By Abiola Olawale
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has shared a heartfelt reflection on how he envisioned his final moments.
Speaking to a congregation, Adeboye, an 83-year-old cleric, predicted that he is going to depart this world peacefully on a Sunday, following a church service and a comforting meal of pounded yam.
During the Thanksgiving Sunday session of the Congress, Pastor Adeboye recounted the story of his uncle, who, after “a joyful day of worship”, returned home, enjoyed a light breakfast, and passed away peacefully in his home without any signs of illness.
He said: “It’s going to be on a Sunday. I would go to Church for service, dance very well, and return home. I will eat pounded yam, then I will go.”
He said nobody should bother to ask him how he knew the day of his transition.
Adeboye was telling members that nothing makes it compulsory for people to die only after illness. He was leading prayers on divine healing.
The other prayer points were on prosperity, fruitfulness, long life, and war against the forces of darkness.
The cleric, who laced his sermon with relevant scriptures, read from 2 Corinthians 8:9 to justify that prosperity belongs to Christians.
He urged members of the Church to reject poverty, a weapon, he said the devil relies upon to halt the spread of the gospel.
