Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General
Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, has revealed what led him into
praying for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo shortly before the helicopter crash,
he and his team survived in Kabba, Kogi State, without a scratch.
Preaching at the Holy Ghost
Service of the Church’s 67th Annual Convention with the theme, “And God Said,”
yesterday he recalled it all happened during the February Holy Ghost Congress
of the Church, which the Vice President was late to attend.
Using the incident to illustrate
the passage that “no weapon fashioned against me shall prosper,” as part of
God’s promises to His children, Adeboye said he was in his prayer room when God
whispered to him that his son was in danger.
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| Osinbajo at the Holy Ghost service |
“I got the message but I didn’t
know how to present it,” he said. “He was going around on political campaigns
so I didn’t know how to stop him. I also didn’t want him to be scared so I
resorted to praying for him.”
The General Overseer said he
prayed for two minutes, repeating “Father, protect your son,” four times.
In his own testimony earlier this
year, Osinbajo had confessed that he didn’t understand why Pastor Adeboye would
repeat the prayer for him.
In February, a helicopter that
flew the Vice President and his team to Kabba in Kogi State crash-landed but
all the passengers and crew on board escaped unhurt.
It was in the same prayer from
where the revered cleric stopped the rain that was threatening the Camp on
Friday night. While the first message was being delivered by Rev. Joe Olaiya,
he said that he noticed that rain had started falling, but because God had
promised that all the powers oi heaven and earth are to support those He has
blessed, he reminded the rain it was to support him in doing God’s work and not
to frustrate it.
Some members of the congregation
had noticed that the rain stopped shortly after it started.
Earlier that day when a driver,
who was seeing such a large crowd in a church for the first time, told his boss
rainfall would make things messy on the Camp, the boss had replied that Pastor
Adeboye would not see that happen.
As they returned to their car
after the service, he was overhead expressing amazement over what Pastor
Adeboye had said about the rain.
Pastor Adeboye’s sermon, which
was mainly decrees, commands and prayers on God’s promises, was one of the many
highpoints of Friday night during the one-week Convention.
The two large auditoriums for
adults at the Redemption Camp, and a children’s hall overflowed, with some
people sitting on the floor outside.
With the three million sitting
capacity of the Old Auditorium and six million for the new
three-kilometre-by-three-kilometre auditorium, an estimated six million adults
must have attended Friday’s evening plenary of the Convention. Everywhere one
looked, there were seas of heads.
There was a huge turnout, too,
during prayers for babies born in the last 12 months to barren mothers. Happy
dancing mothers streamed to the altar area until pools of thousands of mothers
were formed in both auditoriums.
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| Folu Adeboye led congregational prayers for Nigeria |
“See how many homes where there
was weeping over barrenness, have been thrown into joy because they came to
Jesus and we cried to Him; now see their joy,” Adeboye, who confirmed he loves
babies said and led the congregation to pray for them.
There were similar numbers when
Reverend Olaiya, who preached the first message, made the altar call.
Reverend Olaiya, noted as the
only one who makes such calls even when Pastor Adeboye is at the Camp, stressed
the importance of salvation from the world of sin.
“Sin puts you under the authority
of the devil; any religion to help you must have dominion over sin, devil and
death,” he said.
Seas of people were everywhere
and this may have been why a young man, desiring to get as close to Pastor
Adeboye as possible for whatever reason, breached security and protocol into
the altar area for VIPs. He was promptly driven back. But recalling how the
friends of a sick man broke the roof of a house to reach Jesus, the General Overseer
asked the young man to be brought to him. He prayed for him and allowed him to
go join the congregation.
In his main sermon based on how
God spoke the world into existence in the Book of Genesis, Pastor Adeboye
reminded the congregation about the power of God’s word and the need to hearken
diligently to every bit of it.
He recalled that after creation,
the world was without form but God said “let there be light” and there was
light.
The inference from that,
according to Pastor Adeboye, is that God’s word provides orderliness and erases
confusion and darkness; accelerates progress and brings about fullness and
fruitfulness.
“Let there be light also means
let your joy begin,” he added.
Quoting from similar words of
God, he said when God first spoke to man after creation in Genesis 1:27-28, He
blessed him: “So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
He him; male and female created He them. And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
Elaborating the implication of
the blessing, he said with that all forces in Heaven and on earth see to it
that the blesse succeeds; angelic forces also step in and one cannot be cursed.
Also being fruitful and
multiplying means one will increase rapidly, while replenishing means an
overflow.
‘God is more than enough, so
blessing you means He will provide all your needs.” He said. “God will also
promote you, and because He has the final say, when He opens a door, no one can
shut it and similarly doors he shuts cannot be opened.”
At every point, Pastor Adeboye
led congregational prayers and issued a decree. Towards the end, he opened the
alter area for people to pray there for what they wished God to do for them
this year.
After that, he anointed
handkerchiefs of the congregation. Like he has always done, he waved his hand
from the pulpit as people waved their handkerchiefs frantically at him. There
had been several testimonies of people using the anointed handkerchiefs to
perform miracles.
Earlier, his wife, Pastor Folu
Adeboye led congregational prayer for all nations and their leaders, after an
American Bishop I. D. Pearse had preached a sermon on the power of God’s word,
stressing repeatedly that, “there is enough power in the word of God to make
the word come to past.
The praise and worship session
was electrifying with a large number of people dancing ecstatically in all
directions.
There were also testimonies of
people who had been blessed by God, including an asthma patient who was healed
after 16 years; a woman whose son was healed from leukaemia after Pastor
Adeboye’s prayers; and a woman who bore a set of twins even after doctors had
said her fallopian tubes were blocked and her husband had low sperm count.
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