A young missionary was working in a third world country, there he met a man, people called him “a pastor” or “a priest” of a Christian church, he is a tongue speaker, a miracle seeker, a health and wealth believer, and he called himself as a faith healer and prayer worrier. He is recognized by those big churches, he said he was praying for big bosses, politicians, and CEO and they were all blessed by his prayers. The young missionary and the priest knew each other few years in that town.
One day the priest came to see the young missionary, he told the young missionary, he has a trouble with a developer of a housing project. The Christian developer, refused to return the down payment to the priest, because the priest could not finance his house, he could not buy the house, the priest asked the developer to return the down payment, he had stayed in the house nearly one year. The developer refused, they had a big quarrel. And he left the developer’s office with anger. The priest came to tell the missionary about the quarrel.
After few days, he came to tell the missionary, that the developer had agreed to return the down payment, and the missionary was curios about the event, and he asked the priest, “What happened?” It was told by the priest to the missionary, since the developer refused to return the down payment, the he was very angry, in anger he brought a bottle of olive oil, and he went to Christian developer, and there he prayed, and mumbling, and then he pour the olive oil in front the developer’s office, the young missionary asked him, what is the meaning of pouring the oil there, the priest told the young missionary, that he was anointing the office, since the developer refused to return the money. He wanted to pray for the developer’s business, asking God to scare the developer.
The developer was scared that something bad will happen to his business, after seeing the Christian priest pour oil and praying in anger, there in front his office, so he dicided to return the money to the priest. The priest was happy about his doing.
The young missionary felt the Christian priest had done an abomination to the developer, praying like that, acting like a “medium of occult,” his prayers seem like a curse to the developer’s business. Faith healer and wealth preacher sometimes practicing “white magic!” The minister of God’s Word is to encourage and helping the believers to grow in truth and love, until to be like Christ.
1 Tim 4:1-2,
Matthew 24:24
2 Thessalonians 2:6-7
Revelation 9:20-21
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