They Called Albany A Spiritual Graveyard

Mario said some of his colleagues asked him where he was going next. He told them, “Albany, New York”. One of them said, “That’s a spiritual graveyard.”

Mario’s answer: “So was the tomb on Easter morning.”

That’s the night in one line. The devil told Mario nobody was going to show up. Mario stood on the platform, told the cameras to scan the tent, and reminded the devil that Jesus called him the father of lies. “There wasn’t a lie in the universe until you came along.” The turnout was the first sign, he said. The weather was the second. (Evangelists who preach in tents pray over the weather. Tonight somebody’s prayers got answered.)

Worship

Frank opened the night in prayer, and he set the tone before a single note was played. He prayed from Acts 19:11, that God would work unusual miracles, and he said something I keep coming back to: this isn’t something that just happened suddenly. God planned it before creation. It’s the answer to the grandmas and the mothers and the fathers who cried out in the deep nights for this moment.

Then Catherine Mullins and the band took the platform, and the first thing out of her mouth was a declaration over the region: “God is on the move in New York. God has not forgotten about the East Coast.”

They opened with “Praise” and it did what that song does. Then “Glorious Day,” and by the time they hit the chorus the tent was already moving. But the heart of the worship set was a long stretch of declaring the name of Jesus lifted high, with Catherine weaving in “your sons and daughters shall be saved” and “revival fires coming down.” She kept pulling the people back into it. She wasn’t going to let it go until something broke.

And in the middle of it, she stopped and taught. She said that sometimes we get comfortable in our Christianity and have to shake ourselves awake. Some people were probably wondering why we have to be so radical. Her answer was that every person in the Bible who changed anything was radical. They had a shout. They had a dance. She said one of the things coming back to America is that we’re no longer going to define the Bible on our terms. We’re going to read the Word of God on His terms, and His terms say that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force (Matthew 11:12 NKJV). David ends the Psalms with Let everything that has breath praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6 NKJV), and every Hebrew word connected to praise is connected to an action. Something outward. Something expressive.

“So I want us to shake off religion tonight. We’re getting back to biblical Christianity and we’re going after what God’s agenda is for this region.”

She came back to it a few minutes later with Ephesians 6. “We wrestle not against flesh and blood.” Our battle isn’t with each other, and it isn’t even with the mayor. It’s with principalities and powers. And then she said the thing that made the whole tent go loud: “Can you imagine there’s actually a God who’s leaning over the balcony of heaven saying, ‘I have already ordained it that My children, My army, can defeat the enemy with a song and a sound?'”

She gave two words from the platform. One to a young woman in a black shirt: the enemy had been stealing her joy and it looked dark around her, but Catherine saw the sun beginning to shine over her life and said, “Don’t you dare give up.” Then one to a woman with her eyes closed who had been praying for things for a long time and guarding herself from disappointment. Catherine saw the Lord wiping the disappointment away and checking off the list of things she’d been believing Him for. Then she decreed that the cloud of darkness over this region is lifting.

They closed it out with “Your Name Is Highest,” “Waymaker,” “How Great Is Our God,” and the Doxology. Catherine and Mario are matched in anointing, and tonight was one of those nights where you could feel that they were fighting the same war from two different positions on the field.

The First Miracle

Before Mario preached, he brought up a 4-year-old named Micah.

Micah had been diagnosed with a condition the doctors said would require surgery. He was watching the pastors’ brunch on the livestream, and in the middle of it he looked up at his parents and said, “I’ve been healed.” They had him checked. The doctor said he doesn’t need surgery.

Mario called it the first healing of this visitation. He said he was going to warn us about Micah, and then he did: “Look at those eyes.”

Can America’s Miracle Begin in New York?

That was Mario’s question to the tent and to everyone watching around the world. He said the last major crusade drew viewers from Australia, the Philippines, Europe, South America, and Africa, and he wanted every one of them to hear it from Albany: “America’s not going down. America’s coming up.”

Then he made the case, and it’s a case I’ve heard him build before, but not like this.

For 50 years it’s been fashionable to say California will be the catalyst for national revival. Mario has a personal stake in that. The tent crusades famously began along Highway 99 in California, and now the ministry is sitting on 70 invitations to bring the tent to cities across the country. And the history backs it up. Billy Graham was launched out of Los Angeles. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Foursquare movement. Youth With A Mission. Kathryn Kuhlman’s ministry exploded in the Shrine Auditorium. And there was a little thing called Azusa Street.

“So you can make a strong case for saying that if there’s going to be another national awakening, it would start in California. Until you mention one name.”

Charles G. Finney.

Finney was supposed to go to Philadelphia. He was supposed to go to New York City. His friends told him, by no means go to Rochester. That place is divided, the people are cold, the churches are weak and some of them are closing. He went to bed that night and the Holy Spirit asked him why he wasn’t going to Rochester. He gave the list. And the Spirit said, those sound like the reasons you need to go. If the churches were unified and the miracles were happening, why would they need you?

He went in 1830. It built slowly. Then a well-known socialite, the wife of an attorney, was radically saved, and it went through the entire elite society of the city. Finney was forced to stay 2 years and led 100,000 people to Jesus. But Mario said that wasn’t even the story. The story was the letters. People in Rochester wrote to friends in other parts of the country, and everywhere those letters went, a fire broke out in a church. Historians say the Rochester revival started the Second Great Awakening.

Mario said, “Well, Mario, that’s all well and good about Rochester. What about Albany?”

Finney fought a war in Albany. Mario said it was the greatest and most important battle Finney ever fought, because it was between the Calvinist Presbyterian wing and the revival wing. Finney’s methods were questioned. (Mario said he can’t relate to that at all.) Finney preached “Whosoever will may come.” And the most important part of the fight was this: the other side taught that revival is sovereign, that it only happens if God wants to do it. Finney said the Bible plainly tells us He wants it. If we meet God’s condition, He will send revival. And then he went and proved it in Rochester.

“But that confrontation happened right here. And there’s another confrontation happening in Albany again.”

Mario was careful to point out: “I’m not Finney. I’m not talking about it that way.” But then he said the line I think this whole week is going to hang on: “I don’t know that the next revival is going to start in California. Because I believe there is something in the foundation of this area.”

The Prayer Waiting to Be Prayed

Mario said a verse had been burning in his soul all day. Everybody assumed he meant 2 Chronicles 7:14, and he hit it, because it’s the Finney verse. It doesn’t say “if My God.” It says “if My people humble themselves, pray, seek My face, turn from their wicked ways.” Conditions. Meet the conditions, and “then I will hear from heaven.”ƒyou

“There is no devil that’s been invented that can stop revival today. AI can’t stop God. The power of modern technology is nothing against the counsel of God.”

Then he said what he came to Albany for. “I don’t want a four-night meeting. I don’t want another meeting. What I want is an absolute awakening of the Holy Spirit.”

But the verse burning in him was a different one. He said there’s a prayer in the New Testament that is waiting to be prayed. It’s looking for a new generation to pray it. It’s asking, where are they? Where is somebody who’s going to take it on?

“Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus” (Acts 4:29-30 NKJV).

Peter understood that the healing miracles were what caused the trouble. The man at the Gate Beautiful was healed, and that’s why Peter was arrested. But Peter also understood that the thing that got them into trouble would get them out of it.

Mario told a story about Oral Roberts here, and he said he wasn’t name-dropping, he just admired the man. Roberts told him you have to hate the works of darkness. You have to be angry at what the devil has done to people. “If you are not upset and totally possessed with a rage against the sickness and the pain of people, you will never see miracles.” Roberts said when he was getting ready for a meeting, he could feel the person who was paralyzed. He could feel the cancer. He wanted to attack the works of Satan.

Then Mario asked an honest question. We don’t hear about many healings in Finney’s meetings. So if Finney changed America without them, why does Mario want healing miracles manifesting in his? He said God gave him the answer: “Son, it’s demon activity.” Demonic activity is at an all-time high right now. It was at an all-time high when Peter and the early church were being founded. That’s why Peter prayed, Lord, look at the threat. And that’s why we need signs and wonders now.

The Threat

Mario said the threat against America has never been clearer, and there is no political answer to it. “There is no politician that’s going to pull us out of debt or pull us out of our mess. We’re gonna have to have a revival.”

He said Charlie Kirk warned that the union of communism and Islam would be used to cut the throat of America, and he was martyred 4 days after he said it. Mario laid out the numbers: in 1966 there were 20 mosques in the United States. In 2026 there are 3,120. And Christians are selling their buildings to them. He said he went on Firepower this week and challenged the megachurches to establish a national hotline, so that when a church is approached by a Muslim buyer they can contact the hotline first and keep the property in the family. He doesn’t mind them buying property. He minds us selling it. He pointed to Pastor Paul Doyle from Batavia in the crowd and mentioned a 100-year-old church in Buffalo that was just sold and is set to become one of the largest Muslim centers in the country.

But the threat isn’t only Islam. It’s a mindset. A mindset that has sympathy for killers and makes them the victims. And Mario said that mindset comes from one place: we’ve taken God out of our minds.

He said very high-level people have asked him his opinion on how to fix America, and some of them asked how 9/11 could have happened, why God didn’t protect us. He said he looked at them and thought, did you really just say that to me? “We told Him to leave our schools. We told Him to leave our courts. We told Him to leave our Congress. We told Him to leave our values. And like a gentleman, He got up and He did. And then you’re wondering, where is God? He’s been invited out.”

“This tent is up here dedicated to the proposition of bringing God back to America.”

What Happens When You Take God Out

Mario said we’d never heard this preached before, and he was right, at least for me. He read Romans 1 starting at verse 18.

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18 NKJV).

That’s cancel culture, he said. He kept reading. God’s invisible attributes clearly seen. Men without excuse. Professing to be wise, they became fools. And then verse 24: Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

Here’s where he went somewhere I didn’t expect. He said the deliverance ministry has it wrong. When you’re cutting yourself, when you’re destroying yourself, when you’re giving your body to strangers and everyone who loves you says you’re in a crash-and-burn phase, we say, “Well, that’s the devil.” Mario said the Bible says it’s God. God will judge and pour out His wrath.

That sounds like it makes God cruel, he said, so he explained it. It’s a law, not a grudge. It’s like electricity. Stick your finger in a light socket and get electrocuted, and you’re not going to say, I can’t believe how mean that socket was to me. You broke the law. “When you fracture gender, you incur a consequence from God. When you decide that you’re your own master of your life, you get a consequence from God.” A lot of what Christians attribute to the devil is actually the law of God punishing a life that has Him out of it.

“Our life is painful because He’s out. Our life doesn’t work because He’s not Lord. Our mind is breaking because it was never meant to work without God.”

He said you don’t need much math to figure out why you’re lonely. The process by which you would have met the right person, the process by which you’d have built real friends, you unplugged it. And that’s how you explain the brainiacs at MIT and Harvard who are absolutely nuts. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

So what’s the devil’s part? Mario said it’s this: “He’s telling you you don’t need to change. It hurts, but you don’t need to change. It’s killing you, but you don’t need to change.” And he makes serving God look horrible in your mind, when serving Jesus is the most natural thing a human being can do.

For the person who says they won’t become a Christian because of the hypocrites, Mario had a question. If your dentist was a hypocrite, would you quit brushing your teeth? “If he’s living a lie, the toothpaste must also be a lie.” Romans 3:3 says it plainly: For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? No matter how many pastors have fallen, they were never the Savior. The model is the one who never lied and never failed.

And to the person who says the Christian life is too hard: “The thing about the life you’re living now is it isn’t just hard, it’s impossible.”

The Green Shirt

Mario said Paul told the Thessalonians, when I was with you, I taught you how to live in order to please God. And there’s nothing in any religion that feels better than what he was about to describe.

Then came the story. Mario had an aunt who gave him a green country and western shirt with white piping and snaps instead of buttons, and his mother made him put it on. There was an Italian girl at his high school named Deborah who terrorized the boys. “Deborah put the bell in Jezebel.” She was like Medusa. She could look at you and turn you to stone.

But Mario had just met Jesus. The hurts stopped hurting, the laws he was breaking he stopped breaking, and he knew he was a new man. So he put on the Western shirt. He practiced the walk (he said he watched a lot of gangster videos to get that walk right). He headed to his locker with his Deborah radar on. She saw him. She saw the shirt. And he walked right up to her and said, “I don’t mean this mean, Deborah, but I don’t care what you think about me. Because three days ago I met Jesus.”

“The power of your opinion lifted off of my life because I’m getting love somewhere else. I’m getting affirmation somewhere else.”

That’s the thing the world can’t give you. You’ve been wounded by people you can never please. You can never do enough, give enough, agree enough. And because of Romans 1 and the broken law, you have to keep trying. God gets you off that cycle. Mario said he got home from church the night he was saved, lay down, looked up, and could feel God smiling. “There’s not a drug that can do that. There’s not an affair that can do that. There’s not any money that can do that.”

He told about NBC News coming to his house with a camera and asking him the difference between a Christian and a non-Christian. (He also explained that he’s Latino and Italian on one side and German on the other, so he gets emotional, then logical, then logical about his emotions, then emotional about his logic. The Germans in the tent laughed the loudest.) His answer: a Christian is a person who gets a piece of heaven every day to go to heaven on. A non-Christian gets a piece of hell every day to go to hell on. “Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than to suffer here and then go to hell?”

Then Romans 12:1-2, the renewing of the mind, and he moved to the altar.

The Altar Call

He had everyone close their eyes. He spoke to the person who could now see the correlation between their pain and leaving God out. He said the greatest miracle there is, is the ability to say to God, today I stop fighting You. Today I stop resisting You.

He quoted 2 Chronicles 16:9, the eyes of the Lord running to and fro looking for someone to prove Himself faithful to, and said that’s what it means to be a witness. We are living proof of what happens when God gets His way with us. We’re the one with the marriage that works. We’re the one who doesn’t want to kill ourselves. We’re the one who’s no longer lonely.

Then Matthew 18:19-20. If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them. He said you may believe you’ve told God many times that you want Him. So let’s unleash the greatest force. Let me pray with you. “The habit will be broken. The pain will be healed. The heartache will disappear and the new life will begin.”

Hands went up all over the tent. He had them stand. Then he told them when Jesus called the twelve, every one of them was called publicly, and being called to follow Jesus in front of people is the greatest honor of all. “Come to Jesus. Let me pray with you.”

They came. From every section, down every aisle. “This is happening in New York,” Mario said, and he was almost laughing when he said it. He told them, “This is where dead dreams come back to life. Right here.”

He led them in the prayer, then had the crowd part like the Red Sea and sent them marching out to the volunteers, and the tent stood and cheered them halfway down the aisle. Mario said several hundred met Jesus tonight.

And then he said something I loved. He said those new believers ought to know that Christians are happy. So we went old-school Pentecostal. “Did you wear your shouting clothes?” He said the young people in the tent think this is new music, and the band tore into “Look What the Lord Has Done,” “When I Think of His Goodness,” and “I Went to the Enemy’s Camp.” Then the praise break. The band leader reminded us Brooklyn is one of the homes of the praise break and told the tent, “I need some praisers who are not ashamed of the gospel.” Albany obliged. It ended in “Goodness of God” and “To God Be the Glory,” and I don’t think anyone in that tent was sitting.

The Healings

Mario put Acts 4:29-30 back on the screen. He said he wasn’t preaching, he was getting out of God’s way. And he pressed the point one more time: Peter had compassion on the sick, but he wasn’t praying for healings only for their sake. He was praying because of the threat. The Sanhedrin said they couldn’t preach anymore, and signs and wonders were what would break that threat.

He told about meeting T.L. Osborn (he said if you don’t know that name, that’s the failure of the church, not you). Osborn once drew 200,000 people in Indonesia, mostly Muslims, and asked God how to reach them. The face of Jesus appeared in the sky over the crowd and the whole audience was converted. “The devil’s backfire is coming,” Mario said. “I believe God is gonna save Muslims in the United States.” He found out in Flint, Michigan what they respond to. They respond to miracles. And that’s what all these reports of Christ appearing to Muslims in the Middle East are about. In mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God (Romans 15:19 NKJV). “There is no true gospel without the supernatural.”

Then it started.

A man on one side with acid reflux and a heart condition, both affecting his throat and breathing. Healed.

A woman in all black raised her hand, and Mario had her stand. “You’re a very, very dangerous woman. You love God and you don’t care who knows it.” He said her body had been attacked in three places. Then he corrected himself. “Five.” She’d been in a physical accident that injured her neck, shoulders, and back, with pinched nerves running the pain down into her legs and tingling into her feet when she lay down. Mario told her to move her arms. The pain in her neck and shoulders was gone. He told her the crackling she always heard when she turned her head would now feel lubricated. Then he said the devil had tried to steal her voice, and that was being restored too. And he gave her a word: she’d been fighting resistance trying to get access to a certain group of people, and God was ending the opposition and giving her favor. “You’re going to sleep like a baby from now on.”

Mario pointed out a man and called him a man of God. He’d been used in miracles in an earlier season and never lost his fire, but he’d gone into a quiet stretch. Mario said he was coming back with greater power than before. But first his body: an abnormality the doctors found in his heart about 5 years ago, and his lungs, both being healed.

Then Mario called Pastor Paul Doyle out into the aisle and pointed him to a man in the third row in a white shirt with a lanyard, another Paul. Mario thanked him for his service and said he wouldn’t be alive if not for miracles already in his life, that at least 3 times he’d been delivered from the mouth of the lion. He’d seen the fire of God. He knew real from false and never had to be judgmental about it. Mario said 10 years of physical weakness were being removed. Clogged arteries. Chest pain. Stopping breathing in the middle of the night. Then he pointed to the leg: a nerve and an artery in the back of the leg, an impingement and a blood clot, and the man had been told if it broke loose he’d have a stroke and a heart attack. Paul confirmed it was all true. Mario said God was opening the valves in his heart and healing the clot, and then went to his feet, neuropathy in both, the nerves being healed.

And then Mario turned to another man and turned him into a healing evangelist on the spot. He had him hold out his hands and said the compassion he didn’t understand, the way he almost breaks into tears walking past someone suffering, was proof that the day of the Lord had arrived. Then Mario pointed him to the white-haired lady beside him and said she had 8 conditions in her body. Not 5, not 6, not 7. Eight. “We may be creating a monster,” Mario said, and had Paul lay hands on her and command the vertebrae in her neck to straighten. Then her hips, the right first, then the left. One leg shorter than the other, which was causing her to lean and compressing her hip, knee, and ankle. Pain in her spine, her ribcage, her throat, her lungs. She waved to the tent that it was all true. When Paul finished praying, Mario told her to show us everything that used to hurt. She did.

Mario stopped and asked the tent: “How many of you believe that something new has started in New York?” He pointed out he doesn’t use social media and she never filled out a registration he could read on Facebook. “You are watching the power of the Holy Spirit.”

A young lady toward the back with what she’d been told were migraines. Mario said they aren’t migraines. Pain on her forehead that makes her nauseous and disoriented. He said she could sit there and not admit it, that’s fine, “because I’m not an insecure person. I know His voice.” He had her put her hand on her forehead and said the blood vessels in her brain were being healed, then her spine from an accident, then her eyesight. “When you take your hand away, you’ll see perfectly in the whole room.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, we are on the cusp of a supernatural invasion in Albany, New York.”

A woman in red standing between two ladies. Mario said she couldn’t afford to pass up this moment, and she couldn’t afford the prescriptions the doctors kept throwing at her either. The medication was hurting her almost as much as the conditions. Arthritis, first. Both ears, second. Fibromyalgia, all of it lifting off.

There was a woman holding the neck of a man she’d brought, and Mario did something I’ve seen him do before that I respect: he told her he hadn’t received a word for the man. If he had, he’d have spoken it instantly. But he had no reason to doubt God would touch a condition that man had carried since birth, so they laid hands on him and prayed, and Mario reminded the tent no man can do this.

Then he had everyone in the tent who needed healing raise their hands and lay hands on a neighbor. He told us that before he left home he stood in front of a mirror and told God the one thing he wanted help with in New York was unbelief. “When You move, I want it to be absolutely unstoppable.” So the whole tent prayed it together: “Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.” Then he commanded it all out, A to Z, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, bronchitis, acid reflux, allergies, skin diseases, on Psalm 103. Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases.

He asked everyone who could say God healed them tonight to stand. People stood all over the tent.

This Is the Beginning

Mario said there are people in this room who have been praying for this for 20, 30, and 40 years. And now that it’s here, we’d better jolly well rejoice. He said he believes in these 4 nights we’re going to see things we’ll still be talking about 30 years from now. Ulcerated stomachs, cancer, diabetes, arthritis. Terminal cases.

And about tomorrow: “You stay home, they’re gonna lose. And to make matters worse, you’re gonna hear about the greatest thing that people have been talking about.”

Finney fought his war in Albany. Tonight it looked like a new one started.

We’re back tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. with Floyd Brown, and tomorrow night at 6:30. If you’re anywhere near the Capital Region, don’t miss this.

Living Proof Tent Crusade Altamont Fairgrounds 129 Grand St, Altamont, NY 12009 Nightly at 6:30 p.m. through Wednesday, September 16 Morning meetings at 10 a.m. with Floyd Brown

If you can’t be there in person, watch the livestream on the Mario Murillo Ministries Facebook page.

Hope to see you there!

WE CAN STOP THE ISLAMIC INVASION

We can stop the Islamic invasion. Sometimes facts are harsh. And the fact is Zohran Mamdani is not going to attend the various events to honor the victims and families of 9/11 – ‘out of compassion’.

His blind liberal followers think it is compassion—just like they believe Lindsay Clancy is innocent of killing her children.

What he is really doing is practicing Islam. He is giving Allah praise. First, for bringing down the Twin Towers, and now for the conquest of New York City. This is spiking the ball. This is dancing on the graves of the victims of September 11, 2001.

Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” Key Islamic texts divide the world into Islamic and non-Islamic realms in constant tension, making the deception of non-Muslims a permanent strategy rather than a temporary wartime tactic.

They see the election of Mamdani as a tribute to inclusiveness.

You are seeing it in action. Mamdani offers no apology for 9/11. Instead, he blandly regrets the loss of life of a terrorist act. He strategically avoids the mastodon in the room: 9/11 was done in the name of Islam.

And, in his heart, he believes it was justified. So do the white liberals who voted for him. They see the election of Mamdani as a tribute to inclusiveness.

Instead, it is the perfect deception. Zohran laughs behind their backs. Inclusiveness? Islam is not here to take part. It is here to take over.

This is why 100,000 New Yorkers—including the families of 9/11—can petition him to stay away and be ignored.

In the 1960’s there were 30 mosques in America. Today there are over 3,000.

Dearborn, and Hamtramck Michigan are no longer American cities. They are under Sharia law. In the 1960’s there were 30 mosques in America. Today there are over 3,000.

Above all, we must realize we are being invaded. Once we do that, we have hope to stop. And it is not just a hope—it is a great hope!

THE GOSPEL FULLY PREACHED WILL WIN MUSLIMS TO CHRIST.

Some will argue that this is a simplistic approach to a national disaster. How can just the Gospel stem the tide of Islam? It has done it before.

Here’s an example: T.L Osborn’s crusade in Indonesia. A crowd of 200,000+ heard him preach. Thousands saw the face of Jesus form in the sky. The result was a massive turning to Christ.

All over the Middle East we keep hearing reports of Christ appearing to Muslims. And they are instantly converted.

But the fully preached Gospel will do far more than this. It will unify the fractured church. It will wake up the sleepy church.

Modern church messages often focus on music and motivational pep talks, but only the true Gospel has the power to deeply convict and change sinners.

But there are two radical ideas we must grapple with.

When you hand control of the Church back to the Holy Spirit instead of lukewarm leaders, you will see both more conversions and lasting conversions. But there are two radical ideas we must grapple with:

1.The American Church must stage mass events where the signs and wonders of Jesus confirm the preaching. This is not an option. This is the weapon of mass conversion.

First, we must repent! Not just surface repentance, but total heart-rending repentance.

We must do what Jesus commanded the Laodicean church to do. Revelation 3:18-19, “I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore, be zealous and repent.”

2.We must understand there is no substitute for signs and wonders. Yes, they have been faked and commercialized. But the answer is not to ban them. Those who ban the gifts of the Spirit are as guilty as those who abuse them.

Proof of this is Peter in the Book of Acts. When the church suffered its first major threat he did not hesitate. He immediately gathered all the saints and began crying out to God.

Not just for any remedy, but for a very specific one!

Acts 4: 29-30, “Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”

Many people are leaving the Charismatic Movement due to recent scandals, but they are missing the real story.

Satan is using compromised preachers and harsh critics to attack the Holy Spirit. This spiritual storm was designed to steal our most powerful weapon—the one that can win our spiritual battles the soonest.

Do not let Satan rob you of your greatest opportunity. It doesn’t matter if there are but a few of us who understand the real crisis and the real answer. As soon as you stop reading this, go to God and ask Him to use you and to place you in the place of your greatest potential!

ANGELS DON’T HAVE THE PLUMBING

Angels don’t have the plumbing.

The influence for the title is Tennessee. My new home. I have met wise people here that few have ever heard of.

The fact is some of the best vessels of God are not famous. They just serve.

So, I envisioned an Eastern Tennessee mountain preacher. The right reverend Jackson Boone.

He is elderly but his eyes are bright. He rocks on the porch. The Smokies looming behind him in all their glory.

Not much to say – and doesn’t need to. But when he does talk, you’d better listen. Because the reverend knows his Bible!

Then he said it. Something we all knew but didn’t realize had to be said: “Angels ain’t got the plumbing.”

“ANGELS AIN’T GOT THE PLUMBING.”

So, did angels come down and procreate Nephilim? No, they didn’t. They don’t have the plumbing!

And while we are at it, aliens do not steal eggs and make hybrid humans either.

Above all, we must begin with the infallible source: Matthew 22:29,30 Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels of God in heaven.”

Jesus taught that angels do not have a gender. Believing that fallen angels can create gender is a myth, and the Bible warns us in several to avoid such foolish myths.

When people use Genesis 6 to argue that angels can have children, they imply that Jesus was either wrong or misunderstood the situation in heaven.

However, Jesus’ words on this topic are crystal clear. In contrast, Genesis 6 requires careful interpretation—and once correctly understood, it completely agrees with Jesus.

Here is what Genesis 6:1-4 says.

“Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”

Nephilim does not mean giants.

The fact is, the word Nephilim means “fallen ones” (from naphal, to fall), not “giants.” While giants existed, no proof links them to the “sons of God.”

Clearly, Saint Augustine strongly disagreed with the notion of Angels having children. He argued that “angels are spirits and cannot have children with humans.” Instead, he said the “sons of God” were simply the good men from Seth’s family line, while the “daughters of men” were the worldly women from Cain’s family line.

Most respected Bible experts agree.

Adam Clarke’s commentary:

“As there is a distinction made here between men and those called the sons of God, it is generally supposed that the immediate posterity of Cain and that of Seth are intended. The others were sons of God, not angels, as some have dreamed”

Jamieson, Faucett and Brown Commentary:

That angels, “becoming enamored with women, mingled familiarly in their society, and cohabited with them…is a view of great antiquity…but angels are not designated “the sons of God” in any part of the Pentateuch; that there is no reference to angels in this passage.”

They also speak of “the impossibility of angels having carnal intercourse”

Matthew Henry Commentary:

“The ‘sons of God’ were not spiritual beings, but rather the descendants of Seth. This line had previously preserved the true worship of God. And, the ‘daughters of men’ were the descendants of Cain’s ungodly line.”

The belief in Nephilim and aliens creating hybrid humans is not new; it is just an old distraction returning in the 21st century.

And while we are at it, the Bible never mentions aliens visiting Earth, stealing women’s eggs, or creating human-alien hybrids.

Now we come to the final point: Hybrids cannot exist because Jesus only died for humans with God-given souls.

Without a doubt Christ’s Sacrifice Applies Only to Humans.

Christian theology relies on specific rules about who Jesus is and why He died to determine who can be saved.

1. The Rule of Kind (The Incarnation)

Jesus became a full human: To save humans—though He was also fully God—Jesus had to become exactly like them.

The “Kinsman Redeemer” concept: In ancient biblical law, a savior had to be a close relative to buy someone out of debt or slavery.

And there is no angelic rescue: The book of Hebrews states that Jesus did not come to save angels, but to save the descendants of Abraham. A half-angelic being would not share the same pure human bloodline that Jesus took on.

“For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham”- Hebrews 2:16

2.The Problem of the Human Soul

God’s image: Humans are unique because God made them in His own image and gave them a specific type of soul.

Hybrid nature: Many theologians argue that a non-human or mixed spiritual nature cannot receive Christian salvation. This fits the early Christian rule: “What is not assumed [by Christ] is not redeemed.”

Because Jesus took on a 100% human nature—and not a hybrid nature—His death on the cross only pays for the sins of full human beings. Under the fallen angel theory, the Nephilim are completely excluded from forgiveness.

Since the Nephilim were just normal humans from a rebellious family line, they had the same chance to repent as anyone else.

This also proves that demons or alien beings cannot create human hybrids. They also could not be saved. Literally, as a woman, you are saying that one of your children (stolen egg) could never be saved.

In conclusion: The right reverend Jackson Boone gets the final word:

“Now look, I love you folks, but I’ve gotta speak some plain truth today. I look at the modern church, and my heart breaks.

“The house of God has become a circus. We care more about smoke machines, trendy bands, and comfortable seats than the Holy Spirit. And we traded the rugged Cross for a shiny marketing plan. Sure enough we preach soft, feel-good messages that never challenge anyone. It is cotton-candy theology, and it is rotting our souls.

“I truly believe God is done with this fancy showmanship. He is sick of the stadium lights and the numbers games. He is about to bypass this whole hollow institution completely.

“Mark my words, the Lord is going to replace this spectacle with true disciples. He doesn’t want casual Sunday spectators. God wants real, gritty, everyday followers. He wants people who choose holiness over comfort. The future of the faith won’t be found on mega-campuses. It will be found around kitchen tables and out in muddy fields where people actually live like Jesus.”

THE BIGGEST LIE

We are going to New York to shatter the biggest lie in America. The lie that Americans are too cynical for miracles. That the power of God cannot go mainstream and prove His power is real.

And for too long, the enemy whispered that the heart of this nation is too hardened, its cities too dark, and its people too intellectual to believe in the power of the Lord. They told us faith belongs behind closed doors and the supernatural is a relic of the past.

But the silence is over. We are stepping into the epicenter of culture and media to declare that the living God is not intimidated by skepticism!

In fact, Albany, New York will not be the graveyard of faith; it will be the launching pad for a modern-day book of Acts. We are going to the crossroads of the world to prove that when the raw, unfiltered power of Jesus Christ meets a desperate culture, cynicism must bow.

The power of God is not meant for a corner.

First of all, the power of God is not meant for a corner—it is designed to go mainstream. We will gather the hurting, the broken, and the searching, and we will watch the Holy Spirit shatter every doubt on the public stage. Get ready, because America will witness that God is still real, still moving, and still performing living miracles!

We have waited all our lives for a public, undeniable demonstration of the power of God. And this is it!

For decades, we sat in our pews, reading about ancient revivals and praying for a move of God that would shake our generation. We have talked about it, sung about it, and longed for it.

Now, the moment has arrived, and we dare not miss the hour of our visitation. This is not a moment for passive observation or casual interest. The window is open, the ground is shaking, and the Spirit of God is moving with disruptive force.

We must stop our games and let America see the real Jesus.

If we stay on the sidelines now, we risk sleeping through the very awakening we spent a lifetime begging God to bring.

That is why the time to play church is officially over. We must stop our games and let America see the real Jesus. The world is entirely exhausted by empty religious routines, polished performances, and compromised theology that yields no power.

The fact is, they don’t need another program – they need an unfiltered encounter with the living God. It is time to strip away the masks, pull down the false altars, and expose a desperate nation to the raw, miraculous authority of Christ.

Clearly, this moment demands holy desperation. It is time to put everything on the line to tell the truth about Jesus. We cannot afford to protect our reputations, our comfort, or our security any longer. The stakes are too high, and the deception in our culture is too deep.

Take your place, risk it all, and let the nation behold the glory of the Lord!

Above all, we must take the offensive and step out with fearless faith—holding nothing back—to declare and demonstrate that Jesus Christ is alive, His power is absolute, and His truth is non-negotiable. The line has been drawn. Take your place, risk it all, and let the nation behold the glory of the Lord!

No one who reads this who has an inkling of support for Mario Murillo Ministries is exempt from action. This is a direct, urgent call to battle.

And for years, you stood with this ministry, sowed into the crusades, and watched the power of God break the heavy chains of addiction, sickness, and despair. But right now, we are entering a critical hour that demands more than casual agreement.

In fact, the ground is shaking, the spiritual climate is shifting, and the stakes have never been higher. If you believe in this mandate, you cannot afford to sit on the sidelines as a passive spectator.

Undoubtely, God is calling every single partner, helper, volunteer, and believer to step onto the front lines and deploy.

We are taking the Gospel straight into territory heavily fortified by skepticism, media distortion, and spiritual darkness.

Everyone who reads this must pray fervently for the New York Tent Crusade. We are taking the Gospel straight into territory heavily fortified by skepticism, media distortion, and spiritual darkness.

Clearly, ordinary prayers cannot sustain a move of this magnitude. It demands desperate, unceasing intercession that violently tears down strongholds. Pray for unprecedented open doors, pray for an unhindered outpouring of miracles.

And pray for the absolute protection of the team as they lift up the name of Jesus Christ.

Without a doubt the fire is ready to fall. God has lit the fuse. If you know anyone in the region of the capital of New York, Albany, warn them that heaven is coming.

Do not delay. Call them, message them, and shake them out of complacency. Tell them to clear their schedules and prepare their hearts. The glory of God is about to invade the capital region with disruptive, undeniable, and life-altering power.

And yes, God will heal the sick! He will restore the broken! And the entire region will witness that Jesus Christ is real. Warn them now—because nobody can afford to miss the hour of their visitation!

P.S. THERE IS STILL TIME FOR YOU TO VOLUNTEER! https://www.mariomurillo.org/events/living-proof-albany-crusade-2026

THE WOMEN RISE UP!

The women rise up.

No other women’s gathering will have a more lasting impact than this one has. This event was a total game-changer, and its effects will be felt nationwide. An amazing story will prove my point.

In 1830, Dr. Beecher—America’s most prominent Presbyterian minister—made this astonishing statement about a recent revival he had witnessed:

“That was the greatest work of God, and the greatest revival of religion that the world has ever seen, in so short a time. One hundred thousand,” he remarked, “were reported as having connected themselves with churches, as the results of that great revival. This is unparalleled in the history of the church, and of the progress of religion.”

This single revival ignited America’s Second Great Awakening and led millions to salvation.

He was right. This single revival ignited America’s Second Great Awakening and led millions to salvation.

However, it very nearly did not happen. The man God used nearly missed his moment, agonizing over which of three cities to preach in next.

He said, “With these pressing invitations before me, I felt, as I have often done, greatly perplexed.”

Two of the cities were great opportunities for revival. The third was an utter disaster. He gathered his praying friends. After much fervent prayer, they unanimously agreed he should not go to that third city.

Here, in his own words, is what happened next:

“But after I retired to my lodging the question was presented to my mind under a different aspect. Something seemed to question me, “What are the reasons that deter you from going?” I could readily enumerate them, but then the question returned, “Ah! but are these good reasons? Certainly you are needed all the more because of these difficulties. Do you shun the field because there are so many things that need to be corrected, because there is so much that is wrong? But if all was right, you would not be needed.” I soon came to the conclusion that we were all wrong; and that the reasons that had determined us against my going, were the most cogent reasons for my going.”

The fact is, this was Charles Finney and the city he ultimately went to was Rochester, New York. The roomful of ladies in Albany, New York, exploded when I told them this story.

The fuse that lit revival in Rochester was one woman.

But there was something even more explosive to come. The fuse that lit revival in Rochester was one woman. The wife of a prominent lawyer.

Finney said, “She was a woman of high standing, a lady of culture and extensive influence. Her conversion was a very marked one. She rose up, became peaceful, settled into a joyous faith, and retired. From that moment she was outspoken in her religious convictions, and zealous for the conversion of her friends. Her conversion, of course, produced much excitement among that class of people to which she belonged.”

I told the 700 ladies at the women’s breakfast in Albany, “You are the fuse for a great awakening in the state capital of New York.”

“I openly admit to you that our crusade in Albany hit a wall. But we have faced roadblocks before—in San Bernardino and Stockton—and breakthrough came when we found the right catalyst.”

“In those cities, it was the youth; in Albany, it is the women.

“In those cities, it was the youth; in Albany, it is the women. Just like it was for Finney in Rochester.”

“Amid the resistance, God gave me an unexpected order: to gather you women on a specific date. The timeline felt impossibly short, and finding a Saturday morning opening at the Marriott in just a few weeks seemed like an unreachable miracle.”

“To have so many of you show up on such short notice is the first sign of a coming awakening.”

And just as we had to leave our Tent up for 52 days in Stockton, we must now consider that this is not just a crusade that will end in 4 days.”

I have never seen hunger for revival like this on any group of women.

What happened next will stay with me for the rest of my life. God enveloped the women. Not only did they accept the mantle—I know they are now an army. THE WOMEN ROSE UP!

In short, I have never seen hunger for revival like this on any group of women. Their hunger drove Catherine Mullins to lead worship like never before. Their hearts pulled on the preaching.

At this hour, 700 women have dispersed throughout the capital region of New York. Hundreds of prayer meetings are forming. Thousands of people will feel their witness.

And, these ladies—with only 13 days left before the crusade—will do the impossible.

WATCH THE SERVICE NOW!

WHAT IS AN ATHEIST?

What is an atheist?

In Psalm 14:1 it is written, “Only fools say in their hearts, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good!”

A true atheist is extremely hard to find. I have met, befriended, and debated many who claimed to be atheists. I can count on one hand the number of individuals I would call true atheists.

So, why am I writing this? Because, if you ever run into a real atheist, beware! They are a dark soul indeed.

Where you find them will shock you.

First of all, the Bible is not polite about atheists. It calls them fools.

I know people who say there is no God but they are not fools. Atheism is still in their minds, not their heart.

With good reason. Given the 93-billion-light-year scale of the observable universe, a true atheist takes an irrational leap by denying God’s existence.

And so a true atheist is irrational. No rational mind can positively say there is no God. But the heart can. Positively. But he does not just say it. The true atheist lives as if God does not exist. And that is harder to do than it sounds.

Many who boast they are atheists are not really atheists.

When you cross that threshold you become another kind of being.

The Bible is clear: You are a fool. You are corrupt, you only act out of evil, and you are incapable of doing anything good.

The true atheist lives as if God is not watching them, and they say, “How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?” (Psalm 73: 11).

Paul, writing to the Romans, goes even deeper: “Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes” (Romans 3:13-18).

Who truly lives as if there is no God?

Even so, we have not yet pinpointed the most atheistic atheist. To do that, we must answer this question: Who truly lives as if there is no God? The answer is: the false preacher. Only the false preacher truly lives as if there is no God.

How else can you lie to people about God? One must be convinced He is not there watching. You must not believe in the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord. You must not believe He will hold you accountable.

Who but a true atheist can groom children and have no sense of guilt? Name for me a lower act than to manipulate people, lord it over them—all just for money.

They lie about money, commit sexual crimes, and abuse authority—completely unbothered by divine or earthly judgment.

More than all others, they say in their hearts, “There is no God”—but their ruin is at hand.

Jude says this about them: “But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever” (Jude 1:10-13).

In conclusion: When I asked God if He was going to save America, I felt a strong hand on me. God’s answer was clear: America will be saved, but we will not like what comes first. God will purge false prophets so that true ministries can rise, bringing a holy, powerful, and joyous awakening to the nation. So be it.

“THEY ARE NOT AFTER ME. THEY ARE AFTER YOU.”

“THEY ARE NOT AFTER ME. THEY ARE AFTER YOU.” Where have I heard those words before?

Kathryn Krick just said something alarming to her congregation. It sounded eerily familiar. I thought to myself – ‘Where have I heard those words before?’

Then I remembered the source, and my spirit cried out, “NOT AGAIN!” I was remembering my worst nightmare.

Instantly, I knew I must sound the alarm. God made it unmistakable. It is my duty to speak out. Silence is disobedience.

Ezekiel 33:6 says, “But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.”

You may revile me. You may reject me. None of that matters because I fear God, and what will almost certainly happen if I remain silent.

Exactly where did I heard these words before? I heard them from cult leader Jim Jones in San Francisco in 1976.

Jones cast a spell that was so powerful that many famous Americans came to his church because of his work with social justice. First Lady Rosalynn Carter met with Jim Jones on multiple occasions and corresponded with him during political campaigns. Jane Fonda was a fan of Jim Jones.

From 1976 until 1978 I warned pastors in San Francisco about him, but only a few listened to me. They ridiculed me for predicting the death of hundreds because of Jones.

My mind raced back to the day the media began to investigate Jones. His immediate reaction—his early words to his followers were: “THEY ARE NOT AFTER ME. THEY ARE AFTER YOU.”

He indoctrinated them to believe they were victims. He warned them that outsiders were untrustworthy, declaring, “You are only safe with me. I am your protector.”

Once followers feared outsiders, Jones decoupled them from Scripture. He famously commanded them to throw down and stomp on their Bibles while chanting, “I don’t need this old book!” He threw out the rule book so he could make the rules.

Then my worst nightmare. On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones orchestrated a mass murder-suicide of 918 members of the Peoples Temple at their remote jungle commune in Jonestown, Guyana. 300 of those who died were children.

Most victims died after voluntarily drinking a fruit beverage laced with cyanide, while others were forced to drink it at gunpoint, or were injected, and Jim Jones died from a gunshot wound.

Now like Jones, when Krick faces intense scrutiny, her immediate reaction is telling.

She just said this to her congregation: “THEY ARE NOT AFTER ME. THEY ARE AFTER YOU.”

The exact same words as Jones in the identical situation.

Next, Krick blatantly twisted Matthew 26:31, “Jesus says, “For it is written: “I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.”

Then she explained that people were striking her—the shepherd—in order to scatter the congregation. She looked straight at the people and said, “They are not after me, they are after you.”

The verse reads “I (God) will strike the shepherd.” Krick read it this way: “They will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.”

See how brutally she takes the Bible out of context? Do you understand the danger?

Krick deployed the same tactic as Jim Jones. This victim mindset dismisses outside criticism. Followers rely entirely on her for safety and trust.

Consequently, they overlook her shared moral corruption with GeorDavie—the man who first called her an “Apostle”—allowing them to ignore her fraudulent deliverances and staged miracles.

Like Jones, Krick must maintain her cult following by demanding blind devotion. Her progression is clear: first she misquotes the Bible, then she eliminates it.”

Without intervention, tragedy is certain. Only the scale of the tragedy remains to be seen.

We, as the Body of Christ, must take these immediate steps:

1. Confrontation: Every influential Charismatic leader who has access to her must confront her.

2,Disavowal: Every ministry that gave her a platform must publicly disavow her and strip the endorsements she uses to trap new victims. Otherwise, you risk being tied to the consequences if something horrible happens.

3, Exodus: Church members who recognize the truth must leave immediately and help others escape.

I pray that the Holy Spirit opens your heart and mind. God bless you.

P.S. It’s true. Donald Trump used this exact phrase, and for him, it fit. The Obama and Biden administrations targeted traditional Christian values, and because Trump campaigned to protect the church, he became a target himself. However, this same logic does not apply to Krick. We know nothing about her congregation; our sole focus must remain on evaluating her specific actions and teachings. MM

KATHRYN KRICK IS A TEST

Is Kathryn Krick a false apostle? Yes she is.

But she is much more than a false apostle. She is a test—a test that will decide if the Charismatic movement will survive. More on that later in this blog.

Her fraud is proven. During one session, she left a child writhing on the floor, claiming the “Holy Spirit” revealed to her that the mother had given money to fortune tellers instead of ministries. Kathryn weaponized this in order to delay the child’s deliverance.

Kathryn exploited the mother’s desperation with five words: “Ten percent is not enough.”

Think of the grotesque caricature those words paint of God: “I would heal your child, but first—where is My money?”

She came to L.A. with “a heart full of fire for God” to become an actress.

Is Kathryn a famished narcissist whose desperate hunger for the spotlight has utterly erased her conscience? Consider how she said she came to L.A. with “a heart full of fire for God” to become an actress.

So why was her first role on a pilot for a TV show where she played a porn star, pouring drinks to seduce a young naïve man? Next, she did a commercial for a dating app where she appears in a bikini.

Finally, she does a reality show in which she walks up to a perfect stranger and engages in a prolonged kiss with him “to see if any sparks fly.”

Is she simply a failed actress who traded Hollywood stages for the pulpit, trading a manufactured “fire for God” for pure, unadulterated self-worship?

That heresy grants an “Apostle” unlimited control over a disciple.

Yet the true terror is not her brokenness, but the lethal weapon she makes of the title “Apostle.”

She got that weapon from her spiritual father, the “Doctor Prophet” GeorDavie from Tanzania. He preaches that we cannot come to Jesus directly. We need a middleman. That heresy grants an “Apostle” unlimited control over a disciple.

His exact words, “Some would teach that since the death of Jesus Christ, all of us have rights to go straight to Him … and no middle man (between you and Jesus) … no, there has to be a middle man…that’s God’s Kingdom government system.”

He said “God is not limited by what is written in the Bible.”

How does GeorDavie get around 1 Timothy 2:5? It says, “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus …” The answer is on his website: “God is not limited by what is written in the Bible.”

And GeorDavie also believes he is not limited by the Bible. I will not gross you out with the transcripts of his obscene texts to a woman.

And that is the definition of a cult.

Krick will never renounce him—no matter what—for the exact same reason she won’t let her congregation renounce her. And that is the definition of a cult.

Now I will confront some usual arguments against a blog like this.

‘Mario, first and foremost, you are an evangelist, why are you speaking out?’

But, 2 Timothy 4:2-5 says, “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”

Evangelists have a long history of publicly correcting error.

If preachers are called to rebuke falsehood and evangelize, then it follows that evangelists are called to evangelize and rebuke falsehood.

Evangelists have a long history of publicly correcting error. Oral Roberts challenged Carlton Pearson over his position on hell, Kathryn Kuhlman boycotted Bob Mumford over the Shepherding movement, Billy Graham warned televangelists about being puffed up with pride. And Charles Finney openly rejected Calvinism.

Why didn’t I go to Kathryn Krick privately?

Paul again is clear – if someone goes public with falsehood, they are to be rebuked publicly.

1 Timothy 1:3, “As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer.”

1 Timothy 5:20, “Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.”

Now I am warning the Charismatic movement.

John Wesley would tilt in his grave if he could see what the Methodist church has now become. It was once a fire that burned with revival on five continents.

Now it’s a mockery of its roots. The same thing is happening to the Charismatic movement.

Kathryn Krick was a test that forces us to ask burning questions:

Why have so few Charismatic leaders – if any – rebuked Krick?

Here’s why: She is the logical conclusion and end result of many of their own imbalances—imbalances they have trended toward for decades. She takes mass deliverance, selling miracles, love of money, cover ups, false prophecy, avoiding doctrine, and being domineering to an extreme.

Because these Charismatic leaders do a little of what she does a lot, calling her out could cause an embarrassing comparison.

How were so many people fooled?

How did someone who is this outlandish, fool so many? Again, it has to do with the years we have drifted from Biblical Christianity.

The low-grade carnival spirit on the edges of our movement has groomed people to be susceptible to cultish leaders. The list is long:

-Touting emotional experiences brought widespread biblical illiteracy.

-Hyper-emphasis on deliverance made people see demons everywhere.

-False prophets have been giving daily messages that many use like horoscopes instead of the Bible.

-Ministries have long either inferred, or out-and-out stated, that miracles come by sowing money.

Satan saw how our lack of discernment had ripened to the point where it was the perfect time to ‘release the Kricken’.

And so she appeared.

But charismatic corruption goes deeper than this.

-Music ministries charging obscene amounts of money.

-Spirit-filled churches replaced the Holy Spirit with Rick Warren’s growth model.

-Spirit-filled colleges loosened their views on homosexuality.

But the Holy Spirit is not simply grieved by what we are doing—it’s also when we are doing it.

Ananias, along with Sapphira did not lose their lives just because they stole money. It was also when they stole it.

God was doing so many miracles that even Peter’s shadow healed the sick. But the church was also under its greatest threat! It was a momentous season and God brought correction to protect the fledgling movement.

Likewise, this generation is playing Charismatic games while Islam is spreading and communism is rearing its ugly head. Meanwhile, a great youth awakening is spreading around the world. And God will protect it.

But if we repent, there remains a great promise: Revelation 2:2-5, “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.”

Amen.

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THE FAME VIRUS

The fame virus is wreaking havoc in the church. What is the fame virus? It attacks preachers and infects them with blinding obsessions.

Paul the Apostle not only predicted this virus, but he also gave Timothy the clearest instructions to confront it.

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers…” 2 Timothy 4:3.

This virus is lethal because it is the opposite of what we have seen before.

False ministers normally rise by gathering crowds to themselves. But this virus causes people to gather preachers to themselves. The crowd literally collects (heaps up) teachers!

Once it infects leaders, everything becomes about pleasing the crowd.

Why is this virus attacking us now? The answer is because revival is life and death for America. And this virus is the perfect weapon to prevent an awakening.

The virus creates distraction. Podcast wars are making us unavailable for revival.

This virus created the perfect distraction: podcast wars. It has us choosing sides instead of joining sides for an awakening.

In one corner, we have infected Charismatic ministries oblivious to their emotional excesses, false doctrine, and authoritarian rule.They seem unable to truly repent.

And in the other corner we have “discernment podcasters” relentlessly exposing abuses and juicy gossip. It’s not for doctrinal purity, its because the virus compels them. They have left their original calling. They are trapped and must feed the audience’s need for scandal.

Both sides in this war would be shocked to learn they are driven by the same virus. Emotional extremes must keep going. Angry posts must keep coming. Clicks and subscribers matter, the truth does not. Appeasing the crowd is all that matters.

There are many sincere ministries in the Charismatic movement, and there are solid podcasters out there rightfully calling out abuse with integrity. God is using them. They should be heard, but the noise drowns them out.

The fame virus ruins the next generation of preachers.

The fame virus’ system rewards corruption and punishes integrity. The clearest example I can show you comes from my childhood in the ghetto.

If you wanted to get ahead, it was inevitable that you would end up flipping burgers for minimum wage, instead. While you sweat and barely eke out an existence, you watch the pimps and the drug dealers who have money to spare. The pull to a corrupt life is almost impossible to resist.

That is happening in the Church right now. Young people feel the giant suction of fame by compromise and shortcuts. They are told to use formulas instead of the power of prayer and obedience.

Our on-fire youth work hard to build a ministry on the Rock. They see others zoom past them because they use tricks.

The devil tells them purity, hard work and patience are outdated and promotion comes from self-promotion.

They feel like the psalmist who said “This is what the wicked are like—always free of care, they go on amassing wealth. Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and have washed my hands in innocence. All day long I have been afflicted, and every morning brings new punishments (Psalm 73:12-14).

The Devil says that trying to be good is useless.

Is there any hope against this virus? NOT ONLY IS THERE HOPE! THERE IS GREAT HOPE! THERE IS TOTAL VICTORY OVER THIS VIRUS!

I am thrilled to tell you that God used Paul to write the exact words of victory and guidance over this devilish scheme!

How exciting to realize that none other than Paul the Apostle was writing as much to you as he was to Timothy!

The whole point of 2 Timothy, chapter 4, is victory over the fame virus.

Let’s apply God’s strategy for defeating this enemy! God has a mighty ministry for you.

He has something infinitely greater for you than the cheap here-today-gone-tomorrow ministries that seem to pop up every day. Let’s look at the Word!

2 Timothy 4:1, “I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom…”

Paul is telling us to never forget the real future! Christ will judge. Everything built artificially will burn.

This is exactly what set the Psalmist free! He was sick with grief, envy, and confusion as he watched the success of the wicked. But then it became clear:

Psalm 73:16, “When I thought how to understand this, It was too painful for me—
until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end.”

Paul tells us to be Bible-based always!

2 Timothy 4:2, Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.” Preaching the Word of God brings an outpouring of the Holy Spirit! Devils flee, sickness is removed!

‘Be instant in season and out’ means you keep doing what is right even when you don’t see immediate results. Trust the process. Be patient and wait. You will see God build a true ministry of power!

2 Timothy 4:3, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”

“But you!” Yes, you are different. You can resist the pull of fake success! Be alert. Bear the pain of doing things right! Win souls!!

“Fulfill your destiny.” Your destiny is so awesome that nothing the world offers can compare. God has a destiny for you that will hold you. His destiny will keep you on course.

Soon the corruption will fade. The liars will be silenced. Then the true lions and eagles will appear in the fire of true revival. Hallelujah!

SELLING HEALING AND DELIVERANCE: A DOCTRINE OF DEMONS FROM HELL

They are selling healing and deliverance. An angel of light has sent a doctrine of demons from hell.

It is a horrifying video. As a child writhes on the floor the preacher is telling the mother she must sow money to seal the child’s deliverance.

They sell healing and deliverance. They use slick terms to hide it. They will vehemently deny it. But it is a doctrine of demons from hell.

I doubt seriously that I have ever been this angry about anything in the charismatic movement before.

Preachers suggesting payments.

Preachers suggesting payment from innocent victims in exchange for healing and deliverance? If you are not outraged, you are part of the sickness.

Not only do they suggest payment before the healing and deliverance they also push for it afterwards to seal the deal.

How is this possible? It is possible because of the widespread focus on exotic experiences that has become part of our movement rather than focusing on the Bible. Don’t get me wrong. I love the Spirit-filled movement. And I am no traitor to it.

Why do I say I am no traitor? Because some will accuse me of siding with the cessationists who are raging against Pentecostal and Charismatics in a record number of videos.

Because we do not correct ourselves.

I am siding only with truth. And let’s be honest, many charismatic ministries have given plenty of ammunition to our critics.

Because we did not correct ourselves, we opened the door to widespread scandal and then discreditation.

But this is the lowest yet. And begs the question: how in the world can we tolerate such insanity when we are already under a theological microscope?

So let’s get to this doctrine of demons itself. Did you ever hear a preacher say, “you must sow to your miracle”? or, “you must sow to seal your healing or deliverance”? The inference is unavoidable. It is ‘pay to play’.

This is something the Bible condemns in the highest manner. I will show you how in the end of this blog. For now let’s look at their tricks.

They twist verses to deceive.

In fact, they twist verses to deceive. When Elisha sold his oxen to follow Elijah they infer that he was sowing to Elijah. That is patently false. Then they cite the practice of giving a thank offering when people were healed of leprosy. That was clearly giving thanks to God. They were not buying a warranty on their healing.

Peter said it so clearly. “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! (Acts 8:20)

And another thing. I can’t believe I even have to say that miracles and deliverance are free! You see how far we have fallen?

These false apostles will never admit that they are doing this. But there is no doubt. If you mention money in the same breath as healing and deliverance, you are selling. And you are bringing severe judgment on yourself.

Here is the bottomline.

Here is the bottom line on this doctrine of demons. Naaman the Syrian general with leprosy comes to Elisha for healing. After healing, Naaman offers to sow into the healing with a gift to the prophet.

2 Kings 5:15, “And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

16 But he said, “As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.”

However, Gehazi Elisha’s servant invented what we now see in these corrupt modern preachers: “But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.” So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Indeed, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of garments.’”

Gehazi was charging Naaman money for his healing. This brought the wrath of God.

So Naaman said, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and handed them to two of his servants; and they carried them on ahead of him. When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand, and stored them away in the house; then he let the men go, and they departed.”

Gehazi thought he had gotten away with it but the wrath of God was waiting. Now he went in and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you go, Gehazi?”

And he said, “Your servant did not go anywhere.”

Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants? Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever.” And he went out from his presence leprous, as white as snow” (2 Kings 5:20-27).

Meanwhile, Thank God healing and deliverance are abundantly available because Jesus paid it all!