Month: December 2012

Demon Cliff

All the talk has been about the financial cliff, but legislation can fix that. Congress can turn back the clock and quickly restore what got us into this economic mess. But the spiritual cliff we’ve gone over can’t be remedied so easily. Worse yet, we’re in a moral free fall with no bottom in sight.

Since Barack Obama assumed duties as US President and commander-in-chief, at least 30,137 veterans and military members have died from suicide, according to the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs and the US Centers for Disease Control. I’m not holding President Obama directly responsible, but it happened on his watch. That’s considerably more than all those who died in combat in the active military zones of Iraq and Afghanistan combined in more than a decade. This is truly a national disaster of epic proportions that needs immediately attention from all our political and spiritual leaders.

We now know that the President’s own city, Chicago, has become the murder capital of America. And the city’s mayor is Obama’s former chief of staff. Who knows, maybe the same thing might have happened if McCain had won in 2008, but that’s a moot point. The reality is, our nation has plunged off a moral embankment with no parachute in sight. Certain political leaders, some of the entertainment industry, the violent video gamers, and feel-good preachers have all stood by and allowed our national moral climate to descend into an abyss.

On a world and national level, you and I alone can’t stop this nosedive to disaster. But we can reach out, one-by-one, to rescue the victims of this demon cliff. We can minister inner healing to the sexual abuse victims of our eros-obssessed culture. We can give hope to the brokenhearted who have suffered rejection and abandonment. And we can declare deliverance to all the victims who have turned to the occult and the New Age for empty answers. As for our me and our ministry, we can and we will stop every soul possible from falling off the demon cliff into the arms of Satan.

Failed Prophecies

Each New Year is a great time to rethink old issues and establish new priorities. It’s also a hot time for prognosticators of all sorts. But before you make any plans for 2013 based on some psychic, consider how well they fared in 2012. Among the misses were:

* ANDERSON COOPER WINS EMMY AWARD FOR TV TALK SHOW – I put this one first because of the unfair treatment he gave me and the Teenage Exorcists on his show. His show was canceled last fall, with the last episode to air in spring 2013.

* TIGER WOODS WINS U.S. OPEN – About all he won was a cad-of-the-year award. And get this-the psychic who got it wrong charges $500 an hour for a phone reading.

* BARACK OBAMA WILL BE ONE-TERM PRESIDENT – Now that’s one that many of you may have wished would come true, but once again a certain psychic, “karmic relationship counselor” was wrong.

How do these diviners get by with such lousy foresight? Simple; people get all excited by the prediction and 12 months later forget what was said, in most cases. Unfortunately, the same is true for many modern Christian “prophets.” Some folks run from one conference to another hoping to get a “word from the Lord” through the lips of the latest rage in prophetic utterances. Some such declarations may be good, even Godly, but many are so much expelled oxygen. They aren’t worth the time spent seeking them. Before you take heed to what some “prophetically gifted” individual speaks over your life, check out their track record. How many of their proclamations actually came true?

Remember that God allows for only 100% accuracy in divine predictions.  Deuteronomy 18:21-22 says, “You may say to yourselves, “How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?” If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.”