How I broke cycle of poverty in my family – Pastor Adeboye
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God , cannot be found sharing God’s glory for his greatness. He dreads it.Born and raised in debilitating poverty, it is a miracle that he is this powerful and influential globally.
“Then she begged me, ‘please my boy, Christmas is coming, I will buy you good clothes. Forget about this Grammar School.’“She said, ‘we don’t have money.’ But I replied she would find the money. “For those in the final year, there was a dress code – a white shirt over a pair of white trousers, and shoes to match. I had won a prize, but had no trousers – white, black or red. Shoes? I didn’t even know what that looked like! What was I going to do? They were going to call my name in front of everybody. It meant that I was going to go forward in the only a pair of shorts I owned, barefooted.
“He gave me the sandals and because I had never worn sandals before, I had to practise how to walk in them. At last, the Prize-Giving Day came and, glory be to God, I had trousers and a pair of sandals to wear to the occasion – a pair of borrowed trousers over Odutola tyre-sole sandals. That didn’t matter to me as I walked up there and got my prize.
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