The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, spoke on how he battle abject poverty as a young man.
The renowned cleric, made this revelation while delivering a sermon on Sunday themed ‘Perfect Gift’, broadcast live on his Facebook page.
Adeboye noted that while growing up, his parents were so improvished that they could not afford to buy him shoes till attained 18 years.
He narrated how things later turned around for them after his family belief in Christ became deeply rooted.
Adeboye said his life exemplified illustrated how God can change the indigent to the rich.
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He stated, “Some of you who know a little bit about my background, you know when they talk about people coming from a rocky background, that means from a background of hardship. My own rocky background was rock among the rocks. My father was so poor, (that) poor people called him poor. The elders have a saying, when there is hardship for the husband, and hardship for the wife, there must be hardship for the children.
“The hardship rubbed off on me. For the first 18 years of my life, I had no shoes. My father was so poor. The day he bought an umbrella, we were rejoicing, but look at me today, look at what Jesus can do, He can change the poor to the rich; change the unknown to the known.”
