{"id":46372,"date":"2014-09-10T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=46372"},"modified":"2014-09-10T14:41:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T14:41:05","slug":"not-all-wives-are-women-of-god-ps-chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/not-all-wives-are-women-of-god-ps-chris\/","title":{"rendered":"Not all wives of pastors are women of God &#8211; Ps Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Founder of Christ Embassy Ministries, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has described as \u201csilly and frivolous\u201d media reports on his marriage crises.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Chris and Rev Anita are currently undergoing divorce proceedings in a UK court.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports suggested that Pastor Chris had been making efforts to avoid divorce with the hope that the wife would eventually have a change of mind, however, Decree nissi was served on the charismatic pastor in his hotel room during a recent visit to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Decree nissi, in legal terms, is like a yellow card in a football match which is a precursor to a red card (\u201cdecree absolute\u201d) if no new evidence is provided to stall proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;om4pE6FOBdw3u6DwSgYC0SjSqviMMofb&#8221;]Responding to the media reports, Pastor Chris noted that &#8220;I heard that some media houses, especially in Nigeria are writing some things against me. All sorts of frivolous charges, that\u2019s crazy. You have to understand something about a man of God. A man of God is not just someone who worships God or preaches God. A man of God is handpicked by God, set on course by God. If you study the scriptures, you will not find one man of God go against God, sinning against God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, &#8220;If a man of God is married, it doesn&#8217;t automatically mean that the wife of a man of God is therefore a woman of God. That\u2019s not the way it is in the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t act like those people. If you are married to a man of God, it doesn\u2019t make you automatically mature. You can make mistakes; you can do something that is wrong. But some people expect the wife of a minister to definitely be at the level of that minister and so they may be looked upon and the expectation may be like that, but it\u2019s a positional thing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Chris told his congregation on Sunday evening during the global communion service of the Church streamed from Canada, that\u00a0&#8220;The only things you might find will be a man of God, maybe in two different kinds of ways. Moses, for example; when he struck the rock twice, [he] was provoked by the anger of the people. [It was] not because he wanted to do something against the Lord. No man of God does something against the Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video below&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PYqAZV8se84\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the full transcript of the discussion he had with selected members of his congregation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you hearing me? A man of God is set on a course; there is a type of life that he is given. Then you have a young man, a young prophet; he wasn\u2019t named; he was deceived by another man of God and so he went in a direction that God said \u2018don\u2019t go\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is the only kind of thing you find about a man of God when he misses the message of God or he acts beyond what God said. But a man of God settles himself in the fight against the world\u2026 like those writing those silly things about me, that I did this and I did that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don\u2019t know who a man of God is. I don\u2019t go in that direction. I wasn\u2019t accused of the things you said, nor did I commit those silly things that you said and I don\u2019t need to go into that level in such discussions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus Christ was accused by many \u2013 a lot of frivolous charges. There will always be those who would like for it to be true. But you know, in spite of the accusations against Jesus, It didn\u2019t change who he was. It didn\u2019t change him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are preachers and there are men of God. I am not a preacher; I am a man of God and I go in the way I\u2019m asked to go. It may cause some troubles with individuals but that\u2019s not because I have done something wrong and when it comes to Reverend Anita, what I will say to you is \u2018pray for her\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t act like those people. If you are married to a man of God, it doesn\u2019t make you automatically mature. You can make mistakes; you can do something that is wrong. But some people expect the wife of a minister to definitely be at the level of that minister and so they may be looked upon and the expectation may be like that, but it\u2019s a positional thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a man of God is married, it doesn\u2019t automatically mean that the wife of a man of God is therefore a woman of God. That\u2019s not the way it is in the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s why you don\u2019t really find the wives of men of God mentioned in the Bible. How many of them? Who was Peter\u2019s wife, did you ever know her name? You never find that out. Who was John\u2019s wife? Did you ever read the name? What about all the other Apostles? How many of their names are written in the Bible. You never find their names.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, one of the female pastors sought to know why the names of wives of the men of God were not found in the Bible. Oyakhilome\u2019s response was that she should ask God whenever she finds him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why? You ask God when you find him. Ask God when you find him,&#8221; he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, they are little things; don\u2019t try to make something big out of them. So when journeying, doing the things that God called us to do, Christians should not have a divorce; it shouldn\u2019t be but you see, that doesn\u2019t mean a Christian may not take the step.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They may do it but [they] have to make things right and we shouldn\u2019t take one another to court. But when it happens, not that we don\u2019t just want to go, it means someone is taking us there. That\u2019s a problem, but be wise and stay focused in the word of God and don\u2019t let those who want to feast on things like this, including Christians\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are Christians who like things like this; they want to make something big out of this: \u2018Yeah, yeah, yeah, we said it\u2019. You said what? Judge nothing before the time. Be wise. Glory to God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we are not working in sin and living in sin and hoping that we can mix sin and righteousness together. We are the manifestation of his righteousness. We walk in that light only, and that\u2019s the way it\u2019s gonna be,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Founder of Christ Embassy Ministries, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has described as \u201csilly and frivolous\u201d media reports on his marriage crises. Pastor Chris and Rev Anita are currently undergoing divorce proceedings in a UK court. 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