Found this old video of Todd Bentley of Fresh Fire Ministries in action, before he inked and pierced his way to a more menacing success.
At 3:21, after a particularly awful, embarrassing cold-reading streak, Todd gets a lucky break from the Lord, who announces to him, apparently, something like “Todd, there’s someone here who got struck by lightning in the late ’70s/early ’80s… somewhere in there.. No later than 1982. This is urgent stuff.” Todd eagerly calls this “word of knowledge” out, and sure enough, someone off-camera comes forward. (It was 1978, it turns out.)
Now, at 4:25, you first see a well-built, healthy-looking man in a gray shirt standing just to Todd’s left. This guy looms nearby, in a disinterested sort of way, looking around and occasionally picking at his face. At 5:38, Todd turns to him and says, “Now. Did anything unusual start happening in your life that you can—really be aware of since you were struck by that lightnin’ bolt?”
“Yeah, uh, I can’t wear a watch,” replies this guy nervously. “[Something] battery-operated watch, I have too much elect—I guess, reverse current in me—”
What??? He showed up at this miracle healing conference because he’s been electrically charged for the last 30 years and can’t wear a watch?
Notice a grinning Todd trying to suppress a laugh. He covers his mouth with his hand a time or two before getting antsy and interrupting the guy by launching into some prophecy about how God is going to do something unique and amazing with Psalm 29.
Lightning Facts — An MD explains that those bizarre effects you sometimes hear of being caused by lightning are mythical
When lightning strikes people or Lightning Effects — lists of real effects of lightning on humans.
The Claim: A Person Struck by Lightning Retains a Charge —Spoiler: the verdict is “false.” Even for minutes or even seconds, no charge will be retained.
All this info, combined with the fact that the gray-shirted man’s face is never shown, spells out “p-l-a-n-t,” blatant and bold. I’d wager it’s one of his own staff. Bad cold reading, unprepared plants, silly power words (“Boom-bah!”), bad acting, awkward and unconvincing stage presence… This guy was just bad at what he did and would never have lasted a minute under critique from most secular mentalists and stage hypnotists. He may have improved somewhat since.
Often I asked my personal option about some TV evangelists, and those I have met, dealt with experience I can talk about, and those I have not I really cannot fully comment too.
Yes sometimes some of us are too critical, too judgmental of pothers, we wrongfully are too quick to speak and other times too slow.
I have certainly now learned firsthand often now that I can post the identical comments on many different professing Christians sites and next get completely opposite Reponses. Now why is that? How can there be completely different spirits on professing Christian sites.. some people have sites with different agendas, some have sites to promote God, Jesus Christ, others have sites that are there to promote self, their personal even hidden agendas, denominations..
I watched a Video of the preacher and I saw nothing wrong with it, for I had been to many such types of services myself, and yet others now use the same video to be critcal of the preacher and I still cannot see why?
They have a false hidden agenda..
I had a serious heart problem, my heart was beating 122 beats per minute instead of 68.. God told me to go to hear an evangelsist who was in the Hotel just for the weened and I did. The evangelsist called someone herehas a serious heart problem come forth so i can pray for you.. I did not. I waited.. he repated his call.. I went forward, he prayed for me and my heart beat went to normal. No one can deny that reality now too.
http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/64/