{"id":26205,"date":"2020-05-07T08:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26205"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:25:27","slug":"churches-cant-open-but-people-can-go-to-markets-oyedepo-kicks-against-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=26205","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Churches can\u2019t open but people can go to markets\u2019 \u2014 Oyedepo kicks against lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Oyedepo, the presiding bishop of Living Faith Worldwide, has kicked against the revised lockdown directives which prevent churches from operating.<br \/>\nThe Federal Government had placed a ban on religious and social gatherings as part of measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 but markets have remained open.<br \/>\nDuring a programme titled \u2018Covenant Hour of Prayer\u2018 on Wednesday, Oyedepo questioned why markets could be opened for six hours daily while churches have remained closed.<br \/>\nThe 65-year-old cleric also said God spoke to him about the situation on Tuesday, adding that the \u201cvoice of darkness\u201d has now targeted churches in the country by influencing people at various levels.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is something wrong; for people to be allowed to be in the market for six hours and can\u2019t be in church for two hours, it is an upside-down way of looking at things,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cWhich one is more orderly? The market or the church? I can smell a rat. The Lord spoke to me on it so strong yesterday.<br \/>\n\u201cI can smell a rat. Behind all this, how do we stop the church from exploding? The people involved don\u2019t know it.<br \/>\n\u201cThe voice of darkness is influencing people at various levels, targeting the church because the growth and expansion of the church is the greatest headache of the devil.<br \/>\n\u201cBut the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The devil and all his agents shall surely pay for this. I don\u2019t know what hospital that records the kind of healing that the church of God records.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd now hospitals, where people die every day, are open, but the church is closed because the oppression of the devil has no medical cure.\u201d<br \/>\nChris Oyakhilome, the founder of LoveWorld Incorporated, had earlier scolded pastors for shutting down their churches in compliance with the federal government\u2019s ban on religious gatherings.<br \/>\n\u25aa By <strong>TheCable<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Oyedepo, the presiding bishop of Living Faith Worldwide, has kicked against the revised lockdown directives which prevent churches from operating. The Federal Government had placed a ban on religious and social gatherings as part of measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 but markets have remained open. During a programme titled \u2018Covenant Hour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5772,7],"tags":[1570,1343,1571],"class_list":["post-26205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-faith","category-news","tag-churches","tag-markets","tag-oyedepo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}