God Visited Saskatoon!
By Henry Blackaby
Matthew 26:40 "What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?"
God permitted me to be in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan two years before the presence and power of God rested on that city in 1971. I met with pastors and others to pray, and I found that as we prayed, God dealt with my heart. He so identified sin in my heart and so drew me to release that sin to Him for cleansing that the experiences in the prayer time week after week were so real and so significant that I literally ran back to the church I was pasturing and shared it with the congregation. The congregation began to be cleansed and restored, and they all began to hear and to sense the mind and heart of God.
God touched the entire city of Saskatoon. For seven and one-half weeks, the Spirit of God was incredibly powerful over the entire city. Churches suddenly began to repent and return to God. For years, the presence and power of God rested on the people whose lives God had touched. I was ministering to a little congregation of ten people, all so discouraged when I had gone there, that they wanted to disband. When the presence and power of God touched their lives, they started 38 new congregations while I was there. Never in their history, dating back into the late20's, had they stared another congregation in another community. We began to pray for laborers. They had never reached university students, and yet I baptized 180 of them. They had never had people called into ministry, but over 100 felt called into the ministry. We stared a theological college in church to train those whom God was calling into ministry. We had over 480 come through that school, and to this day they are impacting lives in the nation of Canada and around the world. In the midst of all of that huge touch of God, my four sons felt called into the ministry.
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