Narrated by Samuel Shittu
I would like to mention just a few of the supernatural things I have seen in my work and walk with GOD ALMIGHTY…
One that readily comes to mind is an
encounter I had with an Ogboni man in Makurdi (Ogboni is the name of a satanic
cult). I was out that day for street evangelism. I chose a spot and started
preaching. I had a megaphone to help me amplify my words.
Unknown to me, the members of the notorious
and locally dreaded indigenous occult group were holding a meeting nearby. In
those days, majority of the top politicians, lawyers, top government officials
or the ‘who is who’ in the Nigerian society were said to belong either to the
Ogboni fraternity or Rosicrucian Order (AMORC). Belonging to these groups was
said to enable them wield powers that would protect them and dispose their
enemies.
Anyway, I was alerted of the ongoing
meeting when someone walked up to me with message that the chairman of the
meeting said I should be warned to move away from there, because I was disturbing
them. I refused to move. After all, I did not know they were there before I started
preaching. I went on with my preaching. This occult man who came to warn me was
wearing a dangerous ring on his finger with which he pointed at me threatening
death. He was expecting some harm to come on me. I challenged him back there
and then saying:
“You can’t point an accusing finger at your
Creator!” And I continued preaching.
The next day, I was passing by the same
street and saw a crowd. I drew near, only to discover that the man that
threatened me the previous day to whom I had spoken was dead. He had died in
the night. Apparently what he had planned to happen to me had happened to him
instead. God had spared my life contrary to his threats the previous day.
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There are several healing testimonies I have
witnessed. A memorable one that brought so much joy to me as a person took
place in one of my own crusades. I was an older preacher by now. I finished
preaching and decided to pray for the sick., I had just finished praying for
people to be healed of their ailments, when I heard a voice in the crowd cry
out:
“Aondo bughum ashe!!!” It was too instantaneous.
From my little understanding of Tiv language
I knew this meant “God has opened my eyes.” By the time the person came to us
on stage, those blind eyes were totally healed. And I had not touched him. But
Jesus of Nazareth, that merciful Savious and LORD had. There had been several
blind eyes opened in the course of our crusades, but the way this man screamed
was very memorable. The joy and surprise he exhibited were unforgettable. When he
testified amidst others who had received a miracle that day, his joy was infectious.
--
In my early years as a Christian, I
remember going to the streets to preach and meeting a mad man. So that he will
not be a distraction to the people I was preaching to, I decided to pray for
him. Miraculously this man was healed. This was my own first time of praying
and healing a mad man. The hair on his head was overgrown, dirty and entangled.
I called for a pair of scissors and razor blade. With those I cut and scrapped
off his hair, so he could look neat.
A friend of mine saw this and went to try
it on another mad man. He got the beating of his life. Only God saved him from
being killed by the mad man. Yet, the power of God is so real to heal the
tormented and the sick. And what joy it brings when a man who had been sick
gets healed.
Culled from "Shake Well Before Use" by Samuel Shittu
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