[0:00]Okay. So, I joined them. So, the first Sunday, they welcomed the newcomers. Normally, I went and after they addressed us, I was I was about to go back. Then Pastor David said, "Hey, young man, come." That's David who calls that? Is it David who calls that?
[0:26]Yes, yes. That's who he was. Okay. So, he said, "What's your name?" I told him my name. I said, "My name is Ezra." He said, "Hi, Ezra. You have a wonderful name." I said, "Yeah, it's my holy name." He said, "Okay, I want you to come on Tuesday to Youth Church." And I was like, "Hey, where is the church?" So, he then gave me the address of the Youth Church. So, on that Tuesday, I didn't go to work. I took permission from my boss, which is Mekachumu. And I went to the church. So, when I went there, inside the church, on that day, I can't mind. So, I went there and I saw people sitting down and all. So, then I asked for him. I went to the pastor to see him. Okay, it was a counseling day, not a service day, a counseling day. So, which program did you, which program did you attend that he saw you? It was just a Sunday service. Oh, at the headquarters, not Youth Church.
[1:21]And he spotted you there and invited you to Youth Church from that place? Yes.
[1:28]Wow. So, what happened then? He just looked at me and said, "Uh-uh, God wants to use you." That's not an issue. That's what people are telling me, you know. He said, "Okay, and he gave me a woman to go and pray for, go and pray with her." And in my mind, I was confused. I've never done that kind of thing before. He gave you what? He gave me prayer points, some prayer points. And I had to go back to him and say, "Pastor, you saw me. What should I do with this thing?" Tell me. You should pray with whom? With one lady like that.
[2:11]He asked you to come and see him and then he connected you with a lady to start praying with you. Yeah, that you should pray with the lady. He counseled the lady because I, when I said that, I will notice that when he counsels, he carries some people, he gives some prayer warriors to pray with them. And me, I was thinking that maybe that's what I want to do with me. You understand? So, he now said, "Ezra, uh-uh, you are a high priest. I want you to pray with this lady." Jesus. I am born and brought up in Assemblies of God Church, right? So, that day was actually my first day in MFM. Okay.
[2:48]So, he said, "Ah, you're the first day?" I'm so sorry, so sorry, so sorry. Your first day in MFM Youth Church, not MFM as a whole. First day in MFM and MFM Youth Church.
[3:03]Wait, let me get you right. You attended MFM headquarters. David spotted you and said you should come and meet him at the Youth Church. Is that what you are saying? No, not MFM, not MFM headquarters. MFM Youth Church, that's at Mukopose because they did a program then. And I went to the program, that's in FC. You understand? Then so, they invited all of us like the newcomers to come to church in at Mukopose Unilag. So, I went to the place. So, after everything, so, when I was going, he called me and asked me to come on Tuesday that he wants to see me. Okay. So, that Tuesday, I went there and like the same happened. So, he gave me the prayer point and I prayed with the lady. I said, "Hey, it's my first time here." Like that's when it was like my first day in MFM that I don't really know anything about MFM. Like, what should I do with this? He said, "Oh, so you don't know about prayer for no, nobody prays for somebody?" I was like, "No. No, no, no, no." He said, "Okay, okay, okay, okay, then I should go to Prayer City for deliverance." So, I went there. It took me some days, like I didn't go because he said I should go that Tuesday. I didn't go the next Sunday. So, I went back to the church and I was hiding from him. But I wanted to join a group. So, he called me and said, "Are you going to the church?" I said, "No." He asked me, "Why?" I said, "Because I don't have money." Right? So, he gave me some money. Then I went to Prayer City. That was my, I prayed for my cousin at Prayer City. And I did their programs. That was like four days program. So, the next Sunday, he called me and said, "Now, I wanted you to come and join my team."
[4:50]So, that's how I joined the team.
[4:54]What's the name of the team? The team, yeah, prayer team. The people that when you counsel them, he transfers them to us. Then we pray for them.
[5:07]I'm listening.
[5:10]So, they keep, I was just doing that until one day, they said, "Hey, Ezra, because then I had a, I had a site at Ikorodu that I was supervising."
[5:25]Yes, I was supervising. So, he said, "I should come and be the prayer leader of the Youth Church, MFM Youth Square Prayer Leader." Just like that? And you just joined the church?
[5:40]Hello.
[5:45]Hello.
[6:06]Hello. The implication is that he must have seen something in you. Hmm. I said he must have seen the glory of God on your life, the hand of God on you. Yes, yes, I think so. So, he said I should become the Youth Church, like, MFM Youth Square Prayer Leader. So, how long did you join before he made you that leader? You just joined the church? Yeah, it's just about a month, something like, it just happened like that, yeah. These people are glory hunters. So, when I joined and I was actually doing good.
[6:48]I was actually doing because then when I finished from work, then around 4:30, I would close. I would take a bike from Ikorodu, that's a roundabout headquarters. I would conduct a prayer before the rehearsal will start. And then some people joined. I will be the one that will run them through prayer then, you know. So, that's how I got close to him because I wasn't close to Pastor Toby really. It was Pastor David, right? He was my boss then. So, we're doing that until one day, I think MFM was looking for somebody that would go to I, to Finland. I can't remember. Okay. They said they want a pastor, they want somebody to help the pastor there in Finland. Yeah. in Europe, yeah. They called me and took me to G.O. That was my first time I've seen G.O. Pastor David then prayed for me. He said, "Actually, this is one of our recruits. He's very he's on fire. He knows because I don't play with the Bible."
[8:00]He said he's very knowledgeable in Bible and everything because they called me the scribe. That's what they call me Youth Church then. So, yeah, they're like Ezra the scribe. He said I know much about the Bible. Coming from Assemblies of God Church. I've been to Assemblies before. They are grounded in the word. Yeah. So, they asked me, G.O. asked me that, "Young man, I want to send you to Finland. How do you want to?" To my amazement, Pastor David, I said, "Uh, sir, I'm sorry, I need to pray about it." He asked me to go to Prayer City for two weeks. He said, "Pray about it and see if you have the leading." I said, "No leading." He said, "It's not that. He said, "God wants to use you." That's not an issue. That's what people are telling me, you know.
[9:30]I said, "You know the reason?" I said, "My mom has six girls, right? She wasn't a Christian then. So, he prayed and asked God, "If you give me a male child, I'll give him back to you." So, I'm like the last one of my family.
[9:48]And the only son.
[9:53]Yes, ma. So, I know right from beginning that God has anointing for me because even back in Assemblies of God, I was a Youth Pastor, and all those things. So, when I told him, "I'm not going." He was like, "Okay, no problem." Then, Pastor David asked me to start working with Pastor Toby. He's his brother, right?
[10:19]He was still at headquarters then, or he was already in Lekki? Yeah, no. This one, we are still in headquarters together. So, this thing you are telling me is a long time ago. Very long time ago. He knows the Youth Church very well. So, all these people that were praying, they were fervent for God. I can still tell you that. You understand?
[10:48]So, he asked me, "You're still praying along, you know in your mind that you're not going to do with that person. To me, that's evil, right?" And I pointed out to him. I said, "This is devilish, Pastor. All these things he's doing, he's not he's not it's not attractive, Pastor." That was attracting rich people in Lekki. That's why when I came out, I went to see Pastor David, I was looking so tired. He didn't allow me to enter the church. Pastor David asked me, "You don't sleep in the altar? People that sleep in the altar, they are the one that you asked. After all, there's camera in the church. Point at the camera and see where I was sleeping." You understand? That's, "You can't accuse me like this." The next thing, look at me. He said, "Even though you are feeling, you are feeling jing-jing, like you are drunk." I said, "Ah, I'm sober. How can you tell me that I'm drunk? You called me, I came here. You answered me and everything. You call for me. I came to meet you. Those ones they are always remembering. He said, "I open my mouth. Smell it. It smell it." I said, "Is it smelling?" He said, "No." He said, "Pastor, why are you asking me?" I said, "No, no, I just want something." So, why did he, is it not the same place that, who is it that they confirmed to Toby that you were smelling alcohol? No, I said Debra, not Toby. I don't know. Okay, I'll call you back.
