Australian Preacher Has MSM Success

Today I am thinking about an Australian man who heals people in the name of Jesus.

I know God works miracles. He has done it for me, and I don’t just mean he has done unlikely things; he has done physically impossible things right in front of me. I also know that there are a lot of criminals out there pretending to heal people. As a person who witnesses the supernatural from time to time, I am always looking for others like me, and I view them with skepticism because many who claim to fit the bill are liars.

The situation is more complicated than that. There are terrible preachers who sometimes get people healed. Also, there are people who get healed temporarily. A person might throw his back brace away at a meeting and then collapse a few hours later. We need to be set free from charlatans. We need healing. We need the healing to last. Finally, we need to be born again so we don’t continue to be attacked and harmed.

Supposedly, people have been healed at Benny Hinn appearances, at least temporarily. Benny Hinn is a greedy, twisted man who teaches the false prosperity gospel, and the damage his teachings do is far greater than the good that accrues from any healings that take place. It doesn’t do you a lot of good to have your slipped disk fixed if you go on to live in heresy and never receive Holy Spirit correction and restoration.

You will lose your body eventually, so having it repaired is a limited benefit. Your heart and mind are different. They will be with you in heaven or hell. You need to have them repaired. That’s the big priority.

I look for people who carry out God’s commission. We have been told we are supposed to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, and cast out demons, so if anyone is out there doing these things, I want to know about it. I want to be part of it. This world is a rotten place, and almost all of us live cursed lives of defeat and hopelessness. I would like to see people win for a change.

There are a lot of healing videos on Youtube, but the healings aren’t documented all that well. Were they real? If so, did they last? It would be nice to see more healings that have survived real scrutiny.

The Australian healer I watched is named John Mellor. He’s a remarkable case. He says he drives an old Holden, which is a GM car about like a Chevrolet. He says he doesn’t own his own house. He says the offerings he has received haven’t been sufficient to offset what he has spent. It looks like he’s not a typical TV profiteer. On top of all this, secular journalists in Australia have done stories on him, and they bear out the claims of healing.

How about that? Close-minded people masquerading as reasonable skeptics always say that if healing were real, it would be documented. Here’s a guy who passes that test, but skeptics still attack him.

I’ll embed a video you might like. A journalist from Australia’s A Current Affair went to see Mellor. He had a neck problem, and he decided to let Mellor take a whack at it. Mellor prayed for him, and in his narration, the reporter said, “A warm, tingling sensation spreads across the top of my spine.” His pain left, and he said, “It is real. I can feel it.” A later broadcast said the reporter’s healing had persisted.

Mellor also prayed for a little boy who was hydrocephalic. He couldn’t walk or talk. Nothing happened when he prayed, but a couple of weeks later, the boy improved, and now he walks and talks. I’ll embed that video, too.

In a third case, Mellor prayed for a boy who was mentally abnormal due to a chromosome problem. The boy didn’t receive a healing, but his father did. His father had been afflicted with arthritis for decades, but after Mellor prayed for him, he was able to run again.

Anyone can put up a video and claim somebody got healed. How many healers can get the secular, anti-Christian press to confirm their successes?

Naturally, Mellor has not won the approval of every journalist. A crippled preacher teamed up with the BBC to “debunk” his healings. According to Mellor, the BBC edited the video dishonestly. He cites facts the BBC concealed. I’m not going to sit through a long TV show in order to do a in-depth analysis, but I can say this: if you have ANY documented long-term healings, you can’t be debunked.

Generally, healing preachers are quiet about their failures. When healings are undone, you generally don’t see TV preachers devote air time to them. Mellor appears to be different. He admits he doesn’t always succeed, and the coverage shows one person who was healed temporarily and then relapsed almost immediately.

I’m impressed. You can make a ton of money healing people, and Mellor hasn’t done it. You can protect a profitable healing ministry by covering up failures. It appears that Mellor isn’t doing that. He’s a hard man to criticize with any credibility.

I would love to do what he does. I hate physical and mental problems. I hate knowing that we are subjugated by demons who are supposed to be under our feet. I hate the powerlessness of the church. If we were doing what we were commissioned to do, we would be bringing a lot more people to Christ. Imagine how different things would be if homosexuals knew they could be changed in one prayer session. Instead, we send them away to find their own toxic solutions.

There are two things the church should be working on. The first is getting people healed and delivered. We do those things very poorly.

Charismatics have more success than anyone, but we’re not that good. For example, most terminal cancer patients we try to help, die.

If you go to the Catholics or other dead churches, you can pretty much forget about being helped. They think miracles are rare or that they don’t happen at all.

The second thing we need to work on is getting people born again. That means getting them saved, filled with the Holy Spirit, and purged of iniquity. We need them to be sanctified so their problems don’t return or increase.

The fact that you’ve been healed or delivered from demons doesn’t mean you’re fine. If you have sickness or demonic problems, it means doors were opened. You need to close those doors. You have to confess and repent, over and over. You need to take communion. You need to go through your house and throw dangerous things out. What good is a healing if the sickness returns or you go to hell?

God is about love and justice (see Psalm 101). When you focus too much on love and forget justice, you leave doors open. Many Christians are so excited about warm, fuzzy feelings, they refuse to judge sin. They enable. They do things for sinful people in order to make themselves feel good, and they leave the sinners wallowing in their filth, open to attack.

Jesus was a very rude person, because he needed to be. He told people exactly what they needed to hear. He did not worry about their precious feelings. What did he tell people he helped? “Go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.” If we get people delivered, and we don’t let them know they’re still in danger, we do Christianity a disservice. Their problems may return or increase, and then they’ll testify against God.

I wish preachers had had the guts to tell me the truth. I needed it, and they handed me lollipops instead. They were afraid I’d quit giving them money and free work. They could have shortened my captivity and weakness.

God keeps showing me things I need to change. I keep throwing things out. I can’t expect God to bless me if I hold onto garbage that offends him. Most preachers keep quiet about this issue.

I have thrown out all my blues and rock CD’s. I threw out all my music materials related to the blues and rock, as well as other anti-Christian music. As of yesterday, I still had a few things buried in boxes. I got up last night, dug them out, and put them in the trash.

When I was going to feel-good churches, I thought it was okay to have worldly entertainment. As recently as a few weeks ago, I was okay with Marvel movies, which feature a lot of witchcraft. I was blinded.

I had a pair of “four vices” cufflinks. They are menswear classics. They feature four pictures. One is a racing horse, another is a hand of cards, the third is a slutty woman, and the fourth is a bottle. They celebrate gambling on horses, gambling at cards, fornication, and drunkenness. I thought they were cute. Last night I put them in the trash. I was paying tribute to dangerous sins. I was insulting God by owning these, but at the same time, I was asking him to heal me and help me.

There are a lot of blockages in my life. I have had kidney stones, gallstones, nasal allergies, and so on. I believe God is showing me what I do to him by holding onto anti-Christian items. I block him, so I am blocked. These things may seem innocent, but they’re not. They’re a big deal.

It’s not okay to own recordings of people like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, singing songs about women’s bodies. Holiness matters. Can you imagine Paul listening to that junk between meetings? Never. It’s inconceivable. Yet we listen to the blues and worse, and we expect God to think it’s fine.

Many people testify that God gave them sudden help when they got rid of pagan carvings and artwork. It’s not uncommon for people to have little African figurines. In Miami, Haitian paintings related to voodoo are common in the homes of educated white people. Items associated with idolatry are little openings, like cat flaps, that let demons enter your house and you. You have to be willing to dump these things. You can’t serve two masters.

My dad went to Europe with my mother and a couple of other relatives a long time ago. In Florence, they saw a statue of a fat naked man riding a tortoise. My mother thought it looked like my dad. She bought him a little copy. He still has it. I’m planning to throw it out. Why would a Christian want a thing like that in his house? The souvenir value doesn’t justify it. The artistic and historical value don’t justify it. Nothing is worth opening yourself to a relationship with demons.

Oh, boy. I just looked the statue up. It’s from the gardens at the Pitti Palace. It represents Bacchus, a violent, drunken “god” from the ancient pantheon! Great. I have an idol in my house. Out it goes, ASAP.

My grandmother’s father wouldn’t allow playing cards to come into his house. When I was a kid, I thought that was weird. He knew something I didn’t. He was even afraid to let his daughters cut their hair. Maybe that comes from the verse that says a woman’s hair is her crowning glory. My grandmother’s hair wasn’t cut until after he died, and she was about 18.

I still have some bad music stored on devices I don’t use. I need to get rid of it.

Last night, I threw out my Firefly DVD set, as well as my old copy of the book Serenity. Joss Whedon is in a pit of delusion. He is filled with burning rage all the time. I used to watch his shows. I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I watched Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. until it deteriorated to the point where it became unwatchable. I have watched some of his Marvel movies. No more. He is completely controlled by hostile spirits, and I don’t want to share in it.

I threw out my copy of Hannibal, the book the movie was based on. The whole Lecter universe is evil. Author Thomas Harris must live in a very dark world.

Because I moved last year, I have an inventory of all the books I owned before leaving Miami. It has been helpful, because I can look at the list and pick out the things that need to go. I had a Toni Morrison book. Sick stuff. It’s in the trash. She’s the woman who wrote Beloved, which is a novel about a demonized Reconstruction-Era black girl who is murdered by her mother and then returns from hell.

I’m glad I don’t have any Alice Walker novels. She’s a witch and a raging Israel-hater.

Man, this world is dark. Jesus was not kidding when he said Satan was the god of this world. Look at the people who make it in the arts. Whedon. Walker. Morrison. J.K. Rowling. The Beatles. Rihanna. When I was writing books, I never had a chance, and I didn’t know it. The available seats were reserved for the family. It’s too bad I didn’t understand the rules.

I hope John Mellor is the real thing. I would love to do what he does. If God used me like that, I would want to work it out so I never took an offering. When you accept money for working for God, you open yourself up to slander. It’s not that easy to attack a preacher who works for nothing. The enemy’s children would still try, though.

Can you imagine driving cancer out of another person or making a lost leg grow back? Imagine what it was like to be an apostle. They raised the dead so they got new chances at life. They fixed cripples. They filled people with the Holy Spirit and helped them become as powerful as they were. It must be the most satisfying thing imaginable. It has to be worth throwing out a few unimportant midbrow books written by people who were ignorant about the most important thing in life.

As liberating as the message of sanctification is, it’s sad to think about it, because I know 95% of Christians will reject it. They want their cigarettes and weed. They want their ungodly entertainment. They want to live in sin with boyfriends and girlfriends. They want to fit in. People who talk about sanctification will be marginalized as kooks and legalists.

Maybe you’ll like the Mellor videos. If there are bad things about him I don’t know, maybe you can tell me about them. In any event, I like his line of work.