Out of Death Came Life

Out of Death Came Life
From the Thomas Family

Terri Schiavo's life and death is bringing a revival of repentance that is reaching even into the cornfields of Texas. The “Gentle Revolution” has begun.

When Liz and I returned from the hospital today, we came home to three of our girls greatly touched by our Lord. They had an honest to goodness encounter with the Holy Ghost. We have prayed for years for this to happen and today, of all days, it transpired. I've never seen them more glowing, passionate, and convicted about loving and serving God in the midst of this crooked and perverse generation. The following is their testimony. Perhaps their outrage and seeking God will ignite the "Gentle Revolution" in earnest.

After we found out Terri Schiavo died, my sisters and I got fired up about how sick our nation was. I personally felt very angry at our nation for killing her. While I was still pretty hyped up, my friend, Susan Stanley called me and I start telling her about Terri, and we talked about how our generation is corrupt and we need to stand up against this evil system.

After this, I felt like I needed to talk to God. So, I started to go on a walk and Destiny, my sister, joined me. We talked about the same things. Except now, I am screaming and throwing rocks, because I was so angry. Destiny and I had a revival of surrender and repentance in the middle of a field. One minute we were jumping, screaming, and casting down demons, then the next minute we were on our knees crying for mercy. "I have never felt the Spirit of God like this anywhere, not even at any church. Nothing compared to the way I felt it in the middle of a cornfield." said Destiny.

When I was praying, I could just remember all the Scriptures I had read and learned and they just flowed out of me. In the middle of our prayer meeting Cori comes walking up to where we were at. I ran over to meet her and cried, "Cori, can you feel it? He is here!" And we kept on praying. After awhile Cori joined in and fell down on her knees. She started to cry and scream her repentance out to God. I had started to turn while I was praying for her, when I heard this sound, like a demon coming out of her throat, as she screamed: "JESUS!!" Destiny and I ran over and placed our hands on her and prayed over her. Reluctantly, about an hour and half later, we went home. But we were still praying and praising God with cars passing us by and our boy neighbor in our front yard. Even our sibling looked at us as if we were crazy, but we are not ashamed and we praise Him for we know He has touched us and made us new wineskins!

Love in Christ,

Cassia Thomas

On March 31, 2005 I have received the most precious, wonderful gift anyone could ever ask for and that was...Jesus and His Holy Presence.

Let me explain.

I saw my older sister, Cassia going out for a walk and I joined her, not knowing what I was about to experience. As we were walking along, we were discussing how America has become greedy, money-lusting, and cowardly, that it is afraid to stand up for God. We ended up in the middle of a corn field, by a air-traffic signal, and we started shouting to the sky. Cass grabbed me by the shoulders and said, "Do you realize that we are preaching a sermon ?" and I replied "YES!" and it went from preaching to an all-out turbo boost, like a rocket shot out into the sky. It was awesome.

I don't know how to describe it, but we started rebuking the church, our nation and looking at our own sinful selves. We called on the name of the Lord. We started praying for the youth of this nation, calling on God to pick out His chosen ones, to start building a fire in their hearts. To gather them together, to face this nation in the eye and say, NO to tyrannical government! No to the evil system! and No to the devil! I said that we were going to rise up, and not be weak and a passive generation, but strong and courageous, to take back what the devil stole from us. I also said " Our fathers messed up and look at the damage that has been done! We are not going to make the same mistake! We are going to stand up and say NO, we are not going to sit by and watch this nation that was founded on Christianity go to Hell in a hand basket."

Cassia yelled," Our founding fathers did NOT die in vain! The Christians were NOT killed in vain, and the babies did NOT die in vain."

It felt like God swept by me then, because I started jumping among the rocks, crying and saying" Lord, I feel Your presence, You are here right now, even here in the cornfield." We grabbed some rocks and threw them saying," These rocks are not going to cry out for us! We are going to declare Your glory and goodness to all people."

Scriptures that I had forgotten bubbled out of me. It was like a fire was inside of me and that I had to say something or it would consume me. We lifted our voices aloud, screaming as I had never done before. I asked God, to let us be able to have power to bind demons, to heal and that the devil and his demons would know our names and that they would tremble.

Then Cori came, and just looked at us for a moment. Then she sat down and was listening for a few moments, the electrifying feeling we felt, hit her and she jumped up and started praising God with us. I could go on and on about what we did, but all I know is that the Lord was definitely there. I re-dedicated my life to Him. I abandoned everything to Him and gave it all for the One who died for me. My reasoning: He gave me my life. He made me and gave breathe to my body. If he gave me my life...why not give my life back to Him? Today is the day of salvation folks, we don't have tomorrow. You can accept Him any time, any place. So, what started out to be a walk turned out to be a life-changing event that touched my world, and I will never be the same again. Yea, people may have thought we were foolish, but we will be fools for the best thing in the world and that is JESUS.

Keep serving the One who died for you,

Destiny*

It all started mid morning. The house was filled with devastation. The instant the news of Terri Shiavo's death hit the fan. We were all so upset and frustrated how no one stopped the killing of an innocent human life. How far from God we as a nation have become to allow this to occur. (It's bad enough abortion is allowed but now this)

The big question we had was where is the church? "O we're right here in our four walls where we've always been." It was after this that I was quite frustrated, so Charity and I began to pray for the Church of America to wake up, for our nation to turn back to God, for Terri's family and the hurt that they must be going through.

Even after praying I still had some questions and reservations about the matter. Later that afternoon I had noticed Cassia and Destiny weren't around. I figured that they went on a walk so I decided to catch up with them. I could see them in the distance and wondered why they had stopped in the middle of the field next to the air traffic signal? As I got closer I could hear random shouts, their prayers.

Cassia ran toward me and shouted, "CORI CAN YOU FEEL IT?" At that second I didn't feel anything, but sat on the ground and agreed in prayer with them. Then suddenly, something they said, something they shouted, sparked my spirit. I immediately jumped up and began crying out to God, asking Him not to let us become like the rest of our generation, consumed with vanity, co-dependant on friends, perverse, and destructive to family.

Us girls then prayed for our future husbands, that even now that they may grow to be strong in the Lord and warriors for the cross. That our children someday, would confess Christ as their Savior, storm the gates of Hell, and not be swayed by the temptations of this world. We confessed to God our weaknesses and asked for forgiveness. At one point I fell on my knees, in the midst of confession and screamed. "JESUS HELP ME!!" As I screamed my throat shook, something happened. The spirit of captivity left and my chains were broken like never before. It was then we all re-submitted our lives to God. When we saw mom and dad (Rusty and Liz) drive past, it was then we lifted up Liz and claimed that by Jesus' stripes she was healed. If God could heal the crippled and the sick surely He could heal her also. We were touched and the presence of God remained with us and our cups overflowed.

May the grace of God be with you,

Cori