Pastor Adeboye: I did something that made God stop talking to me
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has described an incident that stopped him from hearing God’s voice.
According to Pastor Adeboye, he used to hear God’s voice right after he was reborn, and he was an interpreter for the general overseer at the time.
He added that once another man of God invited him to the pulpit to interpret for him, he became so full of himself that he felt arrogant. Adeboye also expressed his displeasure with himself for interpreting for a pastor who was not his general supervisor.
He said:
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Something happened that made him stop communicating with me. I used to be an interpreter to the general overseer or general superintendent like we call it those days. My father in the Lord then just took a special interest in my interpretation. When other pastors in the church then realised that the general overseer liked my interpretation, they stopped calling me to interpret for them and left me alone for the general overseer.
“Almost immediately after I got born again, God started speaking to me, I don’t do anything without his guidance or approval. He tells me the road to ply in Lagos so that I can bypass hold up, most of you here know how terrible Lagos traffic is. Fortunately for me, I don’t experience it because God knows a better route.
“I became full of myself and started bouncing around as interpreter to the general overseer but an incident happened one day.We had a program and we invited a guest minister to preach. He made a mistake that day, you may be surprised at my definition of a mistake. The mistake was that he asked me to interpret for himself. I was really angry in my spirit but I couldn’t object because it was too late.
“I stood up and interpreted for him but in my heart, I was murmuring, I said ‘How could you call me a whole interpreter to the general overseer to interpret for you’. Only if he knew what was in my mind, he would have called another person to interpret that very day.
“At the end of the program, I was on my way home and God spoke, he said ‘Son, you are now too big to interpret to a man of God other than the general overseer”. After the conversation, God stopped speaking to me, I didn’t hear His voice again. “I suffered, that whole period was like hell, I became a victim of the traffic in Lagos.”
