I WAS THERE, GOD DID THAT, AND 45 YEARS LATER I GOT THE HOODIE

This post is about my reoccurring connection to the Minnesota Miracle and how God has kept the dream alive for a revival in Minnesota that He wants to bring to birth. 

October 1971 - Minnesota Miracle

Seventeen years old and on my way to a weekend retreat at Camp Courage. There I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit on Friday night with many other young people. The rest of that weekend was supernatural, none of us (over 100 high school and college students) showed up at the dining hall to eat, many of us did not sleep, we sought the Lord continuously for three days from Friday evening until Sunday at Noon. God was present in a tangible way as the Spirit hovered over our camp. We all left there changed by the power of the Holy Spirit. 

The speaker that weekend was Dick Eastman he went onto North Central Bible college in downtown Mpls. Monday to lead their morning chapel service, that chapel service lasted for three days! Monday 8 AM - Wednesday 7 PM. The Bible school was shaken to its core, scores of students were baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Dick left Minneapolis on Thursday and he later wrote the details in a book called the Purple Pig and other Miracles. That very night a Canadian evangelist Brian Ruud came to Minneapolis and began meetings at Souls Harbour housed in the historic Lyceum Theater on 11th street in Minneapolis.

They continued for 7 days a week for several weeks. They finally ended when the Holidays came around. But not before shaking the Bible Schools and impacting the Church throughout the city. Then the revival meetings ended almost as suddenly as they started.  But the move of God was still at work underground, churches that are still with us today were planted coming out of that 1-2 move of God in 1971.  

Built in 1905 just before the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles The Lyceum Theatre had 1,800 seats and housed the church 'Souls Harbor' for many years from the 50s into the 70s. In 1976, it was razed to make way for the new Orchestra Hall complex.

Live service from Souls Harbor in the early 70s  (but not from the revival meetings) 
Southern Gospel from Soul's Harbor Minneapolis

August 1992 (21 yrs. later) (3x7)

I came to the Mankato region at the Lord's direction, I visited a home church in Good Thunder at that service I saw a vision but could not interpret it immediately, once I did gain understanding I was asked back on August 16 to share with the church what the Lord had revealed.

While I was sharing that vision God told me, "Tell them I am bringing revival to this region" so I told them what He said.  Then God said, "They don't understand the scope of what you are saying". Tell them they do not understand the scope of what you are saying." I told them and as I did the Lord whispered to me, "And neither do you." at that instant I saw a bright flash of light and I cannot articulate what I saw in that flash of light but whatever it was it left me speechless for several seconds perhaps a half of a minute. The result of that message and the impact of what my spirit saw, that my mind could not articulate, grew into an invitation to come and watch Him take this city (Mankato) and turn it into a city of refuge. So I moved here the following year, almost one year to the very day. 

1999 (28 yrs.later) (4x7)

A visiting speaker (Steve) from Kirksville, Missouri asked my pastor if he would invite me to come out with them after the meeting, he wanted to speak with me. The speaker began the conversation by telling me about a revival that had happened in Minneapolis back in the fall of1971. He had no idea that I had been there for all of those meetings.  He went on to say that that revival had been miscarried but that God was going to bring it back and bring it to full term. I thanked him for the encouragement and let him know I was physically there in 1971, and that God had told me he was going to complete what He had started.  

October 2001 (30 years later)

A friend (Pat) let me know that Brain Ruud was coming back to Minnesota in October, he was scheduled to speak only in the Twin Cities, I told my friend, "If God is going to finish the MN Miracle in Mankato, then Brian Ruud will change his itinerary and come to Mankato as well. And I prayed along those lines. A week later my friend told me Brian had changed his itinerary was indeed coming to Mankato, for one night only. I went to the meeting and I afterward I was able to tell Brian how much his meetings impacted me in 1971 at the age of 17.  After some conversation, we determined that He was in Mankato on the 30th anniversary of his first night of ministry back in 1971 in Minneapolis. 

In 2013 (42 yrs.later) (6x7)

Another friend (David) sent me a copy of the book' The Purple Pig and other Miracles' and for the first time, I read the encounter from the speaker, Dick Eastman's vantage point. 

August 2015 (44 yrs.later) 

I met Keegan F. at PHOP who said to me, " do you know what my favorite book is? other than the bible? I said, "no I don't". He said "the Purple Pig." after he raved for a while about the book, I asked him, Did you read about the Minneapolis Miracle? He said, Yes, I told him, " you might want to sit down... then I told him,  "I was there," He said, shut up no way!

August 2016 (45 yrs.later) 

August 12, I got the hoodie at the 2016 PHOP Prayer Summit, with MN Miracle hoodies issued this this year because they had received a word at the prophetic conference in October of 2015 God said, "I am making the MN river valley a valley of Miracles.,," the hoodie recalls that word and the event that happened 45 years ago this October.

I don't know about you, but I am leaning forward in my chair to see what God is going to do next, are you ready? I believe God is about to fulfill every word and vision shared about a move of God in Minnesota that will turn a nation back to their Father. .