A pagan ritual like this with a witch-doctor type does not enhance Sarah’s reputation. Invoking the name of our Lord Jesus does not change the nature of this nonsense.
I pray that she admits to some emotional distress at the time and walks away from this.
Well, if she does get to the general, I expect the Muthee Blessing to come forward again and be rebutted again. First, while it is arguable that Kenyan preacher Muthee (what’s the deal with Kenya, anyway?) is not in the mainstream of Christian belief, and that he may have been involved in some crazy mischief back in Kenya, there is no reasonable case to be made that he is a “Witch-doctor” type in the sense of being pagan.
You can argue he is heretical, but to be pagan one must adopt at least some obviously pagan ideas and practices, and praying over a local politician in hopes that God will use them to increase righteousness in the nation is not a pagan sentiment. Indeed, the left flipped out over it because to them, what they heard was a threat of distinctly Christian theocracy, which of course was also a mistake on their part, but the dead opposite of what you are saying.
For evidence, I offer the exacts words of Muthee’s prayer over Palin, shown below, which do not betray any obvious paganism per se, though for the sophisticated theologian there are hints of the Word of Faith paradigm and a strong aroma of postmillennial triumphalism, which many Christians, including myself, reject as poor interpretation of Scripture (though I do not reject the idea that Christians should be salt and light in every walk of life, as God calls them, per Calvin):
“Thank you, Jesus. Let’s all pray. Let’s pray for Sarah. Hallelujah! Come on, hold your hands up and raise them. Hold them and raise them up here! Come on, talk to God about this woman! Come on, talk to God about this woman we declare favor from today. We say favor, favor, favor! We say praise my God! We say grace to be rained upon her in the name of Jesus. My God, you make your judgment, you make room. You make ways in the desert, and I’m asking you today, we are asking you as the body of Christ in this valley, make a way for Sarah, even in the [inaudible]. Make her way my God. Bring finances her way, even in the campaign in the name of Jesus, and above all give her the personnel, give her men and women that will back her up in the name of Jesus. We want righteousness in this state. We want righteousness in this nation. Because you say [inaudible] in the name of Jesus. Our Father, use her to turn this nation the other way around. Use her to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers so that the curse that has been there long can be broken. In the name of Jesus. Father, we thank you today. We come in the hindrance of the enemy, standing in her way to there. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus! Every form of witchcraft, it will be rebuked in the name of Jesus. Father, make her way now. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
So, unless you are expecting her to write a treatise on the theological errors of the remnants of the Latter Rain movement as they appeared in the sermon and prayer of a visiting minister from Kenya, I do not see that she has anything to repent of. Indeed, considering who she is up against, seeking God’s intervention against profound spiritual evil seems highly appropriate. I have often thought that the foaming mouth railing against her went so wildly beyond rational precisely because it had it’s origins in the darkest recesses of Hell.
And as we know from Scripture, a prophet does not have to be a good prophet speaking from good motives to issue a blessing to one chosen by God for a special purpose. I refer you, of course, to Baalim, who would have cursed Israel if he’d had his own way but God wrung a blessing out of him despite himself.
Bottom line, if you have trouble with Sarah over Muthee, the problem is mainly Muthee, not Sarah. I have also heard, but have not yet been able to confirm, that her church affiliation has changed. Based on what we know about her, she is soundly Christian, if not a seminary theologian, and has the good sense to put her faith in Jesus and let the “professionals” duke it out over the fine points of prophetic speculation.
Peace,
SR
This reminds me of the story in which the disciples complained about Jesus allowing the woman to wash his feet. Who are you to say how others honor the Lord?