COVID-19: ‘The journey to normalcy has started’ – Pastor Adeboye
.. urges Govt to include Religious leaders in Emergency situations
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has said the return journey to normalcy from the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has begun.
In his message monitored by cvnewsng.com, Pastor Adeboye made this known on Sunday, while asking that the government should include men of God in committees dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
According to Pastor Adeboye, the Coronavirus would start receding and the lockdown would be suspended soon. He said the government should include religious leaders (Imam and archbishop) to the country’s welfare committee.
He also revealed that Nigeria and Africa would overcome COVID-19 before the rest of the world, advising Nigerians to suspend all forms of travelling for the time being.
The revered man of God, fondly referred to as Daddy GO, said he has only one more week to be conducting online programs.
He thanked the Nigerian government for the effort so far in tackling the virus, while highlighting some of the contributions of the RCCG.
“I have good news for us. I believe that the return journey to normalcy has started. And I am believing God that your pastors will soon return to their normal duties.
“Maybe, at most, probably I will spend one more Sunday with you after which the pastors would be back to their duties in Jesus name.
“The return journey to normalcy might not be very very rapid or sudden. It might be gradual but it will be steady. I sincerely hope though that when the battle is over, we will remember to give all the glory to God.
“We thank God for the government. We thank God for all the efforts they have made. I believe they have done creditably because they have had to deal with a situation, a kind they have never seen before.
“But I will probably humbly suggest just as a Nigerian that maybe in the future they will include in all their committees men of God. I am not talking of small boys like myself but I am talking about some Chief Imams, some Archbishops. So that they can help them with the spiritual aspect of this warfare.
“I sincerely do hope that we will all admit it is not our wisdom, not our abilities, not our planning that has brought us whatever victory we have already gotten. We need to return all the glory to God because the elders would say, the rain can send you to the same hut more than once. We need to really really give all the glory to God because we don’t want the victories that we have won so far to be reversed”.
Pastor Adeboye further stated “Even after the lockdown, any journey abroad that is not very crucial, postpone it, because God is going to give us victory here in Nigeria and in Africa, even before it extends to the rest of the world”.