Founder of Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has kicked against the government’s decision to continue the ban against religious gatherings due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
However, speaking during the Covenant Hour of Prayer programme of the Church held at it’s headquarters in Otta, Ogun state today May 6, the clergyman said he suspects foul play and that ‘the voice of darkness is targeting the church because the growth and expansion of the church is the greatest headache of the devil. ‘
“There is something wrong, for people to be allowed to be in the market for six hours and cannot be in church for two hours, it is an upside-down way for looking at things.“I can smell a rat. The Lord spoke to me on it strongly on it yesterday. I can smell a rat behind all this. It is how do we stop the church from exploding.
This man 🤦♂️.... Not to worry sir, business would soon return to normal 👊🏽.
OYEDEKPO, The Lord Jesus Christ Of Nazareth We Serve Is An Omni-potent And Omni-presence God, And Does Not Live In A Temple, Therefore Your Canaan Land Church Building Is A Project Of Anti-Christ, And Must Be LOCKDOWN
It should not be so
This one dey fight for hin business
Alert no dey like before again 😂
Church will maintain social distancing but market can not... Argue with ur head🙄⛪
Market men & women are making brisk business and making money, why not Commercial Churches they too are in business na?
This man should stop saying nonsense. How many Covid19 palliatives has he given.
Churches, Mosques, Event Centres, Schools etc are still Lockdown. Let's stop been sentimental. Thank you.
He has a point.
God is everywhere but food is in d market😷 Worship God at home.God don't live in churches🤗🤗 People can actually worship from home. But market is essential and you can't do anything about that...or is he missing tithe and offering money😂😂😂😂
Will opening of churches put food on Nigerians table? May God have mercy
What is wrong with that?
Make We no go market to buy food but to come to church and pay offering abi . I hear
But it's a shame that none of the so called religious leaders could go and perform their so called miracles at any of the isolation centre's.
Lagos State and the NCDC publish daily lists of those that our hard working medics have nursed back to health. Kindly have Bishop Oyedepo share his list of those he has healed of Coronavirus.
Oyedepo is a moron someone that wants to argue with virus.....
Its so surprising that these god of men are already feeling d pinch of the lockdown of churches. Oga bishop, we don't need ur sermon to survive, even if we don't go to church for 100yrs. But we need d essentials (food, drugs etc) to survive. pastorslovefreemoney
What of all such places that aren’t open? Schools, etc. Churches are nothing but mere buildings for celebrations/fellowship & business to collect money. If any has any spiritual message or homily to pass, let it be done online. The real temple of God is one’s heart.
PST oyedepo one thing man don't know is that u can deceived fellow man like you.but not God. My question to oyedepo is that where exactly is been stated in the bible that it only church u can worship
The man has missed tge collection of tithes!
They’re Missing tithes and offerings, welfare and church building donations and all manner of pledges and offerings
Ur lordship this is beyond what u think, don't compare d WORD OF GOD with biz n material things. Ppls lives is stake, n is obvious dat millions hv died, govt opened markets so dat ppl can out look 4 what 2 eat
Other counties the winners operates,were the churches open ?
Both places na business venture, y close one, open one
Enu ti gbe😂😂
So we shouldn't eat Again Pastor
The first two people that commented under that article are gonna scam a lot of uniformed people. Tragic
He is crying out loud, because his own market is still under lockdown.
Food first before prayers Man of God.
It's unfair to Open one market and closed other Markets
I can understand some women go to church just because of their pastors/daddy 🚶♂️🚶♂️
Is it not from going to market that their members pay the so called offerings and other unwanted church dues. It's high time we open our inner eyes and see that these men in pastor suits are exploiting us. Abeg reason am.
The time is near when only the church will be the center of hope and everybody Will be running to it. I pray it will not be too late for us then.
Hhhmm they want to be selling anointing sanitizers and spiritual facemasks with the church logo on it. awon weere !
Churches should pay tax then?
He is very subjective and I can understand why.
UK winners branches are closed too
Don't worry sir. Church service will remain online.
How people find anything godly in this criminals beats all known logic. It shows how totally ignorant Nigerians are and the level of hypocrisy in the society. NO ONE NEED A CHURCH OR PASTOR TO SEE GOD BUT A CLEAN HEART AND GOOD DEEDS. To the sensible, coronavirus has revealed
Your bishop Sir,we the members day gbadun ur online stuff Baba,coming to church back hmmm Baba abeg just pray make this corona go first ...
Is he selling spiritual food? Pray for us while we are at home, please. God is everywhere.
What.... How did we get here...
Yhurell GO has to make the monthly payments on the Jets to the bank.
God resides in all of us, his residency is not exclusive to religious leaders alone. Humanity comes 1st before sentiments, ppl are starving while some are struggling to breathe, economies are crashing! Preach online, we will watch! Afterall we wrestle not with flesh & blood
Will should not eat again? Nonsense
evening BishopOyedepo shld understand 1stly that both churches n mosques are affected by d lockdown . 2ndly services can b conducted via zoom n other internet platforms . like Evgdagreat ll say GiveYourSelfBrain
This Covid-19 shall pass! Until then, I look forward to when clerics (Christian/Muslim) would stop advocating and comparing Markets/Food with Church/Mosque... A lot of matter to address at this time, they should join the masses to hold our leaders accountable. Its discouraging!
Baba GO is talking of his own market. The church is not paying tax the economy will not be affected by its lockdown. The churches should be on lockdown till January 2021
Thank God for D likes of Bishop Oyedepo, Pst Chris, Prophet TB Joshua, Apostle Suleiman who are vocal about this. D assembly/gathering of Gods People is very important, D devil enjoys it when churches r locked, why stand with d Devil when you know abt Divine life
Enugbe! When tithes are not forthcoming; what do you expect?
Instead of speaking out that its because of the weekly contributions that is not coming in someone people are claiming a sinister plot. So do u want church to be open and market closed?. Beside if I am not mistaken all mosques are closed too.
The stupidity and idiotic arrogance of this man knows no bounds
All these god of men won't allow us rest in this country, them swear for una nii
Abiiii,so people should not eat and come to church,all this men seff....
All man de protect him business
To be sincere, I am in support of the man of God, my experience in the market today, make me to ask the same question, why closing the worship centres and opened markets?
Pastors aren’t cashing out again o😭 Sinzu shey Na only you won dey cash out this year?😢😂
This man called bishopoyedepo love money like Judas
Thief, see his head like Sobo bottle.
God is every were baba l can serve my God at home with my family , most of this pastor are not after our soul but tithe and offering. Pls be wise.
We can't worship on an empty stomach sir...
It's well Bishop had series of points... Seconded
This post just exposed the devil's success on Nigerian youths mindset. Bishop oyedepo is concern about antireligious activities but all they see is money. Any child of perdition that detest scriptural injunction is at liberty to follow his own way.
All in the name of thithe and offering.
Visit the isolation center for miracle and deliverance sir.
He should open his UK branch first
Brother need Ego oooooo?
God bless u sir
Vatican closed down a whole Easter celebrations, Saudi Arabia shut down..ds one is coming out to talk. Even Israel that God made direct covenant with shut down religious activities. Who brought Christianity to us have all shut down. Month end tithe dropped, he’s pained.
To be candid there’s no difference between the Church and Market because both are commercial centers 😂
Mr scammer markets are more useful and important than churches. It just pains all you pastors that you don't have full opportunities to continue to lie to and extort your gullible congregation
The Bishop is right, businesses deserved equal right. All 4 One...
All same na scam
Why the noise of opening market and closing church is being loud by some of this new generation church, even during the life of Jesus, did he assemble people together in a church before preach to people. Markets and church/ mosque are not in the same category.
Lol.. He's speaking with pain.. His office is under lock and key..
My Question to all Christians that have different opinion about what d bishop said... Are you a Christian? What are your convictions? What does the church represent to you? Who do you think the Devil has always been after? Answer all this question. Then we can know wia to help u
Matthew 21:13 says my house will b called a house of prayer, but u hv made it a den of thieves, act 7: 48 says d most high dwelleth nt in temples made wit hands, 1st Corinthians 3:16, says do u nt knw u're God's Temple n dat God's spirit dwells in u. church is nt a market place.
I can see that most of you are fools; if churches are lock for 50 yrs, Bishop David Oyedepo can never be poor because he has a sworn blessings from God. Is the church of God not better than your so called government
Personally, I don't see the reason closing places of worship while markets are open. There's no precaution taken in any of the markets.
It doesn't make sense.
He needs to maintain his fleet of private jets and cash flow is dwindling. He can say any nonsense to achieve that.
These pastors their sense of reasoning is very poor how can you compare market and churches you are not given your followers anything apart from spiritual money shame on us
I go with you sir ...is true I support your motion
It’s different....businesses open but crowds are still discouraged...the whole essence of going to church is to gather in a crowd and stay as a crowd, up close to one another...same reason sporting events aren’t happening now
Oledepo is crying because his market has shrunk. He is probably thinking 'where are my sheep,I need them to feed me?'🤣🤣🤣
Tithe only
Honestly, the desperation is becoming too loud and it's getting to an embarrassing level.What if people decide to now worship God in their houses,pesin go die?I taaayaaa ooo.
Nigerians with our religion extremism.
Hunger is no respecter of any man, people need to stock their houses for survival. Calm down, tithe will come later when the coast is clear.
He can go and open his church of course.
This video says it all..
Markets are important than churches.
Churches are other market for Oyedepo business.
You made a point for the first time
A church with Internet payment platform and POS, is that not a market?
Bishopoyedepo2 I don't blame you. Church na your own market. Congregation nayour customers. Take note.
Its a fact!
Church business
He has schools that are closed all over but that is not his concern but he wants the church to open. If he's sure of healing, what then stops him from going into the isolation centres? The countries that have been able to curtail the pandemic did they rely on church? Or 2ru them.
Your lordship bishop oyedipo, declare & decree coronavirus to die as you have always done,then the contention of locking down churches & opening markets will be a thing of th past.Thank u sir.
Which church how many of your members have you helped during the lockdown
Exactly
They are here again, so people shouldn't buy food or trade, to earn so they can feed their families because the holy spirit hasn't received offering or tithe. Nigeria’s pastors are so heinous and they frown at every lost opportunity to eat deep into the flesh of their followers.
Its beginning of new month..... tithes don tight. Paitor never see alert.
Look at this one.
This man is not serious. So, you can purchase food stuffs in the church? Has your church turn to Mile 12 market because I don't understand you.
Are churches and markets competitor?
Even church na market na