🤫 Confess⛪ Church Gist
The Day My Pastor Prophesied Over My Life, I Knew He Was Lying. I Said Amen Anyway.
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Cunning Fox from Ibadan
15 days ago
I was 29, back in 2021, and I had just relocated to Abeokuta for a job that was paying me 85,000 naira a month. Rent was 35,000. I had a mother in Ibadan with high blood pressure and a younger brother in 200 level. So when a colleague invited me to a branch of a popular Pentecostal church in Ibara, I went. Not for God initially. For networking. That is the truth. The pastor was in his late 40s, always in sharp suits, always talking about seed faith. He had this way of looking at you during service like he could see your account balance. I joined the workers department because a brother told me that was where the serious people were. That was how I started seeing things. One Tuesday, during workers meeting, he called out a woman and said God told him her shop was going to be burgled that week. She cried, gave a special offering of 50,000 naira for protection. The following Sunday, he prophesied again, this time about a man's son failing WAEC. The man gave 30,000. I was the one counting the money that night. I saw the list. The pastor's wife wrote it. What broke me was when he prophesied over me. He said I had a spirit of stagnation and needed to give 21,000 naira for a three-day deliverance. I had exactly 22,000 in my account. I gave it. I was so scared of stagnation. The following week, my salary was delayed by two weeks. I ate garri and groundnut for days. The pastor drove a new Lexus. I left that church in 2022. Not because I stopped believing in God, but because I could not keep pretending. I still pray. But I learned something: when a man claims to speak for God, check if his lifestyle matches the God he claims to serve. And if a prophecy always comes with a price tag, it is not prophecy. It is business. God does not charge consultation fee.
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