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Popular Nigerian televangelist Temitope
Balogun Joshua, popularly known as TB Joshua, on Friday night prayed for
President Robert Mugabe and also declared “a new dawn” for the country.
The world-famous Nigerian prophet
focused his attention on Zimbabwe, praying for the country and its
president in a tele-broadcast to thousands of worshippers who thronged
the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries Night of
Turnaround 4 on Friday night.
TB Joshua is PHD founder Walter Magaya’s
spiritual father. He made a telephone call to “his son” on Friday night
to wish him a happy birthday and pronounce “good news” to thousands of
congregants who included Cabinet ministers, legislators, diplomats and
traditional leaders from the region.
“Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday
to you, this is your day! It’s your time!” said TB Joshua as his
telephone call was being broadcast live to the congregation, while
Magaya was on his knees holding the phone, apparently in prayer.
“It’s a new dawn to you! A new dawn to
Zimbabwe! A new dawn to its leader! A new dawn to the ministry! A new
dawn to everyone under the influence of my voice!” Joshua said as almost
everyone in the congregation knelt down with some shouting: “I
receive!”
“I speak a new dawn to your health, a
new dawn to your finances, a new dawn to your business, a new dawn to
your career, a new dawn to your marriage,” said the Nigerian preacher,
who commands one of the largest Pentecostal churches in Africa.
As he was speaking, the congregation was
in prayer, down on their knees and as soon as the call ended, Magaya
slumped onto the pulpit, sobbing with his face down before he raised his
head to declare that “you will not go back home the same. This is your
day! The General of God has said so and just believe,” he said, before
advising congregants to write their prayer requests on the envelopes in
which they would give their offerings.
The mega all-night prayer drew
congregants from as far as Ethiopia, Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa and
Botswana, among many other countries.
Last week the charismatic preacher was
in Nigeria where he “interceded” for the Turnaround 4, which is now an
annual event for PHD Ministries.
Magaya told journalists during the
all-night prayer that while he was preaching, a team of intercessors was
also praying for the event in Lagos at the Synagogue Church of All
Nations.
“Before this event, I was in Nigeria
where I met my spiritual father Prophet TB Joshua. He prayed for this
event and indeed it’s going to be a night of turnaround. He wished me
well and I feel challenged,” he said.
Source; Standard Newspaper South Africa
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