Posted on 05/04/2016 2:22:04 PM PDT by Gamecock
Longtime televangelist and senior Pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, Paula White offered her followers an Easter Sunday deliverance from a spiritual death sentence for a $1,144 "resurrection seed" she says was set by God.
Preaching the story of Lazarus who Jesus resurrected from the dead in John 11:38-44, White promised believers in a video appeal that if they would sow the seed and have faith, she believed deliverance would come.
"I don't know what is dead. I don't know what the enemy sent a death to. I don't know what decision that caused death to come upon whatever the situation you're facing, but I do know that God has sent me to you to bring resurrection life. To tell you that I believe that as we put our faith together before Easter Sunday on March 27, there's gonna be resurrection life in your life," said White.
"The grave clothes are coming off," she continued. "Whatever residue of death. Whatever residue is holding you back, it is coming off."
White then revealed to her audience that she didn't normally request a specific amount in monetary donations but said God was very specific about the amount required for the so-called resurrection seed.
"There's someone that God is speaking to, to click on that donation button by minimizing the screen. And when you do to sow $1,144. It's not often I ask very specifically but God has instructed me and I want you to hear. This isn't for everyone but this is for someone. When you sow that $1,144 based on John 11:44 I believe for resurrection life," said White.
For those who couldn't afford her specific request for the resurrection seed, White encouraged them to give smaller donations.
"You say, Paula, I just don't have that, then sow $144. I don't have that. Sow $44 but stand on John Chapter 11:44," she asserted.
White then promised that in return for sowing the resurrection seed, donors would receive special prayer cloths that could possible cause special miracles, signs and wonders.
"And when you do, there are prayer cloths that we have anointed that we have prayed over, that are going to be a point of contact. In Acts 19, the Bible says, Paul prayed over these prayer cloths and they brought forth special miracles, signs and wonders. There have been times that I have taken prayer cloths that have been anointed as a point of contact. I put them in my loved ones sneakers, I put them under their bed. I put them on parts of my body that I believe God for healing," said White.
"And it was the most dire, distressed, absolutely devastating circumstance. I would stand in faith that that miracle was gonna come forth and I would watch God do it. God has never failed. I can sit here and say this. There is not anything in my life that I've prayed according to the word of God and I've not seen God answer," she continued.
White was quick to note, however, that donors who sow a resurrection seed should not expect God to respond like a "sugar daddy."
"Cause there are things I've prayed out of ignorance or asked out of my own desire and I said God, but your will be done. 'Cause I knew, His word is His will. See His will is for whatever is dead in your life to come back to life. How do I know? John 10:10. Jesus came to give you life and give you life more abundantly," she said. "So click on and minimize that screen and right now sow your miracle resurrection seed as we stand in faith together and I believe God for your miracle."
She also doesn’t say $1.44 would be acceptable either.
Do they take Bitcoin?
Only if you send them at a rate of 1144 bitcoins per second.
Gotta be true to Scripture dontcha know.
SO, this is a leader of the protestant version of Christianity?
Nah.
A leader of itching ears, heratical teaching.
As promised in Scripture
Don't waste bitcoin on her. I'd send a dogecoin, if it came down to brass tacks.
Is this shyster related to the Reverend Creflo Dollar?
Did they stand a mannequin up on stage?
Acts 20:28-31
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Frank Zappa had these types nailed decades ago
(start 15 seconds in, it segues from previous song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yYfX5pp_7I
“Remember, there’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over!”
Rod Parsley has been running the same scam for years. His broadcasts aren’t sermons - they’re infomercials. His pitch is basically: “God wants to bless you, but he can’t do it until you send me your $300.00 Faith Seed” (and the check clears.) Usually, he does a solo act, but sometimes he has a guest on with him making the pitch. Paula White has been on his program a few times (I guess they split the take on those occasions.) Until I started watching Rod Parsley, I did not know that God accepts Visa and Mastercard.
Ya, this ticks me off. Evil vile woman. Jesus died for us and his sacrifice was complete, he already paid the price for us. The gift of salvation is bought and paid for by the son of God. It’s really not a difficult concept.
There’s a sucker born every minute.
If God wants to bless me that badly, He can do it without me sending money to some shyster liar.
Exactly. I can’t believe people fall for the crap. The false prophets are many it seems.
Not to be technical, but Lazarus was not resurrected. He was brought back to life but as a mortal. Resurrection didn’t happen until Christ conquered death and He (Christ) was the first fruits of the Resurrection.
Not to be technical, but Lazarus was not resurrected. He was brought back to life but as a mortal. Resurrection didn’t happen until Christ conquered death and He (Christ) was the first fruits of the Resurrection.
Only if you send them at a rate of 1144 bitcoins per second.Gotta be true to Scripture dontcha know.
Bitcoin is currently (last I check, yesterday) about $US450 each. 1140 satoshi (satoshi=10e-8 bitcoin) I could do.
SO, this is a leader of the protestant version of Christianity?
In no way whatsoever.
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