Ghana’s economic distress needs intercessory prayers, not chaos-inciting comments—Archbishop Amaniampong

By Daniel Adu Darko

Accra, Nov. 30, GNA – The presiding Archbishop of Schambach International Ministerial Council (SIMC) Rt. Rev. Schambach Opoku Amaniampong has urged the clergy to be the bearers of hope and encouragement in this time of economic hardship.

Men and women of God should offer intercessory prayers for God to help the nation with a solution, the Archbishop said.

Rev Amaniampong made the call during a media engagement after the 33rd graduation and ordination ceremony of the Schambach Theological College (STC) at Kotobabi in Accra where thirty graduates were initiated into four dimensions of Christian ministry.

Archbishop Opoku Amaniampong advised the clergy to support the nation in these difficult times with prayers rather than aggravating the situation with comments which have the tendency to plunge the country into chaos.

He added that men and women of God, especially the prophets, should be circumspect in divulging revelations about individuals and the nation so as not to cause fear and panic in homes and the country.

“I am always careful in delivering any prophecy God has revealed to me about the country. I handled the message with wisdom because one revelation can bring chaos to the nation. I will use this occasion to advise all men and women of God in this country that at this point, Ghana needs prayers for God to help us out of this predicament.

“We should not say things that will bring calamity into the country. We are already experiencing hardship we need God’s intervention”, Archbishop Amaniampong said.

“If you are a prophet and God reveals something to you about your members, you have to deliver the message respectfully or if the revelation is about the country, you have to be in your closet and pray and intercede for the country. Don’t say the prophecy in a manner that will bring fear and panic into the country”, he added.

Again, he advised persons who claimed to be men and women of God who, due to hardship, had resorted to defrauding or scamming people, and joining cults for survival to desist from it, as they were going to account for the “work of God” they were doing.

“…whatever evil any man or woman of God is doing, they should stop. When you are upright with the work of God, you will receive blessings from God”.

He said that since he had been faithful to God’s work, a lot of blessings had come his way, from the time he joined the ministry with a few clothes only in a polythene bag as possession.

Archbishop Amaniampong disclosed that the Schambach Theological College (STC), to change the narrative about the business of the Kingdom of God, has been training many Pastors, Prophets, Rev. Ministers and Apostles to begin God’s work with the fear of God, intensive prayers, obedience and humility.

He also said that Schambach International Ministerial Council (SIMC) was set up to help upcoming men and women of God without fathers in the Kingdom business with advice and direction to change the fake prophets’ tag hanging on the prophetic ministry and other ministries.

Schambach Theological College which was established in August 2003 has trained about 15,000 leaders including Archbishops and Bishops active in the work of God both in Ghana and abroad.

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