Vertaal - TAMPA, FL --
"It was time for me to go, I knew when I went to the Airport at
Lagos that my journey to Africa was over." John Rice had a
missionary vision to go to Africa and established a missionary
outreach in Liberia. He was once worth more than three and half
million dollars but his heart yearned to do the will of God in his
life. God directed him to go to Africa."
John Rice
spent nine months at the Synagogue Church, Of All Nations he spoke to
the Remnant recently in Tampa about the inside of the ministry at the
Church in Lagos, Nigeria.
"It was
video that was brought to me in Liberia when I was in the struggle of
my life. It seemed as if everything we had done was not going to work
and as I watched the man of God at The Synagogue Church, Of All
Nations the Lord spoke in a small still voice to go see him. He was
the man on the video tape, he was a man of God. I realized that the
controversy that swirled around this man of God could not compare to
what I witnessed at the church. I was invited to be a Junior Prophet
in the church and while I was in the church for just about nine months
I had a chance to be with the other junior prophets and spend time
with the man of God. I was new and the Man of God asked me to go with
him to Korea for his second crusade outside of the Synagogue Church.
The early outreach in Botswanna was a learning experience for the
prophet, it was quiet expensive and Brother Joshua was understanding
the price it would cost to do outside ministry from Nigeria. I was so
blessed by the prophet when he asked me to go with him to Korea for
the crusade. I had just been their for a few months and there were
other Junior Prophets who had more experience than I had. I really got
to witness the Man of God and be with him. I will tell you this, I
don’t care what has been written about him here’s what I learned
about him. He is a private man who guards his ministry from religion.
He refuses to join those who are in ministry where he ministers in
Nigeria. It is his vision to do the will of God as it is written in
the scriptures. He cares very much about how the Junior Prophets views
the ministry. I know many of the Junior Prophets will preach the exact
message that the prophet preaches. Many of them see Brother Joshua as
a mentor, and the prophet speaks to them about allowing God to move
through them. It is very simple as simple as a child sees it, I have
seen some of the greatest miracles and the Junior Prophets who are
around this man of God are following him in the ministry that has been
done by example before them."
"Each
Junior Prophet has a job to do. The Junior Prophets unlike many of the
seminaries in the United States do not date and they live in separate
quarters. There is a conduct of holiness at the church, the prophet
guards that and so do his junior prophets. The young people who
have come here have one objective and that is to serve God and follow
what Jesus has displayed in healing ministry. There are no
professionals here, there are just young people from all around the
world who come here to capture the vision of ministry that has been
honored by God here."
"It is a
happy place to be when you are in ministry. Brother Joshua is not a
complicated man and he reflects the ministry that way. He is a
tremendous man of faith who seeks God in prayer and lead his people to
do the same thing. You will never hear about the talk of money in the
church. People know that it is only right to tithe to ministry here.
There are so many creative people in the church. Many craftsmen and
women serve God here and you can see them preparing church early in
the morning with straw brooms. The one thing that Joshua has that most
men of God don’t have is the love of his people. It’s not about
money at Synagogue Church but its about people who love their leader
so much that they will do what it takes to maintain the church. While
most people have to explain over and over about giving, God’s people
at Synagogue Church support the ministry without being driven to give.
It’s all about the love of the people, when you understand that this
man of God started ten years ago with little or nothing then you begin
to understand that God has honored the humility of this man and has
raised him up for such a time as this. When I heard about the written
articles in Charisma and was told about what was written, I couldn’t
understand why it was written. Seeing Joshua as he is I don’t know
where they got all that information. He is a powerful man of God and
he does things in Pentecost that you would never see in any church
around the world but believe me everything is covered by the word of
God.
He does do spirit writing but
he’s not the only one to ever do this. There were several men in
Pentecost that did things that cannot even be explained. This is
just a sample of the interview with John Rice who now attends the
River Church in Tampa, Florida where Rodney Howard-Browne is pastor.
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