Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi, General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM, who is also convener of the Global Crusade with Kumuyi, GCK, has lately cautioned that mankind’s war on plagues, pestilences, penury and privation, must not be restrictive; it must be catholic, beyond the confines of (un)orthodox medicine and technology, approaches which have conditioned humanity for centuries.
The cleric, himself a fastidious student of ruthless logic and complex mathematical applications to unmask solutions in sticky situations, isn’t dismissive of the weight of modern science in man’s hunger for wellness.
He’s disturbed, instead, that we’ve left out what’s pivotal in the equation: the God factor. By which he means there’s a Divine perspective on diseases in the Bible, which deserves attention in a truly grave contemplation and attempt to give ailments a fatal knock, and free man from cyclical ill health.
Kumuyi insists man must seek the final answer to sicknesses in their Maker; mankind broke His laws, and that brought in deadly sin with its luggage of all that is disorganizing man, his system and environment. It follows that to contain (reverse) the evil gale that came with the breach of God’s commandments, we must go back to His dos and don’ts.
So, in his current war on health disorders strictly from Christianity’s outlook, the evangelist has repeatedly referred to God’s promise in the Bible at Exodus 15:26 to make his case: ‘’…If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee…for I am the LORD that healeth thee.’’
Wielding the Bible as he faces tens of thousands of believing congregants, Pastor Kumuyi teaches this every Thursday evening at Deeper Life Bible Church, DLBC, headquarters, Gbagada, Lagos, in Nigeria’s southwest. There’s always a huge overflow outside the 30000-capacity auditorium, with millions more of local and global audiences reached online via a battery of cameras and klieg lights capturing the moves of the preacher and the responses of hearers and viewers.
Kumuyi’s message isn’t complicated: he refers to God’s own promise and time-tested commitment to heal all the afflicted who approach Him through faith in His Son Jesus Christ. God sent His Son to bear all those ailments and pain, terminal or not, medicine-defiant or compliant; and therefore, anyone genuinely identifying with Christ can’t experience miserable conditions again. They can’t suffer double jeopardy. Kumuyi takes God at His Word and invites those who want wellbeing to follow the same path, beginning with a personal (intimate) relationship with God through salvation by Christ.
This is the core of his exhortation. It sets the stage for his prayer that God honours to bring forth torrents of incredible miracles, salvation, healing and deliverance upon the people.
A deluge of medically verified reports has been received, published and aired to prove cases of supernatural recovery. By the word of knowledge (spiritual discernment), Kumuyi in one of the nights pleaded for the life of ‘’someone at the point of death’’ to be restored to life.
Just weeks later during the testimony session, a man came forward with his wife, declaring she was the one in the jaws of death brought back to the land of the living by the intercession of the man of God!
Still more: a man at Stage 3 of prostate cancer was cured by Divine intervention during Kumuyi’s war on diseases; a woman’s shifted leg that inflicted unbearable pain became normal again; hers was a double recovery because she was also healed of two years of discomfort of itching; another woman with ruptured appendix was due for surgery, but following a test on the heels of Kumuyi’s prayers, the doctors ruled that she no longer needed an operation; a miracle had corrected the breached organ!
And in his 1993 book, Miracles: Eyewitness to the Miraculous, late American televangelist, R. W. Schambach shares a bouquet of stories affirming the dynamic power of God to ensure ‘’none of these diseases’’ in the lives of those who reach to Him in faith. One spoke of how the prayer of a faithful follower of Christ obeyed his pastor’s charge: go find somebody who is sick.
He went to the nearest hospital in Newark, New Jersey, United States, praying and telling the patients, ‘’Rise and walk.’’ The seismic result? God used him to clean out a whole floor filled with the sick!
Schambach writes: ‘’The nurses called the police. They arrested the young man. He was charged with disturbing the peace. He was guilty—yes, he was. He was disturbing the devil’s peace.’’
It’s possible for man to overcome diseases as proclaimed by God, according to the classic book, None of These Diseases, by Dr. S.I. McMillen (and later updated with Dr. David E. Stern).
The incontestable message of these professionals is this: ‘’The Bible contains practical health, moral, and emotional laws which, when followed, protect human well-being and prevent many physical and mental illnesses.’’ The book ‘’testifies that good health, happiness, and even longer life can be yours by following the teachings of the Bible.’’
This discussion leads to yet a third reference, When Science Fails, an extinct book by John Hudson Tiner, whose research as a science teacher revealed that ‘’the scientific method is fallible, human reason is prone to error, and science does not possess all the answers or contradict the Bible.’’
No doubt, our world and its leaders at national and supranational platforms in modern times have eminently worked out short- medium- and long-term programmes gulping massive funds to campaign against diseases.
One such remarkable stride is found in the latest report of the World Health Organization, WHO, of November 2026. The UN body spoke of more countries eliminating tropical diseases, but warned there were threats to ‘’meet global disease control targets by 2030’’. And back in the Middle Ages, the alchemists turned the world inside out, searching for the phantom elixir of life, all to achieve the goal of none of these diseases.
But God assures us authoritatively that our generational hunt will end when we meet Him in His Word: if you live in holiness and have faith in Me and do the right thing as I command, none of these diseases will ensnare you!
Banji Ojewale is an author in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.
