Diabetes Sacked

“The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth” Isaiah38:19.

MY name is Cyril Obinugwu from Iba Parish of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement, Lagos. I want to share the testimony of God's faithfulness in my life.

 Sometime in 2008, I took ill and went to the hospital where they said I had malaria and all that. It was not until I told the doctor that I had noticed that my throat was always dry, causing me to want to drink water too often, and pass urine frequently, that he recommended that my blood sugar level should be determined through a medical test.

When the result came out, it showed that my sugar level was 457, and the doctor pronounced that I was diabetic.

To be sure I heard him correctly; I asked him to repeat what he had just said and he said it again that I was diabetic. He then added that I was even lucky to have reported at the hospital on time, otherwise I would have experienced what he called diabetic coma.

   The pronouncement sort of put me off, but I managed to assure the doctor that I would certainly get my healing. He gave me some drugs after which I left and began to take those drugs. He recommended that I should be eating boiled unripe plantain and beans.

It was not a pleasant experience, but I was encouraged when I remembered a testimony shared by the man of God, our General Superintendent, during one of the IGMC programmes in the Eastern part of the country. He had told us about a minister of God in one of the foreign countries who was sick and was written off by doctors who were of the opinion that he would not survive the sickness.

But the man told the doctors that he would register and participate in a marathon that was holding in his country that period. Although, the doctors warned him of the consequences of such course of action, he was determined to participate in the race. 

According to our GS, the minister in question took his Bible and copied out from Genesis to Revelation all the promises of God concerning healing. These, he read unto the Lord continually during his prayers until all the problems he had were removed by the hand of the Lord. And then, he went on to participate in the marathon and eventually presented his certificate of participation to his doctor to prove that God had healed him and enabled him to do the long race.

   So, because of this testimony, I also went and copied out some of the promises of God on healing and blessings of healing in the lives of many people in the Bible and used them as my prayer arguments unto the Lord. One of the days, I came to see our pastor here and told him my problem, and he prayed for me and I left.

And during one of our Charismatic Hour fellowships not long ago  we all were here (at Iba Fellowship) that day and witnessed what happened; the Spirit of God was really operational that day, and He made the pastor to spot my case and he called me out. The pastor said that the Spirit of God had moved him to call me out, although he did not know why.

 As he was still speaking, he then said that he had a spiritual syringe in his hand to remove all the filthy blood from my body. While this was going on, the power God had touched me, and I had fallen and lying on the floor.

   Again, on January 15, last year (2009), the Lord told me expressly in my sleep that I was His servant and that He will not disappoint me. After the Charismatic Hour fellowship of that day, I left and brethren, all those food items which the doctors had told me not to eat, I began to eat them.

 Not long after that, I went to check my blood sugar level again and it was still high. I did not allow that result to disturb me because I was sure that God was in full control.

 Then came another Charismatic Hour day and our pastor while ministering declared that all the people in the church who had been placed on special diets should discard them and start eating whatever they had not been eating. I threw away my drugs and began to eat whatever food that appealed to me.

 Some months later, I went to check my blood sugar level and behold, it had come down to 95. I went again after about two month's interval and it was still 95.

The Lord is so great and I can assure you that there is no trace of diabetes in me any longer, praise the Lord!”

God Blesses A Family For Supporting The IGMC

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” —  Proverbs3: 5-6.

It took him awhile to believe in the essence of the International Gospel Ministers’ Conference of the Hour (IGMC), sponsored annually by the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement. But when he did, and committed zeal and resources to support it, God surprised him with a lot of blessings.

It was, therefore, a happy and grateful Chigozie Nwaiwu, a pastor in Owerri Diocese, that came to the rostrum with his children and heavily pregnant waife, to share the testimony of the goodness of God towards them amid cheers and jubilations from Watchmen and their visitors during a special Sunday Light Service held at the Diocesan Fellowship Centre, Owerri, recently. Charismatic Signs was there, here is what Pastor Chigozie shared:

Chinedu Nwaiwu, With His Wife And Children, As He
Shared The Testimony In Owerri

“MY family and I are here to testify of the goodness of the Lord towards us, especially, through the instrument of the International Gospel Ministers’ Conference of the Hour (IGMC).

Before the IGMC commenced, something happened. The devil fought against my family and I. Things were not as they should be, but I thank God, for what He has done now. I was not at IGMC 2001, but the brother that resides with me attended. When he returned, he shared the testimonies of the miraculous things that God did at the programme.

You, see, I am one of the Watchman ministers who do not joke with any pronouncement from the servant of God, the Watchman General Superintedent (GS); I have always remained loyal to him, but, somehow, when the IGMC came on board, it was not too easy for me to swallow it. I was thinking of how millions of naira could be deployed to take care of other people while the Watchman had many needs like the so many fellowship centres that needed to be built or put in order.

But when our Diocesan Pastor (Pastor Emmanuel Odinukwe) returned and testified of the miracles that had happened during the programme, and the message of the Lord to us through the IGMC, how God will put food on the tables of the members of this Movement for believing in, supporting and sponsoring IGMC, I repented immediately and asked God to forgive me for my foolish opinion.

I then resolved that from that day, that I will support the IGMC whether I was permitted to attend or not. Also, my brother had brought a handkerchief which he said the General Overseer had prayed on.

According to him, the man of God had declared that all matters and circumstances that had proved difficult would change when prayerfully touched with the handkerchief. He said that when this declaration was being made, he had remembered my wife and I and some other brethren. By this time, my wife and I had lived together as husband and wife for several years without having the fruit of the womb. As he said that, I called my wife, and we knelt down and prayed with the handkerchief there.

After that God began to bless us. This is my child here (touching the kid) came after IGMC 2002; this other one came after IGMC 2003. As we were going for IGMC again, my wife informed me she had taken in, and wanted to know from me if she would still attend? I told her that she would go, because whatever God had ordained to do, He will do. So, she went there. She even did a lot of work. In fact, as we were returning, it was night, and the brother driving entered a pothole and she shouted, but we consoled ourselves saying, let the will of God be done. It was clear that nothing had happened, because, the pregnancy progressed until she delivered this little boy here!

As we were preparing for IGMC 2005, it now dawned on us that God usually blessed us with a child each time we attended the IGMC, so we asked the Lord to bless us once again. So, my brethren, this child you are seeing now is the one for IGMC 2005. All these are blessings that accrued from the IGMC! Praise the Lord.

It is not all. I have accepted it and believed it, that no matter what it costs, the benefits derivable from IGMC is much more than the cost. Just like I said earlier, things were difficult for me. Initially, I had two shops that were doing fine.

I decided to further my education, and was away most of the time, but by the time I returned fully, the person managing the shops for me, had run everything down. I had to start afresh. The shops were empty and people sympathized with me. But after I became involved with IGMC, God prospered me so much that all those in my line of business now are praying to be like me.

Not only that, as we went to IGMC 2002, our GS asked us to write down our requests and I remembered that just as I was married without children, my younger brother was also facing the same fate. I presented them before the Lord and today, they have a child.  Also, two of my younger brothers have travelled abroad, without my having to sell any property or borrow.

Again, my mother had been very sick and the treatment had cost me a lot of money. Because I lost my father at a very tender age, I was determined to keep my mother alive no matter what it costs me. And I went to the Lord in prayer, reminding Him that I always paid my tithe and supported the IGMC.

I asked Him  to fight for me and heal my mother.  I am here to thank God today that it was the time my little boy was born two years ago, May 7th, that  God did this work. The sickness has been knocked off.  

Praise the Lord.”

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From Charismatic Signs No 014 (2007) 

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