God Can Use Flawed People

According to the FreshFire.ca website, home of Fresh Fire Ministries of Todd Bentley and Florida Healing Outpouring fame, Todd Bentley and his wife are seperated and Todd has stepped down from the board of the ministry he started due to entering into an unhealthy relationship with a female staff member.

Now what really sucks about this is that Todd's marital and personal problems are going to further the controversy of the Lakeland revival. Any time you have a move of God, you have a move of flesh. For every genuine move of the Holy Spirit, you will inevitably have people acting out of emotionalism or a desire for attention. However, that doesn't discredit or disprove the touch of God. Through personal experience, my wife and I were genuinely blessed by the Holy Spirit and ministered to through watching the revival on GodTV.

It's really sad, yet amazing and a beautiful insight into God's grace. As the God of the universe, omnipotent and omniscient, God knew that Todd would make mistakes and, whether he cheated sexually or not, damage his relationship with his wife. Yet God used Todd anyways to deliver revival and healing to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people all over the globe.

Due to Todd's mistakes, there will be thousands of Christians that point the finger of judgement and say "Ha! I knew he was a fake! I knew the revival was a false move!" To those people, I say the following. I am only one guy and can only speak from my own experience, but God used Todd Bentley and his ministry in a great way. And though Todd has fallen, we shouldn't lump God and Todd into the same category. If anything, this shows us that EVERYONE, regardless of fame, religious prominence or projected holiness, desperately needs God's grace and forgiveness.

This is another reason why we should worship God and not a man. How many of us make mistakes on a daily basis? Most of us are blessed with relative anonymity when compared to a preacher in front of a camera being broadcast to over 100 nations. When in the spotlight you are under a microscope...a bug in a jar. Every mistake you make gets amplified and magnified and people expect nothing short of Christ-like perfection. As we all know, those expecations are not realistic and when they aren't met, as humans we feel hurt and let down and so we lash out in our religious zeal. We need to keep in mind that whole moat-beam in the eye thing...

I hope I do not sound like I'm condoning or excusing indecent or possibly cheating behavior or that I'm excusing Bentley's bad behavior in whatever form it occured. I'm simply saying that people should not discredit God's moving simply because of human error.

On a totally different note, today I saw a video of Louie Giglio speaking about the vastness of the universe, the massive size of several stars in comparison to the earth, and the amazingness of the human body. God is so much bigger than we can fathom, and though we are so insignificant in comparison to the massiveness of the ever expanding universe, God loves us and we are ever in the palm of his hand. Do some YouTube searching and check it out. It will absolutely wreck you and bring you to a whole new level of admiration and wonder for this amazing God we serve who breathes out stars and hangs this world on nothing. His signature is everywhere and it is truly indescribable.