Jim
Bramlett
(20 Feb 2007)
"More angel singing"
Dear friends:
Another reader, Wayne Warmack of Greater Works Ministries, has reported to me
even more angel singing. Below is his message, forwarded by permission.
I believe it will bless you, as well as confirm the previous reports.
Jim
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Jim,
I am an avid collector of 1990's Howard-Browne revival videos. I have
the Lakeland "angels singing" video, and have had the wonderful good
fortune of making the acquaintance of 6 people who were at that Lakeland meeting
about 1993. I have encountered these at various times, at various fellowships,
in various cities over the years. I attended 30 of the Howard-Browne meetings
during that sterling decade of revival, mostly in Tulsa, Shreveport, and Joplin
MO, but I was not at that one. After all this time, "the night the angels
sang in Lakeland" remains a favorite revival history topic among radical
believers everywhere. Only one of those people whom I met was unimpressed
and said he didn't hear anything unusual that night, but the other five become
nearly rapturous when they talk about it, and they say that not only did they
hear thousands of non-human voices in perfect harmony in the air over their
heads, but they also heard myriad string and brass instruments mixed with them.
I have heard this said by all 5 of those people, and as far as I know, they
do not know each other. One of them is the pastor of a large charismatic
church in Russelville Arkansas.
As for the video of that Lakeland meeting, it's called "The Realms Of
God", and it should still be available from the ministry's online bookstore
at http://www.revival.com I have
screened that video many times for groups of people, and there is such glorious
power on it that people often fall out of their chairs while watching it, usually
sobbing and weeping. It's no light thing!
The angel-voices incident in which Sandy and I were involved happened last April
at a lakeside retreat center near Marianna, Florida. We had been invited
by our old friend Charlene Gates of Messianic Encounter Ministries (
GatesMEM@earthlink.net) to lead the worship and to minister to the
sick at a planned Passover conference to be held Passover Friday and Saturday,
2006. Sandy and I sing together while I play a small amplified harp which has
36 strings. The all-day worship and Passover seder on Friday, and then Saturday
morning's meeting were very good, but relatively uneventful except for some
healing manifestations, for which we were thankful. Some of us came back
for the final gathering on Saturday evening and began to worship the Lord in
song. By that time, many of the Passover congregants had returned home
to get ready for their regular Sunday church activities, some of them considerable
distances away, so there were only about 20 or so gathered there on Saturday
evening. We had done about 1/2 dozen songs and then went into "I Exalt
Thee." At some point during the first time through that well-known
Scripture song, I began to distinctly hear wordless voices in perfect harmony
with us, that were clearly not coming from me or Sandy, or the other 20 or so
people present in the room. They sort of drifted in and out of my hearing while
I struggled to maintain my composure and continue the song. I say "struggled",
because I desperately wanted to stop and listen to them, and also to ask Sandy
"Are you hearing that too???" But I resisted the urge to do
that and pressed on, hoping very much that it would continue, and knowing that
it probably wouldn't if we quit singing. We sang that song maybe three or four
times, with those incredible voices sort of drifting in and out of our hearing.
When I could hear them, they were there strong, and I had the distinct feeling
of being "somewhere else" that I didn't want to come back from! Later,
much to my joyful relief, my Sandy asked me if I had heard them! The next
morning we met with some of the congregants for breakfast before we were to
start driving back up to Arkansas, and they all said they heard them!
Between finishing the Saturday evening worship and leaving for the evening,
however, the Lord was moving so powerfully in healing and other gifts that nobody
talked about it yet. If you've ever heard that sound, it leaves you a different
person than when you came in. I can't describe it. There's just
no way to describe it. It is definitely heard with more than just the
physical ears.
Wayne (with Sandy) Warmack
Greater Works Ministries
Rogers, Arkansas