I knew there was a reason I didn't like green beans.
__________________ You can't reach the world with your talents. People are sick and tired of religious talents. People need a Holy Ghost annointed church with real fruits to reach out and touch their lives. ~ Pastor Burrell Crabtree
In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions. ~ strait shooter
God spoke through that minister. Who could argue with that?
Anyone who relies on the Word of God as a foundation and filter for stupidity. Jesus never harmed anyone in order to cast a devil. He just spoke to evil, and it departed.
I've always been disgusted by people who wrestle demons to the floor (meaning people with demons), and went through other contortions in their attempts to free the person. (Who may actually need deliverance, btw)
Jesus said that these things come by prayer and fasting. (When the disciples couldn't cast out a devil.) If you can't cast a devil out by simply speaking to it in Jesus' name, it seems that some personal sacrifice is in order.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road