Oyakhilome urge member to pray for his wife

Founder of the Believers’ Love World Incorporated,
popularly known as Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris
Oyakhilome, has urged members of his
congregation to pray for his estranged wife, Anita.
Breaking his silence on the allegations of adultery
reportedly levelled against him by her, he
described them as “frivolous charges.”
Oyakhilome also lamented that the media had
been writing all sorts of “stupid things” about him
and his marriage.
Noting that Jesus Christ was also accused of
different allegations during his lifetime,
Oyakhilome asked Nigerians to refrain from
unfairly criticising him.

He was quoted by an online news portal,
TheCable, as saying this while giving a sermon in
his church on Sunday.
He said, “You don’t know who a man of God is. I
don’t go in that direction. I wasn’t accused of the
things you said, nor did I commit those stupid
things that you said and I don’t need to go into
that level in such discussions. Jesus Christ was
accused by many – a lot of frivolous charges.
There will always be those who would like for it to
be true. But you know, in spite of the accusations
against Jesus, it didn’t change who he was. It
didn’t change him.
“There are preachers and there are men of God. I
am not a preacher; I am a man of God and I go in
the way I’m asked to go. It may cause some
troubles with individuals but that’s not because I
have done something wrong and when it comes
to Reverend Anita, what I will say to you is ‘pray
for her’.
TheCable added that Oyakhilome, who appeared
visibly disturbed during his first few minutes on
stage, acknowledged that divorce was unbiblical
but suggested he could consider the option
should his wife insist on it.
He recalled that Jesus passed through similar
travails and eventually overcame. He said that
although so many people were making mockery of
him, he would remain steadfast and not lose
focus.
“Don’t act like those people. If you are married to
a man of God, it doesn’t make you automatically
mature. You can make mistakes; you can do
something that is wrong. But some people expect
the wife of a minister to definitely be at the level
of that minister and so they may be looked upon
and the expectation may be like that, but it’s a
positional thing.
“If a man of God is married, it doesn’t
automatically mean that the wife of a man of God
is therefore a woman of God. That’s not the way
it is in the Bible. That’s why you don’t really find
the wives of men of God mentioned in the Bible.
How many of them? Who was Peter’s wife, did
you ever know her name? You never find that out.
Who was John’s wife? Did you ever read the
name? What about all the other Apostles? How
many of their names are written in the Bible. You
never find their names.”
“You have to understand something about a man
of God. A man of God is not just someone who
worships God or preaches God. A man of God is
handpicked by God, set on course by God. If you
study the scriptures, you will not find one man of
God go against God, sinning against God.
“The only things you might find will be a man of
God, maybe in two different kinds of ways. Moses,
for example; when he struck the rock twice, [he]
was provoked by the anger of the people. [It was]
not because he wanted to do something against
the Lord.
“No man of God does something against the Lord.
“Are you hearing me? A man of God is set on a
course; there is a type of life that he is given.
Then you have a young man, a young prophet; he
wasn’t named; he was deceived by another man
of God and so he went in a direction that God
said ‘don’t go’.