Kansas-City-Outpouring: Hintergrund-Berichte + Video

Ich hatte schon über die Ausgießung des Heiligen Geistes in Kansas City geschrieben. Inzwischen hab ich zwei weitere Artikel entdeckt....
Auf dem Blog von John & Amy Burton wird folgender Newsletter der World Revival Church zitiert:

Aus dem Newsletter der World-Revival-Church:

geschrieben: Mitte oder Ende Mai 2008

We keep hearing that the Arnotts and Todd Bentley have been prophesying and mentioning us by name that God would revisit us in a powerful fresh way and it has BEGUN!!!

There has been a sudden, fresh wind since May 2 and it increases in strength each weekend! It’s power, it’s fire, it’s healing, it’s glory, it’s war for the captives, it’s life surrounding and filling us over and over…it is revelation of the Word of God, it’s prophecy and words of knowledge…it is all happening!

One evening, Pastor Steve began coaching the entire congregation, explaining what the Glory of God feels like, describing how He comes, and then drawing in the presence of God until they too were experiencing HIM, many for the very first time. Even for those of us who have been around this for over a decade now, are finding it as fresh and powerful as we have ever known!

Then, one night P. Steve responded to a vision he had and called the DRUMS forth….and you just have to see this… We tried to find words to describe the glory and his presence that we were immersed in…covering us…..it was new, fresh, enveloping!

Our media team put a short clip together to try and capture what has been happening consistently… Here is a link: http://www.worldrevivalchurch.com/media/wrcDemo.php

Even today, we are getting all kinds of reports about the SHOFARS that were blowing on Sunday while the drums were beating. THERE WEREN’T ANY SHOFARS!!!

Hier ist der Clip:





Auf der Webseite von World Revival Church findet man noch einen Bericht über den Beginn dieser neuen Ausgießung und der vorhergehenden Erweckungs-Aufbrüche in Smithton (1996):

Can Lightning Strike Twice?
Congregation Experiences Upsurge of God's Glory, 2008-06-09

For Pastor Steve and Kathy Gray of World Revival Church in Kansas City, the lightnings of God first struck on March, 24, 1996 igniting an international revival which became known as The Smithton Outpouring. Reporters around the globe documented over a quarter of a million people followed the flames to a town of 532, in the middle of nowhere, to experience the power and presence of God, resulting in powerful demonstrations of healing and life changing encounters.

But could this "lightning" strike again, creating yet another life-changing event so powerful that it would cause Gray and his congregation to become a sign and wonder again?

If May 2, 2008 is any indication, it appears the answer is yes. On May 2, during that Friday service, an upsurge of the Glory of God suddenly filled the sanctuary as Gray skillfully coached his congregation into the thick, presence and Glory of God that followed.

Members of the congregation grappled with words to describe what they were experiencing in the breathtaking God moment. Sweat and tears poured off the faces of those who pressed themselves into the altar. Many found it difficult to move, others found it impossible to stand. The sense that the supernatural workings of God had increased was certainly evident in those struggling to describe the sensations:

"His glory and his presence fill me…and it’s living breath of God, I don't want anything else!"
-- 20 year old, Aaron

"Whatever this body can contain….I just want to be…I just want to be saturated with Him…"
-- Pastor J. Koppang

"It is like the most intense…like white hot heat, like somebody had set me on fire, it was like fire that didn't hurt, and like electricity that didn't burn….I couldn't even breath, I thought I was going to burst…"
--M. Keith

"Addictions I had battled for years, I thought I was going to take to my grave, I am free…"
-- D. Weedman

"And the UCLA doctors said she is clean…no cancer!”
-- Heather Eschenbaum
(report of healing)

"And I have new knees! No pain, "
-- N. Berg

"There is like a new outpouring…there is like a spirit of revival…it comes from deep inside…what other choice do we have but to pour out all that we are when God gives us more than we deserve!"
-- 22 year old Emily

Gray adds, "God wants a people that are distinct from all the other people of the earth. He will do that with His Glory. He is coming with his creative power and calling us to His Kingdom. I am helping people turn and get themselves into position where they can experience the Glory of God that Moses had. Now everyone can experience this. It is in our midst. The power is within us and His Glory is all around us. We have felt it upon our bodies and in our churches … It is in our midst. Whatever the measure of his fullness is, we want it and are experiencing it every time we meet."

Lakeland-Welle breitet sich aus: Heilig-Geist-Ausbruch und Heilungen in der "World Revival Church" in Kansas City, Missouri

Felicia Mann von charismamag.com schreibt:

Revival Sparked in Kansas City Church
22. Juni 08

Crowds of people run to the altar, a preteen ushers in the presence of God, signs and wonders abound—all marks, observers say, of a revival that has shaken a Kansas City, Mo., church to its core.

Since May 2 hundreds have gathered at World Revival Center in the heartland city to experience the miraculous power of God.

“I can hardly stand up half the time,” said Casey Lohman, 47, a member of the church for 13 years. “It is that incredible. You’re stumbling for words all of the time.”

Senior pastor Steve Gray said he knew something was different in his congregation after multitudes of people began testifying of miraculous healings.

“The doctors could not get it fixed,” said Jim Conner, referring to a “nagging” pain in his lower back. “No one even laid hands on me. The power of God overwhelmed me and knocked me back. The pain was instantly gone.”

During the four services held every week, many have given testimonies of being healed of blindness, deafness, lameness, high blood pressure and a myriad of other ailments. But what astonishes Gray most are the transformed lives observed after the altar call has ended.

“They’re becoming different people,” Gray told Charisma. “We see the fruit of it. The commitment and desire to love Jesus and to serve Jesus more … than they ever had in their entire life. They have obviously been revived.”

Children and teenagers are also testifying of healings and to the presence of God.

“A lot of the children are receiving as powerful a touch as anyone,” Gray said. “If [the Holy Spirit] doesn’t hit the children then, to me, it’s not a revival.”

The power of God apparently fell so strongly on the congregation one night that Ivan Ramirez,a 9-year-old boy who was praying for congregants at the time, recalled feeling warm, “like a thousand blankets all around me … it felt so good.”

The services are being streamed on the church’s Web site (www.worldrevivalchurch.com/media/) and many young people have given testimonies.

Gray says the presence of God also manifests powerfully in meetings when he opens up his Bible to preach. “It’s so intense that when I preach or when I say God’s moving people just don’t saunter down [to the altar]. They run down,” he said. “I always laugh when people say ‘The Spirit was moving so strongly I couldn’t even preach.’ I always say: ‘That’s probably the time you should have preached.’”

The pastor of the 800-member church says that revivals in the past have had a bad reputation of being “emotional and scripturally weak,” which is why he makes sure he preaches Scripture and sound doctrine.

“We have these tremendous powerful moves of God,” he said. “Then we sit down and we listen to the Word and we let the Word of God do its work in us.”

Gray’s congregation is familiar with revival. The church was the home of the 1996 Smithton Outpouring, which lasted more than five years< and drew 225,000 people from every U.S. state and 60 countries worldwide.

Gray doesn’t want to keep silent about the move of God transforming his congregation.

“We want to bring this to every local congregation that we can,” he said. “[We want to] get a hold of the pastors and the leadership of the churches. I think the leadership of America need a fresh touch from God.”

Links:
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