{"id":5802,"date":"2019-03-04T18:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=5802"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:11:40","slug":"if-not-for-gods-mercies-i-would-have-been-dead-pastor-adeboye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/if-not-for-gods-mercies-i-would-have-been-dead-pastor-adeboye","title":{"rendered":"If Not For God\u2019s Mercies, I Would Have Been Dead -Pastor Adeboye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) says he would have been dead if not for God\u2019s mercies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking over the weekend at the Redemption Camp in Lagos as he marked his 77th birthday. the revered cleric said: \u201cBut for God, I won\u2019t be alive today. But for God, this would have been a memorial service.<\/p>\n<p>While urging the people to help him chant hallelujah, he said there is no need for them to find out the details, but to keep praising God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not all testimonies you can share in public. You share some of them, people would wonder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember telling some of my children some moments ago that a certain General Overseer visited me not too long ago and he began to share all that God had done in his ministry and I kept on saying \u2018wonderful, praise God, Glory be to God.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter about one hour, he said; \u2018Daddy, I am the only one talking, you have not said anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I told him, Sir, if I tell you everything God has been doing for me, you will say God is partial. And that\u2019s why some of us can\u2019t say it all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to keep some of them. But there is one particular point that I must make this morning, I won\u2019t give you the details, but for God, I won\u2019t be alive today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would have been a memorial service. But for God! Will somebody help me shout Hallelujah.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) says he would have been dead if not for God\u2019s mercies. Speaking over the weekend at the Redemption Camp in Lagos as he marked his 77th birthday. the revered cleric said: \u201cBut for God, I won\u2019t be alive today. 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