May 12th, 2008
“Please take My Name off Your List!”
» Posted in Post at 9:28 pm
Since 1999, I’ve never had so many people UNSUBSCRIBE from receiving my online ministry messages.
Man! I mean every day lately, 4…5…a half dozen people are asking to have their name taken off my list
(at the same time, April was a record month for “hits” on my websites as people from more and more nations are
spending longer and longer reading the messages God has given me). I’ve even had a man say he wanted to
UNSUBSCRIBE from my WEBSITE, of all things - something to which neither he or anyone else has ever had to
subscribe, by the way.
Several friends have written me recently describing even venemous responses regarding the Lakeland Revival. At least
a half dozen people have sent me the same article by a man named Andrew Strom whose message is veiled as a Christian
warning about the Lakeland revival but comes across as nothing less than a man with too much time on his hands.
Maybe he’s envious. Maybe he’s deceived. His intentions are good but, c’mon, man! We prayed for revival and we get
our knickers in a twist when it comes because it doesn’t lok the way we THOUGHT it should look.
How long did the Jews pray for the Messiah to come? When He came, and didn’t look like they THOUGHT He should,
well…they killed Him.
What’s happening? What am I doing differently that’s become such a turn-off to so many people? Actually, I can trace
this back to two things on which I’ve written quite a bit lately: 1) the apostolic ministry and 2) the Lakeland Revival.
Talk about two subjects that have traditionally brought division to the Body of Christ. Phew! Oddly enough, it’s
common to hear people say that unity within the Church will bring revival. Truth is, the ministry of Intercessory Prayer
always ushers in the apostolic ministry which will comes before revival which tends to bring division to the Church.
Always has.
Where Revival is concerned, there has NEVER been a tidy move of God. NEVER! Therefore, I’m not at all surprised by
all the feather-ruffling that’s going on..
Attached is a video of Todd Bentley preaching (below). You can forward to 1:09 and surpass the worship and testimonies
and go right to Todd’s preaching.
Watch it. You decide if Jesus isn’t being lifted up.
You choose whether or not to believe what’s being said about all the signs and wonders taking place there.
You can make up your mind if this isn’t a message that every preacher and priest in the nation doesn’t need to take to heart.
You determine if this isn’t a Word that EVERY Christian needs right now!
By the way, my personal feeling about what’s going on in Lakeland is that this revival is NOT even about what’s going on
in Lakeland…it’s all about what’s going on from one heart to another all across the planet. People are being revived, my
friends. That means that which was previously dead is alive again. That’s called a resurrection. Although signs and wonders
are wonderful, the greatest thing of all is a life that’s changed because an individual had an encounter with Christ.
To illustrate, I have an expression that I’ve used for years. I might say something like, “If I get hit by a beer truck tonight,
make sure you do such ‘n such…” The other day, the Holy Spirit reminded me that anyone who has ever been hit by a
beer truck has been forever changed by that close encounter of the worst kind. Likewise, anyone who has ever had an
encounter with the living Christ will also be changed. That’s the limus test: Is anything radically different…or is there any
difference at all?
What I’m enjoying most about my own ministry these days - call it revival WITHIN ME, if you will (I do!) - is that sick people
are getting well more often than they used to. Prophetic utterances are flowing more regularly and moving people to tears
as they witness with what the Spirit has just said. God has given me a clearer revelation of His intentions for His Church.
More visions are coming to me as well. More are being filled with the Holy Spirit and are speaking in tongues. Has any
of this had anything to do with Lakeland? Frankly, no. The ONLY thing I have in common with Lakeland is the same
thing I have in common with any Catholic or any Pentecostal.
Jesus.
If Christ in me, the hope of glory is the same Christ that’s healing and encountering lives in Lakeland, we - all part of the
same Body of Christ - are ALL part of the same revival; the same outpouring of His Spirit.
Get it?
People who have attended the meetings in Lakeland - laid their hands on their computers or praised God in front of their TV’s -
have also received an impartation while others bicker and complain. Saturday, a woman and her spouse, whom I have never met,
drove in from New Mexico to receive healing ministry in my home. As I prayed before hand, the Spirit showed me that she
wasn’t coming only to receive prayer; she was coming to receive an impartation to take back to her community. When I told her
that, she wept with joy for God had shown her that very thing.
That evening, a couple from Austin and another from San Antonio watched the “Finger of God” video with me. Their lives were
impacted. The next day, we ministered to them and their lives were transformed forever. In each case, not only were they blessed,
but an impartation came to them - something that they could take home to their ever-darkening communities and workplaces.
The one young man shared about how wonderful it’s been to pray with his wife and how they drovehome talking about their
encounter with God without the radio playing.
They received an impartation.
I won’t go on. Watch the video. I pray you can get past Todd’s enthusiastic preaching, his tattoos and piercings (he’s
preaching through my speakers right now as I type. God is using Todd the same way He used Balaam’s donkey, Saul of
Tarsus, me or you.
One last thing: there are two notable voices in Heaven, that of Jesus making intercession for the Saints, and that of Satan, the
accuser of the brethren. Are you interceding with Jesus on Todd’s behalf? Or have you aligned yourself with the accusing,
finger-pointing nay-sayers?
Selah.
Every blessing,
Michael Tummillo
A servant of God
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