Another CFNI happening is related on page 229. We are not told here whether this incident took place while he was a student, or while he was a teacher. Regardless, fifty to sixty men decide to meet in the CFNI library all night. At 4 a.m., "the room swooned." All of the men are "slain in the Spirit." They lie as dead men for about twenty minutes (no witnesses offered).

Then, Someone is heard walking up the steps to the room, easily distinguishable by a certain flopping of sandals. The "Presence" walks past Maloney, still barely conscious on the floor. He even feels the "hem of His garment" cover his body. The Person goes around the room letting His garment fall on various men (they later told him, but still no witnesses). "Jesus" then quietly leaves the room.

In one of the only other dates he gives for his life story, we are in 1979. He is a twenty-three-year-old traveling minister now. He tells of a service where everyone is healed. Wow. No place name or people names given. Just believe.

At this time, like the Annapolis thing above, he is handed an opportunity that is hard to refuse. A famous evangelist, unnamed, sees Maloney's gifts, and says, "Come with us." All he has to do is ignore the local church, and focus on "our auditorium ministry,". They will support his ministry totally, and life will be sweet. But Maloney refuses. He believes in the local church.

At some time, and in some place that he calls generically "Backwater USA," he is a Pastor. Not much is said about his pastorate. No way to look it up. There’s a pattern here.

Somewhere and at some unknown time, he receives a Doctor of Divinity degree, a Doctor of Theology degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree, aka a PhD. Such a scholar!

For over twenty years, we are told, he is a teacher in "several" Bible schools, including CFNI, and also the Kingdom Faith Training Center in Horsham England.

He ministers in forty countries over the years, though he mentions only several ministries in India in this book. Perhaps the reason he cannot speak more freely is because those "other" countries are closed nations in the Middle East and Asia? 250-300 services yearly is the pace he reaches at one point, but for how long we are not told.

He licenses and ordains hundreds of pastors. But under whose authority we also have to guess. A list would be impossible to produce.

And oh, in 2000, twenty-five years later, that 1975 angel reappears, and the gift of faith that had been promised then, is finally ignited (page 297). According to our author this particular anointing crawls up his right leg, then his right side. It flows out of his right hand. And the angel says that if he can get people to believe he had this visitation, the anointing will be released.

So, the key to receiving from James Maloney is to believe in James Maloney. If he can mesmerize a seeker long enough to make that person believe in his special powers, something just might happen...

He goes on to say that "It's a rush to feel" this anointing. And that people's reactions are often humorous. When the “burst” comes out, he has to draw his hand back. The anointing then rolls back up his arm. And it only works when people are standing in front of him.

Oh. I see.

He is presently the President of Acts Group International. That we know and can prove. His wife is Joy and as of 2008, they had one son and two grandsons. He's written several books including the one we peruse now, the Dancing Hand of God, 2008.

MORE MIRACLES

Following are other miraculous personal experiences Maloney relates, with no dates or places given. Hence, no way, again, to trace their accuracy.

(Page 245) He has a dream. He sees a famous preacher who has an adulterous mind. God speaks audibly to James in this dream, he even sees His lips move, saying he could have this adultery also, but he would be defiled and defile others. Of course, James refuses such an offer.

(Pages 267, 269) He claims to have experienced gold dust and jewels, another of the phenomena of the day. He personally believes it is God "enticing and romancing people." But he is quick to add that he believes there are lying signs and wonders too. While ministering at (an unnamed) church, a fifty-carat jewel falls from Heaven. He is convinced it is real. He even owns one.

Knowing the response of many to such a story, he immediately launches into an explanation of his personal concern about a cerebral palsy victim in that same meeting, who was not healed.

What is he saying here? That God did or did not send the jewel? That God did or did not heal the disease victim? Was it faith that brought the jewel and lack of it that left the person unhealed? Why sad about the latter but promoting the former, if both were God's choices (Page 268)?

A prophet (unnamed, in an unknown location) tells his (James') social security number. Then he gives an "anointed" word to the people. A mixed anointing, he calls it. But again, what is the message here? Was it truly a word from God that revealed that number? Then why be critical? If it wasn't from God, where did the information come from?

(Page 371) A few years back (from 2008) he speaks at a Bible school in Germany (CFNI satellite?). They give him a room. He is awakened by a powerful wind. The wind is actually in the room. It is like being in a tunnel of wind. It is flowing just above him. He has the idea that he should just stick his hands up into the wind. It is like a thunderstorm, it feels like 10,000 volts of electricity, igniting every inch of his body. From that time, he has had "electric boldness."