GENERAL Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG),
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has revealed the circumstances surrounding his
birth around 1942, saying that they were mysterious.
According to him, he was born on a Sunday when there was rain and
sunshine, while his delivery was singlehandedly handled by his mother in
a room at Ifewara, Osun State, a reason he was nicknamed “the tiger.”
He gave the revelation to worshippers at the Redemption Camp,
Kilometre 46, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, while giving a sermon
on the topic: “Wonders of His Names.”
While speaking on the significance of names, the cleric said in the
course of his growing up, he had to drop some names that he discovered
were inimical to his spiritual and physical progress.
Adeboye reeled out his full names as “Enoch, Elisha, Sunday, Adejare,
Adetona, Olagundoye, Adeboye, including his alias, which the people
chorused as “the tiger.”
According to him, “I asked my mother when and how I was born. She
said it was a time when a certain king mounted the throne in Ilesha. And
I said that was 1942. She said it was a Sunday when something was being
celebrated in the church. She said she was alone in the house when she
delivered me.
“She said it was a very strange Sunday because the rain was falling
and the sun was shining, which is an indication in Yoruba that a tiger
was being born. You may think I’m joking; ask my elder sisters, they are
still alive; they will tell you one of my nicknames is the tiger. But
do I look like a tiger to you now?”
Adeboye emphasised the need for children of God to revisit their names and change some, as well as add some as the case may be.
“What is your own name? Check if there is any evil one there and
reject it. And if there is a good one you want, add it and my God will
say Amen,” he noted.
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