Heartbreaking video from healing rally - Morris Cerullo
This has to be one of the most heartbreaking videos I have seen for a long time. A gorgeous, beautiful but very sick little girl, Natalia Barned, prayed preyed on by a wolf. I saw this the other day on a much longer video (which did not have the conclusion on it until the very end), and it was obvious to me this little girl was not healed, and that Morris Cerullo knew it as much as I did at the time, and that this little girl was saying whatever she was told to basically and was being USED. It’s bad enough when a wolf preys on an adult. But when he brazenly does it to a child - well it infuriates me. How dare he savage a lamb (and its mother) like this - and all for money, not the gospel!
I saw this video a few days ago myself… it’s very sad. If you look at the poor little girl’s face… she just looks so miserable. I don’t know how her mother could put her through such a thing. Matthew 18:6 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
I don’t think the LORD spoke those words lightly.
You know, I just don’t have any words right now to describe how I felt after watching that video. Sad beyond belief would be a good description but now anger is taking over - that this ‘man of God’ is nothing but a lying, greedy, despicable, manipulating, crowd pleasing, psychopath!
When I was little, around 4 years old. My granny would take me to Rhema South (it was a tent on a farm - if I remember correctly). I would go to the Sunday school whereas my grandparents would go to the main tent. One day and I remember this like it was yesterday and I will never forget this as long as I live; The minister asked the kids if they wanted God to heal them if they were sick.
I raised my little hand and said, ‘I suffer with terrible headaches and right now I am suffering from hay fever (because the we sat on haystacks and every Sunday I spent more time blowing my nose and sneezing and wheezing than anything else). He told me to go to the front and I did. He laid hands on me along with a whole lot of other people and prayed in a loud voice for God to heal me, and then after about 1 minute he said, ‘Hallelujah this child has been healed’.
I looked up at him with tissue in hand, red puffy eyes, a runny nose and thought, ‘no I’m not’. Everyone went off like pockets rockets with ‘Hallelujah’ and ‘Praise the Lord’. I stood there bewildered and said to the pastor amidst the noise, ‘but then why do I feel like I still have hay fever?’ and he said to me, (not sure if anyone else heard it), ‘oh it will get better over time.’ I walked back to my little haystack, crying my heart out.
At that young age, I knew that these people were liars and did something that God didn’t ask them to do. I knew it was fake and I knew that God did not operate like this.
After that I begged and pleaded with my granny to let me come and sit with them in the main church. She said she didn’t think kids were allowed there. I begged and said I didn’t want to go to the Sunday school. She never asked me why, but come next Sunday I remember sitting with my grandparents in the main tent.
I still suffer with hay fever to this day, and I pretty much always have a headache. I never got better ‘over time’.
This little girls look on her face reminded me of how I felt that day
I can only begin to imagine what she was thinking: ‘no I’m not’.
Wonderful post!
Blessings,
Lance
http://www.lancessoulsearching.com
Deborah -
Your story is tragic, but sadly all too common. Let me encourage you (and I know you know this anyway) that although men lie, God does not, and He heals as surely as healed 2,000 years ago, and as surely as He healed me a few years ago.
Debs, I pray that the Lord would release you from your physical torment this day, and set you free completely to run for him unhindered, in Jesus’ name, and only for His sake and His glory, and the glory of no man. Lord, you have heard your servant before and spoken your word and stretched out your hand and performed signs and wonders and healed me, now please hear me now, and heal Deborah….. to point to and to glorify your name and testify to your wonderful Son, Jesus, the only way, truth and life. Amen.
A front-page feature article in The Times of India [India’s largest selling newspaper] on 17 October 1992 reported that “A so-called miracle healer, Morris Cerullo, who prefers to call himself a man of God, was declared ‘persona non gratia’ and bundled out of the country by Calcutta police this morning after mass healing services on Park Circus Maidan yesterday evening turned into a fiasco when members of the crowd stormed the dais challenging the efficacy of his healing power”. The article went on to declare that “For indulging in undesirable activities Morris Cerullo was put on a plane bound for the US this morning”. It was reported that the crowd became restive as Mr Cerullo could not prove his healing power…The Indian crowd had the good sense to test the claims of Cerullo. It is a pity that British crowds seem more naïve.
Challenged in a live television interview to produce his three best cases from the week for public scrutiny, Cerullo found himself under an intense spotlight Joan Bakewell’s “Heart of the Matter” team presented the cases in a powerful television documentary, leaving Cerullo protesting that he needed more time. He consequently appealed to people on his mailing list to come forward with their stories and set up a medical panel to analyse them.
Cerullo’s posters claimed they had 2,250 cases from which to choose. A year later, after the medical panel’s final meeting, a public statement from one of the doctors said emphatically that “there is no evidence that anything has occurred that is outside the realm of normal clinical experience” (1). A study of his ‘best cases’ was published recently in the USA (2), allegedly after a vigorous attempt by Cerullo’s solicitors to silence the writer.
Cerullo has become a dominant figure in the world of American TV healer-evangelists. His mailing list is his key to success. Fundraising letters are sent out month by month pleading for cash. People in debt are singled out for special treatment, with miracles of ‘debt cancellation’ offered to those who give thirty pounds or more. Two years ago, his organisation, which operates around the world, was valued at over twenty million pounds.
http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/newsletterarchive/nlett15.html#miracles
Soole M.J.; Report on the Medical Review Group of MCWE. 30th June 1993
Dr Peter May; The Faith Healing Claims of Morris Cerullo. Free Inquiry. Winter 93/94 14:5-11