IT'S NOT ABOUT US

WOW! What an awesome, POWERFUL, presence of God! You who attend CRC know what I'm talking about but I'll expound upon the subject for those who do not or those who missed service this week. It actually started a few weeks ago when our wonderful pastor, Bro. Gregory Wilbanks, asked everyone to sign up to pray for a certain amount of time every day that week (15 min, 30 min or 1 hr). Our church services are always awesome but man, that prayer time (Which has continued past the 1st week and has become a staple in our lives) just busted open the door for a SERIOUS HOLY GHOST BREAKTHROUGH!!!

Sunday morning, Bro. Jeremy got up to preach and being sensitive to the moving of the Holy Ghost, asked everyone to just pray for a few seconds....well....seconds turned to hours! The Holy Ghost swept through that place like a MIGHTY RUSHING WIND! I went over to get Lorin from Sunday School and when I got back there was a serious Ladies prayer meeting going on at the alter. A few of us, like myself, got there late but it didn't stop us from jumping in the waters! Our pastors wife, Sister Wilbanks, along with Sister Joann Miller laid hands on every lady there while the rest of us prayed for them as well. It was unlike ANYTHING I've ever experienced. An hour and a half went by and it seemed like 10 min!! The Holy Ghost was SO THICK you could see it! After everyone had been prayed for it didn't stop, it continued to flow and some were sitting, some were kneeling, some were standing but we were all in one accord. All of a sudden, Sister Holly just started shouting and dancing then she got the mic and told us all what God had told her. She said that she heard a gurgling like a pipe that had been clogged and water was trying to come out of it. God told her that the wells that we had been digging, trying to get water in, the enemy had been throwing dirt back into those wells trying to stop revival but it was about to BURST and the water of the Holy Ghost is going to spring up and fill all those wells and pour out over the city. Right after Sister Holly finished, Sister Koehoorne said that she had also saw the same thing! She saw a volcano that was erupting water! MAN, it's so awesome. AND IT DIDN'T STOP THERE! Sunday night it continued. A spirit of prayer has consumed us! Monday night at ladies prayer it was so powerful! It was like Sunday afternoon part 2! All the ladies that had not been prayed for Sunday afternoon were prayed for Monday night and the power of God swept in that sanctuary. One thing that Sister Wilbanks said that was so awesome and really struck home to me was God showed her that the fiery darts of the enemy that were being thrown at her, they can't penetrate! I know that people are saying things about our pastor and his wife and some of the other saints in the church but guess what....it doesn't matter, those darts can't penetrate because it's not about US, it's about GOD! It doesn't matter what people say about me or my family or my church family...it's actually laughable...because this revival is not about me or my family.... it's about JESUS!!!! AND DEVIL, YOU CAN'T STOP IT....(But feel free to die trying!)

2 Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Well DUH!

The Healing Power of Music

I was reading the news the other day and came across an article in which a renown neurologist was studying the healing power of music, more specifically, religious music. In this article, the Doctor also stated that he has found that there is an actual physiological change in people when they pray. WELL DUH! lol We've known this for years! As I recall, it was well documented in a book....what was the name of that book I read once....oh yeah, THE BIBLE! As I read the article I was reminded of the verse of Scripture that talks about using the foolish things to confound the wise. The neurologist is doing the study in conjunction with Harlem gospel choir...I'm thinking we need to invite him to Cornerstone Revival Center!!!!!! Or ARC!!!!! TALK ABOUT A PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGE!

Anyway, here is the article for your reading pleasure.

Neurologist, Harlem gospel choir explore music's healing power during science festival
By KAREN MATTHEWS,
AP
Posted: 2008-05-30 15:33:50
NEW YORK (AP) - Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.Sacks, the best-selling author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," will share the church stage Saturday with the famed gospel choir as part of the inaugural World Science Festival, a five-day celebration of science taking place in New York this week."It should be an exciting and unusual event," Sacks said in an interview this week. "I will talk about the therapeutic and beneficent power of music as a physician, and then their wonderful choir will perform. ... And the audience will make what they can of it."Sacks' most recent book is "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain," which examines the relationship between music and the brain, including its healing effect on people suffering from such diseases as Tourette's syndrome, Parkinson's, autism and Alzheimer's."Even with advanced dementia, when powers of memory and language are lost, people will respond to music," he said.A Baptist church is an unusual venue for Sacks, a professor of clinical neurology and clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center who was brought up Jewish but is not a religious believer.But the central role of music in church makes Abyssinian a good place to discuss the myriad ways that music affects the human brain, said Sacks, who was played by Robin Williams in the movie version of "Awakenings."Abyssinian's pastor, the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, said the choir is looking forward to performing with Sacks. He noted that music plays a central role in the healing power of prayer."What we have been studying ... is that when you pray, there's actually a physiological change in the body," he said. "Music is very much a part of this. There are certain notes that generate in the human body a kind of peacefulness."Abyssinian was founded by Ethiopian sea traders in 1808 and is celebrating its bicentennial. It is a popular destination for European tourists who line up around the block in Harlem for Sunday services.The event there is one of two Sacks is participating in during the World Science Festival. The other focuses on vision and the brain.The festival was conceived by Columbia University physicist Brian Greene and his wife Tracy Day, a broadcast journalist."Our intent is to help shift the public perception of science, so that people realize that science is as important as art, literature, film, theater," Greene said.Panelists include Nobel laureates as well as actors, dancers, philosophers and science journalists.Greene said he hopes the festival, which received funding from several nonprofit foundations, will spread to other cities."There's a real capacity to have a national and even global celebration of science," he said.On the Net:http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/http://www.abyssinian.org
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.