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Jerusalem prayer tour outmoded - Opoku Onyinah

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  • Mabruda 11 years ago

    Hear, hear, Ghanaians! Men of God, do not be drawn into stomach politics. We already have enough people engaging in this trade.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    USELESS THINGS

  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 11 years ago

    REV:13 WOUNDS.

    The wounds of revelation 13 could not be a wound on a human being. The great book of the bible does not have quotation where the Lord God asked a particular person to wound a human in the head. Which means i ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 11 years ago

    Peter who can barely stood in the public of Rome, lest he would be killed, dare summoning all nations under his feet. When did south American control Africa. Dramani should be removed immidiately from Ghana presidency and JA ...
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  • Nana Koodwaa 11 years ago

    What are you trying to put across? Clarity is very important in communication. Sat it again, please, what do you mean?

  • Aamah 11 years ago

    I don’t get it. What is your point ? Are you blaming whites for Ghanaians intense church going ?

  • Aamah 11 years ago

    My previous comment was for you. You long posting doesn’t make sense. Can you explain ?

  • Ellen 11 years ago

    What is written is wriiten

  • Gabriel 11 years ago

    TO THOSE WHO HAVE EARS LET THEM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS GH AND WHERE EVER U ARE TODAY IS YOUR CORRECT ISRAEL

  • Kojo Samla 11 years ago

    Why did you then travel to Jerusalem in 2012 with some pastors supposedly to pray for a peaceful election in Ghana. At the time you did not refute the news when it came out. I am a pentecostal and was angered when I read you ...
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  • OSAGYEFO 11 years ago

    OH GHANA WHEN? GOING TO ISRAEL AND PRAY IS THE SENSELESS THING FOR A NATION TO DO. ISRAEL ITSELF DEPENDS ON AID FROM AMERICA AND THE OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES. YOU'VE TO BE A FOOL AS A PRESIDENT OR A POLITICIAN TO SPONSOR THIS ...
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  • JOHN Osman 11 years ago

    It is shocking that a president is orgainising a Pilgrimage to Israle and spending so much energy, time and effort onit when there are serious issues to be addressed in Ghana. Shortage of water electricity, gas and medical fa ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    Please be courteous in using words and respect Authority and remember the law of coma. Is good if you have opportunity use it to visit places and gain experiences .If you really listen to News am sure you heard the Presidents ...
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  • MC Anning 11 years ago

    wow, God bless Apostle Onyinah for this light. It's time to worship God in spirit and in truth and not at the mountains of Jerusalem. God bless you man of God.

  • eric london 11 years ago

    If going to Jerusalem for prayers is outmoded,then tiths and offering are also outmoded.Nowhere in the christian bible did Christ authorized christians to collect tiths and offering.Help the police in their investigation to f ...
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  • Nana Asare 11 years ago

    WHO ARE THE SPONSORS, WHY IS GOVERNMENT NOT DEBATTING THIS IN PALIAMENT.

  • Ellen 11 years ago

    Leave the President alone fault finders who have their problems and do not know how to solve them

  • Nana Koodwaa 11 years ago

    Apstle Opoku Onyinah is a true man of God who knows his bible and understand what he preaches. No where in the bible do christians are instructed to go to Jerusalem to pray before God Almighty hears them. There is nothing wro ...
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  • Crow 11 years ago

    Am I missing something here? Didn't read anything in the article that suggest the POTROG is sending anyone to Isreal for prayers.

  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Look at a pentecostal talking as if the Bible was not written for our admonishment.

    The question to Apostle Onyinah is , why didn't Jesus pray in the temple ? Why did Jesus retreat to the garden of Gethsemane and not in hi ...
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  • Kwame 11 years ago

    When a person believes that his parents who take good care of him are sinners in accordance with the belief of the Abraham religions it means that that person does not respect and defend his own dignity and freedom of conscie ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    You are right how many people in Ghana do not go on excursions and even do not want to travel outside to have an experience if the opportunity comes. President even came out with an explanation but still people are still slee ...
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  • Daakye Kwabre MP 11 years ago

    Hello Nyame Ekuma, I just wanna say I don't know my bible so well but literally I think what Apostle Onyina is saying is correct if we can apply conventional wisdom to the information he is giving us. Please try to reason dee ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    We are not talking abt salvation here, but a pilgrimage or excursioin to the Holy Land, just to bear witness and to help us preach Christ with all faith and assurance of of salvation and the evidence of scripture.

    If a fre ...
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  • Asoreba 11 years ago

    LET'S CALL IT WHAT IT. THE GOVERNMENT USING THE COUNTRY'S MONEY TO DO FAVOURS TO THEIR FRIENDS

  • authentic 11 years ago

    Nyame ekuma be very careful with your utterances,what has the man of God said wrong?from the way you speak, I see you don't know Christ much less knowing the scripture.may you be forgiven for your unguarded political talk.i ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    Pray for urself and ask forgiveness from God.

    Jesus said "A certain rich made made a feast and inited noble people like Apostle Onyniah and co". When they turned down the invitaton, h called for the pooor people and the pu ...
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  • Adobah 11 years ago

    Onyame Ekuma, let it be known that the apostle is by no means stopping you from doing your pilgrimage as you choose to. All he is saying is you "Don't go to Sokoto to find what's in your Chokoto" It's okay to come back from t ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    I laughed throughout when reading ur comment. Thank u for making my day. Now listen.

    U never answered to the question. When blacks from the diaspora visit ur castles, do u know the inspiration that they gather for themselv ...
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  • Nana Koodwaa 11 years ago

    Are you just writing for writing sake or what? Do you understand what Apostle Opoku Onyina says?

    All what he said was that any true christian believer has God's Spirit living in him/her. Before Jesus's death and ascension, ...
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  • Poluwaski 11 years ago

    Look at one of those causing confusion with aberrant ignorant. it is written.. my people perish for lack of knowledge. There is nothing wrong if you want to visit Israel for historic and archeological purposes but there is no ...
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  • Nyame Ekuma 11 years ago

    P Olu waa, are u listening to urself ? Read ur comment over again and see ur contradictions and how u talk on both sides of the mouth.

    A double minded person is unstable in his way ....
    Carnal people always like Judas, w ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    That is your opinion

  • William Boachie-Ansah 11 years ago

    PLEASE, PLEASE.... GET OUR CHAIRMAN OUT OF YOUR POLITICS!!! SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, APOSTLE DR OPOKU ONYINA HAS BEEN TEACHING ON "WORSHIPPING IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH" WHICH IS OUR THEME FOR THE YEAR. HIS MESSAGE IS BASED ...
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  • Daniel S.A.Y Boateng(DCN.) 11 years ago

    Aps.it is my prayer that The Most High will continually reveal His mystery in his word and words of wisdom and the courage to deliver insightful messages in times like this.

  • Frank,Maryland 11 years ago

    Mr Mahama, I am completely dissapointed at this business of going to Israel to pray. Tell me which country in the world ever developed through prayers. Besides is God a Jew? If you had campaigned on this theme I well never ...
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  • Theo 11 years ago

    What on earth is happening to our dear Nation? why would any person or group of people spend thousands of precious dollars on a trip to Jerusalem to pray for the Nation? It is a complete waste of money, absoluteley pointless ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    Please listen before passing invalid comments The Presidents is not sponsoring any group to Israel and this is not the first time I heard people going on such a trip ,people do travel on their own others sponsored by friends ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    May the Almighty God open your eyes of understanding and deliver you. only unbelievers can made such a statement. Prayer also count in developing a country along side our human knowledge and effort. even pagans pray to their ...
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  • DOKORDOKOR 11 years ago

    MR SOFO IS IT WRONG FOR CHRISTIANS TO GO TO JERUSALEM TO TOUR THERE AND PRAY?. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GO THERE TO TOUR AND PRAY?.MR MAHAMA WANT TO BUILD TIES WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHICH IS A GOOD THING ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    God bless you but do not insult man of God.

  • Adom 11 years ago

    I cannot help but agree with the Chairman. The. Formulae for worshiping God n has changed. Pastors should not cash on trips to Isreal As trips to see God. God is every where including Ghana.

  • Fakum 11 years ago

    All these pastors are the supporters of NPP, the terrorists party, will never accept defeat in any election.During 1992 election, prayer meeting was held at Kumasi cultural center to pray for the nation. These pastors were te ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    Whatever it is God will continue to be God of Ghana. no amount of stumbling power can shorten Gods hand for the Presidency.Go,go,go The chosen man of God Jm God fearing and a humble anointed President from a unique Region

  • Ellen Mensah 11 years ago

    i don't blame the writer of this article. he doesn't know how great our God is so he begins the Apostle's name with a capital letter and God nd Jesus with small letters. pls note and correct it. God forgive you.

  • Agyakwakuo Twumpuduo 11 years ago

    I take exception to Daily Guide's use of small letters for God. Our God is bigger than the writer whose names always start with capital letters.
    We have: God not god;
    We have Jesus Christ not jesus christ.
    Show unto the GH ...
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  • BB 11 years ago

    These Pastors agree to go to Jerusalem shows that they are fake. God is everywhere. So these fake pastors in our Motherland need to be carefu. A time will come when they will asnwer their Lord. Our so call Mahama needs to cha ...
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  • Awotwe-Tigyimah Isaac 11 years ago

    Why Jerusalem.Please the writers the word is God not god

  • belinda 11 years ago

    God is every were so dere is no need of going 2 any where

  • Dilys 11 years ago

    Is it the Mahama led sponsorship which these men of God dislike or what?

    My pastor was in Jerusalem some few years ago and he was pleased the founder of the church made it possible for him to attend.

    Today Jerusalem is ...
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  • Adobah 11 years ago

    Dillys, Jerusalem is still important in history and in current events. Why because this city is claiming so many lives of to good nations. Children of Jerusalem have become so greedy that they cannot share to live in peace. T ...
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  • mr ayivi godfred 11 years ago

    we ghanaians needs prayers for the betterment of our dear nation.

  • Akua Shebang 11 years ago

    "...but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word" (Isaiah 66:2b).

    "For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the ...
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  • Agonaba 11 years ago

    Israel,ododo.

  • Mankind 11 years ago

    Dr. Opoku Onyinah, I just agree with you a thousand percent!!

  • Adobah 11 years ago

    Agya Onyina Thanks heavens, You have nailed it right in the head! God bless our homeland Ghana. Amen and Amen!

  • TRUE WORD 11 years ago

    Truely, this 'apostle' is questionable? and does not have the Spirit of God. First of all as believers of Christ we all know Our Sovereign God is Ominipotent, Ominipresent, Ominscient. Israel from Genesis to Revelation has al ...
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  • Salifu 11 years ago

    "Jesus said unto her, Go, call your husband, and come here. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, You have well said, I have no husband: For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have ...
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  • Adobah 11 years ago

    Great contribution!

  • TRUE WORD 11 years ago

    these men of God that have opposed this trip, mark them one by one, God will have His final SAY. If this pilgrimage was motivated in innocence and a desire to support christianity and to bless the nation then they have not op ...
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  • ABK , Chicago 11 years ago

    Ghanaians must stop behaving like savages. How long go did we hear the white man who brought Christianity to Africa call on God for a solution to their problems? Manna no longer falls from Heaven. And even if it did, it would ...
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  • jack 11 years ago

    Bunch of idiot Ashiantes who is suggesting such abominable idea. You can't even feed your people you want to wast 2mill in Jewish state so that they will make more bombs to kill Palestinian idiots. You'll need to go some wild ...
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  • AKAN 11 years ago

    SICK AND CORRUPT MAHAMA WILL LOOSE EVERYTHING AT THE END!

  • no name 11 years ago

    Is the writer serious? why spell the name of Jesus Christ with small "j", "c" and God small "g" respectively. Respect God and Jesus Christ, even if you are not Christian.

  • Akosua Afriyie 11 years ago

    God is every where, it doesn't matter where you stand or go and ask for anything from him. But in the ancients of days people believed that travelling all away to isreal where a lot of miracles happened, truely their prayers ...
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  • Sarskoberta 11 years ago

    God is everywhere is nowhere.
    Go figure.
    Beats Me.

  • William Boachie-Ansah 11 years ago

    PLEASE, PLEASE.... GET OUR CHAIRMAN OUT OF YOUR POLITICS!!! SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, APOSTLE DR OPOKU ONYINA HAS BEEN TEACHING ON "WORSHIPPING IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH" WHICH IS OUR THEME FOR THE YEAR. HIS MESSAGE IS BASE ...
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  • George Boye Augustt 11 years ago

    The man of God (Dr Opoku Onyina) really articulated formidable religious ideas and propounded spiritual directions both in the old and new why going to Jerusalem might not be all that necessary.Should that also be misconstrue ...
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  • JOHN Osman 11 years ago

    It is shocking that Mahama is orgainisin a pilgrimage for some men of God to Israel for prayers for Ghana at such a cost when the country is short of electicity, gas water, aannd medical facilities. Where did Maham and his a ...
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  • Isha 11 years ago

    Ghanaians this funny I told a friend from Israel she laugh until she fell. Please some pastors open up your brain.

  • OPINION 11 years ago

    I agree that God is everywhere but why do we go to Church? Every Christian should have remained in their homes and Worship there. You see, I am disappointed with Christians; we can easily compromise. What is bad about Christi ...
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  • MARTIN 11 years ago

    Jerusalem and Mecca in present day must be places where devout go on pilgrimage,to imbibe practical spiritual knowledge from living Saints. These divine custodians of the WORD are in daily communion with the Creator of creati ...
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  • MAHAMA IS CORRUPT 11 years ago

    MAHAMA IS INCOMPETENT,CANT DO THE JOB,ONLY ON POWER TO CHOP,WOYOME CHOP FREEEEE,EI GHANA PAA NIE,GOD SAVE GHANAOOOOOOO

  • steven 11 years ago

    dont say that again were always there is a bomb in the market in schools church u call there holy grounds dont u watch the CNN. BBC

  • Concerned Member 11 years ago

    If this report is true then the Church of Pentecost, as a chairman you have to clearify this: The pastors and thir wives in the USA branch of the church went to Jerusalem 2-3 years aga at the espense of their districts who ar ...
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  • Member of COP 11 years ago

    It was Women's Movement which organized that trip to Jerusalem. The Womens' Movement of Church Of Pentecost, USA INc., invited everyone to join them. The cost involved was $5,000.00. Individual pastors who joined the Women's ...
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  • Concerned Member 11 years ago

    If you are a true member, call Houston assembly Presbyters and found out who paid for the trip or Call Pastor Saka, now in OH and asked who paid for his trip.

  • Member of COP 11 years ago

    My District pastor did not go. I am a presbyter and I have not heard that individual District pastors who went were sponsored by their Districts.After all, if COP as church, not Ghana government, sponsored its pastors to visi ...
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  • tHE sHAKARA 11 years ago

    I have followed your argument, albeit hollow your points of claim are. You succeeded to convince me that your understanding of "district" in the hegemony of your church has confused your notion about "government." Every poi ...
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  • COP 11 years ago

    For your information, Houston district paid for Pastor Saka because that order came fro National head, if not Saka need to be dismissed from the ministry ASAP! What benifit did the Houston assebly get from that visit? The ass ...
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  • SMH 11 years ago

    why is "Jesus Christ" typed in lowercase?....smh!

  • Member of COP 11 years ago

    The writer has no regard to Jesus Christ, our Savior. Whatever they write, it does not affect the deity of Jesus Christ in any way. He is King of King and Lord of Lords.

  • Sarskoberta 11 years ago

    Glad to know Jesus is not God but a deity.
    The modern man's imagination is always at work.
    If Jesus is a deity, then God is an illusion.
    How believable?
    Beats Me.

  • ACHIPELLAGO, YONKERS, NY, U.S.A 11 years ago

    YES, OSOFO ONYINA, I SHUDDER TO CALL YOU AN APOSTLE, BECAUSE CHRIST HAVE ONLY GROUP OF APOSTLES WHOM HE CHOSE (MATTHEW 10:1-5)BUT YOU CALL YOURSELVES AN APOSTLE? WHERE IS YOUR SEAL OF APOSTLESHIP? (2 CORINTHIANS 12:12)ANYWAY, ...
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  • Bush 11 years ago

    To start a name of somebody, country or a supreme God with a small letter portrays lack of respect for the person in question and grammatically in correct. To understand what am dragging at, please check how the reporter deli ...
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  • Ellen 11 years ago

    It might be a mistake and if not he needs an education on that

  • alex 11 years ago

    what is meaning of john4:20-24

  • alex 11 years ago

    read john 4:20-24

  • Concerned Member 11 years ago

    For your information, Houston district paid for Pastor Saka because that order came fro National head, if not Saka need to be dismissed from the ministry ASAP! What benifit did the Houston assebly get from that visit? The ass ...
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  • BIG - JOE -moscow/kharkov/minsk 11 years ago

    Opoku Nyinah what have you to show?
    Gospel bragging alone is not enough.. Anyone has right to visit The Jewish Land ...I disagree with your comments you are toning political due to your displeasure with the politicians or t ...
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  • Yaw Panyin 11 years ago

    john4:23"Jesus said,:Woman,believe Me,the hour is coming when you neither on this mountain,nor in Jerusalem,worship the Father,....

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