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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwu-d4sTYi0

At 43:50 TL Lowery tells the people to lay hands on somebody and say I heal you in Jesus name...Do it, Do it, Do it, lay hands on somebody and heal em.

First, if you listened to that whole sermon and that's what you got out of it, you weren't listening...you were trying to collect evidence so you could shed doubt.Yes, WE heal them...IN THE NAME OF JESUS. Just like we PRAY for them...IN THE NAME OF JESUS.Everything we do is in the Name AND the power of Jesus. If you sang a song and it ministered deeply to folks, would you claim you hadn't sung the song? No, but you would note that its was the power of the Lord.Here's another way to look at it: You didn't heal them by YOUR power...but they wouldn't have been healed if you hadn't prayed for them, laid hands on them, etc. If Peter and John had walked by the lame man, he would have remained lame, at least for the time being. God COULD heal everyone with just a thought. But instead, WE are to pray for them, WE are to believe, WE are to lay hands on them. We're part of the healing that God administers! It's HIS power, but He's given us POWER by the Holy Ghost.Now, if someone comes to town claiming to heal and thinks it's all him, he's in error.Further, would God bless T. L. Lowery's ministry as He has if it was in deep error for the last 50 years? NO!

Aaron, I've heard Rev Lowery preach all my life, so no, I wasn't trying to collect evidence to shed doubt. I listened to Rev Lowery's introduction of Parsley being the best pastor and best preacher in the world, then skipped to three other portions and listened for 2-3 minutes each. It was classic Rev Lowery, the same Rev Lowery I heard for the first time at 13 years of age at a camp meeting.I don't have to try to collect evidence on anyone. If evidence is there it will surface on its own. The lens of one's worldview or the mere ability to discern (or both) will show it for what it is.

Several things....One was the insight that we aren't told to pray for the harvest, but to pray for the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers.Another was the number of people being saved around the world.Another was the urgency with which he preached, emphasizing that we ought to be telling the world about Jesus (I think he quoted someone as saying something like, Why should anyone hear the gospel twice until others have heard it once?)

According to Steve Lowery's Facebook, his dad TL Lowery preached at National COG (where Steve pastors & his dad formerly pastored) on November 29, 2015. He called it an increasingly rare event.It's been said on here previously that Pastor Lowery & his wife Mildred were residents in a nursing home in TN. Not sure if that has changed since she passed More of Him...less of me.http://twitter.com/camiracle77http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name

I'm not one of those turn to your neighbor types, but I also know that T.L. Lowery has a larger-than-life personality. And since we both know the wonderful fruit of his life, it's something that is easy to look over.Another thing that came to me, while we might be somewhat intimidated to preach to such large congregations, you can't find one big enough to intimidate T.L. Lowery. I think he would be chomping at the bits to preach at the Super Bowl halftime show.One thing I've liked about him (at least in retrospect) was that he would mingle with some ministers that many other look askance at. He loved them all. That didn't mean he agreed with everything they did and said, but by continuing the relationship, it gave him ongoing access to impact and direct their lives, to speak to them what the Lord would have him say, etc. He just refused to play the games that other preachers played.A few year ago, during the economic downturn when I had lost my job (and would be out of a full-time for 2.5 years), he came to one of my friends' churches. Oh, what a time we had. And then, when we had no income, I felt the Lord tell me to give him $1000!!! WHAT??? That can't be God--God knows I don't have a job, my wife had a mini-stroke that put her out of a job for months, and we're living on my modest IRA rollover! I had never been told to give anyone $1000 before.l But I did it, because I couldn't bear to think of how I would feel if I didn't do it. And I wanted so badly to be a part of a ministry that was walking in the power of the Holy Ghost in such a way. Long story short....I never added a SINGLE DIME to my IRA during all that time. We had to take THOUSANDS from it. But as God is my witness, I had MORE in the IRA when it was over, than when it began!!!

Wayne, NO!

Lowery simply pushes the books he believes God gave him--and he does it without apology. If you wrote a song, I'm sure you would expect royalties, etc. Same principle.As for selling in church, first, it's not the temple. I dare say plenty of folks have sold chicken dinners in the fellowship hall, which, as everyone knows, the Bible tells us that it's OK to do it there, but not in the sanctuary (SMILE).If you have something value, why would you put your light under a bushel? Yes, Lowery is bold as a lion. He always has been. It's part of what sets him apart as a man of God. He will pray for you on a commercial airline, in a restaurant, etc.--and do it loudly and boldly. Further, if God was as upset about it as some of us, I'm thinking that He'd let Lowery know...and Bro. Lowery would listen. Or He'd withdraw His anointing.

If I were a published author and had gone to the trouble and expense to have my work published on a topic I felt God had laid upon my heart, I had sure better be actively promoting that book virtually every chance I get, or else I'm not even going to break even on the book, and very few are going to be benefitted by the message of my book.