welcome to Wacko Land !!! Be warned, you are now entering Prozac territory...
A collection of relayed reports of things that really prove truth is weirder than fiction! Brace yourself and take the ride! The Montanists are still loose amongst us! Or as the Aussies say, "get the gun! There's a (kanga)roo loose in the top paddock!"
Battle of the Anthems - Aussie vs Kiwi anthems compete
Traditional Healer exacts his revenge on trans-gender
Ski
from Ghana to Australia for God!
Let
Amber St Clare guide you to Ancient Egyptian Freedom from Guilt!
Candy Bar Revelations - seriously!.
Power Evangelism for free - Prophetic Words in
the Shopping Mall
God changes His Mind - Twice!
Embrace the Blue Flame so you
can give birth...
Levitation and Voices at TBN
It's all gonna happen if you pray for 3 minutes at 3.33pm,
on 03-03-03!
Nah... It's gonna happen if you pray from 7am to 7pm
on 7/7/07!
Danny
Nalliah also backs the wrong horse in 2007 Canberra Election
Shane Warne puts Spin on Hair Loss - and Recovery
Gimme Money, That's What I want!
As a Kiwi-born Australian, an occasional bout of schizophrenia grips me from time to time. Sporting rivalry seems to concentrate the attack both sides of the Tasman (lovingly known to Kiwis as “the Ditch”). It seems I am not alone.... Here’s a take from a friend hiding in Queensland (where many Kiwis end up here in Aussie – being Downunder, it’s a reversal of the old description of Southern California being the colostomy-bag of the USA – here the flow is UP not DOWN). Enough insults... Here’s how one NZ sports-writer called it (after the NZ team endured a flogging at the hands of the Australian Netball team last September….).
He picked up on the fact that Australia has one of worst national anthems ever written (I can’t bring myself to use the word “composed”). A song that is an embarrassment to most of the population. Then he compares it with the New Zealand national anthem in the way of a sporting contest. Enjoy! Cringe! Just remember, before you strike back at me in righteous anger, it IS ONLY a Wacky Wednesday serving!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10673874
I went to the New Zealand vs Australia netball test last Sunday. We lost, which was not good, but I have to confess I'd already become distracted, even before the game began. During the singing of the national anthems, in fact. What, I found myself wondering, did God Defend New Zealand and Advance Australia Fair actually say about our respective countries? And, more importantly, which anthem is the best? So, in the spirit of trans-Tasman competition, here is my line-by-line New Zealand vs Australia anthem smack-down:
God of nations at thy feet vs Australians all, let us rejoice
Not a good start for the Kiwis I'm afraid, as we're already assuming a prone position and appealing to a higher power and the song's barely started. Meanwhile, the Australians, being the brash nation they are, have cut to the chase and are trying to organise a party. 1-0 Australia.
In the bonds of love we meet vs for we are young and free.
Despite certain logic issues (how do you meet in a bond of love? Is it a place or a state of mind? Please clarify) and the possible light-BDSM overtones of "the bonds of love" the Kiwis make a strong comeback. Although Australia may be "young" if you've just colonised it in 1878 (when Advance Australia Fair was written), for the Aboriginal peoples who had been there for thousands of years this is just a slap in the face. Also it's kind of rude to old or even just middle-aged people like me that only the young get a mention. 1-1.
Hear our voices we entreat vs we've golden soil and wealth for toil
If ever there were two lines that summed up the differences between our two countries, it is these two. Here we are, asking nicely to be heard, while they're skiting already about having great beaches and how rich they are. In these two lines you can see why we produced great peace-loving statesmen like David Lange and Peter Blake and they gave the world Rupert Murdoch. 2-1 New Zealand.
God defend our free land vs our home is girt by sea.
Again we're with the God thing, asking for help this time, which while being an accurate reflection of our world status and defence capabilities, is starting to make us seem kinda desperate. But seriously the word "girt", in a national anthem? You're using your national song to talk of measuring the girth of Australia and to tell the world that you've figured out you're an island? Okay, if that's what spins your wheels but to the rest of the world it seems vaguely ridiculous. 3-1 New Zealand.
Guard Pacific's triple star vs our land abounds in Nature's gifts.
A no-brainer here, because while we are (by implication) including our Pacific neighbours in our song and thus showing our awareness and sensitivity of those nations around us, the convict island with the big, fat girt is still banging on about how rich they are. Yawn. 4-1 New Zealand.
From the shafts of strife and war vs of beauty rich and rare.
Oh, for heaven's sake Australia, get over yourselves. Yes, there are many beautiful things in your lucky country but do you really have to go on and on about it? Imagine how people who live in Iraq or the parts of England where they used to have industry must feel when they hear you singing your own praises like this. You've also got spiders and snakes and crocodiles and jellyfish that can kill you by looking at you - why don't you sing about them, eh? Meanwhile, we're well aware we have awesome scenery too, but we choose not to boast about that in favour of getting all prosaic about world peace. Go us! 5-1 New Zealand.
Make her praises heard afar vs in history's page, let every stage.
Typically Kiwi understatement, in just wanting everyone to think we're a nice place and to say nice things about New Zealand to their friends vs more Australian self-importance, bluster and big-noting. 6-1 New Zealand.
God defend New Zealand vs advance Australia fair!
A late own-goal for New Zealand as our third trip to the God-well makes us sound desperate and needy. Meanwhile, despite the possible racial overtones of Australia "fair", at least the Aussies go out on a high, off to that party they were promised in the first line. 6-2 New Zealand! We win!
So there it is, incontrovertible scientific evidence that despite it being a monstrously dull tune, lyrically our national anthem kicks Australia's butt. Plus we have two, count them, two versions of our anthem, which makes us doubly better than they are.
Now if only we could beat them at netball, that would be good.
From SABC News, 9 September 2007, Zimbabwean female athlete is a man!
Zimbabwean sporting authorities were this week shocked to discover that one of the country's top female athletes is actually a man. The discovery came when multiple medal winner Samukeliso Sithole was outed as a man while waiting with friends for a train at the Zimbabwean railway station, the Herald reported. Melita Mudondiro, a fellow athlete has filed charges of crimen injuria and impersonation against Sithole, saying she had frequently dressed and undressed in front of him, believing he was a woman. Sithole was subsequently arrested in the Midlands chrome-producing city of Kwekwe, where a government doctor confirmed he was male. However, the athlete claims he was born with both male and female genitals. He told a Kwekwe court that his parents had consulted a traditional healer in the eastern district of Chipinge and the healer had provided herbs which made him female. However because his parents had only paid half the fee due to the healer, his male genitalia had reappeared. In fact, he said, on the day that he appeared in court he had been due to pay the settlement amount and if he had been able to do this, his male genitalia would have gone away again. Court officials said they were not sure whether to remand the athlete in male or female cells. Sithole has won several regional gold and silver medals for triple jump, shot put and javelin. His secret was out while waiting at a railway station with friends who were travelling to an athletics meeting, another man approached the group and said that Sithole was actually a man. The National Athletics Association of Zimbabwe said it was still investigating the case.
This was originally sent to me by an excited man who wanted it published throughout my own fairly extensive email contacts. I politely refused, questioning the relevance of numerology to answered prayers. Danny Nalliah is the driving force behind Catch the Fire Ministries in Melbourne. God spoke to him and told him if enough Christians prayed with all these sevens around their prayer date, seven things would happen. There was a veiled threat in the original communication along the lines of, "if you don't go along with this "revelation" and then the revival doesn't happen - it will be all your fault!!" See our comments on the association with the magical use of numbers below for further comment.
7 Promises from God to pray for from 7am to 7pm on 07/07/07 given on 7th June This year I have been sensing an increased urgency in my spirit that the Lord is preparing the Body of Christ for a radical demonstration of the Supernatural Power and Glory of His Manifested Presence. I have longed to see His Mighty Miracles, Signs and Wonders released across our nation, this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit! Particularly in 2007, we at Catch the Fire Ministries and Rise Up Australia (national prayer movement in its 7th year of praying for our nation in approximately 50 cities) have been prophetically sensing a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit across our nation! On 7th June I had a prophetic encounter with the Lord for 1 hour and 20 minutes, in which He revealed the following:
The Lord desires to renew His intimate covenant relationship with His people in Australia, as they seek His face on 07/07/07 from 7am to 7pm. He will establish the following 7 promises with His church:
1) He will release a fresh anointing of His love as never before (Song of Songs 8:6-7)
2) He will release an army of laborers into His harvest field (Matthew 9:37-38)
3) He will restore the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers (Malachi 4:5-6)
4) He will rise up a Daniel generation of true spiritual warriors (Matt 11:12)
5) He will prepare His pure and holy Bride (Psalm 24:3-4); He will clean up His Church and bring true unity across His Body (John 17:20-23)
6) He will release the power of His Holy Spirit through the Church to preach the Gospel with radical salvations, deliverances, healings, miracles, signs and wonders (Mark 16:15-20)
7) He will establish His presence, authority, and righteousness in Government through His Church (Isaiah 9:6-7)
In God’s prophetic calendar the number 7 is very significant; the universe was created in 7 days, the children of Israel marched around the walls of Jericho 7 times, the servant of Elijah reported ‘a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea’ on the 7th time of looking for a heavy rain, Jesus shed His blood in 7 places from the Garden of Gethsemane to the Cross of Calvary, prophetic feasts which speak of the Lord’s 2nd Coming as King of kings are all celebrated in the 7th month of the Lord’s calendar (Lev 23:24,27,34,39), there are seven 1000 year periods (inclusive of His millennial reign) between the creation of Adam and the 2nd Coming of Christ to reign in His Kingdom on the earth, in addition to many more examples of God fulfilling His divine plan and purpose in relation to the number 7.
I believe with all my heart that we are about to see the Spirit of God move more than ever as before across our nation and the nations of the world!
Sadly, poor old Danny Nalliah also got himself so excited over the re-election of John Howard, Peter Costello, and the Liberal Party in Nov 2007, that he went public on what "God showed him". Man, it all went belly up! Every prediction he made was off the mark. Did Danny repent? Apologise? Retract his false, delusional prophecies?
Not on your life! It was all our fault! The believers of Australia - because us miserable lot didn't unite and pray hard enough for the prophecy to work and for Honest Johnny (aka the lying rodent) to get up and be re-elected!
You can read the prophecy and a critique of this part of Wacko-land here
In 2006, we are hosting our 30th annual ski trip to the Snowy Mountains. The details are posted on our church's website. Elsewhere, in cyberspace church, there must be thousands of religious organisations' secretaries surfing the religious Net and responding to invitations posted. Otherwise, how could this response have occurred?!?!?
Dear Sir/Madam, Greetings to you in the Loving and wonderful name of Jesus Christ. INTERNATIONAL END TIME REVIVAL MINISTRIES in Ghana respectfully wish to join LETS GO SKI THE MOUNTAINS, date August 20 to 25,2006 - scheduled to take place in Australia. As the activities will help our ministries in Ghana, the ministries has decided to sponsor four participant to attend the activities namely
PASTOR ISAAC KWABENA ADOMAKO, EVANGELIST EMMANUEL QWASHIE, MISSIONARY SETH AGOHA (we count only 3 here; the 4th must have bailed out at the thought of hurtling down the slopes at breakneck speed)
to enable them acquire more knowledge for their ministries (skiing in Ghana?). It would be appreciated therefore, if you could as a matter of urgency, send them an invitation letter through post to apply for visas and come. We are looking forward to seeing you along with other brothers and sisters from around the world. What a joy and blessing it will be for us to study, praise God together, and have fellowship of Love in our Lord Jesus Christ. Hoping this my humble application will meet your kind consideration. Your early co-operation in this regards will be highly appreciate. Thanks in anticipation.
In Christ Love and Services, Mary Amoah (Church Secretary) INTERNATIONAL END TIME REVIVAL MINISTRIES P.O. BOX AN 8560 ACCRA-NORTH/GHANA WEST-AFRICA. NB: Please be inform that the Ministries will pay the delegates fee of GBP 84 upon arrival in Scotland.
10/05 From The Sunday Telegraph – by Domini Stuart
It is one of the most familiar images from ancient Egypt, a group of figures gathered around a set of scales. Until I attended one of Amber St Clare's workshops, I had assumed that any meaning it may have had had long been lost. Now I see it through different eyes.
St Clare is a physical, emotional and spiritual healer who has been studying ancient Egyptian spirituality since she was a child. As a psychic, she believes she has a particular affinity with the ancient Egyptian Book Of The Dead, a kind of guidebook to the afterlife. She also believes that the book and, particularly, the negative confession contained within it, provide a blueprint for our happiness, fulfilment and spiritual development.
Her one-day workshops are open to anyone interested in spiritual growth. Along with 15 other people of varying ages, occupations and lifestyles, I attended one at the new Hope Island Resort on the distinctly un-spiritual Gold Coast, in Queensland. I was relieved to find that I was not alone in knowing little more about ancient Egypt than you would read in the average travel brochure. The other participants had been drawn by curiosity, intrigued to know how the world of pyramids, pharaohs and strangely-drawn figures could possibly relate to us.
St Clare's first words were reassuring. "Over the centuries we've come to believe that you can only be good if you suffer, but that just isn't so," she says. "The ancient Egyptians knew that it's possible to have a happy and prosperous life that is also spiritually sound. They also knew that this is what the gods want for us and the negative confession can help us to achieve it."
The negative confession consists of 42 denials of wrongdoing and, in ancient Egypt it would have been spoken in front of the gods shortly after death when the heart, or conscience, has a chance to speak in its own defence. It's followed by a ceremony in which the heart is weighed against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth and justice.
Most translations of the Book Of The Dead hold that if the heart is heavier than the feather, it is weighed down by evil and Ammit, the god with the crocodile head and hippopotamus legs, will then devour it, condemning the deceased to eternal oblivion. If the feather outweighs the heart, the deceased has lived righteously and may join the afterlife.
St Clare teaches that the two aspects of eternal life are either endless reincarnation or living with the gods. If the scales are against you, you will be sent back to earth to continue your spiritual growth. If you have been evil enough for Ammit to get your heart, your fate is not eternal oblivion but rather having to start again from scratch by being reincarnated without the benefit of any growth achieved in past lives. On the other hand, if you have abided by the laws of the negative confession, you will have the same pure energy field as a god and will be welcomed to live with them for eternity.
So, is the negative confession relevant today? Well, if everyone lived according to its rules, there would be no war, no wanton pollution, no cruelty and no crime, which is how St Clare argues, the Egyptians maintained a stable society for almost 6000 years.
Some of our discussions were surprisingly lively. In fact, I was fascinated to find such a range of political opinion among the group. But the guided meditation with which we ended the day left us all feeling mellow and inspired, not only to try to live a better life, but also a more enjoyable and abundant one.
Some reflections on Amber lights…..
From the serious to the silly….
Egypt had no war, crime, or cruelty for 6000 years??? What ancient history books has Amber been studying up there on Hope Island???
How relieving it is to know the gods want suffering-free development of good for us (future) fellow gods-in-the-making. As the bumper sticker says, “Please be patient, the gods aren’t finished with me yet. I’m still suffering”…..
Are there echoes in this channelling of another gospel gaining ground in the past 20 years???
Why is it we rarely see an expert on past lives, a physical, emotional and spiritual healer, with a name like Alice Jones??? Why so often something like “Amber St Clare”? Sounds more like my Cavalier spaniel’s full title from its pedigree papers…. Sorry about that, Onny (apology to my dog)….
Extract from Andrew Strom's Dec 04 prophetic update: Please note that all of the below extracts are from the 'Elijah' List [www.elijahlist.com], and they were meant as serious words for the body of Christ. These were all 'Headline' articles - published over a 9-day period by the largest Prophetic List on the Internet. They are supposedly some of the most important prophetic messages that God is trying to get through to us right now: Prophecies by Bill Yount, as listed on the Elijah List…. (yes, folks this is so nutty, we just had to first double-check it to make sure we weren't being conned by a fake report).
Nov 29, 2004 – "I Heard the Father say... 'I am beginning to prophesy Through COMMERCIALS, CANDY, AND CLOTHING -- especially over the Holidays!'" I sense the Lord is going to begin to name some new candy bars. When these are named they will release a prophetic anointing every time the name of the candy is mentioned. These names will have power to call forth life and salvation. I am sure this prophetic candy is bound to have a heavenly taste to it that will be out of this world! People will end up tasting and seeing that the Lord is good! I saw angels anointing candy bar wrappers like God anointing prayer cloths of Apostle Paul. Names on popular candy wrappers will speak prophetically to whomever reads or speaks their names. Candy wrappers will become like anointed prayer cloths throughout the land.
Nov 27, 2004 - HEADLINE: "I Saw Angels Turning Cartwheels Over the Nation's Capitol", shouting... 'WE ARE ON A HOLY ROLL!'"
A vote for righteousness on November 2nd seemed to shake down an avalanche of angels over Washington D.C. as the White House began to be decorated with yellow-gold ribbons. I heard the Father proclaiming, "Salvation is coming to My House... The White House will become a Light House with a burning fire, branding nations for eternity during the next four years!" I believe we will see a whole nation born again in one day in the next four years somewhere in the earth!
I sensed the Father decreeing, "I will restore the years that the cankerworm and palmerworm have eaten from this nation, and I will redeem time and will cause these four years to stand still on My spiritual timetable to accomplish what no other four years could ever do. These next four years will be known as the longest four years in America's history because of what I will accomplish! I will cause one day to seem like a month in government time. Remember one day with Me is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3:8)!
"Because My people have begun to awaken and turn to Me in prayer and have begun to turn from their wicked ways (complacency being the most wicked way in her), I will begin to heal the land with signs and wonders and miracles. Healings in My Body will begin to be contagious, spreading throughout the land with medical breakthroughs with whole cities coming under the power of My influence! If My people keep humbling themselves and keep praying and keep turning from their wicked ways and keep pressing their foot on the neck of the enemy, My Kingdom will come to earth as it is in heaven! I promise you, you will see heaven on earth! Keep turning to Me... We are on a holy roll!!."
A church without walls in Korea, Hundreds converge on mall floors, "not sharing the gospel but doing free God readings (prophecy over unbelievers).” There were 174 souls saved in 2 hours. We had our Fresh Fire Missions team of 8 and several other friends from the USA on the worship team. We hung up a sign in Korean in the mall " Free Spiritual Readings (Prophetic Words)". We set up 6 tables, with two people and a translator at each. We did it in the food court. We gave prophetic words over the lost for 2 hours, while hundreds of others went throughout the mall praying and gathering the lost. Several of the souls saved were Buddhists."
and our comment...
Now we have psychic readings in the shopping mall being done by the prophetic experts! God readings?? "Not sharing the gospel", and yet 174 souls get saved in 2 hours??
This came our way while we were in Vancouver in mid 2004. A dear Vancouver prophetess was told by God to change her surname - twice! She's married, but hubby didn't seem to mind. Her original surname (Cocking) didn't fit her fresh vision of the emerging authority of the Bride, so she changed it after God told her to, to Co-King, because the Bride's authority was coming forth co-equal with Christ's; but then the Lord showed her the Bride's authority was really humming, so a second name change occurred to "King"... And no, we are not making this up.... You can read it yourself on www.extremeprophetic.com. Now there's a name for a ministry.... Just what her surname has to do with the Bride, or her own ministry, isn't made clear, but we assure our visitors here that the "King" is adorned with the most beautiful clothes that were ever made. And anyone who has the gall to say it reminds them of the children's story about a king who was naked will be shot at dawn... Your problem is you just don't have the revelation of it all yet... (a more detailed list of Pat whatsername's prophetic pronouncements are listed on www.elijahlist.com/words/search_results.html?Author=Patricia+King
More from the Extreme Prophetess (one of God's forerunners, her website modestly declares). 10/06 extract from Patricia King’s article on “embracing the Blue Flame of Heaven” sourced off the Elijah List’s mailout
WISDOM IS REVELATION CONCEALED AND REVELATION IS HIDDEN WISDOM REVEALED. When the Kairos time comes for hidden wisdom to be revealed in the earth, the deep of the Father connects with the deep of our spirits, and Holy Spirit impregnates us with revelation knowledge wrapped in the seed of His Word. As a result, hidden wisdom foreordained unto our Glory in Christ is unlocked.
Then forerunners come forth out of the wilderness impregnated with revelation knowledge in the womb of their spirit. They carry the baby, or steward the revelation in the midst of persecution and affliction with great joy, knowing that they must give birth to the plans of the Spirit into the earth.
Then the season comes where they actually speak forth by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, making known even to the principalities and powers the wisdom of God, that was hidden long before even principalities existed. This then provides a death blow to the devil and the gates of hell which can not prevail against revelation knowledge, and allows the will of Heaven to be done on earth as it is in Heaven."
"The WORD is forever settled in Heaven but must be established in earth." Embrace the Blue Flame. May we gaze with a renewed focus into the intense fiery love of God. Let's prepare ourselves to receive revelation into the deep mysteries of God and await authentic encounters with the very atmosphere of Heaven. Let's embrace the Blue Flame and allow Him to burn strong in our hearts. May we truly be known as those He makes to be His ministers--flames of fire (Psalm 104:4).Patricia King (again).
All right, you've got it clearly now, haven't you? Get impregnated with God's blue flame and before you know it, bingo, you carrying a baby and giving birth to, ahhh, well, you know the story. Jacksons' called it the manchild back in the 60's and 70's. But you had to have "revelation knowledge" to "see it" before you could get impregnated with the revealed word.... Clear as mud....
By Jackie Alnor - The News Brief summarizing this story is in the August 2004 E-update of Raiders News; Copyright 2004 Christian Sentinel - http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story5.htm
An invisible prankster is apparently playing tricks on the flamboyant Trinity Broadcasting Network co-founder Jan Crouch. It calls out her name while she’s working alone in her office and then doesn’t respond when she answers its summons. Crouch told her TBN newsletter readers of this strange mystical episode in the July 2004 TBN newsletter. Later, something awakened her in the middle of the night and left her suspended in mid-air, she claimed
"It happened last Wednesday," she wrote. "‘Jan,’ I heard a voice say. ‘Yes,’ I responded, looking around…. ‘Hello.’ I heard nothing. "Hello, is someone there? Did someone call me?’ Working in my office about 4:00 p.m., I heard it again from down the hall: ’Jan.’ I answered, ‘Yes, I heard you…hello? Did someone call me?’… "It was 10:30 p.m. — and I was still in my office finishing up late faxes — I heard it again. ‘Jan.’ I froze in my chair. I said, ‘Is someone there?’ and got up quickly and went to the back door."
She could not find the source of the voice, so she then pulled her dogs close to her as she finished up and went home, she wrote. Then she described how she was awakened –- presumably by the source of that audible voice she heard earlier. "I suppose it was about three in the morning — I’ve been awakened a lot in the past year and when it happens I just talk to Jesus a while and usually fall back asleep — but this was different. I felt as if I was lifted up off my bed — not far, maybe one foot or so — but I felt as if I were floating and hands were holding me."
Apologist and discernment expert Mike Oppenheimer of Hawaii agreed with this writer that the episode was anything but benevolent. "Hearing a voice call her name and her reaction of bringing the dogs seems to show fear," he commented. "So there was no peace in this matter; she seems to know it was not Jesus."
After her testimony of this "heavenly" uplifting experience, she directed her readers into a guided imagery exercise so they too could encounter Jesus as she had. "There is a place right around your middle that lifts, when you draw a breath — I believe this is where the precious Holy Spirit abides. You can just be lifted in your sweet precious spirit now. Breathe in His love. Breathe in His peace. Breathe in His joy. Put your sweet hands over your tummy and breathe and lift. ‘Jesus, Oh Sweet, Precious Jesus, FILL that emptiness.’ Let Him lift your heavy burdens away. Let Him love you the way He wants to every single moment. Breathe in His Life."
Now that the participant is in a relaxed state, she then directed them to visualize Jesus: "I hope you are feeling His presence NOW. He loves you. He wants to renew that dream you had as a teen to do something sooooo special for Jesus — but the dream was "snatched away" by the burdens of this world... Think about that dream...you knew that it was a Jesus thing. He’s renewing your mind and your dream now as you read — you see yourself again at 12, 15, 18 years old, dreaming BIG for Jesus...I will start TODAY — LIVING MY DREAM. Do you feel the joy? Are tears in your eyes? Are you seeing Jesus? Are you two getting the job started? This is your moment, sweet Partner."
Oppenheimer noted that if she was being lifted off the bed "this is certainly not God doing this, this is a demonic manifestation." Pastor Richard Fisher of New Jersey who writes for the highly regarded Personal Freedom Outreach Journal, agreed. "This is very, very occult. If she is not lying, she is a witch. They [TBN] are shameless with their being bizarre - but that is what the fans want."
Could it be that Mrs. Crouch's use of guided imagery, an occultic form of meditation, could have opened her up to demonic influence? It would seem so. "When she says ‘I saw Jesus everywhere - in faces, on the walls, in hearts,’ this too is occultic manifestations," noted Oppenheimer. "To see Jesus in hearts is nebulous and nonetheless unbiblical. It seems as if this woman has been introduced to a spirit guide named Jesus."
"’Breathe in His love. Breathe in His peace. Breathe in His joy. Put your sweet hands over your tummy and breathe and lift. ‘Jesus, Oh Sweet, Precious Jesus, FILL that emptiness,’ -- this too is occultic. There are a number of songs running through the church singing you are the air I breathe, (your holy presence). We do not breathe in the spirit or anything else of God. We have the Holy Spirit in us. This seems to be a lot of soulish me-stuff in her message," Oppenheimer concluded.
RE: URGENT CALL FOR 03-03-03 TO BE A "WORLDWIDE DAY OF PRAYER"
Dear World Prayer Team Member, The World Prayer Center is calling all Christians worldwide to a Worldwide Day of Prayer on Monday, March 3, 2003. Ted Haggard, President of The World Prayer Team, says his office has been flooded with messages from people all over the world saying that God is impressing upon them to prepare to pray on 03-03-03. "These believers do not know one another, nor are they connected to one another. They do not know that the others are saying the same thing. Clearly, the Holy Spirit is speaking to His church, and He is calling His people to pray," says Haggard.
"As these reports began to come in, we sensed in our hearts that God wants us to promote a huge outpouring of prayer on this special date. Many believe there is significance to this date because of its numerical sequence (03-03-03) which reminds many Christians of the Trinity. Moreover, the Holy Spirit has highlighted Jeremiah 33:3 (again, three 3's) as our call to action, 'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know,'" says Haggard.
The magnitude of this date is not lost on the non-Christian world as well. The Global Consciousness movement (New Age) has for years been planning a worldwide "Largest ever experiment into global consciousness" to take place on 03-03-03. Their effort is slated to begin at 3:33am (Fiji local time), on the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the 3rd millennium. It has gained widespread notoriety in New Age circles.
Should this not be enough to cause Christians to pray, the significance of 03-03-03 becomes even more pressing as America could launch a war with Iraq at about that very hour, against a leader, Saddam Hussein, who has only recently embraced Islam as a way of gaining support from the Islamic world. Such was not the case with the first Gulf War. According to the Islamic calendar, March 3, 2003 is the eve of the Islamic New Year (Islamic year 1424 begins March 4, 2003). It is also the last day of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, when pilgrims are encouraged to make a sacrifice (The Festival of Sacrifice or Eid al-Adha). The key verse in the Qu' Ran about this festival to take place this year on March 3, 2003 is, "Truly, my prayer and my service of sacrifice, my life or my death, are all of Allah…" This date therefore holds great significance to the Islamic world.
While all of this is beneath the radars of the secular news media, it is clear to many Christian leaders that the world is on the brink of a spiritual battle of monumental proportions. The epicentre of this struggle is the Middle East - a battle is going on for Jerusalem and Babylon (Iraq), biblical centers of spiritual light and darkness.
The World Prayer Team therefore calls on all Christian churches and individuals to set aside at least 3 minutes to pray at 3:33 PM in their time zone on 03/03/03.
PRAYER FOCUS: Pray that the armies of heaven will push back the powers of darkness in the Middle East. Pray that Saddam Hussein will leave the country before war is required to remove him from power. Pray that a spiritual shield will contain hostilities within the Iraqi borders (if war cannot be avoided), such that it doesn't spill over to the entire Islamic world. Pray that weapons of mass destruction, if they are deployed on any side of the battle, will be powerless. Pray that this date, rather than being a focal point of darkness, will be overwhelmed by the Light of God through the worldwide prayers of His people.
Brian's response to this "special time"
Have I missed something that came down with the last shower??? Bible numerology… Chapter and verse numbers (invented in the mid 1500's and not part of the original texts) having special spiritual significance??? Dates and time calculations with certain numerical rhythms being significant too??? God is impressing on people everywhere to pray on 03-03-03…. And I thought the Bible already impressed on us Jesus (and the apostles') words to "pray without ceasing", etc…
This stuff is far more at home in the New Age where it belongs (as this article accidently affirms).
And Haggard says, While all of this is beneath the radars of the secular news media, it is clear to many Christian leaders that the world is on the brink of a spiritual battle of monumental proportions. The epicentre of this struggle is the Middle East - a battle is going on for Jerusalem and Babylon (Iraq), biblical centers of spiritual light and darkness. Really?? Could this possibly be the same city spoken of in Revelation 11:8 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. The one Paul said was in captivity: Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. [Gal 4:25-26]. The epicentre.. biblical centres of spiritual light and darkness??? Gee, and I thought Paul gave this honour to the Body of Christ - THE New Jerusalem, in which the Holy Spirit dwells…. How foolish and eisagetical of me!!
I'm sorry, folks, but the wedding of American imperial tendencies to the Kingdom of God's outworking leaves me breathless. I can understand Haggard, parked in Colorado Springs in the Rockies, isolated from the rest of the world, believing this stuff, but hey! The rest of us out here beyond US media's introspection - we have to keep a cool mind and a sound hold of God's word, before the "distortions" take us away from the main game.
Later update - in 2006, Ted Haggard was exposed as engaging in ongoing promiscuous, homosexual, drug taking activities with a male prostitute. His fall from grace (especially as the conservative Evangelical Alliance of the USA (with Haggard having access to Bush's ear) had appointed him their first-ever "Pentecostal" President) was tracked world-wide and the name of our Lord Jesus once more was dishonoured a la Romans 2:24.
Peter Fitzsimons quoted Australia's own Shane Warne in his 2005 Quotes of the Year on the subject of Warney's devastating loss of hair! And his cost-is-not-a-consideration attempts to reverse the plague of encroaching baldness.
"My hair has always been a bit of a trademark for me. I've always liked looking in the mirror and sorting through different designs with the hair. If people want to say whatever they want to, they can. I'm not ashamed of anything. I'm quite excited about regrowing my hair, having lots of hair, getting back to all the different hair styles that I like"
FitzSimons added, "can someone get this bloke a LIFE??"
The Beatles old hit has been revived in recent days by... Nigerian "apostles" in Southern Africa; and Todd Bentley in North America! Here's a quote from the man (before he was found out top be - ahem - laying hands on something a little more soft and tender than money...
Not only does God have many angels on assignment, but there is an angelic realm in heaven devoted to finances. Why? It’s because God oversees the wealth of this world and He has certain proven strategies in place. After all, it’s His wealth, no matter whose hands it’s in. His angels are on assignment to watch over your finances, to gather money, to gather investments, to bring favor, and to bring power in your life so that you can have favor and wealth. He wants to provide for you! One of His names is Jehovah Jireh, which means God our provider.
In this regard, on three occasions over the past couple of years I’ve had a visitation from the Lord in which I’ve seen the angel of finance. Every time this happens (in our meetings) there is an incredible financial breakthrough—something is opened up in heaven, it invades the earth, and people respond by giving generously. And afterward many testimonies come in to Fresh Fire reporting the abundant blessings that people have received in return!
So let’s look at what happened in a meeting when I went into a trance-like state and I saw, for the third time over the course of a few years, the angel of finance. [A trance is simply a dream-like state but you are awake. For more information on trances, refer to Acts Chapter 10.] In that trance I experienced one of heaven’s realities and then that experience became a reality here on earth.
Here’s what happened. At first I saw heaven open, and as I ascended a ladder into the heavens I saw full vibrant wings and feathers! These feathers were white and as real as they would be in the natural realm; that’s how vivid it was. Then I noticed wings that moved and there was an arm under one wing and another arm under another wing! As the wings lifted I saw every precious gem you could think of under those wings; and then I saw the angel standing, having a body like a man with six wings. I knew it was the angel of finance.
Next, I saw a door called “treasure” and the door was open. Without thinking or considering what to do, I found myself in a treasure room in heaven. The only item in this room was gold coins, and I began stuffing those coins into my pockets until they were falling out. Then, after filling up another pocket, I opened my trousers and started filling my trousers with gold coins. After that, I stuffed them into my suit jacket. I even opened my shirt and started stuffing gold coins down my shirt!
Still in the trance, I asked the Lord, “What am I doing?” “You’re getting the offering!” He said. Now we weren’t receiving the offering yet in the meeting, but God said that I was getting the offering! Now, we don’t usually, if ever, see it that way, yet God was saying this because the offering, the money, is in heaven. After I heard that answer, I made a conscious decision (in this experience) to get even more gold. Now I was collecting more, stuffing as much as possible anywhere I could fit it, even my ears!
That encounter with the angel of finance, and then the treasure room, is an excellent example of heaven’s realities. And before I share how that reality manifested on earth—in other words, how the offering that was “taken” in heaven manifested on earth in the meeting, you need to know something unique that my associates make a practice of doing.
If an anointed point is made by a minister of the gospel and an associate wants that particular point activated in their life, they will immediately sow into it. By that I mean, they will run up to the pulpit or the altar—“I want that”—and sow into the anointing in that moment of glory, by placing an offering there. Bam! Just whatever is said, they sow into it. Of course they can’t buy the anointing, but on the other hand they can sow into it." (end of quote)
There it is, folks - go into a trance and visualise the "angel of finance" - and BAM! See what's happening in heaven in the back room where they count the money, and... BAM! You're home on a winner!!