The General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr. Mensa Otabil has described as unfortunate, the sort of backlash he has received from people who according to him are unfit to criticize him following the collapse of Capital Bank, of which he served as Board Chairman.
In a sermon on Sunday, Dr. Otabil recounted events during the past week saying: “You know when people who have no right to insult you, insult you; that is reality.
“You look at the person insulting you and the person, sometimes, himself looks like an insult. But out of the abundance of his insult, he is insulting you, so that is reality. Reality is when it is hitting, when all kinds of stuff is hitting, I don’t want to go too much into that.”
Pastor Otabil got tongues wagging after news broke that GCB bank had taken over Capital Bank and UT Bank as they were struggling to operate financially.
In revelation of what helped him deal with the news, Dr. Otabil said it was God’s promise of peace.
“For me, this is what helped me: it is getting hold of my mind and on Thursday morning, I woke up and I said: ‘Well I have a church to preach to on Sunday, they are not going to come and listen to pastor’s troubles, they need a word of encouragement, so, I go to my process of beginning to prepare my sermon and part of the process of doing my sermon is I start praying for the congregation, so I’m not praying for myself “Am I in difficulty? Yes. But now I’m beginning to frame my references well. I’m praying for the people and I’m praying for people who are going through their own challenges and people who are going through all kinds of situations. I say: ‘Lord, help me bring a word to them that will encourage them; that will lift them up.’
“When you get to that frame of mind, you are now leaving the space of the storm and you are now getting to the peace of God. You are now becoming an instrument for God to use for His glory and for his purposes,” Pastor Otabil said.
He was, however, optimistic about what the future holds for his ministry and the country at large stating what happened as a sign of good things to come for both his church and Ghana as a whole.
“This year’s Greater Works was a point of departure and something huge took place. We poked somebody’s eyes. And when you poke somebody’s eyes, he’ll hit your hand. So what we’re experiencing is hard-hitting. But the eye has been poked already. I said the eye has been poked already. The eye has been poked already.
“We transited and something massive is coming out of it, something massive. It cannot be stopped, it cannot be delayed, it cannot be denied. It’s coming because God has decreed it; it’s upon this nation. What happened at Greater Works was not just for ICGC. It was the turnaround of Ghana’s destiny. Ghana’s destiny was taken back and Ghana’s destiny is turning around and nobody can stop it. No devil in hell can stop it. We have poked the devil’s eye and we have the victory in Christ Jesus,” he said.
source:pulse.com.gh
