African Miracles: Do They Mess With Our Worldview?

I haven't seen a great number of miracles first hand. I've seen a few, but I never looked at them as evidence for anyone but me. It was personal. I'm more of a mercy guy than a miracle guy, but for decades I've always believed.

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African Miracles: Do They Mess with Our Worldview

I haven't seen a great number of miracles first hand. I've seen a few, but I never looked at them as evidence for anyone but me. It was personal. I'm more of a mercy guy than a miracle guy, but for decades I've always believed.


It's very interesting to me that Africa, South America and even parts of Asia seem so much more active with miracles. I wonder sometimes if our medical advancement in the west is another sort of divine compassion.

Anyway, I want to share part of an email I got from an African evangelism team called Christ For All Nations. Reinhard Bonnke and Daniel Kolenda see miracles most every night. This is a sampling.

I'm interested in your response. Do these types of miracles fit in with what you believe about God? Do they mess with your worldview at all?

For my part, I'm thrilled that God would step into these far away places, and sometimes some near places, and do something we can't explain any other way. Thanks God.

This message recently came in from Evangelist Daniel Kolenda direct from Lokoja, Nigeria.

Dear Evan,

Another historic Gospel Campaign has just come to a climactic conclusion here in Lokoja, Nigeria.  Tonight Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke preached a clear Gospel message on repentance and the great majority of the 150,000 present prayed with him to receive salvation and forgiveness from sin.  The cross is the centerpiece of the Christian faith and everything else must revolve around it.  When the cross is preached, a resounding “Amen” can be heard from Heaven in the form of signs, wonders and miracles.

-        An 8-year-old girl, deaf and dumb from birth heard and spoke tonight for the first time in her life!

-        A man who had been an occultist for the past 24 years was crippled by some debilitating disease.  During the campaign here, he surrendered his life to Jesus and then, last night, he brought his cultic  fetishes to be destroyed.  Minutes later, during the prayer for the sick he received a miraculous healing and can now walk!

-        A young lady who was crippled for 6 years had to be carried back and forth to the meetings all week.  I saw her sitting in the second row during the Fire Conference and, although I did not know what was wrong with her, I felt prompted to pray for her.  I went down and laid hands on her in the name of Jesus.  Tonight she walked up on the platform on her own…totally healed!

There were many wonderful testimonies tonight…too many for us to hear, but one thing is certain; Jesus is at work in Lokoja!!  Before the meeting came to a close, Evangelist Bonnke pronounced a prayer of blessing over the crowd and the people received it in faith shouting a mighty “AMEN” after each declaration.  As we begin the long journey home, we go with a strong sense of fulfillment, knowing that we have been about our Father’s business.  

Together in the Harvest,

Evangelists Daniel Kolenda and Reinhard Bonnke

Together with the whole CfaN team