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I had the opportunity to go to one of his meetings. My friend took me because she knew of my illness and she also has some of her own. So we went to one they had in Florida.
I remember waiting in a really long line outside to get inside to the event. They had a tent outside too, with a television in it and chairs.
We got to go inside because we had tickets in advance. Once inside you couldnt take in food or drinks, which didnt so much bother me at first until I saw the concession stands. Which while I was outside, you knew there were a lot of poor people, and these stands were very expensive.
Also inside they were selling all manor of things. This also bothered me.
Then we had set down at last to our seats. You know it was weird, he spoke about what God was going to do. Also he yelled at this one lady during the service for speaking in tongues (I personally dont have a problem with that, but I am sure it didnt make her feel too good...perhaps he knew there wasnt an interpreter, or maybe he just doesnt believe in tongues, who knows).
Now see when I went to this service I really wanted my healing. I mean that is why I came to that meeting. But he did it weird. He doesnt do the laying on of hands. He expects you to believe in a healing for yourself, and that God will move through the audience and heal you. Then you must go up front and announce it to everyone, and he checks it out to see if it is true. If the person can really hear, or see, or walk...
Then part way through the service he gets himself all filled up with the spirit, and begins to prophecy on his own behalf to everyone about what God is going to do through him. Something about making amputated legs grow back and stuff like that. (Now I am sure you have seen this because he was proud of this service and had it played on television, I saw it later).
But he was like on the ground, holy roller style, saying he felt the annointing.
Now see I cant say any of this is true or not. It beats me, but I didnt like it.
Now ask me why...
Because I didnt recieve a healing. And so many came for a healing, it was unbelievable, and people were left out in the tent to view. He didnt even do like Jesus or the disciples and apostles, like laying on of the hands, or speaking a healing to pass on those who believe- so it would be the two agreeing. So I left disappointed and hurt that God was suppose to move around that room, and he didnt love me enough to heal me. Yet he did for the people in the front row.
Also I didnt like the buying and selling. This was not a time for that. It wasnt like this man was having a concert. And he can sell his books in book stores like everyone else. Why do it at a church gathering. It is suppose to be about God.
(Dont get me wrong, I do understand that they need to pay for the colosium they were in. But you know what, at church is not the time for it. It made it come across as- this house shall be a house of prayer and you have made it a den of thieves, type thing).
After that, I refused to watch Benny again, and that was the very first time I had ever heard of him. Now I watch TBN and know who he is.
Let me ask you this, why do you need Benny Henn for a healing, if all he does is let God do it alone anyways. He lets you have the faith, and God.
It was after this I realized who I really needed to go to for my healing. Stop putting your trust in mere humans (Jeremiah 17:5 This is what the Lord says: Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans and turn their hearts away from the Lord). I needed to go the God myself, in him alone would I find a true healing.
So I really cant lay it all on Benny Henn, now can I? Because my faith was wrong. I went expecting to be healed, but not by God, by Benny Henn. So I did just what the Lord tells us not to do, put our trust in man. (But see we as believers do it in an odd way. We want to believe for a healing, but for some reason we think someone else's faith will be stronger than our own. So surely we will be healed through this person...sadly that apparently isnt how it works).
Now here is what I believe, when healings happen, it will be like unto Jesus and his Apostles, or even healings from the Old Testiment, it will be immediate, and no doubt from God. We can read in the gospels how Jesus did it, or we can even see in Acts some amazing ways the Lord worked through his followers.
For me, I think someone who really loves you will place their hands on you, like they care, with compassion. Something doctors (even) have forgotten was their practice. It shows that you care.
Or like Jesus, speak it forth.
Or even in amazing ways such as Peter whose very shadow healed.
And if we need old testiment references, we have Elisha references, who raised a boy from the dead. And also professed a true God in Israel, and caused a man with leperosy to be healed in the name of God in the Jordan River.
see now for me, I must look to the truth, and study it from scriptures. see this true faith for myself, and how it is revealed in each person who believes.
The only way to know a believer is by his fruit.
God Bless
False Prophets
You will know them by their fruits:
Beware of false prophets, who come you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly the are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. (Matt. 7:15-20)
I never knew you:
Not everyone who say to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your Name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness. (Matt. 7:21-23)
When discerning a false prophet is by their fruits, and FRUITS are more than DEEDS; it includes their DOCTRINE (see Matt. 16:12 & 1 John 4:1-3). We test all teachers and preachers against the truths of Gods Word (see Jude 3 & Rev. 22:18-19).
Now John answered and said, Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your Name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us. But Jesus said to him, Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is on our side. (Luke 9:49-50)
Therefore, we ALL need to be aware, beware, and dont be unaware.
People, please realize... JESUS NEVER COLLECTED MONEY TO HEAL. If Benny really wants to see the sick healed, he needs to just walk the streets.
Did you take a vow of poverty when you became a Christian? Did you make an agreement not to fly or live in a mansion or stay in fancy hotels? I only ask because you seem to think Hinn should have done so.Why a huge building where the light bill alone (for that magical affect) cost more than my monthly mortgage payment. Jesus healed as he walked around. The body of Christ was never meant to be a money-maker. Are we jealous that he drives a jet, lives in a mansion, stays at hotels costing more for one night than some people make all year??? Come on, this should grieve the body of Christ! Did Jesus ever put the ones in the stretchers in the back room to hide them from the TV cameras? I doubt it. He wasn't ashamed of them! He wasn't afraid they wouldn't get healed and it could be caught on camera. Obviously there wern't TV cameras back then, but you get the idea.
The sad thing about Christians, is that we are gullible and complacement, and don't test the spirit.
My views of Benny Hinn is that he is a false teacher, sharman, a showman, and he "practices lawlessness" (Matt. 7:21-23).
Many false teachers speak His Name, and many teach the wrong way, and it's sad how so many people can be wrong.
There are many strong doubts about Benny Hinn, particularly when he teaches, prophesy, cast out demons, and performs wonders in Jesus' Name.
Many have been bitten by Benny Hinn.
But, the most important thing to remember that HIS INSPIRED WORD is superior to any miracle performed by Benny Hinn.
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