By Philip Nwosu
General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Daniel Olukoya, has urged Christians to actively seek spiritual power to fulfil their divine destinies.
His call came during the opening ceremony of MFM’s 35th anniversary celebration, last Friday at Prayer City on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
In his address, Olukoya emphasised the importance of spiritual power.
“Today, the need for power is crucial. You must be willing to pay the price to receive this power.
“This power is God’s strength within you, enabling you to overcome challenges. It represents knowing what should be and ensuring it becomes reality, removing obstacles from your path,” he said.
Olukoya reflected on the church’s journey, celebrating 35 years of divine grace and supernatural manifestations and said: “We have experienced 35 years of God’s raw power, signs, and wonders. It has been a period of seeing God’s glory, reversing the enemies’ plans, and a time of extraordinary presence and unpolluted love of God.”
The anniversary event, themed: ‘Power From on High’, marks three and a half decades since MFM’s inception in 1989.
Olukoya expressed gratitude for the church’s growth and the continued manifestation of God’s power in the lives of its members.
Shade Olukoya, wife of the general overseer, highlighted the significant role of women in Christian ministry, drawing on the example of Eve to illustrate God’s unique purpose for women.
“The creation of the woman was a process that demonstrated God’s passion and purpose. Women are uniquely positioned to fit into God’s plans,” she said.
The anniversary convention provides a platform for the church to showcase and celebrate the extraordinary manifestations of God’s power over the past 35 years, with a focus on continued spiritual empowerment and growth.
“It has been 35 years of the extraordinary presence and unpolluted love of God in our midst and in the lives of those who have found in the Mountain of Fire and Miracles, a place of refuge, a haven of succour, a fortress of God’s raw power, a fountain flowing with God’s word to give fulfilment to those who are spiritually thirsty, dry or empty and a divinely empowered school where your hands are trained to war and your fingers to fight.
“From our small beginnings in 1989 to this minute, the Lord has been gracious to us as his privileged and favourite children. We give Him all the glory. We give Him all the honour and adoration.
“Our 35th-anniversary convention offers us another chance to showcase and celebrate the supernatural and explosive manifestation of God’s unstoppable power in ways that are strange and unbelievable.”
In her sermon, Shade Olukoya said women have very important roles to play in the Christian ministry as they fit into God’s unique purpose.
“The passion of God for women in the way he handled and perfected the making process of the woman was wonderful as we can see in the case of Eve. The making process was important to God because he put the woman together to fit into his purpose, therefore, women are very unique,” she said.