Reading this book helped me realise just how narrow and rutted my thinking has become. Tom did not reveal anything new to me - except perhaps the fact that having been born again, I now have two minds - the natural earthly mind and the spiritual mind. However, he used verses in ways I'd never seen before because my thinking has been so limited.
That's always dangerous - just think back to Jonestown to see how badly it can go wrong. But Tom Loud has a couple of people with a similar bent (Pete Cabrera Jr and Todd White). It's just that he expresses himself in a way that I can identify with.
It's not that he says or does anything particularly new (apart from miraculous healings - you can spend hours on YouTube just watching these three. But Tom's book clarifies things I'd never before heard in such a way. Yes - I've read the Bible through annually for over 50 years (not to mention various sermons, Bible studies, memorisation, etc. His five keys are not new - although, for me personally, the bit about the natural mind (the one we're born with) and the spiritual mind (the one we get when we're born again) was not something I'd previously thought about.
As the title suggests, there are five keys to unlocking kingdom power:
Identity as children of God
Authority as children of God
Overcoming the carnal mind
Walking in the spirit mind
Our calling as God's children
I have had this ready to go for a short time. I've just been waiting to see some resulting healings. I've decided to publish this piece anyway, in case something happens to me. I believe with everything I am in what Tom Loud says. He says he has about an 80% success rate. Am I in the 20%? Or more hopefully, is it still coming? I note that at least one of Tom's videos did not succeed - a friend of his who died did not rise from the dead.
If you are interested in learning more, his book is brilliantly simple and far more effective than anything I've previously heard on healing. Of course, it doesn't negate the many good things that can come follow through poor health. I have learned so much through my stroke in particular that I doubt I'd have ever learned any other way. In a fictional way, James the Lesser showed this in The Chosen when he asked why Jesus hadn't healed him. In a non-fictional way. Joni Eareckson Tada spent most of her life in a wheelchair, and she says that has brought her so close to God.
So healing isn't always an easy fix, even if possible. but if you read through this book, you may well feel (as I do) that something big is happening. Apart from his videos, you can also see the person who helped him understand - Pete Cabrera Jr. Unlike Tom, he's not your typical "pastor", but he does have power.
Just to complete the trio, Todd White was even further from the image of a pastor before his dramatic conversion. In his case, the thing that stands out is his never reading to taking the Bible simply - if it says something, that is true. There are parts written as poetry, etc., and they've got to be read as such. One of the earliest books written was Job. Job's friends were well-intentioned - but that didn't make them right. Nor was Job.
Todd was commissioned by Reinhardt Bonnke before he died. He'd already appointed a successor for Africa, but Todd was given a spiritual anointing for America. For those who don't know who Reinhardt was, a quick search will show many things. including massive healing meetings and conversions in Kenya.