The presiding Bishop of Living Faith Worldwide, David Oyedepo has criticized the Federal Government revised lockdown directives which prevent churches from operating.
It could be recalled that the Nigerian government placed a ban on a large gathering as one of its measures on COVID-19 which affected religious places.
However, the government keeps the market places open.
During one of his programme titled ‘Covenant Hour of Prayer’ on Wednesday, Oyedepo queried why the government allowed the market to open for six hours daily and still placed a ban on churches.
Oyedepo claimed that God spoke to him about some voices of darkness who the satan is using to target the churches nationwide.
The 65-year-old cleric said “There is something wrong; for people to be allowed to be in the market for six hours and can’t be in church for two hours, it is an upside-down way of looking at things.
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“Which one is more orderly? The market or the church? I can smell a rat. The Lord spoke to me on it so strong yesterday.
“I can smell a rat. Behind all this, how do we stop the church from exploding?
The people involved don’t know it.
“The voice of darkness is influencing people at various levels, targeting the church because the growth and expansion of the church is the greatest headache of the devil.
“But the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The devil and all his agents shall surely pay for this. I don’t know what hospital that records the kind of healing that the church of God records.
“And now hospitals, where people die every day, are open, but the church is closed because the oppression of the devil has no medical cure.”
Another popular pastor Chris Oyakhilome, the founder of LoveWorld Incorporated had earlier criticized his colleagues for shutting down churches as directed by the Federal Government.
