sir richard

Africa

[dele osunmakinde @deleosunmakinde]

Dear minister,
Avoid this at all cost!.
Recently, I attended a conference with two speakers. The first preacher mounted the pulpit and began to teach on new creation realities. He spoke passionately about what it truly means to be a new man in Christ—devoid of ancestral curses, patterns, and bloodline issues.

He unveiled the finished work of Christ with Scripture upon Scripture, reasoning from the Word with accuracy and power. He showed how believers are seated with Christ in heavenly places, far above principalities and powers and how the blood of Jesus has once and for all purged us from dead works.

The atmosphere was charged—the church was loud, excited, and roaring with thunderous “Amens!” from both sides. You could hear “Preach it!” “Glory!” “Word!” It was a holy eruption. Christ was magnified, victory was declared, and identity was restored.

Then came the second preacher. He started by narrating stories—his own experiences and those of others—of battling ancestral bondages and how it took him nearly ten years of ministry to “break” his generational curses.

He spoke of how he has helped ministers and believers for fifteen years to “deal with bloodline issues,” insisting that many preachers trivialise the realities of ancestral powers. He argued that even after salvation, believers must still “break” legal claims, destroy family altars, and silence ancestral voices.

And then, like a script playing out before my eyes, the same congregation that had been shouting “Victory!” “Freedom!” “Hallelujah!” just one hour before, rushed to the altar when he made a call for deliverance.

In what seemed like a scene from a film, about 80% of those who had just celebrated their liberty came out to be delivered from what Christ already destroyed. In one hour, they moved from blessed to cursed, from redeemed to bound, from victory to victimhood.

After the service, I quietly pulled the host pastor aside and asked, “Why would you invite two preachers who hold completely different and contradictory doctrinal positions?”
He smiled and replied, “To balance the message.”

And I said to him firmly, “This is not balance—this is bondage and confusion.”

Because on the following three scriptural premises, such a situation becomes spiritually dangerous and doctrinally misleading:

1. The Gospel is not yea and nay—it is yea and Amen.
“For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.” — 2 Corinthians 1:20
The Gospel is not double-tongued; it does not speak both victory and defeat, blessing and curse, redemption and bondage. It is consistent, complete, and absolute in Christ. You cannot declare “It is finished” (John 19:30) and then turn around to say “something still needs to be broken.” That is not balance—it is contradiction. Christ doesn’t share His glory with rituals, altars, or ancestral theories. When you mix both, you blur the truth.

2. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.” — James 1:6–7

A double-minded church cannot receive from God. When believers are fed contradictory teachings—victory in one breath, bondage in the next—they become spiritually unstable. They begin to question the sufficiency of Christ’s work, oscillating between faith and fear, liberty and legalism, the finished work and unfinished struggles.

3. To be neither hot nor cold is to be spewed out.
“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would rather you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.” — Revelation 3:15–16

When churches try to “balance” freedom with fear, and redemption with rituals, they end up lukewarm—spiritually diluted and powerless.

This lukewarmness is not harmless; it is rejected by Christ Himself.

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@Sammens This would never happen under the leadership of Nkrumah or Rawlings! Everything rises and falls on leadership!

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@GhanaBlackstars @alex_djiku Give an appreciation post for Osibo. That was a valiant and audacious performance for a debut!

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Osibo! @GhanaBlackstars

[🇬🇭 Mensa Otabil @MensaOtabil]

Dear Bishop @drmikeokonkwo ,

On this momentous occasion of your 80th birthday, I join countless others in celebrating a life so richly lived and so powerfully dedicated to the service of Christ and His Kingdom. Your unwavering faith, pastoral heart, and exemplary leadership over the decades have not only built TREM into a beacon of light but have also inspired generations across Africa and beyond.

May this new season be crowned with renewed strength, abundant joy, and multiplied fruitfulness. May the Lord continue to keep you, enlarge your influence, and grant you peace all your days.

On behalf of my family and the International Central Gospel Church, I celebrate you today,
Happy 80th Birthday!

With deep respect and warmest regards,
Mensa Otabil

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@AfricaFactsZone Leadership 👌🏽

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@Joy997FM The second paragraph seems to cast a slur on the honourable minister. Whoever penned this statement has done @DStv_Ghana more harm than good!

[🇬🇭 Mensa Otabil @MensaOtabil]

I’m excited to announce the release of my new book, Prophets, Prophecy and the Prophetic Gift.

It will be available for the first time at the Greater Works Conference. In this book, we explore the work of the Holy Spirit within the church, with particular emphasis on the prophetic phenomenon among Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians.

See you at Greater Works.

#GW2025
#NewBookRelease

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@BBCWorld A virtuoso! A doyen of highlife music and a colossus! A man who used his didactic songs to transmit African ‘native wisdom’ to his audience; transcending the frontiers of Ghana to the world.Ankwanoma,Theresa,makoma ho tofe, mpempem,sika,odamani bewo ama y’awhe na dampan…

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@tv3_ghana My time at UG, this guy owned a telecom outlet between the central cafeteria and SRC building.

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@CAFwomen Crisp and sublime weather for the beautiful game👌🏽

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@AfricaFactsZone Shehu Shagari 😀

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@DavidOyedepoJnr Amen

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@MensaOtabil @icgcworldwide @ICGCChrist @MatAshimolowo @TudorBismark @drmikeokonkwo Adefarasin🔥🔥