To those who have written apologetic pieces exposing the errors of the Lakeland revival, I want to encourage you with these verses from 1 Timothy 1:18-19:
This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck…
Fight the good fight and continue to fight!!!!!!!!
There are those out there that are trying to proclaim that the schism over Lakeland is the fulfillment of the famous ‘Christian Civil war’ prophecy that Bob Jones gave in 1984 and that the Lakeland side is the ‘union’ (unity) and the disagreers are the ‘grey coats (brain is grey = carnality) deemed as “those who wanted to keep the people of God enslaved”. Like the American Civil War from 1860-1865, the fight is on and the ‘union’ is supposed to win according to this ‘prophecy’. What’s next? “Reconstructionalism?”
I have had some personal e-mails from some who have written apologetic pieces exposing the errors of the Lakeland revival on Internet forums, on personal blogs, or via other venues and have heard some of the ‘attacks’ that they have experienced such as sicknesses, friends and churches turning against them, etc.
I want to encourage you. I want to pray for you. I really believe that there is a ‘charismatic coven’ out there practicing charismatic witchcraft and praying sicknesses, achy bones and muscles, attacks, chronic and deep nausea, curses, migranes, etc. on those who defend and contend for the faith. I believe that there is real serious warfare going on because the truth has been spoken and people are being Berean and searching the scriptures.
You are free to comment below with prayers and observations. If you feel that you need to personally talk about the attacks you have had, then please click on the ‘contact’ link at the top of the page and fill out the contact form.
My prayer for those who have defended the Faith and have contended for the Faith in reference to telling the truth and exposing the Lakeland Revival:
Father God, I humbly ask in the name of Jesus for you to destroy any Satanic and Christian charismatic prayers, sicknesses, hexes, curses, attempts at manipulation and control, snares, traps and all of their effects, side affects, adverse effects that have been placed on any of us who have defended the Faith and have contended for the Faith in reference to telling the truth and exposing the Lakeland Revival.
Destroy every spell, attack, assaults, voodoo, black magic, white magic, charismatic death threats, “holy hexes”, and charismatic witchcraft and all their side effects that is trying to raise up against us. Lord Jesus, I ask you to destroy every false prophecy that has ever been prophesied over me, my loved ones, my friends, and those who have defended the Faith and have contended for the Faith in reference to telling the truth exposing the Lakeland Revival.
Protect us in Jesus name I pray, Amen!
The Lord has been speaking to me the last week or two, probably since the beginning of June, that we are not to be afraid of or fear the prayers of those who are calling down sickness, judgment, and other curses upon those of us who have disagreed with this Todd Bentley revival.
The Lord has spoken to me that when David saw Goliath, his response was, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the Living God?” And who are these people who are the children of God who have defied the children of God?
And why should we fear them?
David said, “God is my help; I will not fear anything man can do unto me.”
Do not fear their curses or their judgments.
For God will utterly destroy and bring down their hopes for our destruction, their attempts to manipulate God to judge us, their secret wishes that harm befall us, and any thought in their minds that God visit us with judgment.
We have the victory in Christ!
They will not stop the blessings of God from coming into our lives. We will receive the jobs we have prayed for, the business deals we have diligently pursued will come into our hands, the relationships we have maintained will be blessed, our cars will not fall apart, we will not lose the anointing, and God will never leave us nor forsake us.
God is surely with us.
And no weapon that is formed against us shall prosper.
Stand fast, and in so doing, give no place to the devil!
AMEN!!!!
Lets see, I went to affiliated meetings in Atlanta and left with a new found love for Jesus… do you think the devil did that? Or does voodoo promote Jesus?
You critics need to learn how to judge by fruit not by methods. Your paradigms are being challenged and you need to challenge your own belief systems… if Todds Belief system is bringing the power of God to cast out demons and heal the sick then what is your belief system doing?? Criticizing todds belief system ?? Sounds like a pharisee annointing to me.
Greg:
The scriptures tell us to judge by the Scriptures and not the so-called ‘fruit’. To judge by the ‘fruit’ (aka numbers and money is essentially pragmatism)
paradigm - out of the box tactics that when it’s all over, makes us realize that all that was done was expand the size of the box that these people were already in.
Our ‘paradigms’ are not being challenged. The scriptures are being challenged by people who have added some ‘extra-biblical’ (that turns out to be ‘anti-biblical’) junk teaching and calling it the ‘new thing’, the ‘fresh revelation’, the ‘cutting edge’, ‘new wine’, ‘fresh anointing’, and the ‘next level’
“Pharisee anointing’ - another name-calling tactic when everything else doesn’t work. The Bible never mentions a ‘pharisee anointing’ therefore it does not exist
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Steve:
AMEN!!!!!
A ‘Pharisee anointing’???
That’s truly hilarious.
I’m waiting for the following to pop up into the Charismatic lingo …
The “Sadduccee” anointing
The “Zaccheus” anointing
The “Methuselah” anointing
The “Zapnath-paneah” anointing
The “Diotrephes” anointing
The “Peter’s mother-in-law” anointing
The “Job’s second servant who told him his kids were killed in a tornado” anointing
My writing partner is an Anabaptist minister in rural Pennsylvania. He is also an experienced stage magician. On my tip from this blog, he’s been checking out Lakeland videos on YouTube.
He does not see demonic possession or End Time Events at Lakeland. What he sees is a cold-reading stage-mentalist act — like that guy who used to do the medium/channeler act on Sci-Fi Channel with the addition of whipping the marks into an emotional frenzy for easier manipulation. What he sees in Tatted Todd is a con man, latest in a long line dating back to Simon Magus in the Book of Acts.