BACKSLIDDEN
PASTORS AND THEIR PATRONAGE OF A PORT HARCOURT BASED OCCULT WOMAN
There is disturbing
news within pastoral circles in Abuja concerning some backslidden
colleagues whose recent patronage of a certain Port Harcourt based
occult woman is a source of concern. This woman fabled with the
ability to make people see visions of people's names, phone numbers,
bank details, colors of ladies underwear, and sundry secrets. After
reading my recent article 'new style prophets: visions of phone
numbers and ladies underwear', a pastor who was about to be initiated
into the Port Harcourt Cult of Prophets, out of little fear of God,
sought a second opinion on the issue. This pastor who has a small
church in Abuja believes that the numerical strength of his church is
not commensurate with his efforts and is desperate to try other means
of succeeding in ministry. Therefore, he intended to join the group
loyal to the mystery woman before my meeting with him.
Some pastors have
confirmed to me that actually there is a woman in Port Harcourt who
gives the power to see visions and they mentioned the names of some
colleagues that patronized her. This woman whom they claimed is so
powerful that she can appear and disappear, will firstly demand some
indecent sexual gratification from the prospective pastor as signs of
loyalty, including sucking of certain organs. After the sexual
affairs, she will make some animal cry and administer some other
materials and the eyes of the patrons will open to see the spirit
world and discuss it with some strange beings. She indoctrinates them
that there is nothing like heaven, hell or sin and that God kept lots
of treasures in the water kingdom to help humanity in fashion, music,
movies, politics, finance, health and pastoral work and only those
bound by the oath of loyalty and secrecy are eligible to access the
treasures of the spirit world. They described pastors who are yet to
join as slaves who will soon bow to the children of the illuminated.
Many pastors, both
young and old ones are being lured into this Port Harcourt cult and
within weeks what appears like miracles, prophesy and prosperity
becomes a regular feature in their congregation. Some notable pastors
in Abuja have shamelessly joined the bandwagon while others stuck
to their other sources of powers. One of the recently initiated
pastors mentioned the names of a bishop and a prophet patronized by
top government officials within the presidency among those who
convinced him to visit the woman. Rather than see the entire
operation as demonic, he sees it as business and advised others to
connect before the window closes.
Another pastor who
renounced membership of the cult earlier in the year had to run away
from his base to Abuja when he received constant death threats from
the group. He was advised to subject himself to days of fasting at
one of the deliverance churches in town which he promptly did.
The situation has
become alarming that the aforementioned pastor who was approached for
membership, out of indecision and fear of hellfire, sought my
opinion, and subsequently paid a visit to a recent initiate.
According to the recently initiated pastor, the consultation and oil
fee was initially N100, 000 naira but due to the surging crowd, they
have increased the consultation fee to N200, 000 naira. Then there
are prices for different types of oil. The most popular is called
''seeing oil'' which empowers people to see into other people's
secrets. The next most popular oil is called 'do as I say' which makes
it possible for the congregation to do whatsoever the pastor says
without any compulsion including surrendering all live savings. There
is also oil called 'touch and follow' which they use to hypnotize any
beautiful lady who comes their way into sleeping with them. There is
oil for falling under anointing called 'slaying oil'. There is 'crowd-pulling oil' used to increase membership strength. The payment for
the oil is different from the consultation fee.
This oil must be
serviced and refreshed by constant homosexual, fornication, and
adulterous activities especially shortly before preaching. The second
condition is that the pastor must emphasize on prosperity and
motivational messages above the message of righteousness. The pastors
will also return to give back a part of the proceeds as thanksgiving.
I had weeks earlier
confronted a pastor of a church who recently patronized the woman and
was excited that he now sees into people's future. This man whose
attempt to draw crowds to his church and enter the league of super-rich failed repeatedly despite numerous efforts, got tired of the
situation, and decided to help God. His submission and affinity to
some senior colleagues for the transference of anointing through seed
sowing and impartation equally failed until a bishop introduced him
to this powerful woman in Port Harcourt. This once firebrand pastor
now indulges in homosexuality and adultery and does not feel any
compunction about it.
This issue of
pastors getting powers from occultist kingdom was first experienced
by me as a young pastor in a church seventeen years ago and we
observed strange things which we didn't understand but rejected
because it didn't look spiritually clean. Years later during a
retreat at Scripture Union Camp of Faith Okigwe, I came back to the
hostel around 2am after prayers and overhead a very senior pastor of
a church in Owerri at one corner behind the hostel sobbing and
telling God that ''if you do not give me power now to do the
miraculous, I will go to where others go to get theirs...'' This
pastor, oblivious of my presence, went ahead to mention in his
prayers, the names of pastors colleagues who have gone to get powers
from different places and threatened God to either show up or risk
losing him to the other side''. Later on, I started receiving an eyewitness account of some people who have acquired strange powers,
how they got involved and why they did such.
One of them who
recently joined this Port Harcourt cult, in response to my
disapproval said ''man of God, if hunger has wired you, you wouldn't
be talking like this '' while the other one said that he cannot
continue to tolerate the sight of little pastors making waves while
he continues to be a spectator.
The Pentecostal
Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and Christian Association of Nigeria
(CAN) have not effectively monitored pastoral activities while some
pastors have rejected membership of the body; therefore everybody is
his own master. This overemphasis on prosperity is killing the
churches that now some pastor flock to strange places for spiritual
empowerment in order to belong to the class of super-rich pastors,
accompanied by lots of homosexual bodyguards. The generation that
started the Pentecostal revival in Nigeria immediately after the
Biafra war, gave birth to pastors like Uma Ukpai, Paul Nwachukwu,
Austin Nwodika, Nicholas Ezeh, Williams Kumuyi, Enoch Adeboye, David
Oyedepo, Mike Okonkwo and the late Archbishop Benson Idahosa,
Prophet Gabriel Oduyemi, among others. The current generation is
birthing pastors who flock to bar beach Lagos, Calabar, Kumasi,
Ashanti, Tamale, and some parts of Cameroun to receive powers.
If these Pentecostal
fathers do not hasten to address this evil trend and arrest the
influx of strange powers into the church, within the next five years,
the Nigerian Church will become a branch of the Marine kingdom and
the little fire of the Holy Spirit still remaining will be
extinguished. The history of strange powers infiltrating the church
started from Simon the Magnus (Acts 8 vs 9-24) who repented at the
preaching of Philip but later according to church history as
illustrated by Irenaeus and Justin Martyr became the author of
strange signs in the church. However, the early church rose against
it and temporarily checkmated it.
However, if the
church leaders show the usual indifference attitude to the issue,
non-pastors, church workers and the laity should endeavor to
personally grow their faith in God and be careful of wolves in
sheep's clothing whose purpose is to win souls for the devil.
It is worthy to note
that majority of pastors in Abuja who have been approached for
membership rejected it outright and it is only few misled ones that
appear excited about this Port Harcourt Occult woman. God still
performs miracles in churches and pastors in need of such grace
should wait upon The Lord in prayers instead of seeking the
assistance of unclean spirits. Genuine pastors should shut down
spiritually all these manifestations of strange powers before the
anger of God falls on both the guilty and the innocent with
disastrous consequences.
Addendum:
Addendum:
Backslidden
Pastors who besieged Port Harcourt between 2010 and 2014, sucking the
breast of an occult woman known as Eze Nwanyi is part of the
pollution and dilution of spiritual powers which made some church
leaders turned into errand boys by government officials in the wake
of Covid-19 Pandemics. Among the characters that initiated a lot of
pastors in Abuja before I exposed them in December, 2012, is a
popular prophet based in Port Harcourt who frequents Abuja for
programmes. He was killed by unknown assassins in his Port Harcourt
home three years ago.
The
Abuja chief corroborator, an Archbishop with a big cathedral, called
the local branch of PFN two years ago and confessed that he put his
hands in many occult things and asked the pastor’s forum to help
him. The third person, an Apostle who abandoned a thriving church in
South Africa, and relocated to Abuja, has been abandoned by his wife
and children when she got a hint of the occult side of the husband. The
rest have dwindling churches as rewards for their visits
.
The
gospel ministers should rid themselves of charlatans in their midst,
who in themselves constitute a minority, so that they can regain
their spiritual prominence and direct Nigeria out of successive
clueless leaderships of poverty, insecurity and corruption.
Obinna Akukwe
profetobinna2@tahoo.com
