QUIT BEING A FOOL

By Akin Ojumu

There you are a permanent fixture at the so-called Holy Ghost Conventions. As far back as you can remember, there’s no Shiloh Encounter that you’ve missed. In the past two decades, you can’t count the number of miracle crusades you’ve attended. There’s no week that goes by that you don’t find yourself in one prayer conference or anointing service or special program or the other.

When they asked people to bring combs to the Holy Ghost Convention for the special anointing prayer that would turn the combs into talisman of good wishes, you cheerfully brought a box full. Since then, you’ve been combing your hair every day, multiple times a day. Even now that you no longer have a single strand of hair left on your head, you still continue to comb your bald head with the magic comb anyway.

Do you remember the time when people were told to come with handkerchiefs to the miracle crusade? You joyfully arrived at the campground 4 days before with bundles of white handkerchiefs. As soon as the gates were opened, you zealously rushed forward to find a sit up in the front row. The amen gushed out of your lungs as the man of God decreed and declared over the handkerchiefs imbuing them with magical powers.

You were also there at the conference where the General Overseer, with his anointed touch, turned more than seventy chairs into miracle furniture. Without the slightest hesitation, you eagerly joined the throng as people rushed forward to touch the anointed chairs in order for them to receive their miracle. When you finally reached the front, not only did you touch the chair, but you also proceeded to sit on it and kneel down before it. You fervently prayed that the anointed chair would turn all your misfortunes into chars.

Time will fail me to mention the countless other prayer meetings and anointing sessions. Power hour, magic moments, supernatural encounters, divine visitations, special manifestations, spiritual breakthroughs, on and on and on and on, you’ve attended them all. You can even fill up a deep well with all the gallons of anointing oil and the jerry cans of holy water you’ve brought back from all these meetings.

Now, the reason you frequent these “spiritual” houses is because you sincerely believe the people who run them are powerful men of God gifted with special anointing that can turn your situation around. Like the woman with the issue of blood, you tell yourself, if only you can touch the helm of the garment of the man of God, all your troubles will go away.

Well, here’s the question I have for you. 

How’s that going for you? I mean, really?

Has your situation changed, yet?

Have your misfortunes turned into chars?

Is the sickness and disease gone? 

That your child with the infirmity, has he been cured?

How about your mother or father or husband or wife on the death bed? Did they survive and live? 

Your troubled marriage. Has it been saved? Did your husband stop being a lazy, womanizing, abusive drunk? Did your wife stop being a pain in the…you know what?

Have you turned into a multi-millionaire already, and we didn’t know? 

Did you win the bid for the contract or get the job?

You were promised a miracle alert on your phone. Did you receive it?

It was U.S. President George W. Bush who once said:

“Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can’t get fooled again...”

How long will you remain a fool?

When will you stop allowing your face to be covered by the charlatan’s wool?

Do you enjoy being taken for a ride by religious goons?

Why do you even think there’s hope in any of these buffoons?

At what point will you stop consuming the general overseers’ poison?

When will you realize that the false apostles have no special unction?

Aren’t you tired of the false prophets’ and their false prophecies of good fortune?

Can’t you see that these impostors will only bring you misery and misfortune?

Why don’t you understand that there’s no special powers in the magic combs?

How come you don’t know there’s nothing magical in the magic wands?

Don’t you know that adversities cannot be wiped away with magic handkerchiefs?

When will you realize that miracles don’t happen because you seat on magic chairs?

2 PETER 1:16

“For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”

Cleverly devised myths are just that, myths. The general overseer who tells you he has some power to change your situation is a huckster selling you a bill of goods. Those false prophets and blind seers you consult for your troubles are nothing but empty vessels whose condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

2 PETER 1:19

“And we have the prophetic Word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.”

Wake up from your spiritual slumber. Remove the blinders of ignorance. Be a workman that needeth not to blush with embarrassment. Give yourself to studying the Bible, which is the Word of God, the prophetic Word made more sure.