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Cool Testimony from a Pastor Visiting Lakeland

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carl
on May 10, 2008
in Florida Outpouring, Holy Spirit, Revival and todd bentley
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This is a really good post about Lakeland.  Patsy got sent to Lakeland by her folks and tells her tale.  What I really like about the testimony is that she did not say that Lakeland is a Panacea for all things ministry.  Instead, she knew God was moving and she prepared herself to not try to receive from Todd, but instead receive from God what He is doing there.  Here is a quote:

During the service, I went out an shared with the vendors who were working the food stands in the stadium. I was amazed at how open they were. I just shared the love of Jesus with them and invited them to come and experience Him for themselves. The amazing thing to me was how open the people in Lakeland are to the gospel. I talked to one girl there who has led over 1,000 people to the Lord since April 2. ONE THOUSAND SOULS! If that doesn’t excite you, you need to get saved.

Yes, there were miracles. Yes, people got out of wheelchairs. Yes, it was amazing. The response of the crowd, though, was to the presence of the Lord. The stuff was great, but what was the most awesome was the fact that the Lord was there in such intimacy. He was showing His great love to people by healing their diseases.

Read the whole post here.

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Why Doesn’t Todd Bentley Take it to the Streets?

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carl
on May 9, 2008
in Healing, Holy Spirit, Prophesy, Revival, interpretation, prayer and todd bentley
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I have heard people ask why Todd does not take his gift out of the church and into the streets. I have seen it written that he only sees these manifestations where he has whipped the crowd into a frenzy and there is some sort of mass trance.

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Lakeland Healing Revival : What I would like to see

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carl
on May 9, 2008
in Florida Outpouring, Healing, Revival and todd bentley
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Here is what I would like to see at the Florida Healing Revival with Todd Bentley in Lakeland:

  1. Misty Edwards singing “Only a Shadow“
  2. Kari Jobe, Klaus Khuehn, and Rick Pino leading worship together one night culminating with Rick singing Mighty Warrior.
  3. Reinhart Bonnke preaching one Saturday service at the airport with a mass evangelistic call culminating in him releasing evangelists into the harvest.
  4. Heidi Baker to bring a team of Mozambican children to preach to really offend the religious.
  5. Todd to leg drop any big name TBN preacher for the same reason.
  6. Jentezen Franklin preach “The Spirit of Python”
  7. Me calling down fire.

Anything you want to see?

note: This is not a place for critics of the revival. Your posts will not be published.

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Hank Hanegraaff : Spokesman for the Devil

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carl
on May 5, 2008
in Christianity, Deliverance, Florida Outpouring, Healing, Holy Spirit, Revival and The Goofy Church
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There is another move of God afoot so that is sure to bring out all the people who hate God. Sure enough, Hank Hanegraaff has checked in on the Lakeland Revival. Hank Hannegraaff sees that people are having their faith restored in God, are getting saved, and healed and here is how he views the events,

“We’re in desperate times, and we’ve got desperate people. And they’re looking for a quick fix,” Hanegraaff said in an interview from Charlotte, N.C. “But all they’re getting is false hope.”

There you have it folks. Hank has played his final hand. Faith in Jesus is a false hope. There is no salvation. Jesus never heals. God does not deliver. To believe in the God of the bible is to put your trust in fables.

Jesus warns the church repeatedly to beware of false teachers. In fact, we know that the anti-christ will try to divert attention from Jesus to himself. Surely this is the foundation for the end time deception. If the devil can convince enough people that sickness is from God and healings are from him then he can set the world up for the anti-christ.

edit: I have made corrections based on the response by Michael.

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Steve Hill and John Kilpatrick Bless the Florida Outpouring

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carl
on April 30, 2008
in Holy Spirit
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Most often the worst opponents to a revival are those who were used or impacted by the last. This is part of the reason that the Florida Outpouring is so special. On Monday night, Todd Bentley knelled to the ground as Steve Hill and John Kilpatrick not only blessed him, but testified that what is happening is revival.

This puts people who are using the argument that Brownsville was revival but this is not in a peculiar position. They now elevate their discernment above those who lead the last great move in America.

Both John Kilpatrick and Steve Hill prophesied that this revival will increase and spread. Let it be Lord! It is my prayer that people will shake off the religion and receive what God is doing.

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Florida Outpouring on Front Page

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carl
on April 20, 2008
in Florida Outpouring, Healing, Revival and todd bentley
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The Florida Outpouring has made it to the front Page of Lakeland’s newspaper.

“Tumors are going to be pulled right out of people’s bodies tonight. … Someone has a growth on their face, on their neck, a woman in this room right now. Put your hand on your face. It’s being burned off by the fire of God. … Somebody else uses an oxygen mask, and the Lord’s touching you tonight. God wants to open your lungs,” he said, while pacing the stage.

A line of people formed at the foot of the stage. Bentley’s assistants talked with them before bringing them up to Bentley, who asked a rapid-fire series of questions of those who approached him - “What are you feeling? What’s happening? Can you move your arm?” He labored over several people who said they had hearing problems, shouting at one, “I command this deafness - go! - in Jesus’ name” and asking, “Can you hear me now?” Responses varied from uncertain to yes.

I went there Saturday night and my report will follow but let me say this, this thing is real.

Here is a video the secular newspaper has on its site:

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Whatever Happened to the Anointing on William Branham?

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carl
on March 28, 2008
in Healing, Holy Spirit, Prophesy, Revival and visions
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The church seems to have misplaced the anointing that was on William Branham. I want to find it again.

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Expand Your Expectations

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carl
on March 20, 2008
in Christianity, Healing, Holy Spirit, Prophesy and Revival
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At about 2:00 the testimony of Shara Pradham. Check it out.

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Railing Against the Prophetic Again

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carl
on March 11, 2008
in Carl's Writings, Christianity, Doctrine, Holy Spirit, Prophesy, Prophetic and Revival
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One of my disciples asked me the other day about a “national prophet” that had given a specific prophecy regarding a rapper that did not come to pass.  He questioned how this national prophet could have been so wrong.

I restated the question asking how people who are wrong so often are regarded as national prophets.  The prophetic ministry in America has a serious lack of oversight and accountability.   I have remarked in the past about the abundance of homosexual sin in the prophetic movement and I truly believe there is a link here.

I personally know less than a handful of people that I would consider prophets.  I see lots of people who consider themselves prophets but I think the fruit does not bear witness.  If we are going to be a New Testament church, we have to use the New Testament as the measuring stick.

Paul wrote in his letter to the Ephesians that the five-fold ministry was for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry.  For too long we call people who prophesy real good prophets.  I do not believe that is the case.  You can have a deep and strong gift of prophecy without being in the office of prophet.   And just because you can’t tell who is calling without looking at the caller id and you don’t see the voice of the Lord in ever headline out of Jerusalem does not mean you are not a prophet.

I take the call of the prophet to come from Jeremiah 1:10

See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms,
to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”

And I think that this is the test of a prophetic ministry.  IT would seem that the test of a prophetic ministry these days lies in the ability  to tell the head of a church you are visiting how much God favors your church over the one down the street and how special that pastor is.

Do prophets prophecy?  Of course they do.  Does a person in the office of prophet get it wrong now and then?  Of course they do.  Not every pastor give the perfect counsel every time.  Sometimes the evangelist gets it wrong when witnessing.  Sometimes the teacher doesn’t fully understand a scripture.

But the pastor is held accountable for bad counsel.   The teacher is held accountable for false teaching.  The evangelist is held accountable for bad doctrine.  So too the church must not be so enamored with the prophetic to keep from demanding accountability for those who minister the “Word of the Lord.”

Prophets, by the nature of their call, should be more open to confrontational accountability and should demand more from the Church then we are seeing.

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Revival Podcast

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carl
on March 8, 2008
in Holy Spirit, Revival, Tongues, Tongues and interpretation and interpretation
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Ok, its not really the revival podcast. It is the podcast from my ministry The Mission. But at the end of the service last night we had a tongue and an interpretation. I am posting this for those who have never heard that happen before.

Warning, you have to listen to a testimony, an exhortation, my message, and ministry time before it comes. It is near the end.


play the message here

Subscribe to the podcast |  Download the message here

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Gather ‘Round as I Rail Against the Prophetic

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carl
on March 5, 2008
in Doctrine and Prophesy
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No, I am not a cessationist. If you don’t believe what the Bible says about the gift of prophesy and you are looking for someone to blaspheme with you will be really disappointed with this post.

My primary giftings surround the prophetic. But much of what I see today is just plan pathetic. In the next couple days I will outline what I see wrong with the church regarding prophetic ministry. Much of which is encapsulated in this little video.

Without being unkind, the woman shows an obvious lack of self control, flows in judgment, behaves like a complete loon, and in the end, the woman does not really stand for anything.

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The Seduction of Riches

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carl
on February 28, 2008
in Christianity, Doctrine, Holy Spirit and Revival
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I believe that the church in America would be better served if it followed the Bible.  I know that the church of Fox News has the Church convinced that Jesus’ plan to keep America safe is to torture and or kill our enemies but I would like to shine the spotlight in another direction.

Paul made this little plea that we should remember the poor.  Once you see Jesus’ heart for the least of these you really cannot look past them again without pain.  I challenge you to read this post in its entirety:

shaun
We went to lunch and I bought her a hamburger.  She only ate half and when I asked her if she was full she told me she wanted to save the rest so her little sister back home could eat it.

She fell asleep on the ride back to the hotel, her sweaty brown cheek squished up and buried in my t-shirt.  And I prayed, asking God to forgive me for not giving away more of what he’d given me in my lifetime.  “Forgive me” was all I could say holding a child who ate once every three days before Compassion saved her life, didn’t go to school before Compassion educated her, didn’t know she mattered until Compassion told her how much God loved her.  Forgive me.

We have got to return to the Gospel as a church.  I am not talking about a social works gospel.  I am talking about returning to a place where we can be affected by the love of God in a way that it changes how we look at the world around us.  How many people do you know that live below their means for the sole purpose of being able to give?  What are we doing with all this money?

TBN has over $300 million in the bank.  Why do people keep donating to it?  Because they think it will get them rich!  This is perversion!

What will it take for us to have a Gospel centered Christianity in this country?

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