Hi. Nice to hear from you again...
I want to give you a couple of ideas to consider...
first some scriptures:
Mat 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
Mat 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe... Benny wasn't actually talking to the people, but to the spirits?
That certainly would explain a lot...
I am certainly sure he can make a few mistakes in the way he speaks just like you made a few mistakes when you were writing for me. Saying the following: May the cards fall where they fall... which is coming from the gambling term leaving something open to chance. Chance of course being inspired by the Lady Luck.... Lady Luck obviously from the goddess Fortuna.
Fortuna (
Latin:
Fortūna, equivalent to the
Greek goddess
Tyche) was the goddess of fortune and
personification of
luck in
Roman religion. She might bring good luck or bad: she could be represented as veiled and blind, as in modern depictions of
Justice, and came to represent life's capriciousness. She was also a goddess of
fate: as
Atrox Fortuna, she claimed the young lives of the
princeps Augustus' grandsons
Gaius and
Lucius, prospective heirs to the Empire.[SUP]
[[/SUP]
So just in case if you wondered where luck or chance came from. Now personally I don't think you meant that a demon should now intervene, but nonetheless that is what you said. So one should be pretty carefull these days it seems because just about anything can be taken out of perspective. And frankly I would rather have Benny Hinn or any other Christians say they slay demons as opposed to casting them out, as for any Christians to avilliate themselves with a known spirit which is not of God.
I am far more concerned about people talking about chance and luck, then I am concerned about one Christian obviously trying to save as many as possible before the end using the word slain which means death. And frankly if I could I probably would also like to use the word slain when it comes to demons.
On a different note. I saw a man playing a guitar filled with the Holy Spirit jumping and twirling and playing the guitar with his eyes closed... not once stepping on the cable and he did this praising God for more than 10 minutes. Theoritically an impossibility, yet by the grace and power of God it happened.
I have seen that the Holy Spirit stop and start rain so teenagers can go home after a gathering just because we believed and asked. And that within seconds after we prayed. I have seen God sending rain to a place that have drought simply because we asked. I have seen food multiplying just so that the mission team we were in can also eat the night since no food was prepared for us. I have seen a man walking 11 kilometers (give or take 7 miles) just to come and show us that he as healed from the previous nights prayer. Once we took a projector into a rural area and the air was so filled with Ghetto smoke that the projector couldn't project onto the screen which was 10 m away...let alone the people see. And after prayer I saw how God cleared the air within minutes so clear you could see onto the horizon. Once we were ministering in a tent and the clouds were gathering to rain, and two of us were set apart to pray so that the rain would wait. It waited until the one in our group preaching said the Amen after his final prayer and then it started. I have probably close to 20 years of experiences like this in my life which I felt seen and experienced hands on. Deaf and sick people getting healed. And all this happened by the grace of God. And on all accounts God was glorified and on all accounts the gospel were spread and the faith of the people grew. And on all accounts people focussed their lives closer to God.
Some sow seeds of words, others water by doing miracles, but at the end it is God that gives the increase.
I cannot say whether or not Mr or Paster or Reverant Benny Hinn is doing everything right. In fact there are a few things which I personally do not agree with. But I am the last person to say that someone cannot make mistakes. And I firmly believe that it is still better to pray for him and try and aid in the salvation of the entire world.
For all the arguments I have heard so far... only one of them is substantial, and that is which jb said that he is giving false prophecies.
As for falling in the Spirit. Seriously that is what you are worried about....
Let me tell you about a group in 1970 in the Indonisian Islands. A man named Mel Tari reported on this.
Where children walked a path to preach the gospel and was told by the Holy Spirit that they should not stop for food along the way. But on the path was a peach tree and the children got desire for it. So they thought God told them that so that they won't dirty their clothes. So they took of their clothes and ate of the peach tree. So an angel of God took their clothes and put it at the top of the tree. When they realised what happened they repented and apologised to God. So God made one of the children's hands and feet like those of a lizard and he could climb the tree to the top...got the clothes and came down and was changed back to normal. Another occurance was when one of their adult groups reached a river coming down. They had to cross it to reach another village. So the pagans on the side of the river started to mock them. But God told their leader that they must simply walk over the river. So they started walking over the river... literally stepping only in as deep as their sandals and then walked on top of the water to the other side.
And you are worried about someone falling over because the Holy Spirit comes over him. My friends... if God wished to do it... he could make it snow inside your churches just for the fun of it... that with all the doors and windows closed.
Test the fruit. Not your own fear.
