He was a sickly infant who was always fainting. The child had come back to life! (Benson Idahosa)īenson Andrew Idahosa was born in Benin City on Septemof Apoor pagan parents. I turned to the corpse and called it by name, “Arise in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Oh Glory to God! The corpse sneezed, heavily, alas. With strong faith in the Lord, I called on the Lord to restore the child back to life. With great enthusiasm, I walked into the room and up to the bed. “Will you permit me to pray for the child and bring her back to life?” The man was startled, but he agreed. “The God whom I serve can bring your baby back to life,” I told him. I walked boldly up to the father of the dead child. The corpse had been cleaned and prepared for burial. After about five hours of hard searching I found a compound where a little girl had died a few hours before. And flying around on my bicycle in those days, I went through the city of Benin in search of a dead person to raise to life. Classic DACB CollectionAll articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.Īs a young Christian, I once heard my pastor say during a morning service that Christians could raise the dead in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
