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Prophet TB Joshua: ‘I Didnt Forsee John Atta Mills Death. His Death Is A Great Shock And Blow To Me Personally’
TB Joshua
Late John Attah Mills
Speaking with LEADERSHIP exclusively at his Ikotun Synagogue Church yesterday, Pastor Joshua pointed out that he was indeed very sad at the death of the Ghanaian president, saying he did not receive any revelation concerning the death, otherwise he would have intensified more prayers to avert his demise.
The cleric pointed out that the late Mills was like a spiritual son to him whom he cherished deeply. He was the one who even predicted Mills victory as the Ghanaian president and that prophecy came to pass, he stated.
“Mills was a very committed person in the things of God and also very dedicated. Each time he was in church , you could see the fervor and hunger and thirst for God written all over his countenance. He was a very dear son to me and I was his spiritual godfather.
His death is a great shock and blow to me personally,” said the cleric. “Of course, I knew he had been ill for sometime now and he had come for special prayers concerning his health thrice this year, and I and my other ministers had prayed fervently for him. I was so hopeful he would recover his health completely, but it is sad and only God knows best why he should die now.
“I know many persons will be saying how come my fervent prayers did not save his life. All I can answer such persons is, why did GOD allow Stephen in the New Testament Bible to be stoned to death. Why did God not save the life of Stephen, an innocent man, as he was being stoned, dying?
The answer is simply this: sometimes God allows things to happen for unknown reasons, and indeed reasons no man can explain, that is why God is Almighty Sovereign God; who indeed can question Him, who can challenge God?
“When we humanity eventually see God in the glorious city of Heaven, then, can we have answers to all our questions. For now, he can only get a 99 percent answer but never a 100 per cent answer.”
Pastor Joshua pointed out that the late Mills was a very humble and dedicated leader who had many great plans on how to revolutionise the economy of Ghana for greater heights.
He said his death was “indeed a great loss to humanity at large and especially to the Ghanaian citizenry”.
He disclosed that he had done so much concerted prayers for the late Mills’ health and, aside his prayers, he said, the late Mills had also had frequent visits to the United States hospitals – three times this year alone – and yet God still allowed him to die.”
Concerning the ailment that led to Mills’ death, he said the late president was suffering from throat cancer.
The late president Mills had openly admitted that Prophet TB Joshua played a crucial role on his ascension to the presidency and even said so publicly in a thanksgiving service held at the Synagogue Church in March 2009.
According to the late Mills , the Prophet TB told him that the election would travel to the third round before he would be declared the winner, which came to pass. “It, therefore, came as no surprise, when the Synagogue Church of All Nations was the first church he visited in Nigeria, after the Electoral Commission had declared him winner of the 2008 election.”
One of the church members of the Synagogue Church who spoke to LEADERSHIP yesterday and gave his name simply as Bro Stephen said, “I cried when I learnt of the death of the Ghanaian president. You see, the man was a very wonderful, caring man who, when he did his thanksgiving in March 2009, did a lot of things for our church. Also, each time he visited Nigeria, he always came to our church and his visit was always felt in many ways.
“All of us members are sad over his death. Our Prophet TB Joshua is even sadder. But what can we do? God knows best, and I know God will comfort each and every one of us, especially his immediate family there in Ghana.”
Ghanaians mourn, suspend campaign
Meanwhile, Ghanaians are in mourning following the death of President Mills who was due to seek re-election in December. The country’s main opposition party announced yesterday that it was suspending its campaign during a period of national mourning.
Vice President John Mahama was sworn in late Tuesday only hours after Atta Mills passed away, underscoring Ghana’s democratic stability and maturity. No public announcement has been made yet on the cause of his death or funeral arrangements.
Atta Mills was elected in a 2008 runoff vote that was the closest in Ghana’s history.
But questions over who will now step into Mills’ shoes as the candidate to keep his governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in power in December’s elections will inject some uncertainty into the political outlook.
Mills, seeking a second term despite having suffered for years from undisclosed health problems, had already won his party’s nomination to run against the opposition New Patriotic Party’s Nana Akufo-Addo, defeating a divisive challenge from the wife of still influential ex-president Jerry Rawlings.
Some analysts expect Nana Konadu, Rawlings’ wife whom Mills crushed in the NDC primaries, to claim an automatic nomination.
But Alban Bagbin, Ghana’s health minister and a member of the NDC legal team, said the party would hold an extraordinary meeting to pick a new candidate for what is expected to be a tight race for the presidency.
Flags flew at half mast yesterday as the nation began a week of national mourning for Mills, who had served as president since winning a 2008 presidential contest that won plaudits for going down to the wire but remaining peaceful.
“I am personally devastated. I’ve lost a father, I’ve lost a friend, I’ve lost a mentor and a senior comrade,” Mahama said in his first comments after being sworn in before a somber parliament on Tuesday evening. “The fine gentleman that he was, President Mills rightly earned the title ‘Asomdwehene’ (King of Peace). He brought a distinctive insight to Ghanaian politics. He remained humble, honest and modest throughout his years in public service.”
That sense of loss was shared by ordinary Ghanaians too.
Tributes poured in from around the globe from heads of state like US President Barack Obama, who had feted Ghana under Mills as a model and “good news story” for Africa.
Rivals were quick to praise the nation’s handling of the sudden loss. “We are showing a maturity that must encourage all Ghanaians,” said opposition NPP chairman Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey.
Mahama, fresh from a US tour to promote a recently published personal memoir on Ghana’s history, is widely expected to maintain current policies in his caretaker role.
Yet, amid the plaudits for his predecessor, he will inherit the same struggles Mills had faced in managing Ghanaians’ high expectations over the flow of crude from the country’s Jubilee oil field since 2010, and in tackling corruption scandals that have dogged the NDC administration.
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Rated
July 26, 2012 at 3:27 pm
M.H.S.R.I.P
purity
July 26, 2012 at 3:36 pm
May His soul rest in eternal bliss with God
Mojito
July 26, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Ubufi ba TB Joshua you knew, its just that Atta Mills started ignoring you after he became president. You are still bitter about what happened in Ghana, the authorities told you to move your church and the prsident didnt intervene. Before Atta died he had a new spiritual advisor.
Fonkofonko
July 26, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Ba Mojito muli ba bufi. Prove where you got that info.
Mwanamfumu
July 26, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Ba TBJ muli kapaya. Hell awaits!!
NMofya
July 26, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Mercy & favour of God to speak for the family,Ghanains,Africa & the world at large for the loss of great leader.When God say no,no one can say yes.We always praise God for Our Prophet TB Joshual!
FAXMAN
July 26, 2012 at 4:06 pm
TB Joshuah is a real man of God and people need to be careful with what they say about him. Please becareful with what you say about him. You may land in HELL.
Mpanga ya sapa umwenda abakalabene
July 26, 2012 at 4:35 pm
MHSRIEP! Africa has again lost a dedicated son! Go well, you fought a good fight, you run the race and you finished! Farewell Prof. John Atta Mills.
nyatu
July 26, 2012 at 4:43 pm
tb joshua God bless you we thak God to hav you as our man of God, 4 u pipo who hav insafeciety brain to judge the sitiation may God remove that spirit of envie
Pragmatist 2012
July 26, 2012 at 4:53 pm
T.B Joshua just admit that you are a walkling mortal whose faculties are far much much less and incomparable to the Almight God who is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. As a human being born of a woman your discernment of the divine revelations are limited and you can’t load it upon yourself as an all-knowing being. Predicting death of a fellow human being is not a mark of prophetic revelation because every one born of a woman is destined to die one time and this is a divine thing proceeding from the mouth of the Almight God. It is therefore self deception for anyone to claim to foresee the death of someone and seeking to avert it, as if it is not a consequence of God’s words to Adam and Eve after they sinned. While death may be viewed as sinister, it is the only way through which Christ promised salvation and redemption from the original sin. Jesus Christ himself demonstrated that unless one passes through the pain of suffering and death, resurrection is not there. Jesus suffered on the cross and died. He rose on the third day. By dying he carried away all our sins and all of us are partakers of the salvation freely given by the risen Christ on condition that we believe in God and take Jesus Christ as our personal saviour. In baptism death is invoked symbolically. After baptism life is promised.
Edwin Phiri- in luwingu
July 26, 2012 at 5:00 pm
May his soul rest in enternal peace. TB joshua you have explained and we have gotten the message let those who hate you pray for them so that they too change for the better and also have enternal life. its not their wish but evil spirits (satan) in their heart. they need to be prayed for in order for God to open their heart. satan move from church to church, institution to institution, country to country and continent to continent looking for the weak and destroy their future. in jesus name amen. we need just to be care with such people.
wylie eliot
July 26, 2012 at 6:21 pm
fwiti TB.
Dr. Smash
July 26, 2012 at 7:02 pm
As I’ve kept on sayin on this man he knows nothing. Its only dat TBJ had no pre-recorded video otherwise he wud have claimed credit as he usually does. How else can we explain his behaviour or has God left him? He got no powers to forsee nothing!!!
SK
July 26, 2012 at 7:40 pm
No man has the power to avoid death!Saying that if I had known I would have prayed for him to avoid his his demise is hocus pocus, TB is not GOD! We are BORN to DIE.
Mojito
July 26, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Ama Zambians you are so shallow, President was very good friends with TB J but their friendship came to a stand still. Atta turned his back on TB when he went into power, the President was also given a protection ring which TB later took back. You just watch Emmanuel TV, research on the internet it was all over the west african newspapers infact its old news.
Macve
July 26, 2012 at 8:45 pm
That is the more reason why God did not reveal the death of President Atta Mills. His time was certainly up to rest in Gods eternal peace. It is appointed unto man to die and there after face judgement. In all things we give glory, honour and adoration to God almighty creator of the heavens and the earth.
kolyokolyo
July 26, 2012 at 10:04 pm
you guys are not serious!
TB Joshua is all about death and misfortune. He has never predicted something positive.
He certainly belongs to the dark world that have been hoodwinking unsuspicious masses.
view the link for the TB Vs Atta Mills visit.
kapoko
July 26, 2012 at 10:13 pm
pondoooo!
Chapwa
July 26, 2012 at 11:14 pm
He didn’t see Chiluba’s death either but he claimed the Mwanawasa one.TB Joshau was a friend to Chiluba and Mills.Just imagine if it were Bob.
ELIFAT MWANZA JUNIOR
July 26, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Heaven rejoiced when Atta mills died, may his soul rest in peace.
Okwun Chigozie Thomas
July 26, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Daddy you love him but GOD love him most,that is why he has to go so that you will concentrate more on us who are still alive.may his gentle soul rest peace.
Damned to Heaven
July 27, 2012 at 12:56 am
The power of cults is interesting no?
WHAT A DAY THAT WOULD BE WHEN some freaks will finally open their eyes and see that there is no such thing as “an old white man” up in the skies that watches their every move!
Meanwhile stop using ‘God’ as a scapegoat for wrongly branding innocent people as witches, torture, sexual abuse, swindling people of their hard earn money, false hope, religous profiteering etc… we know you!!
AFRICA’S BIGGEST CURSE IS IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS
mugus in town
July 27, 2012 at 1:18 am
….one hand washes the other…so they say… TB and CO. always had to watch each others backS to get to that power!!
it’s a world of greed and hunger for power, where false proclaimed prophets and old school politicians visit ‘sangomas, witchdoctors’ before touching any bibles. tss tss……..
purity
July 27, 2012 at 5:25 am
BUT WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLE. WHEN HE PREDICTS U SAY HE IS LYING, WHEN HE SAYS HE DID NOT, YOU STILL INSULT HIM. MOJITO, ARE YOU HUMAN OR COW? WHY ARE U ALWAYS SPEAKING EVIL AGAINST JOSHUA? HE IS AS HUMAN AS YOU ARE I THOUGHT. JEALOUSY EH? MAY GOD NOT RECOUNT YOUR SINS AGAINST YOU
chela
July 27, 2012 at 6:41 am
believe it or not He is a man of God.the bible says God will not do anything on man accept he reveals it to this sarvants.please watchout.
Tupac
July 27, 2012 at 6:49 am
Mudala wandi its only that you had no clip of what was happening otherwyz you could have talked about it, that’s how the devil operates he even embarasses his own people.
Rotor
July 27, 2012 at 7:45 am
Insoni tbj.
Ex-PF Cader
July 27, 2012 at 9:35 am
@ellifat mwanza jr
please enlighten me by what you mean by “heaven rejoiced wen the man dead”…..
Akez Masambu
July 27, 2012 at 9:58 am
God has a place for all good people including Doctors who save other people and everybody who do good to others. Death is mystery, may his soul rest in peace and may God appoint another good leader for Ghana
Akez Masambu
July 27, 2012 at 10:09 am
Dear Ex-PF Cader. please enlighten me by what you mean by “heaven rejoiced wen the man dead”… If the man has fought a good spritual fight as appointed to him by God, he job is over and there is no more work for him he must go back home to God. John the Baptist came to introduce Jesus christ. After introducing him, there was no more job for him, he ought to return home. I hope this will assist.
big thinker
July 27, 2012 at 10:39 am
Please understand that TB Joshua is a man of God but he is not GOD.He will only reveal to you what GOD has shown him.PRAISE BE TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST.
Y2N
July 27, 2012 at 11:18 am
Only God will judge T.B. Joshua, you and I. So please do not condemn him. I have nothing personal against atbj, God bless him.
Chola
July 27, 2012 at 11:26 am
ali pusa apa……he said he didnt foresee it!!!!! hmmmm bwafya!!!
Godofmercy
July 27, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Condolences to the Ghanians, to Atta Mills you did the most important thing on earth for man to do by giving your life to the Almight God through his only Son Jesus Christ.Indeed your soul is in peace.
Thank God for TBJ
Licholocholo
July 27, 2012 at 1:12 pm
May the Almighty God be glorified. TB Joshua is a real man of God. Think about the Zambian soccer prediction! It came to pass.
analysis
July 27, 2012 at 2:24 pm
TB Joshua you had your eye off the ball. You were probably looking at a lady in the congregation when you should have been concentrating i=on such an important prophecy.
taliban
July 27, 2012 at 3:43 pm
who’s the next to die..pliz tell us
Dr KAPAU WALUBITA
July 27, 2012 at 3:55 pm
It is indeed a shock learning of his demise. John to me was a God fearing political leader. My condolences to the entire country of Ghana.
smash
July 27, 2012 at 5:55 pm
remove this story from your site coz TB Joshua has rubbished this story. The source u got th story from are proper liars… check TB Joshuas page on fb 4 more info
Mukantedwa USA
July 27, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Beware of FALSE PROPHETS like T.B Joshua who are using the name of God in Vain. Paul said even the very elect shall be deceived in the last days and miracle would be performed in the name of God but their hearts are far him.
purity
July 28, 2012 at 3:12 am
@Smash may God bless you.