RR: Dr. Abiara, I’m honored to be here tonight.  I am overwhelmed by what I’ve seen, and I thank God.  This is Nigeria’s finest hour.  I want to thank you and all of these sponsoring ministers.  The Holy Spirit is a gentleman.  He goes where He is invited.  I am also a gentleman, and I go where I am invited.  And I thank you for inviting me to Ibadan.  Amen.

Tonight I look like I’m Nigerian.  Tonight I am becoming an honorary Nigerian.  Stand on your feet with me.  Take your handkerchief and wave unto the Lord.  Hallelujah!  We give You praise.  We give You honor.  We give You glory.  We thank You that You are here today, that You’re still in the saving business, You’re still in the healing business, You’re still in the miracle business.  You never changed.  You’re the same yesterday, today, and forever.  And we give You praise, in Jesus’ name, amen.  Amen.  Hallelujah!  Amen.  You may be seated.

I wish my wife were here to see this tonight.  I wish my daughters were here to see this tonight, to see this stadium filled and to know that tonight is a night to pray for Nigeria.  But how do we pray for Nigeria?  What do we do tonight to prepare the way for the healings, for the miracles?

As I was sitting here tonight and as we were worshipping the Lord, God gave me a scripture.  It is not the scripture that I planned to preach on tonight, but as I sat there, God gave me a different scripture.

He said, “Don’t preach what you had planned.”  And He directed me to Philippians, chapter 2, where the Bible says, “God has highly exalted the name of Jesus, and he has given him a name which is above every name named in heaven and earth, and that at that name every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

It is time to expect a new miracle every day.  God has a due season.  The Bible says, “If you don’t give up, you shall receive in due season.”  That’s why I’ve come expecting miracles.  Every day I wake up, and I say, “Today, God, I’m expecting a new miracle.”  The phone rings, “Is this my miracle?”  Someone knocks on my door, “Is this my miracle?”  Someone comes to see me, “Is this my miracle?”  I see someone in the shop, “Is this my miracle?”  I see someone in the university, “Is this my miracle?”  I see someone in my office, “Is this my miracle?”

I’m looking.  I’m searching.  I’m trusting God.  I’m expecting His miracle supply.  Lift your hands and give praise to the Lord tonight.  Say, “I’m expecting.  I’m expecting.  I’m expecting a new miracle, in Jesus’ name.”  Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!  Praise God.

I want you to stand for a moment.  I’m going to pray a healing prayer.  And when I do, I believe God is going to begin to perform miracles.  We saw miracles on Wednesday night.  We saw miracles on Thursday.  We saw miracles last night.  And I believe we’re going to see miracles tonight.

This afternoon as I was praying, the Lord said, “Start with feet and legs.”  You who are hurting in your feet and legs, get ready for prayer.  Lay your hand on your feet or your legs.  In the authority of Jesus’ name, thank You that You took a stripe on Your back for feet and legs.

I speak to pain in feet and legs, in Jesus’ name.  I pray for healing.  Lift your hands unto the Lord as I pray tonight.  Father, I speak to pain in feet and legs.  I speak to crooked legs.  I speak to that bone that’s not right.  I speak to the crooked foot.  I speak to the pain in the foot and the ankle and the knee and up into the hip.

So I’m delivering what the Lord said to me this afternoon in the airplane.  And I’m going to be obedient.  I’m going to be the first of ten.  Our ministry is going to plant a $5,000 seed.  We’re going to do ours.  We’ll do ours in $1,000 increments.

Others of you can get prepared because I’m going to pray.  And when I pray, I’m expecting the Holy Spirit to speak.  And when He does, then I want you to go to your telephone and say, “Here’s what the Lord said to me as Richard prayed.”

Now when you call, I want you to be sure and give them not only your name and where you’re from and the place and all that, but I also want you to tell them what you’re believing for.  Because in a few minutes, I’m going to ask Ron and Norma and the others if they’ll give me permission to go into the room where the phones are.  And I want to take the little pledge sheets—I’m guessing it’s about this size.  I don’t know—something like this.  But I want to hold it in my hand.

Let’s just say the first gift is from John, John and Mary.  Okay, John and Mary, I’m going to lay my hands on your request, these hands that have laid hands on hundreds of thousands of people in my lifetime and seen tremendous miracles.  I’m going to lay my hands on your name and on your need.  So be sure and let the prayer partner know what your need is.  And I’m going to lay hands on every one of your names tonight, and I’m going to call your name to God with all the faith that is within me.

You don’t have to put up with a recession.  It may be going on around you like it was with Isaac.  But Isaac sowed in famine.  In the middle of recession, he sowed, and God brought a hundredfold harvest.

Now I was thinking of these divine moments in the Bible.  Another divine moment is Zacchaeus.  Zacchaeus was a little short guy, and Zacchaeus got a glimpse of Jesus, but he couldn’t really see Him because of his shortness of stature.  And so he ran ahead, the Bible says, and he climbed a sycamore tree.

And Jesus recognized him and called him down and said, “I’m going to eat in your house.”  Now this was a divine moment.  It was a life-changing moment for Zacchaeus, for Zacchaeus was a hated tax official.  Everyone hated him.  He had cheated lots of people, and he admitted it.  “People that I have cheated,” he said, “I will restore fourfold.”

Right in the middle of the circumstances that you’re in, you can face a divine moment.  And Zacchaeus faced a divine moment, and God turned the tremendous table on him.  And he came in to the kingdom of God.

Another example of a divine moment is the woman at the well.  And after Jesus had said, “If you will give me a drink, I’ll have just this one sip.  But if you drink of what I have, you’ll never thirst again.”

And of course they got into quite a discourse there.  She was a hated Samaritan.  She was a half-breed.  And in those days, they hated the Samaritans.  It was against the Jewish law for him even to go into the town, and yet He asked her for a drink of water.

And it’s an amazing situation.  He said, “Where is your husband.”  And she said, “Well, I don’t have a husband.”  “Well, you’re right.  You’ve had five, and the one you’re living with now isn’t your own.”  And they had quite a moment there, and it was a divine moment for this woman.

Now why am I saying these stories about these divine moments?  That woman became an evangelist.  She went into town and told everybody about a man who had told her everything that she had done.  That’s speaking the word of God.

Because tonight is a divine moment.  Now you read the Bible and you say, “Wasn’t that great?  Isn’t that wonderful?  Look at all these things that you did with the Roman army captain.  Look at what you did with the man’s daughter.  Look at the woman at the well.  Look at Zacchaeus.  Look at Joseph.  Look at David.  Look at Daniel.  Look at all these men and women in the Bible who had great miracles in their life.  But what about me in 2008?”

Well, I’ve got news.  The God of the Bible is the God of the now, right now.  He said, “I am the Lord, I change not.”  The same God who brought miracles in Bible days, the same God who brought defining, divine moments in people’s lives is the same God to deliver you tonight.

PHIL: Anybody here have a manifestation of God’s touching you tonight?  Do you feel the presence of God here?  Give God praise one more time for what He’s done.  Amen.

You can be seated if you can.  This is what TBN is all about.  This is why I so love Paul and Jan and TBN.  And today Richard and I were talking.  Their passion is one thing.  They don’t care—I tell you what, they don’t care about anything but, are people going to saved, are people going to get healed?

You know, we don’t get a lot of instruction.  But I tell you what they do tell us here as hosts.  “Get people saved, get people healed, get Jesus on this floor.  Let Jesus do what He’s supposed to do.”

And you know what?  If we do our job right, we disappear and a voice within a voice, the work of the Holy Spirit, comes forth.  And if you have received any touch from the Lord today, seal it with worship right now.

In just a moment Dino’s going to come and play.  And as he does, I want you to know, seal the deal with worship right now.  You say, “I think I got healed.”  Well, worship Him and seal that healing.

You know, the ten lepers, one came back and said, “Lord, I just want to thank You.”  And He says, “You’ve been made whole.”  I don’t know what the others were made, but that thanksgiving gave him a sealed deal of the healing.