Posted on 05/29/2019 8:16:34 AM PDT by Gamecock
The Vision Church of Atlanta, Georgia, a progressive congregation, has added a psychic medium who claims to commune with the dead to their staff.
Lakara Foster, who holds a doctorate of ministry from The Interdenominational Theological Center, is now a licensed minister at The Vision Church of Atlanta, Rolling Out reported. She is also the creator and star of the YouTube series “The Gift,” which she argues God told her to do. It follows her life as a medium, minister, and spiritual teacher.
“God told me to do the show. Honestly, I was reluctant at first because I felt very vulnerable and thought I would get a lot of pushback and negative feedback being a minister and a medium. I thought people wouldn’t understand but I knew I still had to do it. I knew I had been called to do it. When I asked God, ‘Why this gift? Why not singing? God said, ‘I promised my people eternal life. How will my people know that I’ve kept promise if you don’t demonstrate your gift?’” she told Rolling Out.
Foster argues that psychic mediumship should be included among the spiritual gifts of the modern Church because James 1:17 teaches that “every good and perfect gift is from above.”
In an interview with Great Day Louisiana earlier this year, Foster discussed how her gift allows her to communicate with the dead.
“A psychic medium, what I try to explain to people is, psychic is a very umbrella term. I believe to some degree we all have some type of psychic intuition. A medium falls under that umbrella. Being a medium allows me to communicate with our loved ones who are departed. So I tell people all mediums are psychic but all psychics are not medium,” she said.
She explained that she has been using her gift for a long time and had always wanted to use her gift without sacrificing her faith in Jesus.
“For me it was very important that I was able to merge the two. My love for God, my love for Jesus. But really ... I knew that I could heal through ministry but I’ve always been healing, so it was kind of natural to be able to merge the two to continue that level of healing,” she said.
“One of the reasons I pursued my doctorate on this topic is because I really wanted to understand my gift from the intersections of Afrocentrism and Christianity, and why the church believes this gift shouldn’t be considered a spiritual gift among those listed in the Bible,” she further stated to Rolling Out.
Foster noted that she has received a lot of support from her church and members of her family, like her father who also claims to possesses the gift to commune with the dead.
“My church family has been super supportive. … My family has been just as incredible. My father shares a similar gift and my mother is the executive producer of the web-series ‘The Gift,’” she said.
How many $$$ worth of makeup were involved in THAT picture!?
Say what??
Looking at the website I found it quite interesting to read about the "pastor:"
Oliver Clyde Allen, III is a religious trailblazer, author, human rights advocate, an international and community leader and entrepreneur. In 2015, Bishop Allen was appointed by President Barak Obama and the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). In 2016, He was appointed Southeastern Chair of the DNC-LGBT Advisory Board. Bishop Allen is currently a National Ambassador and consultant for the NAACP – Black Church/HIV Initiative. He is the Presiding Bishop and founder of the United Progressive Pentecostal Fellowship of Churches which oversees senior pastors, ministers, churches and faith-based organizations throughout the United States and abroad. There is also an international presence of the organization in Central and South America. He is the Senior Pastor and Founder of The Vision Cathedral of Atlanta known as “The Vision Church”. Bishop Allen is best known for his creativity and innovation in ministry, oratorical gifts, scholarly and dynamic preaching, authenticity and cutting-edge leadership. He is the author of a motivational self-help book, “Master Your Emotions”.<cut>
He is married to his life-partner, Mr. Rashad Burgess of Chicago, Illinois. Rashad Burgess is currently the Community Liaison for Gilead Sciences, Inc. and was formerly the branch Chief of the Capacity Building Branch at the CDC’s division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. They are the proud fathers of 2 beautiful children, Joshua and Caylee. In 2013, Bishop Allen and his family made history by being the first Same-Gender-Loving couple to be selected as one of Ebony Magazine’s “top 10 Coolest Black Families” in America.
does it come in a psychic large?
Can she tell me how Roundabout’s gonna do in the 5th at Aqueduct? I promise to tithe half of everything I win.
Maybe dionne warwick and the psychic friends network are making a comeback!
Not to worry. The discussions of divination at Deut 18:10, First Samuel 15:13, 2 Kings 17:17, Jeremiah 14:14 and Acts 16:16 are merely advisory. Feel free to disregard
They certainly have ignored them!
wasn’t there a Cleo who did that?
Mama Roux. She was the queen of the little red, white and blue...
“When Photoshop Goes Bad” is the title of that particular work.
Another Jean Dixon and The Amazing Criswell, combined.
Dixon predicted, in the STAR tabloid, NIXON WILL NOT RESIGN! the very week Nixon resigned, then ten years later claimed she had predicted the resignation.
Criswell’s predictions were so outlandish he is more of a joke than a “prophet”.
Leviticus 19:31 “Don’t turn to psychics or mediums to get help. That will make you unclean. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:27 “Every man or woman who is a medium or a psychic must be put to death. They must be stoned to death because they deserve to die.”
Leviticus 20:6 I will condemn people who turn to mediums and psychics and chase after them as though they were prostitutes. I will exclude them from the people.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 You must never sacrifice your sons or daughters by burning them alive, practice black magic, be a fortuneteller, witch, or sorcerer, cast spells, ask ghosts or spirits for help, or consult the dead. Whoever does these things is disgusting to the Lord. The Lord your God is forcing these nations out of your way because of their disgusting practices.
What you claim to have may not be a "good and perfect gift".
"You will not suffer a witch to live." -Exodus 22:18
"Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?" - 1 Samuel 28:9
Occult Practices
Deut. 18:9 ff
9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.
13 You must be blameless before the Lord your God.
Is that a REAL person?
1Ch 10:13 So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance.
Deu 18:9 “When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.
18:10 “There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
Deu 18:11 “or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
18:12 “For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you.
Lev 19:31 ‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 20:6 ‘And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
Isa 8:19 And when they say to you, “Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter,” should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?
God seems to get ticked when people consult mediums. Don't do it.
And I think the reason is that many false religions can be traced to that kind of activity.
A big mistake.
LOL...yes there was.
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