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."
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I notice she doesn’t say that $11.44 would be acceptable.
I can’t believe people still fall for this nonsense.
The same God who told Ted Cruz to run? (sorry, cheap shot, couldn’t resist)
Surely not any “God” I want to worship, in any case. This is the sort of person that 2 Peter seems to warn against.
A lot of desperate people do. It’s sad. Some live very hard lives, and these parasites feed off the weakest.
Too bad for Paul there is not a Chapter John:99999999-9999999
Per Paul, “...evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived”.
I got a Rev. Ike prayer rug in the mail one time - I never sent in a donation to activate it. It was made out of the same grade of paper that the stores used to use for grocery bags.
I wonder if this one is paper or real cloth. Please let me know when you get yours.
John 6:66 comes to mind when I think of Paula White and her ilk.
Sounds like a bargain.
Psalms has over 100 chapters (150 to be exact). Paula needs to look for a proof text there for her next scam.
She also doesn’t say $1.44 would be acceptable either.
Kind of like...
“Send $5, $10, $25, any amount you can spare.” - Heidi Cruz
ugh...why people leave the church and never come back.
Oh yeah. It’ s been awhile but i’ve seen her on TV.
She was a good looking gal back in the day. And had a knockout accent.
I prefer to keep my relationship with God just between me and Him. If I request something from Him, He will give it to me if HE sees fit.
There are still God-fearing, honest men and women called by God that take their responsibilities to spread the gospel very seriously that don’t ask for anything except an ear and open heat to their message. Hard to find but still out there. Hopefully more than we think.........;)
Wow. Utterly shameless mishandling of God’s word.
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