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Prophet T.B Joshua, Prof Mills remembered
In life, every one aspires to live long, serve his Maker and to enjoy the beautiful things that make life pleasant, joyful and or agreeable.
One of the very popular and versatile politicians in Ghana, in his days of serious advocation to confront the political leaders of the time on human right abuses, furiously declared one day, in the Nigeria English jargon: at a mammoth rally: “All die be die” to pursue his political ambition to ensuring that democracy gets upper hand, over dictatorship in Ghana.
The “All die be die” statement implies that death comes to humans in different ways such as either by peaceful or accidental means.
People may die in terrible vehicle or plane crash, shipwreck, in sleep, meditation or in several other ways as one would think of.
In the 1960s and 1970s, at the Somanya Presbyterian Experimental School, there was a particular marching song of the school which the pupils were enthused about. It rans as follows; “Oh, I often sit and ponder, when the sun is sinking low; where so ever the future leads me, only my Father in heaven knows; shall I be among the living; shall I be among the dead ones, where so ever the future leads me, Saviour keep my heart with thee!!
Ideally, it is the expectation of every human to live long enough to enjoy life to the fullest. But the school children’s song as mentioned above tells it all that our lives are determined by the Almighty Heavenly Father. who says; His ways and thoughts are different from ours.
Without trying to hurt Ghanaians in an old scar, about the death of the former President of Ghana, late President John Evans Atta Mills, suffice it to say that b oth Prophet T.B. Joshua and President Atta Mills were spiritual bed fellows. On Sunday, 11th January, 2009. President Atta Mills was at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Lagos, Nigeria, to express appreciation to God after winning the 2008 Presidential Election in Ghana.
President Mills interacted with Journalists for celebrating his birth day on Saturday, 21st July 2012 and told them his miracle was soon to come for surprise of Ghanaians and perhaps the world at large.
Lo! and behold!! on Tuesday, 24th July, 2012 afternoon: not very long when his sister who had visited him and found nothing wrong with him, was only to hear on her way back to Cape Coast, the bad news of her brother’s sudden death. It was certainly a black and most terrible day for Ghanaians and the world at large.
Prophet T.B Joshua preached the Gospel at SCOAN in Lagos, on Friday, 4th June, 2021 and then asked the teeming congregation that since he was not sure he would be able to celebrate his birth day anniversary which was to be held in 12 days time, being 17th June, 2021, whoever intended to present him with any kind of gift, should send it to orphanage homes or needy people in their places of residence.
On Saturday, 5th June, 2021, the whole world was put into a state of grief and trauma as bad news spread like wild bush fire of Prophet T.B Joshua having died peacefully whilst sitting in a chair in a state of meditation.
Prophet T.B Joshua had his call to the Gospel in his youth days. After his fifth form secondary school education, he was on his way one day for an interview or examination to enable him further his education in the sixth form: Around 9. 00am whilst on the road the vehicle he boarded had a problem after a long wait for repairing of the vehicle, time for the examination had elapsed and his mission became abortive.
Since then God used him as his vessel for propagation of the Gospel and used him to set people free from demonic attacks and healing people of terrible diseases or afflictions.
Prophet T.B. Joshua travelled far and wide globally to preach the Gospel and rescued millions of people of various religious groups from their spiritual and physical afflictions, Prophet T.B. Joshua was loved by millions of people globally.
Hear Prophet T.B. Joshua preaching: “The more you read the Bible, the more you understand yourself and about God. If you do not understand anything, ask God and live by God’s way. God will give you directions.”
Here is Prophet T.B. Joshua’s gospel song which inspires his followers. “God’s intervention, God’s intervention, God’s intervention needed in our homes, God’s intervention, God’s intervention needed everywhere in the world.” Etc.
Some years ago, Prophet T.B. Joshua was interviewed on one of the television stations in Ghana. He was confronted by his host with this question. It is alleged that you use human sacrifice secretly to perform your miracles Answer provided by him was that: “Even when tiny insects as mosquitoes stand on my body, I do not kill them but brush them aside because they also deserve to live and so how can I go to the extent of killing fellow human beings or even animals as sacrifices to the Almighty God. The allegation is never true.”
President Atta Mills and Prophet T.B. Joshua you were vessels for the Heavenly Father and you lived and inspired Christians for God. May the Good Lord continue to give you eternal peace ful rest till we all meet again on the Resurrection Day, Fare thee well.
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Concerned Citizens
J. K. Tetteh – Kpodjie
Rebecca Nakotey (Miss)
C/O Ebenezer Presby Church,
P. O. Box 10, Somanya. E/R.
PHONE: 0557672086 / 0244566806
One of the issues we have been grappling with as a nation is corruption, and it has had such a devastating effect on our national development. I have been convinced that until morality becomes the foundation upon which our governance system is built, we can never go forward as a nation.
Our traditional practices, which have shaped our cultural beliefs, have always espoused values that have kept us along the straight and the narrow and have preserved our societies since ancient times.
These are values that frown on negative habits like stealing, cheating, greediness, selfishness, etc. Our grandparents have told us stories of societies where stealing was regarded as so shameful that offenders, when caught, have on a number of instances committed suicide.
In fact, my mother told me of a story where a man who was living in the same village as her mother (my grandmother), after having been caught stealing a neighbour’s cockerel, out of shame committed suicide on a mango tree. Those were the days that shameful acts were an abomination.
Tegare worship, a traditional spiritual worship during which the spirit possesses the Tegare Priest and begins to reveal secrets, was one of the means by which the society upheld African values in the days of my grandmother and the early childhood days of my mother.
Those were the days when the fear of being killed by Tegare prevented people from engaging in anti-social vices. These days, people sleeping with other people’s wives are not uncommon.
These wrongful behaviour was not countenanced at all by Tegare. One was likely going to lose his life on days that Tegare operates, and so unhealthy habits like coveting your neighbour’s wife was a taboo.
Stealing of other people’s farm produce, for instance, could mean certain death or incapacitation of the whole or part of the body in the full glare of everybody. People realised that there were consequences for wrongdoing, and this went a long way to motivate the society to adhere to right values.
Imagine a President being sworn into office and whoever administers the oath says, “Please say this after me: I, Mr. …., do solemnly swear by God, the spirits of my ancestors and the spirits ruling in Ghana, that should I engage in corrupt acts, may I and my family become crippled, may madness become entrenched in my family, may incurable sicknesses and diseases be my portion and that of my family, both immediate and extended.”
Can you imagine a situation where a few weeks afterwards the President goes to engage in corrupt acts and we hear of his sudden demise or incapacitation and confessing that he engaged in corrupt acts before passing or before the incapacitation—and the effect it will have on his successor? I believe we have to critically examine this option to curb corruption.
My grandmother gave me an eyewitness account of one such encounter where a woman died instantly after the Tegare Priest had revealed a wrong attitude she had displayed during the performance on one of the days scheduled for Tegare spirit manifestation.
According to her story, the Priest, after he had been possessed by the spirit, declared that for what the woman had done, he would not forgive her and that he would kill. Instantly, according to my grandmother, the lady fell down suddenly and she died—just like what happened to Ananias and his wife Sapphira in Acts Chapter 5.
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