Pa Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola once told his fellow ministers during prayer meeting to kneel down for a SHORT prayer. After about 2-3 hours of kneeling down, the ministers became frustrated & sat down, leaving only Apostle Babalola still on his knee praying for about 5-6 hrs.The following day, they asked him “Baba, if you ask us to pray a short prayer with you which took almost 6 hours, How many hours will your LONG prayer last?”He prayed so much that his knee made a hole in a rock.
The hole is still there till sate on a big rock in Osun state.I heard of a story where he was on his way to Ibadan from Ilesa for a Crusade. The vehicle broke down in the middle of nowhere & no means of repairing it.He held the hands of his ministers & asked they all lift their right legs at the same time.
He usually traveled abroad with his ministers for missionary work neither by air nor water,he only gathers his ministers for prayer & instantly they disappear into thin-air
As they did, they disappeared & appeared at the crusade ground.He moved like Apostle Phillip at will.He was the only man that traveled overseas for missionary works without airplane or ship.
Sometimes, when preaching the angel will lift up his two legs & he will begin to move & float in the air without his feet touching the ground. The Ministry & Healing revival of his mission began with the raising of a dead child in September 1930.
What followed this in 3 weeks was the healing of about 100 lepers, 60 blind people & 50 lame persons.There was a god called ” egule” worshipped in the Isowo Quarters of the town.This god was so ruthless that no man dares point a finger at it to call attention to it as such acts led to forfeiture of fingers or death. It is said that a big python coiled around the pot on which the god was placed.
This god was situated on a bushy hill & no one dares goes there for fear of being harmed by the god or the python guarding it.When the Apostle got to this town he requested to visit the hill of this god. People were concerned for his safety but he insisted, then people from neighboring towns & villages came to see what was going to happen.All he took was his bell & his staff and he went to the hill with people watching him.Immediately he sited this god & its python, he started ringing his bell as he moved towards it & immediately the pot on which the god stood broke into pieces and the snake fled, when people saw this they started singing & rejoicing.
The people beheld the python & trampled it till it died and the people abandoned the Idols for God Almighty.In 1930, Wesley Hospital in Ilesa was emptied by the healing power of God at work in the life of this great Apostle of God.
He was once at a crusade where there was no more mat for people to sleep on. He requested his ministers to go to a particular room to get mats for the people who needed to sleep. They got there but the room was empty.He sent them a 2nd time insisting that there were mats there, they checked & checked but no mats.This happened a 3rd time & after returning, he decided to go himself to get them the mats.
On getting to the entrance of the room. He didn’t go in completely, instead he stood halfway at the entrance, & threw his hand into the room without looking into the room & started throwing mats out until everyone had picked mats & there was no more need for it.
He brought out mats that never existed from an empty room.Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola showed no sign of sickness until his unforseen call to glory on Sunday, 26th July, 1959.
These mighty acts are very much reproducible today & even more.How hungry & yielded are you for dimensions such as this?Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola was not a man, some people believed he was one of the disciples that followed Jesus during His days on earth, a dangerous man of God that showcased His glory on the earth. Lord Jesus, I covet the same order of grace on your Servant, Apostle J A B