Bro.
Gbile Akanni’s Heartfelt Letter To The Ministers Of The Gospel (Men Of
God)
Nigerian
Evangelist and leader of Living Seed Evangelical Centre Brother Gbile Akanni bared
his mind on the recent happenings in the church of God in an all inclusive
letter titled “Message To The Ministers Of The Gospel”.
In the
letter, he expressed his displeasure with these days church leaders, their
quest for material things and their lack of the fire of the Holy Spirit which
has rendered the church fruitless and visionless.
He also
warned that if the church fails to wake up from its slumber that sooner or
later the Islam will take over.
Read the letter below
*MESSAGE TO MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL*
*IF WE ARE
DEPENDING ON THIS BABYLONIAN TRANSACTIONS GOING ON ON OUR PULPITS TODAY, IT MEANS THAT BEFORE OUR
EYES , WE WILL LOSE AFRICA TO ISLAM IN OUR TIME...*
In one of the
Assemblies of God churches, in Aba District, where my late dad pastored in the
1980s, I remember when a young man came
very early in the morning and told my father:
"Pastor,
what did I do to you? Why do you hate me so much? I have been born again for
almost 1 year and I have won many people to Christ, but why have you not
recommended me to join others to go for missions work in the northern States of
the country... "
His singlet
was torn... And with his zeal, he was crying profusely...My father did not know
what to say...
The young man
kept crying:" Pastor, why are you doing this to me... Why are you doing
this to me? "
My father
told him: "Nna, I know very well that you want to serve God... But you are
the only son of your mother and your father is late... If anything happens to
you, who will look after your mother and younger ones?...
The boy
started crying the more...
"Pastor,
I am the only son and yet I was an arm robber... I am the only son, yet, I was
attending meetings in the midnight with native doctors, where many of friends
could not wake up alive after diabolically fortifying ourselves against police
bullets... "
"Pastor,
what would have happened to my mother if I had died in one of those armed
robbery attacks? Who would have taken care of her? If I risked my life when I
was serving Satan, why will I not risk it now that I am serving Jesus Christ?
My father was
speechless for almost 30minutes... And it was not long, we saw tears rolling
down his eyes... He held the young man and both of them were crying together...
How can I
forget such scenes that God allowed to play out before my eyes? ... My father
recommended him to join some missionaries that came in the area for missions
work...
The day he
was leaving with them, the mother and his younger ones were crying... Knowing
that they might not see him again, both live or dead... But I can still
remember that excitement on his face... Lord, how can I forget?
Brother, let
us go to our Bible schools and listen to the conversation of those young men
and women who have joined ministry and you will know that many of them have no
single passion for the lost...
They are just
getting ready to rent halls in the city where they will be rolling out posters
and handbills, laying greedy hands on people, collecting offering and tithe... That's
all in their hearts...
Congratulations
for your big auditorium... I am happy for your 10th time services... But if
heaven cannot find such men in your church,...
Young men and
women who will say: "Lets go to that village and tell them that Jesus is
no more in the grave... Even If we don't have to come back alive... Let it be
so..."
If you don't
have such calibre of members among your congregation, then, sir, with due
respect, it's a big shame! .. This end time agenda has no need of you and your
kind!
A Muslim
suicide bomber doesn't need tithe and offering to carry out a bloody
assignment, in defence of his faith ... They
don't need adverts or media stunts..
But here, we
have young men who are in the pulpit, being driven by tithe, offering and
honorarium.... If there is no 5star hotel reservation, they will not honour the
invitation to preach ...And yet, they are General Overseers... Overseeing
passionless men and women who are like them...
Whereas,
their mates in Islam has burnt their school certificates, refused juicy
contracts, abandoned wonderful jobs and everyday they are sleeping in the bush
and starving for months, receiving trainings, how to carry out terrorist
attacks, all in defence of belief...
And we are
here looking for churches where they will use convoy to come and pick us up
from the airport...
And you
wonder why people feel like vomiting when they hear them calling you a voice in
the land...
A voice
because you went to a program and stole committed members from your host church
and you came back and gave them positions in the choir, sowing different
uniforms for them every Sunday...
None of them
can quote any scripture... They have not gone for evangelism for any day, after
many years of following you...
All of them
were members you stole and now you are using juju to keep them from running
away... And they are calling you a voice in the land! ... What a ridicule! What
a noise!
Brother, if
this is the generation that will usher in a move of God in our days, then,
those who have not forgotten what they saw in the church in the 80s and 90s
must not keep quiet in a time like this...
The greatest
hindrance of revival in our time is not Islam... The pulpit in our time is the
greatest enemy of the expected move of God
in our days...
If not for
the decline of truth on the pulpits in our time, long ago, we would have seen
what we saw in the days of our fathers...
And now we
are blaming Muslim fanatics, who are defending with their lives what they
believe in...
When else are
we going to see young men from our churches, after hearing our messages,
getting so angry in the spirit that they make up their minds to convert 10
unbelievers to Christianity every month month?
And the next
place you will see them will be in camps or mountains, preparing, praying for
Power?
But how can
we hear such when the only thing we teach them is about how to be rich and how
to suspect detect enemies?
I am tired of
hearing testimonies of miracle jobs some of our ladies slept with company
directors to get... I am tired of seeing car dedications my brothers used
fraudulent businesses to buy...
When are we
going to start dedicating converted souls on our Sunday mornings? Lord, where
are all the men that saw what we saw in the days of our fathers?
This is not
the time to keep quiet... This is not the time to care about who likes or hates
you... If there is a time to beg for pulpit, soldier, it is not in a time like
this!
No pulpit
hosted John the Baptist... They preached against him... That He was old
fashioned... And that he was envying them who were running 10 times services...
That because
he doesn't get any like or comment on his Facebook wall, that he is jealous of
them that have huge online followership...
That because
he is not anointed and that is why nobody was hosting him in their churches...
But brother,
when his time came and he began to roar from the wilderness, those demonic
General Overseers who were using marine powers to run ministry knew that
indeed, in every generation, God has a breed He is preparing ...
Yes, they
knew that "there was a man sent from God"... Man of God, if you were
sent from God, why are you allowing yourself to be influenced by men who were
'sent from Bible schools' ?
Some of the
men you are competing with in ministry were 'sent from demonic covens in some
parts of Africa' ... If we came from God, let us look more for God... He will
soon show up...
You are
almost getting to the time when members of many 'mega' churches will be secretly and openly coming
to you, to hear this gospel from your mouth... Because they would have gotten
tired of fake testimonies that leaves them powerless and very vulnerable...
Men who have
not bowed to baal are very few in our days... Men who have not sold out their
souls for mammon are rare to find now that we are here...
God depends
on you for this end time work... Why are you bothered because someone somewhere
is calling you names online? ...
Churches are
everywhere around us, yet, there is a spiritual famine in Africa... The power
of the gospel is suffering bankruptcy in our time... This is not the same
gospel the apostles preached...
Something has
happened to the Word of God in our mouths... We are only showing the form of
godliness, but hell has hijacked the power thereof... And in our carnality, we
are celebrating strange Fires...
Polluted
Fire!
Moribund
Fire!
But brother,
I know that God will never leave Africa this way!
If the pulpit
has failed, then,, He will bypass us and go down to the pews... And raise
people for Himself...
If our pews
have become so frozen, He will go outside... He will look for drunkards and
prostitutes.... He will get hold of witches and wizards... And those arm
robbers on the highways, He will Clean them up and fill them up with Himself
and use them mightily in this end time...
Yes, if those
who came out from Bible schools are now using their certificates to raise only
funds, God will bypass them and use those who has not gone to Bible schools...
This is the
most critical time since the world began... Islam is preparing to take over
nations,...
They are
putting funds together which they will
use to buy churches and pay their staff off...
Brother, in
few years from now, if there is no genuine revival, many of our members today
would have become Muslims...
You will see
many pastors who will convert their churches into mosques, for a huge financial
reward... That time is not far...
Has it not
even started? When a pastor is collecting powers to grow his church from a
Muslim native doctor, is that not handing over the Fire to the children of the
bond woman?
The days we
are in is terrible...
God knows and
that is why He is raising an army that will stand to defend the gospel that was
handed over to us, even if they have to lose everything for it...
That young
man came back from the missions field, after a year, and later joined the Bible
school... Became a pastor and God used him to win communities for Jesus... Before
my eyes, I saw God using him to sack evil spirits out from villages...
His name
became a terror in that area, to the point that deities began to complain about
how his presence in the community had rendered them powerless... Halaluya !
Those are the
kind of testimonies we were hearing everyday in the days of our fathers that we
want to be hearing again in our time...
But alas,
here is Ichabod !
Imagine if
every church in every community can boast of 10 of such members! Imagine when
many of our followers would have gotten broken enough, by God, that they don't
mind what they lose again for God's sake...
Terrorists
will no more be bombing our churches.. Because they would have known that
already our churches are filled with people who are ready to die, anytime for
the gospel ... You don't have to waste your bomb on a man who is already dead!
But, why they
will keep threatening to kill us is because they know that we love our cars and
landed properties more than the CHRIST we say that died for us...
Prophet
Mohammed was not killed on the Cross shamefully, yet, they can die for him
publicly... What would have happened if their prophet Mohammed was crucified on
the cross? But where are the men and women who claims that Jesus died for them?
Oh Sister, it
is time to take our Christian life to another level.... It is time to get
'fanatical' about this Kingdom thing...
Enough of the
prayer topics of: "God give me this and do that for me!" This
weekend, take your friends to the next Street and preach the gospel... Next
week, continue with it...
Why are we
ashamed to tell people about the Man that conquered the grave? Why can't we
preach about the man that created the heaven and the earth?...
Mohammed did
not do any single miracle, but his followers are dying for him... He did not
raise anybody from the dead... He died and that was his end... Yet, they can
give everything to spread his belief...
How can we be
ashamed of Jesus that spoke to the storm and their was peace? He opened the
blind eyes... He interrupted funerals and raised the dead back to life... Is He not enough to tell people about?
Did He not do
enough to make you let everybody that knows you know that you are not ashamed
of the gospel?
When will you
be done with hiding from your friends when you want to speak in tongues, so
that they will not laugh at you?
Brother, why
are you ashamed of identifying with the Man who is the hope of the whole world?
As for me, I
am done with religion, till I die.. I cannot
stand Christianity by church sticker alone any more ... Jesus did not
die for you to only be attending choir rehearsals and changing uniforms every
Sunday....
I hope God is
not looking at you from heaven now and regretting why He did not let those
people that died of accident to replace
you since you are useless to Him on earth...
Many in the
hospital now, with few days to live are begging and crying, if God can give
them a little more time, that they will preach this gospel under the rain and
sun... And they mean it...
Brother, you
that is healthy, what will God be saying about you when He sees that they are
begging you to go to church?
The time is
early enough to ask God for mercy and for Him to revive His walk in your life.
.. God is
looking for people that will risk their lives for Him in our time...
Let it not be
that He is preparing someone who is at the point of death in the hospital bed
to come and replace you....
This is
scary... But it is a serious matter! Have you not
played so much with the opportunities God has given you? How much longer do we
have to be in sin for grace to abound? The Holy Spirit is speaking to you
now...
He is
reminding you of your distance from God... Imagine if
you had died in your sins yesterday morning... You would
have gone to hell, and stay there, from now till the next 2billion years... And
yet, that will be just the beginning...
Sister, don't
be locked out of grace further... Don't postpone any longer the hour of your
salvation... Right now,
hearken to the voice of mercy ...
And where you
are sitting is good enough to kneel down and ask God for a revival ... I am very sure that He will clean you up and
give you a new....
Lord, let
there be revival of true soul winning and genuine christian living In Jesus
Mighty Name."
Bro Gbile Akanni
