Before I attended the 6th Joshua Camp, I didn’t know about CKRM. None of my friends or my church members knew about it. It is indeed God’s guidance who led me to CKRM.
I remembered in the mid of last year, when one of the pastors from my main church in Subang came to preach at my church, God spoke to me that I could share the Gospel with signs and wonders. Thereafter, I sought God on this area. In September, when I goggled on fasting & power in the internet, I was led to the CKRM website. I saw the 6th Joshua Camp was to be held in Melaka. I was disappointed, knowing that it was not likely for me to travel to Melaka to attend the camp and left my kids with my unbelieving spouse. I prayed and asked God to make it possible for me to attend if it was His will for me to join the camp. In October, God prompted me to check on CKRM website again. This time, I saw that the venue had changed to Petaling Jaya. Praise God! My prayer was answered. I knew that God would do His work in this camp.
However, I was troubled by my irritating headache for over a month before the camp. The headache first appeared in April last year for two weeks and it was gone after prayers. It returned in October and continued till I attended the camp. The headache was on left side of my head. The headache was intense pain for few minutes like something pinched some of my nerves. When it came, it attacked continuously with 1-2 minutes intervals and lasted for few hours. On most days it was there throughout the day. I was greatly disturbed by this.
On the same week before Joshua Camp, I went to one of the leading hospitals for a full medical check-up. I requested to perform a brain MRI. However, my request was denied. I was advised to consult the neurologist first before I was allowed to have a MRI scan. It happened that the neurologist I referred to had a full appointment that day. I was asked to return next Monday for consultation. I used to feel numbness on my left arm, pain on my lower back and left leg. My body was so weak and in an incredible bad shaped. On top of this, my husband and my two kids were down with sickness that week. Many times, there was a voice in me which asked me to just rest and not go for the camp. However, I knew that there would be many hindrances to stop me when I tried to do the will of God. I insisted to go to the camp for at least one day.
After the first session, I almost gave up and did not want to return for the remaining sessions. However, God is faithful. He gave me the message of how Elisha persevered until he got the blessing. I was determined to complete all the remaining sessions. That night, I received the Holy Laughter, the Roar of Lion of Judah and the Evangelistic Anointing.
On second day of the camp, after a deliverance prayer, I experienced a strong Holy Spirit anointing I never experience before. It was like an electric shook. It lasted for a few minutes. I literary heard a ‘zzzzhhhh’ sound. In the first electric shook, I felt that there was a power which rested on my face and there was a circular movement around my mouth, later it moved and lingered on my hands before it rested on my legs. The second and third time, the electric shook experience was a smooth pouring of Holy Spirit from my head to toes. I also received the Confirmation Anointing and Holy Wine on second day. The anointing was so strong that night that my body still shook and moved when I lied on my bed. It continued for hours before I slept.
On the last day of the camp, I danced in the spirit. I was amazed that I could jump and danced for almost two hours. With my body pains that I experienced before, it should not be possible to dance for even a few minutes. I felt somebody had guided my hands and body movements as I did not know how to dance at all. When I looked at how I danced, the dance movements were as if from a skilful dancer. I felt that I was drunk in the Spirit during the morning worship.
One day after Joshua camp, I return to the hospital to get my medical report. The report showed there was a 3.8cm cyst at my right ovary. No wonder I felt pain in my abdomen when I used my right leg to push heavy pail. I didn’t go for the neurologist appointment because I trusted God had healed and delivered me from my headache. After the camp, I did not feel the headache anymore, my pain on my lower back and left leg were all gone. A week after I got another medical report, I did a second ultrasound on my abdomen. The doctor could not locate the cyst on my right ovary and I was amazed that it was gone in barely one week. God had healed me. Glory to the LORD!
My spiritual man is more sensitive and alert now after I attended the camp. And many times, during worship, I would be led by the Holy Spirit to dance in the spirit. Praise God for leading me to CKRM to experience the power of God and received miraculous healing within a short period of time. Praise you Jesus, the Lord, God Almighty!
June Clarine
神在CKRM第六届约书亚营医治和装备我- June Clarine姐妹
在我还没有参加第六届约书亚营之前,我并不认识CKRM的事工。我的朋友和教会都未听闻过CKRM。因此能来到CKRM的确是神的带领。
我记得在去年的年中,当一位来自我们苏邦总会的牧师来分享话语时,神对我说我能以神迹奇事来分享福音。此后,我朝这方面寻求神。在九月份,当我在网上查询有关禁食和能力的资料时发现到CKRM的网站。当我看到第六届约书亚营将在马六甲举行时,我感到失望。因为我不可能把孩子们交托给还没信主的丈夫,独自一人到马六甲去参加营会。我便向神祷告说若是祂的旨意要我参加这营会就为我开路。就在十月份,神启示我再去查询CKRM的网站。这次竟让我看到营会的地点已改换到八打灵再也。感谢主!神垂听了我的祷告!我知道神在这营会里在我身上会有奇妙的作为。
在去年的四月我的头疼了两个星期,但在祷告后便消失了。在还没去营会前的一个月,就是大约在十月份,我左边的头就开始疼痛不止。那剧烈的疼痛会持续好几分钟,就如我的神经线被捏那样。当这头疼来袭时,每隔一两分钟便再不断的重复,有时长达几小时。但大多数时间,这头疼是持续一整天的。我确实被这事给困扰着。
在约书亚营的同一个星期,我到一间著名的医院做身体的医药检查。我要求院方为我做脑部扫描但被拒绝了。他们要我先去看神经科专家。因着那神经科专家的预约时间都排满了,他们便安排我在下个星期一回去做检查。我的左手臂曾经常感到麻痹,腰和左脚也疼痛。我的体质不但非常的弱,而且身体健康也不理想。除此以外,我的先生和两个孩子在那个星期也病倒了。在那段时间,我经常听到有声音叫我好好的在家休息,不要到营会去。我深知当我要行在神的旨意中时,一定会受到很多拦阻。所以,我决定至少也要参加一天的营会。
参加了第一堂的聚会后,我几乎想放弃,但神是信实的。祂给我听到以利沙如何坚持到底直到他得到祝福才肯罢休。这驱使了我下定决心继续留下。当天晚上,我领受了“圣灵的嬉笑”,犹大狮子的吼叫和传福音的恩膏。
营会的第二天,在医治释放的祷告后,我经历了前所未有的圣灵大能恩膏的浇灌。那感觉就像是被电流冲击。我清楚地听见“吱。。。”的声音。在第一次的电流冲击中,我感到有一股力量降在我的脸上和在嘴里旋转,接着那股力量流向我的手后再停留在我的双脚。接下来两次经历的是圣灵温柔的从头到脚的浇灌充满我。在第二天的约书亚营会中,我领受了灵里印证的恩膏和天上的美酒。当晚,那停留在我身上的恩膏非常的强烈。我全身不停地颤抖了几个小时后才入睡。
在营会的最后一天,我在灵里起舞。以我原本身体疼痛的状况,能跳足将近两小时的舞,我自己也感到不可思议。当时,我感受到似乎有人牵引着我的手和身体,因我根本都不会跳舞。当我观看回我跳舞的情景,真像一个老练的舞者。当天早上的敬拜,我就像是在灵里醉了一般。
在约书亚营结束后的第二天,我回到医院去看我的医药报告。医药报告显示在我右边的卵巢长了一个3.5公分的瘤。难怪每当我用右脚推水桶时,腹部会感到疼痛。我并没去看神经科专家因为我相信神已医治了我的头疼。营会过后,我的头、腰和左脚的疼痛都不翼而飞了!一星期后,我拿到第二份卵巢的超声波扫描报告。医生和我都感到惊讶,那瘤竟在一星期里消失得无影无踪。神医治了我!荣耀归于主!
参加了营会后,我发现我的灵人比以往更敏锐和警醒。好多时候,在敬拜中我都会被圣灵带领跳起灵舞来。赞美主!神不但把我带到CKRM来经历祂的大能,还在短期内得着奇妙的医治。赞美你耶稣,我的主,全能神!
June Clarine 姐妹
Hi Brother Thomas, Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is my testimony:
My name is Juliana Moorthy. I was born and raised as a Catholic in a small town called Gemas. Last year I went through life changing moments when my mum fell sick and it turned out she was not sick but was charmed and the evil spirit inside of her wanted to fool us by making us thought that my mum was sick. The doctors could not determine my mum’s condition after series of tests. My uncle from Singapore came and prayed over my mum and found it was the work of the evil spirit when my mum manifested like a snake and spoke in different language. Since our priest was away, we asked help from another priest but it was declined.
My uncle’s wife made an appointment with an exorcist in KL. The exorcist cast out a snake spirit from my mum. Later my mum was fine for few days and it relapsed. This time her condition became even worse. She was depressed and had suicidal thoughts. Even her face became like the image of another person. She would be singing church hymns but also contradicting with crying at the same time. Many times we went to KL to meet the exorcist. He cast the spirit but each time the sickness relapsed with greater torments.
We even went to seek help from two different pastors but it was futile. Then one day my uncle was given word of knowledge from the Holy Spirit. It was 'SWORD OF THE SPIRIT'. My uncle did not understand so he browsed the internet and CKRM website appeared. He contacted CKRM. After making an appointment we went to CKRM PJ and received warm welcome from its members. They were singing praise and worship songs and I could feel the spirit of God in them. Pastor Paul Ang preached about the demonstration of God's power.
What I experience next was mind blowing. Never in my life have I had experience anything like this before. There was a brother, named John Kher gifted with seer anointing. He saw a monkey spirit inside of my mum's body. Brother John Chia was roaring with the gift of the Lion of Judah. Brother Thomas Ong ministered with the Sword of the Spirit. All these gifts are actually warfare weapons used to fight against the evil spirits. Pastor Paul and Pastor Esther cast out the evil spirit from my mother. Brother John Chia roared like the Lion of Judah while Brother Thomas Ong used the Sword of the Spirit on my mother. What used to be hours of doing deliverance was done within a short time in CKRM.
After my mum was healed, my cousin and I were attacked by the evil spirit. We went to CKRM again and Pastor Paul Ang said that when we received impartation, we would have spiritual attack. During deliverance process my two cousins and I vomited.
After few visits to CKRM, my mother was completely healed. Another fascinating thing that started to happen to all of us after attending CKRM was we started to have supernatural encounters. I started to have glory dust (silver dust) appear on my palms and dress when I worship God. Flashes of lightning appeared inside my office. It was not a cloudy day and there were no windows in my office. At first I didn't know what it was but it happened many times at my house too where a big lightning flashes in my living room. I experience flashes of lights several times a day. Brother Thomas explained to me that it was God's lightning. Then another encounter was when I was walking to work, I saw an unusual beautiful rainbow formed in the clear sky.
On one meeting at CKRM and my cousin, aunty, uncle, my mum and I were given “Heavenly Wine” by Pastor Paul Ang. We could not see the wine but we received it through faith. I actually felt something like wind of current flowing into my mouth. This could not be explained but could be experienced when we believed.
Even now Pastor Paul Ang and Brother Thomas still enquire about my mum’s condition. They are filled with God's love in their hearts. CKRM has truly changed my life. Christ has enthroned Himself totally in my entire being. This whole journey of searching for the living God has finally ended when God led us to a warfare church that operates majestically with awesome demonstration of God's power and it also enables us to have a supernatural encounter with Him... I am a child of the supernatural GOD in whom we can have a supernatural experience in which CKRM is all about. Christ Kingdom will reign majestically in the lives of all those who experienced God like never before because this will enhance you to a different spiritual level- The Supernatural Realm.
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Mariam Nathan's (Juliana's mother) testimony is through the link below:-
http://www.ckrm.org/?p=3316
Last year was a big turning point in my life. I was born and raised as a Catholic. I live in a small town between the border of Johor and Negeri Sembilan. Last year after Easter, I began to fall sick. I lost appetite to eat; I kept vomiting and started to have terrible pain in both of my legs. My legs was swollen and I was experiencing sudden shivering and high fever on and off at certain times of the day and daily. I had been to many clinics and even admitted in the hospital for one week but none of the doctors could find anything wrong with me and they were baffled as I kept losing a lot of blood though there was no internal bleeding. They did all kinds of tests on me from suspicion of dengue, malaria, tuberculosis to internal bleeding but the tests always turned out that nothing was wrong with me.
Then my daughter told one of my brothers about my condition as she suspected that I was not sick but being possessed. When he came and prayed over me. At the hospital, he too saw something was wrong with me. A week later I was discharged but my condition was still the same. My brother came again that week from Singapore to visit me and this time when he prayed over me, I began to manifest like a snake hissing and spoke in different languages.
Then it was confirmed that I was not sick but it was the work of an evil spirit. My brother asked us to contact our priest and at that time our priest was away on studies to another country. We called another priest for help but no one wanted to help. Then through my brother's wife in KL, we managed to get an exorcist to help us. I went there with my husband, daughter and sister along with my brother and his family and the catholic exorcist prayed over me and said that I was charmed.
He cast out the evil spirit and I went back to my hometown. At first I was okay but then I was back to how I was before. I was sick again. Then there was this strange ugly shapeless light that kept appearing at all sides in front of my eyes and at the side of my eyes. I was like a mad woman being tormented by these lights and fear.
Many times we went back to KL to the exorcist and many times he cast out the evil spirits and it left me and then it came back bringing more than one spirit to live inside my body. My condition was worse than before. I was helpless and suicidal thoughts started to emerge from nowhere. I was singing and crying without any reason and was tormented day and night. We also went to see my brother's pastor to help me but he couldn’t do anything to help me.
My daughter and brother were at dead end trying to get someone to help me.
Then one day as my brother was searching in the internet when a word came to him- SWORD OF THE SPIRIT. He didn’t know what that means, so he typed that word in web search and CKRM website appeared. He began to search into the site and found out that this is a warfare church that deals with exactly what I was in need of help. So my brother called one of the members of this church, Brother Chia and made an appointment the following week with them, after describing to Brother Chia about my condition and his reply was "sure bring your sister". So all of us prayed and went to CKRM PJ. When we went there the service just started with praise and worship songs. We received warm welcome from them and what happened next was an eye opening.
CKRM is a place where demonstration of God's power took place. I felt something new. They have people from all walks of life with anointing I have never heard of. They have a member, Brother John Kher blessed with seer anointing who saw a monkey spirit inside of me. Brother Thomas Ong had the anointing of the sword of the spirit, Brother Chia anointed with roaring of the Lion of Judah. Pastor Paul Ang and Pastor Esther along with Brother John Kher, Brother Thomas and Brother Chia cast out the monkey spirit that had been tormenting me with the demonstration of power of God in this church. They cast the evil spirit quickly unlike the previous places where I had been through where it took a few hours to cast the spirits out.
In my life as a 55 year old woman I have never experienced this kind of spirit filled church where God's presence is felt strongly and it open my heart and eyes to walk a spiritual journey which I have never experience before. After going there few times I am completely healed and I am healthy and alive because of how God's power moved in this warfare church known as CKRM (CHRIST KINGDOM REIGNS MAJESTICALLY). How true the acronym speaks for itself.
In my life this is one of my most powerful moments I went through. It opened my eyes to spiritual realm I never knew it existed and how God’s power really moved in His people. CKRM is definitely in my heart as I felt God's intense move there. Looking forward to my next visit there with my family and will surely bring my other family members also to experience God in ways Christians must experience on their own as words cannot fully describe what CKRM is all about.
神透过CKRM (八打灵再也)的事工把我从邪灵的捆绑中释放出来并医治我 - Mariam Nathan 姐妹的见证
(Translated to Mandarin by Sis Mary)
去年是我生命中面临最大冲击的一年。我出生于一个天主教的家庭,居住在柔佛与森美兰州边界的一个小镇上。去年的复活节我开始病倒。不但没胃口吃东西,还不断的呕吐。更糟糕的是我的双脚开始疼痛和肿胀。除此之外,差不多每一天我还会被那突如其来的寒意和发高烧袭击得身体直发抖。我不断的四处寻医甚至到医院留医检查。医生对我不断失血却没有内出血的迹象感到束手无策。他们在我身上做了很多测试,从骨痛溢血热症、疟疾、肺结核等等,都无法找出任何病因。
我的女儿后来把我的情形告诉我的弟弟,因她怀疑我是中了邪。当他来到医院为我祷告时,也发现到我很不对劲。我在一个星期后出院,但情况还是没有好转。在同一个星期,我弟弟从新加坡来探望我,在他为我祷告时,那邪灵在我身上形如蛇般的彰显,从我口中也说出了听不懂的语言。
经过了这件事,我们更肯定了我其实不是生病而是被邪灵压制。弟弟提议我通知我的神父但神父却出了国。我们也向另一位神父求助但被他拒绝了。之后,透过我在吉隆坡的弟妇,我们找到了一位躯魔师。我便和先生、女儿、还有家人启程到那天主教躯魔师那里。他为我祷告后便告知我是被下了咒受捆绑。
他为我驱逐了那邪灵后我便回返家乡。好景不长,过了不久我的身体又恢复回以往的情况,再次病倒。接着在我视觉的范围出现了一些恶心的无形光线不断跟随着我。我被这些可怕的光折磨得几乎发疯。
我来回吉隆坡无数次,每一次那天主教躯魔师为我驱逐了邪灵后,它会短时间的离开我。但之后却带领更多的灵进入我体内,我的情况比先前更糟。我当时真的感到很绝望而无形中自杀的念头开始浮现脑海。我每天从早到晚被这些邪灵折磨得又唱又哭。我们也向我弟弟的牧师寻求帮助但都无可救药。我的女儿和弟弟也都束手无策,求救无门。
有一天,当我的弟弟在网上游览时,忽然得到一句知识的言语:“圣灵的宝剑”。他虽不晓得是什么,还是把这句话输入网站搜索。就这样点击了CKRM的网站。当他阅读了网上的见证和资料后,发现到这是个征战的教会,也是我所需要的。因此他致电这教会的一位谢弟兄预约来临的星期带我到那里。谢弟兄在听完我弟弟描述我的情况后的答复是:“没问题,带你姐姐来!”我们祷告后便在约定的那天前往CKRM (八打灵再也)。我们到达时正是敬拜赞美的时刻,我们受到热烈的欢迎。但接着下来发生的事真是令我们大开眼界。
CKRM是一个示范神大能彰显的地方。我感到很新奇。那里的人身上所带有的恩膏是我未曾听闻的。神赐给John Kher弟兄一对属灵的眼睛,他看到我身上有“猴子的灵”捆绑着我。Thomas Ong 弟兄有圣灵宝剑的恩膏。还有神赐给谢弟兄“犹大狮子吼叫”的恩膏。保罗牧师、以斯帖牧师和他们三位以神的大能武器和恩膏为我赶出了身上那长期折磨我的邪灵。整个释放的过程很短,不像以往,要经过几小时的时间才能赶出那些邪灵。
在我五十五年的人生旅程中,我从未经历和见识过这么一间圣灵充满的教会。在这里能感受到神的同在非常强烈。神也在这里开启我属灵的心眼让我能开始行走在属灵的领域里,这是我从没经历过的。经过数次的拜访后,神以大能透过这征战的教会完全医治了我!我现在是又健康又充满活力。CKRM (基督国度崇高掌权)真是名符其实,神掌权的教会!
这是我一生中最了不起和丰盛的时刻。神开启了我属灵的眼能看到属灵的领域,我从不知道它实际上是存在的。也让我见识到神大能如何推动祂的子民。CKRM深深地吸引我的心,因那里有神大能的同在。我期待着下一次与家人再次的造访CKRM。我必会带领其他的家人一起去经历神,让他们也能亲身经历身为一个基督徒所该经历的。因为单靠言语真的无法全面的形容CKRM的事工。
Patricia King shared how in the past, as a minister of God, she voiced her concern to God about the Faith movement propagated by Kenneth Copeland and how it was introducing deception into the body of Christ. As she was praying, the Lord told her that Kenneth Copeland was “his man”. Stunned and puzzled, Patricia King stopped praying and pondered over what the Lord has revealed to her. Much of what she knew about his ministry has been circulated via word of mouth but she has never personally heard him preach before.
Very often, gossips and rumors have discredited and slandered ministers and ministries and caused much distrust and disunity in the body of Christ. And those who spread them usually did so out of goodwill and fear that “the body of Christ would be deceived”. As believers, we should however refrain from passing judgment based on word of mouth (gossips and rumors) and learn from Jesus who judge not by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears (Isaiah 11:3). In the end, Patricia King wisely took the time and effort to attend Kenneth Copeland’s meeting and found his teachings to be biblical and a great blessing to her.
But the Lord was not done renewing her mindset. Subsequently, she experienced what is now commonly known as “Holy Laughter” during a meeting. However, even with this new experience that she had, she was still overwhelmed by what she saw during the Toronto Blessing outbreak. People were flapping their hands like roosters, barking like dogs or roaring like lions. “This can’t be right” Patricia King thought to herself. Once again, she petitioned to God about the body of Christ being deceived by the devil. She reckoned that church service is supposed to be orderly, not chaotic. Surely God would not have His children barking like dogs or roaring like lions. Then to her surprise, the Lord repeatedly prompted her with this question “Have you ask me?” Though shocked by the Lord’s questioning, she was still unconvinced.
All her protest and debating with God over the manifestations in Toronto came to an end when she herself experienced the presence and power of God before dropping to the floor at the pulpit. She never got to preach a word. Subsequently she had her first “roaring” experience. Patricia King had come close to dismissing the move of God in Toronto as the work of the devil because she had leaned on her own understanding and failed to “ask God”. Being presumptuous, she dismissed “roaring and barking” as manifestations of the Holy Spirit. While she felt that the body of Christ had been deceived on both occasions, God has graciously shown her that it wasn’t so.
Like Patricia King, many believers have been quick to dismiss “unconventional” manifestations or teachings as works of the devil. The heart of the discerning however, acquires knowledge and the ears of the wise seek out a matter (Proverbs 18:15). If we are to call ourselves wise and discerning, we will take the time and effort to acquire and seek the truth in His Word and Spirit especially when dealing with the “new and unconventional” things of God. Unless we enquire the Holy Spirit, we will not be able to accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but consider them foolishness which was what happen to Patricia King when she first encountered the new things that God was imparting through Kenneth Copeland and in Toronto. The Apostle Paul even went as far as to claim that we cannot understand them because they are discerned ONLY through the Spirit (1 Cor 2:14). Any attempt to understand anything apart from God easily leads us into error.
Patricia King however, cautioned believers to back up every divine encounter and experience with scriptures. For the roaring experience she had, she found out that “The LORD roars from Zion” (Amos 1:2 & Joel 3:16). She also found a scripture that says “Israel’s watchmen are blind, they all lack knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark .. (Isaiah 56:10). The watchmen were supposed to bark. When asked about what she felt about Todd Bentley, Patricia King referred the saints to Jeremiah 3:8 whereby God gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. From this scripture, she explained that God divorce Himself from Israel and surely God can commit no sin. As such believers should not readily view divorce as a sin but learn to look at each one on a case by case basis. She however made it clear that while she didn’t see every divorce as a sin, the bible’s stand on adultery is clear.
In conclusion, our “righteousness” isn’t always God’s standard of righteousness (read Matthew 5:20-47). We should not confuse the prejudices of our society and culture as God’s prejudices. Not every believer who divorce is a sinner although church and culture tends to see them as one. As with every new move of God, many “new and unconventional” revelations and manifestations will be pour out. When that happens, believers should not be quick to judge or dismiss anything as the work of the devil unless we have personally checked with the Spirit and Scriptures. No longer will we pass judgment on ministers and ministries based on word of mouth but let us instead, be believers who have more faith in God’s ability in leading us into all truth than the devil’s capability in deceiving us.
Ps Mark Tay
P.S: Many thanks to Sis Patricia King for her wonderful sharing and teaching and her continual appeal to believers to be humble before God ...
对神大能带领的信心胜于撒旦误导的计谋-郑马可牧师
(Translated to Mandarin by Sis Mary Tan)
帕特丽莎 . 金(Patricia King)在新加坡神荣耀领域的课程中分享她早年的见证。身为神的仆人,她向神申诉Kenneth Copeland 所宣传的信心运行将给基督肢体带来欺骗与误导的讯息。就当她在祷告中向神申诉时,神对她说:“Kenneth Copeland 是我的仆人”。神的启示使帕特丽莎非常的惊讶和疑惑。其实她那时并没亲身听过Kenneth Copeland 的分享,而是从流言中听到许多关于Kenneth 的负面报道。
很多时候,八卦的闲言闲语、谣言不但使到神的仆人和事工受到诋毁和诬蔑,更是在教会肢体中引起许多的猜疑和分裂。而那些谣传的人多是出于好意,担心“基督肢体会被误导”。身为基督徒的我们,要谨慎我们的言语,不要道听途说妄下定论。反之要向我们的主学习如何行审判不凭眼见,断是非也不凭耳闻 (以赛亚书11:3)。最后,帕特丽莎 . 金抽空去到Kenneth Copeland 的聚会听道后发现他所教导的不但符合圣经的教义,而且让她获益不浅。
此后,神并没有停止在她的思想上做更新的工作。接着她在一个聚会中经历了所谓的“灵里的喜笑”。虽然有了这次的经历,在“多伦多祝福”盛会中圣灵的大彰显,看到人们向公鸡一样的拍着翅膀、像狗一样的在吠和狮子般的吼叫,帕特丽莎 . 金还是无法接受的认为“这绝对不正常!”同样的,她再次的来到神面前向神投诉,她认为,这些都是撒旦作为在欺骗神的肢体。教会的聚会应该是很有次序而不是这样乱七八糟的。还有,神决不会让祂的儿女像狗一样的吠和狮子般的吼叫。很奇妙的,神却不断地问她:“你是否求问过我呢?”她所觉得惊讶,但还是无法接受。
所有对“多伦多祝福” 盛会中圣灵彰显的抗议和辩论在她自己在讲台上被神同在的大能击倒在地上的经历终告结束。当时她根本没机会开始分享就被圣灵充满倒地。此后,她也亲身经历了“犹大狮子的吼叫”。帕特丽莎 . 金因依靠自己的聪明而否定了“多伦多祝福”是神的作为。更断定“吼叫和吠”绝不可能出自圣灵。但当她觉得神的子民在这两件事上被恶者欺骗的同时,神却以无限的慈爱纠正她。
就像帕特丽莎 . 金 一样,很多信徒在看到非传统的彰显和教导就急着下定论那是从魔鬼而来的。聪明人的心得知识;智慧人的耳求知识(箴 言 18:15)。若我们说自己有聪明和智慧,在聚会看到新和非传统的彰显时,我们就会花时间从神的灵和话语中寻求真相。除非我们请教圣灵,不然我们将无法接受从神而来的新事,还可能把它当成愚拙的事。就像帕特丽莎 . 金早期面对神赐给Copeland的恩膏和“多伦多祝福”的彰显时那样。师徒保罗更在歌林多前书2:14 说我们不能明白,因为这些事惟有属灵的人才能看透 。不管想明白或了解什么事, 我们若不寻求和倚靠神就会很容易地做出错误的判断。
帕特丽莎 . 金 提醒信徒,每一个神圣的经历都要有圣经真理的根据。在她所亲身经历的狮子吼叫,圣灵以“耶和华必从锡安吼叫” (阿摩司书1:2;約珥书3:16)来印证祂的作为。神也启示她“他看守的人是瞎眼的,都没有知识,都是哑巴狗,不能叫唤(以賽亞书56:10),神的守望者本应像狗那样的叫唤。当在问及“Todd Bentley”事件时,帕特丽莎 . 金引用了耶利米书3:8, 这里说到神因背道的以色列行淫,所以给她休书休了她 。从这经节,她解释说神与以色列民离婚而如果离婚是罪,那神不是犯罪了吗?因此我们不因该把所有离婚的人都当成有罪,而应该视个别情况而定。她也强调,她虽不认为所有离婚都是罪,但绝对赞同圣经对淫乱罪的看法。
总挂来说,我们的“公义” 准则未必是神“公义”的准则(请读马太福音5:20-47)。我们不应该把社会和文化的成见与神国度的文化混为一谈。虽然教会和社会常常视离婚的信徒为罪人,但神未必是这样看的。神每一次做新事时,都会有很多新的、非传统的启示和彰显涌出来。当这些事发生时,除非我们已得到圣灵的和圣经印证,否则,身为信徒的我们不应该急予论断或把这些事归纳于魔鬼的作为。不要再道听途说,毫无根据的批评论断任何神的仆人和事工。反之,我们该对神能带领我们进入一切真理有着坚定的信心胜于害怕撒旦能误导的计谋!
Ps Mark Tay
郑马可牧师
注:非常感谢帕特丽莎 . 金姐妹的分享和教导、还有她那不断提醒信徒要在神面前谦卑求问的忠告。。。