AROME OSAYI: THE SOLE DISTRIBUTOR OF THE ANOINTING

By Akin Ojumu

I need somebody to help me make sense of this statement by Arome Osayi:

“There is an increase in the anointing on my life… There is an additional portion you need to… The old one you received is still there. But I’m saying that there is an increase. In that increase, you have a portion. So, you have to collect it. There’s an increase. In that increase, you have a portion…”

What exactly would make a professing follower of Jesus Christ speak like this? In what theological universe does a minister of the Gospel even conceive of himself in these terms? Do the followers of Arome Osayi actually hear what he is saying?

I mean, really hear him.

Do the people gathered around him understand the staggering implication of this claim?

Because Arome Osayi is speaking as though he has become an authorized distributor of the anointing of God.

Apparently, there was an earlier consignment.

The man kneeling before him had already received a previous “portion.” That old allocation, we are assured, is still intact. But wonderful news! Arome’s personal anointing inventory has now increased. And because Papa’s spiritual stock has gone up, there is apparently an additional allocation waiting for collection.

Come and collect your top-up.

What exactly are we talking about here?

Petrol? Cement? Rice? Mobile data?

This is supposed to be the ANOINTING OF GOD.

Yet the language makes it sound like a commodity stored inside a preacher and dispensed in measured quantities whenever his private spiritual reservoir receives an upgrade.

But the Holy Spirit is not a commodity. He is not spiritual electricity. He is not supernatural fuel. He is not a mystical substance stored inside the body of a preacher. He is God the Holy Spirit—the Third Person of the Trinity.

Now listen again to the language:

“The old one you received is still there.”

Received from whom?

“There is an increase.”

An increase where?

“In that increase you have a portion.”

A portion belonging to whom?

“So, you have to collect it.”

Collect it from whom?

Every road in this spiritual distribution network appears to lead back to Arome Osayi.

And that is precisely the problem.

Christ gradually disappears from view while the “anointed man” becomes indispensable. The believer is subtly trained to think that special spiritual resources are deposited inside an extraordinary man of God and that ordinary Christians must periodically return to him to “collect” fresh portions.

Yesterday’s portion is no longer enough because Papa has received an upgrade. Papa has increased. Therefore, your allocation has increased. Come and collect.

This is how spiritual dependency is manufactured.

The New Testament points believers in precisely the opposite direction. Christians are united to Christ. They are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. They are members of the body of Christ.

Ministers are servants entrusted with preaching the Word, shepherding the flock, and equipping the saints. They are not warehouses from which the Holy Spirit is distributed in measured quantities.

Peter did not own the Holy Spirit. Paul did not own the Holy Spirit. John did not own the Holy Spirit. And Arome Osayi certainly does not own the Holy Spirit.

Simon Magus learned the hard way that the gift of God is not something over which men exercise proprietary control. Acts 8:18–23 should make every preacher extremely cautious about speaking as though divine power is something he possesses, manages, or dispenses at will.

That is why this rhetoric is so troubling.

When a preacher begins speaking as though the spiritual life of other Christians depends upon repeatedly receiving “portions” of an anointing uniquely resident in him, he is no longer merely directing people toward Christ. He is positioning himself between them and Christ.

And that is where charismatic celebrity culture becomes spiritually dangerous. The minister ceases to be the servant pointing people to the Fountain and gradually presents himself as the reservoir.

You cannot receive the latest “increase” unless you come through him. You cannot obtain your “portion” unless he dispenses it. You cannot get your spiritual top-up unless you return to the filling station. 

And, conveniently, Papa owns the filling station.

That is not apostolic humility. That is spiritual hubris dressed in charismatic vocabulary.

The Holy Spirit is not Arome Osayi’s private inventory. The anointing is not his franchise. The Church is not his distribution network. And Christians are not spiritually empty containers standing in line waiting for Arome Osayi to pour another portion of himself into them.

Jesus Christ is Lord. The Holy Spirit is God. And no preacher—regardless of his title, following, reputation, visions, encounters, “dimensions,” “realms,” or supposed increase in anointing—has the right to make himself the spiritual middleman between Christ and His people.

When a man begins talking as though God’s people must continually come to him to collect portions from an ever-increasing spiritual substance residing in his person, Christians should not be standing in line asking for their share.

They should be opening their Bibles and asking a much more important question:

Where did Jesus or His apostles ever teach Christianity like this?