The month-long city-wide crusade intended to usher in a new vista of spiritual, moral, physical, material, political and economic transformation for the state and by implication the country at large, was flagged off on September 8 at the Police College, Ikeja and has since moved to different locations in the state as participants silently expressed pleasant surprise that the church was not collecting offering as most churches do.
Participants loudly wondered how the church would be able to defray the enormous cost of paying for the venues, renting and moving audio-visual equipment to locations, renting electric generators, rugs, flower pots, chairs, canopies, tents and pay-ment for live television coverage as well as security of life and property. At each of the venues, our reporter noticed several mobile toilets and a brand new standby ambulance for the convenience of partici-pants.
A journalist who has covered a few crusades in the past, descri-bed the development as un-Pentecostal, arguing that most denominations would have taken advantage of the huge financial outlay to collect two or more offerings to offset their expense.
A spokesperson for the church who does not want his name mentioned, told our reporter that the church does not charge people to attend its crusades, insisting that rather it’s more concerned about winning souls for the kingdom of God.
Harvest of miracles
The crusade train had been to 11 locations in the state and at each of those places there had been outstanding testimonies of miraculous happenings in the lives of the participants. Ms Marvellous Archibong who was born blind, testified how she regained her sight after Pastor Kumuyi’s ministration and prayer in her state.
Archibong said: “After the Kumuyi’s prayer that day, I had a dream and in the dream, I saw a man in a white robe operating a lady and the man told her that the lady is me. When I woke up the following day, I started seeing.”
Jumoke Adediran, resident of Ikeja, could not contain her joy when she narrated her deliveran-ce from rectal cancer. For her, it was a horrible experience she would never wish her enemy to go through. Like any other participant, Jumoke went to the crusade with great expectation because two years earlier, the devil had afflicted her with cancer of the rectum—abnormal cancerous growth in the lower part of the colon that connects the anus to the large bowel.
Doctors told her to prepare for surgery but she hesitated and by the time she was ready the doctors said the situation had grown beyond their imagination, as the cancerous lump had enter-ed into her private part.
They then scheduled her for colostomy, a surgical procedure of bringing one end of the large intestine out through the stom-ach to enable her pass faeces, as against the normal use of anus. This, the doctors said, would help her rest her anus. Before the advice for colostomy, they directed her to undergo both hormone therapy and radio-therapy.
According to Jumoke, she fini-shed the hormone therapy and was to do radiotherapy for four weeks, “but two days into the treatment, faeces started coming out from my private parts and I was told to discontinue the radiotherapy. Now, they have scheduled me for colostomy, which is to puncture my stomach to rest my anus so that I will not be able to do my normal passing of faeces from the anus.
“When my husband told me that Daddy Kumuyi was coming to Police College, Ikeja, I said I must be there. I told God that I would not like to come back home with this sickness.
“As our daddy said that we should lay our hands were we had problem, I did and after the prayer, I could not see it again. Before, I could not sit down comfortably, but now I can sit down well.
“Many people have gone with this ailment; but God did not allow it to claim my life. Even when I am not faithful, when I have anger, impatient and all the work of the flesh, God has been merciful unto me.
“That is why when our daddy made an altar call, I said whatever the devil wants to use against me will not stand. So, I have to come out again to rededicate my life to God. I said, ‘God, I give you everything. Have your way in my life.’ I thank God that tonight I have received the power to live a righteous life, to live a holy life. So, no more going for surgical operation for any-thing. The Lord has done it and the devil has been put to shame,” she stressed.
Augustine Akpan, an army officer, was also full of praise, when he reflected on his situat-ion, recollecting that sometime in 2003, when he was at the University of Calabar, he lost his memory and started behaving abnormally.
According to August-ine: “The thing will just come and go. In 2008, I got enlisted into the Nigerian Army and was posted to Lagos. In 2010, the enemy struck—the loss of memory came up again. Since then, I have been behav-ing abnormally.
“In the barrack, they call me, ‘General,’ because of the way I behave abnormally. Whenever it comes on me, I set things on fire. I have not been going to church, though I worship with Deeper Life Bible Church occasionally.
“This night, my wife said we should attend the programme though I was not in the mood but I followed her. When the man of God was preaching and I said If God was really interested in my case, let me dedicate my life unto Him.
“When the pastor made an altar call, I was among those who came out. After that, I went back to my seat. For God to be interested in my life, my case was the first case to be mentioned. When that prayer was raised, something just left my memory. Now, I am well.
“God has delivered me. I am okay; I am perfect. Now, I have peace in my life. In fact, this programme was meant for me, I do not know for others because tonight God delivered me from mental disorder,” he added.
Precious Ogbonna who attend-ed the crusade with a lump in her breast was not left out. According to her, when Pastor Kumuyi asked those with any sickness to place their hands in that portion, she simply obeyed, placing her right hand on her breast. While the man of God was praying, she received an instant healing.
Chinaza Odum also testified of total deliverance from some strange movements round her back as Pastor Kumuyi prayed.
In Ikorodu, Angelina Joseph’s son, who was deaf and dumb for 12 years, got healed and was able to speak for the first time, while Okorie Ikechukwu, who could not hear with one of his ears for 10 years also received instanteneous healing.
In his message in Ketu, Lagos, entitled, The hour of His manifestation, the General Superintendent of DCLM was explicit on the significance of having the right relationship with God, as he pointed out that great expectation must attract great manifestation.
The cleric said: “Expectation will attract manifestation. Zero expectation will attract zero manifestation. Great expectat-ion will attract great manifestat-ion. Expectation of healing will attract manifestation of healing. You will have total freedom—freedom from sin, freedom from Satan and freedom from sickness,” he stressed.
In Ikorodu, in a message titled; Connection with the God of wonders, Pastor Kumuyi said: “Once there is a connection with the God of wonders, miracles will take place. To get anything from God, there must be divine connection. You connect, salvat-ion will come; you connect, healing will come.”
In an earlier message titled: “The Wonders of Supernatural Change,” he emphasised that God has power to change all negative circumstances, assuring the huge crowd of participants that no matter the challenges of life, which they had been facing and which they might have sought for solutions in different quarters, God would provide lasting solution to them.
Kumuyi, who pointed out that the greatest problem of man was sin, urged those who were bound by chain of sins to urgently seek forgiveness from God. “The Lord does not condemn sinners but out to save them. Sinners must boldly take a step by confessing their sins. It is futile to think that it is impossible to live a righteous life. God is capable of saving sinners no matter the level of sin, which they have committed.
“Every work of Satan in your life must be reversed. Bad luck has come to an end. Sorrow and reproach have come to an end. This is a time for supernatural change. You must leave all your sins behind. God has declared that this day, salvation has come into your life. God will not reject you,” he said.
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