Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter.<\/a><\/p>\nThe pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.<\/p>\n
At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial bid.<\/p>\n
In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: \u201cAs I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he\u2019s so bold. And he was praying \u201cLord make a way, Lord make a way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m thinking, this guy\u2019s really bold, he doesn\u2019t even know what I\u2019m going to do, he doesn\u2019t know what my plans are. And he\u2019s praying not \u201coh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,\u201d no, he just prayed for it. He said \u201cLord make a way and let her do this next step. And that\u2019s exactly
\nwhat happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
She then adds: \u201cSo, again, very very powerful, coming from this church,\u201d before the presiding pastor comments on the \u201cprophetic power\u201d of the event.<\/p>\n
An African evangelist, Pastor Muthee has given guest sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God on at least 10 occasions in his role as the founder of the Word of Faith Church, also known as the Prayer Cave.<\/p>\n
Pastor Muthee founded the Prayer Cave in 1989 in Kiambu, Kenya after \u201cGod spoke\u201d to him and his late wife Margaret and called him to the country, according to the church\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
The pastor speaks of his offensive against a demonic presence in the town in a trailer for the evangelical video \u201cTransformations\u201d, made by Sentinel Group, a Christian research and information agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place,\u201d Pastor Muthee says.<\/p>\n
After the spirit was broken, the crime rate dropped to almost zero and there was \u201cexplosive church growth\u201d while almost every bar in the town closed down, the video says.<\/p>\n
The full Transformations video featuring Pastor Muthee\u2019s story has recently been removed from YouTube but the rest of the story is detailed in a 1999 article in the Christian Science Monitor, as well as on numerous evangelical websites.<\/p>\n
According to the Christian Science Monitor, six months of fervent prayer and research identified the source of the witchcraft as a local woman called Mama Jane, who ran a \u201cdivination\u201d centre called the Emmanuel Clinic.<\/p>\n
Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town\u2019s ills, and order her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.<\/p>\n
Says the Monitor, \u201cMuthee held a crusade that \u201cbrought about 200 people to Christ\u201d.\u201d They set up round-the-clock prayer intercession in the basement of a grocery store and eventually, says the pastor \u201cthe demonic influence \u2013 the \u2018principality\u2019 over Kiambu \u2013was broken\u201d, and Mama Jane fled
\nthe town.<\/p>\n
According to accounts of the witchhunt circulated on evangelical websites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned. Public outrage eventually led the police to
\nraid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon.<\/p>\n
After Mama Jane was questioned by police \u2013 and released \u2013 she decided it was time to leave town, the account says.<\/p>\n
Pastor Muthee has frequently referred to this witchhunt in his sermons as an example of the power of \u201cspiritual warfare\u201d. In October 2005, he delivered ten sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God, the audio of which was available on the church\u2019s website until it was removed around the time Mrs Palin\u2019s candidacy was announced. The blog Irregular Times has listings and screen grabs of the sermons.<\/p>\n
It was during that these sermons that Mrs Palin, who was then preparing for her gubernatorial run, was anointed by Pastor Muthee. His intercession, she says, was \u201cawesome\u201d.<\/p>\n
Her June 8 speech was to mark the graduation of students from the Wasilla Assembly of God\u2019s Masters\u2019 Commission, which, as Pastor Ed Kalins explains, believes Alaska will be the refuge for American evangelicals upon the coming \u201cEnd of Days\u201d. After her speech, Mrs Palin was presented with an honorary Masters\u2019 Commission diploma.<\/p>\n
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16 September 2008 Hannah Strange News Reporter, Times Online Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter. The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells. At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-NI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}