The Bible quotation is often used by pastors.
The only
way to know the mind of a white man is to interact with them. Therefore,
working with them is an opportunity to know their minds, and the more I speak
with them, the more I get information about what they think about Africa.
Europeans
who have visited Africa always speak well about Africans, amidst all the
hardships and challenges they face daily, but those who haven’t stepped into the
continent and don’t even have plans to visit Africa have negative perceptions
towards the continent.
Many think
Africans are lazy people, and if you ask them the reason, this is what they say:
"Africans have a lot of resources but can’t do anything significant with
them. The corrupt leaders always depend on foreign leaders for their daily
bread. Africans are religious; therefore, they are always expecting miracles
from heaven."
“Cast
thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days, and bring
one-tenth of your income into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my
house. Test me in this way,” says the Lord of Armies. “See if I won’t open the
windows of heaven for you and flood you with blessings.”
These are
some of the Biblical quotations that have inspired and generated a chain of
fake pastors, churches, prophets, and bishops, deceiving the people continually
around the world. They are the master keys that open the heart of the poor and
hungry congregation to give everything they have to the pastors.
Has God’s house become a den of thieves, criminals, cheats, adulterers, fornicators, and
lairs in Ghana? Ghana is known to be one of the most peaceful and God-loving
countries in West Africa, with several mosques and churches, but now it
seems everyone is a pastor in the country.
The sudden rapid increase of mushroom churches throughout the nation demands if the church truly cares about the poor, the afflicted, and those with diverse
problems, or is just an institution of a profit-oriented business.
In my recent visit to Ghana, there was no place I freely passed, without seeing an
advert or post boards of pastors, bishops, and prophets, which reminded me of
one of the prophecies of Jesus Christ: “Take heed that no man deceive
you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive
many.” Matthew 24:4-5, King James Version.
Among a multitude of pastors in Ghana is one called ‘Bishop’ Daniel Obinim, who claims
to have powers to heal and heads a church known as ‘International God’s Way Church.
Ghanaians are very intelligent people, yet I couldn’t find the reason many
people have lost their intelligence to follow someone called Daniel Obinim.
I saw on
the television this man who claims to be a pastor healing an impotent man by
holding his penis and stomping a pregnant woman’s belly, during church service,
talking of her wife’s vagina, and engaging in other deceitful acts.
What has
happened to Ghana, this great nation? On the television, I couldn’t believe my
eyes. Obinim tells the congregation that he has powers to visit people in their
dreams, when the great redeemer or messiah, Jesus Christ, who the storm obeys
his voice, didn’t even visit any of his followers, whether dead or alive, in
their dreams.
It’s a fact
that some people are using God’s name to steal, confuse, cheat, and sleep with
members of the church. Is Obinim one of them? Are Bishop and Prophet now titles
that everyone claims serving God can confer on themselves?
The need to
ask this question is necessary because the prophets and bishops in Ghana are
now too numerous to count when the Bible gives reference to a few people as major
and minor prophets.
Jesus
Christ suffered all kinds of persecution but never insulted or cursed anyone.
He was oppressed and afflicted, and like a lamb, he was led to the slaughter,
without opening his mouth, yet Obinim, who claims his powers were given to him
by Jesus, on national television, insults and uses profane words on anyone who challenges his claims, including the former head of state, John Jerry Rawlings.
How can
Ghanaians take such a person seriously to generate such multitudes of followers?
Something is wrong in Ghana.
Ghanaian
pastors now drive the most expensive cars. In one church service, collecting
money can take place more than five times, with each having a definition of its
purpose or what it serves. The longest church service in Europe is two hours, but in Ghana, there are churches that service last longer than six hours and
some eight hours.
With this
in mind of the white man says Africans are lazy because they sit in the
church for eight hours and work for two hours. Before the end of the church
service, the pastors have taken all the money of the congregation who act by
faith, yet they don’t have enough to eat.
Pastors are
now competing with corrupt African politicians by driving the most expensive
and luxurious cars while the blind-faith congregation is struggling to make
ends meet. They cast their bread but gained nothing, since many expect miracles
from God instead of working hard.
Surprisingly,
most of these corrupt churches have hundreds of members; therefore, who do I
blame, the church or the followers? The church is so deeply corrupt that those who
give a high amount of money are given high seats, and the lowest share the back
seat.
Jesus fed
the five thousand hungry people, but our modern-day pastors take from the poor
congregation. Until the second coming of Jesus Christ, fake pastors and
prophets like vampires will continue to suck the blood of the sufferers.
