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Miracle workers who couldn't heal themselves!!!
John Osteen, Word of Faith mega-church pastor in Houston - his wife,
Dodie got liver cancer and through the mercy of God and medical attention
survived.
Frederick K. Price, Word of Faith mega-church pastor in Los Angeles
- his wife, Betty got cancer and was medically treated (chemo-therapy) and
by the mercy of God was patched up.
Jamie Buckingham, Discipleship Movement & charismatic author - died
of cancer. Jamies too was under a medical doctors care.
Charles Capps, Word of Faith teacher, teaches power of our words to
create reality - his wife got cancer and was medically treated.
John Wimber, Signs & Wonders Movement, author of "Power Healing," -
just died from cancer. He too, was medically treated - no "power" healing
for him, only chemo-therapy.
Mack Timberlake, Word of Faith pastor - suffering from throat
cancer, getting medical attention.
R.W. Schambach, Faith Healer - got a quadruple heart bypass (from a
real live human doctor)
Dr. Hobart Freeman, Word of Faith teacher & pastor of Faith Assembly
- over 90 people died in his church following his teaching and then Hobart
died due to a medically treatable disease.
Prophet Keith Grayton, Prophetic Movement - died of the
complications of AIDS
He spoke at our Church in Detroit, and declared he was totally healed. He
died a year or so later.
Kenneth Hagin, "father" of the Word of Faith Movement - sister died
of cancer, (he wears glasses)
Hagin's great faith and special anointing could not keep her on the planet.
Katherine Khulman - an acknowledged divine healer DIED from heart
disease in Ann Arbor Michigan.
A.A. Allen - an acknowledged divine healer and exorcist DIED from alcohol &
drug abuse.
Aimee Semple McPherson - an acknowledge divine healer - died of a
barbituate overdose. Why was she taking pills in the first place? Wasn't
the "peace" of God enough for her?
Jack Coe - an acknowledged divine healer DIED from disease.
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Miracle workers who couldn't heal at all!
"Heal! I say, HEEAALL! Why don't you get up? Rise and walk you sinner, if
you would confess, you wouldn't be crippled! If you don't have the faith to
get up and walk...you deserve to be stuck right there!" so says Ken
Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, and other health, wealth, & prosperity teachers
who claim to teach Biblical Christianity, but do they?.... Copeland goes
on..."When I read in the Bible where He [God] says "I AM", I just smile and
say, 'Yes, I AM too.'" (Believer's Voice of Victory Broadcast, 7/9/1987)
"God intends for His people to be united, and, that union won't be based on
doctrine [the Bible]" (Copeland - Believer's Voice... - 12/88).
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The Pensacola News Journal. No medical proof of 'miraculous healings' Church does not keep records, Nov 20, 1997
By Kimberly Blair News Journal staff writer
PENSACOLA -Night after night, revival leaders tell the crowds that healings
are occurring and growing more powerful. "I know now that we could all get
to the place where the dead are raised," evangelist Steve Hill said in a
November 1996 article in "Ministries Today," a magazine for Christian
leaders. "We 're seeing miraculous healings, cancerous tumors disappear and
drug addicts immediately delivered."
But the Brownsville Revival has not provided medical documentation of
spontaneous healing and does not keep a file of names of people who say
they were healed.
The News Journal found several people who say their conditions were healed
or improved as a direct result of the revival, but none had medical proof.
Most stories are anecdotal. For example, Dave Collins, a charter bus owner
from Oklahoma City, told the News Journal that a woman who rode on his bus
brought her daughter to the revival to cure a rare disease that caused her
daughter 's foot to turn backwards.
"The doctor was about to have the foot amputated. They went to revival and
had an anointing healing service. The foot straightened out," Collins said.
No records
The News Journal could not interview the woman because Collins would not
give her name or address. The church said it did not have her name because
it does not keep records of the healings.
Many Brownsville Revival regulars and staff members believe the revival is
on the brink of a breakthrough into wide-scale healings.
Brownsville church business administrator Rose Compton said she believes
the healings will start very close to home, with pastor John Kilpatrick
being miraculously healed from the injuries he suffered in a fall from the
second story at his new house in Seminole, Ala., on Sept. 17.
His healing will signal the beginning of mass healings, she said.
Kilpatrick, however, told the News Journal during an interview three weeks
ago that he is not being miraculously healed.
His medical records, which he permitted his doctor to release to the News
Journal, confirm that. They show that his injuries are progressing at
normal speed.
Kilpatrick did say, however, that many other people were being cured and
healed at the revival.
"We have noticed more and more sick people coming in and saying their pain
is leaving. We have had people healed of different things," he said. "Some
of it is on video tapes."
Compton gave the News Journal one videotaped testimonial produced by a
Lima, Ohio, Christian television program, "Turning Point." On the video,
Lima resident Sandy Cornell, 44, says she "grew a new esophagus" after
attending the revival earlier this year. Her husband, Clarence, asked the
News Journal not to call her doctor for verification.
In another case, Rose Elrod, 61, of Oklahoma City told the News Journal she
was healed of pancreatitis after attending the revival in September. "I 've
been in and out of the hospital 20 times in the last couple of years," she
said. "I was in constant pain and couldn 't eat anything." Friday, her
third day at the revival, evangelist Steve Hill prayed for her, Elrod said,
and she was slain in the spirit. "I laid on the floor 45 minutes with my
hand raised," she said. "When I got up I was healed. You are talking about
a woman who could hardly make a bed, clean my house, cook or eat. I couldn
't stand." She said she has talked to, but has not been examined by her
physician, Dr. James Hogin, since the healing. Hogin, a gastroenterologist
at Brookwood Medical Center in Oklahoma City, said he wants to see her. He
wants to determine whether she is indeed improved or if she is undergoing a
placebo effect.
God 's healing verifiable
"God 's healing is always verifiable," Hogin said. "With true healings, it
is not that hard to confirm."
Essie Cox, 75, of Atmore, Ala., told the News Journal that six doctors at
two different hospitals in Pensacola and Mobile told her she needed heart
bypass surgery to unblock clogged arteries.
"I was prayed for on Saturday, Aug. 2, 1997. I didn 't feel anything
immediately. I felt kind of woozy like," Cox said. "My husband kept telling
me, 'You are healed.
Three days later, she woke up and felt a complete change, she said. "I had
claimed the healing in my heart. I knew I was healed," she said.
Since the revival, Cox said, she has had very few problems with her heart.
She is continuing to take her usual dosage of two kinds of heart medication
and blood pressure medication, but she said she no longer takes daily
nitroglycerin.
Cox 's doctor, Dr. J. Andrew Morrow Jr., with Cardiology Associates in
Mobile, said the bypass surgery Cox talked about was an elective surgery
and not a necessary procedure needed to maintain Cox 's health.
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