Pa Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola once told his fellow ministers during prayer meeting to kneel down for a SHORT prayer.

After about 2-3 hours of kneeling down, the ministers became frustrated & sat down, leaving only Apostle Babalola still on his knee praying for about 5-6 hrs.

The following day, they asked him “Baba, if you ask us to pray a short prayer with you which took almost 6 hours, How many hours will your LONG prayer last?”

He prayed so much that his knee made a hole in a rock.

The hole is still there on a big rock in Osun state.

The Ministry & Healing revival of his mission began with the raising of a dead child in September 1930.

What followed this in 3 weeks was the healing of about 100 lepers, 60 blind people & 50 lame persons.

There was a god called ” egule” worshipped in the Isowo Quarters of the town.

This god was so ruthless that no man dares point a finger at it to call attention to it as such acts led to forfeiture of fingers or death.

It is said that a big python coiled around the pot on which the god was placed.

This god was situated on a bushy hill & no one dares goes there for fear of being harmed by the god or the python guarding it.

When the Apostle got to this town he requested to visit the hill of this god. People were concerned for his safety but he insisted, then people from neighboring towns & villages came to see what was going to happen.

All he took was his bell & his staff and he went to the hill with people watching him.

Immediately he sited this god & its python, he started ringing his bell as he moved towards it & immediately the pot on which the god stood broke into pieces and the snake fled, when people saw this they started singing & rejoicing.

The people beheld the python & trampled it till it died and the people abandoned the Idols for God Almighty.

Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola showed no sign of sickness until his unforseen call to glory on Sunday, 26th July, 1959.