Fick just höra om en kraftfull andlig förnyelse som sprids över världen från Florida. Under två månader har dess flammor nått många länder - och profetior finns om att fler länder i Europa kommer att nås, bl.a. Tyskland.
23 katolska präster lär ha blivit träffade och "omvänt sig till kristendomen" läser jag nånstans. Ja, ja....dessa fördomar. Tråkigt om de har lämnat katolska kyrkan på kuppen (det framgår inte), men gott att de har fått sina andliga liv förnyade. Man kan hoppas att det goda i denna förnyelse når även vår del av Kyrkan....
Fick av en slump kontakt med en pastor som varit där, han är uppväxt som katolik, och har alltså inte dessa fördomar.
I sin blogg skriver han bl.a. så här:
"I have just returned from Florida, having taken advantage of a small gap in my schedule to be refreshed and to experience firsthand what has been happening there nightly for the past two months. I also wanted be able to credibly respond to the many requests I have had from pastors and leaders asking me if this is real or not!
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Noticeable from the outset is the strong flavor of the southern healing revivals of the fifties, but this isn’t your grandmother’s revival - or tent! This structure can hold 10,000 people, is air-conditioned and with state of the art sound, lighting and video screens.
Also, during my visit this week, out of the 7-8 thousand who came every day, I saw only one suit and tie. What was more common were shorts, T-shirts and tattoos! Noticeably absent was much evidence of the religious spirit, however, in essence this was more like a classic ‘Pentecostal’ revival, smacking of Benny Hinn, Rodney Howard-Brown, Toronto, Pensacola - but on steroids!
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A strong sense of the Lord’s presence even comes in the worship team’s rehearsal time an hour before the services begin every night. Hundreds of arms are lifted heavenward in front of the stage and stay there for up to three hours of the most intense worship I have experienced. Television and the Internet have played a major role in the rapid expansion of this revival, but it just does not match being there!
Then Todd takes the microphone and begins to proclaim healing for all kinds of diseases. Those healed testify to seeing from blind eyes, hearing from deaf eyes, loosing tumors and all kinds of diseases. While I was there it was announced that 18 people had been resurrected from the dead, directly or indirectly as a result of this outpouring."
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Och den som eventuellt har några frågor till pastorn är välkommen att ställa dem här - gärna på engelska - annars kan jag översätta - så svarar han säkert gärna här.Etiketter: andligt liv, förnyelse, karismatik, kyrkan, The Florida Outpouring |
