“Anyone That Would Go Into Full Time Ministry Must Be Personally Convinced- Idowu Oluwaferanmi
By Oluwafemi Dosu
Veteran Female Actor and Movie Producer, Evang. Idowu Oluwaferanmi has stated that anyone that would go into full time ministry must be personally convinced before going into it.
She stated this recently during during an exclusive interview with Gospel Film News.
Oluwaferanmi reiterated that when it comes to issue of ministry, the person that is called of God must have personal conviction, because you can not advice a person to be doing the work of the ministry if the person is personally convinced of either to be a full time or a per time minister, saying if the Lord has instructed a person to be a full time minister, that instruction from God will help the person, will sustain the person but if the Lord has not told the person to be on full time, eh man will eat o, (you don’t advice someone to go in full time ministry).
“Whosoever the Lord has given the grace to do some other things, allow the person to do it, because he/she will carter for the family and will also need to sustain him/herself, especially if the person is renting or hiring a place of abode he will be paying for that and there are many things we need to carter for on daily basis. If the Lord has instructed you to be on full time, that instruction will uphold and sustain you. Even if hunger is killing you, you will know that it is the Lord that has asked you to go on full time. But if the Lord has not told you, why not,” she added.
She told Gospel Film News that there is nothing bad in adding another thing, to the work of the ministry, saying she doesn’t see it as something that is bad, just like KSO (Kolade Segun Okeowo) in one of his messages that ‘Other children of Hannah.’
According to her, when she was called into full time ministry, the experience she had, if she had it then she wouldn’t have closed the shops she had, she would have left her job as a professional secretary, and she would not have closed down the business center she had and her husband’s interior deco workshop where he keeps his works (furnitures) after working on them.
“We would not have closed those businesses but because we didn’t have enough experience that was why we did that and we suffered for it. But why we were able to go through that period was because we had conviction, if it was someone that advised me to do that, I would have gone back to pick up my certificate. So if you have the opportunity of doing another thing with the work of the ministry, if you are not a Civil Servant, because if you are a Civil Servant you may not be free, if it is business carry on,” she stressed.
