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Owusu-Bempah replies Otabil over ‘God does not choose leaders’ comment, affirms Mahama presidency prophecy

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  • Dungeon Master 1 year ago

    These one-man (one-woman) conceived churches, which have pollinated across the country and continent, are destroying people's faith in God in the name of prophecies and whatever will bring them money. Meanwhile, those preachi ...
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  • Jimmy 1 year ago

    BOTTOM LINE, Y'ALL PASTORS, PROPHETS AND KOMININI OF TODAY ARE PLAIN LIARS. NO GOD HAS CALLED ANY OF YOU. THE PRIDE AND ARROGANCE YOU GUYS EXHIBIT IN THIS VILLAGE CALLED GHANA IS AS APPALLING AS IT IS CRUDE. MONEY IS THE GAME ...
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  • Mr. Parables 1 year ago

    Was he talking to Owusu Bempah? Or telling us about his beliefs. I agree with the divine authority of leaders and kings died with voting by universal adult suffrage. It is backward thinking for backward people a prophesy is d ...
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  • P Djamgbe 1 year ago

    Owusu Bempah is a fake man of God and a fraud, and Mahama certainly doesn't need him to win the election - because the NPP is going into opposition come what may. My only problem with Mensah Otabil is, where was he when Owusu ...
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  • Bobby Stones 1 year ago

    Otabil has forgotten his scriptures because of politics, I do not in anyway support Owusu Bempah. But the Lord God Jehovah still rule in the affairs of men. When we call upon HIM in times of trouble HE does answers. Its the s ...
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  • EBBY 1 year ago

    Bobby Jones, please tell us just one person God chose to lead, that had to go through a voting election system? There’s none. In the olden times God chose a leader and imposed him on the Israelites who were under the laws o ...
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  • Gerthy 1 year ago

    Well Said. Ghanaians lace up your boots and run fast from these con men and women

  • M.T 1 year ago

    You may not agree with paster Otabel on religion or philosophy, but what he has said is the exact truth. God wants the best for us but has given us the free will to chose. Everyone on the ballot has been chosen; some of them ...
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  • Truthbetold 1 year ago

    If i may ask, did God choose Hitler to lead Germany in his time?Did God choose King leopold of belgium to kill 20million congolese? did God choose Mobutu and Idi Amin? then maybe god should relax and allow us choose our own ...
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  • Foolish questions..just like unbelievers asking... 1 year ago

    If God is good why do we suffer...or die..

  • Yes, God chose them all 1 year ago

    God chose even Judas Iscariot.

  • Judea 1 year ago

    And Akufo Monkey

  • Kweku Tsin 1 year ago

    Otabil 1 vs kurasinii Owusu Bemps 0. God may choose a leader of a church or a theocracy. Ghana is neither of the two as we come from different faiths.. This is the case of "give unto caesar what belongs to caeser, and give on ...
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  • Oprege 1 year ago

    The problem with these nincompoops is the media giving them a platform ! Ignore these scammers and their fake prophecies gets lost with them —- Fake Men of God !!

  • Rob 1 year ago

    1 hour ago
    JOHN D MAHAMA IS THE SAME JDM REPACKAGED BY NDC WITH THE SAME MINDSET TO DECEIVE GHANAIANS. HE IS AN OBSOLETE CARGO!
    VOTING JDM INTO OFFICE AGAIN MEANS THERE IS NOBODY IN GHANA NOW WHO CAN EVEN BE EQUAL TO HIM AN ...
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  • The truth will always defeat lies 1 year ago

    It doesn't matter,,,,all our leaders are the same,,,JDM was bad ,,, people were affected for not giving Ghanaians constant electricity supply,,, understand Nana Addo and Bawumia hardship,,,,so what is the difference,,, both N ...
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  • Kweku 1 year ago

    Bob, we still had the good talents you are talking of but we chose Akufo-Addo. The hatred that some of you have for Mahama is with a passion. Bawumiah, who cannot answer the very questions he posed for somone eight years ag ...
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  • Thomas Craig 1 year ago

    Owusu Bempah stop this nonsense. Clearly you don’t understand what Dr. Otabil said. Stop portraying Christianity as a religion for idiots who can’t read and understand the Bible.

  • Johnny 1 year ago

    Thank you my friend.What Pastor Otabil meant was that God cannot select a leader for a Corrupt Society like Ghana and Nigeria bcoz we are all rotten.

  • And this makes sense to you??? 1 year ago

    I wonder how you feel after writing this rubbish!

  • Joe 1 year ago

    Otabil was clearly playing the tribal card! He's upset because owusu bempa is predicting a directory for ndc! The last time he did the same for npp it was not an issue for mensah! Otabil is just a fruad!

  • kwame niger 1 year ago

    are we refeering to good heart or good policy to make the country great or just heart as we are referrring to its crazy, heart and feeling does not work here we need people with good policy not just good heart as heart does n ...
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  • Anane 1 year ago

    I now understand why Ghanaians are suffering more under Akufo Addo than Mahama because God never chose Akufo Addo for us yet he wanted to even built a national cathedral.

  • God might have chosen Nana Addo to punish 1 year ago

    Yes, sometimes God chooses leaders to punish the people. I strongly suspect Nana Addo is one of them

  • Truth 1 year ago

    Mr. Anane, well said. I love reading your comment.

  • Nii 1 year ago

    Between Mahama an Bawumia, l prefer to choose Mahama to Bawumia because, Bawumia is a key actor of this failed government. If Bawumia can't proffer solutions to a problem he is part of, then how can he solve the problem when ...
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  • Blue Pen 1 year ago

    Excellent, Nii. Besides, no one, in their right senses, would hand his business, much less a nation like Ghana, to a renowned LIAR and DECEIVER, a person who is not trustworthy.

  • Blue Pen 1 year ago

    And we all know that Bawumia is a renowned LIAR and DECEIVER, untrustworthy person.

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 1 year ago

    @Blue Pen:
    CALLING BAWUMIA A LIAR WITH NO CONCRETE PROVE HAS ACTUALLY MADE HIM MORE FORMIDABLE OPPONENT AND A NEMESIS TO THE NDC AND THE JOHN MAHAMA CAMPAIGN. EVEN THERE’S RESEARCH THAT BOLSTERS MY ASSERTIONS!

    Look! T ...
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  • TALLERSTER NICHOLAS 1 year ago

    STEPHEN DONKEY EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN WELL!!
    I feel sick when I hear people like you defending a government which has performed abysmally in office. Who in his right senses will prefer somebody who is part of a government which ...
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  • Kwame K 1 year ago

    @Stephen Donkor, what proof again do you need to see that Bawumia is a liar; just one is enough and that is "If the Fundamentals are weak the foreign
    exchange rate will expose you".Did Bawumia say this or not and has he no ...
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  • Jonas 1 year ago

    People will always blame the government in power for their hardships but the only way out is to work hard or figure out how to better your own life because no government will suddenly come to power and wave their magic wand t ...
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  • Kwame 1 year ago

    @Jonas stop being disingenuous, what happened during JM's stewardship, nothing happened so far as most of us are concerned, whatever you guys think happened was lies you fabricated to paint JM black and today it has come to l ...
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  • Ashley 1 year ago

    Was Mahama able to solve Ghana's problems when he was the President? We had dumsor and so many other hardships. The value is the same and the only difference is that Mahama was in charge as President and Bawumia has never bee ...
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  • Nana kwame 1 year ago

    Dumsor which was not created by Mahama but a generational and inherited problem caused by lack of foresight by earlier Presidents was solved completely by creating excess capacity for power.
    So tell me one biggest problem Ak ...
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  • M.T 1 year ago

    So you don't know that creating excess capacity of power that we paid for without utilizing was a financial lost to the state? After he left power his successor had to continue borrowing to pay off this recklessness yet they ...
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  • AAA 1 year ago

    I totally agree with you, if Bawumia couldn't help Nana Addo to fix the rotten economy, implement proper family values, and stop Galaxy, then he should just forget it of becoming a president of Ghana.

  • Mary 1 year ago

    The NPP are smart in packaging and repackaging bad products but Ghanaians will show them the reality in the market come December 7, 2024 general elections.

  • Atdu 1 year ago

    Your Go1 is international thief , drunkard and a womaniser he will remain one term president till death

  • SayNoToBawumia 1 year ago

    The suffering is real. To get employment into the public sector, you need to hold at least Ghc20,000.00 to bribe your way in. Why? It's too bizarre to be a Ghanaian.

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 1 year ago

    @Say No to Mahama:
    OWUSU BEMPAH’S PROPHECIES ARE MOSTLY SENTIMENTAL THAN REALITY, THEY ARE BORNE OUT OF HIS OWN RESENTMENTS AGAINST THE NPP! IGNORE HIM!

    OWUSU-BEMPAH HAS PROVEN THAT HIS PROPHECIES ARE NOT BIBLICAL AND ...
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  • Whiteman 1 year ago

    Mensah Otabil is saying this because the prophecy is not in favor of Npp. I don't know what John mahama has done to this man n he hates that so much . Even your bank was collapsed by these Npp guys n yet u r supporting them. ...
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  • Opuni 1 year ago

    If prophecy is anything to go by then no one will win this 2024 election because soo many prophecies have come out and it goes in favor of both JDM and Dr Bawumia. Some of us are asking do we have many God

  • Mental charter 1 year ago

    No new testament examples or I missed it

  • Is Christ ascension not new? 1 year ago

    What's your point

  • CLERGYCRACY 1 year ago

    Ghana is descending into a CLERGYCRACY! Imagine if imams begin to endorse and also prophecy leaders into power, Christians will start freaking out. Clergy men must know their limit in politics. Let the people choose

  • Kwame Peter 1 year ago

    So God told this man whip says he is a prophet of God that a leader/president of 30 million people who sold these people for €5million is a man of good heart,which God is that? Is he the God of Isaiah in the Bible? Fellow G ...
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  • Mama Tula 1 year ago

    Yes, indeed I also disagree with Pastor Otabil God does not choose leaders. If that is the case then God is not God since the Bible makes us to understand that there is nothing we do here on earth that is beyond God.

  • Kubut3 1 year ago

    GOD selected Hitler , Pol Pot , BOTHA , LENIN AND THE REST . GOD HAS NO HAND IN THE LEADERSHIP OF THIS WICKED WORLD. IT TAKES THE WISE AND THE ENLIGHTENED TO REALIZE THAT. I BELIEVE WE ARE ALL GODS CHILDREN, HE IS U ...
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  • Nana Kwaku 1 year ago

    The deeds of a leader would show that he is God chosen. Lenin after his death has shown that he was God's choice for USSR.B4 Russian revolution 1 - 2 loose their life every winter bcoz of hunger.After the Russian revolution ...
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  • Knowledge 1 year ago

    Asa much as I don’t support Owusu bempa I also disagree with Mensa otabel. Now let educate you here since you lack biblical and theological knowledge. The Israelis were scattered throughout out the regions of the world spec ...
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  • Francis 1 year ago

    This is what happens when you dont read scriptures with research. Ghana and for that matter the rest of the world are not ruled by God. In other words we don't have theocratic governments therefore God will not choose our le ...
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  • Kojo 1 year ago

    Owusu Benpah don't know what he is talking about. Apart from the nation Israel. Where in the bible can he show us God choose a leader. Even now God does not choose a leader of Israel. In the new testament where did the apost ...
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  • Peter 1 year ago

    But many references made in the Bible don't apply today yet Chrisstisns hold on to them in this day.

  • The truth will always defeat lies 1 year ago

    Who wins election doesn't matter,,,I see all our leaders as someone without natural feelings for the poor... without natural wisdom,,,,say good things in opposition do worse things when in power,,, what kind of people are we, ...
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  • Peter 1 year ago

    You said it all. Well dine

  • Nii 1 year ago

    Please we'll want to plead with the law enforcement agencies to stop these prophets before they cause chaos ooo

  • Peter 1 year ago

    When I was a kid there was nothing like a man of God. In the last thirty to forty years individuals through churches have evolved into ego leaders and living large life styles and arrogate to themselves social leader status b ...
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  • Citizen8 1 year ago

    What sin at all have we committed in this country such that God wants to punish us with Mahama as our next President? Aaaba are we the only sinners in this world? Anyway, God kindly have mercy on us and let this Mahama cup p ...
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  • Peter 1 year ago

    But Mahama is not as shameless as Akuffo Addo the intellectual thief. This is man who stole speeches of two America Presidents and fraudulently presented the wonderful ideas and inspiration in them as his. He never apologized ...
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  • Citizen8 1 year ago

    Please Nana Addo isn't on the ballot paper for the 2024 elections.

  • Peter 1 year ago

    Citizen you must be proud to have had this man as your president. That is why Bawumia can in an interview say that's one of the biggest achievement in the North is the Pawulugu dam. Bawuliar. Just like his boss

  • KB 1 year ago

    I guess you were proud to have Mahama as your president. One man's meat is another man's poison, we all want different things in life, that is why we are not all supporters of one party. In the same way you people said Kufuor ...
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  • Very interesting 1 year ago

    It will be wonderful if Otabil will reply to this man mostly because he called him a bad man chopping bank money . This man doesn’t respect.

  • Peter 1 year ago

    This govt saved Otabol from being tried. And he Otabol knows it. That is why he is quite.

  • pa 1 year ago

    But you can send evidence for his trial.
    Mahama we are done with you. You are history with nothing proper to point to.

  • Maame Abenah 1 year ago

    Owusu-Bempah, God's work is done by those who are called. It is a calling, yet the Bible speaks of false prophets. There are those Prophets that the Bible clearly says that God will say to them " I never knew you." What do yo ...
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  • Joe 1 year ago

    If it’s true that God doesn’t choose leaders for countries, why is it stated in the BIBLE that the kings of Israel were chosen by GOD? Read from 1Samuel to 2Kings.

  • Kweku Tsin 1 year ago

    Natanyahu was ELECTED by the people.

  • Obaapa will rej.......... 1 year ago

    You are still living in the dark, man!
    decipher well from Otabil's sermon. Apart from Israel no country's president is chosen by God.

  • Eda 1 year ago

    As christians , The Bible is our guide and Owusu Bempa has sited examples from the Bible to disprove Otabil. With all the ills happening in this country, where was Otabil? Now he is finding his voice, he is no longer watching ...
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  • pa 1 year ago

    Site one example where God re-enthrone.
    You are not needed mr Mahama

  • Grandpa 1 year ago

    My simple question is who chose mensah otabil is God that chose him or he chose himself and lying to the people all this while his a man of God because he said doesn't choose a leader

  • Enough 1 year ago

    Owusu-Bempah where do you stand in politics? Are you for (NPP or NDC) come out and tell Ghanaians period.

  • Agya Yaw 1 year ago

    Owusu Bempah can't you keep quiet and give us a break

  • Mahama is unfit 1 year ago

    Ghanaians have been blessed to have had Akufo Addo as their President. His efforts to develop Ghana are unmatched. He has made Ghana a success story in Africa. Mahama was a dunce who was only interested in slay queens and cor ...
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  • Mambo 1 year ago

    You can’t be serious

  • kojo 1 year ago

    Otabil is right. God has no knowledge of his leadership of his church. Personal interest made him to set up the church to cash out on poor Ghanaians in the name of God who did not know anything about his church.

  • Afro Moses 1 year ago

    I can’t laugh to help Mahama have a good heart.How on earth does a greedy bastard who chop all the meat and left the bones possessed a heart?Mahama whom supervised cholera killing Ghanaians but using the money to buy vaccin ...
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  • SamTee, USA 1 year ago

    Your role and God's role in every elections:

    Proverbs 16:33. It reads:
    "Voting is made by the people but it's every decision is from the LORD"
    It confirms Daniel 2:21. "He removes Kings and appoints other kings."

    It ...
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  • Mambo 1 year ago

    For once I respect Owusu Bempah’s response

  • Whiteman 1 year ago

    Some of you commenters are saying these because ur family or yourselves r part of this corrupt govt. Let's wait to see who's truly a man of God. If prophet owusu bempeh words doesn't come to pass then u can say whatever, but ...
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  • Miagy Soft 1 year ago

    Mensah Otabil, you need to be consistent so that i or we can believe you.. When Owusu Brnpah was at it in the upbeat to 2016 and 2020 elections, you heard all this, i guess u had not started watching animal kingdom at the tim ...
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  • Unite Africa 1 year ago

    Pastor Otabil is right. What he is saying is that in the Bible God appointed his own leaders for Israel His nation because the people accepted Him as their God and depended on Him for direction. In our case we depend on ourse ...
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  • Lies is not Good ,Otabil. Stop and just stay quiet like u hv been b4 now. 1 year ago

    When God chose kings, judges ,there was nothing like presidents. So if we go by what they teach us in the bible, then, Otabil in today's world it's presidents that lead countries like ours not kings and church pastors like yo ...
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  • NANA OPOKU 1 year ago

    One of them is afraid of going to prison.

  • Osei Boamah Agyemang 1 year ago

    If ndc dont win it means that God you serves is not the real God who made path through the sea is not the greatest of all kings and all the heaven and earth because He don't lie and his prophets also dont lie about what He te ...
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  • Young 1 year ago

    Thus is how bkacjs behaves
    Otan , p3s3 menkomenya ne Abro
    In 2016 and 2020 This same pastor prophesies that the Npp is going to be in government , we didn't hear pastor mensah otabil speaking against such prophecies but to ...
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  • Nicholas Kyeretwie 1 year ago

    Yes i agree with Pastor Otabil that Almighty God is not the one choosing political leaders for nations today. The Almighty has given that job to we the citizens. The fact that God choose leaders and Kings for nations in the p ...
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  • Obaapa will rej.......... 1 year ago

    Listen to yourself! Didn't O.B say that JM can never be a president according to prophecy?

  • BOYIIMEN 1 year ago

    If i may ask Mensah Otabil did God choose Hitler to lead Germany in his time? Did God choose King leopold of belgium to kill 20million congolese? did God choose Mobutu and Paul pot of of Cambodia for those countries? Because ...
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  • Pelicles 1 year ago

    To Owusu-Bempah. Did your God tell you that a pathogen call covid is coming in 2019 to shut down the entire world for two years including your church?

    These people are nothing but fake, scammers who tricks the ignorant to ...
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  • Sam T 1 year ago

    Otabil goofed!

  • KOFI NSIAH 1 year ago

    WE LOOK AT MESHACH, SHADRACK AND ABEDNAGO THE SONS OF GOD IN A A PREPARED FURNACE BY NEBUCHADNEZZER , BUT GOD HANDS ON THEM AND THE FIRE COULDN'T TOUCH NONE OF THEM. SO ALSO THE HANDS OF GOD ON DR. BAWUMIA OF NPP WHO WILL B ...
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  • The Senator 1 year ago

    Totally disagree with Otabil here.
    Didn't God choose Moses, Saul, David, Solomon and many other leaders?
    Equally, people choose their own leaders also.
    God is not in the business of controlling people but expects them to g ...
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  • Samuel 1 year ago

    As for Otabil, he is confusing himself. Sometime ago he said God chooses people to become presidents or leaders. Is his biased nature against the NDC haunting him?

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  • Whiteman 1 year ago

    If you read the book of Acts you will see that after the death of Judah Iscariot the apostles played a lot to choose between two men, but the scripture says the Holy Spirit (God) was involved. Why would a mature christian say ...
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  • pa 1 year ago

    God help the prepared but Will never impose.

  • Ivory Mensah 1 year ago

    Otabil is another con man. Greedy. Selfish. Wolf and hyena. Playing on the stupidity of fools.

  • Ameobi 1 year ago

    Otabil scored zero on this point respectfully. If God seizes to choose leaders then God seizes to choose teachers. I know otabil don't read the Bible,and when he reads, he reads to suit himself. Did we sent him to the guilot ...
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  • ankoma 1 year ago

    Last comments in the question form? So Bawumia and npp must stop campaign , all ghanafour goin to vote for npp must now vote for ndc? Paula white who is the tele evangelest in USA was asking God to bring angels from Africa to ...
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  • Kofi 1 year ago

    Ghanaians will be better off if they used commonsense and left these so-called men of God alone.

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  • Slow 1 year ago

    God appoint leaders and not through any election. Once there is election which can be rigged and proven so many times in Africa and even develop countries, I don't see God in it. God can not be 'mean' to us to appoint thieves ...
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  • WGoku 1 year ago

    YES GOD DOES CHOOSES LEADERS ALWAYS.

  • Righteous 1 year ago

    Owusu Bempeh is 100% spot on about this. May God bless you sir.

  • Cc 1 year ago

    Someone who doesn't know the Bible calling himself man of God. Go to wise men like Mensah Otabil to Learn the word of God

  • Gogetam 1 year ago

    Owusu Bempah the ignorant illiterate’ prophet’ did not understand what the learned Pastor Otabil said and talking rubbish.

  • WODENNR 1 year ago

    OWUSU-BEMPAH there no more Prophet in this World!!! Be advice, anything in the SCPRIPTURE is advice to mankind. Yes, you have power BUT is IDOL not from God.

  • TrueTrue 1 year ago

    Otabil is 1000 % right!!

  • Watchman 1 year ago

    Owusu-Bempah’s reference to Abraham, Moses et al shows his lack of appreciation for the application of context. Abraham and Moses did not campaign to be leaders. They were not presidential candidates of any political party ...
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  • Stone 1 year ago

    Owusu Bempah please when God chooses a leader God does not need stupid humans to Vote for that person. There's no democracy in God's plans. God chooses leaders and imposes them on Nations. Did anybody vote for Moses? Or Joshu ...
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  • Prosper 1 year ago

    Exactly boss man

  • Francis 1 year ago

    Do newsmen purposely go to Owusu Bempah's church for these news?

  • CLERGYCRACY 1 year ago

    Ghana is descending into a CLERGYCRACY! Imagine if imams begin to endorse and also prophecy leaders into power, Christians will start freaking out. Clergy men must know their limit in politics. Let the people choose

  • Prosper 1 year ago

    This is truth and untruth in the sense that ; God chooses leaders bhu not through votting . We vote by choosing our own leaders , bhu in the old testament , God Himself ordained his people into office by sending His Prophets ...
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