The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Adeboye, re enacted his youthful days when he kissed his wife, Pastor Mrs Folu Ad
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Adeboye, re enacted his youthful days when he kissed his wife, Pastor Mrs Folu Adeboye on stage at the Youth Centre of the Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, during a book presentation in his honour. The book which was written by 40 people was planned to coincide with his 75th birthday. According to Folu Adeboye, she hid information from Pastor Enoch Adeboye because she wanted to surprise him and only planned to inform him about the event a day before.
Present at the occasion were Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo; former President Olusegun Obasanjo; Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church, Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo; and the General Overseer, Trinity House, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo. The Master of Ceremonies teased Folu to tell the audience the pet names she gave her husband, demanding an expression of love since the occasion also marked 50 years of their marriage. “Pastor ID, why are you fast? This is just presentation of a book, not marriage anniversary. Whatever you want, I will do it…,” she replied, as she hugged the husband and went on to kiss him as the audience erupted in excitement.
Pastor Adeboye, who expressed surprise at the occasion, said he would have stopped the project if he knew about it, adding that he was undeserving of the honour. He expressed surprise at the book presentation. He said, “The event of today, without any doubt, has been a great surprise to me. This is because my wife hid it from me, and we don’t normally hide anything from each other, because we have been married for 50 years and we are still on honeymoon.
“Why the event is a surprise to me is that God also hid it for me. I had no inkling at all from my Daddy that something like this is happening. If God hid it from me, it must mean that He approved of it. My wife knows that if I had any idea about what is happening today, it will never happen. I would have stopped it long ago because who am I without Jesus Christ? If there is anyone to be celebrated, it should be Him. So, for you to say you are writing a book about somebody that is nothing, someone who has almost zero beginning, from a poor family and passed through secondary school by God’s grace. For God to allow today to happen without telling me, it can only be that He wants to draw your attention to Himself that if you allow Him, He will do great things, using you as camouflage.”
The cleric lauded his wife for always standing by him, saying she was the greatest gift he had aside from the Holy Spirit. While recounting a year when they both fasted for 40 days three times over an issue, Pastor Adeboye said his wife refused to back out when he asked her to stop.
“If you can find a woman that can stand by you with 40 days of prayer and fasting, first, second, third time and willing to go with you as long as possible, then I will classify your wife as second to mine. Without my wife, I cannot be doing what I am doing today,” Pastor Adeboye concluded.
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