SID: Sid Roth here with Charles Ndifon, and I am so intrigued with this encounter you had with Jesus in 1987. Tell me what you saw when you looked in His eyes.
CHARLES: Well what I saw was absolutely amazing, to know that He doesn’t condemn anybody. I was very surprised at what happened when He looked at me, and when He said to me “Preach the gospel. Don’t argue it. Announce the good things that I’ve done. And as I was with those in the past, so will I be with you. If the people will believe the good things you tell them of what I’ve done for them, nothing will be able to stand against you.” And then He said again, “Preach the gospel.”
SID: Now when He walked… Did He walk into you or through you? What happened?
CHARLES: That’s the next thing that happened. What happened was, at that moment, all the thoughts that were going through my mind is either I’m in heaven, I’m dead, or something. Everything paled where I was. I didn’t see any other person that was in that auditorium, I didn’t see anything else, I just saw Jesus. There was just a glory that was around Him. Everything faded in His presence. And then, He did something unusual, He just walked right into me, and I fell like a dead man. I was there for hours. I wasn’t aware I’d been there. When I got up, I realized I’d been drenched in my own tears. What was happening when He came, I felt like my whole body was about to explode. It’s like having something cooked in a microwave, feeling it’s about to explode – that’s how I felt.
I thought “I’m dying, I’m dying.” And peace just came over me as I was on the ground there. That encounter changed me. When I got up, I knew that the Jesus I proclaimed was not dead, He was indeed alive. Shortly after that, I went on doing ministry, I saw a remarkable change. There was a boldness and a clarity to what I was saying. I knew the One I proclaimed was indeed alive, and proved it with miracles.
SID: Now you operate, many times, with what is known as words of knowledge. You know things, like you did in the last segment, you know things about people. But I want to find out what happened when you went into a hospital in the dying – in the dying – ward. I mean, it’s the last stop before they die. What happened?
CHARLES: It was interesting what happened. We went over there, and we would do this every Sunday, we’d go after service and minister to the people. Well, when I walked in there, this was the male medical ward, and it says “Terminal.” That’s where the terminal patients were left to die. Normally in Nigeria, you have 20 people in a long room, 10 on one side, you have a nursing stating in the front, and you come in there and say what patient you want to see. So knowing that we came from the campus, it was interesting what happened. I walked in to the middle, there was a young man there, basically dying. He’d been there for months. And all I said to him was “I come from God with good news.
God sent me to you. Would you like to go home today? How would you like to be healed?” That was the message he’d been waiting for. The world is hurting; they want good news of what Jesus has done.
SID: Well was anyone listening to you, besides that person?
CHARLES: No, it was just a normal conversation, just like us sitting here. So now, this is the interesting thing that happened. When I spoke to him, I said “I come from God with good news,” and I talked to him. Three minutes later, I said “Listen, would you like to be well?” He said “Yes.” And he prayed a simple prayer, received life, received Jesus into his heart. This is what happened: I just held him by his hand, I said “Get up and walk.”
Instantly, every trace of his condition left him. When he got up, then everyone else, their attention was…
SID: Obviously.
CHARLES: I mean it just changed everything in the place, and this is was happened: This young man began to scream, and then the next person said “Help me too. Help me please.” I turned around and I said “Would you like to be healed also?” He said “Yes.” I touched him, and I said “Get up in the name of Jesus.” The moment I touched him, life came to his body and instantly, he was healed. There was a young man, for three months had not been able to eat. He’d been on IV for such a long time, and basically, they were waiting for him to just waste away and die. And when I touched him and said “Get up in the name of Jesus,” instantly, he said he felt something go through his whole body. And when he stood up – he had not eaten for three months – he asked for a bowl of rice. He called his mother, he said “Momma, get me something to eat.” He ate three bowls of rice.
There was another man, across the aisle. As people were getting healed, there was such excitement in the place that people were doing calisthenics; they were kicking themselves, doing all kinds of things. It was so exciting. Now, there was another gentleman, he was in some contraptions. Some young men had attacked him with some clubs, robbed him, beat his head in, and this happened to him. He was in these contraptions, and I could hear him faintly calling out “Please help me, please help me.”
He was paralyzed, and he said, to me the moment I grabbed him, I said “Do you want to be healed?” And he said “Yes.” And as I started lifting him up, he felt something left his body and stayed on the bed while he got up. And that thing left instantly, the spirit left his body – the spirit that held him in paralysis left his body – and instantly, he was freed. He took the rest of the contraption off and started running. That place went crazy. Every one of those people were instantly healed.
SID: How many people?
CHARLES: 20 of them, in less than half an hour.
SID: Did you hear that? This is the dying ward. Every one, 20, were instantly healed.
What happens when Charles walks in to one of the worst prisons in the world? Don’t go away. And I’m going to have him start praying in this next segment. Be right back.
