On September 2, 1994, Ken Lawson of Lexington, Kentucky prophesied as follows at the Worship Center is Pascagoula (Ken Lawson to John Schell, July 17, 1995):
I hear the Lord calling. For months I have been hearing Him speak. I hear Him calling individuals back to Him. I saw the Lord's angels unfolding a net across the Gulf coast. The Lord said He is going fishing. He is now in the process of selecting bait to fish with (a sort of divine hook). He is releasing anticipation in the Spirit that will begin to grow and grow. As it was in the days of Hosea, great mercy and compassion from the Lord's heart will be released. The prophetic call of the Lord will have numerous expressions. Several I see are:Clarity, purpose, meaning and new direction for weary believers.
As in the days of Jonah when he ran from the call of God, Likewise, believers who left the call of God, for whatever reason, he would call again with much mercy and compassion. The Lord's call is without repentance, and in His love He will send the great whale for those whose hearts have rejected His mercy and compassion.
Multitudes of prodigals will be coming home to Father's house.
In due seasons, many lost will be converted.
There will be fresh anointing for leaders and pastors, also there will be understanding and wisdom on how to shed old wine skins, and leave behind traditions that no longer serve the Lord's purpose. In a short time the Lord will give a precursor of His net across the Gulf coast. You will see spots and places along the Gulf coast that the Lord will visit. This will be a sign of new outpouring of His mercy. It is a warming up (so to speak) of event to unfold.
On Father's Day, June 18, 1995, evangelist Steve Hill spoke at Brownsville Assembly of God, just outside of Pensacola, Florida. Although he was planning to be there for only one day, the power of God fell, and the pastor, John Kilpatrick, fell out under the power of God for a period of about 48 hours. The first meeting, which had been scheduled to conclude at noon, lasted until 4:00 pm. During a 5 1/2 hour service that evening, the church asked Hill to extend his visit, and he began canceling hist appointments, including a planned trip to Russia. Crowds of 2,500 came five nights a week, from Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, Nazarene, Catholic, and Church of Christ denominations. According to the National And International Religion Report (vol. 9, no. 19, September 4, 1995, p. 2) "Buses brought visitors from around the Southeast and other areas of the United States. Some came from overseas."
On July 3, Scott D. Weberg of the new-wine list wrote of his visit at the end of June:
The church "comfortably" seats 2100, and they said that there were between 2400 and 2600 people every night. We all felt the power of God INCREASE every night that we were there. We stayed each night til about 2:00 in the morning, and at that hour there was still about 1000 people standing, sitting, laying around the altar! Even on the week nights! And the evangelist and prayer ministry teams kept praying for people right on into the morning hours.They asked all first-time visitors to raise their hands each night - and there were probably several hundred first timers every night. They estimate that over 10,000 people have attended during the first 2 weeks, and that over 3,000 have been saved, either in the meetings, or as a result of people going out from the meetings and leading someone to the Lord. People have called the church from 7 different states to inquire about the move of God - they had to put in a new phone system! They only had 2 or 3 lines, and now they have 8 lines, and they are all lit up all day long!
It was very powerful on the last night we were there. As I approached the altar, stepping over bodies, and wading through the mass of people that were always crowded up front, the presence of God became so strong that my legs got weak as I got closer to the front, without anyone even praying over me. I turned around to my friend and asked her if she could feel the presence of God get incredibly stronger as we approached the altar, or was it just me? She said, "Yes!"
...There were so many different denominations represented there - even ministers of other denominations were visiting. One Baptist pastor canceled his Wednesday night church service, and told his congregation to go with him to see what God was doing in Brownsville Assembly! A different Baptist church called up and offered to send nursery workers over to help, since they heard that the meetings were going every night until very late! There was more of a sense of Church unity than I would have expected. This Wednesday morning the evangelist and the pastor are putting on a free breakfast meeting just for pastors and their wives - for the purpose of answering any of their questions and informing them of exactly what is going on.
On July 31, he wrote, "now there are about 4000 people attending nightly services (except Saturdays). The awesome part of the report was that [a total of] about 800 people got saved during the last 2 meetings of last week! ...The meetings are usually going until 3:00 in the morning, and people are coming in busses!"
In an e-mail message to Richard Riss (July 29, 1995), Beth McDuffie wrote, "I go to Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, FL. We have been having a move of God in our church for about 6 weeks now. People from 22 or more states have visited during this time, and we have had over 80,000 people come through the church doors during this time. Every night 150 or more people are getting saved or rededicating their lives to Jesus. It is amazing what is going on! At the end of the service there is a prayer time for people to receive a blessing from the Lord."
In another e-mail message to Richard Riss dated July 30, 1995, Beth McDuffie wrote:
We have been praying for revival for many years in our church. In fact, on Sunday nights my Pastor (John Kilpatrick) had quit preaching and we were just praying. At first the attendance dropped down a bit, but then those services got to be even better than the Sunday Morning services! People started staying around later and later on Sunday night because the presence of the Lord was so strong... and sweet!In May my Pastor's mother died. A close friend of his told him that after the church went through a period of mourning that revival would break out. On June 18 Steve Hill was supposed to preach in the evening service only. Because my Pastor was tired or sick (I am not sure which) Steve preached in the morning service. At first it was just a normal service. We sang, and Steve preached a short sermon titled "How to get the Lord's attention". It was a good sermon but I had no idea what was about to happen. At the end of the sermon, Steve asked for the people that needed the Lord to save them to come up. It seems like 20 or so people went up to the altar. I was amazed I must admit. Next, he asked for all of those who wanted more of the Lord to come up. Needless to say the altar was packed in about 1 minute. He spoke for a few minutes more and then began to pray. When he touched me it was like a lightening bolt hit me!! People were slain in the Spirit all over that place. Some people were jerking, some were crying, and some were lying still. Not everybody fell, but the place looked like a battle field. The service ended about 4:30.
Since then, it has been building and building. Now we have people crammed in the main church, the chapel, and in the lunch room. People have seen visions of the Lord. (One teenager held his hand and was lifted up from lying down on her back to just touching the floor with the tip of her toes. There is no way in the natural she could have gotten up like she did. It was wonderful to watch!) We have had people delivered from witchcraft and homosexuality, marriages restored, and lives transformed. I believe about 3,000 people have come up for salvation or recommitment to the Lord. I also think over 80,000 people have come through the doors in the last six weeks, from 22 states, and a few foreign countries. This last week (July 23-29) there seems to be a even greater number of people going forward for salvation. The Saturday before my Pastor opened the church for a prayer meeting to pray for souls, and an open window from heaven... the effect of those prayers was evident the next night!
...My Pastor is John Kilpatrick, and he has been our pastor for over 13 years. He was slain in the Spirit the first night and was out for several hours. For the first two weeks or so, he couldn't do anything in church. God's presence would come upon him so heavily that he couldn't move. (His wife, Brenda, has been having this happen to her ever since she went up to Toronto. Several nights people have had to drive them home and help them inside the house!! Even the neighbors asked what was going on...and one Baptist lady came because her interest was peeked when she kept seeing them drag Pastor in the house during the middle of the night!!) Even last week this happened to him again. It is kind of funny because he has always been so "in charge" of what is going on! I think God is anointing him for the work that will need to be done during this outpouring. I don't think that he was literally out for 2 days, but he was useless even at home for a long time.
Let me see... Steve Hill. He in an evangelist missionary who has worked all over the world. The Lord saved him out of drug addiction of over 12 years. He said that he was the fellow that would be out stealing our cars while we were in church. A Lutheran Vicar led him to the Lord, just by having him speak the name "Jesus" over and over. Right after he was saved, he had to go to jail, and from there went into the Teen Challenge program. He has sat under David Wilkerson, and his pastor for the last 3 years was Leonard Ravenhill. He worked in Argentina when the great revival was going on and saw many great healings, and millions of people saved... but had grown very critical in his spirit. (A man in Romania or some place had called him in December and asked him about all the people getting slain in the Spirit and Steve had told him it was all mind control. He had to call and apologize later!) Anyway, on a plane trip he saw in "Time" magazine that there was a great move of God in England. He decided to go check it out. The people he stayed with in London happened to be members of the church he had read about, and arranged a meeting with the Pastor. When Steve got to the church, God's Spirit had fell, and 500 people were laying on the floor, shaking under the power of God. When he finally worked his way up to the Pastor the Pastor said, "Oh... we were suppose to have a meeting and look what has happened..." Steve said, "I don't need to have a meeting with you, I just need for you to pray with me." The Pastor did, and Steve has not been the same since! (This happened on January 19, 1995.) He received an "impartation" from that Pastor in England even much the same as Moses gave an impartation to the 70 elders to help him lead Israel (Numbers 11:25).
As far as his personal life... Steve grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. He was a major drug dealer there. How he is married, with 3 kids... the youngest just being about a month old. I think he is 41 years old. He now lives in Lynndale, Texas. I am not sure what the name of the church is in England where he got this impartation, but it is the Church of England, and it is the one by Harrod's.
On August 19, Beth McDuffie wrote:
God is still moving mightily in Brownsville. Just Thursday night we had a neat thing happen. Lindall, our music director, was still singing, but the praise team had stopped. The church was still filled with people being prayed for, and seeking God. As he sang another strong male voice joined him. He could not see who it was, but was so deep in the Spirit, he kept on singing. In a second another strong male voice joined him. Almost instantly the people were on their faces, praising the Lord because the power of God had so filled that place!! Many times angels have been seen in the Sanctuary, but this is the first time that we have heard them sing. They said (I was not there rats it all!) that it was the most beautiful music they had ever heard. It was wonderful.Friday night we did not even get to the preaching. A young woman stood up to give her testimony. God had turned her life around 180 degrees, and had given her the gift of intercession. (As she spoke, she shook so much she could barely hold the microphone.) When she began to tell how, during the altar calls, she could feel the hurt that God felt, the Spirit of God fell. The altars filled up, and people were weeping all over the church. It was like no other service we have had yet! (You never know what to expect...there is never a dull moment!!)
We have also began to see some healings. One woman, who has diabetes, had a terrible sore on her foot. The doctors told her that if it did not get better soon they would have to take her foot. She came down one night for prayer, did a little bit of "carpet time" and went home. The next day when she went to change the bandage the sore was all gone except for a very small spot in the middle. I am just waiting for her to come back and say that she is healed from the diabetes! I know there is nothing too hard for God.
James H. Doughty reported that on the evening of Wednesday, August 23, a mother and daughter went to the Pensacola Outpouring after the daughter had heard about the meetings at her school. The power of God fell on the daughter and she fell to the floor. The mother had never seen this happen before, and went to a phone to call for an ambulance. After they brought the daughter into the ambulance, the workers began checking her blood pressure. She returned to consciousness and said that there was nothing wrong with her. She said that she wanted to go back into the church because she wanted more of God. She told her mother and the ambulance worker that God had touched her in a mighty way and that she wanted to go back out under the power of God.
Doughty also reported that a pastor from Nappa, Idaho went to the meetings and received prayer. His daughter had been attending Brownsville Assemblies of God. He did not get slain in the spirit or feel any great move of God in his life, but he knew that God was moving and he wanted a drink of this New Wine. He told his daughter that he had been really dry and he needed a fresh touch from God. Before he left the meetings, God really touched him. After he went back to his church in Nappa, Idaho, he spoke on the Pensacola Outpouring. At the end of his sermon, he had an altar call, and the altar was full of people who wanted prayer. Almost the entire church fell under the power of God. Jesus is moving across the land. They are now having meetings 5 nights a week. The church has standing room only. By early September, 116,000 people, including 35,000 first-time visitors, had attended the church since mid-June. According to the assistant pastor, Richard Crisco, an average of more than 100 people became Christians each night. Many of these people came directly from local bars to attend services, which usually lasted until about 2:00 am. "Prostitutes and drunkards stand next to men in three-piece suits at the services," one woman said (National and International Religion Report, vol. 9, no. 19 [September 4, 1995], p. 2). Crisco reported that he has received telephone calls almost daily from visitors reporting that the Spirit of God is moving powerfully during meetings at their own churches after they have visited Brownsville.