The founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide and Senior Pastor of Faith Tabernacle, Bishop David Oyedepo, has condemned the rising wave of killings and insecurity across Nigeria, calling for a seven-day nationwide prayer for divine intervention.
Speaking during the 4th Pre-Shiloh Encounter Service on November 23, 2025, Oyedepo expressed deep concern over persistent attacks on worshippers and communities, he described the growing violence as “unacceptable” and “a direct assault on innocent lives.”
Addressing the congregation, he said, “The Church of Christ in Nigeria is indestructible. The gates of hell cannot prevail against it. Nigeria will never become an Islamic state. Never, never, never. The battle is raging. The Islamic jihadists are running. But we belong to a higher realm of authority.”
The cleric condemned the perpetrators of the attacks and those he accused of sponsoring the violence, pronouncing a curse on them.
“Five people were shot dead in a church last week. Thirty-five abductees can’t tell where they are. And they are demanding a hundred million from a village setting.
“Every perpetrator of these killings and their sponsors come under a curse today,” he said.
He lamented the rise in kidnappings, which he said had turned into “big-time business,” with criminals demanding huge ransoms from poor communities.
Oyedepo urged members of the church, and Christians nationwide, to participate in seven days of intensive prayer beginning at midnight, describing it as a spiritual response to the worsening insecurity.
“When this church prays, God hears. All who are baptised in the Holy Ghost will join me in praying extensively in the spirit. By so doing, we are sending angels on a run. There will be catastrophes.
“There will be catastrophes. There shall be catastrophes. In the camp of the wicked, there shall be catastrophes,” he said.
He also instructed congregants to anoint their homes and workplaces as “no-go areas” and to take spiritual responsibility for the protection of their families and communities.
Everyone of you, anoint your houses, anoint your business places, and sprinkle the blood as a no-go area for every day. Today, human trade has become a big-time business. It’s worse than the scourge of slavery.
“You pick someone and say, you should bring 700 million. My God, who are you? Everyone behind it, in the name of the Lord Jesus, within the next seven days, they are smelling.
“They are stinking. It’s done. Let’s come away to our spiritual responsibility. And break the arm of the devil from tormenting the lives of the innocent,” he added.
Oyedepo vowed that attacks on church members would no longer go unanswered, saying a spiritual operation would commence at midnight.
“I’m asking every living winner, no matter how much anointing you have for sleep, that anointing is broken. Amen. Amen. Amen. As the Lord lives, who sent me as one of the watchmen over this nation. This shall not continue.
“12 midnight tonight, the operation begins. Satan is in trouble.Its agents and it is arrayed, in the name of Jesus. Any member of this church touched, equals fire and brimstone, in the camp of the enemy. I’m saying so by the Holy Ghost. Go and try it,” he said.
