Healing Mileage

Lodi man says he can heal the sick, increase gas mileage [Excerpts]

When customers enter Denis' Country Kitchen, owner Denis Xenos often asks them how they're doing.

A typical greeting by a business person, but if the customer says something like, "My back is hurting me," Xenos will give an unexpected response:

"Good news! God wants to heal you -- right now."

Xenos then takes the customer outside to the back of his restaurant on West Lockeford Street, places his hand on the ailing body part and offers a prayer.

And in three or four minutes, the customer is usually no longer in pain, he says. Sometimes he says a second or third dose of healing is needed to complete the job.

He also maintains he has the power, through God, to cure people of simple aches and pains, not to mention major illnesses. Xenos said he has cured a couple dozen people of whatever ailed them.

Through the power God has given the human race, Xenos said that President John F. Kennedy's life could have been saved in 1963, and he can increase gas mileage to help overcome the $3-per-gallon gas prices.

There are two requirements, Xenos said -- you must believe in God and Jesus Christ. You must also believe that people have the same ability as Jesus to heal people.

God's power to heal includes fatal injuries, emotional problems and even the economy, Xenos insists. A reporter gave him a scenario in each subject area. Here are his responses.

- The Kennedy assassination. After being shot in 1963, he was obviously incapable of "believing" anything since he was unconscious, so that duty would have fallen to Jacqueline Kennedy. If someone like Xenos was present and the first lady "believed," John F. Kennedy would be alive today, Xenos said.

- A man whose wife had filed for divorce. Xenos couldn't force the wife to rescind the divorce proceedings, but through prayer, he could help change the husband's personality so the wife would want him back.

- $3-per-gallon for gasoline. He can't reduce the price of gas, but through prayer, he can increase one's gas mileage.

"I just blessed the gas in my car," he said. "You just get into your car confidently, and you go!"

http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2005/09/30/news/2_faith_050930.prt

[TBC: Such statements are similar to unfulfilled prophecies uttered by Kenneth Copeland, "God will cause your automobile . . . [that gets] 10 miles to the gallon to get 70 miles . . . the same old car!" -- "The Berean Call," March 1997.]