Come Lord Jesus!

The Summit Church
04/08/2011
Don't do one single thing that would quench the mighty Holy Spirit

A Record of God's Mercies

Last night, hundreds gathered again for almost four hours at The Summit Church. God laid Isaiah 12 in our hearts as to His direction for the evening:

Isaiah 12
1 Then you will say on that day, "I will give thanks to You, O Lord; For although You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, And You comfort me.
2 "Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For the Lord God is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation."
3 Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation.
4 And in that day you will say, "Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name. Make known His deeds among the peoples; Make them remember that His name is exalted."
5 Praise the Lord in song, for He has done excellent things; Let this be known throughout the earth.
6 Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

The Lord wonderfully came and allowed those attending to "joyously draw water from the springs of salvation.

· 14 people spontaneously baptized. Many had never been baptized, just been saved and some had their baptism on the wrong side of their conversion.

· A father who has struggled for years with an addiction confessing his need for prayer, the room erupting in "travail" over this brother for his full deliverance. Later, he has the privilege of baptizing both his son and daughter-it seemed that his obedience and humility opened the door for his children to obey the Lord.

· A young lady came weeping, whose husband had committed suicide in front of her 30 days ago. "I am so angry at God and I can't get over it." The church prayed heaven's grace down upon her and God's joy came to her heart. In God's providence, the pastor who did her husband's funeral was in attendance and took us to God's throne on her behalf. Her friend said, "Could I ask the church to give...my friend needs a car." An offering basket was placed on the altar and streams of people began to give. A while later a young man comes in late and finds out about the need and comes to the mic, "My dad called me yesterday and said he had a Ford Explorer that he needed to give away if there was anyone who needed it...(he turned to the young lady)...do you want the car?" She got the car and the $2856 that was in the offering basket!

· A businessman from NW Arkansas stood to encourage us by saying that a friend in Oklahoma had told him that God was doing something wonderful in Little Rock and he was here Thursday on business and came. They have been praying for the same in their area.

· A businessman from Russelville, Ark. came and said the same. He didn't want to miss what God was doing, was in town on business, showed up 2 hours early and went to prayer and by the time the service started was already in brokenness and tears.

· A staff member's daughter stands to confess that several years ago she had a child out of wedlock and was encouraged to share that with the church at that time but resisted that. The child miscarried, but now she comes to ask the church's forgiveness for what happened. The church shouts out their forgiveness and embraces her as does her husband and father (and Father!)

· A man comes to the meeting, leaves, gets 10 minutes away and is so grieved for his dying neighbor that he returns to ask for prayer which leads to intense prayer for his neighbor and OURS.

· Many, many other moments of people joyously drawing from the springs of salvation.

We record these for you because Isaiah 12 said we should "Make known His deeds among the peoples; Make them remember that His name is exalted" (vs. 4). We are hearing reports of people around the country praying for God's visitation in their churches and cities.

Would you pray with us that, if God so desires, He would visit all the churches in Central Arkansas so that this would quickly be something that is not located in one church.

We understand that Fellowship Bible/LR church students are having a student led prayer meeting at 9 pm praying for God to move. Mosaic church in LR has invited all their people to come tonight to the Summit and had a similar season of great prayer and spiritual activity on Wednesday night.

"Lord, rend the heavens and come down!"

A God Thing!

This is an email that went out from our pastor this morning about the service last night:

"Make known His deeds among the people, make them remember that His Name is exalted" (Isaiah 12:5). Unbelievable night...too many stories to tell. 14 spontaneous baptisms. Ran out of towels after about the fifth one! A woman whose husband committed suicide in her presence one month ago coming and finding deliverance from anger at God then her friend telling us she needed a car. A spontaneous offering of $2856 and then a man gets up and says, "My father said he had a Ford Explorer he wanted to give away and asked me yesterday if there was anyone at church who needed it!" So...she got a car and money for gas and insurance and to pay off her school debts! Tons of people set free from all kinds of things. A father asking for prayer for a habitual sin...people travailing deeply in prayer over him and then his daughter and son both come for baptism and he gets to baptize them! His obedience paved the way for theirs...and on and on! The prayer meeting continues tomorrow night at 7 PM. The word spreading. Hearing reports of another prayer meeting at a major church...we are asking God to spread it quickly among every church in our city so that it is clearly seen as not a Summit thing, but a blessed intervention of God.

And a little side note from me--also, last night--

A young lady tells us that 8 years ago she found herself unmarried and pregnant--she, along with her parents, went to talk to our pastor. He advised her at that time to come before the church in humility asking for forgiveness.

She chose not to and later had a miscarriage. She said the miscarriage made it very easy for her not to ask forgiveness. Later she got married to a wonderful young man who supported her and forgave her sin.

She asked the church for forgiveness--eight years later--

End of story?? Not quite.

I got an email this morning from one of my blog readers in a state very far away. She read where I go to church yesterday and told me her nephew goes there. Her nephew?? The young woman's husband who had so graciously supported, loved and married the young lady who came asking for forgiveness.

Before last night, I didn't have a clue who this young man was but I got to write my reader back and say "Yes, I know who your precious nephew is." Wow! God is so awesome.

I realize I haven't gotten the video up from yesterday--will try to get a couple of videos up today.

Break My Heart For What Breaks Yours!

Just a little update--My husband and I had the privilege of taking our ten men at Renewal Ranch to the revival at Summit last night. Although we hadn't attended until last night, evidently from what we heard from others, God moved in a very different way.

God seemed to lay burdens of prayer upon our hearts for the lost people of central Arkansas--and the main thrust it seemed was "break my heart for what breaks yours." And not just lost people but the hurting, the down and out, the widows and orphans--God wants us to hurt for the people He hurts for--to take up the mantle of prayer for them--not only this but to give of our time and our resources.

At one point our pastor asked the men of Renewal Ranch to come down front--the congregation came in great numbers to lay hands on and pray for our men--there was a season of incredible prayer for them.

In another part of our church there were hundreds of youth having their own worship service. We spent time praying for the salvation of any there who did not know Christ.

We met for a couple of hours--people were still coming down front to share scripture and prayer burdens--but our pastor felt that we were to close, go home and fall on our knees before God--we closed--many stayed and were praying, talking, fellowshipping--after about 15 minutes or so, the pastor said, "Come on back down front--we have someone who wants to be baptized."

I will try to have video up later today of this baptism--it was great!

We are going "night by night"--if our pastor thinks that God is moving in a way that we should continue to have services--so, we are having service tonight.

As soon as the service was over, one of our RR guys came up to me and said, "Thank you for bringing us. I want to come back tomorrow night." That was also the sentiment of all the guys. They were overwhelmed with the love and support shown to them.

So the guys invited us up to the ranch to eat dinner with them and then we will drive back down to Little Rock for services, and back up to Conway to take them home and back to Little Rock--what an awesome privilege!!

To God be the glory, great things He has done!

Summit Revival

I did not get to be there this past Sunday--went to hear the Renewal Ranch guys give their testimonies at another church--

BUT this is what happened and the services are continuing...............we will be taking the RR guys tonight. Please pray for all of us.



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Running Ahead!

This devotional by Oswald Chambers is so timely for me--Just wanted to share it with you. Hoping your weekend is filled with all things wonderful and holy.