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Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by matoyeh(m): 1:46pm On Jun 15, 2010
grin embarassed lipsrsealed undecided
, when somebody says he is as Christian, pastor, minister, you ask him when did he become born-again. Most people know when they get born again, when they confess Jesus with heir mouth. But T. B. Joshua said he was converted from his mothers womb. And we know that is not possible.

--- Wale Adefarasin,
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria
National Secretary.

"Miracles, signs and wonders are not exclusive preserve of God. The devil too can perform miracles. That a man does miracles is not enough reason to attest to his ministry. Remember Jambres and …… "


As the Lagos State PFN president, what is the true position on T.B. Joshua?
Let me first of all say that in the larger part of our country, when anybody comes to say he wants to marry your daughter, what we do is send people to check out the family of the parties involved in the marriage. They want to know what is the family like.

So when the people of the world makes noise about a certain minister in Nigeria, the proper thing to do is to come here and find out what is his reputation here, what are his records before they embrace him.

Miracles, signs and wonders are not exclusive preserve of God. The devil too can perform miracles. That a man does miracles is not enough reason to attest to his ministry. Remember Jambres and ……

On T. B. Joshua, the PFN makes it clear that any member who fraternizes with him will be suspended until they repent. We do not believe at this point in time that it is a ministry of God.

What we want people to know and find out is that when somebody says he is as Christian, pastor, minister, you ask him when did he become born-again. Most people know when they get born again, when they confess Jesus with their mouth. But T. B. Joshua said he was converted from his mothers womb. And we know that is not possible.

We ask him where was he when he was called to ministry. Who are the men of God who can point at him that that we raise him into ministry, lay hands on him and sent him forth into the ministry.

We do have a problem with him there. On his friend Oyakhilome, he himself has said said he is not part of PFN, so I don't think there is a need to make any comments on him.

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by AKO1(m): 2:03pm On Jun 15, 2010
and so damn what?

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by Chiddysville(m): 3:08pm On Jun 15, 2010
Bunch of hypocrites and scammers. Funniest thing he is a better Christian than you all. Nonsense

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by KunleOshob(m): 3:20pm On Jun 15, 2010
What a bunch of self righteous hypocrites the Pharisee Federation of Nigeira[PFN] One thing is certain even if Tb Joshua has his short comings which is yet to be proven, he is a much better christian that all the pastors in PFN put together. Bunch of deluded fruadulent Pharisees. angry

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by kanayo74(m): 4:45pm On Jun 15, 2010
what do they have against T.b joshua

they should know that he is doing Gods work.

a kingdom that fight aginst itself will never stand.

and if he is against Christ he can never claim to be for Christ.

they should come out with better things to do.

if they are strong or better than him spiritually let them challenge him

after all Elijah did it with the children of Baal.

he ( T.B Joshua) practices practical Christianity while most of them practice lips chriatainity

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by lagerwhenindoubt(m): 4:49pm On Jun 15, 2010
Satan-bashers!!! my only consolation is that the end-tiem is near and soon Prince Lucifer will reign supreme and all christian lots (fake and real pastors) will face the great tribulation where yours truly will kick christian-ars.e all over RCCG-city  angry
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by Tudor6(f): 6:13pm On Jun 15, 2010
crazy bunch of thieves doz pfn are
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by Nobody: 6:00am On Jun 16, 2010
Honestly, it is things like this that makes me detest PFN and CAN . The TB Joshua that they hate so much is a better man than all of them put together.

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by Mudley313: 6:42am On Jun 16, 2010
interesting. . .a bunch of thieves vs a charlatan
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by rotimy(m): 8:01am On Jun 16, 2010
@ POSTERS
It is a pity that most of you are missing the points! PFN is a group and must have admission criteria! You cannot be admitted into Nigeria Bar Association if you cannot tell the day you were called to the bar. T.B Joshua wants to join the PFN badly but could not prove to them the day and the place he got converted to christianity. He said no one mentored him and had no accountability partner in the ministry or a spiritual father! I support the PFN and want them always be firm in matters like this no matter the number of nay sayers and critics! The same PFN backlisted Pastor Awuzie of the Zoe Ministry few years ago. today they are vindicated!
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by oloriooko(m): 8:40am On Jun 16, 2010
Are you talking about the same PFN that squandered Benny Hinns money for the crusade he did in Nigeria?

Or is it not the same PFN that members battled themselves over Benny Hinns money for the crusade he held in Nigeria?

If TB does not know or cannot say when he got born again, then, must he be taken to be demonic?

Question: When did Peter become born again? or Matthew or the whole 12 Apostles?

Finally, if TB is devilish as speculated, he will soon be exposed, disgraced and down-trodden but if the guy is true, his critics might be destroyed

with their families!

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by femmy2010(m): 8:57am On Jun 16, 2010
One of the most captivating church program i watch on TV is the one by the Synagogue.He takes care of the widows,the beggars,dwarf and many more that the society has forgotten or does not give a hoot about.I know the bible say it is wrong to judge ?but i can proudly say T.B.Joshua is what is expected of men of God.I attend a PFN member church but i remain an avid fan of TBJ and frankly i cant help it.GOD HELP US ALL.

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by searchcorp(m): 1:35pm On Jun 16, 2010
i hate it when christians help the devil in accusing the brethrens, first of all, , in the early church the bible said people where added to the church in thier thousands on a daily basis, there was no alter call., people just saw christians, like them and join them., even the book of acts10:46 peter was preaching and all of a sudden he heard the unbelievers he was preaching to speaking in tongues and instantly he asserted that they have been born again and baptised them immediately, alter call is Good but not a basis on if one is born again or not.

the evident of the holy spirit in the person life is the basis, then secondly the conduct of the person.

the first name christians were ever called in the book of acts9:2 was "this way" meaning christians were recognised at sight, by the manifestation of theHolySpirit in them,

devil doesnt perform miracles, he only performs magic and rituals.

plsssssssssss i beg all of u, leave T.B. Joshua alone for me, i ll rather go to heaven and not see someone i intend to see, than get to heaven and see someone i dont intend to see.

STOP ACCUSSING FELLOW XTIANS AND FACE YOUR MINISTRIES, GOD BLESS!
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by searchcorp(m): 1:39pm On Jun 16, 2010
THIS IS T.B. JOSHUA'S STORY



I was brought up from a Christian home. My father’s name is Kolawole Balogun. He was a Christian. He was a farmer who was also the secretary to St. Steven’s church in our village. When the white people came to our village, he served as a translator. He was translating English into Yoruba. He was an educated man. He lived with the white people as well as serving as church secretary. I cannot say much about my father because he died when I was a small boy. I know that he loved me a lot. I was his pet. I was the one who suffered most from the effect of his death. Being the last born, anywhere he is going, he would take me along. He would carry me to the church. As a little boy, I would be running inside the church. I would jump from the choir to the catechist’s table.

Some people used to rumour that my father was a Muslim. I don’t know where they got that from. My father was a Christian and I am a Christian. When I was very small, I could recall him taking me to church regularly. As a kid attending primary school, my dad would make me to stay after school with a Catholic priest whose house was at the back of the church. I did all the normal things kids do, like running around and playing football.

When my father died, my mum’s brother who became the father figure to me was a Muslim. That does not make me a Muslim. I was brought up in a Christian home. And right from childhood, I was passionate about the Bible. Right from primary school, I was well versed in Bible knowledge. It was my favourite subject and I excelled in it. As a primary six kid, I read the New Testament twice. In my secondary school days, I finished reading the Bible on the average of two months.

Every two months, I would have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. It was the only subject that I believed so much in. It was as if Bible was the only subject that interested me in primary and secondary schools. In exams, I scored 99 percent consistently whereas I performed woefully in other subjects. My excelling in Bible knowledge affected the other subjects where I performed poorly. At school, I was the leader of the Scripture Union.

Even though I was second in primary school, I didn’t find it easy getting admitted into secondary school. As luck would have it, I got late admission into Muslim College. In that Muslim College, we were restricted from carrying the Bible openly. To read the Bible, we would have to hide under the mango tree or backyard and the Muslim community would begin to chase us. We were all 20 in number then. Like the early Christians, we would read the Bible in secrecy because they never allowed us to do it openly. I was the leader of the Christian team in the school, at Ansar-Ud-deen Grammar School, Ikare. And because of the pressure, I couldn’t finish a year in that school. It was obvious I couldn’t fit into this dominantly Muslim setting. So I left the school. I left because my life was in danger. I could sense that since I was doing this thing secretly, one day something could happen to me. To avoid that I had to leave. From Ikare, I came to Lagos.

Based on the hostility and the religious intolerance at Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar School, I decided to leave Ikare for Lagos. I met some people who used to carry cassava from the village to places like Ibadan and Lagos. I approached them and explained my predicament to them. They would spend four days on the road transporting the cassava to Lagos on the trailer. The trailer would be loaded with stuff like cassava and cocoa while the owners would sleep on top. I decided to join them. I did not tell my parent I was going to Lagos. I stayed inside the vehicle for four days before getting to Ibadan. From Ibadan we landed in Mile 12 in Lagos. They dropped me there and told me: “This is where we can carry you.”

For five days, I was in Mile 12. It was during the rainy season. The job I was doing was washing the feet of people coming out of the muddy market. I would wash feet and be paid little money with which I fed. I was washing feet until one day I heard two women conversing in my native dialect. I interrupted their conversation and asked if they were from Arigidi, my hometown, and they said yes. I told them I was in Lagos to trace my sister whose whereabouts I don’t know. Luckily, I was able to trace my sister to Egbe area of Lagos. After 10 days, I traced her and started to live with her. That is how I started my life. Today, I have an NGO for motor park boys, because I have also been one myself.

I realized my sister had her own family and I should not be burden to her. I do not like inconveniencing people. If I visit your house and you give me a bottle of soft drinks, I would make sure I put something in the envelope, because I believe we make a living by what we give and we make a life by what we receive. This is what I believe in. In life, you don’t just have to collect and collect. It destroys one’s life. You have to give and give. Because the Bible says, you must see giving as an assignment from God.

‘I carried poo to make a living’
I left my sister to live with a friend. From there, I got a job as a poultry farm attendant. The poultry is still there now. Not long ago, I traced the poultry to somewhere in Ikotun. The job they gave me is to carry poo. Fowl poo. And fowl poo smell is more terrible than human faeces. I was doing this job with many Ghanaians. There were so many Ghanaians in Nigeria then. I was the only Nigerian in that poultry farm. And I never let people know I was a Nigerian. I declared myself a Ghanaian too, because nobody would believe a Nigerian would do that kind of job. I did the job for three days and my body odour changed. When I’m moving about, people would perceive odour and flies would be hovering around me because I was smelling very badly. There was no amount of soap I would bath that would remove this odour from my body. As you are working in the poultry farm, the fowl poo would be dropping on your head. I did this for one good year.

At the same time, I enrolled in an evening school. New State High School is the name of the school. I attended many schools in Lagos. I would attend one school for two months, only to be sent away because of school fees. I attended New State High School, Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar School, Isolo, and another school called Metropolitan. Because I was very good in athletics, I was given what looked like scholarship. I won gold, silver and bronze in athletics. But I needed to work to support myself at school. That was why I took the poultry job. I was using it to pay my school fees. In those days, evening schools were like full, normal schools. You could easily attend evening school to do your WAEC and GCE. We even received better lessons in the evening than in the day school in those days. I was sending myself to school and at the same time teaching children Bible studies.

My athletics took me to Baptist Academy. When I was running they picked me. Under one year, I attended 15 schools here in Lagos. And I did not finish one year. I don’t remember the year, because I cannot keep records. But it’s all in the documentary on my life. I was born 1963. At least, I remember that one.

‘I confronted a mad man at school’
My first attempt at discovering God’s spirit in me was when a mad man came to my school. In those days, I used to be called Small Pastor. One morning a madman came to our school with a cutlass and everybody was running helter-skelter. The teachers all fled and the classroom was empty. I came and saw this mad person. The spirit of God spoke to my heart, not to my ear. I hear the voice of God in my heart and not in my ears. I heard the voice of God telling me: “Go there and collect the cutlass. Just tell the madman to bring the cutlass.” When I was moving towards the madman, everybody was concerned for my safety. They were saying something like: ‘This is boy, he wants to die.’ I just went to the madman and commanded him: “Give me this cutlass, in the name of Jesus.” The madman gave me the cutlass. I collected it and gave it to a teacher. It was from there they started calling me Small Pastor.

From there, they would call me in the assembly and ask me to pray for them. Every time I would pray for them. If they want to play football, I would pray for them. They began to come to me individually for prayers. It was pray for me, pray for me, pray for me all the way. They asked me how I was able to overcome the madman and I told them I was surprised myself to see what happened.

You see, God Almighty is awesome. He can use any medium to express Himself. He can use sand, water, stone, rod, he can use anything. When Moses was asking God, what should he do, God asked him: “What is in your hand?” He said rod. Then God said: “Use it to divide the sea.” Or are you talking about Paul and Silas in the prison yard? They were there and they never said: Hey, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. They just sang praises to God. The used the medium of sound. Or are you talking of Joshua. He said to his people to just shout Alleluia and the walls of Jericho fell. God uses any medium to express Himself.

The ministry started from St. Stevens Primary School where I collected the cutlass from the madman and where I started leading the Scriptures Union, teaching the Bible and everything. This is where the awareness of God’s presence in me started. It continued. Everything big starts little. If everything big starts big, it calls for concern.

I was in Bahamas with the President of Bahamas, very close to Florida when my mother died. This is the picture. I was with him when they called me. Synagogue had already come into being. I was with him when they said my mother was a bit down, that they brought her from the village. They said my mother wanted to see me and have a word with me. Before I came back home, my mummy was gone. My mummy was late. It was too late for me. That was how I missed my mum.

She was a wonderful mother. The only little problem I had with my mum is that she wanted to see everybody succeed in life. I used to tell my mum: success is a two-sided affair. I have a role to play, God has His own role. It is not all up to God and certainly it’s all not up to me. Success is a kind of partnership between man and God. I cannot define failure, because I don’t believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the spirit of God. But as human beings, we cannot be perfect. Perfection eludes every human being. God is perfection.

‘I spent 15 months in my mother’s womb’
Back to my early beginnings, I was the last born of the family. When I was born a lot of strange things happened. Seven days after I was born, I was told that I was put on a mat and a big stone nearly crushed me but miraculously I escaped. How did it happen? White people used to come to do borehole in our village. And in our village, it’s all stone under. When they are drilling, they would be hitting stone and stones would be flying out dangerously. Before any drilling, they would publicly announce that everybody must stay at home to avoid the danger of being hit by a flying stone. The stone used to fly because of the nature of the machine they use. It was on the seventh day when they wanted to name me that they put me on the mat and a big stone flew from where they were drilling, pierced the roof where people were celebrating and landed where I was placed. But it missed me, narrowly. The stone is still being kept till now. Nobody has ever heard this story from me.

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by Chiddysville(m): 3:41pm On Jun 16, 2010
Pls, Is PFN God's visa to heaven? undecided undecided undecided
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by jcross19: 6:41pm On Jun 17, 2010
95 percent of the PFN members are frauds simple as that . is it not adefarasin that spent 17 milion naira eko hotel hall? is he b,cos TB is not living a luxurious like them
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by femmy2010(m): 7:12pm On Jun 17, 2010
May God help us.
TBJ i dey your back oo.
Keep doing the great work you are doing.
taking care of the needy,remembering those the society has forgotten about.
Placed a smile on many dwarf and physically challenged
His birthday celebration is done with many beggars in attendance and they free socialize with the many a white men that abound his church.
God bless you.
They shall try but they can not bring you down
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by shevalync: 7:41pm On Jun 18, 2010
Chiddysville:

Pls, Is PFN God's visa to heaven? undecided undecided undecided
I wonder o!
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by shevalync: 7:45pm On Jun 18, 2010
rotimy:

@ POSTERS
It is a pity that most of you are missing the points! PFN is a group and must have admission criteria! You cannot be admitted into Nigeria Bar Association if you cannot tell the day you were called to the bar. T.B Joshua wants to join the PFN badly but could not prove to them the day and the place he got converted to christianity. He said no one mentored him and had no accountability partner in the ministry or a spiritual father! I support the PFN and want them always be firm in matters like this no matter the number of nay sayers and critics! The same PFN backlisted Pastor Awuzie of the Zoe Ministry few years ago. today they are vindicated!

PFN? long hiss! they are stranger to the bible just as PDP is to Nigeria Constitution.
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by Gifo(m): 8:04pm On Jun 22, 2010
@rotimy: TB Joshua wants to join PFN badly?? What for? He's on TBN, has received national award, has overflowing attendees, has the largest foreigners attendance in Nigeria, has the most prominent visitors from abroad- Heads of states, Kings, Consuls, Governors etc.

So join PFN badly? What for I say, what for?

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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by odogift(f): 2:56pm On Feb 09, 2013
Is pfn an approved body by Jesus thru wc all xtian can get to heaven? Was Jesus popular among d pharisees (ie recognised as one of deir own) while He was doing God's work? Leave TB Joshua alone all u political pfn/can pple. With u guys alone we will prefer to return to our traditional religion bt for God's servant like TB Joshua I will continually follow Jesus Christ!
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by ijawkid(m): 3:48pm On Feb 09, 2013
shocked shocked shocked shocked
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by digospel2: 10:27pm On Feb 10, 2013
oloriooko: Are you talking about the same PFN that squandered Benny Hinns money for the crusade he did in Nigeria?

Or is it not the same PFN that members battled themselves over Benny Hinns money for the crusade he held in Nigeria?

If TB does not know or cannot say when he got born again, then, must he be taken to be demonic?

Question: When did Peter become born again? or Matthew or the whole 12 Apostles?

Finally, if TB is devilish as speculated, he will soon be exposed, disgraced and down-trodden but if the guy is true, his critics might be destroyed

with their families!

All the Apostles were taught and mentored by Jesus. But who taught and mentor T.B. Joshua ?
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by akaazua(m): 8:49am On Feb 11, 2013
Do you know what it means to sacrifice? Read this statement by a young African pastor.
Found among his papers in Zimbabwe after he was martyred

I'm a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I'm a disciple of His and I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still.
My past is redeemed. ...My present makes sense. My future is secure. I'm done and finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don't have to be right, or first, or tops, or recognized, or praised, or rewarded. I live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by Holy Spirit power.
My face is set. My gait is fast. My goal is heaven. My road may be narrow, my way rough, my companions few, but my guide is reliable and my mission is clear.
I will not be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice or hesitate in the presence of the adversary. I will not negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ.
I am a disciple of Jesus. I must give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. And when He does come for His own, He'll have no problems recognizing me. My colors will be clear!
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by decemberlog(f): 5:19pm On Jul 11, 2017
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Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by Nobody: 5:57pm On Jul 11, 2017
femmy2010:
One of the most captivating church programme i watch on tv is the one by the Synagogue.He takes care of the widows,the beggars,dwarf and many more that the society has forgotten or does not give 2 hoot about.I know the bible say it is wrong to judge ?but i can proudly say T.B.Joshua is what is expected of men of God.I attend a PFN member church but i remain an avid fan of TBJ and frankly i cant help it.GOD HELP US ALL.
u have said it all
Re: Pfn Makes It Clear That Any Member Fraternizes With Tb Joshua Will Be Suspended by Sunglass20(f): 7:38pm On Jul 11, 2017
searchcorp:
THIS IS T.B. JOSHUA'S STORY



I was brought up from a Christian home. My father’s name is Kolawole Balogun. He was a Christian. He was a farmer who was also the secretary to St. Steven’s church in our village. When the white people came to our village, he served as a translator. He was translating English into Yoruba. He was an educated man. He lived with the white people as well as serving as church secretary. I cannot say much about my father because he died when I was a small boy. I know that he loved me a lot. I was his pet. I was the one who suffered most from the effect of his death. Being the last born, anywhere he is going, he would take me along. He would carry me to the church. As a little boy, I would be running inside the church. I would jump from the choir to the catechist’s table.

Some people used to rumour that my father was a Muslim. I don’t know where they got that from. My father was a Christian and I am a Christian. When I was very small, I could recall him taking me to church regularly. As a kid attending primary school, my dad would make me to stay after school with a Catholic priest whose house was at the back of the church. I did all the normal things kids do, like running around and playing football.

When my father died, my mum’s brother who became the father figure to me was a Muslim. That does not make me a Muslim. I was brought up in a Christian home. And right from childhood, I was passionate about the Bible. Right from primary school, I was well versed in Bible knowledge. It was my favourite subject and I excelled in it. As a primary six kid, I read the New Testament twice. In my secondary school days, I finished reading the Bible on the average of two months.

Every two months, I would have read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. It was the only subject that I believed so much in. It was as if Bible was the only subject that interested me in primary and secondary schools. In exams, I scored 99 percent consistently whereas I performed woefully in other subjects. My excelling in Bible knowledge affected the other subjects where I performed poorly. At school, I was the leader of the Scripture Union.

Even though I was second in primary school, I didn’t find it easy getting admitted into secondary school. As luck would have it, I got late admission into Muslim College. In that Muslim College, we were restricted from carrying the Bible openly. To read the Bible, we would have to hide under the mango tree or backyard and the Muslim community would begin to chase us. We were all 20 in number then. Like the early Christians, we would read the Bible in secrecy because they never allowed us to do it openly. I was the leader of the Christian team in the school, at Ansar-Ud-deen Grammar School, Ikare. And because of the pressure, I couldn’t finish a year in that school. It was obvious I couldn’t fit into this dominantly Muslim setting. So I left the school. I left because my life was in danger. I could sense that since I was doing this thing secretly, one day something could happen to me. To avoid that I had to leave. From Ikare, I came to Lagos.

Based on the hostility and the religious intolerance at Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar School, I decided to leave Ikare for Lagos. I met some people who used to carry cassava from the village to places like Ibadan and Lagos. I approached them and explained my predicament to them. They would spend four days on the road transporting the cassava to Lagos on the trailer. The trailer would be loaded with stuff like cassava and cocoa while the owners would sleep on top. I decided to join them. I did not tell my parent I was going to Lagos. I stayed inside the vehicle for four days before getting to Ibadan. From Ibadan we landed in Mile 12 in Lagos. They dropped me there and told me: “This is where we can carry you.”

For five days, I was in Mile 12. It was during the rainy season. The job I was doing was washing the feet of people coming out of the muddy market. I would wash feet and be paid little money with which I fed. I was washing feet until one day I heard two women conversing in my native dialect. I interrupted their conversation and asked if they were from Arigidi, my hometown, and they said yes. I told them I was in Lagos to trace my sister whose whereabouts I don’t know. Luckily, I was able to trace my sister to Egbe area of Lagos. After 10 days, I traced her and started to live with her. That is how I started my life. Today, I have an NGO for motor park boys, because I have also been one myself.

I realized my sister had her own family and I should not be burden to her. I do not like inconveniencing people. If I visit your house and you give me a bottle of soft drinks, I would make sure I put something in the envelope, because I believe we make a living by what we give and we make a life by what we receive. This is what I believe in. In life, you don’t just have to collect and collect. It destroys one’s life. You have to give and give. Because the Bible says, you must see giving as an assignment from God.

‘I carried poo to make a living’
I left my sister to live with a friend. From there, I got a job as a poultry farm attendant. The poultry is still there now. Not long ago, I traced the poultry to somewhere in Ikotun. The job they gave me is to carry poo. Fowl poo. And fowl poo smell is more terrible than human faeces. I was doing this job with many Ghanaians. There were so many Ghanaians in Nigeria then. I was the only Nigerian in that poultry farm. And I never let people know I was a Nigerian. I declared myself a Ghanaian too, because nobody would believe a Nigerian would do that kind of job. I did the job for three days and my body odour changed. When I’m moving about, people would perceive odour and flies would be hovering around me because I was smelling very badly. There was no amount of soap I would bath that would remove this odour from my body. As you are working in the poultry farm, the fowl poo would be dropping on your head. I did this for one good year.

At the same time, I enrolled in an evening school. New State High School is the name of the school. I attended many schools in Lagos. I would attend one school for two months, only to be sent away because of school fees. I attended New State High School, Ansar-Ud-Deen Grammar School, Isolo, and another school called Metropolitan. Because I was very good in athletics, I was given what looked like scholarship. I won gold, silver and bronze in athletics. But I needed to work to support myself at school. That was why I took the poultry job. I was using it to pay my school fees. In those days, evening schools were like full, normal schools. You could easily attend evening school to do your WAEC and GCE. We even received better lessons in the evening than in the day school in those days. I was sending myself to school and at the same time teaching children Bible studies.

My athletics took me to Baptist Academy. When I was running they picked me. Under one year, I attended 15 schools here in Lagos. And I did not finish one year. I don’t remember the year, because I cannot keep records. But it’s all in the documentary on my life. I was born 1963. At least, I remember that one.

‘I confronted a mad man at school’
My first attempt at discovering God’s spirit in me was when a mad man came to my school. In those days, I used to be called Small Pastor. One morning a madman came to our school with a cutlass and everybody was running helter-skelter. The teachers all fled and the classroom was empty. I came and saw this mad person. The spirit of God spoke to my heart, not to my ear. I hear the voice of God in my heart and not in my ears. I heard the voice of God telling me: “Go there and collect the cutlass. Just tell the madman to bring the cutlass.” When I was moving towards the madman, everybody was concerned for my safety. They were saying something like: ‘This is boy, he wants to die.’ I just went to the madman and commanded him: “Give me this cutlass, in the name of Jesus.” The madman gave me the cutlass. I collected it and gave it to a teacher. It was from there they started calling me Small Pastor.

From there, they would call me in the assembly and ask me to pray for them. Every time I would pray for them. If they want to play football, I would pray for them. They began to come to me individually for prayers. It was pray for me, pray for me, pray for me all the way. They asked me how I was able to overcome the madman and I told them I was surprised myself to see what happened.

You see, God Almighty is awesome. He can use any medium to express Himself. He can use sand, water, stone, rod, he can use anything. When Moses was asking God, what should he do, God asked him: “What is in your hand?” He said rod. Then God said: “Use it to divide the sea.” Or are you talking about Paul and Silas in the prison yard? They were there and they never said: Hey, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. They just sang praises to God. The used the medium of sound. Or are you talking of Joshua. He said to his people to just shout Alleluia and the walls of Jericho fell. God uses any medium to express Himself.

The ministry started from St. Stevens Primary School where I collected the cutlass from the madman and where I started leading the Scriptures Union, teaching the Bible and everything. This is where the awareness of God’s presence in me started. It continued. Everything big starts little. If everything big starts big, it calls for concern.

I was in Bahamas with the President of Bahamas, very close to Florida when my mother died. This is the picture. I was with him when they called me. Synagogue had already come into being. I was with him when they said my mother was a bit down, that they brought her from the village. They said my mother wanted to see me and have a word with me. Before I came back home, my mummy was gone. My mummy was late. It was too late for me. That was how I missed my mum.

She was a wonderful mother. The only little problem I had with my mum is that she wanted to see everybody succeed in life. I used to tell my mum: success is a two-sided affair. I have a role to play, God has His own role. It is not all up to God and certainly it’s all not up to me. Success is a kind of partnership between man and God. I cannot define failure, because I don’t believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the spirit of God. But as human beings, we cannot be perfect. Perfection eludes every human being. God is perfection.

‘I spent 15 months in my mother’s womb’
Back to my early beginnings, I was the last born of the family. When I was born a lot of strange things happened. Seven days after I was born, I was told that I was put on a mat and a big stone nearly crushed me but miraculously I escaped. How did it happen? White people used to come to do borehole in our village. And in our village, it’s all stone under. When they are drilling, they would be hitting stone and stones would be flying out dangerously. Before any drilling, they would publicly announce that everybody must stay at home to avoid the danger of being hit by a flying stone. The stone used to fly because of the nature of the machine they use. It was on the seventh day when they wanted to name me that they put me on the mat and a big stone flew from where they were drilling, pierced the roof where people were celebrating and landed where I was placed. But it missed me, narrowly. The stone is still being kept till now. Nobody has ever heard this story from me.


Well done and thank you so much for this piece. Now i have more stories to tell those who never stop asking questions.

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