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Praise Report From Victory Word Church in Tokyo Japan

VictoryWordChD04aR03aP01ZL-Jefferson3a_smlPraise God!  Here’s a report I received this AM.

30 Dec 2012 -Thank you Pastor for hearing the Holy Spirit and praying for the sick during the end of the worship time Sunday.  You prayed for me and my cold with the church leaders and I woke up Monday with no cold.  Hallelujah!

Praise God!  He is so awesome!

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Kenneth Hagin’s Warning To Not Distort The Gospel

kenneth_haginPastor Kenneth Hagin called together Word of Faith pastors to Tulsa Oklahoma in 1999 to correct ‘give to get’, ‘blab it and grab it’ types of teaching that had infiltrated some churches.  In 2000 he published a book speaking directly to the problem which is summarized by Lee Grady as

Here are a few of the points Hagin made in The Midas Touch:

1. Financial prosperity is not a sign of God’s blessing. Hagin wrote: “If wealth alone were a sign of spirituality, then drug traffickers and crime bosses would be spiritual giants. Material wealth can be connected to the blessings of God or it can be totally disconnected from the blessings of God.”

2. People should never give in order to get. Hagin was critical of those who “try to make the offering plate some kind of heavenly vending machine.” He denounced those who link giving to getting, especially those who give cars to get new cars or who give suits to get new suits. He wrote: “There is no spiritual formula to sow a Ford and reap a Mercedes.”

3. It is not biblical to “name your seed” in an offering. Hagin was horrified by this practice, which was popularized in faith conferences during the 1980s. Faith preachers sometimes tell donors that when they give in an offering they should claim a specific benefit to get a blessing in return. Hagin rejected this idea and said that focusing on what you are going to receive “corrupts the very attitude of our giving nature.”

4. The “hundredfold return” is not a biblical concept. Hagin did the math and figured out that if this bizarre notion were true, “we would have Christians walking around with not billions or trillions of dollars, but quadrillions of dollars!” He rejected the popular teaching that a believer should claim a specific monetary payback rate.

5. Preachers who claim to have a “debt-breaking” anointing should not be trusted. Hagin was perplexed by ministers who promise “supernatural debt cancellation” to those who give in certain offerings. He wrote in The Midas Touch: “There is not one bit of Scripture I know about that validates such a practice. I’m afraid it is simply a scheme to raise money for the preacher, and ultimately it can turn out to be dangerous and destructive for all involved.”

There’s a lot to think here.  Simply, we should be cheerful givers, giving because we are thankful for what He has given us.

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Merry Christmas World!

Praise the Name of Jesus!

Merry Christmas family of God!  Shine the light of Jesus.  Show what true leaders are.  The world needs your light, love, and wisdom as a Spirit-led believer more than ever.

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Praying At The Hospital- Gods Word Works!

My father went for surgery on November 14th. He had shoulder surgery on his other shoulder and has always had a hard time with surgical procedures and recovering with all the drugs and pain killers. He’s apparently had to stay longer in the hospital due to complications.

This procedure was different. Why? We prayed over him.

He went into surgery first thing in the am. We had prayed the night before that God would guide the hands of the doctor. When I arrived at the hospital he was still in the operating room so we waited. Once the operation was complete the doctor called us in to explain things and said everything went really well.

He was then put in recovery so he could come out of his induced sleep and be taken to his room. We waited for about 120 minutes for the, to bring him to his room at the hospital. When the nurses rolled him in, we agreed in the name of Jesus as we prayed for a supernatural recovery. Once we prayed, we left for the day as he was sleeping.

The next morning he called and mother didn’t even recognize his voice as he was so perky. Praise God! A guy that has had so much difficulty helped by the power of two people praying and believing in the Name of Jesus.