PLEASE PASS THIS ON DIRECTLY TO PASTOR RODNEY: Dear Rodney and Adonica, This is the most amazing testimony!! We attended the Winter Camp meeting and were received into RMIMA on Thursday night during the camp meeting. Before that, Ted Shuttles worth gave a message for the offering that night on sowing into the Great [...]
Since being connected to the River, I have raised up a small(but growing) church and followed your example and seen the same manifestations in our church as happen at the River. For example, a youth group from Assemblies of God heard that God’s presence was at our church so 20 teens came to our [...]
There are so many powerful ways the Lord has touched my life through Pastor Rodney’ ministry, but let me share this with those who may be new to the move of God and the fire of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit’s power is real and it has a lasting effect! It’s now March [...]
The Bible is stuffed with references to water. From the creation account where we read that “the Spirit of God was moving over the outer surface of the waters” ( Genesis twelve ), all of the way to the last chapter of Revelation where we’re told of “a brook of the water of life, [...]
God goaded and poked the mulish pride of Saul—that Pharisaic ox. Day after day he kicked against those goads, till ultimately he got the message.
God will do whatever is needed to bring us to a point of comprehensive dependance on Him. He will be able to relentlessly, patiently, faithfully goad till we ultimately [...]
Allegedly, “to kick against the goads” was a standard expression found in both Greek and Latin literature—a agricultural image, which rose from the practice of farmers goading their oxen in the fields. Though unfamiliar to us, everyone in that day accepted its meaning.
Goads were sometimes made of slim pieces of timber, blunt on [...]