Every opportunity you have to serve, help or assist someone or a group of people, do it with delightsomeness and the Higher Power will reward you adequately.
Bishop David O. Oyedepo is a renowned president of the Living Faith Church Worldwide whose message on Faith has resonated and revolutionised our generation. The prolific writer and veracious preacher came to global stage when the 50,000 seat capacity Church auditorium was dubbed as the largest church auditorium in the world by the Guinness Book of Record. So many rating media have rated him as the richest preacher in the world.
Oyedepo had humble and modest early years with tribute to his grandmother who taught him character, Christian virtues and values. It is not startling that the global preacher-who allayed fear during the Nigerian dreaded 2015 presidential election by his prophecy that “there shall be no blood shed”, a divine prognosis that came to pass unexpectedly against the backdrop of war drums prior to the election-is so successful. History has it that while young Oyedepo was on a teaching assignment to a village in Kwara State, he discovered there was no built Church in the village which from his meagre allowance he wholesomely achieved to the capacity of his ability at that time and remarkably, the elders of the village presented to him a lantern (lamp) on his send forth with a prayer that “…let the light that you brought to our village shine to the world”.
With genuineness of heart in service to humanity and passion to do God’s work did the young Oyedepo served the people of the village but today, the light is shining to the whole world even with his private jet, the Bishop can carry the Gospel to the uttermost part of the earth. There is actually perhaps no nation of free Christian entry that the Church is not represented all across the globe. He is a scrappy to success figure to have started a ministry from the scratch without pulling crowd from an existing ministry and has grown same to a global phenomenon with an extraordinary display of spiritual intelligence, innovation and cognitive skills.
Again, every opportunity you have to serve, help or assist someone or a group of people, do it with delightsomeness and the Higher Power will reward you adequately. It is not a surprise that Bishop David O. Oyedepo is an educationist with Covenant University which he founded now playing a leading role in African educational renaissance; he has long been disposed to philanthropic effort, giving scholarships to indigent students of which the Author was a beneficiary of the act of kindness during his undergraduate days at the Ahmadu Bell University, Zaria. This confirms the truth of the scripture that when you give, it shall be given back unto you, full measure, pressed down, shaking together and running over shall people give to you. Oyedepo gave scholarship and gained educational institutions in return
The most interesting part of this man of God perhaps can be found in his two sons that are also Pastors in the ministry, they are fire brands freshly plucked out of the furnace of divinity, the duo have their father’s passion reincarnated in them. When you listen to them speak, you will see the evidence that indeed, Bishop David Oyedepo is blessed.