The day came when God rent the heavens, as it were, and came down while we were gathered together. Suddenly we heard a noise like a great wind. It was similar to pressurized air escaping from an air pump, and as if that wind were blowing right through every one of us.
The Spirit of God came down and everybody was conscious of it without anybody saying a word. He came over the meeting place, over the whole area, and brought the people.
The Witch Who Met Jesus
The first person to come was a witch who lived seven kilometers away and was in charge of a training school for witches. God began at the very strongholds of Satan.
When I asked this witch, “What is it you want?” she answered, “I need Jesus. Can He save me? I am bound with chains of hell. Can He break these chains?”
I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears! For twelve years I had tried in vain to convert witches, sometimes for weeks at a time, and they had always claimed that their powers were a gift from God.
And now, suddenly, right out of the blue, a witch stood in front of me and told me that she was sick and tired of her life, and was bound with chains of hell.
She said nobody spoke to her, preached to her, or even invited her. She was fully prepared to confess her sins and accept Jesus as Lord.
After she confessed, she said, “Pray for me, that Jesus rids me of these evil spirits.” And she called the spirits by name: Izizwe, Indawo, Indiki — these aren’t just imaginary concepts.
The Battle in the Spirit
If a person is possessed by the spirit of Izizwe, he can speak in foreign languages which he has never heard or learnt.
I didn’t know how to pray for a witch. I had tried it once before, when a possessed person came to me, and I had commanded those forces in the name of Jesus to be gone — but the result was that I became the laughing stock of the devils!
Now here I stood again, supposed to pray for a witch.
I called five or six co-workers together and we sat in a circle with this woman in the middle. She was illiterate — a woman from the heart of the country, who had never worked for Europeans or English-speaking people.
We sat on chairs around her and began by singing an Easter hymn with the cry of victory. As we repeatedly sang that hymn, the woman suddenly jumped off her chair, threw herself down on her hands and knees, and began to move around like a wild animal.
She looked like a tiger preparing to pounce on its victim.
The woman then began to speak to us in English, a language she had never learnt at school. The demons manifested through her in several other ways. Dogs began to bark from within her; when that was over, a herd of pigs began grunting and squealing from inside her.
We then commanded the powers of darkness to leave in the name of Jesus.
“We are three hundred strong warriors, and we won’t leave this person,” they cried out.
We prayed, “O Lord, set this person free!”
Suddenly these demons said, “We knew of God the Father, and even of God the Son, but since the Holy Spirit has come, we are burning. His fire is too hot for us.”
The Victory of Jesus
I realized that it wasn’t a battle of flesh against spirit, but of God’s Spirit against these spirits of darkness.
Then the first hundred demons left with much shouting and screaming, then the second hundred, and then the third hundred.
Up to that moment the face of the old witch had retained a dark and horrifying expression, but the instant the evil spirits left her, the expression on her face changed abruptly.
She looked like a saint who had been living in the presence of Jesus for many years. With the glory of heaven shining on her face and in her eyes, she cried,
“Oh how marvellous, Jesus has set me free! Jesus has broken these chains of hell!”
Revival Fire That Spread
After that witch came the witch doctors, then the possessed — one after the other, day after day. For two or three months we hardly had any sleep at all.
They came fully convicted without being preached or spoken to. God had kindled His fire, and it spread through the valleys and the mountains, so that thousands were saved in one week, yes, even in one day.
That happened among the Zulus and the Xhosas in South Africa. There is no limit to what God can do.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
- “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” saith the Lord of hosts. — Zechariah 4:6
- For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. — Ephesians 6:12
Miraculous Monday: 26th September 2022
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