Shemuah Tovah

Meaning Good news or Good things that are heard!

I remember being at the 80th Birthday ceremony of a great Christian leader, a woman who trained teenagers for over thirty years and was still humble enough to join our school of discipleship a few years ago. Dr. Mrs Oluyinka Folasade Phillips is a saint and more.

She reached out to me through her daughter, brought in almost all her friends into PSSBC, and even though she was in her late seventies at the time, she submitted herself to learn more about the Holy Spirit and the outworkings of the Spirit in the life of a believer.

While at the celebration, her mentees began to speak of the great things she had done for them while she was their teen church coordinator for many years. Messages came in from all over the world. Russia, Canada, the USA, all over Europe, and Africa.

The little she thought she was doing for the Lord was widely celebrated and reported by all. That is Shemuah Tovah. Good reports and Good things that are heard.

I was discussing with a friend and a brother in Christ recently, he wanted me to lend a helping hand regarding his rent and church rent.

I asked him about a fellow believer who left his banking job for the mission field six years ago.

This brother told me of the exploits that had come to characterize the life and reality of this brother at the mission field where he operates from in Gombe state. That is Shemuah Tovah.

A brother reached out to me from the USA, explaining how he learned about the authority of the believer from our ministry and had put it to use to the point where a certain infection he had been dealing with for many years left after he began applying the word of God to his life and reality. That is Shemuah Tovah.

Shemuah Tovah is good news as heard from the mouth of the one who experienced the power of God directly and how that encounter changed his or her life.

Did you remember the man born blind testifying about Jesus and His power to heal? That is Shemuah Tovah.

Luke 9

1) As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2) His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3) “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4) As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5) While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6) After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7) “Go,” he told him, “Wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So, the man went and washed and came home seeing.

8) His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” 9) Some claimed that he was.

Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”

But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

10) “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

11) He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So, I went and washed, and then I could see.”

12) “Where is this man?” they asked him.

“I don’t know,” he said.

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

13) They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14) Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15) Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”

16) Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.

17) Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” The man replied, “He is a prophet.”

18) They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. 19) “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”

20) “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. 21) But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” 22) His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23) That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

24) A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”

25) He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”

26) Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

27) He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”

28) Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”

30 )The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31) We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. 32) Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. 33) If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

34) To this, they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.

Shemuah Tovah is the raising of Lazarus from the dead; it didn't just marvel the people; it encouraged them to believe in Jesus.

It got so bad that the Pharisees decided it was best to kill Lazarus because his resurrection convinced people to believe in Jesus as the Son of God.

I know a lot of people who have Shemuah Tovah but refused to share it; they didn't want the attention such news would bring from other people. They keep their testimonies to themselves and only share such in whispers among their close family members and friends.

They have good news, but they are not sharing. They forget that the gospel is in itself good news, and it must be shared if the valid evidence of the gospel is to be presented to all, to the Glory of God.

Many people will send me testimonies and ask me to share anonymously. I try as much as I can to do this with evidence to prove the validity of the testimony. However, such a testimony is not Shemuah Tovah, for the owner of the evidence stands in hiding, leaving the evidence as an orphan and subjecting it to skepticism.

I have been accused of manufacturing testimonies on many occasions. I REALLY DO NOT GIVE A HOOT ABOUT THIS. I STAND TO GIVE A REPORT TO NO MAN OR WOMAN OVER THE OUTWORKINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT in my life or in the life of those I minister to. I LIVE for the GOSPEL and the GOSPEL is my life.

ALL that I am is as a result of the gospel and I will proclaim the wonders of Jesus all the days of my life.

However, I sincerely desire that the beneficiary of the good news would share them and speak with the conviction of the one who said, "I was blind but now I see." That she Shemuah Tovah!

Speaking with irrefutable evidence of the wonders and the power of the Holy Spirit as experienced directly.

In this new season of signs and wonders that will astound the world and drive many crazy, sharing your good news is a great thing.

Heavens require it and Jesus instructs it.

To fill the mouths of others with good news, you must share your own and trigger in them the wonders of His grace and power.

Please don't forget this, if you have good news to share, you can share it on this post boldly and by so doing spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus freely.

PS: I will be at Okota tomorrow, to celebrate the power and doings of the Holy Spirit with fellow believers from

@WordBaseHQ as they celebrate their convention.

I am inviting you to experience Good news that is tangible and powerful enough to be shared to the whole world as evidence of your salvation and walking in the reality of the power of the Holy Spirit as a believer.

Please join us.