Some church leaders ordain those whom God has not ordained
By NICHOLAS OHWO
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

"Politics is a game of lies and as such heavenly-minded men of God waiting for the manifestation of the son of God should keep themselves from politicking in its entirety." This was the candid opinion of a preacher, Bishop Fidelis Okoye of the Church Worldwide Inc. in an interview in Lagos.

According to the man of God, available statistics show that 95 per cent of the players of politics are people who have nothing to do with God, who believe in lies so much as weapon to achieve their goals. He said in such an environment, where truth is often sacrificed for lies, a Christian worth his onion cannot operate successfully.

My childhood days
I am from Anambra State. God picked me up as a little boy at the age of 17 in a city called Zokwa in Kaduna State. There, the Lord met me and I started a Christian life. I followed the Lord until I went into a full-time ministry according to the call of God in the year 1998.

My calling
Like every other Christian worker, I was following the Lord and there were lots of prophetic revelations to some brethren that I have the call of God upon my life, which I knew anyway. But I wouldn’t want to rush into it because I was looking at it that if the Lord has a call for me, He has to call me the way I would understand.

And on a certain day in a programme, I discovered that the Lord was speaking to me in a very powerful revelation, that His ministry is upon me and that the time for it has not actually come. It was then I discovered that what some men of God saw and were talking about, I discovered it personally that I was standing ministering to people. Then came a call from heaven that this thing that the Lord has deposited in me, I should wait for it and at the fullness of time I would know. After that encounter, I was just serving the Lord, then on a certain day, a letter was given to me from the administration of the church to go and pastor Agboju Centre of the Church Worldwide Inc. in 1998, having led Mile 12 Centre Prayer Warriors for many years. Thereafter, I was transferred to Okokomaiko Centre before I was ordained a bishop in 2005.

Human ordination
Actually, human ordination does not mean anything special. This is because in the book of John Chapter 15: 16, the Lord says you have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you. In the days of Jeremiah, He said before you were conceived in your mother’s womb, I knew you and ordained you a prophet unto the nations. That is to say that man has already been alive in the spirit before he manifests here on earth physically. Human ordination maybe is just to confirm what God has already planted in a man before he was even born. But sometime also, people ordain somebody whom God has not actually ordained because of our human limitation. Human ordination therefore is never a ticket to ministry.

Head tying and trousers
The Bible goes with the culture of the people. Just as St. Paul said when we get to Rome, we behave like the Romans. You cannot import the culture of other people into another country because they already have their culture. It is not proper by mere looking even in African culture to see a woman wearing trousers. Such a woman is seen ordinarily as a wayward woman before the people. In such circumstance, that person cannot be able to give out the gospel the way it ought to be because people will not take you serious. So, I will say that on a proper arrangement of God’s word, a woman in the Christendom today has to dress in a way that God also will be glorified.

On the issue of tying head, I want to say that at the blast of the trumpet, you may not see anybody that ties head as we fly to heaven because we shall completely be changed. But in African culture and custom, when a woman dresses up, she has to tie her head. But that does not mean that, that tying of head is the glory God is talking about. It is a way of seeing an African woman as a responsible woman who is properly dressed.

Men of God in politics
Politics is just like a game of lies. We have seen in the time past, promises that were never fulfilled by politicians. I have also discovered that it may not be easy for somebody that is a Christian to play the game because 95 per cent of players are people who have nothing to do with God. The reason is this, there are lots of lies and killings even when you succeed and you get into the office, it may be very difficult for such a person to operate. This is because the system does not allow righteousness to thrive.