EXPOSED! Secrets of Bishop Oyedepo’s Ministry Success.

EXPOSED!

Secrets of Bishop Oyedepo’s Ministry Success.

Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo

     Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo is the Presiding Bishop and founder of the Living Faith Church, worldwide, also known as Winners chapel. It is a thriving Christian organization reputed to be one of the largest and fastest growing church in the world. Dr. David who is also the Chancellor, of the Covenant University Otta, Nigeria, is no doubt a man of spiritual influence and affluence in the world today. His ministry which is only a little above 25years old has gathered so much testimonies and impact, giving birth to several other ministries that one would wish to know its success secrets.

     According to Dr. Oyedepo, his major success secrets in ministry are his alignment to spiritual father and mentors. Two of such mentors which he talks so glowingly about is the Late Rev Kenneth E. Hagin and Pastor E.A Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He noted that nothing gives a man speed like a mantle. But he insist that you are only qualified for the mantle of your mentors. 

A Message from Dr. Oyedepo

     You are only qualified for the mantle of your mentors. A mentor is someone you have accepted as a monitor of your destiny. Someone you genuinely celebrate and covet what he carries and have accepted as your leader, instructor and role model.

     Without a role model, you can’t perform your role to the best. To be mentor less is to be an orphan. The implication of being an orphan is that no one gives you direct attention. They only give you their spare time which will never be enough. Every prize winner in the race of life requires a mentor since they are ladders that they climb to the top. Anyone that has no regard for a ladder can never climb a great height. To disregard the ladder is to be grounded in life.

     A lot of leadership mantle is wasted because a new generation of proud youth and people have risen that doesn’t have value for it. So they keep reinventing the wheels instead of climbing on the wings of their mentors. There’s no great man without a natural father and there’s no renowned scholar that doesn’t have a particular school of thought – they always have their root in a certain thinking pattern. There is no field or profession without pacesetters. 

His Kenneth Hagin Connection

     Many years ago, some of his friends mocked him for sticking and believing in the life and books of Kenneth Hagin who they regarded to be an old fashioned and out dated man of God – lacking anointing. Funny enough today, those friends of his can’t equal with him. He emphatically said; “if you don’t want to live under anybody’s shadow, you will never have a shadow at all.

In 1977, he craved for whatever Kenneth hagin carried. He said; “I admired his serenity and noiseless impact in ministry, I’ve always believed that you don’t have to make noise to make news. In fact, the more noise a man makes, the more a nuisance he becomes.” So, he left for a meeting by Kenneth Hagin in the United States with all desperation and thirst. As he was sitting, something electric flashed from him to me and he began to cry and sob uncontrollably. After a while, the Holy Ghost spoke to him saying; “my son David, the baton has been passed over to you” and from that moment, his ministry changed and moved to the next level.

His Early Morning Encounter

     “One early morning, God brought Hagin to me in my study room in an open vision. I was not asleep at all.” He said. And God said; “Son, pattern your ministry after this man.” Those words became his guiding principle in life. Whenever he stands to talk, he will always boost in the fact that he was a direct beneficiary of the pace setting ministry of Kenneth Hagin.

“Hagin never borrowed in ministry, I also never borrowed. Hagin never begged, I never begged too. Hagin’s book went all over the world, our books have being on every country of this earth. Hagin never ran around, he influenced the world from one spot. He influenced the world from a little town called Broken Arrow in the quiet city of Tulsa in the state of California. God also took us to a small town of Otta in Ogun State and the world began to take notice of us too. I have always loved the dignity of Hagin’s ministry. His dept of insight was unequalled in his time. I craved for all and followed him diligently and they are robbing off in my ministry too.” He said.

    According to Dr. Oyedepo, Kenneth Hagin’s book ‘Following God’s Plan For Your Life’ was like a diary to him. Anytime he wants to take a new strategic course of action, he consults the book.

When Kenneth Hagin was about to die, he had a nudge in his spirit that a general was about to be translated into glory. It was his closeness and fellowship with him that gave him the ability to perceive and for that reason; he traveled to the United States with the wife. And after two weeks of that trip, Hagin was passed into glory.

    What qualifies you for the mantle is not hanging around but a following around. Joshua was a crazy follower of Moses. Joshua’s joy was the exploits and success of Moses ministry.

Everything you solely desire and crave for can be obtained only when you find the right man to fit in in your life. Get a mentor you can always trace to and a role model who you will pattern your life after.