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The Life And Times Of God’s General – Pastor Charles Omofomah

The Early Years Charles Ehidiamen Omofomah was born into the family of Leonard Ereyokan Omofomah and Elina Ahalazoha. He was the third son and third child of his mother\’s six children. His father was a teacher with a reputation for neatness and well known for his excellent handwriting. With limited education, he hungered for greener pastures for his children because his desire was for all of them to be educated up to university level. His income as a teacher / farmer could not make that dream come to reality. In 1966, he left their village, Irra, in Edo State without his family for Kano because he felt things would be better there. After about a year, he sent for his wife and two of his children Albert and Charles to join him in Kano. He secured a job as a clerical officer with Leventis Motors – a job he carried out with great diligence.  Throughout the nearly twenty years he worked with the company, he never went late to work once. Later on, Charles\’ beloved younger sister Odegua, came to join the family and his younger ones, \’Tina and Aiye (both of blessed memory) were born in Kano. While still at home in Irra, Charles never liked farming and would rather stay home with his mother. When he played truant from the farm, his eldest brother, Godwin would want to flog him but Mama Elina, his mother would hear none of it and Charles got away with it. Charles\’ daddy also loved him very much because he was a very honest child and was never found lying. If ever he got into trouble, his daddy was convinced that he was unduly influenced by his more rascally immediate elder brother, Albert, who always got punished instead! As a result of this, whenever Albert and his friends went out on daring trips like stealing mango fruits from a farm, they wouldn\’t go with Charles because they felt that he would not run fast enough and thus was going to get the whole group into trouble! “So Poor That The Poor Called Us Poor” Charles often described his upbringing as being \”so poor that the poor called us poor\”. As hilarious as this may sound to some, it was really an understatement of the abject poverty he and his family experienced while growing up. In Kano, the only affordable accommodation was a room in the marketplace with a gutter passing right in front of it. Apartments and flats were way out of the family\’s economic reach. This room had no windows and one door and the family used a curtain to divide the room into two in order to create a private area for the parents. The hot and arid weather in Kano made it almost unbearable to live in the \”apartment\”. The family could not afford mats (and mattresses were an unthinkable luxury for all). The children would gather empty cartons and packing cases from the market place, flatten them out to serve as mats for sleeping. In the morning, they would then have to literally peel off the cardboard \”mats\’\’ because it would have stuck to their sweaty backs in the course of the night sleeping in the room with no ventilation. Later on they lived on niger street and then Odutola Road. Pastor Charles was a man who abhorred poverty and he often described it as a curse. It didn\’t matter how and where you were born, his message and ministry was that you didn\’t have to stay there and he didn\’t. He stands out as an example of how your background does not define you. People who knew him to the end described him as a very secure person with no trace of an inferiority complex resulting from the poverty he experienced in his upbringing. The key to this was his discovery of the truth in the Word of God. 2. What you know, also know; am not inferior to you. Job 13:2 (NKJV)6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I Will also forget your children. Hosea 4:6 (NKJV) Developing a Work Ethic At An Early Age Poverty stole so much from the family as they struggled tirelessly from one day to the next. Every one had to pool together in their own little way to make ends meet. Charles was a very responsible person even in childhood. He always felt a sense of responsibility towards his family. When the family moved to Kano, he and Albert became proficient hawkers of bread. At about the age of eleven, following a long day at primary school, Charles and his brother hit the streets selling bread right after eating their first meal of the day at home. Their routine was to book down their quantity of bread for the day very early in the morning at the Hope Rising Bakery or Villas Bakery, often as early as four-thirty a.m. The worst thing you could do to Charles was offer him yam to eat after waiting so long for his first meal. He complained that being so hungry, he should not \”work\” to chew the food before getting it into his empty stomach! Even as an adult, Pastor Charles maintained his childhood dislike for boiled yam. Mama Elina got her sons to compete with each other on who finished selling bread first. Charles, who was a little charming pre-teenager, usually went into the nooks and corners of the motor park and in no time people patronized him and his goods sold out – beating Albert to it. At the end of the month the brothers collected their commissions from the Bakery, recorded in their little pass books and gave the money to Mama Elina to help the family. On one occasion, an aunty spotted Charles while he was hawking bread and beckoned to him to

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Overcoming Impossible Situations – Pastor Charles Omofomah

1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. 2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. 3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. 4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. 5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. 6 But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. 7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it. 8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. 9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof. 10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. 11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. Daniel 2:1-11 (KJV) The Scriptures in Daniel 2:1-11 give a vivid account of Daniel, facing and overcoming an impossible situation. King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, and his spirit was troubled to know the meaning. He called the magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans to interpret his dream. However, he wouldn’t tell them the dream; on the contrary, he asked them to tell him his dream instead and also give the interpretation. That way, he would know they were not lying. In response to this, the Chaldeans said, “No one has ever asked this from mere mortals before. It is impossible with men. It is only the gods that can reveal this, and these gods don’t dwell among men”. Verse 12 of Daniel 2 further tells us that the king became very angry and furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be killed. Unfortunately, this included Daniel and his companions. When Daniel heard about this, he did something. In this article, we will learn four very important lessons from Daniel’s response to the king’s request. 15 He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. 16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation. 17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: 18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: 21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: 22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. Daniel 2:15-22 (KJV) Take Advantage Of Your Access To The King The first thing you must know if you are going to overcome impossible situations is that you have open access to the King. Daniel went in and asked the king to give him time. If Daniel could ask Arioch, the king’s captain who was told to carry out the execution, “Why is the decree so hasty from the king?” and after he was told, he went to the king and asked him to give him time, that means Daniel knew he had access to the king. That is very instructive. If you are going to overcome every obstacle and situation that men call impossible, you must take advantage of the access you have to the King. When the Chaldeans added that the dream can only be revealed by the gods, and these gods do not dwell among men, they were in effect saying that they don’t have access to the gods; but you’ve got access to your King. Take advantage of the access you have, and go into His presence, especially when He has given you an open invitation. The Bible says you should come boldly and obtain mercy and find grace to help in a time of need (Hebrews 4:16). No matter what the situation is, take advantage of the access you have towards the King. Take Advantage Of The Time The second thing you must know is that you must take advantage of the time you have. When David asked the king for some time, he didn’t go back to do irrelevant things or while away in dirty jokes; he took advantage of the time he had obtained. Don’t waste your time on irrelevant things, study your Bible, and pray in

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