GOD’S GRACE IS NOT FOR SALE - PROPHET TB JOSHUA

“One of the big secrets of my life I want to share with you – all these crusades you see me doing around the world such as in Singapore, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru etc. – I pay most of the money. We don’t control the Holy Spirit! Let me pray for whom God wants me to pray for. Don’t pay and then start bringing your brother, sister or cousin for prayer. If you pay for the stadium for me, you will collect money from big businessmen that are sick – they will be the ones you arrange in front, telling me, 'Pray for this one, Man of God – he is the one who paid seventy percent of the money'. God cannot cooperate with or support such an arrangement. Or you are telling me to come out at 8am when the Spirit of God said I should come out at 10am. My accommodation – I don’t let them know where I am going to lodge. After the crusade, you can know where I am living but before and during the crusade, I will not allow you to come to me. You cannot see me until after the crusade. 

“I will enter your country with money and I will go out of the country and not take your money out of the country; it is a rule and regulation because the grace is not for sale. My joy is to see people healed; my joy is to see people delivered; my joy is to see people blessed. That is my money. Each person that is delivered is more than $20,000 to me! Imagine in each crusade how many people are delivered! That is the money God gives me - the joy to sleep in peace. You need to know what it means if God uses you to heal and deliver people. If you know what it means, you will want to heal and deliver people all the time. If you know what it means – the joy in God using you to deliver people – you will never ask the people you deliver to bring money. Even if they want to give you, you will beg them not to destroy your life. 

“If you know what it is for God to use you to set someone free from their problems – it’s more than a trillion dollars. Don’t wait for the person to say, ‘Thank you’. That is why, after praying for you, I quickly leave. God has given me something more than ‘Thank you!” If God uses you to remove the pain of one, you are more than a millionaire. You believe your reward is money – no! If money is your gain, you are robbing yourself. That money is insufficient; it cannot give you peace. Money cannot buy you peace. If money could give you peace, many of you would not be here today. That is why you just see me at Ikotun-Egbe. From Ikotun-Egbe – look at the glory of God!” - Prophet TB Joshua

THE ENDLESS HATRED FOR PROPHET TB JOSHUA

In John 17, Jesus prayed that his followers would be one. The unity He mentioned here is not necessarily achieved by mere talking but through the Holy Spirit. It is the unity of spirit, heart, purpose, destiny; this is unity founded and rooted in love and not on race, age, status, language, class, social level, backgrounds, denomination and churches. 

This shows that unity among the broader body of Jesus Christ is very important to Jesus. Sadly, even when He prayed for unity, division and persecution; hatred is what we experience daily.

The Christian world has allowed religious people and the enemies of Jesus to have the upper hand on their journey of righteousness. But, Prophet TB Joshua refused to be a conformist and did not allow himself to be captured by these enemies of love and unity, hence the negative attitude towards him.

Prophet TB Joshua once said: “What they understand, they destroy but what they don’t understand they call names”.

So, the predisposition of these leaders toward self-deception, coupled with satan’s pervasive and deceptive influence as well as turning a blind eye on God’s Word, is a major barrier to their understanding of Prophet TB Joshua. 

As they profess to be “Christians”, it is expected that they will use the Word of God as a reference to judge TB Joshua but it seems not to be the case.

The most interesting thing about these people is whether they understand the Word of God or not or they just ignore it. What they don’t realize is that failing to understand the Word of God is failing to understand God himself because He is the Word. So people of God should not be surprised to hear what is said about TB Joshua. If they are failing to understand God, and His Word, we should not expect them to understand Prophet TB Joshua.

Jesus said in John 15:18-25: “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.” 

If Jesus Christ was hated here on earth, what do we expect from a servant of Christ-like Prophet TB Joshua?

Like all the saints, the crime TB Joshua committed was to follow God’s commands and His ways as well as prove to the world that Jesus still heals and deliver.

He taught his followers to worship God only, to trust God only, to have faith in God only and not man, to worship God willingly and genuinely as well as giving, loving, forgiving and praying the way Jesus want us to.

This has attracted great attention on Prophet TB Joshua. With followership and love from multitudes of all kinds, races and classes from all over the world.

On the other hand, he exposed his haters who are in the business of misleading people of God in the name of Jesus. Instead of uniting with TB Joshua to promote the kingdom of God, they started attacking him.

The good thing about this is that while the persecutions and hatred increase, he continues to follow the path of love, patience and forbearance knowing that he is only accountable to God and this is the reason we didn’t see him fighting back even to his last day on earth.

As it is written in (Titus 1:10): “There are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers”. 

Therefore, you and I should know that no one and NO CHURCH is in any position to pass judgment on "God's Chosen Vessel". 

Scriptural History shows profusely that every true Prophet and Messenger of God was mostly misunderstood and finally rejected by all except a bare minority that God used them to minister to.

Jesus was mostly persecuted by the religious establishment working with governments, which mainly reflected the values and goals of the world in opposition to God. We should not forget that one may be religious and very much part of the world.

So if you find yourself asking why TB Joshua is hated you will be contradicting what Jesus said. The hatred of TB Joshua by this world which is currently under satanic control is simply an evident and a guarantee that he has been chosen by Christ and this has put him into direct conflict with satan.

I have always wondered if these so-called ministers of the gospel that show hatred towards TB Joshua realize that they are failing our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ because the validity of His ministry was and is based on unity and love of His people and this unity helps the world to believe that the Father sent Him, the Son.

These so-called followers of Jesus, are doing more damage to the Church than the unbelievers. 

How will the world believe in Jesus Christ when Christian bodies are promoting what is contrary to what Jesus represent and His prayers for us in John 17:21. Are these people reading the same Holy Bible we read, do they worship the same Jesus Christ who died on the cross for me and them? 

No wonder Jesus said in Matthew 7:15-20: “by their fruits, you will know them”. 

Jesus' words here are a powerful warning that many are coming in His name but are actively and deliberately seeking to lead us away from the truth. 

If they were living in the days of John the Baptist, they were not going to recognize him as a true Prophet of God because John came apart from every school of religious thought. He was not a priest, though he was entitled by birth to be one. 

Like Prophet TB Joshua, no mentor, not educated either formally or religiously by men and not belonging to any Christian body in Nigeria and the world over. I am talking about a man who fasted forty days and night seeking God opinion about his calling. He was chosen by God Almighty; filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb, and that same Spirit that taught him everything is behind what is manifesting in SCOAN today including distance is not a barrier prayer session which is for free. 

Emmanuel! God With Us!

By Oliphant Deborah

IS THE SCOAN A FAMILY BUSINESS SUBJECT TO INHERITANCE?

There is a difference between Mr TB Joshua and Prophet TB Joshua

The Synagogue Church of all Nations is neither a Family Business nor a property that is subject to inheritance

The Prophet gave instructions which are to be followed prayerfully  

Glory to Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ whom according to His wisdom called home His Prophet to rest in His abode. May His name be praised forevermore! Amen!

As faithful disciples at the SCOAN continue to wait at the ‘upper room’ in prayers of faiths and the fullness of the Holy Spirit for impartation, grace and strength in continuances of the move of God at the SCOAN, this seemingly delay seems to be generating mixed feelings amongst many who may have purported this to be a leadership crisis at the SCOAN.

Many expect that as it is done out there, immediately, after the internment of the Prophet, a new leadership should have been ceremoniously installed – someone who will take over the mantel of leadership from Prophet TB Joshua.

This unconventional move by the SCOAN seems to be generating rumours that are being spread by mischief-makers. Alleging that a group of ‘powerful TB Joshua’s women’ at the SCOAN are against Evelyn Joshua assuming the leadership role at the SCOAN.

Understandably, many may be sympathetic to the wife of the Prophet, Evenly Joshua to assume the role of her late husband, but it is important to know that this is not how things of the Spirit are done.

Does that mean Evelyn Joshua cannot take over as the General overseer of the SCOAN? Far from it.

Evelyn Joshua is herself a disciple of Prophet TB Joshua, she is qualified to take over from her late husband, just as every other Prophet, Prophetess and Evangelist at the SCOAN are also qualified to take over the leadership mantel of the Prophet.

If someone else is appointed as the new leader does that mean she will just concede everything to them?

We must understand that the Prophet Wife, Evelyn Joshua does not need to be the General oversee of the SCOAN to continue to function as the Mother of all nations.

She is the wife of the Prophet and nobody can take that away from her and she has a huge role to play in the management of the affairs of the SCOAN and also sustaining the legacy of her husband. However, she doesn’t have to be ceremoniously installed as the general overseer of the SCOAN to play that role.

We also need to know that most of these questions about succession have long been answered in the past by Prophet TB Joshua. Remember that our God is not the author of confusion.

True followers of the Prophet should have known by now what the Prophet stands is on the issue of succession and they should by now be counselling the wife and the disciples accordingly if at all there is an issue being generated about it.

Let’s take a look at the Prophet words in his last interview. Remember that the words of a man in his last days hold huge significance.

Prophet TB Joshua has always emphasised the fact that his biological life is different from his Spiritual life. He will always say there is a difference between Mr TB Joshua and Prophet TB Joshua.

When he was asked why much is not known about his wife and family he said “…I would have loved my wife to be like me but I cannot make her what I am; it is God. It is not possible for me to anoint her, God is the one that anoints people. So, it is not possible for her to sit here at the same time, this is not biological issue; it is an inheritance from the saints, it is a partaker from the saints. Therefore, I should not use anything in my biological life to stop my spiritual life.

I am a native of Arigidi Akoko but as for my divine nature I am a partaker of the inheritance of the saints, therefore, it is so difficult for me. This is an apostolic ministry. It is not a ministry you read bible, go to theology school, you get it and you start preaching. No! It is purely divine. So, it is so difficult for me to display my wife, she has to be ready for God. As much as you are ready for God, God will display her.”

In the same interview, when the Prophet was asked about the issue of succession, he said “This is where God comes in; it is not a business venture. If it is God, then it is God and then it is true. The issue of family should not come into the issue of the church – that is it; it is undeserved grace. ”

I don’t think anybody loves TB Joshua’s Biological daughters and wife, Evelyn Joshua more than Prophet TB Joshua.

The Prophet has continued to emphasise that the Synagogue Church of all nations is neither a family business nor a property that is subject to inheritance.

Therefore, don’t use SCOAN to compare other Churches where the wife or the first son took over after the death of the husband or father. After all, there are also other popular Churches out there, which we don’t want to mention names where neither the wife nor family member took over as the general overseer when the founder passed away.

Even in the same interview, the Prophet seems to be suggesting that the Five Prophets and Prophetesses at the SCOAN right now have taken over from him.

Saying “There are five prophets and prophetesses; they are working. They have taken over from me already. There is an American, a British, a French, and a Nigerian.”

I won’t miss words to say that anybody who is trying to push Evelyn Joshua or any of the disciples to go against the will of the Prophet does not mean well for the SCOAN. The Prophet has always warned us to beware of good intentions people. We are not here to glorify men’s emotion or sentiment but lay open to the divine will of God.

The SCOAN has said they are not dealing with leadership issues and that there were instructions given to them by the Prophet. I think our prayers now is for God to give them the grace to follow that instruction and not fall prey to distractors and opinionists whose intentions call to questions.

TB Joshua Lives On.

READ MORE ON THE LAST INTERVIEW OF THE PROPHET HERE