June 3rd, 2008

Secular report on the Florida Healing Outpouring

» Posted in Post at 9:28 pm

Hey, check this out! Even the secular media is starting to take notice. Have you heard about

what’s going on in Lakeland, Florida? I’m amazed at how few have told me they were aware

of anything at all going on there. In fact, one man who lives in Lakeland asked ME to tell

HIM about it!

There’s a huge revival going on there. Now, folks, this so-called “revival” may not be “it,”

but tell that to those who’ve been healed or whose lives have been changed as a direct result.

We must certainly agree that The Church not only needs revival, many of our affiliates

REALLY need to be “vived,” House Churchers included. We can argue doctrine till we’re

blue in the face but let us bear in mind the wise words of Gamaliel (Acts 5:38-39 AMP):

“…if this doctrine or purpose or undertaking or movement is of human origin, it will fail

(be overthrown and come to nothing); But if it is of God, you will not be able to stop or

overthrow or destroy them; you might even be found fighting against God!”

I’ve seen too much of this Lakeland thingy first-hand - lives changed directly as a result

of an impartation received from those who went to Lakeland - to convince myself that

God isn’t in this thing. Those I know who went there had an encounter with God, despite

Todd’s finest efforts, just as they are blessed by things I say and do and write in Jesus’

Name despite myself. I’m finding more and more that the problem begins when we think

that healing and spiritual gifts have anything to do with we Christians. Many miracles are

taking place in Lakeland, true, but many lives are being radically changed as a direct

result of exposure to all things Lakeland as well (I admit it, my computer monitor has its

share of finger prints on it, evidence of my reaching out to “get some” of what God is

pouring out in Lakeland). I’m not sure that this is “the” revival we’ve all been praying for

these many years, but I’m certain Jesus wasn’t the Messiah the Jews expected either. They

didn’t like the packaging maybe causing many dispensationalists to “pierce-a-cute” Todd

Bentley.

Let’s not forget that, per the Jim Rutz book “MegaShift” (get it!), radical miracles, including

resurrections - are taking place all over the planet. Though Lakeland has accounted for 19 at

last count, MegaShift is loaded with such happenings. Yes, we’re lagging way behind in the numbers

returning from the dead but, true to American form, we’ll boast even about our lower numbers,

thrilled to the core because, after all, we’re Americans. Truth is, all kinds of healing miracles are taking

place in homes, conference rooms, churches of all flavors all over the planet all the time these days.

Our dependence upon doctors, surgery, medicine, vitamins, oat bran and insurance have had us LESS

dependent upon Jesus and more like a big Nazareth. Could Lakeland be a great big microcosm of the

Church at Large in America right now? Is God taking back control of His Church?

Though I’ve been cautioned by well-meaning people to “toot my own horn” and NOT Bentley’s,

truth is, I prefer to toot the horn of Christ - the shofar, the ram’s horn used by the Jews to signal

an assembly - or to signal the start of a war. Honestly, I’ve been of the opinion that a type of

civil war was coming during my lifetime (I’m an American Civil War nut). I should have

considered that it might take place in The Church over the matter of revival. AFter all, Jesus declared in

Matthew 10: 34-36, “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace,

but a sword. ‘I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a

daughter-in-law against her mother-in- law. Your enemies will be right in your own household!’ “

You won’t see THAT verse on a Christmas card…

Check out the MSNBC LINK below. At the bottom are many comments left by readers, including

my own comments and those of a few friends. Feel free to leave yours!

Every blessing,

Michael Tummillo

A servant of God

www.YourTown4Jesus.com

See latest MSNBC news report concerning Florida Healing Outpouring!

As GOD TV continues to break with our regular schedules to bring you Todd Bentley LIVE each night from the Florida Healing Outpouring, more and more commercial networks are responding to our extensive coverage of the revival with requests for interviews.

Just recently one of the USA’s leading news broadcasters MSNBC carried an article on their website and they are considering much wider coverage. Please assist GOD TV and Fresh Fire ministries to get the word out to the global marketplace by reading this article and leaving your comments.

In this way other news agencies will pick up on the story and we can share with more people the miraculous things God is doing in people’s lives right now, not only in the Lakeland but across the globe via the airwaves.

Visit this link now: http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/29/1075189.aspx

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