He said
“I heard that some media houses –
especially in Nigeria – are writing some things against me. All sorts of
frivolous charges, that’s crazy.You have to understand something about a
man of God. A man of God is not just someone who worships God or
preaches God. A man of God is handpicked by God, set on course by God.
If you study the scriptures, you will not find one man of God go against
God, sinning against God.
The only things you might find will be a man of God, maybe in two different kinds of ways. Moses, for example; when he
struck the rock twice, [he] was provoked
by the anger of the people. [It was] not because he wanted to do
something against the Lord. No man of God does something against the
Lord.“Are you hearing me? A man of God is set on a course; there is a
type of life that he is given. Then you have a young man, a young
prophet; he wasn’t named; he was deceived by another man of God and so
he went in a direction that God said ‘don’t go’.
“That is the only kind of thing you find
about a man of God when he misses the message of God or he acts beyond
what God said. But a man of God settles himself in the fight against the
world… like those writing those stupid things about me, that I did this
and I did that.
You don’t know who a man of God is. I
don’t go in that direction. I wasn’t accused of the things you said, nor
did I commit those stupid things that you said and I don’t need to go
into that level in such discussions.
He recalled that Jesus passed through
similar travails and eventually overcame. He said that although so many
people were making mockery of him, he would remain steadfast and not
lose focus.
Jesus Christ was accused by many – a lot
of frivolous charges. There will always be those who would like for it
to be true. But you know, in spite of the accusations against Jesus, It
didn’t change who he was. It didn’t change him.
“There are preachers and there are men of
God. I am not a preacher; I am a man of God and I go in the way I’m
asked to go. It may cause some troubles with individuals but that’s not
because I have done something wrong and when it comes to Reverend Anita,
what I will say to you is ‘pray for her’.
“Don’t act like those people. If you are
married to a man of God, it doesn’t make you automatically mature. You
can make mistakes; you can do something that is wrong. But some people
expect the wife of a minister to definitely be at the level of that
minister and so they may be looked upon and the expectation may be like
that, but it’s a positional thing. “If a man of God is married, it
doesn’t automatically mean that the wife of a man of God is therefore a
woman of God. That’s not the way it is in the Bible. That’s why you
don’t really find the wives of men of God mentioned in the Bible. How
many of them? Who was Peter’s wife, did you ever know her name? You
never find that out. Who was John’s wife? Did you ever read the name?
What about all the other Apostles? How many of their names are written
in the Bible. You never find their names.”
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