Posted on 01/27/2015 10:33:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Yes, if my memory serves me correctly, he did.
...he's DOCTOR Mike Murdock!
He wouldn't deceive us, would he?
A couple of years ago AARP magazine had an article on why the Social Security System was not a Ponzi scheme.
http://www.aarp.org/work/social-security/info-10-2011/social-security-not-ponzi-scheme.html
A couple of pages later, Jane Bryant Quinn had an article on the Social Security System’s financing and it sounded just like a Ponzi scheme.
All in the same issue.
I was just using the logic of the Prosperity Gospel, in terms of “blessing” ... :-) ...
And certainly, if there is one thing to hold one off from that blessing of being with the Lord, it would be the command to spread the Good News of the Gospel to others still living on this earth.
LOL I went to one where he was doing that one time. He’s a fake if there ever was one.
He’s as much a “Doctor” as Al Sharpton is a “Reverend.”
Well that’s kind of short sighted.
Once in heaven you can’t reach back and bring anyone new with you.
Sell your soul to the devil (for money, power, whatever) and you’ll only prosper in this world for a short while. Look around you, there are many who have chosen unwisely in the short term and they will have to pay the devil his due at some point. Don’t deal with the devil and his demons.
The 1% rich may have a problem taking their wealth with them or getting that camel through the eye of a needle. You can’t take it with you and they won’t either.
Trust in the Lord and he will supply you with what HE thinks you need. Not always what you think you need.
When the Lord humbles you, rejoice because he cares enough to humble those he loves. Don’t blame him when he allows bad things to happen to you. Keep the faith and blame the devil and his demons for the evils that befall you.
Whatever you have been blessed to acquire or achieve, praise the Lord and be a good steward. It doesn’t belong to you, you are only managing it for the Lord. And remember he can take it away as quickly as he gave it.
Prosperity preachers teach your reward is here on earth, not in eternity. They teach G_D loves everyone and wants them to acquire wealth and success in this world if they trust and obey. But you cannot earn or purchase your salvation through works. Salvation is freely given through Jesus Christ to those who accept his promise of eternal life.
Years ago it was soap salesmen.
Then it was oil salesmen.
Then it was worm farms.
Then it was emu farms
Then it was the “airplane” scam.
And there are still those oil salesmen telling everyone that they have title to BILLIONS in oil revenue if ONLY they could get enough money to get it through the courts.
“There is a sucker born every minute.”-W C Fields (Or was that P T Barnum).
And not just command, like some dull duty. Opportunity.
They do not point out any way to deal with sorrows and troubles and thus are unrealistic. Life on earth can never be all laughing gas no matter how hard we try. But we can make our suffering worthwhile by investing it in the Lord.
It would be short sighted of one were to follow out the Prosperity Gospel with its blessings ... :-) ...
But then, I don’t go along those lines.
One can look at prosperity in heavenly terms, but then that turns the worldly prosperity all upside down. You can be rich in God when you are begging with a tin can; it’s all in the attitude.
One can look at it as an opportunity, but I would not leave out the fact that it is a command.
.....Or to bless you with INNER PEACE in this life.
It’s a desirous must.
The key to Murdock is that God is powerless to release His blessing to you unless you send money to Murdock. Murdock believes he has power over God.
Prosperity preachers always say the money needs to come to them.
Sadly, I hear this same type of tripe from tithers. They turn tithing into a magic spell. “When I gave 10% to God, His blessings came flowing to me”. You didn’t give that money to God. You gave it to the Methodist church.
It is okay from time to time to get angry at God. He has big shoulders and can handle it. Just do not get bitter about it.
When I look at Hebrews 11, I can’t wait to get outta here ... :-) ...
I’m actually looking forward to being a “government employee” in the new one-world government. I wonder, sometimes, where my assigned post will be and what country I’ll be assigned to.
Does God have a bank account, then, that I can put my US Dollars in? ... :-) ...
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