Pastors and church leaders gave testimony of a great work of God in their lives during the Heart Cry conference held recently at The Cove. Sammy Tippit Ministries was one of the sponsors of the conference, and Sammy Tippit was a keynote speaker on Wednesday evening. Lives were changed. Below are testimonies reported from participants in the conference. You can view and listen to Sammy Tippit's Wednesday evening message by going to http://sammytippit.org/heart-cry-for-revival/heart-cry-for-revival-2008-session-3.html,

“I don’t think there’s enough paper here to say all that God has been speaking to me.  I’m so grateful that He has spoken because it brought me out of a very dry pit.  I’d been going about halfway to the top with my prayer life and my relationship with Christ and then slipping back into the bottom – so much so that I began to make “halfway up” my goal.  God showed me the sin of that and many other areas of my life.” 

“God has shown me that I have been dry!  He reminded me of what it tastes like to thirst for Him, and in turn what it feels like to be filled.  He showed me that before revival can or will take place in my church, that it must first take place in my heart.  He gave me a yearning to become a man of prayer and a hunger and a thirst to be filled with the Spirit.” 

“One of the biggest things God has done is give me a passion and burden to see revival in the children of America.” 

“As a pastor’s wife, He has shown me that He loves me just the way I am!  I don’t have to be anybody but me.  My greatest responsibility is to my husband and children.” 

“As Sammy spoke on Wednesday evening, God began a fire in my dry and thirsty life.  This morning the spark has been ignited, and the flames are burning once again.” 

“He has met me and pointed out many areas with which I must deal.  His glory has come again.  I must meet with Him for more extended time.  He has not finished what He started this week.  There is a depth of His work I am not yet to understand.  I want Him as I return to the church where He has placed me.  Preaching His Word must be more focused in lifting Him up before His people.” 

“God has laid on my heart not to be a workaholic, even if you think it is necessary in the house of God.” 

“Sammy said we need to not only have a quiet time, and a quiet place, but also a quiet heart.  I need a lot of work on the quiet heart part.” 

“I came desperate to go to a new level in my intercession.  He gave me a gift of faith / grace that He will pray through me.  He will take me to the next level in prayer for America.” 

“The pre-conference on prayer had God’s Presence, and it endured through the meeting.  God helped me to slow down and be encouraged and rested in this atmosphere away from my responsibilities that I had allowed to dry me out.” 

“It was and is a defining moment in my life – a “crisis” in the fullest sense.  I sense it wasn’t the speakers so much as the atmosphere – a people set on God that God used to bring insight and fullness.” “God has placed a call for personal repentance to prepare me to speak “into” my denomination (PC USA) a similar message to return to our first love.  He has provided me with strength, affirmation, and assurance to do so!  Praise Him!”     

“We were invited / paid for / brought by a friend who thought his pastor needed this.  He was right!  Two years ago God called us to the desert, literally and figuratively – Reno, Nevada.  Our thirst was deep.  We drank from a deep well at Heart-Cry.  Our thirst was only increased by Heart-Cry.  Thanks for calling us to continue to drink deeper from the Living Water.” 

“God has dealt with our whole staff, and we had great afterglow times and prayer together.  The way God dealt and challenged us we believe will affect not just our church, but our lifestyles, town, county, and the uttermost parts of the world.” 

“I came to Heart-Cry doing ministry.  God was second best or less.  I was busy.  God was not a priority – busyness was.  I was so busy serving the harvest that I forgot the Lord of the harvest.” 

“God has shown me that my family is my ministry as my family needs have grown.  My prayer life desperately needs to grow.  I have taken the Heart-Cry challenge for 3 hours with the Lord.  I am changing my schedule and have my accountability partner.” 

“I have battled to ‘hear’ God’s voice over the past several months.  I serve in a depressed, sometimes violent urban environment.  So easy to let circumstances weigh me down, even though I know it is a GREAT place for God to move.  May the spirit of prayer and of God sweep through our neighborhood.  A remnant is in place.  This conference is so timely.” 

“I have a renewed sense of urgency to pray for pastors across our nation.” “One month ago I was wanting to leave the ministry.  I’m going back with new fire to stay.” “This was by far the most life-changing conference I have ever been to.  The most encouraging conference and the most heart-breaking because God’s people (me) are breaking our Lord’s heart.” 

“I filled out a prayer card the first day before any speaker saying ‘I am dry and in need of refreshing.’  I wondered if it was ‘I left my first love,’ or ‘busyness,’ or both.  Then the speakers in order addressed these issues in my walk.  Wow!  Thank You Lord!” 

“Before coming I felt the pressures of a new ministry were overwhelming me.  The conference affirmed that the gap between my abilities and God’s assignment is driving me to thirst for God.” 

“I have made a covenant with God to keep Him first in my life above ‘ministry.’” 

“He has taken me from going in a direction of praying for a move from God to a move from God in my life.  I am so filled, I will never be the same.”