EBOLA VS GOD

Good day 2014bloggers! Welcome to my blog. This is my first post on my blog, but I promise that this and the subsequent ones would be very interesting and fun inclined.

The bible said in the book of Psalms 50:15, "And call upon me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me." This is God’s word directly from his son David, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

This brings us to the main talk of the day. Some months back, the federal government and officials of the Lagos State ministry of health visited the General Overseer of the Synagogue church of all nations (SCOAN), Prophet T.B. Joshua seeking his cooperation in ensuring that Ebola victims are not brought into his church for healing, since he is reputed for his claims of divine healings of all kinds of diseases, spiritual problems and also set many free from all forms of setbacks.

Firstly, I am not a fan of SCOAN and the prophet at all, I have always doubted the authenticity of his ''miracles, signs and wonders''. Whenever someone is praising or saying something tremendous about him publicly, I certainly object because of my doubts; though everybody is entitled to his or her opinion or belief. I was discussing with an élite on church matters when I noticed a sticker of T.B.J’s church in his house and I asked if he is a fan of his and he said "no, but he believes that God is using him to bring about restoration and he is doing the work well." The bible said in the book of Mark 9:40 that "For he that is not against us is for us."

What is my point exactly? I want us to get these two prior points:

-  ‘ E get how person go preach with God’s name, and if e dey use jazz God go catch am.’ Remember when the apostles came to Jesus Christ to report a man that was casting out demons in Christ name and Christ said that "For he who is not against us is for us." we have heard many accusations that T.B.J is not doing a genuine work of God, but as far as he has not been caught or spiritually exposed, they are still mere accusations. We should know that only the spirit of God searcheth the deep and secret things, so we should not castigate him and his works. Remember, I don’t attend his church neither am I his fan, but we should all know that the spirit is one, and we should also know that "na only devil dey know devil o." We are fond of criticizing pastors, but how many of us pray for the religious, priests, clergies, pastors…guess your answer is I did but it was last year. We should try not to judge, so that we won’t be judged. What we say affects what happens around us because life and death lies in the tongue. The tongue contains millions of volts, watts, hertz that can lead us to sin, so we should mind how we use it, because even the bible warns against condemning a prophet.

-  While I was discussing with my brothers in the office concerning this present pandemonium, one of them had a flashback to the 80’s to reminisce about a wonderful, God fearing, spirit filled American evangelist, in person of John G. Lake; I don’t know how many of us that have an insight, either deep or shallow about him, but as I said earlier, he is a renowned man of God that came to Africa for a prayer session and at that time there was a similar disease like Ebola, and a patient who happened to be present there that day had the disease, and John G. Lake called out the person with the disease and told the person to spit on his hand because the disease was contagious. When he spat on his hand; the virus died immediately, as in at once. The power of God is immeasurable and unimaginable, God used John G. Lake to do wonders and everybody was filled with awe. If it was any of our Nigerian pastors who did same, some of us would say‘na lie, na jazz’and all sorts of unworthy things. I feel witchcraft has blinded us in different ways that we cannot clearly differentiate between God’s power and that of the devil.

Now, in one way or the other the government is quite right because thinking about this issue critically, it's a two way thing, the government gave the pastor this instruction to curtail the spread of the virus, but I feel they should have done it in a more discreet way.

Like I mentioned earlier, everybody is entitled to his or her opinion, so feel free and air your views…