Apostle Babalola said
the prayers he had prayed are enough to be raising up men and women to
evangelize the nation until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. However, if the
kingdom of darkness ever believes they were victorious over the ministry life
of Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola of Christ Apostolic Church in Nigeria, then
their foolishness and stupidity must have increased.
They were confident that Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola ministry
will thwart horribly when the demonic astrologers behold his glorious star in
sky radiating mightily even before he was born. This envious act prompted
them to reprogram against his glorious ministry life and calling. They intended
to frustrate and cause him to work contrary against the perfect will of God for
his life.
However, this demonic assignment was forwarded to sister Funmilayo
Adebayo who was the chief judge in kingdom of darkness during those era. Eventually she reprogrammed
against the marital life of Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola and soul-ties him with a demonic reincarnate woman as
a wife, in which he later got married during his ministry exploit.
Confession By Evangelist Olufumilayo Adebayo.
During our report meeting in the kingdom of darkness, when we sent the astrologer’s to go and made a research, in order to know, what cause the problem and reason why 8 souls were able to make heaven at that particular year.
In their research they discover that, this barrier was broken by God in the land of Africa, in Nigeria. The Devil immediately commanded them to go and verify. Who is that person that cause's this problem?
But the report made me afraid. Because they came back with a report of a man, who’s I made judgment for, in the kingdom of darkness, when I was in California. That man name is called Apostle Ayodele Babalola. The founder of the church called C.A.C (Christ Apostolic Church)
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| Apostle Ayodele Babalola |
That was the man I made judgment for, in our Kingdom that time and I told you that, the judgment I made for that man is that, I program demon and re-incarnate demon as human being. And I made him to marry that wife. And truly, physically on earth, am sorry to say, those people that are member of that church, knows the story of that church very well. They knew the very woman that man married didn't repent until she dies.
Not that she didn't want to repent, but even though she repents, God will not accept her, because she is a demon re-incarnate. So, if you knew about that church story very well, you will knew that am not lying. So, we program so many things about that church, but I thank God, God help that man, called Apostle Ayodele Babalola to overcome the power of this woman. Even though, this woman disturbs this him. But still, he make Heaven. All glory be to God.
And I pray that the Hand of God will come upon that church and destroy everything that still remain, every plantation of the devil planted in that church and the church shall live and grow to the glory of the Lord in Jesus Name. So, as i was saying. It was the case of this man that comes out.
They say it was this man who was the cause, which brings the barrier that made the number of people to make Heaven like that. And argument started how a single man can break such barrier. It’s so strong, or is it, the message that is so powerful or the anointing. And the Astrologer's now told us, isn’t the message or anointing. He gives order in the church, that the entire member should not wear earring and they must not use jewelries at all.
The above confession was culled from evangelist Olufumilayo Adebayo, 990 years in kingdom of darkness confession; The woman who spent 990 years in the kingdom of darkness and her demonic manipulation against Apostle Ayo Babalola.
1 Corinthians 2:8 "Which none
of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory” The devil saw Jesus Christ preaching
the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, teaching the Word of God, healing the sick,
casting out demons, and working miracles. Little did the devil know that those
Acts of Jesus Christ were peanuts, they were not the main reason why He came.
The Acts of Jesus Christ staggered Satan’s mentality, and he
said, “Before this Son of God takes over
the world from me, let me kill Him.” And it was not until he killed the
Lord Jesus Christ that he realized that He had to die to redeem the world; and
this was the main reason why He came – to die for the world and shed His Blood
for the salvation of mankind.
The devil thought that by greatly troubling Apostle Joseph
Ayodele Babalola with his wife, then the man would be frustrated and not fulfill
his ministry. But we can only be frustrated if we do not put the Word of God
first in our lives, keep our focus on the Lord Jesus Christ, and follow the
Leading and Guidance of the Holy Spirit of the Living God.
And when the devil greatly troubled John Wesley and Apostle
Joseph Ayodele Babalola by their wives, they loved Jesus Christ, trusted in the
Almighty God, and put their heart, mind, and energy to the Service of Jehovah
our Father. We are going to see many things about the life and ministry of Apostle
Joseph Ayodele Babalola.
The Prayer Exploit
of Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola
Apostle Babalola said
the prayers he had prayed are enough to be raising up men and women to
evangelize the nation until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. However, the
intent of this post is not to glorify man: God alone deserves all the praise,
glory, and honor.
Also, our Ultimate Model is the Lord Jesus Christ; and the
Bible is our standard. But, there are many good things that we can learn from
the life and ministry of this man of God, who has long gone to glory in Heaven, as we follow God and His Holy Spirit
in our individual ministries and areas of call.
Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola prayer ministry exploit was
quite remarkable; for example, could pray for three days nonstop. After tarrying before the Lord in prayers,
Apostle Babalola was once commanded by God to cut three leaves from a tree and
put them on a rock before him; and God asked him to pray until the sweat from
his body moved the leaves forward; and he carried out the task.
According to a report, “…that was how he continued praying until he had prayed for seventy-two
hours. He started praying around 9:00 p.m. on Sunday and by the time he said a
closing “In Jesus’ Name I pray”, it was Wednesday evening. The surprising
thing is that, by the time the apostle finished praying, he apologized for
prolonging the evening prayer a little longer and then told them to go and
sleep.
They all laughed at him and told him, ‘Sir, you have prayed for three days. We left you most of the time and
have been going about our normal duties. Today is not Sunday but Wednesday. You
have been standing on your feet praying for three days.’”
He could spend time on the mountain for many days with
absolute fasting of neither water nor food (In
fact, there was a time when he did 51 days marathon absolute fasting of no food
or drink). In effect, it seems that Apostle Joseph Babalola was never
hungry while fasting, having been fed supernaturally by the angel who accompanied
Jesus Christ to visit him at the start of his ministry, on the seventh day of
his initial God-commanded seven days’ fasting of no food no water. He had
special grace for long dry fasting.
The man of God could also read and devour the Bible with his
time and energy. The Book of Psalm
pleased him a lot: he cherished it. But the devil did not know that the
apostle’s main call, ministry, authority, and power that he carried was not
just to preach, teach, and work healing and miracles; but his greatest call was
to pray out the Will, Plan, and Mind of God for the Work of God in Nigeria and
the world.
And stupidly, the devil himself helped God and the man of
God by driving him away from the comfort zone of a loving, caring, and obedient
wife. This started many hidden generators inside the man of God, which made him
to spend the rest of his life in total consecration, separation, and service to
our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church.
Somebody may say, “But
he died at the age of 55 years” And I say, “Our Lord Jesus Christ died at the Age of about 33 years.” So, which of them lived longer? The purpose and
fact is that he fulfilled his ministry. And
in his own words: “The prayers I have prayed are enough to be rising up men and
women to evangelize the nation until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.”
Also, he spoke of his death ahead of time, knew when he was
about to die, and asked his ministers (with him) to pray to God to forgive him
however he might have sinned/misbehaved in the course of his ministry; and later he gave up the ghost and was ushered
in to the Kingdom of Heaven.
He prayed with two of his ministers, said the grace and
uttered these words: “I THANK GOD BECAUSE THE WAY IS NOW OPEN.”
Later before he
died, the apostle cried in a thunderous voice, “In the Name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit,” and breathed heavily three times. When his attendant
shouted, as people opened the door, a great wind blew violently on them all.
The room and everything in it vibrated visibly but no wall
cracked. As men of God prayed for him, God revealed to one of them, in a
vision, the state of Apostle Babalola in glory. He saw a welcome service being
conducted for Apostle Babalola by the host of Heaven with very wonderful
Heavenly choristers.
After his death, Apostle Babalola’s body lied in state for
seven days before the final burial. And though the corpse was not embalmed, it
remained prefect, without undergoing decay throughout the period of lying in
state. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ.
While persecutions and rejection can make some people
stronger and more spiritual and effective, comfort and acceptance can make some
others less effective, unfruitful, and carnal. There are different kinds and
levels of witchcraft operations against the ministers of the Gospel. Speaking
of the seed which fell into a good ground, the Bible says, “…which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some
sixty, some thirty” (Matt. 13:23).
While some ministers receive their own witchcraft attack in
the form of persecutions, confrontations, and tribulations, many others receive
their own in the form of comfort, goodness, prosperity, and being well-spoken
of. The devil would be happy to make you the president of your country if he
knows that God ordained you to be an international evangelist, because he would
have gained thereby.
It is our responsibility to ask the Holy Spirit to help us
to know the kind and area of attack that the kingdom of darkness has programmed
against us. Know about this kind of subtle attack: If the devil sees that he
would not stop you from obeying the Call of God on your life, and also notices
that persecution can make you stronger, wiser, and bolder, he can create an
atmosphere of comfort zone around you, so that you do not meet up with the full
potential of your call.
He will be satisfied to have you produce twenty-fold fruit
in comfort, if he knows that persecution can make you to bear sixty-fold or
eighty-fold fruit. And this kind of
witchcraft attack can come from wives, husbands, friends, colleagues, and
associates. Do you know that a caring, obedient, and loving wife (with or
without her own knowledge) can be used by the devil to make you get relaxed and
never reach your full potential in God’s Service?
She would not talk back at you; she would obey you always;
and she would give you no headache. Also, the friend which the devil uses
against you in the area of subtle comfort-attack will follow you to church.
He/she may even be your prayer-partner. Yes, she will encourage you and pray
with you when you have harsh experiences. But she (if she is a conscious agent
of darkness) will know where and how to manipulate you in order to keep you at
a low-level of bearing good fruit in your area of calling.
And if he/she is not a conscious wizard/witch (because some
people are mysteriously manipulated and used as blind witches), the devil knows
the area that he/she will be used to weaken, reduce, corrupt, and pollute you.
Furthermore, a colleague or an associate (with or without
his/her conscious knowledge) can be programmed against you, to give you
prosperity, success, and breakthrough in order to keep your full focus and
dedication away from your spiritual duties, commitment, and consecration. And
by this, even while serving God, you will never reach your full potential in
your area of calling.
Whereas prosperity, success, and breakthrough are good
things, some Christians and ministers actually allowed their wellbeing to
destroy them. Have you never observed
that many Believers were more committed to the Things of God when they were not
rich and wealthy? This is one reason why some ‘great’ and advanced nations,
like America and Britain, have forgotten and despised God and His Word in their
prosperity and advancement.
The ministry
Exploit Of Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola
According to Kayode Darda, “Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola’s
call to the ministry was miraculous, and his mission was full of the
supernatural. He was endued with power from on High in order to manifest the
greatness of God’s Power over every contending force he faced in his thirty
years of active service. God picked and anointed Joseph Ayo Babalola.
Apostle Babalola
said the prayers he had prayed are enough to be raising up men and women to
evangelize the nation until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. God selected
him as a workman selects his tool, chosen to accomplish a Divine work. He had
the Stamp of Deity upon his ministry. Signs and wonders accompanied his
ministrations.
“The blinds were made to see, the dumb spoke, the cripple
worked, the demon-possessed and lunatics were instantaneously delivered, the
lepers were made whole, the dead were raised back to life, women who carried
four to five years of protracted pregnancies were delivered of their burdens.
He entered forbidden forests, silenced demons that demanded
worship, emptied hospitals and healing homes by the Healing Power of the Lord
Jesus from sicknesses and diseases such as epilepsy, rheumatism, ulcer, pile,
dropsy, impotency, goiter, elephantiasis, hernia, cancer and innumerable
‘incurable’ and ‘terminal’ diseases.
“His demonstrations
of the Power of God in power encounters over evil forces were overwhelming.
Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola had series of face to face encounter with the
powers of darkness. He was so clothed with the Power of the Holy Ghost that
anywhere he found evil powers, agents of darkness, witches and wizards,
powerful idols, and terrible demonic charms, he stood up to demonstrate the
supremacy of the Power of God over them. In many power encounters with witch
doctors and other demonic priests, God always glorified Himself through His
Servant, Apostle Babalola.
“He led hundreds of thousands of people to accept Jesus
Christ as their Lord and Saviour. The Word of God preached by His Servant,
Apostle Babalola, was backed with God’s Authority. The hearers, at the revival
meetings, surrendered their charms and idols. Others ransacked their homes and
farms and brought to the revival grounds those things the Lord forbids. There
were no dubious assets of certain modern evangelists with their charming,
trained voices, glamorous clothes, impressive advertising, and entertaining
music.
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| Apostle Babalola preaching in crusade during 1930s |
The only resource of
Apostle Babalola was the Power of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God worked so
mightily, that virtually, the entire… became baptized in a holy flame of
supernatural influence. His revival grounds were charged with God’s
Presence.
A lot of wicked people who
went to test the Power of God in Apostle Babalola’s crusades were confounded by
the Presence of God; sometimes they fell down as they were arrested by the
Spirit of God, confessed their devilish assignments, and surrendered their
charms for burning at the crusade grounds.
“According to a close associate and some of his disciples:
‘Apostle Babalola used to pray on his knees for a complete day nonstop; prayers
for God’s Goodness for all the people around him and for the salvation of the
world.’ ‘He could thank God for what some people might see as little and
continue in thanksgiving for three hours.’ ‘He used to engage us in three hours of nonstop prayers for particular
requests, and such were truly achieved.’
Papa used to divide us into seven groups to pray at seven
intervals to achieve victory against any satanic contention.’ Apostle Babalola said the prayers he had
prayed are enough to be raising up men and women to evangelize the nation until
the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Many Servants of God used to dread his
evening family devotion prayer: they knew he could pray for three hours nonstop
and thereby tie them down in prayer for many hours.
“Oba Akinyele, the
Olubadan of Ibadan told the story of how Babalola, as his guest, was given a
room to pass the night before the outbreak of the 1930 revival. He said he
could not sleep that night as it appeared there were voices of thousands of
thunders or mighty waves of ocean in the room where Babalola prayed all night,
even though no one outside his house could hear it.
He said from that moment he knew that this young man
(Babalola) was going to do something which would shake the whole world. “Apostle
Babalola narrated his experience while lying down and praying on the mountain
at Odo-Owa one fateful night. He noticed an animal crawling over his legs for
over two minutes like drawing long rope.
He suspected it could
be a snake, but the Holy Spirit instructed him not to open his eyes; and he
obeyed, until the snake completely crawled over his legs. The Lord told Apostle
Babalola that the snake was not ordinary; it was an evil spirit trying to tempt
him, but God told him that the snake had dried up.
The spot where Apostle Babalola kneed and prayed during his battle
with Satan is marked by his shadow till today. When Apostle Babalola was alive,
he prayed ceaselessly on the mountains for Nigeria and
the entire world. “Apostle Babalola
travailed for long hours in intercessory supplication with fasting. He
habitually poured out his soul to God alone on the prayer mountain.
It is
on record that he fasted for forty days and nights without eating food and
drinking water…. This fasting, according to him, took place after the Lord
appeared to him during his preparation for his public ministry. On many occasions, he
embarked on forty days’ fasting, apart from the forty days’ Lenten fasting
he almost institutionalized.
He undertook other series of fasting, ranging from
seven days, fourteen days, and twenty-one days respectively. Wednesdays and Fridays were his regular
fasting days for spiritual renewal.
He said he was not
hungry or thirsty when he embarked on that forty days’ marathon dry fast,
because Jesus stood by him throughout the days and the nights.
Great
spiritual power was released upon him during that period, as that unction was
essential to lay a solid foundation for the Gospel and the work ahead of him. “Apostle Babalola said
the reservoir of prayer he had prayed was enough to be raising up men and women
to evangelize the nation till the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Secrets Of His Power Included:
- Divine encounter; prayerfulness.
- The Seal of the Holy Ghost.
- Obedience and devotion to his call.
- The crucified life.
- Faith in God.
- Perseverance.
- Scriptural preacher.
- Servant hood.
- Sanctified vessel.
- The love mark.
- Fasted life.
- Spirit-endorsed.
- He walked with God.
- He knew God.
- Endowment with God’s Manifold Grace.
- Clothed with the garment of praise.
- Zealousness.
- Meekness and humility; and
- The Stamp of Deity
“HE OUTSERVED,
OUTLOVED, OUTFASTED, AND OUTPRAYED US ALL. He can be compared to Saint Dominic,
for his apostolic zeal. He can be compared to Saint Francis of Assisi, for his
Love of Christ and for his detachment from the world.
He can be compared to Martin Luther, for standing out for
God in his generation. Apostle Ayo can be compared to John Wesley, whose stated
desire was “to be on full stretch for God.” He can be compared to Iranaeus for
upholding the canon of Truth.
He can be compared to Smith Wigglesworth for his boldness
and faith in the Living God. He was God’s Servant, who was raised to mightily
declare the Greatness of God in this dispensation of grace.
“The 1930 revival was not confined by region lines, economic
class systems, educational distinctions, social status, denominational
preferences, or national boundaries.
The Revival attracted peoples and nations.
…it was God at work in the greatest revival waves in the history of
Christianity in the world, that touched and transformed millions of lives,
peoples, and communities.”
The Divine Ministry
revival Of Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola
According to a paper presented to an international religious
conference on the origins of Christ Apostolic Church, the first Pentecostal
churches in Nigeria and Ghana jointly organized by The Centre for World
Christianity (CWC) of The New York Theological Seminary (NYTS), Joseph Ayo
Babalola University (JABU), Ikeji Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria, and The
Institute for Diasporan and African Culture (TIDAC), held at Joseph Ayo
Babalola University, 6th-8th August, 2012.
The legacies of Apostle Ayodele
Babalola include:
(1) Firstly, by
accepting the call and offering himself as a vessel in God’s Hands, he released
vital spiritual forces into the church and society of his days. The Great
Revival of which he was the principal instrument leaped denominational
boundaries and frontiers and gave new impetus to Christian religion.
Several mission records in the archives affirm that Babalola
was a benefactor of even the Mission churches and by his style of prophetic
revivalism impacted the churches and brought a new spirit in the Church. Both
the Anglican, Methodist, and even Baptist churches awakened anew to evangelism
as a challenge in the wake of Babalola’s revival.
This singular action of arousing the church from the stupor
of dead formalism to practical evangelism of the heathen is one of his greatest
legacies and shows the Aladura as following in the footsteps of Early
Methodism.
(2) By rejecting
Western interpretation of Christianity, he, in alliance with others, gave birth
to a more practical, more result-oriented Christianity that is more
culture-friendly and satisfying; yet without compromising any of the
ethical bearings or spiritual principles of historic Christianity.
By his prescription of Divine healing and reliance on God
alone for problems without any human means, he drew on the finest sources of
apostolic Christianity, sources as old as Christianity itself, thereby ensuring
the enthronement of true Christianity.
(3) By his
consecration and total submission to God he released spiritual power to the
church and the world thereby inaugurating a new era in the realm of evangelism.
In effect, Christian witness moves from the traditional literary-catechumen
activities to power-evangelism, power-healing, and spiritual warfare.
(4) By instituting
sanitary laws and hygiene standards for masses of people, by consecrating and
sanctifying the sources and springs of water for whole towns and poor African
communities against pollutions and other health hazards, by establishing
many schools for the education of poor children.
By personally taking up the responsibilities of widows,
poor, fatherless and setting up training institution for many, by teaching
farmers to give to God their first fruits in order to ensure regular rainfall
and bountiful harvests in accordance with Mosaic Covenant, by teaching
villagers to build goodly and durable houses with molded blocks and burnt
bricks instead of mud.
By encouraging villagers
to pay their taxes regularly and promptly thereby inducing better social
relations between the government and the governed, Babalola established
himself, both then and for all time, as not only a revivalist but also a social
reformer and crusader, public benefactor, and intellectual, patriotic, and
Christian revolutionary.
(5) By introducing
the use of indigenous language, idioms and songs, by employing other harmless
African styles such as drumming, clapping, singing and dancing, by using native
dress in his ministration as against costly vestments and robes, he took
Christianity from the realm of the classical Western-trained professionals to
the realm of the generality and the layman.
The Christianity introduced by the western missionaries and practiced
in Nigeria before the Revival was incomplete religion. It failed to emphasize
enough spirituality in a spiritually-alive culture. It seems to be something
which begins and ends in church buildings, made up of hymns, read or recited
prayers, lessons…. It does not seem to be something that is efficacious for
them in every area of their lives and under all circumstances.
There were certain emotional depths in Nigerians which the
prefabricated, imported liturgies did not reach; there were spiritual undernourishment
and spiritual hunger, because the hungry sheep of God looked up to the Church
for food, and were being fed, to a great extent, on stuffs which were alien to
their constitution.
“But the Great Revival of Babalola, and other prophet
movements before it, freed Nigerians from this aberration. For once it occurred to many Nigerians that Christianity was not really
a white man’s religion ‘and that you can be Africans and Christians at the same
time; to call the Name of God in an atmosphere of spontaneous joy and
cheerfulness; and to pray as Africans naturally would pray.’
“The real contribution of Joseph Babalola then, is in the
practical demonstration of the essence of Christianity. His contribution was
not in theology. He really did not discover any great Truth. Virtually all the
Truths he taught or preached had existed before he appeared on the horizon.
Even Divine healing had been preached as far back as 1918,
10 years before his call by the Faith Tabernacle. What was new however was that
Babalola revolutionized these Truths by his practical commitment.
He made God real to masses of people coming out of
heathenism (‘heathenism in all its ugliness and in all its horrors’) and took
Christianity from the realm of select classical few to the realm of the
mainstream, from the realm of Westernized religion to the point of African
understanding.
A woman who went to
teach in St. Stephen’s School in Efon in 1943 told me: ‘We know of
Christianity, the Anglican type of Christianity. We have heard of Jesus Christ
too before Babalola came. But it was Babalola who made Jesus real to us. He was
the type of Jesus that we saw and which drew us to Jesus Christ.’
“To make Christianity real and dynamic to old farmers, juju
priests, and borderline nominal Christians of Catholic and Protestant varieties
was one of the major contributions of Babalola. Christ became so real in the
imagination and consciousness of people that they threw away their idols,
graven images, and potent cultist objects.
Having found the real substance they threw away their
vanities, for the shadows no longer held any appeal. His originality lays not
so much in the discovery or rediscovery of divine healing and of other Truths,
but in the fearless and public proclamation and application of these Truths.
“By telling whole communities and towns to surrender their
idols, charms, and fetishes to rely on God alone, by asking masses of people
and entire town to do away with all medicine, herbs, and roots, both local and
foreign, to take Christ as their Healer − something which the mission church
and even C&S had not been able to do.
He shows his originality as a prophet, a distinct voice from
God for restoration rather than an echo, and drew on sources as old as
Christianity itself. In this respect he belongs to the greats, in the same list
with Francis of Assisi, Savonarola, Martin Luther, George Fox, John Wesley, and
others, who also in their time sought to bring religion from Heaven to earth.”
