MARILYN HICKEY
TBN Televangelist and often one of the guest speakers at International Chrismatic Bible Ministries (ICBM) conferences.
Marilyn Hickey, much like Tilton, employs a broad range of tactics to manipulate followers into sending her money. Among her many ploys are anointed prayer cloths, ceremonial breastplates, and ropes that can be used as points of contact. In one of her appeal letters, Hickey promises she will slip into a ceremonial breastplate, "press your prayer request to my heart," and "place your requests on my shoulders" -- all for a suggested donation.(Marilyn Hickey Ministries, direct-mail piece, on file at CRI)
For the most part, Hickey's tricks and teachings are recycled from other prosperity peddlers like Tilton, Hagin, and Copeland. Her message is peppered with such Faith jargon as "the God-kind of faith," "confession brings possession," and "receiving follows giving." (From numerous TBN shows)
Marilyn Hickey, chairman of the board of regents of Oral Roberts University and author of "God's Seven Keys To Make You Rich", was mightily touched by Rodney Howard-Browne in Lakeland ... Hickey -- who dispenses miracle prayer cloths ... and demonstrates how Christians can create wealth by speaking to their wallets -- got extraordinarily excited about the laughter in Lakeland (a Rodney Howard-Browne meeting). Hickey's life and that of her daughter Sarah were "dramatically changed" as she "spent the entire time on the floor laughing". (Hank Hanegraaff, Counterfeit Revival, 1997 citing Charles and France s hunter, "Holy Laughter" (Kingwood, TX: Hunter Books, 1994), 35-36)
"What do you need? Start creating it. Start speaking about it. Start speaking it into being. Speak to your billfold. Say, "You big, thick billfold full of money." Speak to your checkbook. Say, "You, checkbook, you. You've never been so prosperous since I owned you. You're just jammed full of money." (Marilyn Hickey, "Claim Your Miracles" (Denver: Marilyn Hickey Ministries, n.d.), audiotape #186, side 2)
Marilyn Hickey was a Trinity Music City. She had people hold their hands palm side up and had the audience say, "there are miracles in my hands." Marilyn helped solidify that the manifestations of miracles are in the hands of the people with the cry, "Don't give up until you get your manifestation." (E-mail from Ed Tarkowski, Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:47:20)
PART II HICKEY'S UNSCRIPTURAL TEACHINGS —Charismatic healing evangelist Marilyn Hickey says it is always God's will to heal and God does not chasten us by sickness, disease or poverty (5/15/91 CC). At recent meetings in Pakistan, where anyone trying to convert Muslims faces imprisonment or death, Hickey said the key to avoiding offense there is to not talk about conversion. She believes one day God will transform Islamic nations (e.g., Pakistan) into Christian societies (10/99 Charisma). "Pakistan is not going to be a goat nation. It's going to be a sheep nation."
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