A Recipe for a Revivalist

To make a Relativist:

Step One: Power

Roll power out and add one whole person to it, mix well:

When I got to Bethel, I was 19 years old, I was nursing a broken heart, and not to be too harsh on myself but and the same time being honest, I threw a lot of temper tantrums, my emotions were on overload and I had small bouts with depression. I had a really hard time with things in September, there were a lot of mixed feelings of excitement and fear.
But in October I got the first real revelation, deep in my heart, it changed my life and is still changing my life: "I am a powerful person".

I have gone in and out of life believing it was other people's fault for the way I behaved or what I believe, because after all they were mean to me so I couldn't help but be powerless and a victim.

When I understood this in my life, the leans I saw life through changed in the space of two weeks and I was a new person, I realized I act and behaved, believed, thought and did whatever it is I did because I am a powerful person who is in control of myself. I don't control you or anyone else, it is my life long and full time job to manage myself. No one is to blame for how I behave or what I believe.

For so long I thought it was everyone else's fault for that way my life turned out. But now I see I choose what I believe to be true, or false, ect.

Knowing that you are in control of only you and no one else, can pave the way for the miraculous.

Step Two: Faith

Now add a little faith and make sure it is spread evenly through, let rise.

We move on to Nov. when the next big life changing thing I got was God can do miracles through me, for me and because of me. My faith went through the roof. I always thought God only picked 'special people' to do healings. I went home during the American Thanksgiving break and I saw my very first healing, I was at church in Abbotsford and I was telling them the wonderful things that were happening at Bethel and I asked them if anyone needed a miracle in their body. Ingrid, my sister-in-law put up her hand and went over to her and she had something wrong with her foot, she could feel something hard in her foot every time she walked or ran.

I was a little timid but not to much, I laid my hand on her foot and started to pray, I was maybe 10 sec. into my prayer was I was cut off my the Holy Spirit, He said, "Don't pray passed the healing." Meaning short prayers work just as good as long ones, so I stopped praying and asked her to test it out, she stood-up and said she could not feel anything, she took her shoe off and said she didn't feel it anymore. Praise God!! I prayed for another lady who got healed in her shoulder that same day.

Thank-you God for meeting me everything I have stepped out, since Nov. I have seen many, many healings, including T.M.J., instant healings in the back, Tendinitis (twice), and many others.

Point of the story? I am not some super special person, I never heard the Lord tell me "Sarah, You have the gift of healing, now you can heal people" nope, never once heard the Lord tell me that. The only reason I know I can team with God and do it is because Jesus said "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give." (Matt. 10:8).

Healing the sick, raising the dead, cleanse the leper and casting out demons is normal Christianity. Every Christian is more than able to do it, when Jesus told His disciples to go out and do that they didn't have the Holy Spirit at that time, they just had the authority Jesus had given them. We have the Holy Spirit; we are more than able to do what the disciples did! My point? You can do it too!

Revival always has miracles,and this time around we can all be apart of them not just a superstar on stage.

Step Three: Focus

When dough is risen add a inner focus on God, whip well.

One thing I have learned is healing the sick, ect. Should be a normal thing that happens in our life as Christians, but it should never be our focus in life. Yes, I want to see greater miracles happen in my life; I want to see whole open graves come back to life, I want to see greater and greater things but, 'doing', should be the fruit of my life, something I just happen to find myself doing not the focus of my life.

When God heals someone it is to get their attention to a greater reality not merely to just heal them, but to show them a different realm. I believe when someone is healed by God, they have just come into contacted with a reality greater then us; they have just been touched by the Kingdom of Heaven. Think about it with me for one moment, Heaven has no sickness, right? Nor death, lepers, demons, ect. So when The Kingdom touches us, it overwhelming the realty of this world and replicates the realty of heaven in our bodies, resulting in a healing, or miracle ect.

Heaven is run on Love, so why wouldn't you be changed physically, emotionally, ect. When you just encountered love. That is why God heals people, to show them how much HE loves them, to show them the world He lives in where anything is possible. To show people His goodness, not show-off.

GOD IS THE MAIN ATTRACTION!!

My life with Christ is the inside out. Me filled with love, and the Kingdom of Heaven can't help but leak all over you whenever I'm near you.

Keeping God at the center will always keep revival going.

Step Four: Freedom

Now Your dough is well on it's way to being a revivalist, just one more step,
wrapped tight with freedom through and then enjoy,
Severs: unlimited amount of people

I have become so free, there is story after story I could share about just how free I got since being here, I know I won't be here (Bethel) for the rest of my life but I have bet set up to succeed in this life. The cornerstone through which I see life has been transformed, the leans have become: God is good. No matter what circumstances, no matter good or bad, no matter lost or lonely, no matter rich or poor, God is ALWAYS good!! No matter what, the more I have examined my life to see if God really is good all I see is how good He really is, through everything, His fingerprints are all over my life.

Free People make Free People

With one Powerful person, who spread evenly with faith, whipped well with focus and wrapped tight with freedom, revival is sure to ensue wherever you go. Revival is inside of you

Never lose site, Keep your eye on the prize!

-Sarah-Lynn

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The Power of Forgivness

Forgiveness:

Chances are if you live in the real world someone has hurt you. They may have hurt you or a family member by saying something mean or acting in an offensive way. So what do you do when all these offensives build up?

Forgive.

Forgiveness it means to:
1. To excuse for a fault or an offense; pardon.
2. To renounce anger or resentment against.
3. To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example).

I know what it means to be utterly used, rejected and hurt. And I am sure you do too, and I know forgiveness is one of the hardest things to do but keep in mind; we don’t forgive because someone deserves it but because we want to be completely free of them. When we don’t forgive it’s as if that person stands in our past and reaches into our present and controls our future. If you don’t want that person to control you, then you have to let them go. If you want to be in control of you your own life then you forgive.
You may be thinking, ‘Yeah, but you don’t know what they did to me or my family, or you don’t know the pain I have, you just don’t understand how much it hurts.’ The more pain the person caused you and the more you hold on to it and make an offense out of it the more control you give that person over your life and your future. I heard once that unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will die; when you chose to hold on to what other’s have done to you, you damage yourself and ultimately other around you.
Maybe your biggest problem isn’t forgiving other but forgiving yourself, I think that sometimes because we live in us we think we have the full right to hold us to unattainable standards and put ourselves down when we don’t meet them. We sometimes think because it’s us we allowed to put ourselves down and there is nothing anyone can say. If that’s you, have you ever wondered why other around can never seem to truly love you, even though you want them to?
It’s because you don’t let other love you more then you love yourself. So all the intimacy in your life is cut short, people never seem to say the right things or no one is truly in your heart, even though you would like them to be. By not forgiving ourselves we keep others out of our lives and we close them off completely and then we sit there at the end of the day and wonder if anyone truly loves us.
You may think it is nobody’s business how you treat yourself or how you view you, but having unforgiveness towards yourself is hurting everyone around you, who just want to love you. You may think that what you have done is beyond forgiving, that you just can’t stand you because of what has happened and how you have hurt others. When you inflict pain on yourself it like setting off a grenade and hoping it would affect anyone else.
My friend said the other day that when affairs happen we more often than not point our finger at the person who cheated and feel so much pity for the other person, but ONE of the reasons that people could have affairs is to show love to someone. Their spouse might be so closed off that they never get to illustrate love to them. Unforgiveness is killing people, family, marriages, churches, cities, and in the end set-up failure for the next generation. When will we wake-up and see that?
If our heart are like a garden then think of hurt as a seed and unforgiveness as a root, when those things finally come up in your life, (and they surly will because like plants hurt only grow one way, up and out into the open). The hurt of our life fertilizes the seed and the unforgiveness makes it grow. The branches of unforgiveness are: anger, depression, fear, anxiety, control, manipulation, hate, bitterness, envy and strife; and those are only to mention a few. You may think that you have your hurt under control and that it sits in the back of your garden and doesn’t touch anything else, but in fact, like a weed it will multiply and choke everything good in your life. It will poison the soil of your WHOLE heart. So be careful to hold on to hurt.
The power of forgiveness in a person life is as powerful as Jesus death on the cross, it will set the captives free, mend the broken hearted, release the prisoners, and heal the sick. You will find that when you forgive someone for an offenses you set a prisoner free and find out it was you. People have been healed from sickness from just letting the hated and unforgiveness go. I don’t think that our human bodies were meant to kept hatred in it, Proverbs 17:22 say that “A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.” By keeping negative emotion in us they affect us physical health.
If you have been forgiven by Father God for everything that you have done then guess what? You are not allowed to not forgive others after receiving such unhindered forgiveness. (See Matthew 18: 26-35). You don’t have a right to hold on to a grudge or an offense because it is your duty to forgive after you have been so utterly forgiven; by not forgiving yourself or others you say to God, ‘What you did on the cross was good enough for my sins but it wasn’t enough to cover the sin of -blank-’.
No more standing on the fence about forgiving and letting go, we have a radical God who is calling us to be a radical people. They will know use by our love for one for another, instead today the world knows us by our unforgiveness one for another.
All this being said I don’t want you to think that I have no mercy, and I know that forgiveness takes time, and healing is a long process sometimes, but I don’t think we should hold on to things longer then we need to. And if you forgive someone, or yourself, you may have to do it again tomorrow and the day after that day, until something in your heart changes, but each time forgiveness is realize it has power to free up your present and ultimately it frees you into your destiny in your future.


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Free healing! Come all, Come one!

Hello everyone!
I have some great news!
Before I tell you though, I have to explain something first.
I was born with a Learning Disability, including Dyslexia.
That means: I couldn't spell, could not read, (until I was 10,
and God did a miracle for that!) and I would get letters backwards
and numbers in the wrong order.

But tonight I have the GREATEST NEWS!
I AM HEALED!

I can hardly believe it myself!

I was at church and Bill Johnson
got up and was talking about miracles God has done
to people that have had head injurers and trauma to the head.
And he then he said the God was really healing people
with problems with the mind, A.D.D, Learning problems,
and people who had blind eyes because of a blow to the head, Bipolar,
and even people with Amnesia, and some people with autism.

Then a lady stood up and told of how she was healed from bipolar,
and many, many other brain problems.

Bill Johnson asked if anyone had head trauma or learning problems.
I put my hand up and then he asked us to stand and I stood, he
called other people to stand to with various other health problems.


The people around me started to pray for me and after a few minutes Bill
Johnson asked the people with health issues to try to do something they couldn't
before.
And it thought: 'If I am healed I will be able to spell,' and the first thing
I thought of was a name I couldn't spell and i could see it clearly
as if it was my own name, I have never until today
been able to spell names, it was "Courtney"
and I though of other names and I could
see them.
and I broke down crying for joy.
and I saw words I didn't know how to spell before.
Even in this blog I have spelled words I couldn't
have yesterday!
I am so full of JOY and EXUBERANCE!!!!!!!!!!

After the praying was done Bill asked if anyone was healed
and man went up and told of three things he was healed of
and then Bill asked if there was anyone else who had a totally overhaul!
and I put my hand up and the people around me who
had prayed for me were pointing at me and so Bill Johnson
called me up and told everyone one what had happened and
they stood and clapped and cheered!!!

Even as I have wrote this I have had to stop,
because I was on the ground crying for joy!!!!
I can SPELL! AND READ AND DO MATH!!!!!

PRAISE GOD! PRAISE GOD!!!
HE is so so so so good!


If you don't believe me just look
at my picture and see the crazy amounts of joy there!

God bless you all,
and if you need a miracle God is in the business
and He is in a good mood and He wants to help you!!

Love Sarah-Lynn

Picture:
Is me tonight after I got home from church!