Controversial pastor Victor Kanyari of Salvation Healing ministry caught the headlines after he was unmasked about his false prophesies and miracles.

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This left many Kenyans especially his followers demoralized and shaken especially those who had ‘paid’ for the miracles.

But how was Kanyari able to fool such a gathering even the elite and for a long time without Kenyans ever coming to suspect a thing about the fake pastor and miracles.

Here is an insight into that.

Performing miracles-someone said the times of miracles went with Jesus. 

But Kanyare was able to perform ‘real’ miracles and reverse that narrative. 

There were testimonies all over the church and the media about ‘miracles’ happening, unfortunately, all of them were staged by the pastor himself. 

He paid people to testify in church about how they got healed. 

Some staged they were lame but at the end walk, others blind and then finally see. 

This won the hearts of many yearning for a miracle and as a result, they would offer anything they had to have the miracles.

The 310 slogan-the pastor was very creative. He devised a way he would extort money from the 'unsuspecting' Kenyans. 

He came up with the 310 slogans that were peddled to every part of the country by the media. 

Other preachers too opted for the same, thinking it was a holy number and asked their followers to plant the ‘310 mbegu’ for miracles. 

This seemed a holy number to a majority of Kenyans. They would send the money enriching the pastor.

Passing his message through the media- Pastor Kanyari was able to get his message to every corner of the country. 

This was done on the radio and on TV.  Many believed him and saw him quickly build an empire in the church. 

He was able to ‘touch’ many souls. 

The fact that you did not have to be physically present to receive a miracle by only sending sh.310 saw the pastor receive millions.

Desperate Kenyans-Kanyari was able to thrive on social problems of Kenyans. 

A person at the prick of ‘death’ will do anything if you can take away their plight. Naively, many trusted him with their lives hoping he was their messiah. 

Kanyari knew very well how to take advantage of that and made himself rich from their problems.

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