Praise God, I am more than a conqueror, am much grateful to the God of my father bishop David Oyedepo for unavailing to me the mystery of fervent prayers.
Last week my wife started seeing fluid or rather water from the womb and experiencing a lot of pain in her waist and back. I decided to take her to the hospital whereby she was to undergo some tests and scanning but I was not able to raise the required amount. The doctor told me that, the situation is very critical and it’s an emergency.
I rebuked him.
I told him if the situation was critical my God would have provided the amount on time because God is always right early.
I had to go back with my wife so that we can look for money. Reaching home, a divine idea came to my mind that I should go to church for prayers day and night for 5 days and I did so. On the second day my, resident pastor instructed the church staff that I should never be found in the church praying night hours. I told him please, I am in a covenant with my God, and he allowed me to continue.
Again, on the fifth day when my breakthrough was around the corner, the devil realized it and wanted to stop it. My pastor again came up forcefully whereby he instructed the watchman to chase me out that night, but the watchman was also shocked because I have been sleeping at church praying. Since inception of our assembly all pastors who have been there have never been against prayers, but the watchman allowed me to continue with my prayers because that was my last day.
I continued with my prayers and on the seventh day my wife went back to the hospital with part of amount enough for scanning only. When she was taken for scanning, they released that the uterus was open ready for miscarriage, but the uterus had miraculously closed the flow of water from the womb and the pain had stopped.
The doctor in charge was amazed and called for other doctors to come and witness what happened to her. They asked her if she had been using herbal drugs. She told them; God had answered her prayers. God has done it and now we don’t experience a sleepless night. To God alone be all the glory.
Emmanuel Otucho (Kenya)
Don’t be grateful to the god of Oyedepo, but be grateful to the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; the Father of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. this man Oyedepo is a false preacher. beware about that and seek Jesus Christ in truth and in Spirit; Jesus Christ is the only way, the truth, and the life.
Denis,
Thanks for weighing in on this. I’m cautious about posting anything that gives man the glory. I’m actually in the process of going through all approximately 1500 testimonies and reviewing them for errors, being outdated and anything that doesn’t meet our guidelines. I will soon have removed about 100. I let this post go live because it looked like from the statement that he was giving God the “praise” and glory. That’s the way it should always be, as you point out. The God of our Lord Jesus Christ be glorified.
By the way, these are the abbreviated guidelines for submitting a testimony from our About page. Anyone posting a testimony should go by these if they want it to appear. The testimony should:
The guidelines are deliberately general, and I have to rely on individual believers to use sound judgment.
I know about preachers in the U.S.A., but not a lot about preachers in other countries. I will look into this and may remove it in the future. The goal is to post stories that show what God our Father is doing all over the world today.
I’m always open and appreciate you and other readers pointing out anything that doesn’t match our mission.
Thank you Emory for highlighting this. Yeah, I thought it was good to point out that; and I really know that sometimes it might be difficult in drawing the line; since today many people feel they are being judged when their preacher or prophet is weighed upon. However, as followers of Christ our mandate is also to protect the true and sound scriptural doctrine as you indicated. Thank you for your good work and may the Lord bless you and your family abundantly; indeed, this website has been a great help to many, we have learned a lot here, grown spiritually, encouraged, and empowered; we overcome by the word of our testimonies.
In the battle at Mount Carmel between Elijah, the prophet of God and the prophets of Baal, we saw that after Elijah stood on the covenant of God with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he also stood upon his personal relationship with God and also the word of God. Also, he declared that God is the God of all the children of Israel.
Our personal relationship with God and also the word of God are very important to give us victory. In Acts1 9:13-16, the seven sons of Sceva wanting to cast out evil spirits from people as they saw Paul did and the evil spirits answered them: Jesus I know, Paul I know but who are you? Since they have no personal relationship with God, the evil spirits dealt with them. Our personal relationship with God is very important in Spiritual warfare.
Jesus revealed to us in the above scriptures that God is our Father. Therefore, God is not only the Father of a Pastor, He is also the Father of the members of the congregation. So, the praise should be to our God and not to the God or god of a Pastor.