It started taking place in April of 1989. I had to make adjustments in my ministry. I didn't ask God that these things would begin to happen. I just said, "Lord, I am so hungry to see Your power displayed to touch people's lives. Please move. Do whatever You want to do."

We were in a series of meetings in Albany, New York. It was the time we began to have two meetings per day. Both my wife and I were hungry for God to move. We had such a desire to see the glory of the Lord made manifested.

I remember the Tuesday morning meeting. As I was preaching, the glory of the Lord came into the building. I felt it just like someone put a heavy blanket upon me and the presence of the Lord filled the house.

A lady was sitting about three rows back and I noticed she was blinking and looking at the ceiling. I stopped what I was doing and said, "Lady, what is wrong?" She told me nothing was wrong.

Then she said that as she was sitting there, she saw a thick fog or mist, like a cloud, come down and fill the room. The lights and the ceiling disappeared. It reminded her of growing up in a coastal town where in the early hours of the morning the mist was so thick you could only see a few feet in front of you.

I did not see this cloud, but I felt it. At that time, I called two people from the sound booth and they came walking down the aisle. When they got two-thirds of the way down the aisle, they fell under the power of God. No one touched them. Later they informed me that as they were walking down the aisle, they walked into a thick fog or mist and fell out under the power with not even a hand being laid upon them.

The Most Amazing Thing Happened

While I was preaching, the power of God began to fall. Many people began to fall out of their seats. It looked like someone was shooting them and in some places whole rows at a time would go down. They were laughing and crying and falling all over the place and looked like drunken people.

I tried to preach above the noise of the people but to no avail. The glory of the Lord fell in such a wonderful way. Some were healed in their seats. The Lord then said to me, "I will move all the time if you will allow Me to."

The move of God has continued since April 1989, until the time of this writing, July 1992. It is safe to say, without exaggeration, that about 100,000 people have been touched personally by this wonderful move of God we are still experiencing. In the past six months, over 8,000 people have been saved and about 4,000 have been baptized in water.

Ministers are arising who have been set ablaze by the glory resulting in revival spreading and churches growing. Some churches have grown from 100 to 600 in one year following the revivals. Others just in a space of one year have exploded by thousands. Many are growing at an incredible rate because of the move of God.