Walking Adverts (Or Not) for Todd Bentley’s “Healing Revival”

I have previously remarked on the strange fact that despite the apparent ‘heavy, heavy, weighty’ glory surrounding Todd Bentley, and the ‘kingly anointing’ on him and his associates, which is apparently very ‘contagious’ and ’transferable’, and his equal opportunities team of mixed sex super-duper powerful healing angels, that there is an evident lack of healing in Todd Bentley’s own, and his friends, mentors and associates’ lives.

Todd Bentley and his associates claim that this bam bam sheeka ’glory’ is so great, that not only are people healed of regular diseases and sicknesses, but that also many pounds of flab instantly vanish off fat people, and hair is miraculously restored on bald heads! Wow!  Todd should appear on the shopping channels with this as it is much better than the ab worker thingies, or the hair restorer creams. It is also very financially lucrative. Who needs self control or stomach stapling when God can just zap the fat away? (Another burger anyone?)

But the problem with this claim is, where is the evidence for any of the healings, let alone these kind of ‘healings’?  Fresh Fire ministries refuse to release their alleged plethoria of numerous documented healings to the media for ‘privacy’ reasons (which was directly contradicted at the 23rd June meeting by Todd, who said to the crowds- this is from my notes taken, this is not verbatim, but nonetheless an accurate reflection of what he said):-

“We have received thousands, if not tens of thousands, of healed people’s testimonies. I have staff working 80 hours a week working on the biggest catalogue in the world of such data with names, addresses and the medical verifications. We have medically vereiied doctor’s evidence of the dead raised…. every conceivable miracle we have in this catalogue of outstanding medically verified miracles.  We have blood tests, x-rays, even letters from the medical community. We are making these medical stories available to any media. We also have got a video catalogue with follow ups and literally thousands of testimonies for the media for the most notable miracles to present to a sceptical world - this could be one of the most well documented revivals in history!”

This is what he says to the crowd who all adore him and believe him. Yet yesterday, I reported that a reputable media source, World News, has made repeated requests for documentation of healings, but so far claims of “privacy issues” have been the only response from Fresh Fire.   ‘The Province’, a Canadian newspaper, said back in April of their ‘fobbing off’ by Fresh Fire:

“When The Province asked to speak to someone who had been healed through Bentley in either B.C. or Florida, Fresh Fire was unable to find someone at short notice, citing difficulties with outdated contact information locally, and record-keeping problems in Florida.”

So we do not have any medical verification – just lots of hype and many false claims already proven and documented to be false.

But to be fair, I do not need a doctor’s report always, if I see an obvious miracle happening before my own eyes. But I have not yet seen anyone on the Lakeland stage being obviously healed before my eyes. OK, there is some bamming and booming as people fall out and manifest ‘in the Spirit’ but that proves nothing – I see that kind of nonsense all the time in the church but without any good fruit, let alone any healings. I see and hear testimonies on the Lakeland stage but I also see that the people testifying to being healed are evidently not yet healed  or just think themself healed without proof because they are all hyped up and buzzing and felt the power on the night. This is the stuff that fake healers like Benny Hinn and Morris Cerullo prey on. 

I see hype, numerous lies, failures and disappointments. The eleven year old boy that dreamt of running onto a baseball field is one such memorable account. ‘He has never been out his wheelchair’  yelled Todd, as the lad stood shakily on stage propped up by Mom like a puppet on a string. Yet his mother significantly said the boy has used a walker before which is a huge difference to what he could and could not do - and on stage he was being propped and held up by his mother instead of the walker – so where was the healing? Really? As a parent, I found that story heartbreaking – a disabled child’s dreams ruthlessly exploited by an evil con man and pathological liar. I weep already, but if that was my child….wow.

• So we have no documented healings presented
• We have lies about these documented healings being presented to the media when they are not
• We see nothing on stage that could be presented as real evidence of genuine healings (though I do not doubt most  of the people’s sincerity) – in fact we have the opposite, as many people testifying are clearly not  healed. 
• We hear numerous far fetched stories and outlandish lies out of the mouth of Todd Bentley presented as the ‘evidence’, some of which have been debunked and shown to be false – Eg the girl who was not  raised from the dead at Arnold Palmer Hospital, and another resurrection of a teenage girl that even if true, had nothing to do with Lakeland (as proven by the girl testifying on youtube for the exact same thing under another ministry before Lakeland occured!)
• We have a proven documented ever-lengthening list of people proclaimed healed by Bentley who ‘fell out’ under the power, but are no better, in fact some are worse, and some even dead.
• We have proof of numerous lies, deceptions and cover-ups over the past couple of months, coming out from this so-called anoited man “of God”.
• But then we also have the testimony of the man and his associates themselves which is before our eyes that they do not manifest their own claims of healing.

Re the weight loss anointing, and healing bald head anointing – Todd Bentley is balding and overweight. We do not need a doctor’s report to see that! Many people in his worship team are also heavy – some severely obese – and most if anything have gained   weight at Lakeland, and not lost it. Bob Jones, Todd’s mentor is obese.  I watched Shonnah Bentley, Todd’s wife, on a video the 23rd June, and she is very heavy. She also had evident difficulty walking a short distance up to Todd and was physically uncomfortable (from what seemed her hip area?) when being forcibly pushed over by Che Ahn and the new order of apostles. So where is their weight loss or other healing cures?*

Todd Bentley claims to possess ‘this anointing’ more than anybody else on earth as the chosen man of the moment, yet he and his wife and associates are obviously not ‘healed’. Bob Jones in addiction to being overweight has severe kidney problems. Prophet Paul Cain had a stroke only days after appearing on stage in Lakeland. Apostle-prophet Jim Goll’s wife has cancer. Doris Wagner, Chief Apostle C Peter Wagner’s wife, had to use an electric scooter to cross the stage last night. Doubtless there are other sicknesses we could also mention. Todd, indeed, has suffered from heart problems. Why does Todd not pray for himself, his wife, Doris Wagner, Bob Jones and Paul Cain to be healed, and more than that why   are they not healed in the glory and anointing?  Is it because Todd’s glory and anointing is yet another lie?

For anyone who wants to watch Todd’s wife struggle across stage (at around 0.48 minutes on this video), and her evident discomfort while being prayed for, here is the video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAnNSiZfgvI  The look on her face at 1.48 minutes is extremely  telling. Dorothy Wagner can be seen moving behind Todd in her electric scooter around 2.50 minutes.

(Note, I am not  poking fun at, or mocking any of these people’s looks or ‘judging’ them for their sicknesses or weight issues. I am overweight too, but unlike Todd, I do not claim to have an anointing that regularly instantaneously melts the flab off. I am pointing out the huge paradox between what Todd claims to be true, and proven reality. 

I also stress I believe in and have experienced genuine miraculous healings. But I also believe in the counterfeit and in vultures and Todd is such a vulture.)