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by the presence of the living God. All the same reactions that we had seen in Toronto were happening right here in our home church. The most amazing thing to us was that none of our members had ever been to Toronto; so they were not imitating anything they had seen before. They were simply responding to a dramatic increase in His mighty presence. Our church, The Father’s House, has been in renewal ever since. tinuously pray these simple heartfelt prayers, “Come Holy Spirit”, “Take over this service today,” and “More, Lord”. He was good to His word. He took over each service and still does to this day! He came in power, and He continues to come and does what only He can do. FILLED TEETH AND FILLED LIVES In March of 2001, my wife Cindy and 20 members of our church made the trek up to TACF for “The Father Loves You” conference. During one of the services, John Arnott prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to do a miracle in people’s mouths. John prayed for dental miracles and gold fillings. The Spirit of God hit the members of our church. Every one of our members in attendance, including my wife, saw the fillings in their teeth change to gold. Then they prayed that the same miracle would happen for the rest of our church back home in Akron. Within a couple of hours of this prayer, I began receiving phone calls from our home in Ohio. Numerous church members where asking, “What’s going GOD ASKS FOR MY RESIGNATION I attended the TACF Pastor’s Conference in January of 2001. I was sitting in a workshop listening to guest speaker Sunday Adelijah, and I made this statement to Jesus, “Lord, I’ll do anything for You. Whatever You want me to do, just tell me and I’ll do it!” I suddenly felt like I was in a cloud of His glory. I heard the Lord’s voice saying, “I want you to resign as pastor of your church.” I was stunned, to say the least! I was certain it was Him speaking, so I responded, “OK Lord. If that’s what you want, I’ll do it. But what do you want me to do from here?” He spoke again: “From now on, the Holy Spirit is to be the Senior Pastor of The Father’s House. I want you to stay at the church, and be His assistant pastor.” My natural question was, “Well, OK, but what do I do? What tasks do I perform?” His response was so freeing, and it still makes me laugh when I think about it. “You do what any good assistant pastor does. You ASSIST the PASTOR.” From that day forward ministry became simpler and easier than it had ever been. I learned to con- S TF - 1 4

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