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The most wonderful experience
Dear Matt and Partners,

I want to thank you for preparing the way for the most wonderful experience I ever had with the Lord. I was slain in the Spirit at least 4 times at the Prophetic Conference this past weekend and my body was bubbling or jerking about A LOT while I was there. I am still feeling reverberations from the experience. I am so excited to see what the Lord is going to do through me! I have desired the gift of laying on of hands for healing for years, and I believe it is coming to pass right now.

The other thing which completely blew me away was the unity among ALL the believers there. It was the first time I have ever noticed not being judged or looked over with a critical eye. Everyone was so good to me. My spirit man was so built up. Many people exhorted me in many ways.

I loved you talking about blowing up the sheep, and once when I was slain in the Spirit, I felt that if I got filled any more, I WOULD explode. I wish I could hang out with all of you every month! God bless you with everything you need and may He give you the desires of your heart.





Barbara
Bethlehem, PA


Transference of the Anointing
Thought I would share.
I came back home after the conference, and someone asked me to pray for them at church for the tranferrence of the anointing from the revival. I started praying in the spirit, and the spirit began to move in a powerful way. Words were coming out of my mouth and people were touched. It was awesome.
Thank you for a great conference!


Andrew
NY


Restaurant Manager saved!
Hi MSM,

Saturday morning I was having breakfast with my new friend I met at the conference and she was sharing how she was in a boat with Jesus on a river and He said to her to let Him row the boat. We smiled and then suddenly I was filled with joy, the Holy Spirit came strongly and I began to laugh! Then she began to laugh and it was a challenge to contain ourselves, but we managed as to not totally cause a scene. The anointing just SHOWED UP and filled us with JOY. It was awesome.
Then I asked the Lord who He wanted me to share with, as He has showed me, this kind of thing is two fold, for me and for me to give away!

So I looked around and saw the restaurant manager of the Marriott Hotel where the Open Heavens Conference was held. I felt the Holy Spirit say "If you get him, the whole restaurant will be saved, start at the head, trickle down." I had been focused on our waitress initially. Well, God is good and I had an opportunity to share the gospel with both of them using Rodney Howard-Browne's soul winning script and they both prayed the salvation prayer! PRAISE THE LORD! Each of their faces lit up as they smiled when they said "I'm saved. I'm forgiven. I'm born again because I have Jesus in my heart." It was soooo precious. Sunday morning I gave Dipin, the manager, a Bible I had with me. Dipin also asked if the conference was over, I told him yes and that MSM would be back in April for another. I gave each a copy of the script with www.revival.com on it and let them know they could watch the services on-line.

Afterwards, I felt as though Holy Spirit told me since there is an OPEN HEAVEN over Long Island, it would be "easier" or like a "quickening" of people getting saved through faith in Jesus Christ. WOW! All we have to do is open our mouth and give the good news. Holy Spirit is drawing many in Long Island!
GLORY TO GOD!!!

Thank you again for an awesome, Holy Spirit-filled weekend. The presence of the Lord was awesome! I also smelled His fragrance Saturday night, like cinnamon, then another man, also smelled it as I heard him talking to someone, I let him know I smelled it too!!!

Much love in Jesus and praying for you and THANKING GOD FOR YOU!


Jennifer
West Chester, PA


God is restoring the years the locust ate
1st night of conference. I was very sick. I had asthmatic bronchitis. I made it there out of holy desperation. I was determined that the devil would not stop me, because I had a feeling that something major in the Spirit was going to happen to me at the conference that would change the rest of my life, and commission me into His direction for the next half of my life in ministry. I also went even though ill because I thought, "If I can just get into that atmosphere, the corporate worship, and the Glory, I will be healed." You see, I had attended my 1st Matt Sorger conference:Glory, Signs & Wonders in April 2007, and it changed my life, literally; so I had a lot of anticipation heading into this conference, and had been pining for it practically from the time the other one ended, because I never wanted to leave the Glory I found there, and I didn't yet know how to get in it that intensely when I was by myself, even though I could feel the Holy Spirit and experience a lot of God on my own, I just got on a whole 'nother level at that 1st conference, and I felt that God advanced me quantum leaps in one weekend, and I "skipped grades" in the Spirit, He advanced me with rapid acceleration, like going from grade school straight to a Bachelor's Degree. Back to the 1st night of the Open Heavens' conference: since I had been in the St. Charles ER the day before, it would have been enough that I made it to the conference, and collapsed into a chair, but soon after I got there, in fact as soon as I put down my coat and bag, God ignited me and I ran to the front and began worshiping, jumping up and down, and singing despite the asthmatic bronchitis in my lungs! It was a sign of things to come.

After we settled down into our seats after worship, Matt was just speaking, welcoming us into the conference, and starting things off by giving a few things away. There were some teachings, CDS and DVDs, and he announced some very good titles, but I was not drawn enough to what I had heard to try and get the first few items. Then Matt held up the Awakening CD, about the Glory of God, and my spirit leapt up, taking my body with it! I excused myself to the folks on the end of the aisle, and said I am sorry but I have to get this, and I ran up the center of the room. I stood before Matt, but he hadn’t registered that I was there, and had turned his back to me, and was speaking to the rows of seats to my right, but then, he turned around, and it was funny, because I was standing there so expectantly, and suddenly he saw me, and said, “Oh hi” and I said “hi” and he asked me if I wanted the Glory of God, and I said “Yes!” and so he said something like, “Here, have it,” and as he went to hand me the CD, he blew on me, and before I even laid my hand upon the CD, I went down in the spirit, falling on the floor, overcome with the Glory of God, and once I had been caught and was safely on the floor, and was covered, the CD was laid on top of me! Ha! I laid there dumbfounded. I was pinned to the ground. I could not move. I knew I could stay there a while without disturbing anyone, but I was aware that maybe I’d have to move soon. Lucky for me, the clip about what Matt Sorger Ministries is doing around the world was played for the audience, and it bought me some time to stay there slain in the spirit. Still, the natural part of my brain said, “You need to get up sometime soon,” but my spiritual mind said, “Hey, just enjoy this, don’t rush it, how often does this happen? stay in this place for as long as you can!” Intermittently, I tested my ability to get up, and it was nil! I would try to move, or budge, and I found out I was velcroed to the floor! Uh oh, getting up would not be easy, even if I wanted to comply with the wishes of those who might like me to get up. My limbs were so heavy. If I managed, against all resistance, to even move one iota, the heaviness would flop my arms and legs right back down to the ground. Finally, after the film was over, I somehow turned over, started to move a little while still on my knees, and grabbed onto the edge of a total stranger’s chair, and tried to pull myself up, I was crawling! Suddenly, someone was there to help me, a woman, and she was from my weekly 24/7 IHOP-LI prayer meeting, and I didn’t even recognize her, that is how far gone in the glory I was! I couldn’t focus on her face, she said, “Talin, it’s Sue” and I snapped out of it and tried to see her face, even though she was right in front of me! I did realize who it was, and I was so thankful for her help. We smiled and laughed and she helped me up, and I made my way to my seat on sea legs. So, that was how the conference started for me! Quite an eventful beginning.

Bobby Conner spoke, prayed for people, and then was leaving, walked out with his wife, escorted by Kim Nielsen. I did not get prayer. I was so desperate for healing. I did something so out of character! I ran into the lobby, and chased after them! That is so unlike me! I was that desperate. I caught up with them, and asked Bobby Conner if he would pray for me. I told him I had just been in the hospital yesterday, and that I needed healing. I also mentioned that I’d been sick for ten years. I started to become seriously ill to a disabling level when I was 30 years old, and I was now was on the cusp of turning 40 in a few days (My Birthday is November 19th). I felt I’d lost an entire decade. My entire 30's. He asked me my name, and agreed to pray, so he began, and his wife and Kim stood by in agreement, and besides physical healing, he saw in the spirit that there was more going on, and addressed some things in the demonic realm that were oppressing me. As he did, I felt things being ripped and wrenched out of me. I started to cry and double over. When it was done, he looked down and noticed a shiny quarter lying on the carpet. He picked it up, and held it out at length, peering at it through his glasses, and asking his wife to verify that it was a 1993 quarter. She agreed. Then they both turned to me, and even Kim looked at me, and all at once, I knew that it meant something, and so did they. They asked me if 1993 had any significance for me, and I exclaimed, “Yes! That’s the year I graduated college, and I wanted to go on to graduate school, and continue on to my career, but I didn’t have the finances, and then my Mother got ill, and then she died, and then I became ill, and I never got to go back to school...” and Bobby Conner’s wife said that God was returning those years to me, the years the locust had eaten, the chancre worm. They placed the shiny quarter in my palm, and I looked at it. It did indeed read “1993" and it was shiny, and clean, and looked just minted. Then I looked again, and I noticed that it said: “Liberty.” Wow. I was stunned. I walked away three feet off the floor and in awe of God.

A short time later I tried to compose myself to give Lou a testimony for the tape he was making. I don’t know if I even managed to explain myself or be coherent, I was in such an altered state.

Finally, at around Midnight, I made my way to my car to leave for the night. I looked at my cell phone, and I had missed ten calls! 8 of which were from my brother and sister-in-law; I had a bad feeling about that, and I was right. I called them back. My brother told me our Dad had a stroke, and was in the emergency room at Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson. I was in shock. I immediately left the Marriott in Islandia and raced over to the hospital ER. I got in and found my Father. I walked in, and was tempted to break down, and fall apart in the natural, but I was determined that after being in such at atmosphere of Glory all night that I would try to bring it into the circumstances that I now found my dad and myself in. So, I laid my hand upon his shoulder and began to pray. I also spoke to my dad of our assurances in the Lord, and how although we don’t know why this happened, we know God had a plan, that he loves us, and cares about us, and isn’t a random or careless God, so, because we know that, we needed to trust him in this moment. That doesn’t mean there weren’t hard moments that night; my dad was trying to speak, and his words were all jumbled, he was very disoriented, and had lost memories. At one point, as he tried to express himself, and couldn’t, he got so frustrated and upset that he began to weep. I could not contain myself at that moment and I held his hand and cried with him. So, yes, I was still very human. I was just determined to place my Dad and this unpredictable scary stroke in God’s hands. I stayed until my Dad was finally given a room, and we settled him in for the night. It took hours. Once he was safe and sound for the night, I finally left there. It was 3:30 A.M., and I felt like a rag. All the emotions I’d held in when I was in front of him (so as not to make him more upset than he already was) came rushing out as soon as I got in the elevator, and continued all the way to my car, as I walked along and sobbed, right through the ER waiting room, beyond caring who saw me that way. I got in my car, and tried to get it together to drive. I wanted to call someone, but it was too late to do that, so to calm myself, I sent a text message to my best friend, knowing she’d most likely not be disturbed by it coming in that late, and that she’d probably just get it in the morning.

I got home around 4 AM, and despite total exhaustion, I could not sleep. I had been too shaken up by the entire event of my Dad’s stroke, and seeing him in that condition. I had been strong in the Lord, and stood on my faith while I was there, but in my flesh, I was naturally upset to see my Father in such diminished mental capacity. It was the agitation of all of those attendant feelings that kept me awake.

10 A.M. rolled around and I was still awake, and now clearly, also missing the Friday morning sessions of the conference. Grrrr, I was mad at the devil. It seemed that he’d done everything to try to stop me from going to the conference in the first place, what with me having been sick for two weeks prior to the start of the conference, but for most of that time, me thinking it was just a cold that was going to pass, and instead ending up with a bad bout of bronchial asthma. But, I thought, I prevailed, and I got to the conference, and look at what had happened to me the first night there! No wonder the enemy was trying to prevent me from getting there! But realizing I’d fought through the resistance, gotten there, received the glory of God, and the prayer and the quarter, which contained God’s promise to me, I thought, well, look at that, the enemy didn’t win that round, so he moved on to attack the weakest member of my family, my father, a 76 year old man in poor health. When I realized it, something rose up in me and said “This means war!”

I knew I wasn’t going to be able to sleep easily, so I decided to just lie down, close my eyes, and try to rest my body, if nothing else. I put on the Awakening CD that I’d been given the night before. I laid down in my bed, collapsing with sheer exhaustion, and I hit the “play” button on the boom box next to my bed. At the very first sound I heard I was caught up into a visitation of the Holy Spirit. It lasted for the duration of the CD. I was out under the power of God, yet I could hear every word and all the music on the CD. Blue and Purple light started circulating in my body. God told me He was healing me. God told me everything He was doing as He did it! He told me he was regenerating me on a cellular level. Sounded way cool to me, so I just laid there physically immobilized by the Glory of God and let Him have His way. The Kabod was upon me, it was like being covered in a lead blanket, like one of those aprons you have put on you at the dentist when you get xrays. I could *see* the blue and purple light circulating through my body, as my eyes were closed. After the CD ended I slept like the dead, or rather the (un)dead in Christ!


Unknown


The Glory is here!
Praise The Lord!
I saw you at the Open Heavens Conference. Firey intense time of prep coming to close (YEARS!) Coming out of the caves of Adullam. To establish "Kingdom Embassies" unlike church as we know it. Pray for us. We have been Translated into the Kingdom. The Shift IS happenning! The Glory IS here!


James
Hempstead, NY


My life will never be the same
During this past conference in NY, I gave $105.00 in the offering. When I came home I had two checks in the mail, totalling $2.500!!
Praise God!!
Thank you so much for such an awesome time on Nov 15-17.
My life will never be the same!!

Unknown


God is restoring the years the locust ate - addition

I saw that my testimony was marked "unknown" so I wanted to tell you that it's me. It's the one you titled "God is restoring the years the locust ate". There is a P.S. to my testimony that I dearly want to share with all at MSM, especially Matt to thank him.
I am going to make a long story very short:
So, after that first visitation while listening to Matt's Awakening CD (on Saturday morning 11/16/07) I went back to the conference and had more awesome times in the Spirit. But after it was all over, I continued to have had daily and nightly visitations of increasing intensity, often for anywhere from 3 to 10 hours at a time. I cannot even tell you all I saw, learned and I experienced during that time: it would take a whole book. I am still trying to unpack that experience, and document it somehow. The Glory of God had me in its grip for those weeks, and I could barely function in a "real world" way, but I didn't care! (I wasn't working at the time, so I had 24 hrs a day to let Him have His way). The Holy Spirit possessed me so powerfully that I was like a puppet, the Spirit would fall on me on His own timing and I would go under, again and again. The Glory is now my Life, even more than before.
My plea to God for 2008 is His continual Habitation, and a constant realm of His Glory. I truly lived under an Open Heavens, and I want to keep living under it the rest of my life, until I get to Heaven itself!

Talin
Farmingville, NY


Title
Today I received a letter in the mail that my job is giving me $400 raise and in retro pay beginning November 28.
Then I received an unexpected gift of $10,000.
God returned to me 4 fold and 10 fold the donations I made at the Open Heaven Conference in Islandia.
This was totally unexpected. I gave with all my heart not expecting anything from the Lord.
We just cannot out give God!!!!! He is awesome and worthy of our praise and love.


Lena
Farmingdale, New York

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