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Over
twenty
years
ago,
when
God
called
Rodney
Howard
Browne to
the
United
States
of
America,
He
gave them
a
commission
to get
the
church
revived,
stirred
up, and
set on
fire –
to fall
in love
with
Jesus
all
over
again.
Why?
Not
only
for
their
own
benefit,
for
their
own
eternity,
and for
their
own
relationship
with
the
Lord,
but
also
for the
harvest!
No one
else in
the
world
is
going
to be
motivated
to win
the
lost!
No one
else,
but the
Church,
has the
responsibility
to
share
the
Gospel
of Good
News
with
the
world
and
only
hot,
on-fire
believers
have
the
passion
to do
so. The
ministry
of Rodney
Howard-Browne is,
and
always
has
been,
to
provoke
Christians
to
personally
press
in to
God for
themselves
and to
motivate
them to
joyfully
share
their
faith
with
others.
Dr.
Rodney
Howard
Browne,
noticed
in 1999
in
New
York
and
in 2000
in
Shreveport,
that
when they
first
invited
the
church
onto
the
streets
with them
to win
souls,
that it
was
only
those
who had
been
touched
by
revival
and
those
who
were on
fire
for
God,
who
answered
the
call.
Luke-warm
and
backslidden
Christians
will
not win
any
souls.
They
have no
appreciation
for
what
Jesus
has
done
for
them
personally.
Their
hearts
are
hard,
and
they
don't
care
about
building
the
Kingdom
of
God.
But all
things
are
from
God,
Who
through
Jesus
Christ
reconciled
us to
Himself
[received
us into
favor,
brought
us into
harmony
with
Himself]
and
gave to
us the
ministry
of
reconciliation
[that
by word
and
deed we
might
aim to
bring
others
into
harmony
with
Him].
19 It
was God
[personally
present]
in
Christ,
reconciling
and
restoring
the
world
to
favor
with
Himself,
not
counting
up and
holding
against
[men]
their
trespasses
[but
canceling
them],
and
committing
to us
the
message
of
reconciliation
(of the
restoration
to
favor).
20 So
we are
Christ's
ambassadors,
God
making
His
appeal
as it
were
through
us. We
[as
Christ's
personal
representatives]
beg you
for His
sake to
lay
hold of
the
divine
favor
[now
offered
you]
and be
reconciled
to
God.
2
Corinthians
5:18-20
AMP
All
those,
who
have
been
washed
in the
blood
of
Jesus,
have
been
reconciled
to God
themselves
and
have
also
received
an
instant
call
from
God to
the
ministry
of
reconciliation.
We are
Christ's
ambassadors
– we
represent
Jesus
Christ
wherever
we are
- with
the
help of
the
Holy
Spirit.
Remember,
the Day
of
Pentecost
was a
place
of
empowerment
– not
just
another
convention.
It's a
place
where
hungry
people
are
touched
and
filled
in
order
to take
the
power
of God
to the
streets
and a
needy
world.
The
meetings
we are
having
on the
Great
Awakening
Tour
are not
the
same as
our
Campmeetings,
but
they
are for
the
purpose
of
empowering
the
church
and
then
getting
them
fired
up for
the
harvest.
Jesus
said to
them,
My food
(nourishment)
is to
do the
will
(pleasure)
of Him
Who
sent Me
and to
accomplish
and
completely
finish
His
work.
35 Do
you not
say, It
is
still
four
months
until
harvest
time
comes?
Look! I
tell
you,
raise
your
eyes
and
observe
the
fields
and see
how
they
are
already
white
for
harvesting.
36
Already
the
reaper
is
getting
his
wages
[he who
does
the
cutting
now has
his
reward],
for he
is
gathering
fruit
(crop)
unto
life
eternal,
so that
he who
does
the
planting
and he
who
does
the
reaping
may
rejoice
together.
37 For
in this
the
saying
holds
true,
one
sows
and
another
reaps.
John
4:34-37
AMP
Jesus
motivation
was to
do
God's
will
and to
accomplish
and
totally
finish
His
work.
We
should
follow
His
example.
Jesus
says
that
there
is no
time to
waste –
the
harvest
is
ready
right
now.
The
harvest
has
always
been
ready –
it's
the
laborers
who
need to
get a
fire in
their
tail
like
Sampson's
foxes!
One of
the
testimonies
from
Gainesville
that
really
stood
out to
us was
of a
couple
who
knocked
on
apartment
door
and led
a lady
to the
Lord.
Then
she
shared
with
them
how she
had
pleaded
with
God to
answer
her and
to send
someone
to talk
to her
and
help
her
that
day or
she was
going
to kill
herself.
Imagine
if they
had
been
only a
day
late or
even a
few
hours
late –
a life
and a
soul
would
have
been
lost!
In the
nursing
homes,
we have
had
people
die the
same
day
they
received
the
Lord.
What's
really
sad is
when
they
die
minutes
before
the
harvesters
arrive!
As we
said
before,
the
Kingdom
of God
needs
laborers
to reap
the
harvest,
people
to
pray,
and
financiers
to fund
it. We
have a
window
of time
to
reach
the
harvest
– it
really
is
urgent
– an
opportunity
missed
cannot
be
restored!
If
people
do not
make
themselves
available
to the
Lord He
will
find
another,
but
their
opportunity
will be
missed
and
their
reward
will be
lost!
God
Bless
you
richly,
Dr
Rodney
Howard-Browne
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