Delivered From Strange Ailment After Ten Years

“Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth” Jeremiah 33:6.

MY name is Rita Awam and I worship at Izziahngbo District of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement, Abakaliki Diocese, Ebonyi State. I want to testify of the healing and deliverance of the Lord upon my life.

    For over ten years, the enemy afflicted me with a strange sickness that defied all medical treatments. I had noticed the sickness before my marriage in November 2008, and since then, we have run from pillar to post in search of cure.

   

I usually experienced a moving object around my tummy and whatever it was would continue to move until it gets to the lower part of my abdomen. The pain that accompanied it was so severe that it often made it difficult for me to walk or lie down.

There usually would be a sensation in the lower part of my abdomen and at such occasions, I would feel very uncomfortable to the extent of wondering whether life was worth living any more.

    It was always difficult for me to sleep. Whenever it starts in the night, I would find it difficult to sleep and so would keep awake till the following morning. This had been my ordeal for all these years.

In fact, passing urine or defecating even became a big problem because of the pains that usually went with them. It was such a harrowing experience that made life very boring and unpleasant. I would cry and lament so much that sometimes I would ask God to take away my life.

    My pastor counseled me and encouraged me to have faith in God and not to allow the devil to start jubilating that he had succeeded in tormenting me. I listened to his wise counsel and prayed to God in earnestly to forgive me whatever sin I had committed that might have attracted the sickness to me.

    Throughout this period, the church was praying for me and my husband and I never ceased also to pray about the problem. I went to some hospitals and spent a lot of money but the illness persisted. One night, I had an encounter with an occult man in my dream and he told me he was going to kill me.

I told him to repent or else he would not escape the wrath of God. This same person confronted me physically in the market place later on and after all that he did, the sickness became severe.

    However, there is a popular saying that whatever has a beginning would also have an end. After one of our Sunday Light fellowships, a brother, who had visited the village from Lagos saw me, and after a brief discussion with him about my health condition, he suggested that he would take me to Lagos to see some pastors who would pray for me. I told my husband about it and we went to see the brother.

After some discussions, we agreed to come down to Lagos with him on an appointed day.

    In Lagos, I went to some Watchman Fellowship Centres. The pastors in all the locations we visited prayed for me and the Lord honoured their prayers.

As it is now, I am completely healed and all the ugly experiences have ceased; and they have ceased forever in Jesus' Name.  Amen.

   Praise the Lord!”

Kidney Problem Rolled Away

“Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all”. – Psalm 34:19.

PRAISE the Lord! My name is Chika Ekeh and I worship at Orile/Coker Parish of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement, Lagos. I am here today to share the testimony of how God healed me of kidney problem.

On Tuesday, March 16, this year (2010), I began to vomit and it persisted till the next day.

By Thursday, I was rushed to a hospital and after some examinations, the doctor advised my husband to take me to Ikeja General Hospital. At Ikeja, they said that there was no vacant bed for me to lie on, so I was referred to Gbagada General Hospital.

After the doctors at Gbagada had examined me and conducted series of tests, they diagnosed that I had kidney malfunction. They took me to the renal ward after they had prescribed some drugs and drips for me. Further medical tests were still carried out.

One of the doctors recommended that I should be referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital since the dialysis machine they had was not functioning well. My husband broke down in tears and pleaded with them to see what they could do to help me.

Touched by my husband’s display of emotion, one of the doctors said he would take up my case and so listed some items for my husband to buy.

During the period I was on admission at the hospital, prayers were being offered on my behalf for God’s intervention. The prayer warriors from Orile/Coker Parish came to the hospital to offer prayers and encouraged me with the word of God. Other patients were not left out; they were also prayed for.

At about 11.00pm that day, I recited Psalm 23 seven times and prayed that God should see me through in the wilderness experience I had just commenced.

In my dream that night, I heard a group of people singing one of our popular choruses: I can see the finger of God, rewriting my story. I did not see them but I joined them in the song. At a point, I began to pray and I saw myself being carried in a helicopter and my head touched the cloud.

A force then turned me upside down and lifted me up again after a while. I was asked to look in front of me and as I did, I saw a brighter daylight. I was brought down and a cap was placed on my head after which they asked me to go.

As I made to go, a whirlwind came towards me and as I escaped from it, I woke up from sleep and found my heart panting. Some minutes later, I was pressed and had to use the toilet, but to my surprise, I could pass out urine without the tube.

 The following Monday, the doctor came for a routine check and when he had examined me and found out that all the abnormalities had been corrected, he instructed that the drips be removed from my body.

I overheard the nurses congratulating my husband and by the grace of God, I was discharged from the hospital the following Wednesday.

Praise the Lord!”

Kidney Ailment Cured

“Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended”. — Isaiah 60:19.

I AM here today to testify to the glory of God of the divine healing God granted me through the prayers of our pastor in this place.

My name is Ejike Ikwuazom and I worship at this Okoko Parish of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement, Lagos. Sometime in 2008, I woke up from sleep and noticed that my body system had changed, and I had terrible pains.

The pains were so severe that I decided to visit a hospital. At the hospital, the doctor prescribed some drugs for me and I left. Though I took the drugs as prescribed, I did not notice any improvement. I was rather feeling very uncomfortable by each passing day.

I had to return to the hospital to report my condition to the doctor. This time, the doctor conducted a thorough examination on me, after which he gave me a note to go for a scan.

When I brought back the result of the scan to the doctor, he read through it and pronounced that I had kidney malfunction. He explained that my kidneys had been glued together and said that surgery might be required to correct the abnormality.

Meanwhile, he prescribed some drugs for me, which I took home and continued to take. After sometime, I noticed that my tummy was swelling,   and I was growing very weak. I became afraid, and when I told a brother, he suggested that I should see our pastor.

I had an appointment with the doctor on a Friday, and when I got there and told him how I was feeling, he still maintained that an operation had to be carried out for me to be okay. He gave me some drugs again and I left.

After the Sunday Light fellowship that week, I decided to wait and see the pastor but unfortunately, he announced that he was not going to see anybody that day because he had some other programmes to attend to.

Before this time, I had vomited inside the church auditorium and my body had become very weak. I was disappointed by the announcement that the pastor was not going to see anyone that day, and, reluctantly, stood up to go. After I had gone some distance, he sent for me.

When I returned, he asked what the problem was and I narrated my experience to him. He counseled me after which he prayed for me and said that it was well, that I should go in the peace of the Lord. I felt much better after the prayers and by the time I got home, I noticed that I had regained some strength. My appetite had also improved and I was able to eat and to relax very well.

Gradually, I began to feel better and better, until I could not feel the symptoms of the problem again. But to be very sure, I went back to the hospital and asked to be recommended for a scan test.

And when I brought the scan result to the doctor, he was amazed at what he saw that everything about my kidneys had returned to normal. I told him what happened and he was happy for me.

Praise the Lord!”

Glorious Escape From Death

“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee  in judgement thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord.”—Isaiah 54:17

THE testimony of Edwin Onyeabor, a pastor in the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement, Abakaliki,  and  lecturer  at Ebonyi State University, is one that thrills the heart and greatly renews our confidence in the ability and willingness of God to deliver His children at all times.

As he shared the testimony of how he survived the hail of bullets rained on their vehicle by dare-devil armed bandits during a night trip on the Benin-Asaba-Onitsha Expressway  recently, several  participants  at the recent General  Convocation for Watchman pastors and their families who listened to him may have just shed tears of joy while the others shouted, clapped and praised God with great excitement.



Saved! Edwin Onyeabor  After The Ordeal



According to Pastor Edwin, as he rose after the robbers’ operation, there were cries of dying men and women and blood-splatter all around him. But he came out without a scratch. Indeed, this reminds us of something. Sometime ago, the General Overseer of the Watchman, Pastor A.C. Ohanebo,  declared that God has made all Watchmen sacred cows. No doubt, Edwin’s testimony is another proof of that:

“I want to testify of  the deliverance of the Lord upon my life. It happened that last year, about March, I was billed to participate in an academic conference  at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. I  had sent my papers some weeks earlier, and  when the conference commenced, I could not  be  there to join them on the first day, because, I was tied down in Abakaliki, by some  work in my  office and other engagements in the church. I, however, was able to be there on the third day.

Because, I couldn’t leave Abakaliki on the morning of Tuesday,  I had to travel  by night in order to arrive Ile-Ife Wednesday morning. The idea  was to present my papers  that  Wednesday and then return by night to Abakiliki the same day, as I  had some important matters to take care of the following day.

“ I arrived  Lagos Wednesday morning, and headed for Ife immediately. Fortunately,  I was able to deliver my papers the same day. I then embarked upon a return trip that Wednesday night to Abakiliki, by a night bus. Unfortunately, somewhere between Benin and a town called Abudu, we were attacked by armed robbers. It was about 3 a.m. Incidentally, I  was so weak that I was asleep most of the time as we journeyed.

So, I  didn’t know what was going on until I was suddenly woken up by sounds of shootings and noise of shattered glasses  pouring  on my head. Incidentally, my seat was  directly behind the driver’s,  and before we knew it,  the driver was no longer on the driver’s seat. He had been hit  by the bullets, and had fallen out of the vehicle while the vehicle continued to  move at  top speed. Immediately, I dived to the floor of the vehicle, lay flat, and began to pray. All of a sudden, the vehicle began to summersault continously until it fell into a very deep gully inside the bush.

“In fact,  there were cries of dying people all around me and blood spilled everywhere. To crown it all the fuel from the tank began to pour on us because the vehicle had turned upside down. It was now a struggle for survival as those still alive  were desperately looking for openings  to get out of  the vehicle before the worst could  happen. At that  stage, I checked myself and saw that I could still move,  and looking up,  I discovered an opening  near the engine and began to climb out.

Surprisingly, as soon as I climbed out of the vehicle, behold,  the robbers were just  arriving at the scene. When they saw me where I lay, they said:  “this one don die”, but I said: “no I’m not dead”. Strangely, they asked me to go and lie down,  and I went and lay down somewhere. The next thing I saw was that they had rushed back to their vehicle, and returned  with machetes and other instruments with which they tore open the vehicle and began to drag people out.

They would pull out one person  and say: “this one don die”,  and pull out another and say: “no, this one never die”. After they had succeeded in pulling out a good number of people, then they began their operation proper, shooting and searching people one by one. There was a young man that pleaded with them, saying  that since God had delivered us from the accident,  they should please spare us, and leave us to  go. Immediately he said this, one of  them ordered that he should be shot and they shot him.

“Actually, where I was lying, I began to pray. First of all, I repented that day for taking a night bus. Then, after that,  I began to remind the Lord that I am a Watchman, that I am  part and parcel of the IGMC (International Gospel Ministers Conference) vision.  I equally have the vision of  this ministry with the Lord. Then I said to the Lord:  this people must not touch me, let alone  hurting me. In fact, while I was busy praying,  one of them stood behind me with a gun, overseeing the whole operations.

In the course of searching people,  they jumped over me several times but  never searched me. And as if that was not enough, they began to drag people that were alive back to the vehicle so as to identify their bags and give them money. They did all that for about thirty minutes and after they had  satisfied themselves, they left. None of them touched me, searched me or did anything to me.

“We remained there  till morning. It was then I discovered that the young man that sat beside me was dead. The vehicle had fallen on him and he died. So,  many people were wounded by bullets  and others by the vehicle.

 Some had broken legs, heads and so on. Some were shot by the robbers during their operation. But to the glory of God,  though my whole body was soaked with blood, I did  not sustain  any injuries,  not even a scratch and none of my belongings was lost. I saw and recovered all.

Praise God!”

Kidnapped By Men, Rescued By God

“But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy  children.”  -- Isaiah 49:

WHEN the news filtered into several locations of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement that the kidnappped son of Bernard Dikeocha  has been recovered from the horrible men that had held him hostage, jubilations were high and boundless.

The boy was the only child of the twelve-year old marriage of Pastor Dikeocha, and the kidnappers were demanding a ransome of N4 million before they could let the boy go. But soon after,  the case was brought to the attention of the General Overseer of the Watchman, Pastor A.C. Ohanebo,  while he was meeting with the Diocesan pastors. Then prayers  and declarations were made, and not long after, the kidnappers were arrested and the boy restored to his parents. Dikeocha belongs to the Eziukwu Parish of the Watchman, Aba Diocese. His testimony:

Bernard Dikeocha With His Wife And Their Rescued Child 

“On January 27, 2005,  my ten-year old  son, Precious Dikeo-cha, the only child of my 12 years marriage,  was coming home from school when some unknown persons in a Mercedes Benz car accosted him and took him away.

These kidnappers then got my phone number from my son and called me, demanding that I should give them the sum of N4million in order for them to release my son, or they will either sell him or kill him. I posted to them N50,000 worth of MTN recharge cards, as they requested but they continued demanding for N4 million from me.

 I reported the matter to our Church and the Watchmen took over the matter and began to fast and pray on it.

The man of God, the General Overseer of this Movement, Pastor A.C. Ohanebo,  and the Diocesan Pastors meeting with him at  the Rock Chapel of Watchman at LOGISS,  Awo Omamma, Imo State made serious prayers on this matter. In fact, the man of God decreed that God will make those people “go naked” before the world, and that the child must be set free.

“Then on April 25 when they called my line again to demand for money, I told them pointedly that I had no money  and that God would  save my child from their hands. When I said that, they replied that there is no prayer of any man of God capable of saving my child from their hands. Well, I saw this as a challenge thrown at God, and that He would surely respond accor-dingly.

 One week later, during our Diocesan Combined Fellowship for the month of May, our Diocesan Pastor minis-tered on the topic: “Who will help the Lord?” I then took the challenge to maintain the standard of true Christian life as stressed by that message.

“Then the  next day, May 2, my phone rang and the caller asked if I was Bernard? I said yes. He asked if I was looking for anything and I said yes, that I was looking for my son who had been kidnapped for over three months then.The person went on to inform me  to  quickly go  down to Owa- aza near Obehie village, that there were some people who were offering a boy for sale and that they were planning to relocate to another village because people around were beginning to suspect their movements.

I then told my Diocesan Pastor, Pastor Maduafor Theophilus, who advised me to go with the police. So, they  mobilised their men, surrounded the village and arrested the kidnappers  after which  my son was released to me.

So on that day,  May 2, 2005, after three months and six days, my son, Precious, came back home by the Mighty Hand of the God of Watchman, even the God of Pastor A. C. Ohanebo. To Him be all the glory, and I will serve Him all the days of my life.”  Indeed, the kidnappers were “made naked” before the world as they were exposed to every eye  in that area, thus confirming that God indeed honoured the decree of His servant.

A Case Of Divine Restoration

“I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”  -- Psalm 40:1-2

THE testimony of Sunday Chikadibia from Nsukka Parish of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Move-ment, Nsukka Diocese, is  a thrilling  account of  divine restoration from a back-slidden state.

 Today, Sunday is a happy man, fully restored   to  faith, with a clear  resolve not to return to the world again. He testified recently before the Watchmen in Nsukka:  

“It happened that, some-time  ago, I stopped following the Lord. In fact, I  never believed I would ever return to the faith for  any reason.

Sunday Chikadibia Testifying...

I had my own plans and I knew that my situation was quite terrible and  would require the intervention of the Lord for me to be recovered. Actually, some brethren had tried severally to talk to me about coming back  to fellowship but all the talk fell on deaf ears.

 But to my greatest sur-prise,  the Lord worked it out and shattered all those my plans and today, I am back to the faith.“It all began one day when I saw the General Overseer of this Movement, Pastor A.C. Ohanebo in a dream pursuing me with so much compassion, and trying to recover me. As I  ran, he pursued me on a motor-cycle.

At a point, I diverted to a very narrow path that would be difficult for the motorcylist to follow.  Then, the motor-cyclist carrying the man of God became offended and said he would go no further. But he kept pleading with him until he accepted to continue. Now,  they  took another way and continued to pursue me.

Suddenly, I reached a particular point, and there was no other way of escape, so I turned back  and,  behold,  the servant of God was before me. Then, I asked him why he was pursuing me, instead of leaving me alone.

 He now asked me if I was done with  running and I said yes. So, he said I should come back with him to continue the way I was going. Then, the next person I saw was an angel standing  by me. He  told me  he was sent to come and tell me that it was just the mercy of God that I was still alive.

In fact,  when he said that, I realised that the devil actually planned to take  away my life prematurely because of the things that were happenning around me at that time.

But thank God that I am now delivered and back to the service of the Lord with more zeal and commitment. I no more find the work of God burden-some, and I find myself easily overcoming temptations now.

Praise the Lord.”

Seven Years Childlessness Ends With Lovely Twins

Blessed is she that believeth: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord — Luke 1:45

In June 1998, Timothy and Chidinma Uchechukwu were joined in holy matrimony. Like most newly wedded couples, their expectation was that before the first anniversary of their wedding, friends and relations would again gather in their Lagos home to rejoice with them and welcome their new baby.  But this was not to be. They waited and waited.

Months passed and years followed. Yet, the cry of a baby was yet to be heard in their home. In the midst of this long waiting, as they continued to worship the Almighty God at the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos, the Lord continued to promise them that He had them in His programme and that He would surely bless them and grant them the expectation of their heart. And now, at His appointed time, He who had promised did as He said and gave the Uchechukwus a beautiful set of twins.

So, it was a joyful Chidinma Uchechukwu that faced the lively, joyous and jubilant congregation at the Watchman Fellowship Centre, Aguda, to share the testimony of how the good Lord had visited them. Her testimony:

Timothy And Chidinma Uchechukwu With The Lovely Babies


“I GOT married on June 13, 1998. Since then we’ve not had any baby. Yet, my husband and I  maintained a strong faith and trust in the unfailing ability of God our Father, and ceaselessly called upon Him ‘whose ways are past finding out’, to intervene in our situation.

Our pastors and the entire church also prayed for us and a lot of proclamations and prophecies came out on our behalf. In one of the Charismatic Hour fellowships in 2000, our District Pastor, Pastor Mike Iheanacho, was led by the Spirit of God to come to the Choir Stand where I was to congratulate me with a handshake, because of what the Spirit of God had revealed to him that God would do in my life and circumstance.

Also, in the course of presenting our matter to the Lord in prayer, I had a dream one night and saw myself carrying a child placed on my hands by the General Superintendent. This revelation boosted my faith greatly, and I was assured more strongly that very soon, the Lord would remove the reproach of childlessness from me.

 Again, during one of our December Retreats, the Servant of God, the General Superintendent of the Watchman, Pastor A.C. Ohanebo, while ministering on the topic “Granting Us The Miracle Of The Hour” told of a revelation that came to him while he was ministering at another location. In the revelation, he saw God’s mighty angel ringing a bell and calling on everyone to have their freedom.

He now said that this implied that all the persons that attended the programme would not go the way they had come. As the ministration progressed, he was moved by the Spirit of God to come near the Choir Stand where I was, and pointing at me, declared: “You have all this while been sorrowful and crying unto the Lord to visit you, but just wait …you will see something soon. I tell you by the word of the Lord that you just wait”. This statement caused many people to rejoice on my behalf and to congratulate me. Indeed, my faith was lifted, because, it dawned on me that very soon, God would visit me.

Later, also, a sister shared with me a revelation she had where she saw me carrying a set of twins. I was encouraged by all these, knowing full well, that God was using them to assure me that He would surely visit me.

Not long after this, I went to our GS for prayers during one of his visits to Surulere District. While he prayed for me, he exclaimed, I see a miracle, I see a miracle! I was glad to hear this, and believed the Lord our God and His servants the prophets as we were commanded in the Scriptures. As the IGMC 2004 (International Gospel Ministers’ Conference of the Hour — sponsored annually by the Watchman), drew near, while promising the Lord that I will pay a certain amount to support the programme, I also told Him to reward me by giving me the child He had promised me.

The Twins At Four:  Glory (Left) and Victory(Right)  In July 2010



By the September of 2004, the Watchman national pastor in Liberia, Pastor Ekechukwu, called my husband and told us that while he was praying in the morning, the Lord led him to make some prayers on our behalf, and while he did that, the Lord told him that He had stepped into our matter. He said he was led by the Spirit to sing the song, “Got any rivers you think are uncrosssable…God specializes in things thought impossible…”

After sharing this with us, he prayed for us and declared that God was going to do something shortly. And we believed it.

Before this encounter, during one of our Sunday services, our District Pastor, while praying for women looking for the fruit of the womb, suddenly plucked two flowers from the flower pot on the altar and gave them to me. This was a sign to tell me that I should expect double blessing, which in this case means I was going to have a set of twins.

Indeed, not long after this, I took in. Although the wicked one fought hard to terminate the pregnancy, our God, as we all know, always has the final say, and so, by His intervention and protection, the pregnancy stayed.

 I was carrying a set of twins, and the Lord preserved the children in my womb until the appointed time of delivery when they came forth. The Lord was with me throughout the period of labour, and His hands were mighty upon me, until I came out from the labour room with my set of twins safe and sound.

I am happy today because of the Lord’s faithfulness in my life, for He has rolled away my reproach and sorrow and has made me a mother of twins, after about seven and half years of waiting. Indeed, when all hopes seemed to have been lost, God, who alone is God, did it for me. He indeed confirmed His words through the mouth of His servant, our General Superintendent, and that of his under-pastors.

 Now, I am rejoicing and praising God for what He has done for me. To God be all the glory, for the great things He has done.

Praise the Lord!”



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From Charismatic Signs No 014 (2007) 
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