Salvaged Friendship

G’day Everyone!

Today is the most important post of my life. I have just spent from the last few months to the previous last few days of this week as I was praying for a close friend of mine.

Last Saturday, June 19th, 2010, I was on my email list when all of a sudden, came an email of an apology and sorrow from a friend that I have been praying for so long that appeared in my inbox.

That one very precious window of opportunity for me to talk to my friend was opening for me.
The timing was very directed by God.

My friend and I spent talking via email first and then we moved to unblock each other in the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). We chatted. I asked him if he wanted to see me in person. He said “Yes!”
We move to VP and chatted some more.
Finally I drove on down to see him in person.
We needed nobody else involved. God was the perfect mediator in all of this and that is Jesus Christ. We sat, talked, and discussed “the problem” that came before us.

The events that happened were more of a “perfect storm of friendship damage” that was caused by a deaf preacher, who was a self-described anointer and prophet, at a Deaf Bible Camp in the Summer of 2009 in which my friend was attending.

Samson (this is not his real name) was attending this Deaf Bible camp in the Summer of 2009. Samson has some serious health issues and has wanted to be married for a long time. He has been praying about his life, health, and other issues.

During the camp services, this deaf preacher turned the service into a anointing with oil service, in which one of the camp preachers anointed Samson with oil, in which Samson had prayed and get right with God. It helped Samson to get right with God in other issues, but he doesn’t think about marriage at that time.

Later in that afternoon at lunch time, this deaf preacher turned on his “prophet” abilities and told Samson this: “Samson, you will have a wife!”
Samson did not believe it at first and thought the preacher was joking.
That preacher asked Samson if he was anointed with oil in the service, and he said “yes”. So the preacher said it again one more time, “You will have a wife!”

Samson was happy to hear that “prophecy”. But those words of false prophecy were like gasoline being tossed upon Samson’s flames of hope. Once the words were spoken, it was like a gas bomb exploding for Samson’s hopes into a big time dream of marriage.

But the Word of God (KJV) says in Matthew 24:4-5 “And Jesus answered and said unto them ‘Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many.’
Matthew 24:11-12 “And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”
Matthew 24: 23-24 “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”

Samson came home from that deaf bible camp and believing that he would have a wife very soon.

2-3 months pass. No wife or even a girlfriend for Samson. Samson explodes into a BLIND RAGE in which he attacks me for no specific reason. In his BLIND RAGE, he accused me of destroying his life. That was because he and I had been best friends for a very long time in our lives.

For a while, it left me dazed and confused of just how I could do that to Samson? I sat at my desk, thinking in deep thought of just went wrong in my life between me and Samson.

I talked to my group of friends in Christ, who have long held my trust of confidence. Samson wasn’t talking to me at all. He had gone moody and quiet. That left me very concerned about Samson very much.

During the months that went past in prayer from September 2009 to the present, I tossed out two friends of my inner circle who I thought had unjustly broken my confidence. I would never know the mistake of I’ve done to my two friends until much later.

I kept on sitting the back porch, praying with God and praying for Samson’s life and our friendship. I just needed ONE chance to talk to him.

I missed the many opportunities to be there for Samson. His being in the hospital three times and his brother’s funeral. I prayed for his healing in the hospital. I prayed that God would comfort him since I could not be there for him at the funeral, but sent a condolence card for him with the name “SHERLOCK” on it.

I admit I gave up on Samson and turned him over to God because I felt so helpless of what to do for Samson. But God doesn’t give up! God just knows the perfect timing.

Things came to a conclusion very shortly.

When Samson was touched by God, after praying for healing, because he was scared of dying: God gave him direction to apologize to his friend (me). That’s all it took for two old friends to finally sit down and discuss things.
When I asked Samson what lead to the events of his displeasure of anger, he told me the whole story that starts right back to this deaf preacher/anointer/prophet at that Deaf Bible Camp.

I couldn’t believe it. My friend, Samson, got hurt and deceived by this person! This person’s attempted healing and prophecy on Samson produced more harm than good intentions!! It hurt me and several other friends around Samson.

Samson and I are back to being good friends again. But it will not be the same friendship that we had before. We are in a rebuilding of friendship mode right now.

But for that deaf preacher/ deaf oil anointer/ deaf prophet? He better hope he doesn’t meet up with Samson this year at that Deaf Bible Camp because Samson wants to tell him what GOD says about a deaf preacher acting like a faith healer/prophet: YER IN TROUBLE WITH GOD, Dude! SERIOUSLY!

Samson is still hurting. He’s still healing. He’s getting counseling. But above all, his friends and I have closed ranks around him much more closely. We all want to guard Samson very much.

For you, my friends, be aware about these deaf preachers, who act like faith healers and prophets. Tell them several choice words: “Get the heck out of God’s house (CHURCH)! There is NO PLACE for you here!” Make sure the pastor of the church follows through on that.


Thank you, Samson, for sharing your experience with us. I thank you for being my friend again.

Sherlock Steve
Semper FI!