Founder and Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi, has revealed the reasons behind his relocation to the United States.
He said this during a virtual interview with Seun Okinbaloye
on his programme ‘Mic On’ podcast, where the duo discussed Leadership Beyond
Governance Politics and the Role of the Younger Generation in Nigeria.
The video, lasting one hour, thirty minutes, and forty-seven
seconds, was streamed on the Mic On YouTube channel on Sunday.
Earlier this year, Adeyemi explained why the older
generations of Nigerians must put their act together and make Nigeria work.
He said it was important for the older generations,
including the political and religious leaders, to retrace their steps and get
the country working because the younger generation would soon begin asking
questions.
Adeyemi revealed that COVID-19, EndSARS protests, and,
notably, troubling dreams about Nigeria, prompted the relocation.
He said, “When COVID-19 started, all our children were in
the US, so everyone stayed with their families. We stayed with our children.
The week services resumed was when EndSARS started, so we were preparing to return
to Nigeria.
“When the EndSARS protests ended in violence, we stayed back
a bit. When we were ready to return to Nigeria, a different experience
altogether happened.
“My wife had a dream in which she travelled to Nigeria and
returned to the US, which was a bad dream. I told her I wouldn’t say I liked
this dream.
“Three days later, I had a dream. We both travelled to
Nigeria in my dream, and I was in a big fight. I was being attacked violently,
and I had to ask the Holy Spirit in my heart what to do.
“He said I should call the name of Jesus Christ. I shouted
‘in the name of Jesus Christ’ in the dream and didn’t realise I shouted out
loud in real life.”
The gospel preacher and motivational speaker, who hails from
Kogi State but was born in Niger State added that whenever they plan to return
to the country, a bad dream brings a setback.
“My wife woke me up at 2:00 a.m. by hitting me and asking
what was going on. We decided to take it seriously, especially considering a
dream we had three days earlier.
“We prayed fervently, sensing danger. Three hours later, I
fell back asleep and had another dream. We were in Nigeria this time, and I was
in a fight,” he added.
The president of Success Power International, an NGO that
specialises in organising leadership, financial, and motivational seminars,
revealed that whenever they (he and his wife) set dates and booked flights to
return to Nigeria, he would have a bad dream about something terrible happening
to him there (Nigeria).
He further stated that he had never experienced two dreams
about the same event in one night.
“A few days later, we called family members in Nigeria, and
one person said, ‘I’m feeling very uncomfortable about you travelling to
Nigeria.’ We called another family member who said, ‘I feel uncomfortable about
you coming. What is going on?’ We just turned and looked at each other,
pondering the situation. Then I said, ‘You know what? I’ve been a Christian for
40 years.’
“At this point, if God is speaking to me, I should have an
idea that it is God speaking. Something is going on. I don’t know what it is,
but I want to pray more.
“And at that point, we called a meeting of all the leaders
in Daystar Christian Centre—the top 120 leaders on Zoom.”
The President of Success Power International noted that he
informed the elders of Daystar about the situation, and they agreed to keep the
church running.
“They said you’ve never deceived us before. If God asks you
to stay, stay as long as He directs. We’ll continue this journey,” he asserted.
The host of the radio and television ‘Success Power’
programme heard and seen in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East said he and his
wife stayed in the US after the church leaders’ Zoom meeting.
“Six months later, we were still in the US for one year,
tearing me apart. I discovered that, until COVID-19, I’d been out of Nigeria
for eight weeks. To now be away when you had the church with 40,000 members,”
he noted.
He added that the experience in the US highlighted Daystar’s
strengths, including investments in training and established systems.
“I’m passionate about building systems so the church does
not collapse. It is fantastic, and we call it an organisational miracle. It was
almost three years before we had the Holy Spirit’s clearance to return to
Nigeria.
“But what eventually the Holy Spirit would tell me was that
he wanted me to shift my focus from just being the pastor of a local church to
that global walk that I had known that I would do.
“So right now, the focus shift is to do that global walk
while we keep Daystar running, leveraging technology.”
Daystar Christian Centre is based in Lagos State, was
inaugurated on November 18, 1995, and now has branches across various states in
the country.
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These pastors are only out to deceive their congregations. You had a troubling dream about Nigeria and you relocated with your family, did you take your members or they should stay here and die? This is why i call you guys hypocrites and i stand to be corrected.
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