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Afikpo’s prayers are answered darkness dominion over in Afikpo A PUBLICATION OF EVANGELIST REINHARD BONNKE · DECEMBER 2009
Afikpo’s prayers are answered
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A PublicAtion of EvAngElist REinhARd bonnkE · dEcEmbER 2009
Tearing down Strongholds
Praise God for another mighty victory for his Kingdom and stunning defeat for the kingdom of darkness! Afikpo was a Nigerian city steeped in witchcraft and ancient superstitions but – hallelujah! – we hit that serpent on the head! The people lived in fear and bondage to demonic principalities that had gone unchallenged for generations, but during the campaign they were confronted by a force more powerful than any curse – the power of the gospel.
Evangelist Daniel Kolenda and I preached clear gospel messages and then invited the people to call upon the only name under heaven by which people can be saved … the name of Jesus! In that idolatrous land, we saw many people bringing their idols, charms and witchcraft fetishes to be burned just like in the days of Paul (Acts 19:19). By the hun-dreds of thousands, they surrendered their lives to Jesus. I am sure that all heaven took notice of what happened in Afikpo.
Establishing the Kingdom of God
While the enduring impact of the campaign on the region and the collateral damage to the kingdom of darkness are incalculable, our African campaign director has informed us that 412,640 people responded to the gospel, received Jesus as their Saviour, and completed a decision card. Praise the Lord!
Going out to the Highways and Byways
During one of the evening meetings, our campaign direct or leaned over to me and said, “This is real Africa.” He re-counted how one African evangelist came here recently but turned around and left when he saw the living conditions. Afikpo is as rugged and wild as it comes. Everything is raw and organic – including the incredible power of God demonstrated in the meetings. Thank you for enabling us to go – I cannot imagine the consequence for 412,640 people and the entire Kingdom of God if we had not.
PS: Please keep us in prayer as we look forward to our next campaign in Sapele, Nigeria, where we expect a great harvest. We have one African campaign a month for the next four months. Your ongoing support in prayer and funding is urgently needed and much appreciated.
Thank you to everyone who prayed and contributed financially to the success of this Great Gospel Campaign. It was worth the effort and the great harvest will be seen in eternity!
Yours in his love and service
Evangelists Reinhard Bonnke and Daniel Kolenda
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In Afikpo, Nigeria, over 5 nights, 412,640 people responded to the gospel message and completed a decision card to
receive Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
The large town of Afikpo in Nigeria is a place not frequented by many and is not on any
major travel routes. During the month of October, however, it was a centre of spiritual
activity for hundreds of thousands as the CfaN team led by Evangelists Reinhard
Bonnke and Daniel Kolenda made it the target for a Great Gospel Campaign.
Afikpo, Nigeria: A City on a Hill
The whole area around the town has a reputation as a hotbed of ancestor worship and idolatry, and has been known for decades as a place under the influence of widespread animistic practices. Reports reached the CfaN team that in the build-up to the gospel campaign, animist leaders and elders called their young people together and gave instructions that “Bonnke and his team must be stopped and chased out of town”. Christian leaders triumphantly gave the news that the animists’ young people had responded by saying that the elders and their religion had been around for centuries but no blessings had resulted for the people, that now the CfaN team was coming to bless them and that they would “chase nobody”. This was a clear indication of what would happen in the ensuing meetings.
In his welcome address to the CfaN team, the campaign chairman gave an impassioned account of the area’s recent dark history and called out for the hand of the Lord to intervene on behalf of the people. Here is an excerpt from that speech, a true modern-day Macedonian call for help.
A lady, blind in both eyes for 20 years, was healed. Evangelist Kolenda told her, “Catch me if you can.” Here you can see the result of the challenge.
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On Saturday morning 25,000 pastors gathered to be encouraged and to receive an impartation of fire for evangelism.
“Our old men spend their days in vanities while our youths languish in shame. We have won several awards but mostly in those things that cause shame. Servants now rule over us.
“Our women are ravished before our very eyes and our old men are not honoured. Our children die in their youth and our mothers are left without care in their old age. All these things and more have come upon us and we know why it is so.
“Although shrouded in myths and legends, the history of Afikpo indicates that it is under some heavy unbroken generational curses which came upon it due to some acts of wickedness against strangers and the innocents in olden times.
“Our strange addictive beliefs led our forebears into such barbaric acts as killing twins and banishing their mother, burying ‘criminals’ alive (burning them alive in recent times) and shedding much blood in the land, even of ministers.
“We have an organised system that opposes the light and resists righteousness, especially when it has to do with the gospel – a situation which has made the church sustain so many setbacks in her effort to reach the people.”
It was in answer to this call that the Great Gospel Campaign began.
As Daniel Kolenda preached the gospel and restitution, people responded to the salvation appeal in their thousands and many brought their witchcraft items forward to be burned. Each night two large steel drums were filled to overflowing with fetishes and each night the crowd danced and rejoiced as they were set alight and burned. In addition, many people, after having repented and given their lives to Jesus Christ, returned stolen goods to their former owners and many others, who could not do this, brought the stolen items to the campaign ground and handed them over as
a sign of their repentance and a gesture of restitution. There was great rejoicing as the crowd witnessed these graphic demonstrations of the Lord’s saving power and the defeat of the powers of darkness.
As always, the evangelist prayed for the sick after completing the call to salvation, and people streamed forward to testify to the Lord’s healing power in their bodies.
A woman, who had been blind for 20 years, demonstrated her new sight with great joy.
Pastors and church workers poured on to the field where the Fire Conference was held each morning, filling all the seats by 6.30 am in anticipation of the ministry and outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
At the end of the week, a crowd of over 200,000 people streamed to the campaign ground to hear the gospel message and there was widespread rejoicing over the tens of thousands who had been saved and set free from the bondage of idolatry.
Truly, this spiritually dark place had become a beacon of light, like “a city on a hill” beaming out the light of the saving grace of Jesus.
Report by Peter van den Berg
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