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Originally Posted by ManOfWord
Salvation has nothing to do with the anointing. God will cause His anointing to be upon whomever He chooses for whatever purpose He chooses. The person doesn't have to be saved or even in a right relationship with God. God anoints for the purpose, primarily, of touching those who need the message, in word, song or whatever.
These things happened to Mike because of decision he made. At any time he could have stopped and asked for help. He didn't. He chose to try to handle it himself and destruction has followed. I can imagine him desperately wanting deliverance and promising God over and over that he would stop only to let the flesh reign instead of Jesus. I don't think for a moment, that he was malicious or had some grand plan to get rich or to deceive people. I do believe that he felt trapped and and unable to get free. That is what the enemy does to us. God loves him so much that He allowed all of this to come to light to set Mike free!
It is so sad that it had to come to this, but Jesus comes to the rescue of broken vessels when they cry to Him. May Mike and his family cry out to the Healer! 
I have folks in our church who know Mike (they've been to Planet Shakers) and they are devastated like everyone else. Sorry, I'm fresh out of stones to cast. Please don't bother loaning me any of yours. |
No one is casting stones at the man.
I don't even know why you even bothered to respond to what I posted, because what you've just said is mostly irrelevant to the point I was making. (You seem to have a habit of doing that, I must say.)
So once again, you [unnecessarily] shift into
"I'm-more-merciful-than-you" mode; it's become a little predictable coming from you, and frankly, it's also become a bit tiresome.
I know little about the man, and have only heard the song a few times, and I did say I liked the song, and it's been a blessing to many. That said, my point was much larger than this one man. If you bothered to read and understand what my post was about, maybe you'd see it was not about "casting stones" at Michael. Whether you wish to admit it or not, clearly the man was not right with God. The man did perpetrate a financial and emotional fraud against thousands of people who trusted him. That's a fact, and that shouldn't be glossed over. That's not "casting stones", thats just a basic observation --- but
that was not even the point of my post. I would re-state what the point I was making, but something tells me it wouldn't make much of a difference. You seem to see what you want to see anyway.
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