His presence- Joe Cicchino
Bro. Holdridge
completely from who you used to be. In 1989, I was an executive with a
major flooring contractor in the New York City area. Then Rodney
Howard-Browne came to the church that we were attending in Toms River,
NJ. He walked into the service and the fire of God hit me immediately
and changed my life. He asked me why am I laughing and crying. I said
I don't know. He then preceeded to say that is the fire of God. It
hurt and burned me for many months. I could hardly function and it
consumed me completely. My wife and I walked away from the business
world and started to serve the Lord. We walked away from everything
that we had and went to Rhema. God showed us that this was the
anointing of the Word and the Spirit that was put on us. The reason I
am writing this is because this past March, I went to a conference that
Rodney had at ORU, this is the same place that he layed hand on my wife
and I and ordained us in front of all our friends. As soon as I walked
in the fire of God started to consume me again like it did in 1989. It
burned and burned within me and took control of me and changed me even
deeper than before. He showed that we should never let go of the
beginning and always stay with His fire and walk with His fire. That
most people will never understand the true consuming fire of his love.
It is a life-changing fire and all you want is to do His will. It is
true revival of your heart, a heart that is always trying to remain
pure for Him. I don't know why I just wrote this, but it was put on my
heart, so I know that someone will read this and they will understand
what has just happened to them.
Last night during the meeting at Solid Rock Church in Hayfork,
California, we had some interesting things take place. The presence of
the Lord was consuming and all powerful. Nick was sitting there and
suddenly he yielded. "I walked in here with pain in my right shoulder
and suddenly it just left me and it feels great." Many lives were
changed and the Lord gave words of knowledge of who didn't know him and
once they were asked if they knew him they just started to weep and
want to know him. It is almost impossible for those who don't know the
Lord to sit in his presence without crying and weeping and wanting Him.
I could go on but that is enough for now. All I can say is that His
will is done when we get out of the way let the Lord be who He wants to
be in us.
Joseph Cicchino
pastor...@earthlink.net
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