07/07/2025
HOW THEY PLANNED TO EMBARRASS ME IN A COUNTRY || PASTOR WF KUMUYI
✓ this is not the kind of testimony to skip
Before I read my text to you, I want to now go to Russia. Russia now—in the capital Moscow, what had happened is the students there—the student body at the university there—they invited me to come and talk to them. But in order for them to process visa for me, they had to go to the Christian Pentecostal Union—that's how they call their own PFN there—the Pentecostal Union of Churches or the Christian Pentecostal Union to get a letter from them and sent to Nigeria to the embassy so that I'll be able to travel to Russia. And so I went there for the student body. Then the Christian Pentecostal Union—they called me and they said, "We were the people that made you to come because we gave letter for you to get visa. Won't you have one day crusade with us?" I said, that's all right. Just one day—that will be all right. And then I said, where will it be? They said, at the parliamentary building. Now you need to understand Russia—in that parliamentary building for 70 long years—that's where all the parliaments came together and they declared no God in Russia.
But thank God—how many of you know that when there was no God in Russia, there was God in Nigeria and God in Africa and God in Europe and God everywhere else? It’s a man that closes his eyes that he says he cannot see the sun. I am opening my eyes and I know the sun is there. They said there was no God—that's the parliamentary building they used. And then they said—I said, when are we going to have the crusade? They said, 10:00 in the morning. I said, why? Ah—they said, you're coming from Africa. We don't want to do anything in the night. We want you to be in the day so that we will see everything that is going on. I said, “No problem. That's all right.” And then we came to the parliamentary building, and the place was filled up. Thousands of people—thousands, thousands, thousands of people. And then they advertised and they said, “This is pastor so and so is coming from Africa. God is using him. The sick have been healed, blind eyes being opened, the lame—they're rising up and walking, miracles are taking place.”
Somebody wanted to prove us wrong—that God does not work miracles today, that there is no God doing anything like that. And he went to find somebody paralyzed—legs paralyzed, hands paralyzed—that could not move at all for 25 years. How many years did I say? Twenty-five. Twenty-five years. And then when all the people had gathered, then he puts that woman by the door so that as people are going out—when we say, “God is able, God is mighty, God is powerful”—then as everybody is going out they will see that woman paralyzed for 25 years. And then they will say, “Ah! But he said God can do all things—about this one?” And I didn’t know anything going on. I didn’t know anything anybody was trying on us. So I began to talk about Jesus. And then after the message about Jesus, I told them: if you want to have Jesus as your Savior, raise up your hand—and many, many people did.
And now I said, “It’s time to pray for the sick—and we’re going to pray. And whatever sickness, whatever infirmity, whatever deformity you have in your body, I’m going to pray for you now. The moment you hear the mention of the name of Jesus,” I said, “The miracle is there.” And then I prayed, and many people in the audience received miracles, and they were coming out and coming out. And then—remember the paralyzed woman there? How many years paralysis? How many? Twenty-five. As I mentioned the name of Jesus—and the people inside were receiving miracles—that woman at the gate, that woman at the door, the power of God came upon her, and the hands stretched out and the legs stretched out. And then she jumped up and she started walking up and down. I was on the stage—I was still encouraging the people—and somebody went there, took a photograph, and they made quite a big noise about it all over Moscow and in Russia.
And that’s the reason why I was also invited to Belarus. And then the Pentecostal Christian Union, Christian Union called me and said, “Now, you came for the students. You will come for us now again.” And they wanted me to say yes before I left. And I had no choice. I said, “Yes, I will come.” I came back and went now to start proceeding on—God works miracles. And everybody was very much expectant. I came for the first night, and that night I had my friend in America—Mr. Simon, he’s an historian concerning the Pentecostal church all over—and he was with me on the stage that very day. And I came on like this, and they introduced me. I was about to preach. And then—when I was coming into the auditorium that night—one of the ushers gave me the photograph and said, “When you came some months ago, this woman was paralyzed for 25 years, and then she got up and started walking. Here is the photograph.” He gave it to me.
So, to encourage the people—like I’m encouraging you now—I said, “Praise the Lord. When I came here a few months ago, there was one woman—she had been paralyzed for 25 years. Hands withered, legs withered, crawling on the ground like animal. But when I came and we were in this parliamentary building, this woman got healed, rose up—look at the photograph.” I didn’t know that the woman was in the audience. And so the woman rose up far away in the middle of the audience and started walking. And I didn't—because she wasn’t limping, everything was all right—she just walked like the queen of… of… of Russia, just walking like this and walking. I kept on talking. I was wondering, “How is it that I'm preaching and this woman is standing up and walking?” And then she walked towards the platform—and I was talking but I was wondering in my heart, “What kind of ushers are here in Moscow, that they didn’t stop this woman?” And then she climbed up the platform.
I was wondering. You—how many of you know that preachers must not show that they are afraid while they are preaching? So I acted as if I am bold. But with the corner of my eyes I was looking at her. I said, “Will not these ushers take this woman and not allow her to come to the stage?” And then she came near me. I said, “We’re in for it today.” All of a sudden, she took the microphone out of my hand. And then she began to talk. And she said, “I am the woman.” I said, “What?” And the people—they were wild with joy! That in this our day, **God is still at work.** I said, **in this our day, God is still at work.** And she gave the testimony how she was stayed in one place. Except somebody comes to carry her, she cannot go to toilet, she cannot go to the bathroom. Twenty-five years paralyzed—and now, she stood up.
Well, I don’t need to tell you—it’s because of that, eventually, Russia invited us to come and teach in their Bible schools because of God manifesting His power and mighty miracles. And **tonight is your night.** I said, **tonight is your night.**
