BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Thirty Five Years…Expecting Over the years I’ve seen that kind of anointing in manifestation only on rare occasions—at least to the degree I experienced it in Brother Roberts’ meetings. But early in 2014, while I was in Tennessee attending the 70th anniversary celebration of T.L. Lowery’s ministry, something happened that put me on alert. Before I tell you about it, I should explain that Brother Lowery is one of those great old warriors of faith who used to hold tent meetings back in the 1950s and ’60s. He ministered primarily overseas and saw the same marvelous miracles in his ministry that were seen here in the U.S. in the ministries of men like Oral Roberts, A.A. Allen and Jack Coe. They were all preaching in tents in those days and the anointing was often so powerful that people would just walk into the tent and instantly get baptized in the Holy Spirit. Without anyone laying hands on them, they’d fall over on their backs and start speaking in other tongues. I’ve always loved Brother Lowery dearly, so I was thrilled to be invited to his anniversary celebration. But when I arrived, I got an even greater thrill. When I walked into the room where the event was being held, I walked into that tent anointing. It was there! The moment I sensed it, The LORD said to me, 'The tent anointing is back—big time.' Those words were still fresh in my heart last December when Gloria and I were sitting in our home in Colorado one Sunday morning. We’d taken some time off, as we always do during that month, to rest, pray and get ready for the coming year. For days we’d been preaching to one another and discussing the things that have been prophesied recently about 2015 being the year of the open door, a time of manifestations, visitations and demonstrations, and a year of the overcomer. We had also been talking about what The LORD had said to me back in the 1970s. He told me when I’d first stepped onto the property at Eagle Mountain, where our ministry headquarters is located, that there would be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit there. That at some point in the future, the healing glory of God would reside there and manifest on such a scale and in such unusual ways, that people would line up bumper to bumper to get onto that property and get healed. Ever since The LORD said that to me some 40 years ago, I’ve been expecting it—and that Sunday morning in Colorado we saw it hit. I turned on the television so Gloria and I could watch the church service at Eagle Mountain and, as my daughter Terri was receiving the Sunday morning offering, the glory of God came on her and she began to preach like those tent preachers. I knew exactly what it was! Then it hit the whole church and people began getting healed. The service that day went until after 2:00 in the afternoon because the power of God was in such manifestation people didn’t want to leave. As we were watching, The LORD said to me, 'This is that! And it will continue and continue.' Then He told me to read Exodus 34:10: “Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you” ("New King James Version"). When I read those words I knew exactly how to respond. I said, “Dear LORD, I enter this covenant with You, Sir. I receive it. I’ll walk in it. I’m Your covenant partner in the blood of Jesus, so I take this as mine now!” From that day until now, what began that Sunday morning has continued every Sunday since. It’s been wonderful. But as good as it’s been, the best is still to come because, just as The LORD told me, the anointing we’ve experienced is going to keep increasing—not only here at Eagle Mountain, but in churches everywhere that have committed themselves to God and are standing ready. I’ve been in the ministry 48 years and I’m more expectant right now than I’ve ever been! In the very near future, there’s coming a time when the glory of God will come into services like a cloud. It will be so thick the people in the congregation won’t be able to see one another. When it comes in, everyone in it will receive the miracles they need from God. Right now we’re just in the beginning of the outpouring that’s been prophesied for years. The dinner bell of the gospel is ringing! As it continues to sound, louder and louder, not only will the sick be healed, the maimed will be made whole, just like they were in Jesus’ ministry (Matthew 15:31). BVOV : 7

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