The devil is having a field day in the church-By Amara Blessing Nwosu

Amara Blessing Nwosu

"Holy water, Holy perfume, Anointed handkerchief, Anointed staff..., when will my people wake up from their dream? The devil is having a field day in the church.

How can someone, a fellow human being, after preaching and doing all the acrobatics, ask me, daughter of Zion, to come and touch her wet handkerchief and drop money to get blessed. I watched as people foolishly went to drop money and touch the handkerchief. She started from ten thousand Naira to two hundred Naira. I was the only person who did not get up. Is she Jesus? Such a dirty and unhygienic lifestyle. Another one somewhere in the northern part of the country uses perfumes for his own manipulations. He has grades and the amount you drop determines the very one he sprays on you. Their partner in crime somewhere around Ogba anoints computers for "yahoo boys". Some of the, now sell their pictures and ask you to simply place it in your car or home; blind Christians. They wash their feet in a bowl of water and sell same to you; don't you think something is wrong with you?

Now, my people have been brainwashed into denying their father's name and taking up the name of a man whose lineage they can't even trace. Some now answer the name of their church. Some have even gone the extent of telling their members that they won't make heaven because of their surname. What a shame! They have succeeded in making you wear rags along the streets; this is not the gospel of Christ. How many times have you seen your senior pastor, his wife, or children wear those rags you have in your car? Don't you think there is something wrong somewhere?

When it was Rev. King's time, I remember having his followers beat people up whenever they tried to say anything negative against their "Holiness". One of my clients even changed her name from Ijeoma Ezeh(not real name) to Ijeoma King. The very day Rev. King flogged her husband in church, we were all against it as we worked out together in the gym. But to our surprise, she saw nothing wrong with that.

When are people going to stop chasing shadows and start studying their Bibles? When are your eyes going to be opened to know that most of these miracles are "take one problem away from me and give me ten in return"?

Nigeria, Africa is really a fertile ground for them; business is thriving. Poverty and its brother, illiteracy are indeed curses to anyone who knows them.