Concerning The Lakeland Revival 2008
Ueli and Charlotte Surbeck
Switzerland USA Israel
September 27, 2008
Dear Friends and Family,
Like most of you know, we where 7 weeks in Lakeland at the Revival and we truly enjoyed this time. We believe God used this Revival to impart a fresh Anointing into the Body of Christ, thousands of people from around the World where filled and healed with the Holy Ghost and the Body of Christ received a new standard of true Evangelistic, Prophetic as well as Deliverance Ministry. We know that many things have changed since then and we have been praying for Todd and Shonnah in these past two months, we hope you did the same!
During our second last night at the Revival in Lakeland , Charlotte had a Vision, which I want to include here and we hope it will give you Vision for your prayers for Todd, Shonnah and Fresh Fire Ministry:
It was approximately on July 10th, when Todd took his first Break from the Revival, that I had a very strong impression in my spirit that Todd was in danger for his life somehow as well as Roy Fields life was also in danger. I told Ueli right away to see if he had any impressions, and at the same moment he felt a confirmation because of the message Todd had brought on the 7th of July, it was so powerful Ueli felt all hell would break loose of what has not been stirred up before. This is in our third Article that we mention below.
Then came Friday July 25th, we were on the Ministry team that night and we where full of expectation, as it was the last night for us at the Revival, after 6 weeks being here in Lakeland for the Outpouring.
In the tent during the Worship the Sprit of the Lord fell on me and did so very powerfully several times, a very mighty visitation. We where sitting at the right side of the stage, in the first row, where the Ministry Team has some reserved seats. As I tried to open my eyes, the Glory was on me so strong I only saw bright white lights, in my spirit, so bright I couldn’t see. I tried to see again and I saw angels coming into the tent everywhere and the glory coming down, right in front of the stage. This was an open vision, I was awake at the time, I saw the angels bringing Todd to the stage and he was in large pieces like (chunks). They laid him on the stage as the Worship continued the power of God came on the pieces of Todd’s body and they started to come back together, and Todd rose up and he started preaching, and the Glory fell and it was so glorious in the Revival after the vision.
I felt the deep concern for Todd, as my precious wife told me the vision. We understand that in the past weeks Todd had been literally crucified by the religious leaders who came against the Revival and his life, Family and Ministry.
We know that the Lakeland Revival was real and one of the most powerful Revivals in History. Charlotte received 3 precious Healings, we had many different powerful impartations, more real than anything we experienced before. I had several times a very powerful deliverance in area I would never have expected before and we both know that our lives are radically changed through these Revival. Please read Rory & Wendy's article below it will help with healing our hearts concerning Lakeland.
We appreciated and agree with the newest Statement from Rory and Wendy Alec WE ADDED BELOW.
Below are the websites of the three Reports we wrote about the Lakeland Revival:
http://www.etpv.org/2008/fffheav.html
http://www.etpv.org/2008/nrfll.html
http://www.etpv.org/2008/otfod.html
During the Revival in Lakeland, the Lord released a new sound of Worship and High Praise. We truly loved the Ministry of Roy and Melanie Fields as well as Heather Clark. We add their website and highly recommend, that you get some of their Music, to keep the Flame of Fire burning from this Revival:
Run with Fire Ministry, Roy and Melanie Fields
Heather Clark
http://www.heatherclarkband.com/New_Site/Home.html
With these Words we bless you, Shabbat Shalom and may the Lord make you ready for Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and the Feast of Tabernacles!
Ueli and Charlotte Surbeck*
LivingFire Ministry
The 10 Days Of Awe
Ueli Surbeck
”For the Hope of Israel I am bound with this chain” Acts 28: 20
Dear Friends and Family,
As we prepare for our return to Israel to go to the Feast of Tabernacles, we remember visions and dreams the Lord has given us over the past three years. During the past few days we both have the same impressions, and then we have received several confirmations that we should resend a word the Lord gave us three years ago.
In fact it was the first Word the Lord gave us together, after we arrived in America on Rosh Hashanah, and was released before we were married.
So it is a very special Word to both of us, and we feel that after 3 years it’s like the Message of the word we released three years ago is coming to full circle in the Spirit. In fact we have been married 3 years next month, as it’s been 3 years since we have come from Israel and so we are coming full circle.
So what is God saying and doing? One thing which is coming to my spirit, that these past 7 years, where years of plenty, where our Lord prepared a Joseph Company, and Apostolic Company of true Leaders who prepared the storehouses in the natural, and the spiritual.
And as we come full circle with God’s message which never ages, there will be an even greater Change of the Guard happening as we have never seen it before. Those who where Faithful will be promoted and those who refused to listen to the Voice of God, will enter into trouble they have never ever imagined. This is the Hour to know the Lord as our Judge! And we better know and receive Him as our Righteous Judge in order to serve and walk before Him in Righteousness and Holiness.
John 5: 19 ~ 23 Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
If we watch what is going on in the Market system of the world, called Babylon, we saw some frightening things happening. But know that this is part of the End times and has to happen in order that God can establish His Kingdom in Glory, and save many which are still captives. Through the problems and turmoil many will start to seek God! May the Lord prepare you to be His answer in these coming days of great trouble and darkness!
Re-Release September 26, 2008
THE 10 DAYS OF AWE
A Visitation on Rosh Hashanah
Written by: Ueli Surbeck and Charle' Homan
Received on October 3rd and 4th 2005 * Released on October 7th 2005
In the Book of Haggai, the Lord says: For thus says the Lord of hosts, Once more I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land and I will shake all nations and they (the Hebrew people) shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this Temple with Glory, says the Lord of hosts. Haggai 2: 6.7
Introduction
Like most of you know, we entered into the time of the 3 Jewish Fall Festivals. They are spiritually as much as important then the Spring Feasts of Passover and Pentecost.
It begins with Rosh Hashanah which was this year from the evening of Monday 3rd Oct. to the evening of 4th (respectively 5th) October. In the Hebrew Calendar this is 1 and 2 Tishri.
From this First Feast until the Feast of Yom Kippur, on the 10th of Tishri which is the Holiest of all Feasts, the day during the time of the Old Covenant, when the High Priest enters the Holy of Holies are the 10 days of Awe. Already during the 30 days preceding Rosh Hashanah, the Shofar is blown every day; on Rosh Hashanah it’s blown 100 times as it is the Feast of blowing the Horn/Shofar. And then again in these 10 Days of Awe, which are the times every Hebrew has to get ready before the Lord in repentance and reconciliation.
As on Yom Kippur, the Lord will release as much as for the Nation as for the individual or Family, a revelation which will decide what will go on in the following year, it can be blessings, it can be judgment, it can be promotion....and much is decided if we stay low before the Lord in humility and repentance....and after this we go over into the last of the Fall Festivals, the Feast of Tabernacles, where the Lord wants to tabernacle with us...have some deep fellowship with us.
Vision
Monday afternoon which was Rosh Hashanah, as we started to pray, the Father truly came and visited us in a very powerful way. It was not the gentle voice, but like a General stepping into His Headquarters, mad at the situation on the Battlefield. See Psalm 18.
Charle' immediately fell to the floor, she shook violently, arms and head in all directions and then He spoke to us in a powerful way through this visitation of the Father:
I saw the Father standing above me with the World in His hand and He began shaking it violently shaking the World up and down, left to the right and backward and forward and this is what the Father says:
"My church has to be shaken out of the World, I want it out, and I am shaking my church until it comes out of the World! They have become so entwined in the World it is the only way to get them out." He continued to shake the World violently (it very much remembers me, the process of harvesting potatoes) as I saw the church being shaken out of the world, I saw 3 things happening in the Church:
Preachers were falling out of the pulpits, head first, pulpits started falling out of the Church, I saw the Prophets falling, as they fell they lost their mantles, their mantles fell out of the churches and then I saw the reprobates start falling out of the Church; and then the Father said IN THE VOICE OF THE GENERAL, "THEY HAVE MISSED THE HOUR OF THEIR VISITATION" HE SAID IT three times consecutive, they missed the hour of my visitation, they think they are somebody, but in fact they are blind and naked. As the prophets fell out and lost their mantles I saw the Father picked up the Mantles and give them to the faithful Prophets of the hour that had not missed THE HOUR OF THEIR VISITATION".
For behold the Lord will come with fire. And with His chariots, like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by His sword the Lord will judge all flesh; and the slain of the Lord shall be many. Isaiah 66, 15-16
Then I saw 10 invitations, standing up all in a row, as road signs and upon them was written YOU ARE INVITED TO REPENT! For all those who entered, forgiveness was granted, but as the days passed by for those who did not repent, the INVITATIONS turned into a DECLARATION OF JUDGMENT as the end grew near. As the 10th day had past it meant TOTAL SEPARATION FROM THE FATHER for those who did not respond to His invitation.
In the parable of the Wedding Feast Matthew 22:1~14 the King send out his servants to call for the Wedding Feast. In this parable the King got furious at those people who refused to listen to his servants. I believe that this is somehow the best description of how the Father actually feels about some of his servants who are messing around and with his authority and responsibility given to them and do not repent...
The Lord gives us 10 days to repent and go on our knees, show the fruit of repentance and seek his face. That's what these 10 days of awe represent. 10 chances to come before Him get rid of the garbage from the past and seek Him the King of Glory.
For those, and I believe this is specially for the Ministers, who will not seek His face now, but also the Church, judgment will be decreed at Yom Kippur, when the High Priest will enter into the Holy of Holies to receive, what is called the Shepherd’s Rod, the Decree from the Lord for this next year. At this point I want to share a very strong impression I have since many weeks, but I sense at this time I have to share it;
Ministers of the Lord, who have messed around with secret societies Freemasonry and their associated groups like Knights of Malta or others and have never repented, if they don't go to their knees in these 10 days, judgment will come without Mercy! His wrath and fury will be fully released! Until genuine repentance and the fruit of repentance is fully shown! Mantles, weapons and voices will be taken away now if they miss this 10 Days! Many Mighty Men will not be standing at the end of these Ten days of Awe...
Then one day later, the Father returned as we were praying again and the visitation returned, when we were praying and the Angel of the Lord appeared standing in front of us, then I was struck down and I saw the Father. Then I saw a stage and a Play was about to go on, it was the final dress rehearsal and then half of the curtain was closing and I heard the Father Say, "The end of an age is closed, it will never be opened again". On the other half-side the last act was about to begin and the players where corresponding to the players on a chessboard which I could see beside the stage. Just before, I had seen the Father wipe out a whole set of players on the Chessboard again, like a General which is furious at His soldiers and somehow said, away with them....then a new play was set up and it corresponded with the players on the stage on the side which was open. The Lord was finishing the preparation for the players for the dress rehearsal and placing on them mantles and everything needed for the play, which is normally put on a player at the final dress rehearsal.
It is the set up for the final play on the Chessboard, Corresponding with the 4 Horses in Revelation 6, The Prophets (Messengers) are equipped, and positioned with the message to run!
And the Towers (Houses, Churches and Nations of Refuge) are in final preparation to be ready for the attack of the enemy. The next move on the Chessboard would be the beginning of the confrontation of the two armies.
At this point in the Chess game the Father told Ueli to show Him the next move on the board, and waited for him to play that next move and we are all waiting until the end of Yom Kippur to see what that move will be. May the Lord Bless you and keep you in the palm of His hand...
BEHOLD HE COMES, RIDING ON A CLOUD, SHINING LIKE THE SUN, AT THE TRUMPETS CALL! LIFT YOUR VOICE, IT'S THE YEAR OF JUBILEE AND OUT OF ZION'S HILLSALVATION COMES!
BLESSINGS, LivingFire Ministry
Personal Message Concerning Lakeland
Rory and Wendy Alec
Beloved GOD TV viewer,
In the light of many statements having been released about the LAKELAND OUTPOURING and concerning Todd Bentleys marital situation, we sensed that the Lord has released us to write concerning this situation, so that you, our viewers would know our heart concerning this matter.
The first thing we feel led to do is to state unequivocally that in the same manner as the Lord instructed us to broadcast and serve TheCall gatherings with Lou Engle; to broadcast what was happening at the International House of Prayer with Mike Bickle; Rick Joyner and MorningStar; the Solemn assembly in San Francisco; BattleCry and Teen Mania with Ron Luce; Focus on the Family’s prayer event for America; the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem; and hundreds of other anointed events over the past three years, we believe that the Lord instructed us to broadcast the Outpouring services at Lakeland with Todd Bentley.
It was not a mistake.
It was not by mistake.
We believe it was a clear instruction from the Lord.
Over the past twelve years, but especially since our launch in America, we have in obedience to the Lord searched through the earth for those events and anointings that the Lord has laid on our hearts to amplify their message and anointing to the Body of Christ in this crucial endtime hour that we live in.
The Lakeland Outpouring with Todd Bentley was one of those events. We received over 45 000 e-mails many, many of these heart rending, powerful testimonies from viewers across the earth of their bodies or their families bodies healed, their lives transformed and their hearts revived.
None of us have ever seen such significant fruit in all the years of broadcast.
Far more profound than that were the desperate cries for help. I (Wendy), would go through the live inbox and see the desperate cries from mothers, wives, sons and daughters, so many with TERMINALLY ILL husbands, wives, children, sometimes babies in arms sensing HOPE in their situation that for so long had been without hope.
Just reading these prayer requests would bring one to tears –
We are often so cloistered from the agony of peoples day by day real life agonies - and their agonies were written there.
So much so - that we both sensed that would need the word of the Lord under the fear of God to stop these broadcasts with the life changing impact they were having in homes not only in the UK and America but all across the world. And the Glory of the Living God that was being imparted.
We both kept a very close pulse on the revival since the start of its broadcast - we had first hand knowledge of the enormous criticism, persecution and reviling that Todd Bentley was receiving (often we were second contenders for it) but it was Todd Bentley and the Fresh Fire team who received the terrible weight of this.
Todd ministered each day as the revival continued but was consistently and unrelentingly criticized, maligned, persecuted - the attacks grew increasingly violent - and the heartbreaking thing was that so much of it came from the Church.
At the same time, Todd was facing a second wave of attack. This was from the covens, the warlocks - we heard firsthand concerning some of these assignments. The enemy had heard of the great honoring of the Lamb and was determined to destroy it - BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE AND AT ANY COST.
And the cost was Todd Bentley.
Was it because Todd was vulnerable and certain areas of his life were not surrendered wholly? Yes – like so many of us - in all probability.
Was it because the character of Christ was not yet formed in him in the equivalent measure to his gifting? Yes - like so many of us - in all probability.
Could it be the case that there by the grace of God go YOU AND Yes - In all probability.
Some of the areas in our lives are watertight and have been honed and refined and polished by the Lord while still other areas in our lives are often still in desperate need of attention. We are an ongoing work and we work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
Well - all ministers who preach should ensure their lives are in order, you may be saying.
Yes - we and our board and our minister peers across the globe agree wholeheartedly.
And yet, beloved - unfortunately, THERE ARE TIMES when satan comes unawares and targets a vulnerable area whose weaknesses only become apparent under the most enormous and unrelenting pressure brought to bear.
We believe and of course this is just our personal opinion, that the revival stirred up the satanic realms in a manner that has rarely been seen and with a violent wrath.
It is difficult to understand the degree of spiritual battle that comes against a leader. We have learned we need to protect the move of God with greater prayer for leaders, including ourselves. The body of Christ is growing in greater transparency and accountability, and this too should be a subject of prayer.
Should all of us wait till we are as perfect and as watertight as can be and mature in every area - that of course, would be the safest course of action, but the truth is that most of us would be 90 years old!
The Lord who made us and knows that we are as dust and yet looks on us with His great mercies and compassions knows this and He the sovereign God of heaven and earth still chooses to take a GOD-risk on you and I every day of our lives.
That even under the most intense pressure that we would choose HIM.
That we would love HIM.
That in times of intense duress and temptation that we would follow HIM.
And let it be so - even more in all our lives, but beloved - let us not forget so many of those who walk in ministry across the earth today with such COURAGE and FERVOR and lay their lives down for HIS CAUSE at great cost to themselves - Todd and Shonnah sowed their lives to sow the seeds of revival and we believe became a supreme target of the enemy.
On the June 23rd, Todd actually spoke openly and with great vulnerability of his and Shonnahs previous marriage challenges and how they had faced those challenges and the Lord had begun His work. He did not try to hide their struggle but shared their ongoing journey.
As Rick Joyner so wisely put it –
"In marriage, I have learned there are those who admit they have been through times when they wondered if their marriage would make it, and then there are liars. Relationships are hard, and the closer they are, the harder they can be. I tell everyone that I give premarital counseling to that the Lord has ordained their marriage in order to kill both of them! That is true. It is also worth it! The greatest gift He gave to man was marriage and family. However, to have a marriage that is good, both will have to die to themselves. If either one does not make the commitment to lay down their life for their mate and their family, then what was meant to be heaven can be hell."
It is an ongoing walk - and we all are ongoing works. But the Lord said something to us some years ago - He said - When you hate sin because it HURTS ME - then it will lose its grip on you. When you hate sin because it displeases ME - its hold diminishes.
The Lord also shared with us that someone can be deceived in an AREA of sin but it does not necessarily mean that in every area of his or her life or ministry, they were walking in deception as some critics of the revival may lean to believe.
And who is to judge that the Lord does not hold the violent unleashing of criticism and faultfinding and tearing down and divisiveness of the heresy hunters, as severe a sin as separation in a marriage?
We will find out before the judgment seat in eternity.
One of our greatest grievings has been to see how many in the church backtracked to protect their own reputations. We have been truly refreshed by several close ministry friends with their uncompromising love of truth and lack of a man pleasing spirit that has arisen in the church in the light of the Lakeland aftermath. They have given us fresh courage when we grew weary.
So beloved friend –
Do we at GOD TV refute the Outpouring? NO.
We are presently planning to broadcast other offshoots of Lakeland in both the United Kingdom and America, including revival meetings in Dudley, England.
We have determined in our hearts to follow the Lord with all our might as courageously and as boldly as we can, to reject the pressures to bow to a man pleasing spirit but instead to humble ourselves under the Fathers leading.
For HE is our all in all.
He is our great desire.
Finally, dear friends, while we defend and rejoice in the many ten thousands that God lifted and healed, we also know that there were dear souls, sheep, who were scattered as a result of Todd’s personal choices. The Bible says that hope deferred makes the heart sick and this is the last thing GODTV would want to see happen. We are praying for any that stumbled and believing that the Lord will restore them to Himself.
Remember: this was never about Todd Bentley. It was always about the Holy Spirit and the fact that God loved you and I. It was GOD who touched our lives.
One thing, we felt impressed upon our hearts thirteen years ago when we first launched this ministry. That the Father will allow none of us - whether in ministry or as a viewer to hold idolatry in our hearts for any man.
For the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit alone are to receive our worship.
We continue on the road to maturity.
We continue our efforts to serve an end time spiritual army.
We continue to try each day to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of the ONLY one who is worthy of ALL adoration.
Of ALL HONOUR.
Of ALL WORSHIP.
Remember also, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Let’s turn our eyes toward Him and away from our trust in man.
He who sent His only begotten Son.
The Great Father of Compassions.
To Him alone we bow.
Personally we believe that the best is yet to come.
For our King and His Kingdom
Rory and Wendy Alec