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."
Amman=Amish1693, Seabury, Episcopalian in the American colonies...You, a fallen away Catholic are conducting Bible studies......you leave the church that edited, compiled basically wrote, hand copied through the centuries, saved for mankind the Bible....and you feel qualified to conduct Bible studies???????????????See how easy it is to be a protestant!!!
Of course you disagree, you had the truth and chose to reject it....that's on you.The Sacraments are outward signs, instituted by Christ, to give Grace....and they do. Of course there are saved and lost people in every church, but Catholics are NEVER lost because they are Catholic, they may become lost if they stray from Christ's chosen path.
All Protestants want to be their "own Pope", but it never works. If everyone got to do their own thing as far as salvation, or for that matter, anything, then there would no longer be a difference between right and wrong or correct and incorrect. But, of course there is....you don't set up your own traffic laws, moral standards, matters of faith, and if everyone did, there would be chaos (Protestantism)....oh, that's right...there is.
Nope, Francis is merely the temporary elected head of the Christian church. The others named tried to set up their own rules as to what the Christian church is....and all differed.
Yup, questionable character....Most of their misdeeds were political and power struggles in very different times. If you check their biographies, they were mostly crooked politicians. There were a few exceptions to this, and some did some bizarre things, but none of them, not even one, attempted to change, as did ALL of the revolutionaries, what Christianity was. They may have had personal failures, but NEVER led people away from Christianity by changing its meaning.....as did every Protestant "reformer".
I disagree bro. I don't do sacraments, and I am doing just fine, thank you very much. I have spiritual insight. I don't know about others.
Of course there are saved and lost people in every church, but Catholics are NEVER lost because they are Catholic, they may become lost if they stray from Christ's chosen path.
There are saved and lost in most churches. I prefer being in one where the majority are saved, as opposed to one where the majority are lost. It's pretty hard to share anything spiritual with someone who is going to Hell.
I semi agree on the second point. When I was a Catholic, so many decades ago, if I had died, I would have gone straight to Hell. It would not have been because I was a Catholic. I would have gone to hell, because I was an unregenerate sinner, like so many in false apostate religions.
You, a fallen away Catholic are conducting Bible studies......you leave the church that edited, compiled basically wrote, hand copied through the centuries, saved for mankind the Bible....
Yes, I conduct Navigator Bible studies. They taught me well. Praise God for the Navigators. They are truly sent from God to teach the truth. If people don't want to hear the truth, or if they have no assurance of salvation, sorry about that, but that's on them. I don't have that problem. I don't know if you do. 😀😄😆😎
You, a fervent Catholic are complaining about Bible studies?
Your church that edited, compiled basically wrote, hand copied through the centuries, saved for mankind the Bible and you are COMPLAINING??
It is YOUR chosen religion that has decided:WHOOPS! the bible is NOT enough to get a person saved and on their way to heaven!
Dang! Jesus is NOT enough; His mom has to help him!
If they were Bad Popes; you'd give 'em a pass.
I'll bet you study verse that Rome NEVER preachs on.
Who has that list the OTC cycles thru every few years or so?
Grace does not come by sacraments. God doesn't dole them out in stingy parcels based on performance.
Scripture tells us this.
Grace Grace for Luke 1:28 and Ephesians 1:6 Same word for grace, in the Beloved http://biblehub.com/text/ephesians/1-6.htm
Ephesians 1:3-10 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Romans 5:1-2 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
John 1:14-17 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Of course there are saved and lost people in every church, but Catholics are NEVER lost because they are Catholic, they may become lost if they stray from Christ's chosen path.
So wait. Which is it? NEVER lost or lost? You're contradicting yourself. You're playing both ends against the middle.
All Protestants want to be their "own Pope", but it never works. If everyone got to do their own thing as far as salvation, or for that matter, anything, then there would no longer be a difference between right and wrong or correct and incorrect. But, of course there is....you don't set up your own traffic laws, moral standards, matters of faith, and if everyone did, there would be chaos (Protestantism)....oh, that's right...there is.
So do Catholics believe in moral relativism?
Because Christians don't. We have the word of God and HIS standard to live by. And He tells us that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. That's the ONLY way to be saved.
There would only be many paths to salvation if it were by works and God didn't leave us His word.
But God DID leave us His word and salvation is not by works. It's by faith just like Jesus taught and it for good and secure.
John 3:3-8 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:14-18 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
I see how it goes.
If the person of questionable character is a non-Catholics, it’s proof of their condemnation and hypocrisy and they are judged and damned by Catholics.
If the person of questionable character is a Catholic leader of any kind, they are excused, brushed off, or just downright ignored, and their actions are glossed over with *Nobody is perfect*, *They’re just sinners like the rest of us*, and *Everyone else is doing it too*.
THAT is hypocrisy. Double standards always are.
As does the rcc.
Were they ‘elected’ to their popery by a gaggle of the magicsteeringthem? I was told that it is the magicsteeringthem which keeps the catholic religion from erring???
I'll bet you study verse that Rome NEVER preachs on.
Actually, we just do Bible studies, regardless of what one calls them. We do it mostly for members of the OTC. Actually, there are many different people around, in different spurious religions, all of them claiming to be members of the OTC. We might call them cults, but many of their doctrines are as different as night and day, and yet they all claim to be the OTC. I wonder why?
Many of them engage in cult speak, so words and terms that born again Christians use, tend to conjure up different concepts, ideas and strange interpretations in the minds of these different members of different OTCs.
After encountering all this nonsense, I figured I had to become my own pope, to see what the truth is. I found out that we don't need all these weird rites, rituals and dead works.
Thank God, He allows us to be our own pope, and read the scriptures for ourselves, without relying on any official from any OTC to tell us what it says.
That way, it is very hard for anyone to deliberately deceive us. You don't think that there are any people who would deliberately try to deceive us now do you? 😀😆😃
Sounds good to me.
Poor Hoss is not going to like being usurped.
I don’t make up my own rules as I go either.
God st His up, told us in Scripture where they are, and expects us to follow them ourselves.
We follow them from the inward, the heart, not for force of compulsion with our eternal destiny dangled over our heads as a threat for not complying to the rules of men.
Not if they'd attempted to change the meaning and teaching of Christianity as did EVERY revolutionary....even your naughty Popes NEVER did that.
That entire post is nothing more than a figment of your misguided imagination...
Now wait just a second... I have to find my pointy hat, red shoes... where's that Ex Cathedra chair? Crap. This lawn chair will just have to do.
Now... what's going on here?
Net Pope Hossus I
Nope, they established Christianity over 2,00 years ago, it is the revolutionaries who are attempting to make up their own rules.
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