Originally Posted by
fuego
I've always liked Rodney. His story/history of the laughing is very interesting if you've ever heard it, moving up to where it really broke loose at Carpenter's Home Church in Lakeland FL. Thousands of testimonies of people being delivered and salvations occurring, marriages saved, addicts delievered, etc, by the joy of the Lord when the laughing hit. I heard one testimony of a sceptical guy where he was in the meeting at CHC sitting on one side of the building, and saw the glory cloud come in on the other side, and as it moved across the congregation the people would begin to laugh where the cloud reached. It finally reached him, he fell out and started laughing, and was delivered from whatever he was bound by.
Many don't know this, but after Lakeland, he went to Rhema which is where Randy Clark heard him (and was a skeptic), was really touched by the Lord, and he went on and the revival at Toronto broke out under Randy. Heide Baker went to Toronto and was refreshed by the Lord and it changed her ministry. An anglican priest went to that revival (I think it was from Trinity Brougham or something like that), took it back to his church in England where revival broke out. Steve Hill went to England to be prayed for by this priest, and when the priest prayed for him, he was touched mightily by God, went back to the U.S., preached at Brownsville Assembly of God and the Brownsville Revival broke out there and lasted several years. So RHB's ministry has had a massive impact on the body of Christ all over the Word.
If you could ever hear Rodney teach between all the laughing, he actually was a very good teacher. I really liked listening to him. I heard him one time at the Word Explosion in Tulsa that Billy Joe Doughtery held every year, talking about manifestations and stuff and looked over at the preacher section where all the guest preachers were sitting in their special seats and said the preacher section was normally the deadest bunch in the church during meetings. :)
Anyway, I have nothing but respect for him. Perfect? No, but then none of us are. God has used him mightily.