24/7 Church: What's it all about?

....I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. Acts 26:19

For me, it all started there on the carpet down on South Figueroa in Los Angeles. No, I wasn't accustomed to lying on the carpet in Holy Ghost meetings. Actually, I was not accustomed to Holy Ghost meetings at all. But I did listen to preachers on the radio and one of them, Johnny Chambers, invited me and all of Southern California to come to his tent revival. Something about his announcement made me want to believe I could be touched by God and know it. So I took my old car, and after mechanical problems and delays, I pulled up outside the blue and white gospel tent only to hear Brother Chambers singing "Today I Started Loving Christ Again" to the tune of an old Merle Haggard song. I said to myself, "what kind of a deal is this?" and the devil tried to get me to believe that I would not get that old car started again if I turned it off there. I started driving back home and was going down Rosecrans Blvd. not too far from where Brother Allen's last meeting had been held a few years earlier when God spoke to my heart and told me that if I kept running from Him I would never stop. I repented right then and there and turned that car around, went back to Brother Johnny's meeting and got more from God every night for a month.

What does this have to do with Regional Revival of Biblical Proportions in Western Kentucky? Well, I was lying there on the carpet in Brother Chambers' meeting and got a vision of a particular city skyline I had never seen before and God was telling me I had to go there. But I didn't even know where "there" might be. The years came and the years went, I continued in what is all too often a normal Christian experience: up one time and down another with no real victory. That is, until God stopped me in the middle of the road running from Him again. This time it took a semi-truck and as I was bouncing thru the "bar ditch" on the side of I-39 just outside of Stoughton, Wisconsin, just then, I prayed the stupidest prayer: "God, I hope I've got all together." Stupid, because I knew where I had been and what I had been doing. BUT GOD HEARD MY PRAYER and saved my life one last time. When I was able to get out of Wisconsin after the accident, I headed for the Tri-State area of Western Kentucky, Indiana, and Southern Illinois thinking to find some friends of Brother Chambers but instead God brought me where he wanted me and put me together with some other brothers that helped me to become really free in Christ. This is where I was when God started drawing me toward the old Cane Ridge Meeting House near Paris, Kentucky. I also learned that the skyline I had seen in the vision was that of Cincinnati and that folks from Cleddie Keith's church in the Cincinnati area had been visiting Cane Ridge because of the revival anointing there. I did visit Cincinnati and Cane Ridge and shortly thereafter (12/31/1998) I held a Watch Night Prayer Meeting in the old MeetingHouse. The anointing was so strong it actually showed up on tape and in photographs. Upon returning to Western Kentucky, I met Pastor Fred Fisher at a Pastor's Prayer Meeting in his church and shared my vision of Regional Revival in Western Kentucky with the pastors in attendance.

(More to come-------------------)

Bishop David Holdridge
godchasersw@msn.com

Read about Bro. Holdridge's Calling & Ministry HERE

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