Just In: Oyedepo Blames Lagos, Ogun for opening markets and keep places of worship shut

The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church International, otherwise known as Winners' Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has said Lagos and Ogun states are contaminated with hostile to chapel infection consequently the decision to open markets and keep places of worship shut. 

The pastor expressed this while conveying a message on Sunday. 

Oyedepo said it had been amusing that while commercial centers stayed open and others not watched social removing or cleanliness, the congregation was being smothered because of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The minister included, "No hand-washing, nothing, most are inside the market running over one another a day of the week and there's no episode from the market, yet there's presently flare-up, saw flare-up from the congregation. Prophets are God's voices to the countries. Alert!

“Now, freedom of worship is no longer a constitutional right, it’s now determined by some individuals. It is a hard thing to kick against the pricks. This is no longer coronavirus, at least in two states – Lagos and Ogun. It is now anti-church virus, clean and clear.”

Oyedepo said within the last one week, 10 people witnessed are healed of the disease.

He argued that the church, which had the facility to heal people, remained closed.

 

According to him, what was happening to the church might be likened to the experience of the youngsters of Israel once they were in Egyptian bondage.

 “Can anybody silence the church? No! I have never heard of anybody that God healed in the market, but people get healed in every church day and night, real, tangible healing. We have recorded 114 coronavirus healing testimonies. We got 10 this week. And that is the place that is vulnerable, not the market,” Oyedepo added.

Lagos, which is that the focal point of the pandemic, has yet to reopen places of worship.

Ogun State, which shares boundaries with Lagos, is home to the most important auditoriums of the many big churches, including the Redeemed Christian Church of God, the Mountain of Fire's Prayer City and thusly the Living Faith Church.