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Any preacher, who believes in deceiving miracle seeking people with fetish or magic practices in the name of God has a case to answer before God," the founder and General Overseer of Foundation of Faith International Ministries, Tedi Town, Lagos, Prophet Dr Ndubuisi Orji has said.

He told Daily Sun in a chat that many fake pastors are capitalizing on the ignorance of the people to milk them and amass to themselves questionable riches.

Background
I am prophet Dr Ndubuisi Orji, the founder and General Overseer of Foundation of Faith International Ministries, Tedi Town in the Ojo area of Lagos. I am from Amaifeke town in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo state.

Why minister of God
I did not ordain myself. I was a businessman for more than 20 years now. It was in 1988 that I saw the hands of God on my side. He started showing and giving me revelation about the ministry. By then, I was a very young man, maybe about 27 years old and I did not understand what God was showing and telling me but later, He made it clear to me. You know, as a businessman, God was calling me but I was running away like Jonah.

But along the line when the calling continued and I realised that it is God's calling and His divine will. I began to give Him conditions that He should look at my plan, dreams and agenda, if He should fulfill this and that. God said to me, "if I obey Him, all those things will be fulfilled by Him." But I continued running until 1993 when God revealed His hand entirely to me. In 1995, all my three shops was closed and five servants with me left. I was alone with my wife until 1998 when God started giving me directions on what to do and where to go. I first of all had my Bible school at School of Ministries Christ Chapel. After that I went to Winners Bible Institute from where I graduated. I was ordained by Bishop Oyedepo and from there, God began to give me direction to have my own ministry. I continued to grow along according to His leading.

The system of God's calling
God's calling varies from one person to another. The way God called Moses is not the way He called Elijah or Paul the Apostle. God spoke to Moses face to face while He talked to others in dreams or revelations. For me, God spoke to me through revelation and dreams. The first revelation I had was where I was hosting a crusade preaching to a crowd of people but I did not understood it. Again, I saw myself praying for a dead man and all of a sudden, the man came back to life and I ran away. I woke up and said, what is happening.

Another one was where I saw myself with Rev. Bill Graham and Catherine Dawood on a missionary tour. I saw myself carrying their bags and all their luggage following them and I woke up. So, from there, I started seeing the hand of God in me. At times, I will tell somebody something, and it will come to pass. People come for healing and received it after I prayed for them while those who are possessed by evil spirits were prayed for and God cast out the evil spirits from them.

God's manifestation
God has shown His love for me and my ministry. By the grace of God, I am not boasting, I have prayed for the dead and they came back to life. God has used me to heal many who were poisoned.

Challenges
There are many challenges. At times, you are deprived of your right as a pastor. When you look at it, you bear it because if you want to fight, people will say, are you not a pastor? You may do good to people and they will speak evil of you. At times people come and after praying for them, you still give them money. Some may remain while others will go. Not all the people you see in the church are there for salvation. Some are there so that when church closes, pastor will give them money and if you give them money always, they will continue, anytime you stop giving them, they will stop coming.

Miracle by magic
There are people that do it but what I want to say in this area is in Matt 7:22-24, which says, "not all that call Lord, Lord, will see heaven. They will say to him, "Lord, I am the one who did this and that in your name, but he will tell them, I don't know you, you workers of iniquity. When people refuse to wait upon God to give them power through fasting and prayers. Anybody, who refuses to fast and pray and seek God in a right way but begin to seek God in a wrong way using fetish things or magic in the name of miracle has a case to answer before God.

That is why God says that judgment will begin in the house of God and if the righteous are scarcely saved, where will the sinners appear. The Bible says belly for meat and meat for the belly but God shall destroy them both. Many are using fake power today to enrich themselves, to ride in good cars and live in good houses, etc. Not every miracle is a genuine one. It happened in the Bible.