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TB JOSHUA; REMEMBERING EXIT OF A WORLD CHANGER

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1 year ago

June 3, 2023

BY DARE ADEJUMO

The month of June is a significant month in the annal of Synagogue Church Of All Nations SCOAN. It is the birth and passing of its founder, Prophet TB Joshua that great world changer.

Its fifth day makes the second year of his glorious exit from earth and on the twelfth, the great man of God who cherished marking his birthdays would have been 60 years old.

Nations across the world would have been agog for an extraordinary Prophet of God whose footprints of wonderful deeds touching the lives of millions across the globe remain in the sand of time. TB Joshua came to revitalize the face of christianity and made the physiognomy of practical christian living as given by Jesus Christ already in abeyance real to mankind once again.
There’s no hide and seek in his life.

He was love personified. The humbliest human being I have ever come across. Firm and stern, even in his moment of severity, you would still find love encapsulated. You cannot offend him. He’s extra sensitive with propulsively radiating wisdom, unfathomable knowledge of life, charming and a paragon of magnetically illuminating character.

He was completely acidic to vanity, envy, jealousy. human comparison, imitation, vulgarity and wonton desires. He described them as one of those “foolish things” not to be entertained for a moment in one’s life.

TB Joshua was a divinely self made man. Here was a man with little elementary education. Yet with your degrees, prodigy of erudition and western exposures, you would be humbled by the self discovery of your personal hollowness or quasi emptiness when you sit to discuss or share a view with TB Joshua, a shying rustic village man.

TB Joshua was an attestation of God’s Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent and greatness that lies in simplicity.

I personally witnessed several cases of some other so-called men of God who out of ignorance and envy were once persecuting him but after receiving the touch of God in different dimensions including mere touching of EMMANUEL TV while praying came to weep before God for forgiveness.

Joshua would only say to them: ” I didn’t fire one single arrow back from all your arrows against me; otherwise you won’t be here today to talk. One thing we should always know is this: I did not choose myself to do God’s work. He in His wisdom just chose me and I know He is with me. God would never give anybody this kind of power He gave me if the person would use it for selfish purposes or against his perceived enemies. No!”

TB Joshua was a puzzle, an enigma. He was the light shining in darkness that many couldn’t comprehend. He looked too simple and ordinary having not been commissioned by the earthly papacy or religious authorities of the day and for him to be performing miracles of diverse kinds like breathing. This was clearly indescribable, incomprehensible, a mystery and shocker to the spiritual ignoramuses and empty flamboyant oratorical, motivational preachers with big congregations.

That great English thinker and philosopher John Locke once said: “New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common”.

In God’s adamantine and inscrutable will, TB Joshua came to the scene when the acts of Christianity seen in Jesus Christ and His early desciples and apostles as captured in the Bible were gradually becoming moonlight tales to this generation. Religious leaders had already metamorphosed to careerism and polarised with pervasive unhealthy cacophonous standards. It was obvious that these religious leaders no longer knew what they were doing then even till today in several quarters without any tangible impacts in the life atrophied worshippers!

That was the turning point.
There was no way TB Joshua could have had it easier. He faced satanic conspiracies and persecution galore, but the man remained focused with unmitigated perseverance, vision and mission of his divine assignments which he tenaciously upheld victoriously till the last.
He took his persecution joyfully and that vonspiracy against him at home launched to the outside world in God’s agenda and design for his mission on earth.

Hear him:
“I began discovering the good life when I was only 15 years. My objectives and motives were determined at once. I wanted what God wanted and I wanted it for the reason God wanted it”. That’s prophet TB Joshua for you. Till the end he carried his childhood with him. With malice to no one but love, charity and firmness to all in God’s righteousness.

To him love is pure. Take good care of your heart because that is your communicating point with God and must ever remain pure to know and flow with Him. You can never love God if you don’t love your neighbours and your neighbours include your perceived enemies, those not in the same faith with you, the poor and those in needs who you must give love unconditionally.

This Godly character often made TB Joshua be misrepresented by low spiritual human beings whenever they saw him attend to other people who were not Christian’s just as his Master, Jesus was accused of dining with Republicans and sinners which made the religious authorities persecuted Him.

The truth of humanity as once put by that foremost existentialist Italian philosopher Soren Kierkegaard is that history would always repeat itself because man would never learn from history. Many never discovered Joshua not until he had departed! What a painful loss.

You can never find TB Joshua criticizing or talking about other men of God. He moved on quietly on his own even though he lamented the pervasive discrimination and disunity in christendom.

Several people from other churches who received healings and miracles in his church, Synagogue Church Of All Nations SCOAN wanted to come and do thanksgiving in his church but Joshua would not allow them. “Go back to you church and do your Thanksgiving and give your offering there. We are the same. God had already answered your prayers there before you came here” for you to see how selfless he was in all his dealings.

TB Joshua was more interested in the quality of your Christian life and character. He would ask you: ‘Do you hear from God? Do you listen to Him? Does He speak with you? Do you know how much you need Him? Do you have a relationship with Him? The God’s General believed that your highest achievement on earth was to hear from God.

To TB Joshua, Christianity is not a religion but a relationship with God. If you don’t have that relationship with Him you have missed it and you are worshipping in vain. “How can you be worshipping God you don’t know?” He would spiritually jerked up his congregants to move away from spiritual docility, complacency and indolence.

TB Joshua was never an academic preacher. He spoke words of life that transformed lives of ardent and fervent seekers of God and salvation.

I remember a woman nurse I once encountered where she had come to treat a patient as she stood looking at EMMANUEL TV. On enquiries whether she knew of the television station, she said that she used to attend SCOAN. “I was a nurse and member of the church’s medical team. Then the church was not rich, just managing to survive.

it was what happened during the man of God’s birthday that made me stop going and besides I had relocated to a farther distance. We all on our own contributed money to give TB Joshua as a present. When we got there to present it, the man just asked us to put all the money in one sack. He asked us to choose some people among us to take the whole money to the disabled people’s home at Oko Baba.

He instructed that one of us should just dip his or her hand in the sack and be distributing the money to them one by one with whatever the hand could gather at once like that to the less privileged living there and nothing should be left in the sack. I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked that the man could take everything there like that not minding that the church itself was very poor”. This woman completely missed the beauty of life and essence of humanity the prophet symbolized.

HB Joshua believed your giving is only meaningful when you give what you cherished most. He would never give in half measures.

He was extraordinarily generous and at home in humility with all categories of people as a friend however commonised other people may look at them. Every human being is unique and important to TB Joshua and must be treated with dignity.

TB Joshua was never a burden to anyone but carried all human burdens that crossed his paths. He was the only man of God holding crusade abroad without asking for any donations or collecting offering from worshippers.

He would rather go there with loads of charity works for people and the country.

There was a time in Cameroon when the airwave was jammed with announcements that TB Joshua would be coming to hold a crusade in Yaounde asking for people to donate money.

This was a scam because the scammers were capitalizing on Joshua’s popularity and the perceived pressure of the country’s request for his crusade program in Cameroon.

TB Joshua in holy anger countered the announcements saying: ” That cannot be my TB Joshua of Synagogue Church Of All Nations SCOAN. I have no plan to go to Cameroon. God has not directed me to go there.

Have you ever seen my pictures or envelopes asking for donation of money from anyone or anywhere? Please disregard this announcement. When God gives you an assignment He would also send to you what you would need through His chosen vessels”.

This is a symbolic message for you to differentiate the chalk from the cheese in the religiously distorted world. He never allowed himself for a moment to be carried away by anything.

The lofty principles and legacies of TB Joshua remain enduring and a high watershed in Christendom. The joy today is that SCOAN is in the capable hand of a down-to-earth and visionary successor, Pastor Evelyn Joshua, a woman who had gone through the spiritual mills and rigorous discipline of TB Joshua the spiritual mentor extraordinaire who strongly believed that life’s biggest decision is what you do with Jesus.

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EVELYN JOSHUA ROUSES APOSTOLIC AGE REVIVAL IN ARGENTINA

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October 14, 2024

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EVELYN JOSHUA ROUSES APOSTOLIC AGE REVIVAL IN ARGENTINA

BY DARE ADEJUMO

The face of apostolic revival is changing in Argentina. A new wind of change, blowing across the entire Latin America’s with the CRUSADE of Pastor Evelyn Joshua of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations SCOAN just held at PORTAL DEL CIELO in Resistencia, CHACO in Argentina
Portal Del Cielo (door of heaven) as the name of the venue implies became symbolic for the new birth in which over 80’000 predominantly white people that attended the two-day power-packed revival were held spell bond!

Obviously there must have been some intuitive awakening in the people. Twenty four hours before the event, scores of people were already arriving at the premises, spending the night under the outside canopy not minding the 19 degree centigrade of the cold weather gripping the jugular of the land as they couldn’t access the venue till the day of the event.

The expectation is palpably high. The crowd was unimaginable. The venue was filled to the brim.

The surrounding open fields, of about five acres of land, apart from the inside bowl suddenly became an emergency additional overflow for a myriad of people who could neither find a place to sit nor stand inside the main bowl.

Pastor Evelyn Joshua had earlier in her message told the audience about God’s good mission of love for mankind and the wind of change that was about to blow in the country. Touched by the enthusiasm of the crowd who were ardently seeking the face of God, Pastor Joshua assured them that God would never disappoint anyone who genuinely put his or trust in Him.
“A time for God is a time for renewal.

The glorious hour for the turn around in your challenges has come. Get ready for God’s shower of blessings upon your lives and the land”. Pastor Evelyn Joshua stated.

Quoting profusely from the books of Hebrew, Romans, John, Mark and Psalms, the woman of God enjoined the people to yield their hearts to the words of God and make His words the standard for their lives. “You must maintain a close relationship with God and you must be of unconditional love and active faith to flow in God’s will without which you cannot achieve anything from God” she further stated, adding that “without a genuine love, God can never entrust anyone with His power”.

As expected the crusade was a dream fulfilled for the people who were yearning for deliverance, healing, blessings and salvation. In a reminiscence of the penticost, the venue was turned upside down with the rainfall of deliverance for the souls under the demonic grip of Satan, just as healings were taking place simultaneously from several people who were there with various afflictions, diseases including mental cases, paralysis, those in crutches and all forms of challenges whether marital, drug addiction, sexual pervasion, suicidal spirits among others. Several people were violently rolling on the floor, uncountable demonized people were manifesting just as many others were vomiting all evil things in their stomachs with tumultuous and cacophonic noises! Some were energetically hissing or mewing; barking or yelling with all orgies of hubble-bubbles, hullabaloos with ferociously terrifying countenances!

It was really a tough time for SCOAN’S ushers who were almost overwhelmed by the crowd of satanic victims arrested by the Holy Spirit.

Several people from the neighbouring countries such as Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, among others were visibly present.

Hear pastor Willy Gancia with three other pastors from Brazil: “we are happy to witness this move of God here in the hand of Pastor Evelyn Joshua. We thank God for the grace upon her life.

We all knew Prophet TBJOSHUA as a true man of God for we witnessed and had direct experience with him while on earth. Our joy is full. This is a new beginning for the land of Argentina. Thank God that we are partaker of the blessings in this crusade”.

To Fredi Marcel Bianchi from Uruguay: “’we are plenty here from our country to partake of the blessings in this crusade. We know that God is with this ministry of TBJOSHUA and you can see that enormous grace upon Pastor Evelyn Joshua. We in Uruguay don’t want to be passed by. The presence of God here is real; for we can see the moves of the Holy Spirit”.

Monica Yopice, a leader from Chile: “we are quite familiar with this ministry and we know all the devices of Satan against it. We are grateful to God that His holy name has continued to be glorified in SCOAN. Blessed are they that have their eyes clearly open to see God’s presence with the ministry. We are here for the blessings because in every occasion such as this, the blessings of God upon the people cannot be underestimated. We are grateful to God for being here”.

Argentines were particularly happy for the crusade experience as such had never occurred in their land. It was like a national festival as people came from all nooks and crannies for the crusade. Christians and none christians in their thousands were in the crusade. Residents of Resistencia were particularly elated for hosting the crusade which has brought a lot of transformation to the lives of the people.

Guillermo Alejandra a prominent community leader: “This is a great event in our life here. What we could see happening practically was beyond explanation. I am happy to witness the crusade. It’s a blessing for the Argentines”.

A medical practitioner, Dr Elisa Mbango from Angola living in BuenosAires: “I flew down here to partake in this crusade. It’s that directed me to come. God is with Evelyn Joshua. I know coming to attend is a blessing for me”.

A?Pastor Juan Juorez: has this to say: “God is awesome. I am happy this is happening in our land. I thank God for showing us this great mercy. What a great blessing to our land especially at this time.

The Argentine Republic is a country in South America with an area of 2’780’400km. Second largest country in South America after Brazil; the 4th largest in America and the 8th in the world Argentina has its own unsalutory enormous shares in the economic and social problems confronting the world today.

Many dignitaries from all walks of life attended the crusade including Carmel Britto, President of the CHACO Province Chamber of Deputies, Jorge Gomez, a government minister, Roy Nikishch, Mayor of Resistencia, Gracias Pedro Luis, Director or Worship and Affairs, Fernando Tometo, Commissioner of Police, Veronica Liliana Mazzaroly, Minister of Tourism, Lt Col Santiago Villagra, Pablo Mujica, Secretary of Human Development, Javier Pinero, Director of Worship Affairs in Resistencia, Pastors Robert Acosta, Susan Perez, Jorge Ledesma and Alicia Ladesma among several others.

A predominantly Christian country but where the apostolic fire has been in abeyance, Pastor Evelyn Joshua has rekindled hope and lightened the fire of Christian revival not only in Argentina but the entire Latin America’s to the people’s delight. It’s the dawn of a new Christian era.

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LIKE A METEOR, EVELYN JOSHUA CRUSADE LIGHTENS LATIN AMERICA.

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3 weeks ago

October 3, 2024

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BY DARE ADEJUMO

People of Latin America are eagerly waiting with intense interest, excitement and high expectations for Pastor Evelyn Joshua Crusade of Synagogue Church Of All Nations SCOAN scheduled to hold on 11th and 12th of this month at the city of Resistencia in Chaco province of Argentina.

The Argentines are particularly elated for hosting the crusade. The palpability of this could be seen in the fire of their enthusiasm to lend a supporting hand in every way possible for the success of the event.

From the neighbouring countries of Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Dominican, Peru, Granada and Uruguay for instance, people are daily besieging the emergency center at CENTRO CRISTIANO DE AVIVAMIENTO in droves for registration just as large numbers of others from the 48 nations within the Argentine Republic are not left behind in the race for salvation and deliverance.

Alejandro Paz, a teacher, Culture expert and environmentalist, looking at the throng of large predominantly white people at the center said: “I am not surprised to see the massive response to the Crusade because many have now come to realize the spiritual angles to many human problems” .

Besides, he added “the ministry of TBJOSHUA cannot not be joked with here because we all knew the late man of God whose positive impacts in the world and among many of our people as a true man of God remain indelible and we have also seen the continued grace from God radiating from Pastor Evelyn Joshua the now SCOAN leader”.

To Dr. Ceser Joepuin Prieto, a consultant Ganeacologist, “The Argentine Republic is now in the process of restoration. Our President wants to please God and do away with everything that’s antithetical and offensive to God. We Argentines are all set in this regard for a better future of our country and so you can see the congeniality of this crusade for the betterment of our country at this moment”.

It is obviously a time of good harvest for hospitality industries in Argentina.
Our findings show the spring of a better business era for the hotels that are now being overbooked. Some of the hotels are: Howard Johnson, Amerian Casino Gala, Atrium, Diamante, Gran, Marconi, Amudoch Colon, Victorios, Angeluz, Alvear, Boutique Del Pomar, Huerto Ciudad de Fontana, Estancia San Alfonso and Quinta El Descanso among others are all having a high time of guests upsurge as a result of the Crusade.

Mr. Raul Marquez from Mexico is left behind speaking on behalf of Mexicans: “We have high expectations coming for this crusade. People are hungry to receive anointing from Mommy Evelyn Joshua. Only the demented or satanic agents would not see the glory of God in the TBJOSHUA Ministry and the enduring God’s grace in Mommy Evelyn Joshua “.

Santiango Gobel Flugnen from Brazil: “You haven’t seen anything yet from the large numbers of people who I know are coming from Brazil. TBJOSHUA Ministry we all know and cherished; and with the grace we have continued to witness in Evelyn Joshua remains a reference point in true Christendom and God’s love for mankind to be closer and serve in spirit and truth. We in Brazil are praying to have this crusade in our country because we know it’s a blessing “.

Though more of Catholicism than pentecostal genre, residents of Chaco are all united to be part of the Crusade.
Dlfredo Luiz Alcaraz of Mensajero De Sion speaking on behalf of the Christian community in Argentina:

“We the Argentines have been longing to have this crusade ever before the passing of TBJOSHUA. We thank God to have it now because this is God’s time for our land. We are grateful to God for the blessings and turn around that would happen in the lives of Argentines by this crusade”.

Pastor Robert Acosta is a prominent Christian leader in Argentina.
“I believe in God’s agenda and in His time everything is perfect. The man of God before his passing had spoken of this crusade in Argentina. We have been seeing miracles and healing breakthroughs, Holy Spirit and the crusade has not started yet. It’s like you are smelling the wet ground because the big rain is coming”.

Pastor Acosta who described TBJOSHUA in his encounter as an inspiration, model of love, wise counsellor and mentor, pastor and father who God used to lead him right in many decisions and the grace of God upon his life through his guidance is in high spirit of what God is going to do during the crusade and blessings that would follow the crusade.

He specifically emphasized “spiritual open doors by the Holy Spirit that God would use Pastor Evelyn TBJOSHUA to accomplish and leave behind in the land of Argentina”.

Maria Sol, a public servant and secretary to a Government Minister: “we are all excited in Argentina for the crusade. The government will ensure adequate security for the people during a two-day event”.

To hold a crusade by SCOAN in a far away country at this time is not an easy task especially for a Ministry such as SCOAN which doesn’t collect any offerings or money for any support in any country where it’s holding a crusade. Rather SCOAN would go there to bless the land with landmark charity programs across the frontiers of challenges facing the people.

No group of any kind in such a place is ever allowed to raise fund for any kind of support for the crusade. This has been the foundational principle of SCOAN which Pastor Evelyn Joshua would never compromise.

She doesn’t want evangelism to be used as a cover of any kind for materialism or personal advantage ‘if we are following the steps of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and the uncompromising stand of his servant TBJOSHUA, the extension of the grace we are under ” said Evelyn Joshua.

Speaking further on the crusade , Pastor Evelyn Joshua described the train of Crusade to Argentina as “a journey of love” “It’s God’s command for this crusade to hold in Argentina and we have to move in God’s love and pleasure. It’s beyond our control because it’s a God’s project”.

PORTAL DEL CIELO (Door of the heaven) as the name implies in English, the place for the crusade at Resistencia is said to be the largest place of people’s gathering in the entire Latin America.