The Kingdom comes in Power

As Scott has told us many times. The Kingdom comes in power! Then we acclaim Him!

The Lord is beginning great works in our land! In two recent cases, dead people were raised from their hospital beds after being confirmed dead! (See the links below)

http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/0805/080521_41d512f9.shtml

http://wn.wsvn.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=2155734&h1

Wow! Could the Bible be that true? Could the Kingdom really be here?

But, these are not just far off reports from distant places. There have been so many miracles going on at Riverside!

We need to shout them from the roof tops!

We need to become a community of testimony and acclamation!

Too often we are simply satisfied with enjoying our miracles, but not sharing the testimony of the Gospel (Good News) of the Kingdom.

Here is a short list of just a few of the miracles we have seen at Riverside. Healing of: terminal liver & kidney cancer, healing of a hole in the heart, healing of warts, healing of major congestive heart failure, healing of ovarian cysts, healing of breast cancer, healing of uterine bleeding, miraculous healing of mononucelous, casting out of a demon from a teenage boy, healing of shoulder injury, healing of blood clot in leg arising from knee surgery. Prophetic disruption of suicide and healing of lifelong depressions. Healing of addictions and alcoholism.

Many of these have been medically verified and this is not even close to a complete list!

This does not even include visions, dreams, and accurate prophecies which many in our community have given witness of. Nor does this include the inner healing, restored marriages, and comforts provided through prayer.

Is Riverside beginning to sound like the church that is portrayed in Acts 2?

17" 'In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
18Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
19I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
20The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
21And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.

I think so. But, as the passage from Revelation below shows us, our testimony is part of our salvation.

Revelation 12:11b
They overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;

We are not given our salvation to hide it away as an insurance policy for when we die and we are not given these miracles to hide them under a bush. But, is there a risk that we might lose this blessing? Is this indicated in the passage below?

Mark 4:23-25
23If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
24"Consider carefully what you hear," he continued. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. 25Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."

Is it time for Riverside to shine? This is the conversation that I wish to help us enter into. Let me know what you think. :-)

For now - God Bless,
Shema
John

P.S. (Much is happening here at Riverside and in a later post I will discuss more on that.)