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Originally Posted by Praxeas
No disrespect brother Mike but I don't know what went on with your situation but I feel like some others do when I am in one of these "services"..that there are tricks of the trade these men use. In fact the next service he allowed his son to work over the crowd. It seemed like he was trained to do exactly what his dad did.
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We need to be careful about this sort of thing. If God is really doing this, and people are dissing it, then I think they may in hot water with the Lord. Yes, there are fakes, but it is true when Christ said "By reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." We can throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Let me tell you what happened to me. I noted how Freddy nailed three extremely specific issues in my life when he prayed for me that were by no means generalizations that anyone could guess. I had been praying for three things. Before I got into ministry, having been called of God to preach, I was receiving thoughts from the Lord that I could not articulate. I could not put them into words. I could not preach them! (I learned years later from a book about ministering the Word that revelation will come to your spirit, and if you are not matured in hearing from the Lord your mind cannot "translate" what your spirit is picking up. That was exactly what I was experiencing. I cannot think of a better way to describe it.) So I prayed for this.
Secondly, I wanted to get more insight and revelation from the Bible as I studied it.
Thirdly, I had actually prayed for healing for a man with whom I worked in the sign shop where I painted signs. He was healed instantly! When my boss complained of a migraine, I offered prayer for him, and he told me to go for it. I prayed and he was not healed. I went home all discouraged and told the Lord I did not want to bring reproach to Him by praying for someone and them not being healed, especially a sinner. Let me know when and when not to pray for people.
So, I went to one of Freddy's meetings shortly after. He called me out of the congregation and told me he was going to pray for three things. My eyes, my mouth and my hand. he proceeded to explain that the reason he was praying for my mouth was because I was desiring to SPEAK God's Word, and he said he saw M-I-N-I-S-T-R-Y written all over me. He tried to explain what he meant, and said I was wanting to say what God was giving me, and asked if I knew what he meant. I said, "OH YES I DO!" I was astounded. That was one of the very things I specifcally prayed about.
Then he said he would pray for my eyes because I was wanting to SEE in the Bible and the reading of God's word. I was wanting God to show me things in the Word. Again, I almost fell on the floor! I prayed PRECISELY for that!
Thirdly he prayed for my hands because he said I wanted to know when to pray for people for healing and when not to pray.
My oh my, I could not believe how he specifically nailed the very three things I distinctly had been praying about. It really gave me an awareness of how GOD HEARS OUR PRAYERS!
So, he grabbed my hand and prayed, and put his hand on my eyes and prayed for me to see revelation, and put his hand on my mouth to pray that I would speak what God gives me to speak.
Later, I was in a service where I suddenly felt God wanted someone to be prayed for for healing. Recall the third thing I prayed for. I spoke it out when the song service had a lull and they were getting ready to sing again, and said, "Someone here needs prayer for healing." Then suddenly more words came to me after I said that, which were, "In fact someone came here and specifically asked God to heal them in this very service." We were having house meetings with about 8 people! No crowd to enhance generalization.
The pastors wife starting weeping and said she was suffering and specifically asked God to tell someone in that service to pray for her. We prayed, and she told us the next service she had not been sleeping in weeks, and that night i prayed for her was the first night she slept well in so long!
My bible studies advanced as I studied and would get illumination from the Word. I began to preach what God was putting in my heart with ease! It all came to pass!
We have seen so little of this sort of thing, that the first thing people do is doubt it. "Charlatans!", we holler. Well,m you can holler all you want, but I know what I experienced.
I was also in a meeting where he ministered and he called out a young man and said, "Sir, you have had open heart surgery." The guy nodded and said yes.
While we visited with Freddy at his house later that day, a minister called him up and said how he doubted that sort ministry just as I see here on this forum. He said he would doubt no more because when Freddy called out that guy and said he had open heart surgery, that was nothing general and simply far too uncommon for Freddy to be guessing and pulling tricks.
All true, folks! I solidly believe in this.
I personally have been used of God as well in this to an extent.
One day while ministering, I prayed for a man and it suddenly came to me that he was having a terrible time at his workplace with one specific individual who was tormenting him about his christianity. I told him God would help him with that.
I thought to myself, BOYS, I hope I was right! Phew. The guy never indicated whether I was right or not.
So I went and came back in a few weeks to preach in the same church. The same man came up in the prayer line and said he needed more prayer about that guy he was working with who was pestering him so much about his Christianity. PRAISE GOD!
Yes there are the fakes, but I experienced this personally, and Freddy nailed three things one after the other that were far from guesswork and generalizations. Do not cast out the true just because we've heard of some fakes.
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