Speechless!! – Abidjan, Ivory Coast – Day 5

As many of you are aware, Ivory Coast has been plagued by many years of civil war. Terrible atrocities have been committed and much blood has been shed in this place. In fact, our crusade field bears a grim reminder of the desperately wicked condition of fallen humanity. At the back of the crusade field there is a distinct area where curious mounds of dirt are grown over with thick weeds. As our bulldozers were clearing the field in preparation for the campaign, we were asked by officials not to clear that particular area because it is a mass grave where countless unidentified corpses are buried. Yet, this week, this very field, once the scene of death and destruction on a massive scale, has been transformed into ground zero for a historic harvest and a mass Holy Spirit outpouring. It is a striking metaphor of God’s redemptive work through salvation. (…Continued)

I’m sitting in my room here in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. I’ve just returned from the crusade field and I am absolutely overwhelmed. Oh how I wish that you could have seen it with your own eyes. The power of God swept across that field in such a phenomenal way. So many cripples were healed I ran out of room on the platform – they started passing their crutches and wheelchairs forward and we stacked them in a heaping pile on the platform. (See the attached pictures)

A woman who was crippled and mute covered her face and sobbed uncontrollably, tears were gushing out of her eyes. It was so precious; I had to choke back my own tears. Then she told me that she was a Muslim! So I asked her if she knew who had healed her. She said, “Jesus of Nazareth!” (…Continued)

Tonight the crowd nearly doubled to 145,000! The head bishop of the fellowship of churches here in Abidjan, Ivory Coast leaned over to me on the platform and said, “These are the biggest meetings we’ve ever seen.” The pastors, chairmen and bishops are all “over the moon” with excitement. This is clearly a historic event and a spiritual landmark for the Church and for the nation.

Tonight as I was interviewing those who had testimonies of miraculous healing, the crowd started chanting “Je-sus, Je-sus, Je-sus” so loud that it was difficult to hear the testimonies. From all over the field shouts of joy were constantly erupting as the sick were being healed. The level of faith and zeal is something truly extraordinary – even in our experience! (…Continued)

Tonight, more than 85,000 people attended our FIRST MEETING here in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and what an AMAZING meeting it was!! I preached the Gospel and the people responded with such volume I literally covered my ears. Then holy chaos broke out. The blind were healed, the cripples walked, cancers disappeared. I don’t think my description can do it justice. Have a look at this link to a video I just uploaded. I recorded this with my iPhone…it will give you a taste of what we experienced tonight! (…Continued)

Consider the human eye, the design of which is so elegant and complex scientists still don’t fully understand how it works? It moves on average one hundred thousand separate times in a single day; conducts its own maintenance work while we sleep; has automatic aim, focus, and aperture adjustment; provides color, stereoscopic 3-D images; and can function from almost total darkness to bright light automatically. It can discern more than ten million color hues, including 700 shades of grey. In fact, Charles Darwin himself said, “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”

An American soldier in the Vietnam War was about to step on an anti-personnel landmine that was hidden from his sight. His comrade across the battlefield, who could see the impending disaster from his vantage point, stood up from behind his protective barricade and shouted a life-saving warning to his friend. At that moment the brave young man received a gunshot wound that ended his life.

Today my new book Live Before You Die – Wake up to God’s will for your life was released. It is an “interactive” book which includes QR Codes and links that will take you to videos that bring the content to life. As far as I know it’s the first of it’s kind. Want a sneak peak? Check out the video below. This video is found in chapter 12 entitled, “The Cemetery of Fear.”

We’ve just received a wonderful report from Cotonou, Benin where we held a Gospel Campaign three weeks ago. 251,258 decision cards were counted from the five days of meetings! That makes a grand total of 2,171,008 that have testified to having made a decision to follow Jesus in 2012. Praise the Lord!

Thank you to all of you who played a part in making this amazing harvest possible with your prayers and finances. You are impacting souls for eternity. We honor you and thank the Lord for you.

Tonight was the final meeting of the final crusade of 2012. It’s hard to believe that another year of Gospel Campaigns has come to an end. This year we have been in Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Liberia, twice in Uganda, Ethiopia and now Benin. In order to meet the unique logistical challenges we had to split our equipment into two separate sets and place one in the east and one in the west. Along the way were many dangers, toils and snares, but God gave us grace, you stood with us, our team worked very hard and in all, more than 2-million people professed faith in Christ. What a mighty God we serve! (…Continued)

This morning Rev. Peter van den Berg and I ministered to the pastors and church leaders at the final meeting of the Fire Conference. The way that the people received was so precious. It was simple. It was easy. It was all Jesus. At first they were silent. And then it began – all over the field pent up fountains began bursting forth and soon the whole crowd was swimming in a river of Holy Spirit unction. It was wonderful.

This week evangelist Eric Gilmour has been ministering each night before the Crusade begins. He has been teaching on faith and ministering to the sick. God has been using him in a mighty way and literally hundreds, perhaps even thousands, have raised their hands indicating that a miracle has taken place in their bodies this week. All the glory goes to Jesus. (…Continued)