TB Joshua
Pastor T.B. Joshua of The Synagogue, Church Of All
Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos, Nigeria has released a message,
specifically challenging the wealthy and those in leadership
positions in society.
“Don't let your
wealth deceive you - you have not got there,”Joshua stressed to
congregants at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) on
Sunday.
He said: “Man's
natural gifts cannot make one succeed. Success is all about the
spirit, supernatural. If our leaders know this, superiority complex
and all of these fights will cease - if they know they are not what
they think they are. Vanity upon vanity.”
According to the
cleric, spiritual prosperity must always take the priority. “Your
spiritual life is the engine that will carry your success. If you are
not prospering in your spiritual life and you are great, your
greatness will be fading away gradually because there is nothing to
carry it… You will realise the money will be spending you instead
of you spending the money.”
Providing examples,
Joshua questioned why people quickly change location when they
experience financial prosperity. “The rich are living together
and the poor are living together – who will help the poor? And you
are blessed to bless others... Don’t let money control you; let the
Giver of that money control you.”
He added that if one
receives financial breakthrough after receiving prayers but then
distances himself from God, his actions will come at the price of
peace.
“You can run
away with riches and wealth but His peace of heart, you cannot run
away with. God will be looking at you to see the money He has given
you – how you spend it will determine the peace of God in your
heart.”
The founder of
Emmanuel TV added that a brief survey of society would reveal how a
large majority of the ‘rich and wealth people’ lack peace. “How
do you know they don’t have peace? The conflict among them will
tell you these people don’t have peace. Peace does not want
conflict. It is always fighting for peace, unity and love.”
The cleric counselled
people to listen to their hearts. “What your heart is telling
you now is what you are. People can see you as a poor man but your
heart is telling you that you are great – indeed, you are great.
While you rich – your heart can be telling you that you are the
poorest in the world, upon all your cash. It means such money will
not last. Whatever you cannot enjoy to the last is not of God.”
The cleric concluded
that Christians must endeavour to prosper first in their spiritual
lives and keep their hearts “busy” praising God.
“Sin is never
covered by our appearance, by our presence, by our prayers or by our
tears. Sin can only be removed by repentance,”he emphasised to the
congregation.
The sermon, which was later uploaded onto Joshua’s
official YouTube channel Emmanuel TV, is not the first message in
which the cleric has spoken against the love of money.
He recently decried the amount of ‘dirty money’
being brought into Church, stressing that pastors should be concerned
with the source of tithes and offerings.
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