What No Eye Has Seen 2023, Night 1: Dr. Rodney Howard Browne
Disclaimer: This article is the best attempt to capture the wisdom and knowledge delivered during this meeting. It's a literal impossibility to put into words the anointing contained in this message and in the ones that will proceed it. It's written to inspire you to click the link at the end of the article, tune into the broadcast and receive as much as you can through listening to the full Word of God that was preached. God Bless you!
God’s Not Done With America
I remember when I came to America in December of 1987. One of the things the Lord said to me was He was going to raise up men and women carrying the fire. I'm seeing that take place now. I'm seeing people being raised up and carrying an anointing that will shake America by the fire of God. God's not done with America.
I don't care what the mainstream media says, I don't care what anybody says. I believe that this church, this training center in Pittsburgh, this evangelistic ministry is a part of what will be used to shake America. There are many of you who God will ignite to be part of what God will do in this time.
One of the things that's so amazing to me is that I can remember when I gave Jonathan a prophetic word that God would give him a place similar to what we have in Tampa. As I stand here, I can’t help but notice how similar this is to our pavilion. There’s astroturf, big ass fans, and golf carts to get around in.
When you see what the Lord is doing, you realize how impossible it is to replicate. You don’t just set out to buy a building with astroturf. This building was already here.
Pastor Jonathan has big plans to go along with his acreage. Everything is big; big pavilion. big ass fans, big ass heaters. Everything is big because we have a big God. God is doing this as a sign and a wonder to the world, so people will begin to realize what the Lord is doing.
What you see now is not where Revival Today Church will remain. What you see right now is temporary. The new church building will be mega and it will all happen supernaturally. What’s coming next will blow your mind.
You may be reading this wondering why God wants to do something of such magnitude. It’s because the church was stuck in a rut. This morning at my church in Tampa I came across multiple families who stopped to tell me they just moved to Tampa to attend our church. For the first time I realized why God’s been leading us to make more room. It’s in preparation for what He’s doing and the people He’s sending.
The biggest rut was COVID-19. People shut their churches down. For many people and ministries, covid was a setback, but for us it catapulted us forward and upward.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m the first pastor in America to be arrested in 150 years for keeping the church open. I was put in prison for 40 minutes and while I was in prison, I fell asleep.
I was aware that lockdowns were coming back in 2005. I warned people in a meeting just like this one, so they could spiritually prepare themselves. Most people thought I was crazy. How can anyone lock down an entire city? In the same way, I’ll tell you now, the only people that are going to make it through the next five years are people full of faith, full of the Holy Ghost, and full of the Word of God. The rest are going to fail. The rest will go down just like the religious system will go down and just like everyone who doesn't trust in God. If you don’t trust in God your house is built on sinking sand. But when your house is founded upon the rock, the storms can come, the wind can blow and you’ll still be standing.
What I want you to know is that not every prophetical word will be delivered in the way you anticipate. If you don’t have ears to hear you’ll miss much of what God does. God will always speak to his people. Always. God will always warn His people and He’ll always prepare His people for what's coming. The Holy Ghost has already seen what’s coming and He’s with us in the present to tell us and warn us. There’s no need to worry, but you do need to press into the Holy Ghost like you never have before. That’s your responsibility. Become sensitive to the Spirit of God to hear His voice and do only what He tells you to do.
Now is not the time to lean on your own understanding. This is the hour to do only what God tells you to do. If you execute what you hear God tell you to do, you will receive an acceleration from the hand of God coming upon your life. Many of you will see what no eye has seen or no ear has heard or entered into the heart of man. The only way this happens is through God’s Spirit.
“But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
God tells His people what will happen beforehand to show you what He prepared for you. To show you that you’re not going to die early. To make it clear there’s nothing to fear. He’ll reveal things to you so you’ll know His plan is not for you to follow the advice of the World Health Organization or the World Economic Forum. There’s no need to pay any mind to the lies coming from ungodly people.
“But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.”
You have not received the spirit of the world. That means you’ll have no desire to jump through hoops to appease the world. During Covid-19 everyone wanted to quote Romans 13, but the Bible says,
“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”
The highest power is God. The second highest power is truth, which is God’s Word. We are subject to God’s Word. The third is your conscience. You don’t violate your conscience because local authorities give you an instruction they claim to be lawful, that goes against scripture.
All of these pastors who cited Romans 13 as an excuse to bow were absolutely incorrect. Those who tried to shut down the church were in places of delegated authority and that delegated authority couldn’t be further from the Word of God. There's no way I'm going to obey anything they say that goes against God’s Word. They could line me up against a firing squad to execute me and I’m not going to dance. I will do what the Word of God says to do.
“Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.”
As the body of Christ, we are the hands and feet of God in the earth. We’ve been given the great commission to preach the gospel to every creature. God is not phased by what’s happening on earth. This is the hour of the church. It’s not the Antichrist’s time and it’s not time for the church to be manipulated by the fear the world tries to put upon the church. We don’t obey the world, we obey our Father in heaven. He told us not to close the church, so we didn’t.
Closing the church was never even a thought in my mind. It was never an agenda item at any meeting. We preach healing. We preach signs and wonders and miracles. If I closed the church, it would have sent a message to people, that they should fear death and disease. I would have had to resign from the ministry because had I closed, it would have meant I didn’t believe that Jesus saved, healed and delivered today, in the 21st century.
The Lord spoke to me in an open vision that took place in the early hours of the morning, March the 17th 2020. It was one o'clock in the morning and I had just realized I needed to lie down. I wasn't expecting anything from God that night. I wasn't fasting and praying. I wasn't crying out, I was actually very tired. I was dozing off to sleep.
I was sitting holding my phone in my hand and as I felt myself falling asleep, a friend of mine from Australia tried to call four times. I saw his name in red four times. I figured, I had better call him otherwise we’ll keep missing each other because of the time difference in Melbourne. I pressed redial and he answered the phone. I asked how he was doing and he wasn’t doing well. The stores in Melbourne were empty and he said it looked like the end of days. As he said that there was a flash of light. Around my bedpost came a tornado of fire and it started coming straight towards me.
When a tornado comes into your bedroom at 1:50AM it's either very good news, or it's very bad news. The moment it crossed over me my whole body began to shake uncontrollably. I knew immediately it was Jesus. It wasn’t an angel. It was God. It was the very essence of God, Himself. As the tornado ran over me three things began to happen.
My head rejected what I saw. My head said no, this is not real. This is not happening, you’ve fallen asleep. You're having a dream. What you see is not real. My body told me differently. My body was shaking and as I was looking at it, it took my breath away. I couldn’t breathe. I was in the presence of the greatest royalty of all time. God, the great King was flooding my very being. As the Spirit of God washed over me, I began to know things at the speed of light. It was as if entire chapters, whole books of the Bible exploded on the inside of me. The entire ordeal probably lasted between 60 and 90 seconds. All I know is, it was a divine moment.
I knew things about the Spirit of God at the speed of light. It was like being in school and receiving a download of information that would have taken months, if not years, to learn. It’s taken two years to adequately articulate what the Spirit of God made known to me. It was the greatest encounter I’ve ever had with God in my life.
From that moment on, I knew things to be absolute. I knew things from a divine and spiritual perspective. I knew that the enemies of the Body of Christ and the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, be warned: Don’t touch the church. If you touch the church, you’re dead. If you touch God’s children, it will not be well with you. A boldness came on me. I felt compelled to protect the body of Christ to an extent of which I’ve never known before. I put myself in harm’s way on behalf of God’s people because I had no fear whatsoever.
When the fire came in the form of a tornado, it stopped right in front of me. It was fire, but was like water. It licked and went on the inside of me. As it went on the inside of me, I began to groan in a heavenly language. The Word of the Lord came forth like a volcano erupted and it was the Spirit of God speaking. Then the words in English followed. This is what the Spirit of God said.
“The end is not yet, the end is not yet. I'm sifting my people. I'm separating the wheat from the tares, the profane from was holy, the false from what’s real and I'm purifying my bride. I'm getting them ready for My coming. They're not ready for My coming. But I love them so much. I'm going to get them ready for my coming.”
It overwhelmed me beyond anything you can imagine. I wept. I was crushed by the love of God. It overwhelmed me. It flooded me. I felt God’s love down to the very marrow of my bones. The depths of how much God loves his people, His church and the body of Christ.
The fire disappeared and went inside of me. It’s still there, the last time I checked. I don’t see it, but I feel it. You don't have to see everything.
That's the first time I had open vision. And personally, I'll be happy if it's the last time I have one. It was too holy. It was too awesome and too powerful. I couldn't even speak about it for months and months. If you'd go back to the early tapes, I looked like a blithering idiot. I wasn't even able to communicate what happened.
Once the fire went in me, I looked down and saw the earth in front of me. It was beautiful. I could see the continents and the oceans. I saw what appeared to be a transparent white curtain covering the earth. I knew that covering was the fear that gripped the souls of men.
My hands shook as they cleared the curtain off the earth. I heard God speak to my spirit loudly and clearly, “I don't care who's in the White House, or who's in what agency, because I the Lord your God will do this work.”
We are not going to live in fear, panicked about what's going to take place. We're going to be people of God, full of the Holy Ghost, full of the fire, full of the anointing. We will do exactly what God says to do. This is the greatest hour to be alive right now. This is the greatest moment. I would not swap this date in time for any other hour in the history of the human race. I count it an honor and a privilege to be alive today and living in this hour to be a part of what God's doing in the earth today.
God’s Plan for The Next 10 Years
Every October I host a minister’s conference. In October of 2019, I told those in attendance I would tell them about what’s going to happen in the next 10 years. It flowed from my spirit and out of my mouth like a river. It wasn’t me, it was God speaking through me.I wondered what the next 10 years would bring, but I figured I had 12 months for the Lord to tell me.
Then 2020 hit and the world went crazy. I began to pray for the October meetings and I asked God to tell me what would happen over the next 10 years, but I heard nothing. Every night as I went to bed I looked at the four posts and thought maybe that fire would come right around the corner one more time and give me instructions about the next 10 years. Nothing.
October rolls around and the ministers conference begins.
Sunday. No instructions.
Monday. No instructions.
Tuesday. Nothing.
Wednesday. Still nothing.
Thursday morning came and I started praying in emergency tongues.
It was the night I had to share the vision about the next 10 years and I had no clue. I wasn’t going to make something up and lie to the people. I expected Adonica to pray and press in with me, but she went to get her hair done.
So, I finally came to the conclusion I would stand before everyone and tell them I missed it. As I was sitting contemplating my fate, I heard the Lord. He started to laugh at me. I thought, this is just great. Then He said, “Oh, you.” I said, “Oh, me? I need to tell the people about the next 10 years.” The Lord told me, there’s an election in November, then four years after that, there will be another election. In another four years, there’ll be another election. God told me to tell the people that in the next 10 years there will be three elections. He said,
“I don't care who's in the White House and I don’t care who’s in what agency. Tell the people to do exactly what I told them to do. Tell them to get married, have children, buy land, build houses, plant churches, start bible schools and I will be with them, just like I’ve been with every other body of believers from the Book of Acts until today.”
And I thought that's it? So that night I got up and preached. The power of God hit. I preached for five hours. The anointing hit the place.
This is the time of acceleration for everyone reading this. It doesn’t matter where you live. Do what God tells you to do. There are people you can reach. God is opening up fields of harvest to you right now. This is the hour of great harvest. It's time to stretch yourself. Let God stretch you this week. You will hear from men of God from different parts of the world that have stepped out.
Every individual is called to flow in the grace of what God's called them to do, by the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
There's something about the gift of faith. When it falls on you, there's no opportunity for failure. God never calls you to failure. He only calls you to succeed. When you do what He’s called you to do and follow His plan, it will come to pass.
You will carry a fire with you wherever you go, to your church, your town, your region, your county, your village, and your work. Amen.
