acts of the Holy Ghost. Out of desperation, I consistently sought the Lord with prayer and fasting, and after a divine commission, I began to experience what I call“ Acts of the Apostles results”. Time would not permit me to testify of some of the mighty signs, wonders, healings and miracles that the Lord has wrought through my ministry; but several hundreds of deafmutes, cripples, blind, paralyzed, and people with all manner of sicknesses and infirmities have been healed by the undeniable power of God. There have been countless conversions in some of the world’ s most Satanic strongholds. On many occasions, the Lord has even used me to stop the rain and cause it to rain!
At an evangelistic crusade in Ibadan, Nigeria, a lady who had crawled on hands and feet for 38 years was touched by the power of God, straightened up and started walking. And as we were singing and praising God for her testimony, she started dancing. She was so overjoyed that, even when the music stopped she kept on dancing!
More recently in 2011, at a Morris Cerullo World Conference in Orlando Florida, the Lord led me to command cripples who wanted to walk to come to me in front. Immediately 23 cripples left their sticks and walking aids and began to walk!
And there were many other things that the Lord has done so powerfully because I invoked His help through prayer.
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What Leaders Must Do
Since prayerless pastors produce prayerless pews, and prayerless pews produce a powerless church, there is an inescapable responsibility on the pastor or church leader to pray and to raise a praying church. Paul was literal when he instructed,“ Pray without ceasing”( 1 Thessalonians 5:17), and that is the clarion call to all believers, especially leaders of the Church. I believe the following could help us as leaders in the area of prayer:
I. Personal revival of prayer:
It is a known fact that people watch our actions more than they listen to our words. Likewise, in our churches the members observe our lives more than what we preach to them on Sundays. So if we want to have a praying church, we need to first of all be praying leaders.
Indeed, prayer is more about quality of attitude than quantity of hours, but surely quantity has a significant part to play. Is that not why Jesus was disappointed that His disciples and close associates could not spend even one hour in prayer? In the same