The Awakening

Valerie Forsyth                                                    Arnprior, On                                                           

Val Forsyth was woken up in the night with a God-encounter. It was just after midnight, and as her husband slept soundly beside her, she felt God’s presence wash over her. Val praised the Lord for about half an hour,  feeling God was much more real than she ever had before. After the praise time, God spoke very clearly to her. God said that a Spirit called “Bindweed” had been in charge of the Ottawa Valley, and that its power had been broken through battle in the “heavenlies.” As a result of this victory, a move of God would begin. The evidence of it would be able to be discerned within weeks and would be the beginning of a Great Revival that was coming to Canada.

Over the next several months, God began to make prayer, intercession and a desire to know God, uppermost in Val’s heart and mind.  Truths that had lain dormant in her mind for decades sprang to life. A major health problem that had affected her moods was discovered and corrected. The relationship with her son, which had torn the family apart, started to be mended, and her son was reconciled to her and her husband; a situation which she had thought would take years to mend, happened in a matter of weeks.

God began to reveal jobs that He wanted her to do. Instead of wandering aimlessly through her Christian life, purpose, conviction, joy and a peaceful inner life began to emerge. As God revealed sins, and shortcomings, God began to convict and instruct her to humble herself, to the point where she thought it would do more harm than good, but God used this to heal, bring peace, and resolve longstanding barriers to His presence and His moving in her life.

One of the jobs God very clearly told her He wanted her to do, was to tell the stories of the people that were changed by the power of God in this Great Revival. These stories were to be told for the glory of God, for the encouragement of the believers, and for the drawing of non-believers to the truth of God’s reality.

And so, I am starting with my own story, and the ability of God to change a life; I, who have known God for forty-five years, and yet feel that after being asleep for years, I have just woken up.

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