Live Blogging: Bishop Eddie Long Says People Who Have Money Don't Get Upset When They Lose it, Poverty is Not a Spirit, It's a Mentality

Bishop Long says poverty is not a spirit, it's a mentality and if you keep seeing yourself as poor, you will remain in poverty and God wants to give us wealth.

Live-Blogging New Birth Services: Bishop Eddie L. Long tells congregation that poverty is not a spirit, it's a mentality. He said rich people don't get upset when they lose money because they know how to make it back. He said Donald Trump lost a lot of money a few years ago and made it back in two years. He's pushing wealth transfer, saying God will illuminate that to believers when they are ready to walk into wealth. He said he and his wife went to the movie and decided to spend the movie on "their" side of town to give the money back to their community, inside of on the "other" side of town. They had planned on starting a Whole Foods stores, another way to rob the church members. He says the older he gets, the more he finds out what life is all about.

He said you don't have to go through hell to know what it's like and he chuckled. He added, I won't touch that. Yielding podium to Bishop George C. Bloomer from North Carolina, (family came from Jamaica) who Bishop Long says is a man of transparency and integrity. He said he is so happy to be in the light of Bishop Eddie Long. Laughable.

Mark 5: Man met them out of the tombs with an unclean spirit. He had often been bound with chains and fetters. When he saw Jesus afar off he ran over and worshiped him. No matter what your situation is, worship Jesus. The Devil tried to kill me, but my praise wouldn't let it happen -- thought for today, Boomer said. The storms that come to make us strong, can make us weak first. If you don't buckle under the pressure, then you get all the storm was meant to teach you.

He asked why does God allow the enemy to get close enough to touch us when he knows the enemy want to kill us. Why do we praise him under that type of pressure because praise is in you. Is he not speaking to the mess with Bishop Eddie L. Long and his gay sexual scandal? Bloomer said his family comes from Jamaica and his grandmother would say anyone who messes with them, she would threaten voodoo. He said his father wasn't a good guy, but his mother wouldn't allow him to say anything bad about it. Said his father left him at the door by not coming to take him Christmas shopping and that started his downward spiral to drugs, prison, etc. The enemy wants to stop you at your greatest trial so you can't get to your greatest accomplishment.

The first thing he does is to get rid of hearsay. If you can get that broken over your life, then you can move forward. If you keep replying, you're dead. Only Jesus can keep your mind regulated. He said every demonic spirit that is in your, holding your pocketbook is broken today. He said "tell someone we're about to be paid now." The spirit of poverty in Greek mythology is depicted as a rat - a human body with rat's head -- called Nibbles. He said you have to walk over to the Devil and say take your best shot -- when I come up, I'll come up more powerful. He said all you have to do is speak whatever you want to happen in your life out in the open. God is using to Devil to take care of the stuff you couldn't handle. Make sure you hook up with someone big enough and bad enough to walk with you into the devil's camp to get your stuff back.

People started walking to the front and putting money in a receptacle when Bloomer hit a crescendo! God allows us to go through things to build our faith and character. Storms come make you weak first before it makes you stronger. He said God is about to break every yoke in your life. The people are screaming and carrying on. I have never seen anything like this before. A real Jim Jones cult-like atmosphere. They are coming forward and putting money in a container on the altar. Seems funny that Bloomer should be hollering about money flows when the covenant isn't broken. He drives a Bentley. Yes, a Bentley.

MONEY GRAB: Bishop Bloomer ended by telling 30 people God will wipe away their problems if they sow $1,000, then called for 60 and 100 to also sow a seed. Bishop Long leads charge laying his offering on the altar.

He's telling the congregation that he breaks every financial struggle in church today. He closed by saying nothing happens that gets pass God. He knows what's coming. He said from June 26 to August 1, the walls are opening up and angels are coming in the room. Everyone has been touched with an angel's wing. Exodus 23:20. The angel will carry you to the place where your blessing and miracle are. I'm just shaking my head. Watch out June 26 - August 1, 2011, is a season of blessings. He said his house went into foreclosure and he went and bought the house back at the auction for $330,000 + less and paid for it cash, wiping out 20 years of mortgage. He said he wants New Birth to become a 100 percent tithing church. He said 30 people will walk into their destiny through a miracle in the season. He asked for an uncommon seed of $1,000 to be sowed.  A whole group of people have walked up to the stage to give money, what some clearly don't have. How is George Bloomer any different from a street hustler? He blesses 30, 60, 100 people. He's still asking for more money from these. If 100 people give $30, that's $30,000. Seems like being a pastor of a mega-church is akin to running a big company. Why would you want any other job when you can run such a scheme on gullible people? Bishop Long joined the crowd and gave his offering, but Vanessa Long was no where to be seen. Shouldn't she have been standing next to her husband? This was such a concerted effort to collect a lot of money from the congregation, some of whom were probably giving their last dollar in the hopes of getting a miracle tenfold, which may not materialize. This isn't about obedience, this was a shakedown, plain and simple.

Still no sign of Vanessa Long, though Bishop Eddie Long joined the crowd to give his offering at the altar, shouldn't she have also stood to give her offering too?

Let me end by again asking, where is Vanessa Long? The camera doesn't pan to her, so one has to keep asking why we can't see Mrs. Long. Eddie Long always makes a point of referencing her when he talks, but we can't seem to see her. What's up with that? Why was Rev. Bloomer's sermon on trials and how to respond? If he's such a man of integrity, why hasn't he encouraged his "covenant friend" to speak about his actions and what led him to an alleged multi-million settlement with Spencer LeGrande, Maurice Robinson, Anthony Flagg and Jamal Parris?

It was shocking to hear Bishop Bloomer telling the congregation in the second service that the church doors aren't going to close. They also had a money grab in the second service, much like the first.