God Has Used Us Tremendously For People-Chukwuebuka Obi

Evangelist Chukwuebuka. A. Obi remains one of Nigeria’s most superlative men of God with distinctive passion for spreading the gospel globally and winning many souls to God’s vineyard.
In a recent parley with selected journalists, the amiable preacher of the word talked vividly about himself, God’s work and other topical issues. MC PATO anchored the event, which was organized the founder of CMC, Mr. Cornel Udofia.

As a father, what would you say about the state of the nation as seen from the spiritual realm, and what can you say about the forthcoming 2023 general elections?

I will always encourage my congregation to pray fervently our country because right now things are not the way they are supposed to be. There are many issues threatening the sovereignty of the country, so the state of the nation is honestly not the best.
This is the first time the youths are coming out to fight for their rights, before, you would see the youths storming beer parlours or playing football on the streets but this is the first time people are pushing to get their PVCs. That shows that everybody is ready for change because nobody is enjoying the situation anymore, everybody is affected one way or the other. People are not even safe in their homes and in the bush, and even in the church. Bad roads, no electricity, the economy is collapsing, it is getting worse everyday so that is the situation right now. We are experiencing the hardest time in the history of this country. So my fatherly advice to everybody is that we should vote for the right candidate and we should not depend on prayer alone, as we pray we should go out to vote. We need a radical change in Nigeria because this is the only country where you will see children jumping and shouting ‘up NEPA,’ just for two minutes’ electricity. In other African countries, electricity is a normal thing, people are used to it, but here people will be shouting and in the next few minutes darkness is back again. This is the only country you will see bad roads everywhere and for the past years now our leaders, politicians have been promising us, and they say “l will do roads, l will fix roads,” but all to no avail.The worst of it today is that many of our youthful girls are going into prostitution because there is no job. To train a child in the university, parents will suffer, parents will even sell their lands and at the end there will be no job for them. That is why you see most of our students, graduates are ‘okada’ motorcycle riders and that is terrible. A nation that doesn’t have plan for the youths is like a nation without a future. We are crying that there is no job, everywhere, l can bet it with you that Nigerian youths are very intelligent people, but they graduated and they don’t have any work to do what do you want them to do? That’s why you see high rate of prostitution, high level of kidnapping and all manner of crimes. So, this coming election is one, which we all of us must go out to vote for change and l pray that God will do something different this time around because if it continues like this we will finally get to a brickwall. So, this is my fatherly advice and if you watch my previous programmes, l always pray for Nigeria.

For the benefit of our readers out there, we want to know more about you and how this spiritual gift started?

l am Evangelist Chukwuebuka A. Obi from Imo State, Nigeria. I was born into the family of Igwe Vincent Obi, a royal family. My mum started giving birth after eleven years after marriage. She gave birth to female children and she cried to God to give her a male child, and she made a vow to God and said “Oh Lord, bless me with a male child and if you do it l will sacrifice him to serve you like the case of Hannah and Samuel.” You know Samuel was initiated in the womb of the mum so that’s the same case with me. She said that it was like a vision that she had two boys, l was named while in the womb. She vowed that we are going to serve the lord all the days of our lives; I and my twin brother and we were born in a sanctuary. I grew up to serve God even at the age of 8 years, l had started seeing vision then because if people came to me, l will tell them what will happen tomorrow and that tomorrow it will happen. In my village, all of them know me, at that age l could see a pregnant woman and tell her that she is carrying a baby boy or girl in her womb. At the age of 12, there was a priest they brought to my village then, he loved me so much and cherished the gift of God in my life, the priest is late now. He was the one that told me to never have sex with any woman till l get married. He told me that l will be ministering to multitudes, but that l should make sure it’s not church and the third thing he told me is that “Ebuka make sure you don’t marry wrongly.” He said, “avoid these three things and God will use you greatly and whatever you say shall come to pass.” So then l was scared and it was even affecting my relationships with sisters, if they wanted to come to me l would say “no! no!” In my school, people started coming to me for prayers, l joined charismatics. Then, anywhere the Rev. father was going to break curses they would call me because l could detect something and they would bring it out. There was nowhere the Rev. Father went for the family liberation without going with me. So, it is a gift from the womb. I grew up with it, l never lived a life and said now l am a born again. Even when l came to Lagos and l was at St David’s Catholic Church, miracle flowed. The same thing happened at St. Michael, Obalende, Lagos. I remembered the day one man came to our shop to buy something and he had a very bad wound, smelling one at that and l laid my hands on what l sold for him and the next day the wound dried off and that was the end of the wound that he carried for years. So, my life has been about God. l make sure l keep to the warnings of the priest, especially the one that I should not have sex until l get married. This place is bigger than most of the churches in Nigeria, but it is not a church, it remains a prayer ministry, people come here to pray because that is how God wants it and honestly God has been faithful.

This place is a prayer ministry like you said earlier, how are you able to cope with its maintenance despite the challenges?

Let me answer that question by saying that till today some Pentecostal Pastors will say Catholics worship Mary and that they should stop praying to Mary because she is a human being like you. You pray to the Holy spirit to intervene for you, l listen to them. In John chapter 2, Jesus was invited to an occasion and Mary was also invited and suddenly the wine finished and Mary went to Jesus and said “my son, their wine is finished” and Jesus said “go woman, my hour of miracle has not come.” She left Jesus and went to the steward and passed the message and she said “whatever he asks you to do, do it.” Now, Jesus’ hour of miracle has not come, but Jesus did that miracle because the mother persevered and Jesus was not angry. So, Jesus broke his own agreement with heaven because his mother has asked him. If you read the book of Luke Chapter 1, the angel appeared to her and said “hail Mary, the Lord is with you.” The rosary that Catholics pray with is in the bible, the angel said “hail Mary, the Lord is with you” and Mary was surprised that what sort of salutation is this. The angel said “you are going to conceive and have a son” and Mary answered, “how can they do that. I don’t know any man” and the angel said “don’t worry, the power of the Most High will overshadow you,” and Mary said, “so be it according to your word.” And the angel said “even your sister, Elizabeth that they thought cannot have a child is now six months pregnant.” Elizabeth shouted, “how happy l am that my Lord has come to visit me, immediately l heard your voice, the baby in my womb started jumping up for joy.” So, even the baby in her womb recognised the importance of Mary. Holy Mary is a blessing to all women and this is why it is written that “for this reason all generation call me blessed.” So, if you are not calling her blessed that means you don’t know your bible.This Pastors are just misconstruing the whole thing, Mary is the mother of Jesus and Jesus Christ is our Lord.

Can you elaborate on the ministry?

Like l said earlier, it is not a church, rather it is a praying ministry. People will come even in the night to look for me for prayers, some are helplessly sick. When l was living in Surulere, Lagos, my Landlord would ask me “Ebuka why are people trooping in here to look for you?” They will be threatening me, but l thank God that today the ministry has come to stay. There is no plan to make it a church. I am not called to baptize rather I was called to be an ordinary servant of God in missionary field, field of salvation, prophetic field, field of working of miracles and teaching salvation. Muslim brothers come here to pray and l am just a prophet of God.

What are your plans for the Nigerian Youths?

Well, if you come around here you will see what we have been doing. Honestly, since last year till date l have transformed about 800 prostitutes and by the special grace of God, we are helping them to get jobs. Even some of them have children now. We have a foundation that caters for those issues. Like now we are starting the project from Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Ebony, Abia, Delta, and Rivers State. We are starting with these seven states before we move to Lagos, Plateau, Kaduna and all over the federation. We want to have a psychiatric home in the whole of Nigeria because one of the causes of these problems is frustration. Ebuka Psychiatric Foundation is starting with Anambra project. We will build a psychiatric home and have a bus that will move around all over Anambra State. It will also move to Imo, Rivers and four other states. So, we have a lot for the youths to make them happy.

What is your vision for this fasting programme?

God has been saying so many things to me which has been translated to books and whatever He tells me l do. The Lord told me that l am the voice of the people and that I must speak. You know God can use a woman to help people, she may not be a Bishop, but she can be given the power of revelation. It is not easy to stand against men; it takes the power of God. There was the story of a boy called Emeka, who was playing football in the UK and they told a girl to accuse him and he was jailed, l saw the vision, l prayed for him and he was released.

If you are chanced to meet our leaders, what will you tell them?

The thing is that Nigerians should pray very well for the next general elections. So if l have a chance to meet the leaders, and l have met some of them, l tell them the simple truth but they are adamant. In South Africa, leaders are well respected because of their integrity. I went to a mall in Johannesburg and l saw people kissing the statues of Nelson Mandela. So, whatever you do is what you would be remembered for. l always tell them to do something and leave a legacy. The best way to be happy is to do something that when you leave office your name will be remembered positively; and no evil will ever go unpunished. If you come to me, l pray for you but that doesn’t stop me from telling you the truth because you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.