spirit during this morning. That touch did change me during that meeting.

I did get a full conviction and understanding of my vision, why I’m here at the RBI school, and what I will do in the future.

Rodney Howard Brown tells us that now I feel the deep anointing, the anointing flowing inside of me. It’s a different anointing that I have experience before.

He did reveal my vision; I was so happy that I cried. During that meeting I did come closer to the Lord.

I did during the meetings learn more about the anointing, by sensing His presence.

My eyes did get more open to it, and I’m so amazed over what God have done in me in this short period of time.

I realize how important it is to stand, or be under the anointing. I can see how I’m changed in many areas in my life during my time at The River.

My strongest wish is to tell people that there is a Savior, which really exists. He does amazing things with people, setting them free from what ever you can imagine.

My hope is now to maintain the faith level I have here at The River. I thank God out of my whole heart for the work He have done in me, and what He continuing doing in me….Rudi W.

This week has been so amazing . I’ve been able to watch the young people in our church catch the overall vision of what is really taking place here right now. They are coming out soul winning on Fridays. This past Friday, we went to go to high school, but the kids had gotten out early. we went to the neighborhood across the street and have the privilege of leading over 90 of the residence to the Lord. One of the women received a healing and went around telling all her neighbors that Jesus had healed her.

She was able to bring three people to Jesus by just telling what He had done for her. Tuesday nights in the call center have also  been so powerful. This past Tuesday one of our sixteen year old boys, who has taken calls before got quite a shock. A couple of months ago, he prayed for a lady who called crying with a whole list of problem that she needed prayer for.

Rodney Howard Browne tells us that the boy prayed for her. This week the same lady called back to give the praise report of what God had done in her life and wound up talking to him again. Another one of the young lady’s from our children’s church, who is only eleven years old, had an urgency to take prayer calls even though she is so young. She took fourteen prayer calls that night that included salvations and a healing! God is moving in our children in a mighty way. -Erica J

Well, I would like to talk about the last week. I have had an awesome experience with God. The Camp Meeting  was powerful, I felt the presence of God. In every service I felt the Holy Ghost in my spirit. I felt the fire of the Holy Ghost over my body and spirit. I cannot forget the day that God touch’s me. Was Monday night, I told God, I told the Holy Spirit. You to touch me, not tomorrow, but today. I want you to touch me today.

As I close my eyes and start to pray in tongues. I felt the hand of God touch my stomach. As He touch’s me right there at the service, where I was, I start to scream loud, very loud, and I began to speak in other tongues very loud too. I could stop, It was so good. I felt the anointed; I felt peace inside of me. I will never forget this day.  God is real; yes, He is so real. -Daniel P.

The extent of self worship and disobedience among the people of God and even more so among “trusted” men and women of God was brought to the forefront. The abuse of power, position and authority by men and women of God placed in position of leadership, i.e. “candlesticks” is mind blowing. This is why the move of God is not evident in the “church” because people are worshiping their own created God’s instead of the one and only living God. Indeed there must be a shaking because some of the now dead “candlesticks” need to be removed and replaced with live coals from the true altar of God. It feels like we are living in the days of disobedience by the children of Israel; living in a period of the blind leading the blind because they refuse to see or hear what God is saying.

When homosexuality becomes acceptable in the church and blatant violation of God’s precepts are ignored because people prefer to love men over God, to worship men before God and blind their eyes to what the Word of God says. We need a revival and the time is now. God has found a man in Pastor. A man, who is willing to take a stance for God no matter what the price may be. To be a witness of this living example, to be a part of his army, I am so privileged to be at the River at such a time as this, to be a part of the beginning of the rumblings of revival. I can hardly wait for the middle because there may be no end to this.  –Rosemarie M.