Enugu (Enugu State) – Clerics have been told not to put the nation into panic with prophesies or visions of calamities.
The General Superintendent of Assemblies of God Church Nigeria, Rev. Paul Emeka, made the call during Ordination of 82 Ministers, including seven women, at their Annual Prayer/Convocation in Enugu on Friday.
Emeka said clerics only needed to pray against such calamitous prophesies or visions, or to let the persons involved directly know and apply measures against such.
The general superintendent charged the ordained Ministers of God to live up to their new responsibilities.
“God has given you more responsibilities, go and win souls for God and put Christ first in all your dealings. Always make the word – Jesus – your watch word”, he said.
He prayed for peace and progress of the country and asked God to take control of the church and the nation.
He said that the ordained ministers had served the church as pastors for up to 13 years.
“Our massage to the whole world is that Jesus is real and the Lord said that we should never lose hope; that whatever we lost must be recovered.
“Jesus still works. Government and men can fail us. Let’s look up to Him and believe that we will still make it. And that shall come to pass”, he said.
Rev. Jeremiah Duru, in Charge of Emudo Nnenwe, Enugu South of the Assemblies of God Church, expressed joy over the ordination and charged the newly ordained ministers to emulate Christ in spreading the good news.
He prayed God to solve the problem that is rocking the church so that unity would return to the Church of God.
