RCCG General Overseer Pastor Enoch Adeboye has revealed that God spoke to him about the fate of terrorism sponsors in Nigeria and promised that the release of the abducted Oyo schoolchildren would be “dramatic,” following criticism that he had remained silent on the kidnapping.
Pastor Enoch Adeboye says the criticism finally got to him — and pushed him into a private conversation with God.
In a sermon delivered at the US-Nigeria Faith Heroes Award Gala organised by the Save Nigeria Group in Washington, D.C., on June 23, the RCCG General Overseer revealed that mounting public pressure over his perceived silence on the abduction of 46 Oyo schoolchildren and staffers drove him to seek direct answers in prayer.
“I was compelled to cry unto God because we have been fasting and praying for a particular group of school children who were captured. The kidnappers felt that the government was not reacting fast enough to give them the money they asked for, and they slaughtered their teacher and showed the video to the rest of the world,” Adeboye said.
The criticism, he explained, was sharp and personal. “Some people then began to speak, challenging those of us who said we had been praying. They said, ‘You are fasting, you are praying, where is your God?'”
That challenge, Adeboye said, sent him into “deep agony” before God. “I said, ‘Father, you have heard them. They said, “Where is our God?”‘ And then God spoke to me. He told me that the release of the children is going to be dramatic.”
He was quick to clarify the limits of the revelation. “He did not tell me the time or the details,” Adeboye said, adding that God “told me to leave that aspect in his hands and said he would talk to me about what would happen after this particular incident.”
According to Peoples Gazette, Adeboye claimed God also revealed the eventual fate awaiting those bankrolling terrorism and kidnapping across Nigeria. “Some of the things he mentioned, he mentioned what would happen to those who have been sponsoring terrorism and kidnapping in Nigeria. He also spoke about several other things. I had no idea what was going to happen here.”
RCCG has since pushed back against criticism of Adeboye’s response to the crisis, stating: “RCCG is not a political party. Pastor Adeboye does not hold political office and was not elected into government.”
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