We are experiencing a mighty surge of Gospel impact here in Ugep.  Even now I can hear outside my window the thousands of people who have literally flooded the streets on their way home from the meeting, which doubled in size from last night.  The word is out…Jesus is here - and all of Ugep is buzzing!
 
The response to the Gospel message tonight was overwhelming and the miracles were popping like popcorn.  A 23-year-old woman deaf and dumb from birth heard and spoke tonight with amazing clarity.  The crowd could hardly contain their joy when she repeated after me; “One”, “Two”, “JESUS!”  It was glorious!

 

A woman who had been paralyzed on her right side demonstrated how she had received full use of her arms and legs.  She went walking and leaping and praising God like the man at the “Beautiful Gate”.  I choke back the tears as I think of it now. 

 

Tonight, when we arrived at the Crusade ground we discovered that someone had brought an entire idolatrous shrine to be destroyed. Together with idols, charms, fetishes and many occult paraphernalia we burned it and the people rejoiced.  I also called out the local curses - names so feared most people are not willing to speak them out loud - one by one I took authority over them, breaking them off the people of Ugep in the name of Jesus.  The joy was uncontainable.  The people danced until the sky was thick with dust.  Today is a day of Salvation and freedom.
 
After the prayer for salvation many miracles happened and we saw an extraordinary proportion of paralytics healed.  Have a look at the picture of one young man who lived with so much pain from a motorcycle accident that it had left him nearly crippled.  Now he jumped like an athlete and testified that all pain has gone.  Praise the Lord!
 
Tomorrow is our Holy Spirit Baptism day and also the conclusion of the Fire Conference.  Please pray for a mighty outpouring of God's fire that will transform the Body of Christ in Ugep into a Gospel powerhouse that will continue to impact this region long after our team has gone.

Yours in the Gospel,

What we are experiencing here in Nigeria almost defies description.  It is nothing less than a sovereign outpouring.  This morning the Holy Spirit fell in the Fire Conference before I had a chance to preach.  After Rev Peter Vandenburg ministered the people began to cry out to the Lord and the Holy Spirit swept across that field with a tangible presence.  I interrupted the normal schedule and began to prophecy over the people and even as I was speaking the Fire fell.  All over that stadium men and woman were laid prostrate and the Holy Spirit filled many thousands in a spontaneous way.  I laid hands on a couple hundred pastors and sent them into the crowd to lay hands on all the people.  As they moved through the crowd cripples began to walk and the sick were healed.  It was glorious!
 
Tonight after I preached the Gospel and prayed with thousands of people who wanted to receive Jesus, we prayed again over that massive crowd to receive the Baptism into the Holy Spirit and the Fire fell once again.  We heard amazing miracle testimonies:
 
A woman said that her son had died yesterday and so she brought him to the crusade field.  She laid his lifeless body on the ground during the meeting.  When I began to pray I said, “If there is anyone dead within the sound of my voice, I command life to return to your body in Jesus name.”  Suddenly, she said, he opened his eyes, turned to her and said,  “Momma - I'm thirsty”! (Picture attached)
 
On Thursday I prayed especially for those with AIDS and told them to go get tested again.  One young man who had been diagnosed HIV Positive just 2 weeks ago was retested yesterday and brought his report from the doctor tonight.  I saw it with my own eyes…he is now HIV Negative!  (Picture attached)
 
One man who's right arm has been paralyzed for the last 17 years said that during the prayer he felt like there was a wire moving through his arm, into his shoulder, up his neck and into his head.  He said when it reached his brain his arm was instantly able to move perfectly.  
 
The miracle testimonies just kept coming until we had to turn them away; a woman with breast cancer said her lumps instantly vanished.  A lady deaf since she the age of three demonstrated perfect hearing and a crippled man walked.  
 
These are not just church meetings.  What is happening here in Nigeria is an ongoing outpouring the likes of which I have never seen.  More than 55 million have been saved in the last 10 years alone.  The sick are healed, the blind see, the lame walk, the dead are raised!  I am sure that history will remember this as one of the most remarkable waves of Holy Spirit impact the world has ever seen.  This is the Great African Outpouring.


Yours in the Gospel,

Another great Gospel campaign has come to an end and, as always, we feel mixed emotions.  We will miss Ugep and it's people very much, but we rejoice with what God has done here.  It is a miracle! Ugep is only a small village, but tonight 185,000 people were present and received the Word of God with great joy.  Many thousands were born again including a group of young men who came forward to testify tonight that they were part of an occult movement in the local university, but they have now given their lives to Jesus and renounced occultism! (see attached picture)
 
We have often been told that the local churches are filled with miracle testimonies of what God did in the campaign every Sunday even a year after we are gone.  Im sure this will be the case in Ugep. There is no doubt in our minds that Jesus has done something extraordinary here:
 
A well-known local man who has been a lunatic for the past 26 years was instantly healed…the crowd was extatic (see attached picture).  A man crippled for 24 years walked without aid tonight along with a child who was also crippled.  A woman was healed of breast cancer and a man's paralyzed arm was totally restored.  These miracles and others that we were able to hear are just a tiny sampling of the thousands of miracles that took place over the past few days.
 
In three weeks we will be back in Africa for another Gospel campaign in the city of Numan. We are burned with a sense of urgency to reap this mighty harvest while it is ripe.  There is no time to waste.  In the words of Leonard Ravenhill, “The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized in the lifetime of the opportunity.” Thank you for continuing to stand shoulder to shoulder with us in this historic harvest of souls.


Yours in the Gospel,