Michelle Loubon

A tsuna­mi of praise, wor­ship, Holy Ghost anoint­ing and heal­ing swept through the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo at the week­end, as Amer­i­can tel­e­van­ge­list Pas­tor Ben­ny Hinn's mir­a­cle cru­sade at­tract­ed thou­sands.Hinn was a spe­cial guest of Wood­brook Pen­te­costal pas­tors Os­bert and An­gela Williams. They were joined by oth­er lead­ers from the Full Gospel hi­er­ar­chy like Os­wald James and broad­cast­er Mar­garet El­cock for the week­end event.

On Sat­ur­day, Hinn, pop­u­lar­ly dubbed "a ser­vant of God," shared a prophet­ic word about him­self to the thou­sands who turned out.Hinn said, "Be­fore I die, I will preach to the Mus­lims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syr­ia and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it un­der the um­brel­la of God. And see its im­pact. The door is be­ing opened." Dur­ing the ser­vice, Hinn preached a mes­sage of sal­va­tion.

Hinn said, "The great­est mir­a­cle is sal­va­tion. Re­ceive Je­sus Christ."He al­so preached a mes­sage of pros­per­i­ty which re­mind­ed every­one about the wealth of Old Tes­ta­ment pa­tri­archs like Abra­ham, Joseph and Solomon. Hinn said, "There is com­ing a trans­fer of wealth to the Church in Trinidad. God will take the wealth of the sin­ner and put it in your hands. You are the next wealth­i­est per­son. The Lord wants to bless you."

As a boy, Hinn was taught by Catholic monks and nuns who preached pover­ty was the way to get to Heav­en. When he read the Scrip­tures, Hinn said, "The faith­ful man will abound with bless­ings."

Peo­ple con­fess to heal­ing

When Hinn is­sued the call for heal­ing, peo­ple in wheel­chairs, the in­firm and weak were brought for­ward. They were sup­port­ed by Hinn's team mem­bers. Al­though they re­mained anony­mous, sev­er­al peo­ple tes­ti­fied af­ter­wards about "the warm feel­ing" that had mirac­u­lous­ly cured them from arthri­tis, di­a­betes, heart ail­ments and even uri­nary tract in­fec­tions.

Hinn told a Bar­ba­di­an cou­ple, Jenelle and Vic­to­ria, that they would get deep­er in God's min­istry. While Hinn was speak­ing, a bit of oil ap­peared on Vic­to­ria's hand. Hinn told An­gela Williams that "a re­vival would come to Trinidad in part through her."Speak­ing about the event, Pas­tor Williams said, "It is won­der­ful to have Hinn. Our na­tion needs him at this time."