Who was TB Joshua?
Temitope Balogun Joshua was the founder of the Synagogue, Church of All Nations. He was one of Nigeria’s most popular televangelists but was perhaps the least flamboyant of his peers.
Tens of thousands of people have attended his weekly services in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos.
His rise to prominence in the late 1990s coincided with the explosion of “miracle” programmes performed on national TV by various pastors.
TB Joshua was often mocked for lacking the finesse of his colleagues during “deliverance” sessions – an intense prayer that resembles exorcism.
His ministry professed to heal all manner of illnesses including HIV/Aids and attracted people from all over the world.
During his life on earth, he was a charismatic pastor, televangelist, and philanthropist who inspired many lives through various means.
Below are some of his Powerful Quotes about life and Christianity.
- Let us learn to dream again. To learn to dream again is to have big plans. To learn to dream again is to readjust, to look to God
- If you turn to God once, He will turn to you a million times
- In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning
- If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow’s joy
- If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.
- You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you
- It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God’s goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.
- In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose
- Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.
- Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God’s Word points you to life
- A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don’t let your situation mislead you
- Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.
- No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.
- We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing
- The word ‘grace’ means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
- Don’t try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you’re not that unique. And that’ll matter to other people as well.
- Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.
- I can create institutions, but I can’t rewrite the chips in people’s mind.
- Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody – and that grace is the opposite of merit – human labour, education or human
- Our lives are in God’s hands. We have no control. We can’t control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
- It is praiseworthy when you give not only to your power but beyond your power.
- Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done
- The purpose of life is to glorify God in both good and hard times alike.
- If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance.
- Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world
- Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all
- They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, shall be healed, delivered and set free. Be set free, in the name of Jesus Christ
- Don’t wait for a more convenient day to discipline your mind
- If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are fighting the wrong battle.
- Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.
- Don’t envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked Seem to prosper now and live without a care but they will spend eternity in terror and despair.
- The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.
- Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.
- I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon.
- True humility means total dependence on God for everything.
- Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.
- See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.
- Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.
- Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place
- Education is not success but it is to help us succeed.
- Faith does not ask for possible things; it demands impossible
- There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God’s power, nothing is impossible
- As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing
- The blessing of God enriches the soul for eternity while that given by the world enriches the body temporarily
- You can read, think and pray all day but unless you live in God’s Word as well, you will miss the point. The Word helps man walk with God, receive from God and fulfill God’s will on the earth.
- Knowing facts about God does not change our relationship with Him. Our relationship with Him can only change us when we have taken God’s Word to heart and truly made it part of us.
- Deliverance attracts enemies, persecution. The moment you are delivered, your enemies increase for the success you are looking for is honey to the enemy. They are there to strengthen your desire and determination for God.
- Your past is forgotten. Never think of those things that lie behind but look forward to what lies ahead.
- Remember your future, your future is your life.
- That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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