By Ken Afor
In a gripping account, Sam Adeyemi, founder and senior pastor of Daystar Christian Centre in Lagos, has revealed how a series of powerful prophetic dreams and spiritual promptings from the Holy Spirit reportedly led him to remain in the United States for nearly three years, despite being prepared to return to Nigeria after the COVID-19 outbreak.
Adeyemi made this known during a podcast, “Mic On,” with Seun Okinbaloye as host.
Initially planning a temporary stay with his children in America as the pandemic hit, Adeyemi recounted how this plan quickly transformed into an extended obedience test after his wife had a foreboding dream about trouble arising from a return trip to Nigeria.
“My wife had a dream in which she travelled to Nigeria and returned to the US, which was a bad dream,” Adeyemi recalled. “Three days later, I had a dream. We both travelled to Nigeria in my dream, and I was in a big fight. I was being attacked violently.”
Adeyemi further revealed that he felt spiritually instructed to call on the name of Jesus Christ during the dream, which startled his wife awake in the middle of the night.
The vivid dreams were confirmed by Nigerian relatives who also expressed an inexplicable sense of discomfort about their return at that time.
“At this point, if God is speaking to me, I should have an idea that it is God speaking. Something is going on I don’t know what it is, but I want to pray more,” Adeyemi said.
After consulting with top Daystar leaders who advised him to follow God’s leading, Adeyemi made the very difficult decision to remain in America, even as months turned into a year away from his 40,000-member Lagos mega church..
“It was almost three years before we had the Holy Spirit’s clearance to return to Nigeria,” Adeyemi said. “Six months later, we were still in the US for one year, tearing me apart.”
“What eventually the Holy Spirit would tell me was that he wanted me to shift my focus from just being the pastor of a local church to that global walk that I had known that I would do,” Adeyemi revealed.
The president of Success Power International, a non-governmental organization that specializes in organizing leadership, financial, and motivational seminars, disclosed that he now plans to move into a global ministry while maintaining leadership of Daystar by leveraging technology. He called it an “organizational miracle” that the church remained strong in his absence.
“I’m passionate about building systems so the church does not collapse. It is fantastic, and we call it an organizational miracle. It was almost three years before we had the Holy Spirit’s clearance to return to Nigeria.
“So right now, the focus shift is to do that global walk, while we keep Daystar running, leveraging technology,” he added.
