Bishop Oyedepo Says COVID-19 Beginning Of End Time Woes

Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church Worldwide International, also known as Winners Chapel, says coronavirus pandemic is just the beginning of the woes to be visited on the world “before the Lord returns.”

Oyedepo stated this while delivering his sermon on the topic “Gateways to Financial Fortunes (4)” at Sunday’s Financial Fortune Banquet service.

With reference to following biblical verses; Matthew 24: 7/8; Joel 2:1-3/11; Malachi 4:2 and Malachi 3:10/18; 4:1-3, he noted that “everyone in the army of the Lord will manifest greatness in the thick darkness.”

The cleric said those growing amid the struggle of the era are “in the covenant of financial fortunes” as captured in Mal 3:10, because “being in the covenant places a seed of exemption from the woes of the world on your life”.

The covenant of giving and receiving, according to the Winners Chapel pastor, is the covenant that can set anyone apart and protect from the worldly woes.

“Just like when you stop breathing you start dying, when you stop giving, you start going down. Not just in finance, but in every area of your life. It is not something you do once and for all; it is a once and again covenant,” he said.

Bishop Oyedepo further listed the vital keys to world financial fortunes to include: be spiritually minded as prosperity cannot outgrow spirituality, and to engage tirelessly in covenant practice by making giving a lifestyle.

Others, according to him, are walking in financial integrity, which he said is needed in the world now more than ever. He said where being a Christian used to mean integrity, today, people steal in the church.

He added another to be commitment to being a blessing to the helpless and humanity, as the covenant is not banking, barter or a bureau de change operation.