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Posted by: Shawn


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."



Posted by: Shawn




Gaffney is introducing a two-year Bible correspondence school and is recruiting an army of 1,000 warriors who will enter the battlefield in the Northwest to win people to Christ. Behind them will be a support team of 7,000 that will provide intercession and resources.

Once these spiritual soldiers are released to the front line, the plan is for each of them to average five salvations per day. If you have 1,000 people winning 35 people a week, that’s 140,000 a month, Gaffney explains.

He says a day is coming when the Holy Spirit will reveal Jesus to the masses. Although he has witnessed small revival fires flare up across the region, he doesn’t believe that the big one has hit yet. But there are signs that it is on the way.

Sparks of Revival Fire

Gaffney knew God was moving when he saw children weeping at the altar during a meeting last October in Lynnwood, Washington.

We were having a normal service, and I looked over and saw an 11-year old girl crying, says Gaffney of his meeting at Christ the Rock Fellowship. She had a vision of people dying and going to hell. She kept saying, ‘Jesus save them. Jesus save them.’ Then all the children started weeping for souls. The kids went around praying for people, and the glory fell.

Within days, those cries were heard around the world. Gaffney sent an appeal through his network of 12,000 e-mail contacts to have people pray for his Tuesday night meeting. He received responses from more than 100 countries, including an underground prayer group in Saudi Arabia.


With a massive umbrella of prayer covering the Northwest, more than 1,000 believers crammed into Christ the Rock Fellowship (video) for a night of prayer and praise. During worship, believers stood shoulder to shoulder at the altar, joined hands and sang in a pounding chorus, "We will break dividing walls,
and we will be one."

God opened a window of unity in Washington, Gaffney says. "I’ve never seen anything like this. We had Baptists watching people pray in the Spirit without getting offended. We had Dutch Reformed churches here, Mennonite, Methodist, Presbyterian and Assemblies of God. I felt like Moses when the 12 tribes came together. The tribe of Judah wanted to praise. The tribe of Levi wanted to work. The tribes of Gad and Zebulun wanted to go to war. We all knew we were tearing down strongholds." Gaffney spent three weeks in Lynnwood and then moved into Oregon, believing for more breakthroughs.

THE MAN WHO WAS FORGIVEN MUCH



It took 19 years for Jerry Gaffney to respond after he heard the gospel message. But when he did, he sold out to Jesus.

In his preaching, Jerry Gaffney portrays Jesus as a garbage man. Because of the cross, the Lord has paid for man's sin, failure and shame. So Gaffney tells Christians to throw their sin in the trash each day in a spirit of repentance.

Before accepting Jesus in 1987, at age 41, Gaffney's life was a landfill. He was an alcoholic and hooked on cocaine.

"I was a successful businessman," Gaffney remembers, "but I was bitter and angry." The only person he tried to please was himself. He thought the world was evil. But God revealed His love to Gaffney at one of his lowest points.



Posted by: Shawn



Serving as a Marine clerk in the Vietnam War, Gaffney was wounded in his left leg by a mortar shell as he delivered a dispatch to a combat zone. Doctors were planning to amputate his leg.


While receiving care at a Naval hospital in Oakland, California Gaffney was allowed to join his wife for a Sunday church service in Sunnyvale. The pastor, Bob Willis, had a dream that night of the Lord healing Gaffney's leg. The next day Willis traveled to the hospital to find the young soldier.

"He walked up to me in the amputee ward. There was a lot of screaming and pain," Gaffney remembers. "He asked if he could pray for me, and I told him to take his best shot. I wasn't a Christian. He prayed that Jesus would do what He showed him in the dream."

Gaffney's fever disappeared that day. He grew stronger and his leg healed.


"I knew then there was a God. That began my journey to find Him," he says.

It took the next 19 years, but Gaffney found the "garbage man." That invitation birthed a deep intimacy with God that is evident in his ministry today.

"I've never met a man who has a love affair with Jesus like Jerry does," says evangelist Benny Perez of Pacesetters International. "That's his trademark. Jerry is spreading that passion around the state of Washington."

"The heavens over the northwest are pregnant with miracles," says Douglas Chieza, a visiting pastor from Zimbabwe who has preached in Gaffney's meetings. "But this revival won't happen just because it was prophesied. It will be accelerated or delayed by the intensity of our praise and prayers.
Forceful men will lay hold of it."

Gaffney is doing his part to shake the heavens. He travels with as many as 12 staff members including his wife, Jan, two worship teams and a prayer team. When invited by a church he asks to stay a minimum of two weeks. He preaches twice a day, six days a week, and he and his staff often work 18-hour days. It's a remarkable schedule for someone who had no aspirations to be in ministry. Gaffney accepted Christ in 1987 at the age of 41. He served on the prayer team for six years at Westgate Chapel in Edmonds, Washington.


"I had the privilege of praying with these 'granny commandos' in their 60s and 70s," he says. "We'd pray 20 to 60 hours per week. I was a spiritual janitor.

"I'd pray in the rooms of the church, casting out demons and principalities. The pastor considered me kind of goofy, but he told people to leave me alone because it seemed nicer when I prayed in the rooms. I thought that would be my life."

On Feb. 11, 1994, the atmosphere changed. "I walked into our prayer meeting and said, 'God is going to move now.'

The Holy Ghost came on everybody like a cannon shot," Gaffney says. "In this seeker-sensitive church, everybody fell out, except four. People cried for three hours." Gaffney was invited two months later to preach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. The meetings held at several locations, lasted 26 weeks and impacted churches throughout the region. At Eastgate Assembly of God in Bremerton Gaffney preached in a building so crowded that people stood in rows outside to listen through open windows. Neighbors across the street sat on their lawns to listen to the service, some cooking meals on barbecues.

"That birthed everything," he says.

I didn't want to be the speaker. Some elders and deacons unofficially laid hands on me and sent me out. I've never called a pastor to have a meeting. God just kept calling my phone number."

Don Welt, pastor of Eastgate at the time, still marvels at what the Lord accomplished during the five weeks Gaffney ministered at his church. "We had 412 saved, 196 baptized in the Holy Spirit and numerous healings - like hepatitis and liver disease. He's had a tremendous impact on the state.
There are people alive today that would be dead without his ministry."

But not everyone is so enthusiastically supportive of what has occurred in the revival meetings. The last several months have found Gaffney unwittingly thrust into the middle of controversy.

Gaffney says this has been the best, and worst, year of his ministry.



Posted by: JG




While he continues to see God move in his meetings, several charismatic pastors in Washington have raised concerns about his integrity, honesty and accountability.

"I do not discredit or say there is not an anointing on him," Pastor Wes Lindseth (click here to see more Wes on Video & comments) of Fairwood Assembly of God in Renton, Washington, told Charisma. "I'm not mad at Jerry. The fruit of it, though, is not good."

Lindseth believes that Jerry is "a maverick" and does not have good theology. "His teaching comes mostly from Old Testament settings with a high emphasis on the anointing. He does not tell the truth. His point is to dominate, control and manipulate, Lindseth states. He has an inability or unwillingness to stay within the parameters of a pastors desire. He sees himself as an evangelist who comes to your church to do what God called him to do. But he has his own agenda. Three other pastors with concerns about Gaffney declined to talk with Charisma.

Gaffney says he isn't clear why these men are upset with him but that he is open to correction and reconciliation. In an attempt to resolve the dispute he invited the pastors to a meeting in January (With this reporter.) . Only one of them attended. (Of the four pastors, two are brothers and one a brother-inlaw of the two brothers, the other is not related)

Until recently, Gaffney's covering of authority was simply to submit to the senior pastor when invited to a local church. When he needed ministry advice he would consult with several pastors, whom he referred to informally as board members of the ministry.

Gaffney now has a board of accountability in place to oversee his ministry. It includes pastors and laymen.

"The problem with the ministry of a layperson is that there is no school out there," Gaffney says. "There is a maturity that must take place, but there is no place to learn it. No matter how mad these men are at me, I have rejoiced that God is talking to me through them so I can get my life right with
God.

"I humble myself and ask if I've offended anybody, please forgive me. What God has shown me is that as [a] ministry grows, you must gain wisdom and have more accountability. In my inexperience as a layman I didn't know the proper 'minister' things to do."

Several pastors have publicly come to Gaffney's defense. Jeff Dorothy, pastor of New Life Assembly of God in Sherwood, Oregon, has invited the evangelist to his church four times and never witnessed any problems. Although he believes that some of the issues, such as not having a board, are valid, he says Gaffney has integrity.

"Jerry admits he has exaggerated things [during a service]," Dorothy says. "When reminded of it, he will repent." But he believes another issue might be at play: One of Jerry's problems is that he's so brutally honest. Sometimes that troubles people."

............Let the Glory Fall



Gaffney has not let the controversy distract him from his call. In six years of ministry he says more than 60,000 people have made confessions of faith, and hundreds have received healing.

Ruth Laugen, a pastor's wife who suffered from multiple sclerosis for 40 years, jumped out of her wheelchair in one of Gaffney's meetings and ran around the room for two hours. "I thought I died because I had never been without pain," she says. Doctors could not explain why her spinal cord was regenerating.

During a service at Marysville First Assembly of God, north of Seattle, Gaffney prayed for deliverance for two people who were thrown into a demonic rage. One was an 11-year old boy, who was so agitated, three men had to restrain him in the hallway.

"I told the boy he only had to do one thing," Gaffney recalls. "Shake my hand. The demon inside him screamed, "No!" But as soon as the boy touched me the power of God hit him, and he was down on the ground, crying for forgiveness. He was totally delivered and restored."

At another church,
Pastor Dwayne Neal
Faith Family Church A/G
Milton, WA a man confessed to Gaffney at the altar that he had come to commit murder and was seeking forgiveness. The man led the evangelist to the parking lot, pulled a pistol out of his car and, in tears, handed it to Gaffney, who later gave it to the pastor. The man gave his life to Jesus the next night.

Gaffney believes that the move of God should not be confined to church buildings. Once, in a men's clothing store in Seattle, he confronted a female clerk.

"This woman walked up, and a spirit of prophecy hit me," he says. "I said: 'You want to make a baby. God wants to bless you, but you have to get married. You're living with your boyfriend.'" The woman fell over, touched by God.

"Her boyfriend ran across the store," Gaffney explains, "I wheeled around and said to him, 'You're the man who's going to make a baby, but you have to get married.'"

The boyfriend fell down, too.

Another clerk, thinking Gaffney hurt two employees, ran up to him. Gaffney told the young man that he was dabbling with the Muslim religion and that his grandma was praying for him to be a preacher.

"He fell down, too," Gaffney recalls. "Then I lined everybody up and prayed for them. No one was mad at me. Everybody waved as I left the store." Gaffney learned later that the couple got married.

This intense passion to see people encounter the love and power of Christ is what drives Gaffney. He doesn't know when the great harvest will come, but he has asked God for one thing: He wants to watch the glory fall.

"in every revival there is a miraculous event or outpouring," he says.

"There will be such a glory cloud [that will] explode in Washington that people will stop for a moment in time and consider their salvation.

"People on the highways will pull off and either lay down or kneel. People in bars will put down their drinks. They'll lay their hearts in the hands of Jesus. When that happens I want to be there."

That's one flooding river Jerry Gaffney won't rebuke. He will surrender and just jump in. And he wants to take the Pacific Northwest with him.

Jeff King is a design editor at the Seattle
Times and a free-lance writer. He and his wife, Alisa, and their four children live in Marysville,
Washington.



Posted by: whome?

all I can say is praise the lord for his mighty works he has done through you pastor!{"Gaffney told the young man that he was dabbling with the Muslim religion and that his grandma was praying for him to be a preacher"}lol I wish I could have seen that!


Posted by: Sulten

I will attempt to put into words all the emotions I am feeling as I read last night and today these postings Shawn and Jerry have worked so hard to put up for us to read. I am clear over here in Norway, but when I read these things I feel as if Jerry Gaffney is in the room with me. The spirit is simply brimming over. I know this work, this Spiritual Revival is the work of the Lord. I read these words the other day by John Wesley. He said: "Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does not but in answer to prayer."This is Jerry Gaffney and his ministry. It is happening before our eyes when we hear and read these things. I was so touched and impressed by Jerry's humility. He said: "This is not a Jerry thing. There's not competition." The Lord is just using him because he has an open and willing and caring heart. He is on fire for Jesus and we are all partakers of it according to our own mind and wills. Whether we desire to have a few crumbs or the whole banquet. In one of the articles a Rev. Douglas Chieza said: "But this revival won't happen just because it was prophiesed. It will be accelerated or delayed by the intensity of our praise and prayers. Forcefull men will lay hold of it." That's the power we have and where we come in as moderators and leaders and prayer warriors. I read this from The Kneeling Christian: "Prayer is omnipotent; it can do anything that God can do! When we pray God works. Al fruitfulness in service is the outcome of prayer - of the worker's prayers, or of those who are holding up holy hands on his knees on his behalf." That's what we can do for Jerry and the work of saving souls. He needs everyone of us to come here to this website and pray for him in what is going forward and taking place so it can keep going forward and taking place and even, the greater vision Jerry has had can be a reality. Can you imagine how many people out there there are who are lost and fallen and could have their hearts touched directly by our prayers over this work! It is really awesome to imagine. We have to have the vision. Each one of us has to catch fire so we can make our prayers powerful. I am talking to myself, I need this. Is there opposition to us in all of this? I always heard, that "everytime the Lord sets up his kingdom, the Devil is right there to set his up alongside him. But that's OK, we can overcome that with the power of prayer to and the power of love and forgiveness for those who try to criticize and down grade what Jerry is doing. The Lord works often in very small means to bring to pass his work. He uses the meek and the humble and the pure in heart. Thankyou for posting these Jerry and Shawn so we can come here and pray.

Dear Father in Heaven, I express my deepest gratitude to Thee over this work that is going forth in this area of the world where people are so steeped in the occult and have turned away from Thee. It is such a great blessing to see and hear about the lives that are being transformed and turning to Thee with a full purpose of heart to be saved and healed from their sins and state of awful misery. I pray over Jerry Gaffney and this ministry and revival that is taking place. The vision is it is in it's infancy and will grow and increase. This is so crucial as there may be so little time. I pray for the salvation of souls to go forth in power and glory to Thy holy name. I pray that we moderators will lift our prayers in this behalf everyday without fail that these things can intensify and go forth. I rebuke the work of the adversary to try to slow this work down in any respect and through any well meaning persons. I pray that we can all be our brothers keeper and seek to do Thy work more ardently. Bless us with increased health and strength in mind, body and spirit. I pray over Jerry and his team and the moderators that we will be given strength in the spirit that we can do more in Thee. I pray that the recruiting of the
Bible correspondence course can go forth and these wonderful programs that are being instituted and in their infancy stage. I pray You will raise up many more warriors to help the work go forward. I pray You bless this work with every element necessary for it to go forth unimpeded. I pray that the gospel will somehow go forward in Norway over here. It is just so sad over here with the people feeling so secure in themselves. I pray that they will come to see and realize how much they need you and in Finland where Pia is, and Holland where Carrie-Ann is to. I leave these prayers with You today in my hope and faith in Jesus Christ, amen.


Posted by: cgirl

Woo! I feel revival already.


Posted by: JG

Did any one see the videos?
Did the video links work for you?
Did any of click on the links in the article and read the testimonies?

Please let me know so we can fix any errors?


Posted by: ninababy73

Incredible!!


Father, I thank You so much for using Pastor Jerry to win souls for Your kingdom. I just continue to pray that Your hand will be upon him as he speaks Your Words. May there be an upspringing of revival in the land. Thank You so much Father. Amen


Posted by: akabezalel

Hi JG

I clicked all the links and the videos, they all work fine for me and my decrepit pooter they should work for most people.

Thank You Father for sending the North West a Jerry Gaffney! Bless him and any team he takes with him REAL BIG!!! Bless his detractors with open eyes and repentant hearts and bring real life into their churches. Bless the men and women who call Jerry to minister in their churches and send Your Holy Spirit ahead to prepare the way for the Word of the Lord! In the Name of Jesus! AMEN!


Posted by: Sulten

Jerry everything seems to be working just fine by me, the video and all the links. You and Shawn have done an incredible job.

Heavenly Father, I know Jerry is busy in America, but I pray that if it is right, You would open up the door that he can have a revival over here in Europe. People need it so badly and they don't know it! I pray Your will to be done. Bless all the Chrisitans in this part of the world to catch on fire and find You again. Norway, Finland where Pia is, Holland where Carrie-Ann is and Germany where Frederick is, we all need it so much in our lands. I pray the work goes forth in a mighty way. Help us to know what we should do to facilitate the work. I ask in Jesus Holy Name amen.


Posted by: MASZOO

It is awsome! It is beautiful!
Everything worked perfectly for me!


Posted by: FriendOfGod

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shawn
May 2000

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.

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."


Wow Jerry! What an awesome article! It look's great!

God Bless You.

Your sister in Christ

Janet


Posted by: czynka

I'm really in awe of all that the Lord is doing through you Jerry.

Everything worked perfectly for me, even with my wonky computer.
Couldnt see any mistakes at all, but i must admit i dont think i would have noticed them if there were any, i was just overwhelmed by what i was reading.

Oh Lord use these testimonies to reach thousands...no !! MILLIONS !!
In Jesus name. Amen !

God bless you Jerry. !


Posted by: bill & alexis

Jerry,
What an awesome article! I could post several compliments, but feel more compelled to pray in agreement with you.

Father, Alexis and I stand together in agreement with your servant Jerry. Let this ministry be followed with more, and greater, signs and miracles. Bless his ministry, his walk, his family and his life for you Jesus! Silence the gossiping nay-sayers; convict all of our hearts with your burden, and let us Love what you Love - and hate what you hate. Bless Jerry with more opportunites to see your Glory fall Lord! We petiton this prayer to you, our Heavenly Father, in Jesus name. AMEN!!!

Semper Fi!
-Bill & Alexis


Posted by: pickone

I haven't followed any of the links or the videos yet, but hopefully I will before too long.

My heart rejoices! My heart dances! My heart sings Real Loud! Yeah! Revival, at last! Not one of those little bitty building revivals, but the great big body of Christ type of revival! Praise the Lord.

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Shawn, God did such a great job through you on these pages! I am so glad! And just think! You guys were even ignored by CNN! How big can a movement get!

1Co 1:17
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

1Ch 16:22
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

Ps 105:15
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

Lu 23:34
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Father, in Jesus' Name we pray that Your angels be given swords to pierce the hearts of everyone who reads these articles, wherever they are posted, wherever they are seen. We pray that evil criticism be made of no effect, and that love wins on every side, as we are all needy of forgivness. Let Your Holy Spirit prepare us ahead of time for the indwelling of Your Presence which will be in all of us shortly.

LORD of the harvest, bring workers to work the fields....call them forward to work side by side with all of us. Give us Your Word, and let us not stray to the left or to the right. When we make mistakes, let us forgive as quickly as we wish to be forgiven. When we pray for our enemies, let us pray that they will receive all the good things we want for ourselves, so we may all discover together the peace that dwells in obedience to Your Word.

Let us cast out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead, and do everything that You want us to do. Let it be our delight and our neighbor's delight also.

Lord, bless Jerry Gaffney to allow him to keep doing what he has been doing (a humble vessel).......be the Spirit that propells him forward. Let him not look to the left, or to the right, but let him move with the mantel You prepared for him before he was born. Keep him surrounded by a legion of angels, let no sickness, no curse, no criticism, no diagnosis from any spirit come against, hinder, or do to him or his ministry team any harm. Rather, let all the bad things that have happened turn to You for glory, in Jesus' Name.

Lord, receive our praise for You, receive honor from all of us, indwell this site, this ministry, and Your revival. Give us a school, Lord, that teaches Your true Way. Be our Schoolmaster, our great Deliverer, our Hope and our Delight forever. Heal us, Father, and heal our land, in Jesus' Name.

We love You, Lord. We thank You, Father. We ask all of these things in Jesus' Name.....Amen.


Posted by: JeriRose12

HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!


Wow, I want a move of God like this in my church! My Pastor is wonderful, but he is afraid if the Spirit moves, people will be scared away, so he squelches that.... I am praying this all changes, and that the Holy Spirit if free to move.

Thanks for sharing this Jerry and Shawn. This moves me to keep seeking Him for a move in my personal life. I want all of God I can have. And I will keep pressing in for my healing and all other miracles I am standing for!

The video worked. Was there more than one? I only found one that came up in video format. It was jerky, but that's common with dial up modem. I could feel the anointing -- it came through. The part about the swords of the Jew and Gentile really touched me.

~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2005


Posted by: MamaMoreno

Jerry,

reading this just blesses me even more to know how lucky I am to be part of such an awesome ministry. I am soooooooooo blessed and soooooo touched by what I read. Please continue to do what GOD leads you to do; and as my leader, I will follow you. Thank you; May GOD continue to bless you; I am pretty much speechless at this point. I can't say more. GOD BLESS and LOVE YOU MY AWESOME BROTHER IN CHRIST!!!


Posted by: eagle4him

Everything that I have seen you do Jerry, is done with excellence. You have my endorsement. I have been sending links to a lot of people lately. Revival has been on my heart and in my mind a lot because of things happening (or not happening) in my home church. Yesterday in my home church I gave a short presentation. I basically read the post I sent yesterday morning on "You have not because you ask not and when you ask you ask amiss.". During intercession we held hands and began to pray. The power of God hit all of us, and before I knew it people were sobbing, weeping, confessing sins, repenting.

There were about 20 of us there, holding hands. Then everyone got down on their knees and some on their faces. One lady told me when I spoke the words that the power of God hit her and she realized she was not worthy. I did not know what to do. It caught me off guard.

This was just a small move of God in our home church. It is the beginning of revival. I know we have a long way to go, but I also know that we will get there not by our strength or might but only by His Holy Spirit.

All your work has been an inspiration.

I wasn't even supposed to be at intercession yesterday. I was scheduled to work all day, but God had other plans for me. The Holy Spirit orchestrated the whole thing. The day before I hurt my back at work. I went to the doctor and my bosss told me to take the day off and rest. Rest, what the heck is that? I went to the prayer room. I got to get a glimpse of the power of the Holy Spirit.

Anyway, Jerry I am rambling on. God bless you. You have a heart for the Lord, a servant's heart, and everything you do you do with excellence. You certainly don't need my words of affirmation. I don't feel like I have anything to offer you other than my prayers and my financial support. I look to you for you wisdom and leadership. But I also know in my spirit that it must be lonely at the top sometimes. Keep up the good fight! God bless you and your family!


Posted by: prayyior

Lord God, Bless this awesome testimony. Lord, send angels forth to call others to this beautiful story of Pastor Jerry's life, and ministry. Lord, I ask that you will annoint these videos and words with your Magnicificent Holy Spirit Power. I ask in the Name of Jesus, AMEN


Posted by: Sulten

Heavenly Father, I pray that You would anoint this spirit of revival that continues to spread and ask You would lead and direct Your ministers in the areas of the world and direction You would have them serve for the building up of the kingdom here upon the earth and for the work of saving souls and bringing them to Christ. Father let everyone who has had their life touched and transformed be empowered to share their testimony and invite a sister or a brother to a meeting and inturn let their hearts be touched in a profound way with the power of truth. I pray for the bringing down of Satan's stronghold in this region where Thy servants are administering and let them overcome these things by the power of love and truth. I pray You continue to pour out Your spirit on Jerry and all those ministers and prayer warrior's building up Thy kingdom in this part of the vineyard. I ask it in Jesus Holy Name amen.




Posted by: Latch

Thanks Pastor. Your message was insightful & right on The Word. I have a young missionary friend who ends all of her messages with, "Because HE Said" I often forget that. Thanks, grace, & peace, John Latch


Posted by: Mercy50

God I thank you for answering Jerry's prayer. God you can still perform miracles and you did 2,000 years ago. Please God answer more of Jerry's prayer because people will get to know you through the miracle.

Amen


Posted by: JG

Thank you so much you have no idea how much this encourages us.



Posted by: Frederik

Jerry is a great man of God.


Posted by: StevenHenderson

Hi Jerry,

I haven't talked to you in a while, I just wanted to tell you that Alesha, Michaela and I love you and that we are proud of you. Thank you for your prayers and the impact that you have had on our lives. God gave me some songs, I put them on the site below, you might enjoy them. We try to pray for you when ever we can, I would guess that you must have things going on in your life that no man can help you with, and enimies that many people can't imagine. We love you, and keep up the good work.

-Steven, Alesha and Michaela Henderson

(I would also like to send you a picture of Michaela, she is getting so big, and she's using the potty all by herself, we put it in the closet so she can have some privacy, lol)


Posted by: Paula Kobernick

Praise God for you and your message. I really needed to hear about this today. It is so EXCITING to hear of your plan and I hope my husband and I can be a part of it. Praise God for you and your trust, faith and belief in our Holy God. Love, Paula in Christ, Paula Kobernick Vancouver,Wa


Posted by: Gizmo

Jerry,
I have found that most pastors when the holy spirit works and the true, not watered down, word comes out they get scared and think up about anything that COULD destroy. God is bigger than them and will teach them a lesson. I praise God for what he will do and has done already. What A might God we serve. Your great obedience will have oposition but god will prove himself he always does. thanks for your complete obedience to the word and God. I know he will direct you and help you change in his way not mans.
Love


Posted by: kentara

We serve a God who hears all prayers, keep the faith moving across the nation.


Posted by: WAH

Dear sir,
I am very greatful to see this post, please sent me as much as you can sent.
from wah.


Posted by: prayerwarrior8888888

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,

that ye may abound in hope,

through the power of the

Holy Ghost.

Romans 15:13











My spirit man rejoices for the miracles of God’s work through this ministry. I praise and thank You Lord for your purpose and plan in Jerry’s ministry and life. I pray hedge of protection round about to cast out the works of the enemy to rob, steal and destroy.



All glory, power and strength to the Lord. If God is for you who can be against you? May the God of peace soon put satan under your feet.



Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.



Philippians 4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.



1 Thessalonians

5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.



I pray for the work being done in Oregon and Washington. Bless this work O Lord and let Your Glory be known.



2 Corinthians 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Hebrews 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?



Bless the Lord O’ my soul with all that is within me.



Psalms 103:1 <> Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.



Psalms 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:



Psalms 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.



Psalms 103:22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.



Psalms 104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.



Psalms 115:18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.



Psalms 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.





All Glory and honor and praise for Your mighty works through Jerry's ministry. I pray and stand on Your word. It will not retun void. In Jesus' mighty name; Amen




Posted by: Sulten

Oh Heavenly Father, I am feeling so anxious today over this work. I am rejoicing over the miracles that are taking place before our eyes in so many areas of the world. I am asking for Your power to continue to work mightily through Your humble followers down here and through Jerry. I pray for a revival to flood the hearts and minds of the people from the far corners to the ends of the earth in preparation for Thy Son's Second Coming. I pray that You will guide, direct and inspire where You want them to go to further Your work and open the doors and break down the walls to these other nations in need. I call upon Thy strength and spirit to be poured out upon the nations that sit in darkness and prepare a way for this great work to go forth. Raise up many who will join us in a prayer vigil over these things. I ask in Jesus Holy Name amen.


Posted by: Sparky

Awsome article.


Posted by: huggybob46

Yes, I agree totally that the article on the flood was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!



Quote:
Originally Posted by Sparky
Awsome article.



Posted by: bibleandnumbers

Yes, I did it. When last winter an ice storm covered our roads with sleet and ice, I asked God out loud to bring on warm air onto the road surface. That same day, in the evening, the roads were clear.

CHEMTRAILS: Whenever I see these obnoxious streaks in a grid-like pattern in the skies, I snort! I pray to God out loud "to fry the chemtrails and to send out high altitude winds to disperse them immediately and not to allow ANYONE to be hurt by the eventual falling off of the bad substance contained in it". I can just "see" the technicians standing in front of their radars, telling their boss the substance is "gone from the screens"! It never fails.


Posted by: rz_smile

Jerry:

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord's face shine upon you now and may His graciousness keep you close to Him. He is faithful.



Your story touched my heart. Thank you for being faithful to God and thank you for inspiring me.


Posted by: huggybob46

I think we all should be praying for Southern California. If I remember correctly, the weatherman on my local Chicago TV station said they are going to be getting more rain this weekend. I'm surprised there haven't been more mudslides. Please, everyone, be praying!!!




Posted by: hopefulchild

Wow, I'm just now reading e-mail regarding the flood and how prayers were answered...Amen & Amen---God's still performing miracles everyday!