It is to my discredit that, in order for the Lord to attract my attention, I had to be shot by armed robbers.  The bullet pierced the body of my car and buried itself in my left leg.    Nevertheless, the Lord said to me: “Femi, there is nothing wrong with your leg.”

There was a recurring nightmare I had been having ever since I was a little child.  I would wake up in the middle of the night and discover that someone, some invisible person, was pressing me down on the bed.  I would struggle, but no matter how hard I fought, I would not be able to overcome him.

As a new believer, every time I was in an anointed environment, my body (especially my right leg) would start to shake aggressively. When I asked the Lord about this, he answered through a message given by a pastor at one of our lunch-hour fellowships.

I was standing in the parking lot of the building where I lived in Lagos, talking to Bimbo Dada, now Director of Library, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, when a man walked through the gate and came to talk to me. He said he worked for an oil-company but had recently been posted out of town. There was a lunch-hour fellowship meeting every week in his house and he was at a loss what to do about it now he was leaving. So he had been asking the Lord for guidance.

Inviting Jesus into my life immediately opened me to the spirit world. It was as if someone turned on the light and suddenly, a world I never knew existed suddenly became visible to me. But there were complications. I was open to the positive spiritual as well as the negative.

An old friend invited me to a special service at Victory Christian Church, Lagos.  The preacher was the late Bishop Harford Anayo Iloputaife, and he preached about Adam and Eve. 

Be careful before you sign that life-insurance policy with Jesus Christ. Read it properly because you would be signing away your life.

Picture this: I am standing in the middle of the road with a bullet wound in my left leg.  Nevertheless, a strange voice says to me: “There is nothing wrong with your leg.”  What about all the blood?  What about the fact that I cannot walk?

By Femi Aribisala The time was around 8 pm. on 26th December, 1993, and I was standing by the roadside on Lagos Airport road with an armed robber rifling through my pockets. He was also removing my watch from my wrist.  Another man was removing the suitcase in the back seat of our car and […]

As he journeyed he came near Damascus, suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice. (Acts 9:3-4).

Most Christian idol-worshipers are offended when referred to as idol-worshipers.  We know it is forbidden to worship idols but nevertheless worship idols while convincing ourselves that we do not.  But God cannot be mocked.  An idol is that thing that steals our hearts from God.

Whenever there is a cautionary word of prophecy, it is customary for supercilious Christians to automatically exclude themselves.  Thus, some Christians object to the assertion that Christians are idol worshipers on the grounds that it does not leave room for possible exceptions.  But the prophetic word does not give room for self-exclusion.  It is tautological, creating the need for general self-introspection.

Atheism does not exist. Man is a worshiper. Everybody worships. The critical question is who or what we worship.

I went to buy blank videotapes in a van emblazoned with Christian VideoNet on both sides. When I came out of the van, an Asiatic gentleman engaged me in friendly banter. He was clearly not a Christian, but I soon got the impression he was in the marketplace for a new religion. He did not wait for me to witness to him. Having seen the insignia on the van, he wanted me to tell him about Christianity. But then he had some vital questions he wanted cleared up right at the onset.

“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17). Therefore, saving faith comes by hearing that Jesus is the saviour; and thereby we are saved. Similarly, healing faith comes by hearing that Jesus is the healer, and thereby we are healed: “This fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, ‘He took our sicknesses and bore our diseases.’” (Matthew 8:17).

Most definitely! In the Old Testament, God reveals himself as Jehovah Rophe; the Lord who heals. He said to Israel: “If you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and obey it, and do what is right, then I will not make you suffer the diseases I sent on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26).