Lead Pastor of Streams of Joy International and Convener of New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declarations (NSPPD), Pastor Jerry Eze has shared a very powerful, touching and inspiring story about his mother.
Pastor Eze, who runs a YouTube prayer channel praying over prayer requests received from thousands of followers over the globe every morning at 7:00 am, disclosed that his mum was a single parent before she died.
“While she was on the hospital bed and I was with her. She already knew I have a passion for ministry and then she looked me in the eye and made two powerful statements ‘as you preach, please tell every young girl that they have no reason to be single mothers’,” Pastor Eze recounts.
Eze went to further to narrate: “Secondly, every child needs a father. If Adam was not necessary, God would have created Eve alone.
“We understand that there are Fathers who are not really playing their roles as fathers. Fathers who are heartbreakers, fathers who don’t really deserve to be called a father.
“But it still doesn’t take away the fact that this is the way that God has designed it for our families to thrive.
“The father of the house might be a stupid man, but he remaining in that house is a major lesson for the children. He might not be the man you want him to be, but his voice, each time he raises it in the house, leaves an impression for your children.
“My mum’s greatest pain was that her children didn’t turn out well because there’s something a woman can do and there’s what a man can do.
“She tried to do everything, she was the mother, she was the father, she was the counsellor, she was the provider and so on. She died of heart failure because she tried doing everything herself.
“It may be fashionable to be a single mother now, but ten years from now, would you still be proud that you took the right step?
“Your children may not tell you but, there were times when we were mentally abused. We went out there to play with other children, and they just threw a word at us “go and call your father”.
“Whenever I come back and ask my mother who my father was, she would just breakdown and start crying. I never went on to ask her other questions but I knew how mentally scared I was.
“Please let us put these things in proper perspective. No matter what men have done to you. Please, there’s always a man somewhere that’ll make you smile”.
TNG reports Pastor Eze, champion of ‘what God cannot do does not exist,’ marked his 40th birthday on August 22nd.