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Received by
email - 6/14/08
Dear Doug,
I am new with Christ. I had
walked a very dark, pagan witchcraft filled life for many years. In
fact I'll be blunt. I was a witch.
Praise God! He changed me
completely. I now love, honor, obey God's living word. God spoke to
me and said to tell all to lay down man-made traditions and religons
and now pick up the real living word of God.
I began telling people at my
church what God had said. They would say that's great - yet no one
changed. In fact, things got very strange and dark at the church that
I had been going to for this last year.
I began seeing manifestations of
things that I had seen back when I wasn't living for God.
Uncontrollable outbursts of
laughter. People having convulsions and slithering on the floor.
Then the Lakeland revival hit.
Our pastor went down there. He came back changed. To my opinion not
in a good way. The odd manifestations grew worse, and people of the
church grew colder and colder. It is as if they are empty shells
walking around. They get so angry when someone doesn't embrace this
movement that they will literaly want you out of the church.
Being a new christian, I began
praying to God, please let me be the one being deceived. Let me and
only me be deceived, not an entire huge church full of members (300
to 400). Yet God led me to all things I had already known from my
previous life before being born again. He showed me that this is
deception. For He had already educated me before I even knew it,
before I even knew Him, I was learning what He needed for me to know
now, and that is what we are facing and dealing with today.
Before coming to Christ I had
many encounters with demons. I grew to know the smell, walk, talk,
look, and everything about them.
I became so scared and hurt. I
prayed, "God please let this not be. Let my church, the church I
was saved in, the people I grew to love, not be under demonic influence."
God told me to go one more time
and He would show me. So the next Sunday I went.
I began praying right away to God
not to let any spirit not of Him disturb this day. I repeated that
little prayer over and over again. I went to sit in the pew
that I have been sitting in for a year. The same people have
always sat around me for that year as well - until that Sunday. When
people saw me sit down, they quickly got their things and moved from
the pew I was sitting in. In a packed church I was sitting in a pew
alone. God spoke and said, "They know you know."
The pastor began his sermon. He
said that if anyone did not embrace this movement, then he paused,
his face became distorted, the church began a rage of laughter, after
five minutes of this raging laughter He said, "Well take it to
God!!" He said, "This is the greatest mighty move of God
and God is going to miracles that no man can explain."
Then He said, "All who want
to be healed come up front and the prophetic team will lay hands on
you and pray for you and you will be healed." He said there will
be no catchers (that's people who stand behind people in case they
fall out in the spirit). He said if you fall out in the spirit
God will catch you and you will not be hurt because you are in God`s
hands. He said this will prove this is God.
I was impressed. I was thinking,
hey this could be. If no one is there to catch these people and they
still fall over and are healed then maybe I really am deceived. I
watched intently.
No one fell over. No one laughed
uncontrollably, no one began trembling, no one began barking, no one
even spoke in tongues. In fact, it was as quite as a library that day
and this church is a very lively church - never quiet.
I thought with this proof God has
given then surely other people will see this is not what they thought
it was. No! They all still say its a move of God and the Lakeland
revival impartation hasn`t fully made it all the way to that church
yet - but it will.
So I have left the church. Since
then horrible things have happened to members of the church. The
pastor's wife fell in the church gym a fifteen foot drop.She was in
ICU for awhile. She may have permanent damage to her ankle, giving
her a limp for life. The church prophetess was in a severe car wreck,
nearly taking her life as well.
Over fifteen new reports of
cancer. People suffering from depression, oppression, and all
sorts of issues they didn`t have just four months ago. I just ask
that you and your staff pray for these people. May God open their
eyes and ears before it's to late. They are good people.They are
loving people who would have helped all in need. Now they are cold,
almost like souless people. If you don't embrace this, their anger is
unreal. People who have made that church their family for many years
have been shut out as if they never even knew them. This all breaks
my heart. I cry, I hurt, I only pray God will open eyes and
ears. The Bible says heavenly things and some things you should not
utter, so I say to you this is serious and thats all I say. It's very
serious, not just here, but all over.
Please pray for the blind and deaf.
May God bless you this day and
every day you may have after.
S.......
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