Yeah - you must read this - it will ROCK YOU! (revival Fire)

This is all TOO BIG – Not to tell the whole world!

First off – God is blessing the ministry of Club Retro in amazing ways.

 

This week we have already had over 1,000 people through the Retro doors. ALREADY – we have 3 more shows left…….

 

Tuesday night, we had over 500 people there, most who did not know Jesus.

We had 3 Spiritual Reading rooms open.

In our Spiritual Reading room in the VIP, 2 young adult guys walked in and asked what is was.

The girls in there told them about Prophesy and that God has awesome things to speak over them.

One of the young men said, I don’t want to hear anything that God has to say unless He heals my back.

Right then the girls layed hands on his back and….

HE GOT HEALED!

The very next night, the other guy came to Retro and wanted to know if he could accept Jesus! “THAT IS AMAZING!” (and he did)

That same night we had more kids come to the Lord!

IT is so wild what God is up to – and we love being in the thick of it!

 

If you did not know, Club Retro is an all ages music venue (not just Christian music) open 3 nights a week, a safe place for kids to come and hang out.

While they do, we speak life over them and create friendships and relationships with them and see the Glory of God impact their lives.

 

This week we are headed to FRESNO where we hope to open up Club Retro Fresno.

Pray for us as this expands and we continue to see a generation drawn to the supernatural power of God!

 

On the Front lines and

Doing a little dance

Matthew Oliver

 

 

 

 

[revival-fire] REVIVAL IN FRESNO!

The River Church of Fresno is excited to host 

 

Matthew Oliver and Consecrated from

 Family Christian Center of Orangevale

 

 

 

Sunday, June 14th at 10:00 a.m.

 

   Consecrated will lead us in a passionate and high energy worship.  Matthew will be ministering God's word where he will challenge you to draw your sword and advance the Kingdom of God.

 

 

    The River Church located at the corner of Palm and Browning at the Bullard High School Theatre. 

 

Contact information of Fresno is:

Paul Swearengin: paul@1430espn.com  

Bill Watkins: bill@theblazesite.net

 

 

A few thoughts from Others - REVIVAL FIRE!

A few thoughts from those around the country on being a warrior!

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Matt,

Good word! When I was in USMC the favorite term was "hurry up and wait" which to some is a contradiction in terms; but it stood for even in rest you must always expect the unexpected and not grow lazy.

So be blessed and keep pressing on!

David Kenworthy
Life house, Arcata

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Connie, it is Hebrews 4

 

Ramon   

 

 

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Matthew, when the Roman war machine was working the men on the frond lines fought for 5-6 minutes then rotated to the back and the next man in line took his place. Each one took his place on the front line and rotated back. Each one coming back to the front line after a 20-30 minute break. War and Rest and ready to war again. The enemy was always facing a rested warrior.

Bo Walker

 

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Hi Matt,

Your e-mails this week have been really good.

 

A bunch of different thoughts have been coming into my mind and I am not sure if there should be a particular order to them.

 

Yesterday or this morning I realized that I spent the previous 11 years fighting in foreign countries in the way that God had called me to.  I never had really good vacations and my breaks at home were never totally refreshing.  So, here I am back home wanting to be a part of the fight because I know I have this calling for teaching, equipping, encouraging, etc.  I just realize I am tired and I do not have all the strength I need right now.  It is tough because people do not understand what all I have been through.  They think I was always having fun living overseas and seeing cool things.  They think that the fighting and the struggles to be in the fight are just the same as being here.  I understand there is fighting here that can be intense, but going into a foreign country to engage is tougher than fighting at home.  Home-field advantage is the same in spiritual warfare.  Perhaps that is why people don’t like to take the fight outside of the walls of the church because they are thinking they won’t have home-field advantage.  It is your city or your state – you have home-field advantage!  Anyway, I want all my strength back because I want to fight like I have been called to and have been trained to do.

 

Another thought – there are different types of warriors.  The USA has the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard.  These different branches each have different groups that specialize in different types of warfare.  So, the same is in the church.  There are several unfortunate things that happen in the church.  One is that people do not try to find out what type of warrior they are.  They would rather watch from the sidelines.  They may just want to be support staff that does not carry a weapon.  They may wear the uniform, but they never engage the enemy.  There is of course need for support staff, but they also are a part of the fight and are not just spectators.  Another unfortunate thing is that people try to imitate other successful warriors because they think that is the only way to be significant.  They try to talk, pray, walk, preach, etc. like these successful/popular warriors, but do not have the character or authority to do exactly like them.  They are so desperate to be significant that they never consider that maybe they are to be a different type of warrior.  They need to know that to be the most significant they need to be the warrior God has called them to be.  They just need to go out, get conditioned, go fight and find out what type of warrior they have been called to be.  God has not called everyone to be a Rambo or a Lone Ranger.  Some people are called to Special Forces units which may be as small as five.  Some are called to be identified with platoons.  Some are called to be identified with brigades.  Others are called to be identified with battalions.  In every instance there is an identity that is bigger than themselves and there is the need for working with others.

 

The diet of the warrior – a warrior needs to be conditioned for the fight and needs to be disciplined to achieve the best condition.  Some people only get their spiritual food on a Sunday.  Others may only listen to preachers that give really motivational messages.  Then they do not give themselves spiritual food through the rest of the week.  It is like getting a good caffeine and/or sugar high on a Sunday and then having a spiritual crash by the time Monday comes around.  People need to feed themselves through the week.  A steady diet of the Word, prayer and getting refilled with the Spirit is like having the protein and complex carbohydrates that give you continuous energy that lasts longer.  Teachers are like physical trainers that help give you the understanding that stays with you.  Some people need to listen to teachers to get the food that will stay with them so they can be conditioned for long fights.

 

I can not remember if there was something else to add.

 

Thanks for shouting the battle cry.  I know God has called me back home to be a part of the fight here.  I may not know fully what I am to do here and when I will feel I have my fighting strength back, but I am with you.

 

Blessings,

Tom

 

A Very Good Question - from Revival Fire

Have you ever thought of a time of resting and soaking? (Romans 4)  Many prophetic words have been spoken by leaders in The River that being in a place of rest is where true revival and breakthrough will come. 

Just a thought!

Connie

 

Connie here brings a great point.

There are seasons for everything.

Yet what we cannot do is use the concepts of soaking as an excuse to become complacent.

 

The way I look at it is, like an oil lamp, we can still be resting in the oil of the Spirit, soaking it up, allowing it to fill our very being, and yet we can still burn.

We can still invade the darkness with our very being.

Does that invasion require anything of us.

Burning is a state of being, of being in Gods presence and allowing it to shine forth.

Light shines.

It is that simple.

But how do you know if you are shining unless you are standing in darkness?

 

Again, it goes to the whole concept of scripture.

“They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.”

 

In Our current layman, American terminology of wait, it means sit and do nothing until it is done for you.

 

Webster says: to stay in a place of expectation.

 

The original root of the word is qavah – To look for, search out eagerly.  To Expect and Hope for.

 

This Waiting that is talked about all through the Old Testament is one that requires action. To pursue and passionately go after.

 

Can we rest in the perfect peace of God and be in the midst of the battle field?

Yes, because peace was never meant to be based on our circumstances, we have peace that surpasses understanding.

 

We do not allow our situations and circumstances to define us, we supernatural define them.

 

For too long now we have allowed ourselves to be taken out of the battle field. Now the battle has been brought once again to our door.

Christians, Warriors, let us arise and fight once again.

 

Thank you for your stirring Lord!

 

On the battle field, and surrounded by fellow warriors!

Matthew Oliver

 

 

 

 

[revival-fire] INCREDIBLE FIRE OF GOD EVENTS

REVIVAL FIRE

 

News & Events of Revival

Submitted:  June 2, 2009

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Friday Night, June 5th - 7:30 PM

River of Glory Ministries
at Sausalito Christian Fellowship

www.riverofglory.net

Join us at Sausalito Christian Fellowship
for a time of extraordinary worship
with special guest Gina Castaneda followed by
a quickening message from Rev. Dave Moore

Healing and prophetic ministry time to follow

Passionate Worship * Powerful Teaching * Miracles & Healing * Prophetic Words


Sausalito Christian Fellowship
131 Filbert Street * Sausalito, CA

Click HERE for a Google Map

For More Info, call (925) 207-2397

 

                                                                                                                                                                   

 

 

 

Chico is honored to have Joni Ames come to Chico, CA!!!

 

 

JUNE 6TH, 2009 at 6pm

2540 Zanella Way Suite 20, Chico CA (off of the Skyway)
Love Offering will be taken

While Joni received her main prophetic training at both MorningStar and Christian International, she has also "dipped in the prophetic streams" at Kansas City (she was there from May of 1999 to Aug. of 2000 for the first year of Shiloh and IHOP - International House Of Prayer - and whenever possible in the Franklin & Nashville, TN area at Jim & Michal Ann Goll's Ministry To The Nations

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                   

 

 

Coming Sunday Night - June 7th, 7:00 PM

To The Light Ministries - Antioch CA

A Night of Ecstatic Adoration with Joel Pollard

 

Join us as Joel Pollard and his team lead us on an amazing journey into the presence of God through amazing, intimate worship.

Joel’s passion and heart is to see people encounter and experience Jesus through deeper realms of His glory under an open heaven through prophetic worship. He believes there is a sound of heaven yet to be heard that God is releasing, causing a paradigm shift in one’s journey in worship. Joel currently ministers within the Bay Area region and has been involved with worship ministry and overseas missions for the last 20 years. Joel currently serves as one of the worship leaders at Blazing Fire Church in Pleasanton, CA.

Joel and his wife Aleta have been married for 7 years and are the proud parents of their two awesome daughters, Isabella and Francesca. Their heart and passion remains directed towards the nations in advancing the Kingdom of God through worship, prophetic ministry and showing the love of God to others.

WHEN: Sunday Night 6-7-09 - 7:00 PM

WHERE: The Light Ministries, 415 W. 6th Street, Antioch CA  94509 - (925) 778-1639

CLICK HERE for an interactive Google Map

                                                                                                                                                                   

 

 

FROM BAY AREA CHRISTIAN NEWS

 

*PROPHETIC ARTS Conference  July 24-26 SF

Sean Bolz and Theresa Dedmon at Promised Land Fellowship, 1663 Market St, SF, 415.558.9900.

 

*NEW! HOUSE OF PRAYER DEDICATION! In Antioch!

You are invited to the Antioch Prayer House Dedication this Friday June 5th - Potluck 7pm. Special Guest Dr. Suuquina

The Antioch Prayer House is now OPEN!  A couple openings available for full-time/part-time Intercessory Missionaries. You need to raise $550/mo for rent/utilities (ok to work outside home). Opportunities include morning and evening corporate prayer, street ministry, outreach to youth of Antioch. Contact Tamara Bryant 925 708-6618, 925 946-0189, beulahprayer@aol.com, titoyleonilda@aol.com.  

 

*AWESOME ANOINTED MATURE - HENRY AND GRACE FALANY

coming to Sacramento, Stockton, Merced, Clovis, Galt, Turlock.  YOU may want to invite them as guest speakers! www.mariposarevivalcenter.com 

*BETHEL SCHOOL OF WORSHIP  6/17 - 7/10 Redding www.ibethel.org.

 

*KINGDOM CULTURE Conference 7/24-7/26 Bethel, Redding www.ibethel.org.

  

*JESUS SCHOOL OF SUPERNATURAL MINISTRY  Petaluma

With Larry and Cindy Laxton, Wed weekly 6:45pm; equipping sessions based on Bethel Church of Redding's School of Supernatural Ministry info laxtonclan@comcast.net or 707 763-8438.

  

*JESUS SCHOOL OF SUPERNATURAL MINISTRY Sausalito

Thursdays weekly, 6:15pm; Info Tamara Cotten 415 250-7124 tamaracotten@comcast.net

 

AWESOME NIGHT OF WORSHIP May 31 & June 7 Antioch

Sunday nites 7pm (Lonnie Ellis 5/31 & Joel Pollard 6/7) At the Light Ministries Church 415 W. 6th St. (at F Street) Antioch, 925 778-1639 http://www.lightministry.org/freedomservice

 

TED PEARCE CONCERT at Beth Shalom this Wed 6/3  Novato

With anti-Semitism on the rise worldwide, come hear the heart of God through our friends Ted Pearce and Pastor Jobst. Along with 26 German dancers and musicians, they will rock the Bay Area with a "NOW" word of reconciliation and love at 7pm. Venue: New Life Christian Center, 1370 S. Novato Blvd, Novato, http://www.visitbethshalom.org/

 

BARBARA WENTROBLE  June 5-6 Hayward

"Flames of Glory" - Stirring the Fire Within Us. Friday 6/5 at 7pm and Sat 6/6 10am and 3pm at Community of Grace, 380 Elmhurst St, Hayward 94544. Free, rsvp please to City Reachers Int Ministries: v.speed@sbcglobal.net.

 

FIRST FRIDAY  June 5 Sausalito

Extraordinary worship at 7:30 the first Friday of each month at Sausilito Christian Fellowship. This Friday Rev. Dave Moore of River of Glory Ministries and amazing vocalist Gina Castaneda, 131 Filbert in Sausalito, tamaracotten@comcast.net

  

WORSHIP ADVANCE - OWEN HURTER  June 6 Napa

All day Sat conference 9:30am-9:30pm with Owen Hurter from Redding.  For worship leaders, pastors, musicians, dancers, singers, creative art people, and ALL HUNGRY WORSHIPERS. Free, but should register at www.therockworshipcenter.com. Lead pastors and worship leaders can register for lunch with Owen, $10.

  

*HEALING OUTPOURING Bill & Carol Dew  June 5-7 Santa Rosa

At The LightHouse, www.lighthousesr.org, 707 539-2877.

  

*OUTPOURING/ NOT FOR SALE/ CALL+RESPONSE June 13 SF

Seeking, Thriving, Praying For Freedom ~ The Call of The Church to End Human Trafficking & Slavery 1 pm - 4 pm & 7 pm at Promised Land Church, 1663 Market St, 415 558-9900.

 

FUSION - & MAIN EVENT YOUTH June 19 San Jose

All bay area youth groups invited - coming together in unity - fellowship - worship - prayer.  These are on-going & awesome! This time at Cathedral of Faith, Friday 6/19 at 5:30 to 9:30 pm, at 2315 Canoas Garden Ave, SJ. (July 17th at Santa Clara United Methodist; Fri Aug 21 at New Vision Church, Milpitas; Wed Nov 11th Calvary Chapel, SJ), www.fusionsouthbay.com.

  

*BLAZING FIRE CHURCH  June 20 Pleasanton

Evangelist Sean Smith returns to Blazing Fire, www.blazingfire.org, www.seansmithministries.org. 

 

*FURNACE -VERTICAL CALL  every Sun nite Santa Rosa

Intimacy, Intercession, Impartation 6pm Sundays at 920 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, 707 575-5956, www.verticalcall.org.

  

PROPHETIC INTERCESSORY FORUM Sunday 6pm June 21  SJ

For all bay area intercessors! Join Pastor Ellen Laitinen at Gateway City Church (usually 3rd Sunday monthly, 6pm (June 21, July 19, Aug 16, Sept 20, Oct 18), 5883 Eden Park Place near 101 & Hwy 85 near Bernal, www.gccsj.com. 

 

WOMEN OF FAITH  July 10-11 San Jose Arena

A 2-day event where you will laugh. . .cry. . .and realize that you're not alone.  Heart-felt, hilarious messages, gripping drama, amazing music. An experience like no other. http://www.womenoffaith.com/sanjose/.  (Intercessors attend free! Call 408 717-0614 if interested.)

 

ED SILVOSO BREAKS THE RULES! July 14-19 SF

Instead of the annual trip to Argentina, Ed is hosting his summer trip in San Francisco for an amazing Transformation Experience proving you don't have to go overseas to experience the power of God! COST is only $595.  This includes all local transportation, lodging, most meals, & the Saturday Prayer Cruise!  Register www.harvestevan.org.sfte. $100 DEPOSIT is due May 30th, full payment June 10th. Group discounts available, benjy@harvestevan.org.

  

SOS SAN FRANCISCO 30th Annual! July 17-25 SF

Larry Rosenbaum hosts Christians from all over the USA to reach out in love on the streets of SF each summer.  Registration, housing & partial meal plan combined is only $50 for the week!  Daily outdoor concerts in city parks, street drama, tract distribution, & one-on-one witnessing; evangelism training provided; designed especially for youth groups, but all are welcome. Contact SOS Ministries, po box 27358, Oakland CA 94602. (510) 926-3299, mail@sosmin.com, www.sosmin.com.

 

CARLOS ANNACONDIA  Aug 12-15 San Francisco & San Jose

Miracles, Healing, Deliverance, Revival Power - International Evangelist from Argentina www.reachingsouls.com, 877 471-1010.

  

*TABERNACLE SAN FRANCISCO  Aug 13-22 SF

Justice House of Prayer and Burn 24-7 partner for a 10 day gathering of night and day worship and creative release in the heart of San Francisco to release a sound of breakthrough for the region. www.jhopsf.org, www.burn24-7.com.

  

TAKING BACK THE NIGHT - 40 Nights of Fire Internship  6/1 to 7/24 Dublin

Also Day Internship opportunity, "Burn" for young adults (ages 18 to 30) at the International House of Prayer East Bay, 7485 Village Parkway in Dublin. Info www.ihopeastbay.org or info@ihopeastbay.com. $300 tuition and $1000 housing for 2 months.

  

IS THIS FOR YOU? EVENTUALLY A 58-COUNTY PRAYER LINE! Tuesdays 10am

Intercessors to connect all the counties of California for the Canopy of Prayer via phone prayer conference each Tues at 10am. The ten counties around the Bay have prayed together on Tuesdays for the last 4 years.  Now they want to extend invite to all the Northern CA and Southern CA counties.  If you can represent your county call or email Tamara at 925 708-6618, 408 717-0614, beulahprayer@aol.com.

 

SJ HOUSE OF PRAYER each Sat! 8pm

Join the San Jose House of Prayer in the Oasis, Downtown Youth Center, Sat nights 8pm at 200 N. First St, San Jose, 95113, at the corner of St James.  Take Julian Exit off Hwy 87, 408-506-6434, www.sjihop.org, info@sjihop.org.

 

THE GOLDEN GATE OUTPOURING every Thurs thru Sun at 7 pm by Promised Land Fellowship, 1663 Market St. @ Gough St., San Francisco, California (415) 558-9900 www.goldengateoutpouring.org.

  

SAN FRAN HOUSE OF PRAYER Tue,Wed,Th, Fri 

Harp & Bowl all night prayer watch - prayer/worship teams every 3 hr from around the Bay Area, Wed 9p - 3a; and Thur 10p - 6a following THE GOLDEN GATE OUTPOURING at Promised Land Fellowship, 1663 Market at Gough Streets, above Cafe Trieste in SF, 415 279-4012 info@sfhouseofprayer.org,  www.sfhouseofprayer.org.

(The location Tues 9pm to 3am & Fri nights 6pm to 6am is at # 8 Persia St near Mission) 

 

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Our prayers are making a difference as we expect an awesome visitation of God in the Bay Area!

  

Blessings,

Sue Landry

408 717-0614

 

 

 

 

 

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