Healing or Feeding?
Healing or Feeding?
I am supposed to feel excited.
Well, I should, because I have just witnessed miraculous healings taking place - the lame walked out of their wheelchairs, people being slain in their seats, in domino-fashion, pastors lying on the stage in a trance, shaking uncontrollably.
I have just attended an evangelical healing meeting by a great man of God, a successful minister with one of the most respected healing ministries in the world.
That’s right. For those of you who attended the Benny Hinn rally last night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium and went away awe-stricken, dumbfounded, or emotional recharged, you would have experienced the scenario I have just described.
Yet, all the while, raising my hands to the Lord, and praying incessantly in tongues, I was continually asking my Heavenly Father – is this truly your work Lord?
Don’t misunderstand me, it’s wonderful that people are getting healed…but it’s quite a sight to behold for the uninitiated, and I would even go so far as to say, it’s a little traumatising.
I mean, it’s the first time I see people who have been slain, being ‘commanded’ to be picked up by the catchers, and then with a sweeping “The Fire From Heaven”, the people would be slain.
There was this guy who was slain repeatedly, not once, but THREE times!!!
Poor fella, he was literally shaken as if a lightning bolt just hit him. Man! It’s an awesome sight!
Selah.
Now think again, the “Fire from Heaven” – tweak tweak…I mean, you’re serious?
And did you notice how authoritative Pastor Benny sounded when he ‘flowed’ with God?
“Get him out of the way! I say, get him out! Pick him up, QUICK! Pick him up! Let’s do our job, you gotta pay more attention…” these are all words that Pastor Benny uttered as he went around dishing the “Touch of the Holy Spirit!”
At one point, Pastor Benny was asking people in the seats to hold hands in various sections, according to what he says, the “flow of the Spirit” and with an exclamation of “Touch!”, the entire section of people would be instantaneously slain in their seats!
The best part was at the end of the service, he asked Pastor Kong of
And he said to Pastor Kong, that when he raised both his hands and said the word “Touch”, the entire choir would be slain in the Spirit.
And this he did, as Pastor Benny said.
The entire choir was slain the moment he said “Touch” – in impeccable domino fashion! It’s like watching a superbly-coordinated stunt show!
And subsequently members of the choir, both brothers and sisters, were in a state of holy laughter or crying.
I don’t know what you guys say to all these. It’s not that I have not witnessed people being slain in my church, and personally, I’ve experienced the touch of the Holy Ghost and the experience of being slain.
But to do it in such spectacular, I would even say ridiculous fashion, it begs the question “what’s the purpose of it all? Are lives being transformed? Maybe. Is the Word going forth? Perhaps. Is your spiritual hunger satisfied? I very much doubt so.”
I don’t know. Something inside me didn’t feel the peace. Though I kept praying in tongues, in my mind, I kept talking to the Lord: “Lord, aren’t you a loving Father? Is that how the way you ‘flowed’ with a minister of Your Word?”
You know what He said?
He said: “Son, do not go after signs and wonders. You know who I am.”
It reminds me of this verse from John 10: 27 - "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” (NKJV)
Again, I want to stress that I have respect for Pastor Benny, and this was also the main reason why I was so excited initially when I heard he’s coming here for three days to preach!
Man, I wanna hear him preach!
But I was left with a feeling of hunger, and not being fed!
Listening to a double-sided CD sermon from our church, I felt so full from the Word and so blessed!
posted by weiwen @ 9:01 PM
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