Re: how much do you think God has given you?
I know what you mean. Many years ago I also heard Benny publicly confess that he no longer believed in the prosperity gospel, but shortly thereafter he was preaching it again. I recently heard that he denied it again. I really don't know because I did not hear that one from his lips. One thing I know is that poor Benny sounds very, very confused. At times I've heard him request prayer for a spanking from God if we see him getting off. I've never seen any of them this confused. The rest of them sound confident in their false beliefs.
I think people have flocked to Benny because of his shows of slaying people in the Spirit. He has great claims of praying the prayer of faith and people getting healed from major things, but I just don't see that. I have heard some claims from people who have had minor healings under his ministry.
Many of these ministers promote themselves to have great gifts that will get people healed and delivered in their advertisements, but when a person actually goes to the meetings they find little power. It seems to be a ploy to get people there so they can then extort money from them and use them to add to their numbers. They love to brag about how many people went to their meetings. When I first came back to the Lord I fell for this myself for a short time before I could see what was going on. I saw a lot of people falling over, but where were the great miracles that they claimed would happen?
I am convinced that God can and does heal and deliver us less famed people when we pray without the help of these well promoted ministers. The problem is that people are so convinced that they need to seek after men for these things that they neglect seeking after the God who will do the work in them if they would just seek Him. God is no respecter of persons.