Osogbo community, It was Bishop David Oyedepo grand motherwho nurtured him in Christian life via the early morning prayers which she attended with him everyday. She also taught him the importance of tithing.
Bishop David Oyedepo Biography History And Early Life David gave his life to christ “born again” in early 1969 through the help of his teacher name wetheld, who took special interest in him during his high school years. He was said to have studied architecture at Kwara State Polytechnic and worked briefly with the Federal Ministry of Housing in Ilorin also before resigning to go fully into the ministery or missionary work. Oyedepo alsogot his Ph.D in Human Development from Honolulu University, Hawaii, United States of America.
Bishop Oyedepo got a mandate from God through/with the aid of an 18 hour long vision in May 1981 to save the world from all forms of oppression of the devil by preaching of the word of the lord.This is the unambigious vision that led to the establishment/founding of the Living Faith Church World Wide first called Liberation Faith Hour Ministries, in 1981 before it was later changed.
Bishop David Oyedepo Biography Two years after in his ministering, on 17 September 1983, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, ordained bishop david oyedepo and his wife, Florence Abiola Akano (now known as Faith Abiola Oyedepo) to become pastors also officially commissioned the newly started church of Oyedepo. Five years after to be precise, david Oyedepo was ordained a Bishop and to be the fore runner.
Living Faith Church well known as Winners Chapel tookoff in Kaduna, but later moved to Lagos, former capital of Nigeria in September 1989 to commence a new branch of the Church, after receiving an instruction from God to reach out and connect to the population in Lagos and the world as well.
Bishop David Oyedepo Biography History And Early Life, This Church in Lagos grew and expanded to earn the International headquarters of Living Faith Church in nigeria,with a constantly increasing flow of crowds flooding over to adjacent roads, and on decks of uncompleted structures nearby,making people to stand for hours to listen to His wonderful teachings.This led to the building of the renowned Faith Tabernacle, as instructed by God.
The hurriness of the construction of Faith Tabernacle was breath-taking, pondering the size of the building. Construction of this mighty and largeproject was completed within 12 months that's a year, which experts claim could only have been a miracle, because such a project should normally take a minimum of three years to complete. Reports also claimed that this building was built debt free.This 50,000-seat edifice was dedicated on September 18, 1999 under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo then former Mr president.
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