The General Overseer (GO) of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has admonished pastors and believers to desist from giving prophecy without hearing from God.

According to him, long before the Nigerian elections in 2023, people were agitated as to who would become the next president, saying that they put pressure on him to tell them what the outcome of the elections would be.

He said: “Even with all the pressure, I made sure not to say anything I had not heard God say because I knew that it would be a lie. I told them a few weeks before the election that God has still not spoken.”

Adeboye also said that in the latest devotional book, ‘Open Heaven,’ released, yesterday, September 18, 2024, excitement pushed him to give a fake prophecy some years ago when he was much younger in ministry without him waiting to hear from God.

“When I was younger in ministry, I recall prophesying that a particular airline would never suffer loss because I was excited over their services to the church. I prophesied based on my feelings without hearing what God had to say.”

“Not long after, the airline suffered a plane crash. I should have just prayed for them and blessed them for their benevolence, rather than giving a prophecy in my excitement. I learnt my lesson from that – if God has not spoken, I do not prophesy,” he further said.

Adeboye, in the Open Heaven family devotional book devotion, said that whenever a prophecy is given based on feelings, that prophecy is false, and the Bible describes people who do this as fools, saying that a true prophecy is an echo of what God has said.

The cleric’s message during the devotion emphasised that true prophecies come from the mind of God.