It is not just cessationists and atheists who find charismatic hearsay unconvincing, it is every right thinking person who appraises evidence in a discerning manner, not least every court of law where such evidence is not even admissible due to it's unreliability.
The only people who do find charismatic hearsay convincing are gullible people desperately craving miracles, who will believe any fantastical story they hear in order to satisfy their unhealthy obsession for the supernatural.
Are you including in that list Zac Poonen (
Zac Poonen | cfcindia, Bangalore),
who has been personally praying in tongues for the last 45+ years since he received the baptism in the Holy Spirit?
See
The Truth About Speaking In Tongues | cfcindia, Bangalore.
Quote from the article:
As one who has spoken in tongues for the past 45 years, let me add a few words concerning what I presently understand about the gift, from my own experience.
You can watch his testimony here:
(Clip) Testimony of Being Filled with the Holy Spirit by Zac Poonen
Be Filled with the Holy Spirit - Zac Poonen - April 7, 2019
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Are you including in that list
Yiye Ávila, one the most influential Protestant preachers of the Spanish language?
According to Wikipedia:
José Joaquín Ávila Portalatín (September 11, 1925 – June 28, 2013), better known as Yiye Ávila, was a Puerto Rican Pentecostal Evangelist and writer of Sephardic origins. His preaching and messages were characterized in proclaiming that the coming of Christ is imminent. He is considered one of the most influential Protestant preachers of the Spanish language. He was also the second runner-up for Mr. North America in 1953.
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Sporting life
He began playing baseball in the Double A level and training as a weight lifter. In 1952, he competed and won the Mr. Puerto Rico bodybuilding contest, and would go on to become the second runner-up for the title of Mr. North America in 1953.[6]
While training for the summer Olympic Games of 1956, Ávila experienced terrible pain in parts of his body and, after various tests, was diagnosed with chronic arthritis by his doctors. This prevented him from participating in the Olympics or in any other future sporting event. The pain was so intense that Ávila suffered limited mobility and could not even perform everyday chores. He turned to Christianity and began praying, seeking divine intervention for his situation. According to him, he received a divine revelation through the reading and study of the Protestant Bible, where he received healing from Jesus Christ. From that time on, he dedicated himself to ministry.
Beginning in the 1970s, Yiye became a laborious evangelist, visiting almost all Latin American countries, many North American cities, and parts of Europe. He appeared on a daily morning telecast preaching selected verses from the Bible and receiving prayer petitions from viewers. He also appeared every Saturday night on the network's flagship show, Campaña Por TV (Campaigning Through TV), where he preached selected verses of the New Testament, presented Evangelical Christian music groups, and invited viewers to convert to Evangelical Christianity.
Additionally, if you are more or less able to understand some Spanish, there are videos of him sharing his testimony at evangelistic crusades where he was the main preacher (e.g.
here,
here,
here,
here). In those testimonies he recounts extraordinary, supernatural experiences he had with the Lord Jesus Christ, including a physical visitation to his room to confirm his calling as an evangelist, his baptism in the Holy Spirit, his experiences during a 40-day fast, among others. He also authored a book titled "Mis experiencias con Jesús" (
My experiences with Jesus), available as audiobook
here and as pdf file
here, where he shares many more extraordinary experiences he allegedly had with the Lord.
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Are you also including in that list Carlos Annacondia?
This is another revivalist Hispanic preacher, from Argentina. He authored the book "¡Oíme bien, Satanás!" (
Listen to me, Satan!), available
here. The book's preface is self-explanatory:
This is the true story of Carlos Annacondia, whose faithfulness, devotion, and faith in signs and miracles brought about an awakening in Argentina that has spread throughout the world and continues to this day. Annacondia's ministry is marked by the same signs and wonders of the early church—sick bodies are healed, bondages are broken, the demonized are set free, oppression is lifted—and he knows these subjects as very few people do.
Listen to Me, Satan! is full of amazing testimonies that will renew, inspire, and charge your faith. It's the story of how one man confronted the devil, in the authority of the name of Jesus, and experienced extraordinary results. Join him on his journey from the poor villages of Buenos Aires to a global ministry, and find victory and freedom in your own life as well.
A Christian magazine published an
interview with Carlos Annacondia titled
Carlos Annacondia: The evangelist at the forefront of revival. Some highlights below:
The evangelist says that he received a message from God in 1981 saying: “Soon, soon, soon. There will be a great revival in Argentina. Argentina will be mine, says the Lord.” Since then, his large-scale rallies, held in cooperation with local churches in towns and cities across the country, have drawn millions of people and seen thousands of new churches planted.
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So I entered into a hall full of worship and adoration, accompanied by my wife and my children. I started to hear a voice talking to me. “Carlos, you’re so worried about life – for your children’s future, for your businesses – you are unhappy. Give me your heart, I will give you life.” It was the voice of the Lord Jesus. And I started to cry – and it wasn’t easy for me to cry, because I believed if you cry, you are not a man, and that’s what I told my wife as well: men do not cry. But that day I just broke down in tears.
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Ten days after that experience, I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I remember having my hands up to heaven and suddenly I just felt this warmth, this fire that I could not control, and my whole body started to shake and I started to speak in a language that I’d never spoken before.
Things started to happen to me: I’d just be shaking hands with somebody, and the person would say, “Let go, I feel like electricity is in your hands!” I’d just visit somebody I knew, and encounter demonic manifestations with several members of the family that I was visiting. I didn’t yet know what that was, and I had to learn. [...]
You can watch actual footage of the deliverances performed at his crusades. Check out for example:
carlos annacondia campaña en argentina 2/8
carlos annacondia campaña en argentina 4/8
