THE FRUIT OF THE TORONTO BLESSING

Praise the Lord!!!!!
Date: 8/14/00
From: bothat@apsap.co.za (Tessa Botha)
Greetings in Jesus name from South Africa
Thank you for your informative web site. We are a small intercessory group of people in South Africa, called the Church of Philadelphia, which the Lord has called to be "watchmen over the city".
Linked with the intercessory ministry is the deliverance ministry. We have for number of years spoken against the false doctrines that have come into the church, the fore runner being "commissioning of angels" as well as exposing the false teachers that are in South Africa.. Naturally we come under heavy attack from the Christian Community as they are not discerning the difference between what is biblical (according to the Word of God) and the lie that satan is dishing up to them.
The deliverance ministry is there to assist people who want to come out of the false doctrines / false ministries, as these false doctrines cause havoc/death/divorce etc. in people's lives. But the worst of all, a lot of Christians backslide, as they put their "faith" in a false doctrine which backfires on them. We have numerous Christians that come for ministry because the marraige is failing, the children are continually sick, the have lost their jobs, etc. And naturally they have been listening and practising the "prosperty doctrine" which states that if you tithe and give to the church you will be blessed financially; your marraige will be much better; you will get a promotion at work etc. etc. When these things don't come about, they don't question the doctrine, they start questioning God, and then anger towards God and man as well as unforgiveness sets in which causes satan to have an opening to cause more havoc in their lives. There are a lot of Christians who are hurting, but they don't know who to turn to, to get help, as they don't realise that they need to be set free from their involvement in false doctrines.

For numerous years we have put out a Christian Diary, with articles on the above, as well as scriptures for each day of the year. The Lord Jesus has used this diary mightly to inform people of the false doctrines, but most of all it has been a tool which the Lord has used for people to be saved and delivered of these false doctrines.

The newest "false doctrine as well as false prophet" to do the rounds is the so-called "Toronto Blessing" from Rodney Howard Browne. When we first heard about this "blessing", a number of years ago, we prayed about it and the Lord first stated that it was not from Him, and over the years, the Lord has shared the origin of this madness with us. The origin of the "blessing" comes from Free Masonry, Schitzaphrenia, and the Commissining of Angels doctrine. The main aim of satan is to "transfer/switch demons". People go up for prayer for one thing, but in return they get a demon more worse than what they actually went up for. We've had cases where people went up for prayer for sicknesses eg headaches, cancer etc and in return they receive a demon of suicide; or a gay demon; or a rape or murder demon.

Unfortunately, people don't realise what they are opening themselves up to when they knowingly or unknowingly get involved with this "not-a-blessing" doctrine.

I believe that more and more ministries must stand up and denounce this "evil plan of satan" and we need to pray that the Lord will lead His people out of these minsitries that are advocating these false doctrines. Without prayer being petitioned for these "lost" Christians, they will not come out, because satan has blocked their mind, so that they cannot disern what is from God and what is not.

Therefore, I want to thank you for being obedient to our Lord Jesus Christ for openly exposing these doctrines of demons and standing for the TRUTH!!!!!

We'll be praying that the Lord will use your web site to bring Christians out of these doctrines and to bring people to the true knowledge of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

May the Lord bless and encourage you, and give you strength in the coming years to overcome whatever satan tries to throw at you. With Jesus as our advocate, standing at the right hand of the Father and continually making intercession for us all, we will overcome and defeat satan in his own backyard.
your brothers and sister in Christ
Nicky Bosman and the Church of Philadelphia

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