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ReVisiting the Old Time Story Miracle Prayer stops flood Charisma Feature Article. Please Pray

Posted by: JG on Friday, February 11, 2005 - 05:13 AM

In Washington and Oregon -- two of the most unchurched states in the country --
God is using a Vietnam vet with unconventional methods to bring spiritual renewal.

Swollen from weeks of rain, the Skagit River was about to spill over a levee and flood Jerry Gaffney's revival meeting. The afternoon sky had turned black and city officials warned the evangelist that he might have to evacuate.

Jerry & Jan Gaffney and the TV camera men watched the flood disappear by the power of prayer.

But Gaffney was ready for a fight.
With Mount Vernon, Washington, preparing for the worst, Gaffney and 30 believers marched to the river to ask God for a miracle. Watching them was a curious CNN TV crew that was reporting on the flooding.
Standing in mud and a driving rain, the Christians sang and laid hands on the surface of the water.
Gaffney began to speak to the storm.

Elijah prayed, and it didn't rain," Gaffney says. "I said, Lord, if You'll answer Elijah, will You answer my prayer and stop the rain?" "As soon as I finished, a ray of sun broke through the clouds. As we rejoiced and sang, the hole got
bigger and bigger. It looked like the finger of God was spinning the clouds."

The river flooded across town, but not at this location. An article in the local newspaper asked, "Who took the punch out of the storm?" CNN did not report it.

The reporters may have been surprised at the outcome, but Jerry Gaffney wasn't. This unconventional layman takes such bold steps of faith as a matter of course. And the spiritual territory of the Pacific Northwest is being shaken as a result.

Gaffney is fearless when confronting the forces of darkness in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, a region which has one of the lowest percentages of evangelical Christians in the United States and is steeped in witchcraft and New Age occultism. He treats evangelism like an invasion, penetrating the enemy's turf no matter where it takes him. He has preached for five weeks in the back of a Mexican restaurant, and once had a giant hot tub delivered to an open field so he could baptize 40 converts.

In six years of ministry, Gaffney has held more than 3,000 meetings in the Northwest. Churches promote him as an evangelist, but Gaffney prefers not to identify himself with any ministry title.

"I'm nothing but a layman who wants to pray down the glory in the Pacific Northwest," Gaffney told Charisma. "My first call is to be a plowman to prepare the ground for whomever God wants to use. I've been plowing the ground in repentance, holiness, the Word and the Holy Spirit. All that seed is
getting ready to explode in growth and harvest."

Gaffney likes to dream big. He says the Lord gave him a vision of 7 million Christians marching down Washington's Interstate 5 in a celebration of Jesus. He wants all of Oregon, Washington and Idaho to receive Christ.

"People will say that's a silly dream," he says. "But God always has a ragtag bunch of misfits and outcasts whom He raises up. That's my call, to see three states totally touched by Jesus.

"That's the heart of every pastor. This isn't a Jerry thing. There's no competition. I just happen to be declaring it."

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