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No doubt the
service laced with lots of melodious musical festivity, was not only a
celebration of number of years, but it was actually first, spiritually
edifying, the blind saw, the deaf heard and the dumb spoke at the instance of
the man of God, Oracle 1, Prophet (Bishop) Anene Nwachukwu, a man anointed for
signs and wonders, a man who believes that a church must be known for deliverance,
healing, and miracle.
Coming from
a family of priests, Prophet Anene is such a grateful man of God who obviously owes
all his successes to God and the foundation laid for the family by his late
father, the patriarch, Bishop Arthur Nwachukwu whose Rhema Church located in
Onitsha, Anambra State, was the springboard on which his children rose to
limelight.
Members of
the church all dressed in gorgeous attires in sync with the mood of the day,
while the band thoroughly electrified the auditorium with songs that melt the
soul, catapults it to that realm where it is now one with God, and God is ready
to bless it with healings, deliverances and miracles. All that attended the
anniversary testified of God’s faithfulness to the church and its members over
the past 23 years. More than 40 cows, uncountable bags of rice, among others came
to the church as article of thanksgiving. However; all the things brought to
the church for thanksgiving would definitely be given out to the poor in
keeping with the philanthropic mantra of the church. The widows, the less-privileged,
the abjectly poor, the employed, are among the categories that would benefit
from these gestures.
Flashing his
mind back to the early part of the church; the bold but humble Oracle of God
while interacting with the media said his ministry has helped to decongest the
kingdom of darkness. “Well I am very grateful to God who has brought us thus
far to where we are today. To the glory of God our ministry in Lagos turned 23
and at 23 we can boast that God has used us to decongest hell, meeting people at
the point of their needs, salvation to sinners, fruitfulness to the barren and marriage
for the unmarried, babies have been dedicated, and God has been so faithful to
us.”
High point of the event was the cutting of the anniversary cake.
Seeing
toddlers who were dedicated in the church now grown up and are being joined in
marriage by him, he said that he felt fulfilled, adding that a healthy church
is where you see the parents and children worshipping together. “I feel excited,
many of the people who came to this church as toddlers are married here, they
have their children here and their parents are still here. You know a healthy
church is where you see father, mother, children, that is what you have here.
There are some churches you go to, you see only youths, and all those youths
are ye men, ye men. But here you see father, mother, children, worshipping
here, to the glory of God. We have not gotten to where we are going, but we are
no longer where we used to be.”
Anene also
spoke on what makes his church different from other churches, saying they are
maturing every day. “Our ministration is something that I see with my very eyes
changing day by day. The way I preached yesterday is no longer the way I preach
today. We are getting mature in the lord. The bible says that those that do
know their God shall be strong and they will do exploits. We keep on knowing
him every day and we are changing of our ways and the way we have been doing
things.”
He added
that the secret of his success is being faithful to the calling and the
prophecies. “The secret is relying on his prophecies and being faithful to your
calling.”
Other
achievements by the Rhema Church in over its 23 years of existence include
seeing barren women conceive, and his church members succeed. “Number one, so
many barren women in the church have conceived, and they have been able to
perform because of our prayers. We have dedicated triplet here in the church.
One of our members who was a General Manager in the Sun Newspapers dedicated
triplet, three boys as I prophesied. We still have another woman for 24 years,
no child, she is going to deliver by next month; she has the scanned result. We
have people who came as nobody here, like the chairman of my men’s fellowship, Dr
Keneth Obasi, he came here as a Corper, serving. After service he wanted to
relocate to the east and I told him God said you should not go back to the
east, you should be in Lagos, I see you as a millionaire in the next four years,
and today he is a millionaire, importing Pharmaceutical products; a doctor,
doing perfectly well.
“Today some
of them came with two cows, some came with three. You saw somebody that came
with five cows. These are the people; we have over 40 cows here as a result of
result. We thank God. You see, when you give a cow good grass and it eats well,
it will excrete out manures for your cultivations. The cow you did not feed
well would not give you manure.
Bishop Anene
also spoke on critical national issues including the issue of N160 million
worth of SUV for each National Assembly member and other expenditure rascality
being witnessed under the administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. “Nigerian
politicians always think about the next election, but great leaders think about
the next generation. We don’t have leaders in this country, what we have are
politicians. Politicians are greedy, they are self-centered, they are wicked
and they are jealous. Unlike the country we are borrowing from on daily basis, we
are here living like kings, having big SUVs, when they are supposed to be
living like people owing people. So these are things that are not normal. But
we are praying that God will sanitize our nation. It is not right to buy the
SUVs.
The media
also sought his position on the opinion expressed by people that the country is
in a state of judicial, economic and political confusion. “Well in our country
today, you can see that inflation is high, but we believe God that, no matter
what, God will still do something. Nigeria is a country where people do things
anyhow and get away with it, we believe God that things will surely change for
good. Our country will rise again and our people shall be great again.
On issue of Nigerians
migrating to other climes in the name of ‘japa’, he said “You see the economy
is not good, things are not well, so anyone that sees a way for greener pastures,
can move. When you look, here there is lawlessness, there is impunity, and some
people cannot continue to fathom what is going on, so they have to find their
way. I don’t blame those that chose to run away from Nigeria, but me, we shall
be here and salvage it together.
Prophet Anene
Nwachukwu cautioned and also advised Nigerians to ignore the role played by the
electoral body in the 2023 elections and its aftermath in the court, to
continue to exercise their franchise in elections in Nigeria. “They say that
the judiciary is the last hope of the common man, but today you will agree with
me that the judiciary is the lost hope of the common man. Our judiciary needs
to be reformed, and when you look at the judgements in our courts today, you would
see that some of them are miscarriage of justice. Look at Kano incident, if
NNPP got one million votes in the governorship election, a landslide and you go
to the court to nullify it, what does it show? So it means that it is a
miscarriage of justice. The Governor of Kano State currently is under NNPP, and
that state is being governed by Kwankwaso, spiritually and physically he is the
one in charge of that place, but if you look at the current situation in that
state, you would see that the court is trying to truncate democracy. Some of
them who voted and they see the judgement going to the opposition, are not
happy, that is the truth. So I encourage people, no matter the frustration brought
about by INEC, people should not be discouraged from going out to vote.
He advised
his members to be steadfast “Let me start by saying that I want to thank God
for my father, Bishop Arthur Nwachukwu, who led solid foundation that we are
enjoying today. Our father is a living saint, everything that we are doing
emanated from him. So I want to encourage my members to always look up to
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Whatever that we are doing here is
for the glory of God, and anyone that is part of us must see that we put God
first in anything we do.
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