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The Revival Fellowship is not simply a social club. We all have a common experience of having received the Holy Ghost in the exact same way that those in the early church did, with the evidence of speaking in other or new languages. We all have the ability to give testimony of our experiences, as "eye witnesses" to the active working of miracles in our every day lives. Prayers answered and lives changed.

The Following are Just a few....

  Chris & Peter Popp

Pastor Peter & Chris Popp

In 1984 I was a totally different person with a lot of different attitudes than I have now. My marriage was in a shambles and we were headed for the divorce courts. All we seemed to do was fight. We fought over everything -money (we had some good fights over that), kids (we have three), drink, and poker machines. I just forgot how to be a good wife and mother and at that stage I didn't care. I didn't like the person I had become. My husband, Peter and I had tried to make our marriage work for the last time, and he began to look for a place to live on his own because, to us, that was the only answer.

How wrong we were. As someone came to me and told me that my life could be totally changed. That was all it took, as I just wanted to be happy and be a good wife and mother. The lady told me that I needed to repent which was no big deal as I was already sorry for the things I had done. Next, the scriptures said that I should be baptised the Bible way just as Jesus had been. I did so in a small church near Wollongong with a small number of people watching on. Afterwards, I went to a small room and prayed to receive the Holy Spirit. I received it after a few minutes, just as I had been shown in the Bible. That is, as a sign that I had received the Spirit I would speak in tongues - a new language, a supernatural experience just as in the Bible days. I remember never feeling this clean or happy before and I knew that the things I was reading in the bible were true.

From that moment things changed - sometimes straight away, or other times as I learnt how the Lord wanted me to live and behave. My husband very quickly saw the change in me as did my children and soon we were all 'spirit filled' and learning many new and exciting things.

Healings were a part of our every day life. Many took place in our families and some were just people we knew. I no longer sounded like a fishwife yelling all the time. With much help from the Lord I was able to give up drinking alcohol and gambling on the pokies (which I did everyday). I really had no desire to do any of these things anymore. My marriage was transformed and was made better than ever. We have all our needs met. We have no money worries. Life is just great and we are learning all the time and changing for the better.

Now my main aim is to tell as many people as I can about the grace and love of God and how, most importantly, they can find salvation.

 

      Jo & Don Murphy

As a young man I had grown up with confidence, intelligent, educated, proud and successful. By the mid 1980's, my wife Jo, and I, could see the failure of education, government and religious organisations to meet the needs of our society. We had become disillusioned and cynical. At this time I fully expected our marriage to eventually break up. Jo had been searching, as a last resort, in the Bible.

In 1986 Jo was guided to a fellowship meeting where she was baptised by full immersion and received the Holy Spirit with the Bible evidence of speaking in a new language. My anger at this happening was intense.

Over the next six years, I watched my wife and these people, for any sign of hypocrisy, lies and interference in our family. Instead, Jo, filled with the grace of God, became less cynical, and far more tolerant and amenable. No one interfered.

By 1992 the improvements in our marriage, employment, opportunities and events which occurred, as far as my analytical mind could see, were not of the natural world. I could not believe that such changes had occurred in and around our family. Also I could not deny these changes. I was told that these events had resulted from the protection and grace of God. I had a problem! My disbelief versus my intelligence.

Finally, in July 1993 I humbled myself, and asked the Lord to give me His grace. He filled me with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in a new language. Even so I still doubted. I did not feel that I, Don Murphy, was worthy of such a gift. How could God choose me?

The world continued to decline, but my life changed. Many wonderful and beneficial things happened both to my family and to me. These events are miracles.

I received a healing miracle to my back. My back was damaged in 1975. Discs were crushed. The injury to my spine worsened over the years to the point where when my back "went", I would be bed ridden for up to five days and another five days of painful recovery. As an owner driver of a semi-trailer, with heavy work and no sick leave, I could not afford time off. So I prayed to the Lord for a healing, to be able to carry out my work without the debilitating interruptions. The Lord healed me. Since that time I have not missed one day's work because of back injury. I can testify personally to this miracle and many others which I have been blessed with. I am still not worthy of God's grace. He sees fit to look after me while ever I follow his ways as set out in the scriptures. I do not understand why. All I can do is praise his name for doing so.

Chris & Cynthia Brown

Chris Brown: At 24 years old I thought I had it all together. A loving family, great friends and a good job, but little did I know God had a plan for me. I met a young lady who had a rare enthusiasm and love of life. She invited me to her church one Sunday, a Revival Fellowship meeting.

I approached with an open mind and heard about the real power of God, the purpose of baptism and the infilling of the Holy Spirit with the bible evidence of speaking in tongues. I also noticed that all that was said and done was taken directly from the bible.

While I believed in God, it was going to take a life-changing miracle for me to commit my life to him.

I was baptized and a few weeks later that life-changing miracle did happen.

I asked in prayer for forgiveness of my sins and I instantly was able to speak fluently in a new language that was not taught. This was the undeniable evidence that proved what the bible had promised. From that day on, I found a peace and contentment that I had never known, and the blessings just keep on coming.

 

Cynthia Brown:  I always believed in God. But I didn’t have a relationship with him ,he lived up in the clouds somewhere and I didn’t understand how he fitted into my life. I was 12 years old when my parents were told of a personal experience they could have with God, called receiving the Holy Spirit, and the evidence of this would be that they would speak in a language they didn’t learn, defined in the bible as "speaking in tongues". I felt a little afraid of this, because it was clearly a supernatural experience. I knew right away though, that it was the something that would change my life in a very special way and that excited me.

I was shown in the bible the 3 things that the Lord expected from me, to repent be baptized by full immersion and to receive the Holy Spirit. So I repented (decided to change my life) and I was baptized. One night I was thinking about the Lord and praying and I started speaking in a new language. I felt very contented and saw the world differently.

From that moment on I knew God .I felt his presence in my heart, and that feeling has never gone away. That was 17 years ago. I can and do pray in tongues whenever I want. God has done many great things in my life .I have no fear of death .I have confidence in God because I know he cares for me.

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