SUNDAY SERVICE at The SCOAN – 26 May 2013
Emmanuel, God is with us! When God is with us, we know what follows –
healing, deliverance and all of God’s blessings. We saw the evidence of
God’s presence once again at The SCOAN during the prayer line which
formed the beginning of the Sunday service, 26th May, 2013. Visitors
from around the world came and received healing, deliverance and
breakthrough as the wise men prayed for them in the mighty name of Jesus
Christ.
After the prayer line, the Sunday service was devoted to
accommodating the teaming number of testifiers who were more eager than
ever to share their testimonies of breakthrough, healing and deliverance
through the medium of the Anointing Water. It is our earnest belief
that you, too, will be richly blessed as you read these astonishing
accounts of miracles happening at The SCOAN.
ANOINTING WATER TESTIMONIES
SEVERE HIP PROBLEM HEALED
Mrs Shelter Ugbebor had visited The SCOAN and was privileged to
obtain the New Anointing Water. Back home, she had a neighbor who was
watching Emmanuel TV and saw the clip showing where Mrs Ugbebor was
receiving the Anointing Water.
This lady requested that she should minister the Anointing Water on
her sister who had a hip problem that needed to undergo a surgical
operation to have it replaced. The hip injury had lasted so long that
people in the neighbourhood knew that her prolonged withdrawal from
public view was as a result the problem. As soon as the New Anointing
Water was ministered to the lady, she immediately sprang up and walked.
The joyful uproar that greeted her miraculous healing attracted a huge
crowd that soon gathered to behold the mighty power of Jesus Christ
operating through the medium of the Anointing Water.
AIRCRAFT’S SAFE LANDING MADE POSSIBLE
Richard Martins, a Nigerian residing in South Africa, was on a
journey from Johannesburg to Lagos. Right in the middle of the flight
the pilot announced that the engine had caught fire and the plane had to
be diverted to the nearest airport for an emergency landing.
The aircraft crew tried to calm the panic-stricken passengers,
telling them they would be landing safely in 15 minutes. The first
attempt at landing failed and the aircraft had to go back up in the air.
The pilot attempted two more times but each attempt failed. They had to
float about in the air for another 45 minutes. They could hear the
pilot sending out distress calls to the airport that the aircraft was in
great danger. It was in this uncertainty that Richard remembered he
had the Anointing Water in his possession. He ministered it in the
plane, praying in the name of Jesus Christ for a safe landing.
Miraculously, a few minutes later, the aircraft landed safely to the
amazement of all including the airport ground crew who had already
gathered with fire fighting trucks, anticipating the worst. Our Lord is
indeed a miracle-working God.
DELIVERED FROM THE ACT OF MASTURBATION
Mr Sylvester had been engaged in the act of masturbation for 13
years. It all started when a friend suggested to him that it was a way
of avoiding the sin of fornicating. He did not understand then that the
act of masturbating was as bad as fornicating. This act brought about
many problems both in his career and health. He was into Property
Management and was getting contracts from his state government but
started experiencing disappointments from customers who would suddenly
cancel business schedules. The act of masturbation caused him lack of
affection for his wife as he would prefer to masturbate rather than
being intimate with the wife. This and many other problems eventually
led to the collapse of the marriage. He suffered back pain and feverish
conditions. He tried in so many ways to stop including observing fasts
but would end up masturbating the more.
He then decided to come to The SCOAN and received the Anointing
Water. Getting back home, he ministered the Anointing Water on himself,
in Jesus’ name. Since then, the urge to masturbate completely
disappeared. He now has peace of conscience and renewed desire to please
God. Praise the Lord!
MYSTERIOUS BIRD EXPOSED
There had been strange occurrences in the apartment that Mr Lucky
Godwin and other tenants were living in. It was reported that at a time
the landlord rushed out of his apartment and was shouting for help
saying that something was pursuing him.
People had come out to hear the landlord but could not see anything
pursuing him. The man slumped and died before he could receive any help.
After his death, another family moved into his apartment and started
hearing strange movements and noises in the ceiling. They started having
financial problems, disappointments and business failure which they
could not trace their origin since they were continuing the way they had
been before. About the same time, Mr Godwin who happened to be a
co-tenant also started experiencing business failure and his wife would
continually dream of encounters with dead people. A pastor friend also
living in one of the apartments in this compound complained that when he
parked his car and switched off the engine, he would wake up the next
morning to find the car engine on. This sparked quarrels between him and
his neighbours, not knowing that there was an evil force at work,
behind the strange occurrences. When he came to the SCOAN, he received
the Anointing Water. He went home and prayed with his family that God
should expose whatever evil that operated in the apartment. The next
day, one of the tenants heard a strange noise in her house; looking up,
she saw an owl flying over the flat. Immediately, her brother got a
stick and was able to strike the owl down and kill it.
Since the death of the owl after ministering the Anointing Water, the
entire compound and the tenants have enjoyed peace. Mr Godwin’s
business that had been tied down by the evil one suddenly resurrected
and the strange experience regarding his pastor friend’s car has also
stopped.
TEARS OF BROKENNESS WIPED AWAY
Miriam comes from Equatorial Guinea but lives in Spain. She had been
jobless for seven years. She became a burden on her husband who had to
opt out of the marriage thereby rendering her homeless. She did a
secretarial course but still could not get a job. A friend of hers
helped her with finances to go back to her country, Equatorial Guinea.
It was there she learnt about Prophet TB Joshua and decided to come to
The SCOAN and was privileged to receive the Anointing Water.
After praying fervently and ministering the Anointing Water to
herself and on her credentials, she received a call from one the
organizations she had earlier submitted a job application to and was
offered the post of a manager of the international company. With a good
job and the financial problems in her life over, she can now pay the
school fees of her two children. She has been able to win big contracts
for her company and because of this breakthough; her Director who was an
unbeliever has granted her permission to visit The SCOAN again for more
of God’s blessings.
SMOKING HABIT DESTROYED INSTANTLY
Tom Rockafellow from the USA came out to testify to complete
deliverance from an addiction to smoking from childhood after receiving a
prophecy and prayer for deliverance from T.B. Joshua. He said that
before, he did not believe in the happenings at The SCOAN but was
convinced when the man of God had told him about his brother wanting to
commit suicide – something he had not told anyone. After he returned
from The SCOAN, out of habit, he lit a cigarette but was immediately
disgusted and threw it away, the desire for it having gone completely!
The man of God, commented that “Leaders all over the world, when they
are tense, they believe that smoking will relieve the tension and
pressure. When they smoke, they are gone, out of this world. They lose
their sense of reasoning and judgment. These are the challenges people
are facing all over the world.”
He further said that we should pray for the whole world and that if
there were any occasions for people in their thousands come out to
protest, no leader would see thousands to protest and be calm without
the Holy Spirit and that if there is no Holy Spirit, it is either they
smoke, drink or find another alternative.
A WOMAN WITH AN ISSUE OF BLOOD
Esther Oni Jesus, a Nigerian living in Kampala, Uganda came forward
to testify to the mighty power in God in her life. She had been bleeding
profusely for ten years; it had not stopped for one day. The pain,
mortification and discomfort had become difficult to bear. She had been
to South Africa, Turkey, Cape Verde and India where various tests were
conducted on her but the cause of the bleeding could not be identified.
She would use more than one pack of sanitary pads within a space of two
hours. The problem had also caused her several business failures
because she had lost focus and was unable to attend to her various
engagements in person. Explaining the severity of her condition, she
said that she was not able to sit for more than 15 minutes because her
clothes would quickly become soaked with blood. As a result, she avoided
going anywhere and would rather stay isolated at home. At times, clots
of blood would fall from her body and she would not notice it until
someone would point it out.
When her mother insisted she came to The SCOAN, she was at first
unwilling because she had gone to places where she thought were very
efficacious but could not get any relief from the affliction. Moreover,
she had reservations about ‘so-called miracle works’ that went on
at The SCOAN. When she eventually agreed to come to The SCOAN, she was
seated at the nursing mothers section, afraid to sit in the church due
to the bleeding. She was among those privileged to receive the new
anointing water during the Live Service. When she returned to her
lodging, she ministered it and drank some of it, praying that Jesus who
delivered the woman with the issue of blood would deliver her.
That same night, she had a dream. She saw the man of God, Prophet
T.B. Joshua who told her that God wanted to do an extraordinary thing
with her that had never been done in this ministry. She was seated in
front of the altar and the man of God instructed the wise men to lift
her in that chair to the right seven times, to the left, seven times and
to the front. Immediately they put her down, the man of God touched her
forehead and said, “It is over”. She felt that she needed to go to the
bathroom urgently. It was this feeling that woke her and she quickly ran
to the toilet. To her greatest surprise, it was a pool of blood that
came out from her. This happened three consecutive times. Since then,
her bleeding had completely stopped. A plague of ten years came to an
end abruptly through the power in the name of Jesus operating through
the Anointing Water. Truly, God had done something extraordinary,
something unheard of, something unprecedented. This is the first time in
10 years that she can go out without wearing a sanitary pad.
The man of God commented that the way and manner people receive the
anointing water and God’s gift really matters. God is using the new
anointing water to re-write people’s history. He explained the vision
God had given him about the anointing water, saying that it would be
used to purify people and make their lives, businesses and prospects
clearer.
TRUTH OVERTAKES LYING
Pastor Obi, while sharing his testimony stated that he was a minister
of God before and in obedience to the advice from his mentor, would
pray against The SCOAN and Prophet T.B. Joshua.
He said he had thought that the power in The SCOAN was not from God
and their members call it ‘The Synagogue of satan’, believing that T.B.
Joshua and his workers had horns and tails like the devil is depicted.
He and colleagues would hold prayer vigils specifically targeting and
rebuking T.B. Joshua and his ministry. He noticed however, that the more
he prayed against T.B. Joshua, the more he experienced setback in his
life, home and ministry. After some time, his friend who had been
without a child for 17 years came to The SCOAN, was healed, delivered
and now has a baby. That opened his eyes and he decided to come to The
SCOAN to see things for himself. He was surprised to hear the man of
God, Prophet T.B. Joshua continually preaching about love, not
condemnation of any ministry or minister. He asked God for forgiveness,
stating that his condemnation of this ministry was the greatest mistake
of his life. He confessed that he has now installed the Emmanuel TV
decoder in his house. He further spoke of a prophecy he had received
from Prophet T.B. Joshua during a previous Live Service where he was
told to forgive his wife. He had been very angry and annoyed with his
wife because she told him that if he travelled to Lagos to visit The
SCOAN, he would die, according to a message she had received. He ignored
what she said and came to Lagos and returned home safe and sound. His
wife, who accompanied him on the occasion of giving this testimony, also
spoke, thanking God for the grace in the life of the man of God and her
husband’s faith.
Prophet T.B. Joshua commented that many mouths that had been used to
curse the ministry in the past are now blessing God for the ministry. He
concluded by saying, “If lying goes on for 100 years, one day, truth
will meet it.” “The mouth we are using to bless this ministry now,
once, we have used it to curse this ministry. Now, people are provoked
because they realize that they had made a mistake.”
After the testimonies, T.B. Joshua moved round ministering words of
prophecy to individuals. The wise men then came to minister deliverance
and pray for every person present. The service concluded with a powerful
time of mass prayer as every bit of darkness in the lives of the people
was exposed by the light of God.
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