Should We Pray For Trees?

Philippians 4:6-7, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

I heard something disturbing recently. A woman in a church said that there is an unsafe tree ready to crack and fall on someone. She said that the city was notified but it would take time to handle the matter. She asked her Sunday school class to pray for the tree, that it wouldn't fall on someone. Folks, that is superstition. 

That is like praying that God will allow you to drive your car with a blown head-gasket until you get the money to fix it. That is not how prayer works! There is a fine line between faith and foolishness! What bothered me the most is that the Sunday school teacher actually prayed for the damaged tree! If that were me, I would have taught the class that this is not a matter of prayer, but safety and priority. The tree is an urgent safety issue, not a matter of prayer! 

I know that the Bible says in every thing by prayer (Philippians 4:6), but God has given us common sense too. I don't pray for trees!!! Maybe I'm a shallow Christian and lack understanding. I don't know. But I think our approach to prayer ought to be a serious matter. I don't pray at the store for God to help me choose between buying beef or chicken. I don't pray for the peace of Israel, because the Bible teaches that there will never be peace in Jerusalem until Christ returns (Luke 21:24). I just don't feel comfortable or fit in with superstitious religious people at church who pray for trees. I hear believers in churches pray for lots of weird stuff. 

I am simply sharing with you my practical view of prayer in the Bible. I still believe that God is a miracle working God in 2021. I believe the Bible! Without faith we cannot please God (Hebrews 11:6). We are taught not to worry about anything, but to bring our requests to the Lord in prayer and supplication. However, I do not think that God meant for us to toss common sense to the wind. If a tree is dangerous, it is an existing hazard which needs to be fixed right away. Why should a Sunday school class pray to God, to prevent a dangerous situation from turning into a tragic situation, because of a local government's slow bureaucratic irresponsibility or busy schedule? Think about that!

So if the tree cracks and kills someone, God won't be to blame for not answering your silly prayer, the city will be to blame for not taking immediate corrective action, knowing about the risk and potential danger. That is all I am saying here, God gave us common sense folks. Please don't become superstitious in your prayer life, lest you drive thinking people (like me) away from your strange doctrine, superstition and weird religious group.

Beware Of The 700 Club's Witchcraft

1st John 4:1, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

I was sickened the other day on TV in my hotel room in Pensacola to hear Pastor Robert Jeffress fully endorsing TBN (a greedy charismatic dirty business full of religious con artists). TBN accumulatively takes in BILLIONS of dollars per year from their various televangelism programs!!! The 700 Club alone rakes in over a half billion dollars each year. It is filthy lucre! The 700 Club promotes witchcraft. I hear Terry and Gordon claiming that they see people's spinal cord injuries being miraculously healed through the TV. They are liars! Terry said she saw a man's bone in his brain reforming, and his affliction being healed. She is inspired by devils when she makes such bizarre unbiblical claims.

As I listened to their bizarre claims, I wrote some of them down. How can they claim to see such healings? Folks, this is CLAIRVOYANCE (i.e., apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses) and is exactly what the satanic psychics do! How in the world would Gordon Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen know who is being healed? How can you see someone's bone reforming inside their head? The Word of God never teaches any such demonic practice. The Apostle Paul didn't prey upon people by offering them healing in exchange for donations. In fact, the Bible strongly condemns such evil practices (Acts 8:20).

I generally don't care much for religious programs. However, knowing that millions of people are attracted to such programs, I find myself compelled to see exactly what people are being suckered into buying by these so-called "Christians." I've been watching The 700 Club lately, analyzing it, and I see Satan at work. I see them as being no better than psychics, witches and soothsayers. The 700 Club exploit Christianity to make money by conning people.

On the show, Gordon Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen regularly join hands in a prayer segment, which is then followed by a psychic type reading, where they specify details of who is being healed in TV land. It's creepy! Are The 700 Club hosts, Pat Robertson, Gordon Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen, psychics? On today's show, Gordon and Terry prayed while holding hands, and then claimed that the following healings had taken place as a result of their prayers on TV...

Someone with an "abscessed right tooth," has just now been healed.

Someone with "twisted intestines" has just been healed.

Then Terry said there was a person with a "strange condition," a burning in the legs, who has just been healed.

Then Gordon said there's a man with swelling of the sinuses in his right cheek, with much pain behind the right eye, but he is now healed.

Someone with a painful right elbow joint no longer has any pain.

Someone with a problematic right hip, limited mobility from a stroke, is now able to walk.

Terry said she saw someone with severe stiffness in the neck bone, but didn't know the exact ailment--that person is now healed, terry said.

Someone paralyzed on the right side, particularly the right side of the face, has just been healed.

A man with a plate in his skull is having continual problems, and the doctors just don't know what to do. Terry said she saw the bone reforming around the plate and the man's pain was gone, he was now healed.

These are the crazy and absurd claims of these so-called "Christians." As I listened to their bizarre claims, I wrote them down, as listed above. How can they claim to see such healings? Folks, this is CLAIRVOYANCE (i.e., Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses), and is exactly what the Satanic psychics do!!! How in the world would Gordon Robertson and Terry Meeuwsen know who is being healed? How can you see someone's bone reforming inside their head? The Word of God never teaches any such demonic practice.

I dare you to show me from the Bible, where God said he would give us some mystical power of being able to see or know what is going on in someone else's body. It is extremely dangerous to dabble in familiar spirits. The hosts of The 700 Club are leading the public to believe that they have some special power with God, the ability to see who is being healed. They do not! It is a psychological scam to seduce suffering people into giving The 700 Club more money. And it works! The Christians Broadcasting Network (CBN) took in $160,000,000 in 2005 alone! If that sickens you, consider that The 700 Club took in a staggering $670,000,000 in filthy lucre in 2017. That is blood money! Satan is a beautiful liar!

Sadly, millions of naïve and desperate hurting people believe these false teachers, sending them money in hope of receiving a miracle in return. Their damnation slumbered not the Bible warns (2nd Peter 2:1-3). Pat Robertson says a lot of great things, and I enjoy listening to him, but they are promoting witchcraft when they speak of healing through the television. They are no better than thieves when they promise people healing and financial success in exchange of donations. Human nature is strangely predictable. If you tell people a bunch of lies, over time those lies will become as truth to them. Case in point is the blatant fraud of evolutionary theory, which has never been proven true in any way, yet it is commonly accepted worldwide as factual science (falsely so called, 1st Timothy 6:20).


The 700 Club often quote their financial supporters, who claim that God healed or blessed them for supporting The 700 Club. But this is superstitious nonsense, not the working of the Holy Spirit. Folks, please avoid Pat Robertson and The 700 Club. You cannot be healed through the television! Terry and Gordon don't have the power to heal anyone, not even themselves. They are con artists of the worst kind, tricking people in the name of Jesus. Never trust anyone who comes to you in the name of Jesus and wants your money!!! I like what comedian George Carlin said about the churches and God: “He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” That is how the religious world portrays God to the lost.

What The 700 Club are doing is wickedness, it is witchcraft. Any source of supernatural power that is not rooted in God's Holy Spirit is a familiar spirit (demons). God doesn't heal people through a TV in exchange for giving your money to greedy charlatans. A charlatan (also called a swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or a similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception. The 700 Club are not good people! Nobody is a good person who makes empty promises of divine healing through a TV set! Nobody is a good person who bilks hundreds of thousands of people out of their money! The 700 Club is a hoax, a pathetic joke, a demonic entity.

It makes me sick that they show some poor family in a third world country. The 700 Club buys them a home, or a clean water filtration system, parading THEMESELVES as great heroes and wonderful people, using such cruel gimmicks to manipulate viewer's emotions and sense of care, which equates into hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenues for The 700 Club. They spend pennies on the dollar to rake in staggering amounts of money!!! It is difficult to grasp the reality that the public could be so stupid, but they are! People are like clueless sheep, vulnerable to cunning wolves like The 700 Club (Isaiah 53:6).

98 People Found Dead In Surfside, Florida Condo Collapse

Luke 13:5, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”

I was saddened to hear about the tragic collapse of the East Tower Condominium in Surfside, Florida last month. As of July 20th, 98 bodies have been uncovered from the rubble. I pondered the horrific death that those people suffered. They were all sound asleep in the wee hours of the morning, when the building suddenly collapsed. But is was not without warning. A Surfside official told residents that their building was safe, despite an engineer's warnings to the contrary that the building was structurally unsafe in 2018.

There are some spiritual truths that we can learn from all this:

1. You cannot always trust the words of men. That city official should be held legally accountable for those 99 lost lives, which he essentially murdered by assuring them that the building they lived in was safe. I cannot help but make an application of this tragedy to the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, and the Devil's lie of Misunderstood Repentance. Lordship Salvation is the lie that faith alone is not enough to get to Heaven, but in addition, it is said that a person must surrender the entire personality to Jesus as “Lord” of one's life to be saved. Misunderstood Repentance is the lie that a person must turn away from a lifestyle of sinning to be saved. This is Wrong Repentance, and it is deadly. Many pastors and Bible college professors today are lying to people, assuring them that these heresies are safe, but such an unsound foundation of sand will assuredly cause one's house to crumble in the future.
2. Those 98 victims didn't know what hit them. They were sound asleep one minute, and the next they were buried beneath tons of concrete and rebar, trapped beneath the crushing weight of hundreds of thousands of pounds of broken slabs of concrete. Dear friend, are you ready to meet your Maker? Sadly, many of the victims were Roman Catholic. Catholicism is a satanic cult! According to Catholic dogma, you cannot get to Heaven unless you keep the Seven Sacraments of their organization. That is totally unbiblical. Jesus warned in Mark 7:6-13 about following the commandments of men instead of God. Catholicism is a manmade religion that goes totally contrary to the inspired Word of God, in hundreds of ways. My point being, Catholics don't go to Heaven! I know that will offend a lot of people, but it is sadly true nonetheless. Jesus said in John 3:7 that YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN!!!
3. Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish. Jesus made this statement in Luke 13:5. What did He mean? What the Lord DIDN'T mean is that you must turn away from your sinning to get to Heaven. That would be works for salvation, which God does not accept nor allow (Romans 3:20). What Jesus DID mean is that we are all sinners (Romans 3:23), and the penalty for our sin is death (Romans 6:23), so unless we change our thinking (repent) to believe the Gospel (the Good News that Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins, was buried, and bodily resurrected three days later) we will go to Hell (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Pastor Curtis Hutson explains Luke 13:5...

In Luke 13:5 Jesus said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” The context of this verse shows that they needed to repent or change their mind regarding punishment and sin. In this passage, Christ was talking to good people who believed that people suffered only because of their sins, and they concluded that those in Galilee whose blood Pilate mingled with sacrifices and those on whom the tower of Siloam fell were greater sinners because they died such horrible deaths. Jesus contradicts the thinking of these self-righteous people and tells them that they need to repent or change their mind and see themselves as sinners, too, or they will perish in their own self-righteousness.

That is beautiful! Again, I am saddened by the tragic premature death of 98 people (and the death toll is still rising) in Surfside, Florida. It is rare that a building of such magnitude just collapses. Water had been rotting away the foundation for decades. As early as the year 2,000 there were warning signs of structural deficiencies in the tower. Nobody cared, except one engineer that warned everyone, but no one listened, just like no one listened to Noah's preaching for 120 years! Dear reader, are you ready to die? Do you know for sure that if you died today that you'd go to Heaven? You can know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that your name is written in Heaven. Simply come to God by faith as a guilty sinner, receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then raised up miraculously from the dead three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4; John 19-20; 1st Thessalonians 4:14).

It is disturbing that 98 innocent people died because some city official didn't take the warning of a trained engineer seriously. Don't you listen to these corrupt pastors today who require more than childlike faith to get to Heaven! Thank you for reading my blog.

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