A couple years after I received Christ, the Lord set me in a house church that was in active revival in a small farm community where I had gone to high school. We saw salvations, healings, miracles, and deliverances. We saw people get cavities filled miraculously with gold and silver colored metals. Forty-five years later, I have a silver filling from that day God supernaturally filled cavities among our fellowship. We saw a man they described as crippled from birth have his deformed legs straightened before our eyes. Asthma healed, tumors dissolve, and cancers healed. We met from house to house assembling for prayer, teaching, and ministry. I didn’t grow up around Christian’s and had no idea what church was supposed to look like. I thought I was witnessing the way church was done. Sadly, I would learn later, that this was a movement of God, and it was an exception not the rule.
The couple called to an apostolic work in that region were joined with prophets and teachers to establish Spirit filled gatherings in an area dominated by Mormonism. I was very blessed to be a part of this at the time and was able to watch and observe Ephesians 4 in full display for four years with the church abundant in its giftings impacting the greater region. Our prayer meeting would last for hours, preachers would come from other small towns to join us in our meetings, to get revived and refilled. I was there as a new convert in 1980, and I saw what it looked like to have a house full of believers along with the 5-fold ministry mentioned in Ephesians 4, lying flat on their back under the power of the Holy Spirt, in the middle of Holy Ghost revival. I saw the strange and unique phenomena of a corporate song in tongues in all its harmonious glory, shift into a corporate interpretation, of the like I’ve yet to see again.
There I was a young person watching it all, thinking this was what church was like all the time. What I didn’t realize at the time was that I had been planted in a school of demonstration, where God confirms His word with signs and wonders following. Learning the keys to God’s power was prayer ministry, and intercessory prayer towards the meetings, that carved out a place for the prophetic to flow, and the body of Christ to function as one stewarding the outpouring of God. As life moved on from that amazing experience into times a little more mundane I would still see God move in a lot of ways, in miracles, healings, and deliverances, in various places, and institutions; but I would never see anything like that again that took place in that small town influencing the spiritual atmosphere in the area in such a big way. Where a whole congregation is impacted by a visitation of the Holy Spirit, moving in that kind of power as one. Unfortunately, the way worship has moved away from congregational participation in contemporary churches, it would be impossible for a congregation wide move of God to that degree, now.
On Sunday mornings we loaded up in our cars and attended an independent Pentecostal church pastored by a retired tent revivalist of the dust bowl era, down the road 40 minutes into a remote farming community. We piled out of our cars and the Jesus movement era, collided with the saw dust trail. I will never forget those days as long as I live!
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Revival requires prayer, prayer requires intent!
Deana shares keys to prophetic prayer revival, that can lead to the greater glory of God manifesting among us.
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