CHARISMATIC SIGNS

“Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted” — Isaiah 49:13

“BRETHREN, my name is Innocent Anyadiegwu and I worship at the Iyiowa Parish of the Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement, Onitsha Diocese. Please join me to bless the Lord for His goodness and mercy towards me and my family. Sometime in January this year (2012), I returned from the village with members of my family, and began to feel a sharp pain in my neck. It was so severe that for three days I could not eat any solid food, but took only water. I also could not go out to transact my business.

It was at this point that my wife became jittery and compelled me to see a pharmacist nearby and both of us went. By God’s grace, before now, I had enjoyed divine health for years hence my reluctance to go for treatment until she insisted.

The pharmacist gave me some injections and some tablets. He asked me to return the following day for more injections. During the night my condition became worse. It was as if I would die. As I was relaxing on a chair, I had a vision where I saw myself very sick and surrounded by my family members. Then I saw my Diocesan Pastor holding his Bible. Then he came and began to pray for me. He prayed extensively in that vision and when he was through, I attempted to rise on my feet with considerable effort, but in the process, I experienced a sharp pain in my neck, before I woke up to realize that I had been having a vision.

When I opened my eyes, I looked around and saw the 2011 Watchman Calendar with the picture of the General Superintendent holding a microphone. Then I had a ministration to go and tear off the page that bore his portrait and place it on my aching neck. This I did without any hesitation. I held my neck and head with the picture and lay down. Soon, I slept off.

When my wife came in and saw what I had done, she began to pray and weep. As she was praying and weeping, I woke up, and I had a ministration to remove the calendar page from my neck, that I was healed. But as I removed it, the pain grew worse. And suddenly an Igbo song: ‘Ebe Chineke no, ihe n’ile kwere omume’ meaning, ‘wherever God is, everything is possible’ welled up in my heart and I began to hum it. As I was just humming the song because of the difficulty I had in talking, my wife joined me and sang it out. And as our song continued to ascend into heaven, after a few minutes, I heard a sound from one side of my neck, and behold, pus and blood began to gush out.   And while this was going on, I heard another loud sound from the other side of my neck and puss and blood continued to gush out until the whole thing was totally drained. At that instance, I became perfectly healed. My neck which I could not turn around during the period of the ailment became free and I was able to turn it freely.  And all the pains vanished. From that moment I abandoned the remaining tablets and injections because I had become totally healed by God.  Praise the Lord!”