How Did Benny Hinn Know What to Do?
How did he understand his call?
In February 1972, when he was “born again,” Benny Hinn began to sense his call. He saw himself in a vision, preaching to an enormous crowd.
Then, in December of 1973, young Benny Hinn went with his dear friend Jim Poynter, a Free Methodist minister, to attend a service led by Kathryn Kulhman. It was the first time he heard Kathryn preach. Her message helped this young man connect in new ways to the Holy Spirit. Her message seemed to speak to him personally, and to strengthen his call. By April 1974 he began to have visions. He saw a large, deep valley, a roaring inferno of fire and thousands of people falling into it. The Lord spoke to him to preach the Gospel. The message of the Holy Spirit was that Benny must preach to help save souls.
Young Benny Hinn began to speak at meetings. In December 1974, Stan and Shirley Phillips invited him to give his testimony at their church in Oshawa, which was the beginning of “this ministry, which is the ministry of the Holy Spirit” as Pastor Benny wrote in his journal. He had suffered from childhood with a stutter. That night, as Pastor Benny got up to speak, God loosened his stammering tongue and healed him from stuttering.
In April 1975, Benny's photo appeared in the Toronto Star for a little Pentecostal church in which he was preaching. His father and mother, Costandi and Clemence, saw his picture and went to the meeting. Later that night he opened the Scripture to his parents and led them to the Lord.
In this phase of his ministry, Pastor Benny preached at a series of meeting held on Monday evenings in Toronto and in churches in Canada and the United States. Pastor Benny gave testimony under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
From this beginning was started a great ministry. A recent culmination of this call occurred when Benny Hinn preached the Gospel to 4.8 million in India.
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