BOSUN OLUWABUSAYOMI
The length and breath of Nigeria’s South-South Bayelsa State went agog as the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries worldwide, Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya stormed the state on Saturday morning, dedicated three large regions across the state and held a mega crusade at the state capital, Yenagoa, city centre, defying a downpour.
Olukoya arrived the state capital early in the morning to a rousing welcome by two Assistant General Overseers, Senior Regional Overseers from across the country, as well as other senior pastors in the Ministry, travelled in a convoy to dedicate two regions outside Yenagoa.
The dedicated regions are South South Region 64, Nembe-Bassambiri and South-South Region 26, Igbogene, as well as the South-South 4 Mega Regional Headquarters, Yenagoa.
He congratulated Bayelsans for hosting MFM for the past 25 years and joined the senior pastors and leaders of the mega region in cutting the anniversary cakes.
Rounding off with the three regional dedication services, where he was received by a capacity crowd of excited worshippers, the respectable man of God gave the Church members some hours to rest before storming the sprawling Oxbow Lake, Swali, in the city centre, where a mammoth crowd was waiting anxiously for him, dancing to the variety of praise and worship songs rendered by different groups in the Ministry.
As Olukoya mounted the pulpit at about 5pm, the heavens opened up, pouring forth rain, which was defied by the excited crowd of worshippers, numbering over 20,000, who praised God in prayers, raised by the general overseer.
After some 20 minutes, the rains, which had drenched the ardent worshipers, stopped, amidst prayer points raised by the G. O.
Speaking on the topic, ‘Connecting To The God That Doeth Hard Things’, Olukoya defined hard things as challenges that exceed human capacity, reasoning and logic mountains that need God’s intervention to move.
He read copiously from Jeremiah 32 verse 27, Genesis 18 verse 14 and Matthew 13 verse 26, as he asserted that God has power to do all things and that His power is awesome.
“The word, impossibility, is not in God’s dictionary,” he noted, adding that “There are over ruling voices above us. When that voice speaks, it over rules all things and the devil flees.
“No matter what anyone says, there is an over ruling power,” he asserted, saying that the problem of people is ignorance about the ability of God to do hard things.
“You need faith to come to God. Heaven will never reject any cry from the heart, Olukoya declared, saying that many people are not happy with their situations but have not gone mad about such.
The previous day, Friday, Pastor Ladejola Abiodun, Assistance General Overseer, ministered at the mega crusade, held at same venue.
On Sunday, the entire Bayelsa Region held a Thanksgiving service at the mega regional headquarters.
