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The founder of the Christ on Top Church, Prophet Samuel Owusu Ansah, has urged Ghanaians not to bank their hopes on prophecies that announce the outcome of the December 7 elections.
Relying on such prophecies he explained have the tendency to heighten expectation leading to tension and disagreement after the actual results are declared.
Prophet Ansah made these remarks at the 15th anniversary thanksgiving service of the church at Paapase Number 2, in the Gomoa West District in the Central Region.
It was on the theme: “It is Time to You, Oye to Dwell in Your Cieted Houses and this House Lie Waste”.
He said some pastors because of their stomachs have taken the elections as a business thing, pointing out false prophecies which are easily believed by their followers making them not to believe the bare facts on the ground.
“These political party followers are in church and have so much faith in the leaders and become gullible to everything they say, hence, my humble appeal to the citizenry not to bury themselves into such prophecies that could plunge the country into chaos,” he added.
Elections, Prophet Owusu Ansah explained, are about policies and programmes that attracted the voter to thumbprint for the person with the best ideas that would favour them and could change their lives for the better and nothing else.
Prophecies he indicated are not for public consumption because when God speaks to you in solitary concerning a particular individual, your duty as a pastor is to reveal it to that person only and offer prayers to let it pass in peace.
“Ghana is the only country we have, and since the country has decided to embrace democracy there was the need to jealously guard and protect it as we have done for the past 30 years”.
He appealed to all stakeholders in charge of the country’s electoral process, especially the Electoral Commission, the political parties and their followers to play by the rule in order to maintain the peace of the country adding that “elections should not divide us as a nation”.
Touching on the establishment of the church 15 years ago, he said it had not been easy as the community and other non-believers stood against it to the extent of being arrested and detained in Police cells just because of the word of God.
He charged the congregation to stand firm in the Lord and lead exemplary lifestyles in order to win more souls for Christ.
BY LAWRENCE VOMAFA-AKPALU
