Besides my own posts on Todd Bentley here are a few links to good stuff I have found recently (none of it is positive):
- Leaving Munster:Generosity and the Anointing go hand in hand!.
- maggi dawn: "thank God you can give by credit card...".
- Rev J. Neil Adams: 30 June - Revival Fire / Lakeland again.
- Rev J. Neil Adams: 29th June - Worship @ St Peter's & Revival Fires Dudley " I have never seen such poor & such self centered worship. It was by a very long way the absolute worst service I have ever been to."
- Leaving Munster: Sign and Wonders in Dudley? Um, no....
Now let us follow that with something excellent and encouraging on healing and suffering from In the Clearing: Sunday Morning Ruminations via Transforming Sermons: Sharing in suffering:
It seems to me that God has called us--I speak of Christian believers--into the world and not out of it. This may be one reason he does not heal us all and keep us healthy and give us all peaceful and pain-free deaths at the end. We are called into, sent, not so that we could demonstrate God's glory by floating above the "worldlings" in a cloud of blessedness and ease, but so that we can walk with the suffering as sufferers with . . . even as we "hold out the word of life."
Sometimes I hear people pray for healing and then announce that they have complete confidence that this prayer will be answered, so that the emphasis is not on God but on their own confidence. They use such formulations as "I'm believing that . . ." or "I claim it in the name of Jesus." There is no humility in this approach, no remembering that God's ways are not our ways. It is mere Christian presumptuousness, and it makes faith into mere positive thinking.
This is decidedly not the apostle Paul's attitude. While he sat in a prison cell in Rome, did he announce that he was believing that God would deliver him from the executioner? No, he simply prayed that whether he lived or died Christ would be honored in his body. But if Paul was a modern-day type of Christian he would have said, "I'm trusting God for freedom from imprisonment. I'm believing he'll give many many more years of life. I claim it in the name of Jesus!"
As a corrective, we might perhaps simply and starkly say: God has a wonderful plan for our lives, and for each one of us that plan includes suffering and death!
Amen to that!
[Update]
I have now written several posts on Todd Bentley you can find the others at:
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