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NO hospital can explain two new lungs appearing in a patient whose lungs had "expired" and who had spent four months on a chest tube and life support.  Yet this is precisely what doctors at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, ABUTH, Zaria, recorded in the case of Pastor Sanni from Kaduna, a missionary and field church planter. The implication is stark: when medicine reaches its limit, what happens next forces both doctors and faith to speak the same language. According to the account given by Pastor Sanni and hospital records referenced during discussions at ABUTH, the trouble began after he was attacked by what he described as a territorial power in a village he had gone to for mission work.  As a result, he could not breathe well and was advised to do a medical checkup.  The result showed his left lung had collapsed. Clinically, it was described as an empyema with lung collapse. He was admitted and remained in the hospital for four months.  During that perio...

THERE is a long history of faith leaders praying for the sick in Nigeria. Yet, it is rare when a name, a specific ailment, and a pronunciation are all cited without prior contact. That is what happened in the early hours of April 17, 2026, during Pastor Paul Enenche’s “Commanding the Day Midnight Prayer,” CTDMP, when he mentioned a woman the church had never met before. According to her live testimony during the program, the woman is Dr. Rachel, a medical doctor. She said she had been battling abdominal discomfort that moved across her abdomen, up, right and left, and that the pain had driven her to join the midnight prayer for intervention. During the session, Pastor Enenche, Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, called out her name. He also described her exact condition, an abdominal pain shifting across different parts of her abdomen. What drew further attention was the pronunciation. Witnesses on the livestream noted that the way he said "Rachel" matched t...