The sad truth about Pentecostal miracles

Few men have authority over Pentecostalism and its doctrines than Du Plessis, a man also known as Mr Pentecostals and author of the Pentecostal dictionary, Du Plessis, a former Pentecostal world wide leader in his letter to another Pentecostal guru Donald Gee referred to miracles as “a racket to correct dollars”1. In another of his letters, he referred to American pastors emphasis on miracles as a healing cult to which Donald Gee summarised as “the lust for miracle2

These Pentecostals historicals had sensed a real problem which many Pentecostals do not want to accept. Due to the great lust for miracles today, people have piled to them selves preachers who speak what their itching ears want to hear. Little have they realized that they have in the process been trapped to intense demonism and Satanism in places where counterfeit miracles are being performed in the name of Jesus.

In the world today, there are majorly five types of healing; these include medical healing, divine healing, satanic healing, psychosomatic healing and hypnotism. The last three are concurrently used in Pentecostalism and an expose have been made in this book. However, there is also what is known as “faked healing” This is the most common in the Pentecostal movement. Under this method, nothing happens but people are made to believe that a miracle has taken place.

Following miracles

People of these days have turned their faith from God to faith in miracles. They go to church not to worship but to see or receive a miracle though many miracles performed in such churches do not conform to the biblical standards.

I grew up hearing people talking about miracles, in both the satanic and Godly circles, it is pretty common to hear some one talking about miracles. All satanic movements in the world attract followers by promising them worldliness, this is what Sai Baba does, the universal church of Satan and the witchdoctors themselves promise prosperity in this world and say little about the coming world and the word miracle is the crowd pulling bait.

In my home town of Wobulenzi, there are more than eight Pentecostal churches which have organized many crusades and the crowd pulling word is “come for a miracle”. They say “the blind will see, the deaf will hear, the lame will walk and those with diseases will get healed” It is just surprising that no genuinely blind or genuinely lame person has ever been healed in the town though people have been told so.

It is not biblical to seek or follow miracles, According to Jesus Christ, miracles “…will follow those who believe” Mark 16:17. It therefore becomes anti Christ and satanic to encourage people to follow miracles, for instance, telling people to go to a church for a miracle leads them to follow the miracles which is in direct contrast to the words of Jesus Christ.

Pentecostals do not perform miracles

A miracle is some thing which happens out of the ordinary, or outside the natural laws. I believe that God can make miracles, for surely He has performed a lot of miracles in my life. I have also read that He divided the waters of the red sea, He made water to come out of a rock, He turned a rod into a snake, He let the prisons loose, He walked on the water and He made the sun stand still. I also believe that Satan has the powers to perform miracles to a certain degree. Since Pentecostal “miracles” do not confirm to the biblical standards, then they must be from a different deity who however has limited miracle powers.

As I mentioned the beginning of this chapter, there are different kinds of healing in the world today; psychosomatic healing, direct Satanism, and hypnosis are some of the ways which can be used to heal. You should remember that there is a big difference between healing and a miracle. Pastors who use such methods can mainly heal but most of their miracles are counterfeits and never true. However, they also have a limit on the healings they perform. Do not be fooled, those men can not cure incurable diseases, they just claim but the little is real.

It is unfortunate that Pentecostals have been made to believe that natural things can be called miracles. I watched a young woman on TV telling people that God had performed a miracle in her life because she had bought a new dress. God helping us to acquire some thing does not mean performing miracle for us.

I however can not deny the words of the savior who said that “… false Christ’s and false prophets will rise, and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect …”. Mark 24:24-25. The men Jesus talked about are those who work and perform counterfeit miracle in his name yet they are Satanists. There fore I strongly believe that limited miracles can be performed by Satan but not as much as it is claimed.

Christ even told the disciples that many will say to him (on judgment day) that they performed many miracles in his name, cast out demons and preached on the streets but He will reply ‘I never knew you’ (Mathew 7:22-23). Jesus looking down through the years saw that Satan would attack the people of God in various ways, but using counterfeit miracles as a major tool.

A young woman told me that, the reason she joined the Pentecostal movement is because the pastor told her all her problems before she told them to him. She had forgotten that many witchdoctors can also do the same. There is a Satan influenced girl in the Bible (Acts 16:16-18) who could do just the same thing. There are many pastors in my country who have adopted this act of telling people about their past and expected future, this is however a very old satanic act long employed by soothsayers. Many satanic people use this method of telling people about their past and it has suddenly expanded into the Pentecostal circles.

Even in the world today, different magicians make a lot of things which are surprising, they seem to create big things out of seemingly small things and yet no one can come out to say that they perform miracles from God. In fact every one knows that these people are satanic, therefore, performing a miracle whether genuine or fake does not make a person God sent.

Do the lame really walk?

Many of course come up the front during Pentecostal worship services, the pastor or the aide to the pastor introduce them as lame people and suddenly claim to walk again. Many of these people come from distant places which makes some to believe that they are devil agents, they do not leave their addresses behind and the church never keeps records. Many genuinely lame people are left sitting on their chairs as the un known claim healing.

All Pentecostals know very well that they have lame people in their churches but they have never asked themselves why these people are not getting healed. Those who claim to be healed are not local church members, but the people who come from places seemingly un known to those in attendance.

I know of a church in Kampala where the pastor is a well known miracle worker, He claims to perform all the miracles which people would want, it’s just surprising that the usher to his church is a genuinely lame person. In fact, I had a genuinely lame neighbour who moved to many Pentecostal churches seeking for healing but all in vain. At one crusade he was refused to go in front because his miracle was not going to happen that day, in another church, the pastor prayed for him to walk which also ended in a major failure.

By now, you have noticed that I have been using the word genuinely lame person, this is because many of those who claim to be healed are not genuinely lame, some come with bandages on their legs, and at first claim that they cannot walk, the “man of God” then prays for them and they begin to walk. The people are then led to believe that a lame person walked. If you want to believe this, look around your home town and see if there is/was a truly genuinely lame person who has ever walked.

With all the publicity and propaganda the Pentecostals give to their activities, one would expect that the healed people will be all around us, but you will be surprised just to look for a single person. However, the most surprising bit of the Pentecostal miracle stories is that, with all the crusades where miracles are claimed to be, genuine miracles have never been performed. Don’t be surprised by that statement, I know you once saw a lame person on TV or on a crusade getting healed, that’s not the point, You were fooled too as I was before. It is time you uncover what has been hidden from your eyes, the point is that you did not know that person and you have no evidence whether that person was really lame.

To be sincere, for all the years I have been on this earth and for the short time I spent in the Pentecostal movement; I have never seen a genuinely lame person walk after being prayed for by a Pentecostal pastor. I am ready to be proved wrong by any Pastor but for us not to be fooled again, the lame person should be known by the people present. In this case, it will be me to pick the lame person. In fact I know many on Kampala streets whom these pastors pass by in their posh cars.