TB Joshua - Servant of God
By Gary J Tonge, Fiona Tonge and TB Joshua
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TB Joshua, Servant of God is a new biography of Prophet TB Joshua (1963-2021) which he personally approved shortly before his unexpected passing to be with the Lord. He was a cont
Gary J Tonge
Gary et Fiona TONGE sont nés en Angleterre à la fin des années 1950. En 1973, lorsque le Mouvement de Jésus a apporté une vague de renouveau, ils ont tous deux fait l'expérience d'une rencontre avec Jésus-Christ qui a radicalement changé la direction de leur vie. Jouant un rôle actif dans la vie de l'église en tant qu'anciens, prédicateurs laïcs et dirigeants de jeunesse, ils ont eu le privilège de voyager pour voir la puissance de Dieu se manifester dans la guérison et la délivrance dans différentes parties du monde dans les années 1990 et au début des années 2000.Gary a obtenu un diplôme spécialisé en électronique et un doctorat en mathématiques de l'Université de Southampton. Il a connu une carrière réussie, rejoignant le conseil d'administration de l'Independent Television Commission (ITC) du Royaume-Uni au début de ses trentaines, avant de se lancer dans le conseil et le travail bénévole chrétien à partir de 2004. Ingénieur agréé depuis plus de 35 ans, il est membre de l'Académie Royale d'Ingénierie et de l'Institut d'Ingénierie et de Technologie.Fiona est une ancienne infirmière titulaire d'un récent diplôme d'études supérieures en gestion des catastrophes internationales de l'Université de Manchester.Au cours des deux dernières décennies, ils ont voyagé pour T. B. Joshua au sein de l'équipe d'Emmanuel TV pour préparer les événements gospel dans des stades et coordonner des projets humanitaires à travers le monde.
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TB Joshua - Servant of God - Gary J Tonge
TB Joshua
Servant of God
TB Joshua — Servant of God
Copyright © 2021 by Gary & Fiona Tonge. All rights reserved.
Images and sermon notes used with the permission of Prophet T.B. Joshua. All rights reserved.
Unless otherwise stated, all Scriptures are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright© 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scriptures marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scriptures marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Nothing in this book is intended to discourage anyone from seeking medical diagnosis or treatment.
First edition — June 2021
Revision of first edition (preface added) — September 2021.
ISBN 978-1-9168991-0-0
ISBN 978-1-9168991-5-5 (e-book)
En Gedi Publishing Ltd
Union House, 111 New Union Street
Coventry CV1 2NT
United Kingdom
www.tbjservantofgod.com
Printed in South Africa by Print on Demand, Cape Town.
"I have read this book from A to Z. I enjoyed it.
A very interesting book does not need much time to read.
There is nothing outside me about this book. It is worth reading."
(20 April 2021)
COMMENDATION
from T.B. Joshua
CONTENTS
PREFACE
T.B. Joshua recorded the commendation for TB Joshua — Servant of God on video on 20 April 2021 at The SCOAN Prayer Mountain, the place where he spent so much of his time seeking God in prayer.
A few weeks later on 5 June 2021, he entered the Prayer Garden and addressed those gathered waiting for him and the wider Emmanuel TV viewers with what was to be his final exhortation,
I want to thank you for your time and for the heart you have for Jesus.
Time for everything - a time to come here and a time to return home after service.
He encouraged everyone, quoting the book of Matthew 26:41, Watch and pray
.
Leaving the Prayer Garden, T.B. Joshua, aged 57, was then swiftly called home to be with the Lord.
There were accounts of angelic visitations seen in the Prayer Garden that afternoon from those present.
He finished the race well and his earthly assignment was complete.
As news of his passing hurtled around the digitally interconnected globe, tributes began to pour in from all countries and languages, from those who had had the privilege to meet him personally as well as the many who had only met him through the medium of Emmanuel TV.
Tributes came from Presidential Offices, including from the current President of Nigeria, former Presidents, Governors of States in Nigeria as well as government officials from other nations, prominent musicians and actors, journalists, and sportsmen.
Across the continent of Africa, other sitting Presidents including those of South Sudan and Liberia would formally recognise his achievements as an international peacemaker and note that he was a loss to Christendom worldwide, and Africa in particular.
Countless individuals would reflect on how he taught them how to love, how to forgive, and the importance of making the Holy Bible (the Word of God) the standard for their lives. As one viewer from Russia commented, God made a spiritual revolution through His vessel Prophet T.B. Joshua, changing the world of Christians in their minds and hearts.
T.B. Joshua left a legacy of service and sacrifice to God’s kingdom that is living for generations yet unborn. In his own words,
One life for Christ is all we have; one life for Christ is so dear.
THIS IS IT!
We stood in the large indoor arena with mouths open wide in wonder. We were seeing a scene as if from the Bible, from the Gospels, in front of our eyes. This was no film; this was real.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ!
People all over the auditorium started to react as the prayer of authority was spoken. Those oppressed by negative and satanic spirits could not escape; the darkness inside them was exposed and evident for all to see. People screamed and rolled their eyes, falling on the floor, writhing. Those with crutches and in wheelchairs rose as the prayer of faith continued. They walked, their strength increasing with each step.
Mass Prayer in Singapore
Those of you who have little faith, I will pray for you that your faith will be enough
, was the echoing prayer. It was a moment of the divine. It was like seeing Jesus at work, and from then on, wherever we showed the recording of that event, there would be miracles. For example, years later, in a back street gospel meeting in inner-city Lahore, Pakistan, with the video projected onto a screen across the street, the same scene was unfolding, and a woman’s blind eye opened.
Fast forward some years to a later event held in the largest football stadium in Latin America with its steep high sides; everywhere one looked, there were people from all walks of life experiencing instant miracles as the prayer reverberated throughout the arena. They were neither asked to pay anything to enter the mighty stadium nor expected to buy any merchandise. As they witnessed the supernatural work of God and the effect of the ‘mass prayer’ all around the stadium, there came the spontaneous chanting of Cristo Vive, Christ lives.
Crusade with T.B. Joshua in Mexico
The scenes were from the National Indoor Stadium in Singapore in 2006 and the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City in 2015, and the pastor praying was a man called T.B. Joshua.
Who is this Jesus in whose mighty name the prayer was offered with the result of seeing the afflicted healed and the oppressed set free? He is the Son of God, the One who shed His blood on the cross for our sins and by whose wounds we are healed.
T.B. Joshua in 2003
Who was this man T.B. Joshua who was proclaiming the word and authority of Jesus Christ? Where did the power come from to make such a dramatic impact without hype, without hysteria?
Why were we present, a conservative British professional middle-aged couple from a quintessential English Cathedral city? How did we come to be involved with this controversial move of God?
GOD’S UNFOLDING PURPOSE
Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
(Proverbs 19:21, NIV)
When God Almighty is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed in our lives.
¹
A ‘golden thread’ of God’s purpose was to be seen woven through our life histories. Many years earlier, before we had met each other, we would have our experience of the reality of Jesus in the same month of the same year (May 1973), although our paths would not cross for a further five years. This would then start us on a journey together to our divine destiny and our connection with T.B. Joshua.
Having attended many conferences, meetings and large Christian gatherings across the world, having seen the development of Christian videos and different aids for the Gospel such as the Alpha Course, and having read hundreds of books, now it was ‘time’. It was time for our prayers to be answered in a way and manner we did not expect. This would take us on a journey, both inward and outward, that would cause us to see the name of Jesus glorified and propel us into the future God had prepared for us.
Both our lives were already fully occupied. With his burgeoning career in the regulatory and engineering side of independent television broadcasting, Gary was also a ‘lay preacher’ in our local church. Fiona was involved with charity and church work, looking after family and having an ‘open house’ for a varied selection of house guests. Our children, who were still studying, also had their lives deeply impacted and began their individual journeys towards their destinies.
During the 1990s, the local reputation of Prophet T.B. Joshua’s powerful healing and deliverance ministry had grown, first through word of mouth and then through video clips shown on local Nigerian TV stations.
One video clip featured a man with a terrible ulcer wound deep within his buttocks (buttocks cancer), unable to sit or even eat properly. His situation deteriorated, and he was ‘dumped’ at the side of the road. A kind ‘good samaritan’ found a way to bring him to T.B. Joshua’s church, known as The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN). There he received the prayer of faith that introduced him to the Healer, Jesus Christ. As T.B. Joshua was to repeat,
Man Suffering with Buttocks Cancer
I am not the healer. I only know the Healer; His name is Jesus Christ!
Testimony Following His Miraculous Healing
Under the influence of the Holy Spirit, after prayer, the wound miraculously healed. The man gave his testimony before a room of Western inquirers, and the story was included in a ‘Divine Miracles 5’ compilation on VHS tape. Enthusiastic visitors to the church took home copies to share around.
Thus the news about what God was doing in the life of Prophet T.B. Joshua filtered into Europe via South African pastors visiting The Netherlands and thence to our small quiet city of Winchester in England. A pastor we knew, who had visited The SCOAN more than once, was part of our church relational network. She took a friend from our little church to visit. He brought back some videos, including ‘Divine Miracles 5’ showing the man healed of buttocks cancer.
In February 2001, after his visit to The SCOAN in Lagos, this friend came into our church meeting, stood up and greeted, ‘Emmanuel!’ meaning ‘God with us’. Listening intently, something inside of Fiona immediately rose to attention. There was power in that word!
We attended a short monthly leaders’ meeting. Our pastor, who was always looking for more, for evidence of ‘authentic Christianity’, raved about the videos brought back from The SCOAN. At the meeting, where we had so many things we thought were urgent to discuss, he said that we needed to watch these videos because if they were true, they were very significant. He was impacted at a profound level and had realised it was far more important than our leaders’ administration meeting.
We watched the shaky camerawork and wondered, but were impacted as much by our pastor’s attitude as by the videos themselves. That night, God sowed a seed in our hearts. We thank God for the priority our pastor gave to the mighty miracle and to the Bible teaching on the Holy Spirit from one of the ‘Divine Lectures’ videos.
We had seen something, and before God, we now had no excuse! We had seen an extraordinary biblical-style miracle recorded on video, something that had demonstrated that,
The age of miracles has not passed. The Miracle Worker is still alive — His name is Jesus Christ!
In retrospect, this was God’s answer to our prayers — it pointed to an actual (not theoretical or aspirational) possibility for the fulfilment of our dreams of seeing the name of Jesus glorified in revival.
Your greatest opportunities and challenges come unannounced.
EXPERIENCING THE SCOAN
GARY’S FIRST VISIT
The church bus from the airport rocked along unmade-up roads and sometimes, as if to render the journey more exciting, began to move across to the wrong side of the road in full face of the traffic. The driver treated this with casual nonchalance, all in a day’s work.
Local Lagos Scene in 2001
This was my initial visit to Nigeria and The SCOAN, and even though my neighbour on the plane had been a lady trying to warn me not to visit there, I was determined to keep an open mind.
Passing many churches and mosques on the way, seeing the mass of people on the streets that are part of Lagos life, we arrived at the church.
The altar area was where people went to pray, and it was culturally different from the modern Western Protestant churches I was more familiar with, where the emphasis tends to be on the worship space.
Dormitory sleeping and different food were part of the package, but as I sat in the warm sanctuary with my Bible, there were two questions in my mind. I had observed to my critical neighbour on the plane that I would be looking for whether the name of Jesus was lifted up and the attitude towards sin. These turned out to be two of the most noteworthy features of the visit. The name of Jesus was much more central than I had ever seen before, and the phrase sin no more
was not only a motto but reflected an authentic commitment.
The SCOAN Altar in 2001
The public confession of sin had a great impact on me. One of my fellow group members was a former drug addict who had been drawn into a paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. His deliverance from evil spirits during the service at The SCOAN was dramatic, and his confession hair-raising. Still, something struck me deeply from the standard introduction that was given by one of the evangelists with every confession. As he spoke the words, Only God Almighty can determine whether one sin is greater than another
, my heart was pierced. What about my own, more ‘private’ sin? Who was to say what I would have done if I had been handed the lot in life that this brother had received, or what he would have done if he had been handed mine?
The Holy Spirit had convicted me of being hypocritical and having become ‘religious’. Later, during a personal meeting with Prophet T.B. Joshua, he jotted down some notes in an unknown language and then handed over a scripture promise for meditation. I recall the words of that promise — Psalm 32:5, He forgave the guilt of my sin
— supernaturally burning inside my heart while I was subsequently repenting at the altar.
Getting back to our peaceful English countryside with green grass and Friesian cows and to all the trappings of middle-class life in a developed country in peacetime was a stark contrast to what I had seen. I had seen the name of Jesus lifted high, I had seen the mighty hand of God at work, and I had rediscovered my ‘first love’ for Jesus Christ.
FIONA’S FIRST VISIT
Fiona, waiting at home, takes up the story.
I received a call from the airport. This is it — this is what we have been praying for — healing, deliverance, breakthrough, authority over evil spirits, a love for the Word of God and most of all, a true hatred for sin.
Soldier Receives Healing at The SCOAN in 2001
Now it was my turn. Some weeks later, shortly after the world was shaken by the 9/11 terrorist attack, and with some trepidation, I boarded the plane to this new continent. Sharing a dormitory with a group of ebullient Australians, watching the healing and teaching videos until my behind ached, and experiencing the exposure to the anointing of the Holy Spirit led to a challenging, uncomfortable and exhilarating time. I developed a great awareness of sin, where I ended up repenting of my sin and hardness of heart.
On the prayer line, during the prayer, a warmth came over my neck, and I realised I was healed. As a 19-year-old student nurse, I had suffered a nursing injury that caused back and neck pain and required medication and sometimes a neck support collar. For many years, I also suffered from intermittent insomnia, sometimes only sleeping for two hours before getting the children ready for school. All that was to become a thing of the past.
With a revival-level of awareness of sin burning again in my heart, I waited to enter the small office for my short appointment with T.B. Joshua. I saw him with my eyes, but I didn’t ‘see’ him. The awareness of God was something once experienced, never forgotten. It reminded me of the great day when as a 17-year-old, I had responded to a Gospel invitation (an altar call) in a formal Baptist church. When the pastor came to shake my hand, I did not see him; instead, I saw a vision of Jesus smiling at me.
Crowds Outside The SCOAN in 2001
This was the same awareness but more profound, hard to explain because no words were spoken. I saw an apostle in the mould of the Bible, one doing the ‘greater works’ that Jesus said all who believe in Him would do. I was able to see something of the ability of Jesus within him.
Jesus Christ described the Holy Spirit as rivers of Living Water, which would flow from the innermost being of believers to meet the needs of others.
That day, I saw this in action. On the plane home, there were only two songs that had been sung at The Synagogue in my mind:
My lifetime, I will give God my lifetime. If I give God my lifetime, He will take care of me. He will never never let me down; I will give God my lifetime.
Who is like my Jesus, who is like my Lord?
As Gary picked me up from Heathrow airport, we were in one spirit and from then on, life would never be the same again. This Bible verse was ringing in my mind,
But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.