Rodney Howard Browne

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The services here at The River of Tampa bay have been to put it in the right word phenomenal, Both Doctors Rodney and Adonica Howard Brown as well as Pastors Eric and Jenifer Gonyon have been imparting truth to all of us here and all who are watching around the globe by preaching Christ to them and not holding back on the truth one bit. It has been my experience in the meetings that the power of God is mightily present and flowing powerfully in these meetings and its only just begun, there will be a great awakening  in not only this land but I believe the hole world will be shaken greatly by this and all of us believers will be out there preaching the gospel and truth to all who don’t know or believe, These meetings are stirring up the believers in this land to have a hart for people a hart for souls, to tell you the truth I am having a hard time sighting still here and typing this message I want to go out and win souls! I encourage all to tune and not just listen with your ears but let your hart grab a hold of what’s being said and preached in these meetings, Tune in, grab hold , Go out, and proclaim. -Noble K.

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Ps Rodney since the first time we sang Holy, Holy, Holy it felt like someone needed to re-teach Christians that part of holiness is been separate from the world, for God’s purpose. For many years people would say to me God has given us the earth to enjoy. I would get invited to do things, but in my mind I would say – “to me it’s a sport but to you it’s your god, I’m not playing with your god.

Yesterday I kept getting the words “Come out from among them” 2 Corinth 6:17. In my country the harvesters are among them, and don’t realize they were saved for His Purpose. They say I’m been a witness but never witness.

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We know we know the Lord because:

18. We have faith in Him

“Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.”
1 John 2:23 NKJV

“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.” 1 John 5:1 NKJV

“He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son.”  1 John 5:10 NKJV

We know God because we believe in Him and we believe His word. We know Him because we acknowledge that He is who He says He is. We know Him because we have made Him Lord of our lives, personally. We acknowledge Him before men and angels. We also know that we know Him because we receive His word in its entirety. We do not pick and choose which scriptures to take and leave. We are submitted to every word that proceeds from His mouth!

19. We confess Christ
 
“And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.” 1 John 4:14-15 NKJV

“By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.”  1 John 4:2-3a NKJV

“Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.”  1 John 2:22-23 NKJV

“For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”  Romans 10:10 NKJV

If we know God, we will say so – we will confess that He is the Christ; we will confess that He is Lord, God and Savior. Anyone who will not confess Him as the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Christ, and the Savior of the world, is not His and does not know Him. Some people say that they believe in God, and yet, they cannot or will not acknowledge Jesus Christ. These people do not know God.

“For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.”  John 5:22-23 NKJV

20. We have received Christ
 
“He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.” 1 John 5:10-13 NKJV

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” John 1:12 NKJV

Many people know about God, they know about Jesus, they know about the Holy Spirit, but they do not actually KNOW any of them; they are not personally acquainted with them. When we believe in Jesus and we receive Him as our personal Lord and Savior, we truly come to know Him.

21. He answers our prayers

“Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.”  1 John 3:21-22 NKJV

“Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”
1 John 5:14-15 NKJV

God does not answer prayers arbitrarily. He is not capricious. He does not toy with us. His word never returns void and if He has made promises, He always keeps them. There is an area where prayers are answered. If we are inside that area, our prayers are answered; if we are outside that area they are not. We cannot sit where we are (outside the Word and will of God), doing what we do, and expect God to bend and come to where we are and do what we want Him to do. He is not our servant; we are His. God is where He is and we are the ones who must bend and change and move to suit Him. If we want answered prayer, we must keep His commandments, and continue to keep them, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. If we want answered prayer, we must ask according to His will. The fact that our prayers are answered is proof that we do know Him and that He knows us!

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As we celebrate Christmas once again, we should remember that we are actually celebrating Jesus. We are celebrating the fact that the Father sent His only begotten Son, born as a baby into the body of a man, to die on the cross and to be raised up again for our justification and salvation. Revelation 13:8 says that Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. God had a plan to rescue man even before Adam sinned. The coming of Jesus, the Messiah, was foretold thousands of years before He was born and recorded in the Old Testament. Here are some of the prophetic scriptures together with the scriptures of fulfillment.

 He was the Seed of a woman:
-Genesis 3:15 NKJV – And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.
-Galatians 4:4-5 NKJV – But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.

 He was a descendant of Abraham:
-Genesis 12:3 NKJV – I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
-Matthew 1:1 NKJV – The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.

 He was a descendant of Isaac:
-Genesis 17:19 NKJV – Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.
-Luke 3:34 NKJV – the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham…

He was a descendant of Jacob:
-Numbers 24:17 KJV – I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
-Matthew 1:2 NKJV – Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers.

 He was from the tribe of Judah:
-Genesis 49:10 NKJV – The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.
-Luke 3:33 NKJV – …the son of Perez, the son of Judah.

 He was the descendant of Jesse:
-Isaiah 11:10 NKJV – “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be glorious.”
-Romans 15:12 NKJV – And again, Isaiah says: “There shall be a root of Jesse; And He who shall rise to reign over the Gentiles, In Him the Gentiles shall hope.”

 He was a descendant of David:
-Jeremiah 23:5-6 NKJV – “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. 6 In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called.
-Matthew 1:1 NKJV – The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.

He will shepherd His people:
-Ezekiel 37:24 NKJV – David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.
-Matthew 2:6 NKJV – “But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, Are not the least among the rulers of Judah; For out of you shall come a Ruler Who will shepherd My people Israel.”

 He was heir to the throne of David:
-Isaiah 9:7 NKJV – Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
-Luke 1:32-33 NKJV – He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. 33 And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

 He was born in Bethlehem:
-Micah 5:2 NKJV – “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting.”
-Luke 2:4-7 NKJV – Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. 6 So it was that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

 The timing of His birth:
-Daniel 9:25 NKJV – “Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.
-Luke 2:1-7 NKJV – And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. 3 So all went to be registered everyone to his own city. 4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. 6 So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. 7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

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I have always enjoyed when the ministers conference would come around on the school calendar, as a student at RBI, I am always egger to hear other ministers and just to be encouraged in ministry itself. This conference was all about no limits, no boundaries and I learn allot about that, mainly because I worked most of the conference in the ministry café. While working through the conference my limits were being pushed and it felt as though God was stretching me past what I thought I could handle. Every morning we would hear the no limits no boundaries theme song and though I would be in the back working,

I felt the Lord working in my heart pushing me and enlarging me and my territory. When I was able to sit in the services I would just sit in the presence to get recharged and to be encouraged. I am so blessed to be at a church that teaches us what it is to really work in the ministry, to work with excellence  and what it take to make the ministry run. The biggest thing I learned and got from the conference for myself was, once you think you can’t go any more keep going, and when you think you can’t take anymore allow the Lord to take it for you, I learned to completely lean on Him and give in to the work in He was doing in my heart and life.

In the ministry I feel like the Lord ministers to you most while you’re in the trails of ministry, you know while you’re working in the back and taking the phone calls, looking after the babies in the nursery, working in security, cleaning the bathrooms ext…, because in doing those things you are actually in the ministry and tapping in to the things of God and relying on him to sustain you.

That’s when I feel the change is happening, that’s when I feel like God is moving mountains in my life and in my character; it’s when I am in the trenches of it all. So though I didn’t get to sit in most of minister’s conference, the Lord really ministered to me and proved Himself faithful to sustain me, as he always does. So come on Winter Camp meeting I am ready for more change, more growth and more Jesus hallelujah!

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Pastors Rodney and Adonica,  First, the book you are offering is amazing and I have read it twice so far. But my testimony is with your new CD that was just released.  I am a member of The River and nine of my twelve children attend with us on Sundays.  I play the CD in the car and in the home and all the children love the music and sing along and if they are hyper they calm right down immediately.  The peace covers them and they begin to worship.  Over the last few weeks I have been battling fear as symptoms have attacked my body showing liver disease.

I am battling fear as we are in the middle of adopting one of the siblings to the four girls, and if diagnoses liver disease then we lose her. We just got her and already missed a year of her life. We always prayed for 12 children and she is our 12th.  And now the devil is trying to steal kill and destroy my joy and peace. And couple weeks ago I said I was shutting ministry down and just quitting life as he had me really down. But I put on your CD and as I began to sing with it I ended up on the floor in worship face down before my Jesus surrounded by Christmas gift wrap!!

And I every time Satan tries to put my attention on my symptoms and fear begins to rise within me I remind him who I am in Christ and I speak the Word of God and I put on the CD and enter into a praise and worship that leads me into a peace that only God can give.  Adonica, I am trying to do what you are saying now. Speaking life and not death. some days are easier then others but God is always on the throne and I have to believe He has not given us these children to raise as His warriors to take me out! Not now! The CD is anointed and Gods peace is awesome. And my family says I am “nuts” as they see my health symptoms and our financial crisis but God has never failed me yet and according to His Word He will never fail me.  Thank you Pastors for your love and commitment to God as it has touched my life for so many years. I love you both so much!!

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There was a lady in the retirement home.  She was one of the nurses we had met in the front part of the retirement home.  So I went upstairs and I found her near the dining room doorway.  So I went through the script with her and she accepted Jesus Christ in her heart.  I led 13 people to the Lord.

I was leading people to the Lord then I went to a different room.  As I was walking out of the hall one nurse came and said the man that you prayed with his blood pressure went up which was good.

On outreach today, visited a family in sunny slope.  The husband was with a group of friends, doing drugs.  When we showed up everyone left but family.  My wife went through the script and the husband prayed to accept Jesus.  His wife told us that she and her daughter prayed the same thing with someone at a bus stop on Monday.  The whole family has received Jesus.  In the past, the wife did not want her kids to go to church because it was against their religion.

I led two men to the Lord.  They were carpenters and building a home in Buckeye.  I first led Eddie to the Lord and then we, along with John and my son led his brother to the Lord also.  Me and my team was led to go to pulte homes and I prayed with John and he was so happy!!

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The summer camp meeting this year was geared toward young people.  Young people came, but so did older people.  Those of us who are “young at heart” fit in well.

There was an air of expectancy that the Lord would move.  If you came expecting that God would do something in your life, He did.

The fire fell on people who needed a fresh touch from God.  Many were healed of different infirmities.  The Lord touched many who were wounded and broken hearted.  Others received direction for their lives.  Whatever the need, it was met.

People were hungry.  There were a number of nights that the service went past midnight.  It was common to still have people in the sanctuary at 2:00 AM.  It appears that most people sense the shortness of time and realize that they need to press in to the things of God so they don’t miss anything He has for them.

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Soul winning for The River Bible Institute has been a weekly event that has allowed me to lead people to Jesus Christ on the streets, in the malls, and the housing projects. Many times it’s like getting born again all over again when they say the prayer with you and you feel the same exhilaration, gratitude, and love.

Children have a special place in my heart and to see those, with innocent, child like faith, receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior is like having your first born baby. The delivery went smoothly, everything was normal, and you just had a wonderful feeling that all is well.

The Love of God is the thing that impacted me the most when I received the infilling of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 5:5) To see others experiencing that Love for the first time or the rekindling of it for those who have backslidden brings a “joy that is unspeakable and full of glory.” (1 Peter 1:8) There’s almost a look of unbelief on some of the faces. For others you see a hopeful gleam in their eyes that maybe this is real. Then there are some that have such light and joy on their faces as they encounter the very presence of God in such a tangible way, you can see an immediate effect. From darkness to light they are born again and translated into God’s Kingdom.

One of the most exciting things is training up people who have never won anyone to the Lord, to go out and see them win their first soul to Jesus. From then on, they are on fire about sharing the unconditional Love of God to a hurting world. They step out in fear and trembling, maybe stumbling over the words at first, mustering up the belief that this is going to work. When they see how easy it is and that the person repeating the prayer is very grateful afterwards; it makes them want to make up for lost time as they zealously approach the next person.

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During the Bible School Year Soul Winning can be described as one of the most unique and diverse experiences I had in my journey as a servant of God.

As a servant of the Lord I need to represent His Holy Kingdom in every action, and every step I make toward others, therefore as a Soul Winner I share the * TRUTH * and God removes the veil from their eyes. The Lord sees the motive of my heart, full of kind, compassion, love and humility willing to do whatever it takes to bring more people to the other side. The sides where they can feel secure accepted and love. The side where they feel HOPE!!!

When I go out all I need to do is simply incline my ears toward God and His Holy Spirit will work by molding and equipping me with wisdom and boldness to be a soul winner. The Lord speaks to our hearts and by His Holy Word we will be able to have a great foundation as a believer and to prepare each of us for whatever He calls us to do.

I know that working as a TEAM with my brothers and sisters in Christ (Eric Jones, Ida Cohen and Jesse R) is causing a real impact for our community around Tampa. Witnessing a few weeks ago when we visited the Hispanic area, many persons accepted the Lord in their hearts; some were delivered from diseases and bondages, even others speaking in tongues. One of the cases that really touched my heart is regarding an eleven year old boy named Miguel, who now is even leading more kids by himself to the Lord after we prayed with him. Another case is the Security Guard of the building for disable a person, whom was sick, after I pray for him laying hands declaring victory; he accepted Jesus and also felt the fire of God.

When I visited the Nursing Homes there was an incredible peace inside myself. I spent time praying and telling them about Jesus. Reading scriptures regarding healing, then the joy of the Lord was shinning on their faces. They felt LOVED!!!

What have I accomplished as a Soul Winner?

There are not enough words to express the results of OBEDIENCE. Every week, every Saturday, a new group of adults, children and seniors from any of the areas we visit, receive the blessings of our GOD (miracles, healings, new jobs, etc.) Soul winning it’s like a RAINBOW that represents the following:

BLUE = represents the LOVE of GOD planted inside each of their hearts.
YELLOW= represents the HOPE for their future. JESUS!!! GREEN= represents the new door, the TRUTH.
PINK= represents the KINDNESS, MERCY & GRACE of our Jesus forgiving their sins.
RED= represents the JOY they feel, they can’t contain it.
PURPLE= represents the INDESCRIBABLE PEACE.

S O U L S
S= Sinners accepting JESUS
O= Obedience toward God. Outstanding miracles, healings.
U= Unending mission as Christians.
L= Led always by the Holy Spirit.
S= Serving God by bringing more souls.

As a conclusion, in tears of joy, I will keep going every week inspired and led by the Holy Spirit reaching more souls!