The Senior Pastor and General Overseer of Holy Ghost Christian Centre, Pastor Amos Fenwa, has recounted how a 7-minute encounter with the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God greatly impacted his ministry and facilitated the acquisition of a property he described as far above his church’s capacity.
He shared the story in a message shared on his Facebook Page on Sunday, September 21
According to Fenwa, who remarried recently after the demise of his first wife, the property in question could only have been acquired by grace.
He said it was grace that made it happen after he met Pastor Adeboye for just about 7 minutes.
Pastor Kunle Ajayi’s timely visit
Recounting how he met Pastor Adeboye, he said, “I will never forget my encounter with Papa E. A. Adeboye. When we were buying the property we are in today, there was no way we could have bought that property. Some things are bigger than you, but grace can make it happen. When they showed us the property, we were negotiating, and they were “calling” money. I just heard in my spirit, you see, you can’t buy this property. RCCG has used this place, and they have left. Go and locate the head of RCCG to pray for you.”
He said that the instruction left him confused because he believed it would be difficult to get Pastor Adeboye to pray for him.
According to him, he had to pray overnight and asked the Lord to make the meeting between him and Pastor Adeboye happen. “I did not know how it was going to happen. But while I was in service that Sunday morning, Kunle Ajayi, that man who plays trumpet, just came to our church to see one lady who worked in the American Embassy then. And the lady was in my office.”
It was while in Pastor Fenwa’s office that the lady got a call from Pastor Ajayi, who wanted to see her. Rather than allow Pastor Ajayi to have straight access to the lady, Pastor Fenwa had to come in quickly to first present his request to Pastor Ajayi before allowing the lady to see Pastor Ajayi.
“I told Pastor Ajayi, God told me I needed to see Baba (Pastor Adeboye). I don’t know how it is going to happen. And if you don’t make it happen, you won’t see this lady today.”
Pastor Ajayi responded, assuring him that he would facilitate the meeting. “That was how I met Baba,” Fenwa said.
The meeting with Pastor Adeboye
But the drama did not end there. He had to see Pastor Leke Adeboye, son of Pastor Adeboye, who is his Personal Assistant, before seeing Pastor Adeboye
He recalled, “When I got to Leke, he just opened a small door for me and showed me about 300 people waiting to see Pastor Adeboye. And he said to me, Pastor, I am giving you number one because of who you are. You have just seven minutes. In seven minutes, say everything you want to say and get out of here. And he stood close to where we were. I said, give me some privacy, he said, which privacy?”
Without hesitation, Pastor Fenwa said he knelt and told Pastor Adeboye, “There is a property that we are interested in, and we don’t have the power to get it. But God told me to come and see you. Baba just raised his hands and said, My father and my God, you that gave me this camp, give it to him in the name of Jesus.. He said it is done. I was still looking at him. but was happy. I went back home and was in the sitting room, and they were cooking for me in the kitchen, and suddenly I saw myself in a dream.”
The dream and final acquisition
In the dream, Fenwa said he saw himself in Aso Rock. It was during the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari. “In the dream. Buhari said to me, Pastor Amos, you came to me concerning the property. I said yes, yes. And he said I have told the Minister of Works to assign it to you. And he said yes, yes, they have assigned it to you already.”
The dream kept him muttering to himself, “I said, Buhari, Aso Rock, how does it connect?”
While not giving further details on how the property, which the church currently occupies, was finally acquired, he said, “And today we are in the property”.
Fenwa, however, emphasised that it was grace at work, saying, Ïf you are struggling to have something, you will have it through grace.”