Revival International Network of Ministries

David Copeland May 18, 2010 1:39 pm

Saturday was a landmark day in the history of Revival Now Ministries as we hosted our first Leadership Meeting in Lanett Alabama at Freedom Worship Center.

Since 2002 the Holy Spirit has been speaking to me about beginning a network of ministries that would affiliate together across denominational lines and contend for the convicting power of the Holy Spirit to draw the church and this nation into a Great Awakening.

This past Saturday 40 people representing over 20 ministries from across Alabama, Georgia and from as far away as Texas came together to officially launch the Revival International Network of Ministries.

I have no intention of being a part of establishing another structure that looks exactly like the denominational and some independent structures we already have in place. If fact a friend of this ministry who has a balanced prophetic gift (that means she's not full of fruits and nuts) spoke to me the other day and the word she was hearing for us in this hour is "don't go back to what looks familiar!"

Our desire for Revival international is the following:

  1. That we will pray together and for each other that God would give our churches and use our ministries to bring revival to our distinct local area
  2. That God would give America another Great Awakening;
  3. That we could conduct Leadership Meetings at regular intervals, pray for one another and if need be sow offerings into each others ministries as the Lord leads to meet urgent needs that we may have;
  4. To encourage and speak into those young men and women's lives who do not have a spiritual father or mother, who are (or are not) affiliated with a denomination and who simply need someone to try to help them find their place in the Body of Christ; (you need not leave your current denomination to join RI)
  5. That there would NOT be created another apostolic ministry scam that feeds the top, but does nothing for anyone else that is involved.

After the meeting in which the Holy Spirit moved powerfully among us, we gathered at a local restaurant for fellowship and a meal provided by our ministry. As I stood back and watched, I saw mingling and networking and connecting together not because one thought they could do something for the other, they were connecting together by the Holy Spirit of God.

While I have always had a desire to connect pastors and churches together in alliances motivated by the Holy Spirit, a major thrust of ours will be to include, introduce, encourage, and promote itinerant preachers, teachers, missionaries and workers that are just as important to the five fold ministry and local churches as local pastors are. Of course, we do seek to work along side the local church to see them encouraged and empowered to both reap and keep the coming harvest.

We plan to hold quarterly Leadership Meetings as well as a yearly Camp Meeting to provide a time of refreshing and renewal as well as a time in which we can promote different people involved in the five-fold ministry.

The next Great Awakening IS coming. I want to be ready for it. And I want to help others find their posts in the Kingdom of God and help them get plugged into it!