UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN CHRISTIAN FAMILY FELLOWSHIP PRESENTS CAMPUS HOLY GHOST RALLY 2026 @ UI SPORTS FIELD BEHIND MAIN LIBRARY, UI IBADAN OYO STATE
THEME: A NEW BEGINNING
MINISTERING (DAY 1 EVENING – LIGHT UP CRUSADE): PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE (GENERAL OVERSEER, RCCG)
DATE: 13TH JANUARY 2026
BIBLE TEXT: ISAIAH 42:9
Thank You Lord. Halleluyah!
SONG:
We give You all the Glory
We give You Honour;
We give You all the Glory
We give You Honour (Jesus)
OPENING PRAYER
King of kings and Lord of lords; the I Am that I Am, the Ancient of Days, the Unchangeable Changer, the One who never grows old – We Worship You.
We Thank You for all You have done for us since Year 1982.
We Thank You for what You would yet do.
Thank You for remembering us.
Please, accept our Thanks, in Jesus’ Name.
Father, today like never before, Bless this University (DMC NOTES: University of Ibadan)
Bless our Vice Chancellor, in Jesus’ Name (DMC NOTES: The Current Vice Chancellor of UI is: Professor Kayode Adwbowale – A Professor of Chemistry who assumed Office late 2021 as the 13th Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan).
Bless the Academic Staffs, bless the Non-Academic Staffs, bless the Students and every Workers here.
And Lord God Almighty, in a way we cannot explain, let there be Peace in the University of Ibadan again.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Well, let Somebody shout hallelujah Hallelujah!
Shake hand with one (1) or two (2) People you have not seen this Year, say: Happy New Year.
I am extremely happy when God told me that the Topic for this Programme is: “A New Beginning”.
Because that reminds me of all the things He has done in the Past – Miracles, Signs and Wonders that cannot be easily numbered.
We started the Journey on this Campus in 1982 – And it started because the wife of one Professor gave her Life to Jesus Christ. And then through her husband who also gave his Life to Jesus Christ.
Then the husband said, who would be coming around to teach us many of these things that we thought we knew, that we never really knew? You must Pray about it.
I said l okay Slsir, I will Pray about it.
And so for the first time, in the Professor’s sitting room, five (5) of us gathered for a Bible Study – We were five (5).
And then the number started to increase – We got to a stage where we could no longer be contained in his Living Room, so we moved to the backyard.
And very soon, the backyard could no longer contain us; so we moved to one Lecture Theatre. And then we moved on to the Chapel. And when the Chapel could no longer contain us, we moved outside.
When I look around today and I see the number of People here and I compare it to the five (5) of us who started forty four (44) years ago, I say Glory be to God!
I will read Isaiah 42:9 – The Bible says:
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and New things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Tonight’s Message is just a little of Prophetic Declarations – The Almighty God is saying you are a Witness to some of the things that happened in the Past;
He says, I want to do something as Great and even Greater that has happened in the Past – Amen.
I would have loved to spend a long time recalling all the things that have happened; but just a few would do.
So that you will know that your Life is about to have a dramatic Change for the better – Amen.
You see, in Malachi 3:6 the Lord says, For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
In Hebrews 13:8, the Bible says, Jesus Christ the same Yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
I am going to share with you maybe about five (5) Major Testimonies that happened in the Past on this Campus:
How things began to happen here and it wasn’t long Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) heard it, they came to me and said Sir, you Graduated from us. Whatever you are doing at the University of Ibadan, you must do in Ife. And then we moved on.
We would come here on Tuesday, and on Wednesday I would go and do that of OAU.
Other Universities heard about what we are doing and the thing began to spread.
Now God is asking us to go back to the beginning – Because He says He wants to do some New Things.
When we started the Bible Study here in UI – As you know, we are dealing with Academic Community; you have to go gently with them, because they have Theories for everything.
- CREATION
I remembered very well, we started with the issue of Creation. And after the Teaching we received all manners of Theories;
- That bomb exploded and the world came.
- No, not like that; It was one that came out of the ocean and became a Tadpole.
- After some time the Tadpole became a Monkey.
- And after some time the Monkey began to walk.
They say, that’s how Man was created (laughs)!
I used to tell them, I don’t know about what you think, but my Father is not a Monkey.
So we began to talk about Creation – Genesis 1:1, In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth.
And we heard all manners of Questions:
- Who is God?
- Where was God before He created Heaven and Earth?
And then we moved on to John 1:1-3 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Oh God! I mean, you would think that, that should not be something to argue about – It means you didn’t know the Academic Community we started with.
I remembered one day that we looked at John 9:1-7 – The Story of a Man who was born blind; and Jesus spat on the Ground, made some mud, anointed his eyes and said, “Go and wash.” The man went and washed, and he came seeing.
I tried to tell them that the God we are talking about is the Creator.
That if there is something wrong with you, He can recreate.
And the Almighty God moved like never before.
There were two (2) Professors – Husband and wife, and they had a son whose brain could not understand anything. They got him Private Teachers, etc. But if you move him from a class of thirty (30) Students to a class of thirty five (35), at the end of the day his Position would change after the Examination – from 30th to 35th.
I think, somehow they just felt, there is nothing to do, let’s take this boy to this Pastor who says God can create to do something.
And so they brought him – We Prayed a Simple Prayer.
The next Examination the boy did came first (1st) – He did so well the Teachers said no, there must be something wrong. Because they said even if you give him the answer to copy, he will copy it wrong. So they gave him another Test, and he scored higher.
Now, that is the kind of Miracle that God says He is about to start on this Campus and in the lives of all those reading now on the Label of DMC – Amen.
Which is why I believe that if your brain is just about Average, before the end of this Session they’ll begin to look at you and say, “We have a Genius here” – Amen.
- GOD CONTROLS TIMES AND SEASONS
Then we moved on to discuss the issues of Times and Seasons – You know, we were discussing Big Topics.
And we said that God is the Controller of Time – Oh, that led to some interesting argument.
In Revelation 1:8, He says, I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
We said that He is in Charge. And we showed them in Daniel 1:20-22; And he changeth the Times and the Seasons: he removeth Kings, and setteth up Kings: he giveth Wisdom unto the Wise, and Knowledge to them that know Understanding.
We moved on to John 2:1-10 and we discussed the Miracle of Water becoming Wine.
All that Jesus did was that He accelerated the Process of turning water to wine. The grape on the tree, after some time, gives fruit juice that the grape can Produce.
We told them how God caused the Sun to stand still.
We talked about Joshua 10:12-14; how Joshua told the Sun to stand still and the Moon not to move.
Then we moved on to Isaiah 38:1-8; a situation where a King was sick and God told him he was going to die. But he said, God I don’t want to die. And God said alright, I heal you. I would give you fifteen (15) years extra.
And suddenly God spoke and said that there was a woman in our midst; God said He had Subtracted ten (10) years from her age.
… I don’t know if she is still around this University.
By the time I visited the the following Month because then I used to come every Month – Those days are gone for ever gone (laughter).
When I returned the next Month, People were beginning to ask her, “Why are you looking so Young?”
Which is why I’m saying to Someone here Tonight or reading now on the Label of DMC: Whatever it is going to take God to accelerate your Promotion, it would be done Tonight – Amen.
… Because He controls Times and Seasons.
- FAITH
Then we moved, we began to talk Faith.
- From No Faith to Little Faith:
Matthew 16:8, Which when Jesus Perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little Faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
- We moved to Great Faith – Matthew 15:21-28.
- To Exceedingly Great Faith – Matthew 8:5-19
… And somebody just grabbed that one.
By now of course, we were already growing in the Lord. Because in the Passage (Matthew 8:5-10) a Man came to Jesus for help. When Jesus wanted to go to his house he said, “Just Speak the Word.”
And there was a woman in that Meeting who could hardly walk well, because that was how far oue eyes could go. She said, if God can do these activities, why am I wearing glasses? I mean, her Faith grew rapidly, she took off her pair of glasses and left it at the Chapel.
Which is why I am saying that Today, whatever it is that you could call a hindering force to your Life; you will leave it here Tonight – Amen.
- ANSWERED PRAYERS
We began to talk about Answered Prayers.
That God is not a Man that He should lie; that once He has spoken it is done (DMC NOTES: Numbers 23:19)
That the Bible says in John 14:6 ,Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the Truth, and the Life: no Man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And I explained to us then that if Somebody is the Truth; not just the One who tells the Truth, but He is the Truth; there is no Problem of one of His Promises failing.
And there is nothing that will be too hard for Him to do. Because John 14:14 says, If ye shall ask any thing in my Name, I will do it.
And we began to look forward to doing incredible things.
One day He showed us that He can do absolutely anything – We were at the backyard of Professor Fola Abaoba. As we were about to begin our Bible Study. (DMC NOTES: Professor Fola Adeola, of Blessed Memory, is the Pioneer Dean of the Faculty of Technology in University of Ibadan).
That day there was a huge cloud and it looked as if it’s going to rain – If it rains, we have no where to take the crowd to and the Bible Study would be cancelled.
So I Prayed a Simple Prayer – If Joshua Prayed and You stopped the Sun, I am Praying that You would stop the rain.
We had the Bible Study – Some People came late and we asked why they came late. They said, “Didn’t you see the rain?”
It rained everywhere in UI, except the backyard of Professor Fola Adeola.
I am just sharing these Testimonies Tonight so that you can know how to Pray.
- If He is the God of all flesh;
- If there is Nothing too hard for Him to do;
Why won’t I Pray Tonight and get Solutions to all my Problems?
Because He says, “I have done some things in the Past, I want to do something New; and I am just telling you before it begins.
I have Good News for Somebody here Tonight or reading now on the Label of DMC: Your Prayer Life will Change – Amen.
Because from now on you will be Praying with the conviction that if He has done it before, He will do it again.
All the Prayers I have Prayed and have not received answers, I am going to Pray them again Tonight, and He is going to answer.
I remembered very well, the Night I taught them about Baptism in the Holy Spirit at the backyard of the Professor.
After the Teaching, I said to them, “All you have to do now is ask God and He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. And you can begin to Speak in Tongues Tonight.
Fortunately, they all believed me, and so they began to Pray.
Very soon the Holy Spirit came down, and almost everybody got baptized in the Holy Spirit except two (2) People – A couple, the wife got baptized, the husband did not.
You know Professors – The man turned to the wife and said, “What are you saying?” The wife said, something Strange is coming out of my mouth, so you have to Pray more. He Prayed more and he too began to Speak in Tongues.
And then there remained only one woman – A very, very, important woman in this area of the Country. We said, “as soon as you get baptized in the Holy Spirit you can go home.”
When this very, very important woman found out that she was the only one left, she lifted up her voice and said, “Oh God, it is me “Anike” your daughter; You have answered everybody, you have not answered me.”
And the Holy Spirit fell on her.
Whatever you ask Tonight, in the Name that’s above every other name, before you leave here or Complete reading this Message now on the Label of DMC, the answer will come – Amen.
- MIRACLES, SIGNS AND WONDERS
And so we began to delve into Miracles.
I remembered teaching the People on Isaiah 9:6 – For unto us a Child is born, unto us a son is given: and the Government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
“… His Name shall be called Wonderful.”
And I told them Wonderful means, full of wonders.
I went through the Scriptures showing them about God being a Wonder.
I. I convinced them that He was conceived in a Wondrous way:
A way that we Scientists, find it even difficult to believe.
II. That He does Wonders:
- He brought somebody who’s been dead for four (4) days back to Life (DMC NOTES: John Chapter 11).
And there was a woman in the crowd who had Cancer at an Advanced Stage.
When she heard the Teaching she cried to God: “You even raised somebody who has been dead for four (4) days, I am not dead yet. The Doctors have written me off but You are far, far Superior to doctors; do something.”
And God healed her instantly.
I am talking about somebody who asked God for an Extension of time back then, and died only about a year or so ago.
Which is why I believe Tonight, you are going to cry to God and say Lord, even if I have an Appointment with Death, Change the Appointment – And He will do it.
I can go on and on and on and on!
And tell you Miracles upon Miracles, Testimonies upon Testimonies – Some of the Testimonies, People even found difficult to share in the Meetings.
After that, I began to teach them about being Shining Light – That you are not to be a Christian in words alone, but by your Actions.
And there was this Testimony of a female Professor – I mean, the older ones here would remember. Her husband is also a Professor and they were always having arguments.
Whenever the husband said something, the wife would say, “You are a Professor, I am a Professor – You know your rights, I know my rights.”
She gave her Life to Jesus Christ and she kept coming to me, “Pray that my husband would become Born Again, Pray that he will become a Christian.”
One day God told me to ask her a Question – So I said, “Ma, do you want your husband to be Born Again? ” She said, yes.
I said, I want you to do something – When you finished cooking, go to your husband and say, “My Darling husband, the table is set.”
Because she had not been doing that – she always left the food on the table – “If you like go and eat. If you don’t like, it’s up to you.”
I said, when he comes to eat, take a bowl of water, kneel down and say, “Wash your hands Sir.”
She said, me? (Laughter) No way!
I said, don’t you want your husband to be saved? Grudgingly, she went home, did what I said.
You know, when she knelt down and Presented the water to the husband to wash his hand, the husband said, “Eni to se ogun yi fun o ti se asedanu.” (DMC NOTES: Meaning, the fellow who made this charm for you has lost the battle).
She said, no my Darling husband, it’s not charm; I just want you to know: This is one of the things they taught us in the Fellowship that I attended.
“Is that so?” She said, yes. “Okay, next time that Man of God comes, I will fellow you.”
He came, heard the Word of God and became Born Again.
When she was sharing the Testimony, it was fun!
Do you know that there is Someone here Tonight, or reading now on the Label of DMC; Because of what God says He wants to start doing again in your Life; when you share your Testimony, everybody will jump and shout for Joy – Amen.
I am going to allow you to Pray.
But there was something that happened too, which we cannot forget completely.
After some time, we had grown in number and the Brethren just decided, “Let’s have an Outreach – Let’s meet at Trenchard Hall; let’s invite all Lecturers to that Hall. We will share Jesus to them.”
And I shared as God laid it in my heart – I went about it Scientifically.
When I gave the Altar Call, forty (40) Professors gave their lives to Jesus Christ in one day – All drunk with Joy.
And that was the beginning – That’s when the Lecturers, the Professors, began to attend the Campus Bible Study.
I am believing God that He is about do Greater Things than He did; that more People in this Academic Community or reading this Message now on the Label of DMC, would come to Jesus Christ – Amen.
Do you know that after the Outreach some People got angry and set the Chapel on fire?
There was a Statute in front of the Chapel back then; I think it was the Statute of one deity.
They poured petrol on the Statute; poured petrol on the Chapel itself, set it on fire.
The Statute burnt; but the Chapel did not burn.
… These are things that have happened on this Campus.
I mean, there was a time, when they saw the way we were going, there was a little bit of misunderstanding, and they wanted to pull down the Cross.
What did we do? We Prayed! And every effort to pull down the Cross failed.
I have Good News for you my Brothers and Sisters, this is not an Ordinary Night: God is about to begin something New in your Life – Amen.
Oh! Before I release you to Pray; if you are here or reading now on the Label of DMC and you do not have this intimate Relationship we had with Jesus; that caused us to do all manners of Miracles, Signs and Wonders in His Name.
And you want Tonight to be your own Real New Beginning, you have to come to Jesus.
What He did when He was saving Souls and turning them to Himself, He is ready to do for you.
We taught the People about Praying for Help – That when we find ourselves in a tight corner we should Pray.
And the Vice Chancellor at that time shared a Testimony – In the middle of the Night a crowd of Students left their Hostels; they were determined to cause havoc.
So he said, Pastor Adeboye taught us that God is a Very Present Help in trouble (DMC NOTES: Psalm 46:1). God Please, do something!
All of a sudden, just around the Vice Chancellor’s Lodge, there was a Mighty Thunder-fall that scattered all those who were Planning trouble.
I don’t know who God is talking to Tonight?
I think God is looking for someone who would like to be a part of that family that can cry to God anytime there is trouble and get “Instant Answers”.
ALTAR CALL
So if you want to give your Life to Jesus Christ, I am going to count from one (1) to ten (10).
Before I say ten (10), Please come, let’s Pray for your Salvation and God will begin to do Something New in your Life.
If you want to come, do so now. You might be the only one; but God is going to give you a New Beginning.
Thank you for those of you who are Clapping – God will begin to do New Things through your hands – Amen.
Go ahead and cry to God now. Ask Him to have Mercy on you and save your Soul.
That He would wash away your sins with His Blood.
That He would write your name in the Book of Life.
That you too would begin to serve Him; and begin to do Miracles, Signs and Wonders for Him.
Go ahead, Pray unto Him.
And the rest of us, Please let’s Stretch our hands towards these People and intercede for them;
That God who saved our Souls, and kept us Healthy and Strong, would give them Genuine Salvation.
That they would become True Children of the Living God.
Please Pray for them.
Thank You Father.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
PRAYER FOR SALVATION
Ancient of Days, I want to say Thank You.
Glory be to Your Holy Name, Lord.
Thank You for these People who have decided to come forward to Surrender to Jesus Genuinely.
As You have always done, Please save their Souls today, forgive all their sins, let Your Blood wash them clean.
Write their names in the Book of Life and Lord God Almighty, whenever they call on You, answer them by Fire.
Let them serve You till the End.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
I rejoice with those of you who have just Surrendered your Life Genuinely to Jesus Christ.
I want to Promise you that by the Grace of God I’ll be Praying for you.
So I am going to need your names, your Address and your Prayer Requests.
God Bless You!
I am going to Pray for you now, then you will Pray for yourself.
My Father and God, who of all the Topics that He could have chosen; remembered University of Ibadan and what He used to do, and said, “Let me begin a Brand New thing among them”.
I am going to ask Him Tonight, that this Night will become a Night you will never forget – Amen.
After that, you will be Praying for yourself.
I want you to stand if you believe that you are the one God is interested in Tonight;
That it is in your Life that He is about to begin Something New!
CLOSING PRAYER
Ancient of Days, I want to Thank You.
I want to Bless Your Name for all that You’ve done in the Past.
I want to Thank You for what You are about to begin to do.
Father, Please in the Life of every one of Your Children here Tonight or reading now on the Label of DMC:
Please, do Something New!
Do Something Great.
Change every Death Appointment.
When they cry to You for Help, You the Ever Present Help in trouble will send help to them.
Just as some People had Testimonies in those days, that they were afraid to share in Public;
Testimonies so Great that these Your People would be wondering, “Can I share this?” Give to them, in Jesus’ Name.
They’re going to be crying unto You Lord;
As they cry unto You Father, this very Night answer them.
And for ever Oh Lord, let Your Name be Glorified.
Thank You Father.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
PERSONAL PRAYER REQUEST
Now I am going to ask the Organizers of this Programme to give you at least five (5) Minutes to cry unto God.
Say: Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus, send help to me.
Send help to me Lord – I have heard Testimonies of what You used to do;
You say You are about to begin a New thing. Send help to me!
Go ahead, talk to the Almighty God:
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