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you know god wants you healthy i believe
in healing and divine healing
of course and i go to the world and
travel and preach the gospel and i
grew up in the word of faith movement in
the prosperity gospel
i worked for my uncle benny hinn who's a
famous
faith healer and pretty well known when
i worked with my family i was a catcher
and so my job was to look sharp in a
suit and be on stage when people were
being prayed for
but what was going through my mind at
the time at every crusade
was that this was real that people were
really being touched that my uncle was
anointed
i would lift my hands and i would speak
in tongues and i would pray in the
spirit
praying that god would touch them that
he would fill them that he would heal
them etc
and to jesus be the praise today i hold
no positions that are in agreement with
my family the word of faith theology or
the prosperity gospel
and the reason for that is i've come to
an understanding
of the true gospel
i didn't grow up in a believing
household great-grandmother
grandmother uncle mom all drug addicts
father drug addict drug dealer when i
was about 12 i
started using drugs and getting involved
with gangs and
violence and drug dealing and then when
i was 18 the lord saved me
and basically man i was preaching the
gospel and and the same projects where i
used to sell dope
and i met a guy and he said do you
understand that bible you're carrying
around
and i told him that i didn't and that
nobody had
taken the time to help me understand it
and he pulled me aside and said that he
would
and i had no idea that what he was
teaching me was a prosperity gospel
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i actually grew up with no background in
church
when i fell into the word of faith
prosperity
churches i thought that was the truth
and so i fully depended on
my pastor for feeding that to me i guess
i just had this knowledge that god
existed
but i didn't have an understanding of
who god was
i had no clue what the gospel was i
never really heard it as far as i knew
he died and rose again so that i could
have a prosperous life
you know jesus died that we might live
an abundant life and so that's what it
was
thanks thanks for my ticket you know so
i was the benefactor of the theology
that we taught
which primarily makes jesus your magic
genie in a sense and if you rub him
right if you do all the right things
he will bless you you will have
everything you want i view the holy
spirit like the genie from aladdin
i had a totally false understanding of
god
and so when god didn't do what i
felt that he was supposed to do i was
very upset with him
he's very upset by the time i was
finishing high school
all i really wanted to do was play
baseball naturally being a word of faith
kid
for me if you really want god to bless
you you got to do something for him
and so i sowed a seed before ever going
to college after graduating
high school and my seed that was sown
was
working for uncle benny i was going to
serve the holy man
i was going to be on his ministry team i
was going to put god first
because i've got dreams i've got money i
want to make i got houses i want to buy
i got baseball that i want to play
then what you do is you create a god who
only wants to give you
all the desires of your heart god
almighty
is about to give you the desires of your
heart
the true gospel says well no those
desires that we're born with
that those aren't good desires at all
that our hearts are corrupt
our hearts are desperately deceitful and
wicked
fast forward to about my second to last
year of college
and i've got a coach who is a
disciple-making coach he's a wonderful
man
his main goal was to develop us as men
and as christian men and so one day
before a game he stands there and says
gentlemen god is sovereign don't worry
about the scouts in the stands don't
worry about all that you know the future
holds
god is sovereign and then he quotes a
famous proverb that says
the king's heart is like water in the
channels of the hand of the lord he
turns them wherever he wishes
he says god controls kings god controls
your future
god controls the scouts he's sovereign
don't worry about it
and as a word of faith prosperity kid in
the back of my mind i'm thinking
how do i get on the good side of
sovereignty i need the sovereignty thing
to go to work for me but that was a
massive
seed that was planted in my life because
it was the opposite of everything i'd
ever been taught
because you've been taught things like
god's in control
the bible doesn't teach that but it was
completely
biblical god was sovereign and nothing i
say or do
was going to change that the prosperity
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