I haven’t given much coverage to the Fairy Godmother of Word Faith, so here’s some information from Hickeyville.

I put myself on their mailing list and it’s like having a pipeline into her organization. It lets me see just how incredibly stupid they think you are. As I look at what they say I really don’t think I would have the ‘nads to make some of the claims or do some of the things they do. But then I remember that a lot of you want to believe the silliness and heresies she and her pimpette-in-training daughter deal in.

I got a mailing the other day that assured me that Marilyn and her prayer team are going to create a “PRAYER CHAIN of FINANCIAL FAITH” for me. That, of course, would explain why she sent me two cents. As you can see from the Personal Request Sheet (click here for a full size image of the form) her marketing people…er…I mean her prayer team glued two pennies to the picture of a hand. The purpose of the pennies is explained on page 3 of my letter. I’ll give you the details in a couple of minutes.

So anyway, I get this letter that goes on about the widow at the temple. I have to admit, the Fairy Godmother does a yeoman’s job of twisting the scripture. She somehow concludes that the way to break the curse of financial bondage (whatever that is) is to follow the lead of the old woman in Luke 21. If we do that, she says, we will have a financial breakthrough. She even explains to us that the word “poor” actually means “hard working, industrious”.

Try as I might, I can’t find that definition in any of the lexicons or dictionaries I used. All I saw in Strong’s Lexicon was:

PTOCHOS (a transliteration) 1 reduced to beggary, begging, asking alms. 2 destitute of wealth, influence, position, honor. 2A lowly, afflicted, destitute of the Christian virtues and eternal riches. 2B helpless, powerless to accomplish an end. 2C poor, needy. 3 lacking in anything.

And the word PENECHROS means poor.

Anybody want to show me where it says ‘hardworking’ in there? Basically, she lied to you. She read into the verse and made it say what she wanted it to say so she could hit you up for some money. And since you don’t read your Bible, you don’t know any better.

But then Hickey does something else I find absolutely amazing. She sets herself and her team apart from the rest of us poor swine. In the letter, on page three, she says…well, here, take a look at an image of the item.

She tells you straight up that you are a bunch of spiritual dunces who need her and her team to pray for you.

Is that what the Bible says? Does it say there is a financial anointing or that some people are more anointed than others? Definitely not!

And while this pimpette is busy trying to get you to focus on attaining riches to prove you have faith, the rest of the world has to live in reality.

Take a look at what happened in Bangladesh when a man became a Christian.

Or the Chinese woman who became a Christian and was beat to death when she passed out tracts at the market. Here is a picture of her and the result of the state’s handiwork

Instead of praying for my financial breakthrough, why doesn’t she use some of that powerful anointing to pray for the persecuted saints in countries where you could lose your life for believing? She probably thinks they don’t have enough faith to make their pocketbooks full of money, and keep their health supernaturally perfect.

Why not pray for the people who are doing the persecuting? Instead, she wastes your time by offering to pray for your financial breakthrough.

What swill.

By the way, you know who used her ‘End Times’ handbook as the source for teaching Revelation? I hate to say it, but it was (drum roll here please) John Jenkins from First Baptist Church of Glenarden. You may want to ask him about that. When I asked him about it, he said he would talk to me later, but never did.

Posted by Melvin Jones on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005 at 11:27 pm.