Bonnie Brae House
One night at the Faith Dome, Carolyn Savelle, looked around Jerry, to speak to me where I was seated on the other side of her husband. “Have you been to the Bonnie Brae Street house?” she whispered. When I answered that we hadn’t been there yet, this very sensitive-to-the-Holy Spirit lady rolled her eyes and told me about the supernatural happenings they had experienced there that day. The next day as we walked up to the only remaining building from the time of the latter rain outpouring I sensed the Presence of God. I don’t know if God was allowing a special anointing for this occasion, or if it is something that can always be sensed there.
Guides took people through the house in groups of 15 or so. The lovely lady, who led us, literally spoke in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs as we flowed through the house in a worshipful attitude. An anointing for prayer fell upon us. (I want to take television cameras back there to make a documentary and to see if there is an anointing that remains.)
The Centennial Assembly
On Saturday, April 29, according to Robert Fisher’s vision, everyone assembled at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Sports Arena. This statement from advertising for the event foretold what eventually happened:
If you have ever dreamed of a moment when God’s people would lay down their differences and connect together in unity to change the world, you must not miss the Centennial Assembly!
As thousands filled the arena, the air was electrified! The Power! The Spirit! The Music! The Glory!
An order of proceedings had been printed. I must admit that when I saw it I wondered how the Holy Spirit could have free course. But, oh! How He did indeed!
Various speakers were given 15 minutes on the assigned subjects of: History, Hunger, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Healing, Harvest, Harmony, and Humility.
When Reverend Charles Blake spoke powerfully on “Spiritual Hunger: Predecessor to Revival,” we were all hungry. Such a divine flow moved from one speaker to the next. In his 15 minutes Stephen Hill gave an altar call for salvation. I would be remiss to attempt to say how many responded. It was many.
One denominational leader after another spoke. All were thrillingly anointed. I was seated next to Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and behind Reinhart Bohnke, David Paul Yonggi Cho, heads of various denominations and ministries whose names were a veritable cross section roll call of the Pentecostal Charismatic world. When speakers took his or her seat, those around hugged them in true affection.
On the subject of healing, a video visit from Oral Roberts who was the keynote speaker of the 50th anniversary of Azusa Street brought us to joy and tears. Then his spiritual son, Kenneth Copeland, spoke on and ministered healing under a heavy anointing.
Unity of Worship
The music, under the coordination of Robert Stearns so fulfilled what such a meeting required in worship and praise. It seemed to flow over and glue together the ministry of the speakers.
As we all sang together, The Comforter Has Come, the theme song of the Azusa Street Revival, the past and the present seemed to me to be unified in one eternal moment.
During our singing, I could not help but be aware of the wonderful singing voice of Kenneth Copeland to my right. It lifted along with his hands in the highest praise. Tears rolled down his cheeks at the same time laughter sprang from his heart.
He once looked at me and said, “This is what Brother Hagin was talking about!”
Looking to the Future
On Saturday night at the sports arena, the anticipated climax came in full force. The evening was dedicated to the future. “Hope” was the assigned theme.
Words from the platform acknowledged wisdom in the older more experienced ministers. How true, I thought as I looked at Freda Lindsay of Christ for the Nations behind me. Jentezen Franklin challenged thousands of youth present to receive from their elders as they themselves launched out to live a life of service to the Lord.
After powerful preaching and worship, the ministry team lined up in three rows around the podium. The young people passed by between the rows and ministers laid hands upon each young person. The anointing oil they had given us shined on their foreheads as the young people passed down the line.
The power of God was manifested everywhere. In the halls outside the arena people fell under the power of His Presence. Tommy Tenney excitedly told me that a young man had gotten out of his wheel chair in the line where Tommy was ministering.
San Diego Proving
Pastor Greg Stevens invited me to minister in a “Monday Miracle” service the Lord had instructed him to have weekly in San Diego. So we went there directly from The Azusa Street Centennial.
Very desirous of the move of the Holy Spirit, Brother Stevens met me at the meeting and gave me an order of service. But the moment we began to worship, the Holy Spirit whom Greg so desired literally rushed in and took over the meeting.
What all happened, I cannot begin to say. Again, I can only give what I experienced.
We were sat upon by the Holy Spirit. The heavy glory blanketed us.
A personification of Jesus seemed to me to stand before me. Of course, he is everywhere present. But there are times when He seems to be invisibly embodied in our midst. I could not see Him. But I could, for lack of a better word, “feel” Him. My body swayed in worship. My body bent at the waist and my head dropped closer to the floor than I am normally able to perform.
I knew everyone was to remain silent. But to tell them to do so did not seem right. No one moved. No one spoke. Some lay prostrate on the floor.
After a long while, I heard, “Tell them to remove their shoes. This is holy ground.”
Again, I did not want to break the silence. But the prompting came again. I did. And everyone did so. Pastor Lee Morgans said he had just heard the Lord tell him to remove his boots.
The long silence was followed with songs of vigorous dancing and praise.
Just as we were leaving, the pastor brought up to me one of his men who sits on the platform to give me a report of what he had seen.
The man said that an angel came before him, put his angelic finger to his angelic lips and whispered, “Shh. He is coming.” Then with the speed of light the angel sped to from one person to the next with the same gesture and the same message. “Shh. He is coming.”
Then, from the topmost back right hand corner of the sanctuary a Light Being swept down into the room and came to the platform where He stood before us.
I cannot begin to tell you all that happened in this San Diego meeting, but I believe it was a directly connected to what we had just experienced in Los Angeles. And I believe that we will see results everywhere of the unity of fellowship into which we are entering.
Let us pray and behave in a way that we maintain what is taking place to a full manifestation of the Spirit. And to the Coming Again of our Lord and Savior.
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Billye Brim's Christian heritage is rich. She sensed the call of God in early childhood. However, it was only after an encounter with the Holy Spirit in 1967, that she as a young wife and mother of four began to follow Him to walk out her call. For almost ten years she served as Editor of Publications for Kenneth E. Hagin Ministries where she also taught at Rhema Bible Training Center.
Immediately after ordination in 1980, she traveled to Soviet Russia in what proved to be ongoing ministry there. Since then she has literally ministered around the world several times over.
Kent and Billye Brim with Lee and Jan Morgans founded a local church in Collinsville, Oklahoma. A Glorious Church Fellowship is the foundation of Billye Brim Ministries and Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri, and the soon-to-be-built Migdal Arbel Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
When Kent passed away in 1986, Billye was led to "study Hebrew in the Land." Studying at Ulpan Akiva in Israel led to the unique Seminar Tours she has guided in the Land from 1986 to now. It also provided a pattern for the Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
"Helping Pray-ers" is a God-given directive in her life. One place this happens is at Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri. On 200 plus acres log cabins provide places for individual prayer or small prayer groups. Corporate prayer meetings are held twice a week in the chapel.
On Wednesdays at 12 Noon Central Time, the meeting is streamed live. Pray-ers (who have named themselves World-Wide Pray-ers) join in united prayer via thousands of computers in more than 60 nations. This prayer is focused primarily on an Awakening to God. For in a corporate prayer meeting in June 2008, Billye Brim and the pray-ers were impressed with these words: One thing will save America…an Awakening to God. One thing will avail for Israel and the nations, An Awakening to God. Several thousand pray-ers from around the world gather in Branson for an Autumn Assembly of Prayer she hosts.
Billye Brim is blessed to work with others across the Body of Christ. She strongly believes in walking out what Scripture teaches that we are one Body, with one Head, one Spirit, one Lord.
First Corinthians 10:32 is foundational in Billye Brim's ministry. The "good works that He has ordained that she should walk in" involve activity among the Jews, the Nations, and the Church-all to the Glory of God.