Lakeland Outpouring Report | from my perspective | Danny Steyne

THE LAKELAND FLORIDA OUTPOURING REPORT
from my perspective (Danny Steyne)May 13, 2008 – Lakeland Florida

Okay where do I start? How do you “report” on God? They tried that in the Bible and it was inadequate… all the world couldn’t contain the books. John 21:25 “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.” (On a side note, from what I have heard of the earlier “versions” of what was occurring in Lakeland, the meetings have “morphed” into something considerably different than what it looked like originally…. much like a baby born with a “cone head” as a result of labor… into a precious baby that is looking better with every day!)

“If true unity will come to My Church, someone will have to be offended first!” The Lord spoke that to me in 1988 and indicated that I was about to be willing to be offended in order for Him to move in His Body!

My first impression of what was happening in Lakeland Florida with the meetings that began at Ignited Church and moved to a stadium was quite different than my impression as I have been here these past two days. First let me make it clear, that although many healings and miracles are happening through the internet and TV, it doesn’t hold a candle to what actually is happening in the meetings here, at least the ones I went to.

For several years I have pressed through personally to see the same power that works in third world countries released here in the USA and in the west. I have plowed in many regions and as a result have seen an incredible release of infection that God has been doing in hungry believers everywhere. We have witnessed the blind eyes seeing, the lame walking, people coming out of wheelchairs and off of walkers, and the deaf being healed. We have seen deaf mutes from birth healed, as well as children who were mutes healed. We have seen broken bones healed and steel plates removed from bodies… but we haven’t seen them to the same degree of what we are seeing in these meetings.

Last night there were many many many healed…. they came out of wheelchairs… they heard for the first time… they found themselves free from pain for the first time in years, and many met the “real Jesus” who saves to the uttermost! This morning we were thoroughly blessed as we heard the history of revivals through Church History by Karl Strader who actually had been a part of the Healing Revivals of the 40s & 50’s. He then prayed for all the leadership. This evening was “off the charts”… we worshipped for hours. We prayed… We met God… God showed up…. people came out of wheelchairs… When Papa God touched a paralyzed woman with NO ability to move her legs MOVED her legs as the healing began… and the crowd erupted with joy!

I have heard the naysayers… the ones who want the revival to eclipse all revivals. I want that too! I want 131 million saved in a few years in the USA to match the ratio that occurred in the third Great Awakening with Charles Finney. Sure I want every knee to bow… but I also am no fool and will honor whatever it is that Papa God is doing. People are being healed, set free, overwhelmed, empowered for harvest. Today we were in a restaurant where a young waitress was powerfully impacted by God through various encounters with believers who were infected from the meetings. Do I think we have touched “revival” … I think we are seeing drops that refresh, empower, heal, equip, and charge a very distraught church. We are seeing the commissioning of those who will in fact be the Harvesters in this hour.

It totally blows me away that in the name of not seeing what they want, people reject what He is doing. Duh! Has no one ever heard the statement that Mike Bickle put so eloquently years ago, “God will offend our minds, to reveal our hearts!” I love being offended, it shows me the places of my arrogance and pride. It points out the places where I need His Grace…. It is there that God can begin teaching me a fresh again that this whole thing is not about me and what I think, it’s about Him and whatever He wants to do! I remember MANY meetings where I have been offended. God always used it to produce teachability in me, not to destroy me. I have noticed that the Scriptures are rife with the naysayers… and they ALWAYS are the ones who act like Pharisees and believe they hold the truth better than anyone else. I’ve been there, I’ve done that… but frankly, I am just grateful that Papa God is moving. I love the mess of the stall… it means there is a harvest in the barn!!! Proverbs 14:4

Do I do everything that Todd Bentley does? No. Would I? No, although “Bam” is growing on me! Todd is Todd. He operates according to the power that works in Him, just like I am Danny and I operate according to the power that works in me. I have quirks too. There are things the naysayers don’t like about me too! You can always find something to criticize in anything, finding the vein of gold is the challenge worth the quirk! As John Wimber used to say, when I eat chicken, I spit out the bones… if you don’t want bones, then don’t eat chicken… but chicken can be real good even if you have to pick out the bones! I am grateful that God raised up a Todd Bentley, without a perfect past, with quirks, with tattoos, with different methodology than I am used to…. it helps me grow up, suck it up, and realize God is bigger than my finite pea brain! Humility is intended to make us feel like we have some things to continue to learn!

My personal belief is that Todd is a “starter”… simply someone who started this ball rolling. Now if you think that is hype then I guess you might think that Wesley, Finney, Whitefield, Moody, Roberts, Seymour, Bartleman, Graham ad infinitum also used hype because they did something to initiate reaching people! Is this really where Papa God wants us to be? Does God really want us to simply sit and wait for some “magical” harvest that will begin without anybody doing anything. Even God knows you have to have do something. You have to send somebody to initiate the move that He wants. He sent His Son! His Son spoke. His Son did miracles. His Son did healings. His Son COMMANDED the disciples and early church to DO SOMETHING… in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth. Was that hype? Give me a break… Was it hype when the disciples came back from their missions trip and shared about the miracles that occurred? No. Was it the most important thing. No… but it wasn’t hype. It was simply stating reality! Reality is, when God moves, we better speak of it… it is intended to reach the world, not create yet another generation of doubters who fall prey to unbelief. Or didn’t you know that skepticism and unbelief are the enemies tools, and not Gods! The God of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers to the Gospel of GLORY!

On another note. Many of you received a very painful note regarding Paul Cain who spoke last week in the meetings. I don’t know your perspective and really that is not the point of this letter. I am not trying to rally your opinion. We are headed for the “Restoration of all things” (Acts 3:21) where ALL who have fallen will be restored. It amazes me that many would rather condemn (something Jesus didn’t do, and in fact refused to do, though He alone had authority to do so! See John 3:17 & John 8). I have a significant prophetic history with Paul Cain that goes back to 1989 in some meetings in Titusville FL. It permanently affected my life.

Through the years I have watched and noticed that Paul has undergone extreme scrutiny and as a result many who have had no knowledge of circumstances except that which was released through the press and others, rejected him and shook their heads in disgust. The other night Paul referenced the fact that he had been restored. Some caught it, others didn’t. He spoke of it as a “rumor.” In fact we did publicly restore him in our Key Of David Conference in October 2007. He said that some had only heard the rumors, but the rumors that he wasn’t restored were false… Yes, Paul was restored. No, he is not arrogantly stepping back into ministry without having dealt with the past, those allegations were false, and he is walking back in to ministry because he was supposed to walk back in. The Restoration Team have encouraged Paul to go for it again! The statements made in the letter that went out to hundreds of thousands because of forwarding left Paul reeling and devastated by the apparent lack of willingness to move on and release Grace in this hour of God’s outpouring.

Please be in much prayer for him, he needs encouragement… statements that have been reiterated and reiterated to keep him discouraged and unable to move forward in the call of God. It’s time to pull the broken from the caves, not push them back into them. I am fully expecting Paul to function in the fullness of his office just as David operated in the fullness of his office even after he fell… and so many others! Until restoration happens with our fallen, we don’t have the ability to reach or retain the harvest God wants to send our way! All of us must make it through. We are the family of God, none of us more valued than the other; none less needed than the other. We fall. We get up, and hopefully it is the Body who is helping us up. It is so important that we move into whatever it is that God has for us… all of us!

On October 6, 2005 I had an three hour visitation with Jesus in a hotel room in Idaho where He told me about this restoration that was coming. My daughters who had been taken six years earlier were nowhere to be found at the time. It was then that He spoke to me that I would see my daughters return to me as a sign that this restoration had begun. On 2-2-2(06), my girls returned, and I began seeing God set up this Restoration that will result in a true manifestation of the Glorious Bride of Christ. I believe that Papa God is going to release this restoration on the earth that is going to truly reveal the “Grace” of Jesus on His Body! We must have grace… we must extend grace… we must purpose to overwhelm each other with grace, that the world will know we are Christians by our love… not by our theological purity, not by our signs and wonders, but by our love for one another. We must eclipse the love of the first century church… we must press in to maturity, so the Body can be fitly “joined” together.

I commend Todd Bentley for taking the high road and realizing that the vision God gave to Paul Cain of the stadiums being filled was a piece of the release that God was doing here. That needed to happen, and it should absolutely happen throughout the country and world as God moves! It is fear that fear that moves us to hide behind doctrine without living out grace. It’s time to live out grace and let perfect love cast away fear. Tonight and tomorrow Bob Jones, a dear father to me personally, and one who spoken many things into my life, will also be here in Lakeland at the meetings in the Civic Center.

I encourage you to come “get some” in Florida. At the very least, you who are hungry will be filled… at the greatest… you and those you touch will carry this fire to all nations and all generations throughout the earth… until every knee bows!

Much Love… Overwhelming Grace… Huge Blessings!

Danny Steyne

 

 

 

 

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