Sing4Him
April 24th, 2008, 05:23 PM
A False Healing Revival??
Here we go again folks.
The New Age Movement is really hitting the Body of Christ hard.
From Oprah and Eklhart Tolle outside the camp.
To guys like Richard Abanes and Rick Warren who endorse new age prayer formats such as contemplative and centering prayer inside the camp.:tsk
Why is it that if we are not feeling or experiencing God we go looking for the next new (recycled, repackaged deception)?
Moses didn't have the burning bush experience every day. The apostles didnt witness the Transfiguration on the Mount everyday.
Why is it that Christians seem to flock after the next thing that offers some kind of experience?
If we are not experiencing God is He no longer there?Of course not He is always with us whether we are experiencing Him or not.
I dont agree with Andrew perhaps on some things but he has been a good source of information and heads up on deception for many years now.
Here is Andrews article-
A FALSE HEALING REVIVAL??
-Florida-Andrew Strom.
Many of you will have already heard about the "Healing Revival"that has purportedly broken out in Lakeland, Florida. Today Charisma Magazine put out a piece on it entitled 'A Holy Ghost Outbreak in Florida' - "...Charismatics are flocking to the sleepy town of Lakeland, Fla. to attend evangelist Todd Bentley’s unconventional revival services." Is Charisma preparing to hype this one to the skies like they did with Toronto and Rodney Howard-Browne? It seems perhaps they are. But why am I opposed to this 'Healing Revival' so soon after it hasbeen announced? -It is because I already know Todd Bentley'sministry all too well, and this whole thing centers around him. Todd Bentley actually has deep roots in the Prophetic movement, and he is one of the very few ministers that I have ever felt I had to publicly warn people about by name. -His ministry is that bad.False "angel" encounters of the weirdest kind, gold dust, guidedvisualizations of the "Third Heaven" that are straight out of theNew Age, etc. And yet there is a "power" with it that makes it all the more dangerous. Here is how Charisma describes his Florida meetings- "His methods are far from polished. When he prayed for people in Lakeland, he usually began by laying his hand on their heads and then yelling, “Bam!”Often the people fell backward to the floor. After one elderly woman fell, Bentley told the audience: “She doesn’t know why she fell down.” The woman then laughed and said to him in the microphone: “Because you pushed me!” He prayed for her three more times that night, and she said she could hear better...During the past three weeks people have testified of being healed from heart conditions, skin rashes and back problems, and many said scars disappeared...Many charismatics are wondering if the protracted meetings will become a phenomenon similar to what happened in Rodney Howard-Browne’s meetings in Lakeland in 1993, at the Toronto Airport Vineyard Church in Canada in 1994 and at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola in 1995..." [END QUOTE] Sadly, the Charismatic movement is in such a sick state today that it would not surprise me at all if this happens. (-I say this as a strong Spirit-filled, tongues-speaking believer myself. I am by no means opposed to genuine miracles). Have we completely forgotten the warnings of "Lying signs and wonders" in the Last Days? Below is a testimony by Lynn Clark who is a Moderator at ourwebsite 'RevivalSchool.com'. This is what she wrote about herinvolvement with Todd Bentley's ministry: "I decided to check out Patricia King and Todd Bentley and, ignorant of their 'third heaven' guided visualizations, attended a five day conference of Patricia King and then two of Todd Bentley's conferences and began to imagine third heaven visitations - guided visualization - still not realizing that these are actually spirits of darkness - the New Age calls them spirit guides - demons is what they are. And so I bought Todd Bentley's teaching on third heaven visitations and brought it home to listen to. "I was in my living room laying on the floor listening to the teaching on how to visualize the third heaven and what to say and was getting caught up into his teaching and all of a sudden I began to shake uncontrollably and jerk and groan, and no sooner had this taken place I became frozen stiff - I could not move any part of my body and I knew this was a demon trying to take hold of me, and so with all the effort I could muster I cried out, "God save me - Jesus help me" - and as soon as I cried out to the Lord my body went limp. God spared me that night and I will be forever grateful. "I spent much of the night in tears asking God to forgive me - and renouncing all the hands layed on me and all the awful deception I had opened myself up to..." [END QUOTE] ANDREW AGAIN: I myself have heard the tapes of Todd Bentley's"Third Heaven Visualization" teachings, and I want to tell you - theyare straight out of the New Age handbook. -Terrible stuff. And yetso widely accepted by thousands of Christians today. Do these kinds of practices (above) produce a genuine 'Healing Revival'? -These are the kinds of questions that we need to beasking Charisma Magazine. I leave it for you to decide.
http://simplyagape.blogspot.com/2008/04/false-healing-revival.html
Here we go again folks.
The New Age Movement is really hitting the Body of Christ hard.
From Oprah and Eklhart Tolle outside the camp.
To guys like Richard Abanes and Rick Warren who endorse new age prayer formats such as contemplative and centering prayer inside the camp.:tsk
Why is it that if we are not feeling or experiencing God we go looking for the next new (recycled, repackaged deception)?
Moses didn't have the burning bush experience every day. The apostles didnt witness the Transfiguration on the Mount everyday.
Why is it that Christians seem to flock after the next thing that offers some kind of experience?
If we are not experiencing God is He no longer there?Of course not He is always with us whether we are experiencing Him or not.
I dont agree with Andrew perhaps on some things but he has been a good source of information and heads up on deception for many years now.
Here is Andrews article-
A FALSE HEALING REVIVAL??
-Florida-Andrew Strom.
Many of you will have already heard about the "Healing Revival"that has purportedly broken out in Lakeland, Florida. Today Charisma Magazine put out a piece on it entitled 'A Holy Ghost Outbreak in Florida' - "...Charismatics are flocking to the sleepy town of Lakeland, Fla. to attend evangelist Todd Bentley’s unconventional revival services." Is Charisma preparing to hype this one to the skies like they did with Toronto and Rodney Howard-Browne? It seems perhaps they are. But why am I opposed to this 'Healing Revival' so soon after it hasbeen announced? -It is because I already know Todd Bentley'sministry all too well, and this whole thing centers around him. Todd Bentley actually has deep roots in the Prophetic movement, and he is one of the very few ministers that I have ever felt I had to publicly warn people about by name. -His ministry is that bad.False "angel" encounters of the weirdest kind, gold dust, guidedvisualizations of the "Third Heaven" that are straight out of theNew Age, etc. And yet there is a "power" with it that makes it all the more dangerous. Here is how Charisma describes his Florida meetings- "His methods are far from polished. When he prayed for people in Lakeland, he usually began by laying his hand on their heads and then yelling, “Bam!”Often the people fell backward to the floor. After one elderly woman fell, Bentley told the audience: “She doesn’t know why she fell down.” The woman then laughed and said to him in the microphone: “Because you pushed me!” He prayed for her three more times that night, and she said she could hear better...During the past three weeks people have testified of being healed from heart conditions, skin rashes and back problems, and many said scars disappeared...Many charismatics are wondering if the protracted meetings will become a phenomenon similar to what happened in Rodney Howard-Browne’s meetings in Lakeland in 1993, at the Toronto Airport Vineyard Church in Canada in 1994 and at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola in 1995..." [END QUOTE] Sadly, the Charismatic movement is in such a sick state today that it would not surprise me at all if this happens. (-I say this as a strong Spirit-filled, tongues-speaking believer myself. I am by no means opposed to genuine miracles). Have we completely forgotten the warnings of "Lying signs and wonders" in the Last Days? Below is a testimony by Lynn Clark who is a Moderator at ourwebsite 'RevivalSchool.com'. This is what she wrote about herinvolvement with Todd Bentley's ministry: "I decided to check out Patricia King and Todd Bentley and, ignorant of their 'third heaven' guided visualizations, attended a five day conference of Patricia King and then two of Todd Bentley's conferences and began to imagine third heaven visitations - guided visualization - still not realizing that these are actually spirits of darkness - the New Age calls them spirit guides - demons is what they are. And so I bought Todd Bentley's teaching on third heaven visitations and brought it home to listen to. "I was in my living room laying on the floor listening to the teaching on how to visualize the third heaven and what to say and was getting caught up into his teaching and all of a sudden I began to shake uncontrollably and jerk and groan, and no sooner had this taken place I became frozen stiff - I could not move any part of my body and I knew this was a demon trying to take hold of me, and so with all the effort I could muster I cried out, "God save me - Jesus help me" - and as soon as I cried out to the Lord my body went limp. God spared me that night and I will be forever grateful. "I spent much of the night in tears asking God to forgive me - and renouncing all the hands layed on me and all the awful deception I had opened myself up to..." [END QUOTE] ANDREW AGAIN: I myself have heard the tapes of Todd Bentley's"Third Heaven Visualization" teachings, and I want to tell you - theyare straight out of the New Age handbook. -Terrible stuff. And yetso widely accepted by thousands of Christians today. Do these kinds of practices (above) produce a genuine 'Healing Revival'? -These are the kinds of questions that we need to beasking Charisma Magazine. I leave it for you to decide.
http://simplyagape.blogspot.com/2008/04/false-healing-revival.html