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Give me ya moolah, we need our partners, if you have a need plant a seed, etc.
Okay so let me kind of muddle my way through for a second and give you some moolah begging quotes and some of the justifications for doing so used (and the twisted scriptures they use to back it up!) Just really interested at taking a look at the moolah making gig that they seem to have going.
"Ah, dear Partners, as we powerfully learned during our recent Praise-a-Thon, “If you have a need, PLANT A SEED” and claim that miracle you have been praying for! And as you do, God promises to “PAY YOU WAGES” for helping to bring in the final harvest." Paul Crouch, 2005.
Nowhere in the bible can I recall Jesus asking people to give him money before he performed any given act of healing or deliverance or any other type of help he gave to people. He FREELY helped others.
"Is prosperity a blessing God intends for all of us tyo have?Is it truly his will for every one of His children to prosper? Luke 4:17-19 Let's look at each point Jesus said He was annointed to preach. To the captives, deliverance, to the brokenhearted, healing, to the blind recovery of sight, to the poor, the gospel (or the good news that He was annointed. Too often we just skim over that last part thinking it to mean 'the good news' but that's not really what's being said there. The good news he was giving to the poor was that they didn't have to be poor anymore!" K. Copeland
Wow what a cool twist on scripture! Bonnke goes further: 3John 2: Beloved I wish above all things that thou may prosper and be in good health even as thy soul prospereth. Matt 6:33 Seek ye first the Kingdom of God...He knows the spiritual relam will bring blessings in the material realm. In fact the word soteria (salvation) literally means salvation from temporary evils. This works better in third world countries because they know that prosperity means that they can now get water onto theoir scorched village and get rid of the alkaline poison that has ruined his land, and prosperity means that God will show him how to grow crops instead of starving to death.
Okay, so does it really get any more crass then this? The things he is speaking of here are not the blessings above the norm, they are the basic essentials of life, that whithout, these people will surely die. Yes this predicament is a temporary evil, but totally manmade and easily fixed. Perhaps Kenneth, Creflo, Meyer, Hinn, Parsley, Howard-Browne, Bonnke and a few others could scrape together some of their spare millions and do the work that needs doing in order that these people can live. People could ask God for a million dollars and then just take what they need from it and then give the rest away to help establish his covenant here on earth, but they don't. They think it is humility but it is not, it is selfishness. I guess it is just a pity that people like Copeland do not take their own advice. If you are wise you will want all the ministers of God to be comfortable." R. Bonnke
"My friend Reinhard Bonnke has worked out that it costs $3.00 to save a soul in Africa, three dollars a soul? Don't ever let anyone tell you it is wrong for you to want to prosper!" Kenneth Copeland
My last comment on this piece by Kenneth Copeland is, since when did Jesus EVER put a price on a soul and then beg the people to hand over their moolah so that the people could be saved?
Here's some other goodies for you to take a look at...
"Fund raising appeals cover a wide range of styles. Some, like Paul Crouch’s Praise the Lord and Charles Stanley’s In Touch, have separate short announcements offering an item for sale. Others, such as James Robison and Larry Jones’ Feed the Children, use larger amounts of air time to raise money for poor people by showing the hosts travelling to a needy part of the world. Then there are the old-fashioned stereotypical hosts who make direct appeals to the camera, such as Jerry Falwell (the salesman hawking his correspondence school) , Robert Tilton (begging followers to "make a vow" for $1,000 in order for them to be blessed) or Jimmy Swaggart ("we’ve given you something…and now I need your help").
Though most ministries claim financial accountability, few were willing to provide the information to prove it. Just as I did in 1992, I asked all the ministries to send the type of financial information they would send to a person interested in contributing to their ministry, only this time I requested it via e-mail through their internet sites. Most of the ministries immediately e-mailed a computer-generated response thanking me for my request and letting me know that someone would be back to me soon.
Four of the 22 ministries did not send any financial information but did put me on their mailing lists to ask for money! The ones who seemed least interested in providing financial information were the charismatic "prosperity gospel" preachers, such as Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar, who preach sermons about giving money to the ministry yet fail to provide information to potential contributors." by Stephen Winzenburg
But, in order to benefit from this unprecedented supernatural anointing, you must be obedient to God and sow your financial seed (to TBN) now! Benny Hinn.
"The greatest danger that Christians face now," according to Hinn, "is disobedience against God by not contributing financially to the coming harvest of God with your seed money! "You must be willing to give your all, in order to demonstrate your true obedience." In fact, God is even now healing those who call in their contributions to TBN. Benny Hinn
"It's the last days! Saints, this is why we need to give to the Gospel now more than ever. You know naively say well I gave last year. Forget it! Last year it's gone! That cycle is over with! Seed time - harvest of last year is gone. Every season is a fresh season. We are in a fresh season. What, what you gave last year will not reap you anything this year. What you gave even a few months ago is gone, you got the harvest for that." Benny Hinn
Dateline investigations
On Benny Hinn's ability to get moolah -"And he is a master fund raiser as well, so along with that devotion
comes money - a lot of it. Though pastor Benny denies it, estimates of total ministry revenue exceed $100 million a year."
On a Benny Hinn Crusade- "But even when you get there early, the best sections are already taken - reserved for major donors, church VIPs and, at the back, for the disabled and those in wheelchairs."
On the people really in need of healing- "The broadcasts of Benny Hinn's crusade in Buffalo did not include what our hidden camera captured. This man was escorted from his seat by security guards after crying out for pastor Benny to touch his apparently ill son. "I wanted to take my son up there and get prayed. That's all I wanted," he said.
Back to moolah-"On TV, and at his crusades, Hinn promises that not only will God improve your health, but your financial life as well - perhaps by getting you out of debt with an unexpected financial windfall. But first, you have
to give money to his ministry. Hinn calls it "sowing the seed."
Last word from Dateline-"In recent years, the Hinn ministry's total annual income has increased dramatically from $50 million in 1997 to the latest estimates -
that the ministry says are inaccurate - of more than $100 million a year. And because the ministry is registered as a church, all that money is tax-free and Benny Hinn is under no legal obligation to make his finances public."
"And Benny was laughing and joking and saying, "Hey guys watch how much money I make tonight,'" says Michael Cohen.
Kenneth Copeland writes, "Do you want a hundredfold return on your money? Give and let God multiply it back to you." He urges his supporters, "Invest heavily in God; the returns are staggering, ... "Every man who invests in the Gospel has a right to expect the staggering return of one hundredfold." (Laws of Prosperity , pg.67)
His teaching is that one can tithe their way out of a situation and it has worked so well that many have adopted the scheme. But none are so bold as to lead the congregation in a affirmation, "Money come unto me NOW!" three times. (Dec.4, 1999 Voice of victory telecast) Everyone applauded because they confessed that money would be attracted to them.
"We are going to wash away all bad luck, sickness, misfortunes, and evil! Yes, even that evil person you want out of your life. Jesus helped a man wash blindness from his eyes; I want to help you concerning hexes, vexes, home problems, love, happiness, and joy." (the brochure said).
Inside the brochure were testimonies from people who had been blessed by that ministry. "Door opens to new job!" said one. "An $80,000 dream comes true!" said another. "Couldn't use my hand for twelve years!" said another. Also inside was a personal letter from the pastor closing with a full page of instructions on how to use the soap. If you used it right it would bring you healing and money.
Now, after you wash the poverty from your hands, take out the largest bill or check you have. That $100, $50, or $20 bill, hold it in your clean hands and say, "In Jesus' name I dedicate this gift to God's work and expect a miracle return of money."
And of course, your largest bill or check must be sent to David Eppley (sp.).Through this gift of discernment, I see someone sending a $25 offering and God is showing me a large check coming to them in the next short while I mean "large;" it looks like over $1,000! I know this sounds strange but you know me well enough to know that I have to obey God when He speaks. I'll be here waiting for your answer.
Like other personalities of his type, Oral Roberts claims that Christians are supposed to obtain wealth through their monetary gifts. However, in this teaching, Oral Roberts is the beneficiary of the gifts of Christians to him, instead of he being the beneficiary of his own "seed faith" gifts to God. Christians pay off the debts that Oral Roberts has incurred, in the name of God and Jesus Christ, hoping that in their giving by "seed faith" they will become rich or have their own debts paid off in some miraculous manner.
Dr Rodney Howard Browne used his influence and powers to raise money at Carpenter's Home Church to buy the senior pastor Karl Strader his much needed second Lincoln Town Car. But when Rodney was requested to use his influence and power to raise money for the unfortunate elderly victims of Dan's Strader, he refused. (Roy Aldrich was fleeced of a great amount of money and Dan Strader was sentenced to 45 years jail for that and other illegal dealings regarding money in the church)
Joyce Meyer takes millions of dollars from people every year and yet she openly admits that she spends 90% of it on herself and gives only 10% to God.
Jesse Duplantis claims that God wants all believers to be wealthy, healthy, self-assured and with a positive attitude of self-esteem. He also teaches the concept of planting seed, or a version of Oral Roberts' "Seed Faith," [Giving and Receiving] by which a believer contributes a sum of money and receives back a multiple increase from God. Of course it is assumed that the money will be given to Jesse Duplantis and his ministry.
REMEMBER
Ephesians 2:8-9 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
1 Timothy 6:5 - Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Matthew 7:15 - Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Matthew 15:13-14 - But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
They may get away with fleecing the flock for now, but sooner or later it will catch up with them, be it while they are still in their mortal coil or after they shed it, it WILL catch up with them. To be real honest this page doesn't even scratch the surface, so go to following link to read more in depth about what is really going on in the world of the televangelist and the moolah
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