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| Dr.Chris Kwakpovwe. |
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e trained as a scientist in the university, a man
whose reality was supposed to be triggered by a body of knowledge that came
from observation and experiment. Precisely, in 1983, as a pharmacist,
Rev.Dr.Chris Kwakpovwe, graduated from the University of Ife (now Obafemi
Awolowo University) in Nigeria. Yet as
he takes a single scripture from the Bible, weaving hard-hitting, practical
narratives to reveal some profound, gripping truths with an unusual clarity,
you cannot help thinking this is a man who moves with signs and wonders, in a miraculous
realm where even scientists would stumble, trying to interrogate.
Did he wrestle with the conflict between science and
the realm of the miraculous when he resigned his pharmacy practice to go
full-time into the preaching and teaching of the Bible? Yet if he refused to
say that he felt any conflict, it is easy to let him off the hook when you
eventually learn that from the young age of 14 –student of the prestigious
Government College, Ughelli –he was preaching the Bible fervently through the
nooks, creeks and villages of Delta State with a bicycle.
As I tried to develop a clear, un-biased, objective
portrait of this preacher and publisher who is happily married to Rev.Dr. Ejiro
Flora Kwakpovwe with wonderful children, what kept popping into my mind were
the words of Dave Breese, author of the book, 7 Men Who Rule The World From The
Grave: “Despite its accomplishments, science has no final
answers. Observation and analysis can take us only so far. After that, there
stretches out, beyond our ability to observe, the unreachable vistas of a
limitless unknown.”
When he nearly committed suicide, hounded by shame
and misery for what he thought was a failure of ministry never to be recovered
from, was he bound by the limitations of observation and analysis? Having
recovered from his depression, when he started publishing the devotional, OUR
DAILY MANNA with N20,000 borrowed from a friend, and no one else gave him a
chance to succeed, what kept him going? When he was shunned and abandoned by
friends who failed to see that his temporary set-back was a set-up for his
come-back, where did his courage to persevere come from? Did he press on tenaciously, turning stumbling
stones into stepping stones because he was able to connect the “unreachable vistas of a limitless unknown?”
Today ODM has practically become a household name,
used by millions of people all over the world. The annual WORLD ANOINTING SERVICE, attracting a crowd of over 500,000, (HALF
A MILLION) beyond being the flagship of spiritual pilgrimage in the entire
country, and the world over, is gradually becoming an event for economic
empowerment as well as a ground for the bigwigs in the business world and
politicians who yearn for a prophetic
re-engineering of their lives. His message is pungent, action-packed,
useful and practical. From any rostrum, he was fond of saying: “Destiny can be chained but cannot be changed. Pain is the father
of profit. Delay is not denial because behind every glory, there is an untold
story!”
From Asaba and Uyo in Nigeria to Lusaka, Zambia onto
Mmpulangha, South Africa, that explosive mirales trailed his ministry cannot be
denied. Take what happened during the maiden edition of Uyo Anointing Service
at Uyo Township Stadium in Udo-Umana in Akwa-Ibom State where Dr.Chris called
out a woman by name “Anthonia.” He had said: “Anthonia, you are in this crowd.
You planned to divorce your husband just after this programme. Don’t do it. By
this time next year, your baby shall make a WORLDWISE NOISE.” After 15 years in
a CHILDLESS marriage, Anthonia truly
wanted to get out of her marriage. Yet she ran out to be ministered to. To the shock of everyone last year, she not only gave birth to her child,
she got pregnant again!
From the young man in South Africa who got healed
permanently from a defective liver
condition to women in Asaba who got blessed with fruit of the womb like
Sarah and Hannah in the Bible, the story is the same: miracles are real!
To the question whether he was celebrated because of
miracles or the message, he said: “The
reason I do what I do is not because of me but because of God. If you are expecting from me, then I have
failed.”
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| Rev.Dr.(Mrs) Ejiro F.Kwakpovwe. |
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| MMM Youth Choir performing a song. |
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