12/09/2025
“The strangest thing happened yesterday. I had counted some money and paid for a service I used. The man receiving the payment began to count it again while I patiently waited. Then his partner looking at me said to him, “He is a pastor. Pastors cannot lie.”
Without thinking twice I replied, “Pastors are human. We can lie. It is God that is helping all of us. Please be praying for us pastors. Let him count it.”
I had never seen anything like what happened next.
The man immediately stopped counting. He looked at me, and after a few statements you could see he was struggling to hold back his tears. He said that what I had just said was the most honest thing he had heard in a long time. He kept repeating in Yoruba, “This is what I have been saying.”
As he spoke, he told me that his brother had once served as a pastor but was excommunicated after making a mistake. That event shattered his brother’s life and slowly destroyed his own faith as well.
He did not “give his life to Christ” yesterday, but he did ask me to pray that the Lord would restore his faith. For me, that alone was a victory. At least we reached a place of healing.
But as I sit here thinking about it, it is remarkable how heavy the expectations placed on ministers can be. People forget that we are human, leaning on the same grace we preach.
God is truly the one helping us.
Remember to pray for your pastor today.”
- From Prophet’s Twitter.