Sarah Palin Linked Her Electoral Success to Prayer of Kenyan Witch
Hunter

By Hannah Strange, The Times of London UK. Posted September 18, 2008.

The pastor who accused a Kenyan woman of causing car accidents through
demonic spells "laid his hands" on Palin in prayer.

The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor
of Alaska founded his ministry with a witch hunt against a Kenyan
woman whom he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.

At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, 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.

In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: "As I was mayor
and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know
how he speaks and he's so bold. And he was praying "Lord make a way,
Lord make a way."

"And I'm thinking, this guy's really bold, he doesn't even know what
I'm going to do, he doesn't know what my plans are. And he's praying
not "Oh Lord, if it be your will may she become governor," no, he just
prayed for it. He said, "Lord make a way and let her do this next
step. And that's exactly what happened."

She then adds: "So, again, very, very powerful, coming from this
church," before the presiding pastor comments on the "prophetic power"
of the event.

An African evangelist, 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.

Muthee founded the Prayer Cave in 1989 in Kiambu, Kenya, after "God
spoke" to him and his late wife, Margaret, and called him to the
country, according to the church's Web site.

The pastor speaks of his offensive against a demonic presence in the
town in a trailer for the evangelical video "Transformations," made by
Sentinel Group, a Christian research and information agency.

"We prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft
resting over the place," Muthee says.

After the spirit was broken, the crime rate dropped to almost zero and
there was "explosive church growth" while almost every bar in the town
closed down, the video says.

The full "Transformations" video featuring Muthee's 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 Web sites.

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 "divination" center called the
Emmanuel Clinic.

Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived
near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Muthee to
publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town's ills and order
her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.

Says the Monitor, "Muthee held a crusade that 'brought about 200
people to Christ.'" They set up around-the-clock prayer intercession
in the basement of a grocery store and eventually, says the pastor,
"the demonic influence -- the 'principality' over Kiambu -- was
broken," and Mama Jane fled the town.

According to accounts of the witch hunt that circulated on evangelical
Web sites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after 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 raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet
python they believed to be a demon.

After Mama Jane was questioned by police -- and released -- she
decided it was time to leave town, the account says.

Muthee has frequently referred to this witch hunt in his sermons as an
example of the power of "spiritual warfare." In October 2005, he
delivered 10 sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God, the audio of
which was available on the church's Web site until it was removed
around the time Palin's candidacy was announced. The blog Irregular
Times has listings and screen grabs of the sermons.

It was during these sermons that Palin, who was then preparing for her
gubernatorial run, was anointed by Muthee. His intercession, she says,
was "awesome."

Her June 8 speech was to mark the graduation of students from the
Wasilla Assembly of God's Masters' Commission, which, as Pastor Ed
Kalins explains, believes Alaska will be the refuge for American
evangelicals upon the coming "End of Days." After her speech, Palin
was presented with an honorary Masters' Commission diploma.