Anthony Iwuoma
The Christian Pentecostal Mission International, CPM, on Thursday kicked off activities heralding the burial of its General Overseer Rev. Dr. Obiora Ezekiel.
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The man of God translated to glory in November last year, aged 78years.
Members if the church gathered at the various state headquarters across the country and in the Diaspora in a Service of Songs in honour of one of the fathers of faith in Nigeria yoday.
At the Lagos State headquarters in Festac Town, the beautifully clad members turned out in their numbers to celebrate the life and times of an outstanding servant of God.
Masterfully coordinated by Rev Timothy Ifeanyi, Area K Coordinator, the congregation danced and praised God for the fallen General whose life impacted positively on my souls worldwide.
Many activities were presented, including praise and worship ministrations led by Emmy Praise and Brother Seun.
The youths presented a drama, urging Christians to look into the mirror and hold whoever they see therein as the problem of the church.
Finally, it borrowed from Rev. Ezekiel’s oft repeated refrain, ‘don’t kill this baby’. The youths urged believers, especially of the CPM family to strive hard to sustain the godly heritage and legacies of Rev Ezekiel by preserving the baby and not to remove ‘the ancient landmark’.
In his message, the Lagos State Coordinator, Rev. Ngozi Nwaogu, harped on a returb to godly living.
Speaking from Psalm 90:2, ‘Teach me to number my days…’ he said believers should seek for more revelations of God to themselves.
Nwaogu said something must be wrong with anyone that passed through the tutelage of Rev Ezekiel and his wife, Mercy, the International and National Coordinator of CPM and did not change, adding that he desiresd nothing but God’s spirit in Ezekiel to enter him.
He urged the members to covet the spirit of God that was in their late spiritual father without which none would qualify to be in heaven with him.
Time constraints could not allow many testimonies but of the few given, it was recalled how the late man of God had gone to Calabar where he challenged one man claiming to be God there to come out but for one week the man could not. On another occasion while ministering at a Port Harcourt crusade, he suddenly turned and pointed at a nearby storey building and commanded that all the teeth of a witch there to fall out and for the witch to die; it happened exactly as he said. Also, he once laid hands on the head of a demon-possesed girl and as he prayed, rolls of office pins fell out.
Rev. Ezekiel was a deliverance minister par excellence and was popularly known as a demon bulldozer because of the manner demons were subject to him as he commanded them out of those in their captivity.
Indeed, CPM has a three-fold vision of bringing deliverance to the people, creating awareness for the second coming of Christ and preparing the saints for rapture.
Ezekiel was humble to a fault; a signpost for for true Christianity and a man of integrity whose lifestyle and ministry were never trailed by any scandal.
Another three-day Service of Songs is slated for the international headquarters of the church in Ajao Estate, Lagos, on March 22-24 at 5pm daily.
The remains of the eminent cleric holds on March 25 after a funeral service at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.
