19/10/2024
===A Brief History of Okejebu Orimolade (Msose Orimolade Tunolase) Prat2===
Written by Pastor Chukwudi Solomon AAmba Ssador
1. OKEJEBU MOSES ORIMOLADE, THE WONDERFUL BOY ENTERED THE CHURCH, A GREAT LIGHT SURROUNDED HIM.
When He was about eight (8) years old, he entered into the church called ST. STEPHENS CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (C.M.S) in the night. The pastor of the church whose house was near was hearing a MELODIOUS SONG from the church building, the voice was like THE VOICE OF ABOUT A HUNDRED PEOPLE. He was curious to see what was happening in the church, for nobody notified him of any service during that night. He came out and saw the GREAT ILLUMINATION IN THE CHURCH. “who are these? Where do they have electricity?.” He asked. (For Ikare village had nothing like electricity at that time). T
Then Okejebu Moses Orimolade quietly answered him in his corner “WE ARE”. Then the pastor asked again: who are you? Where do you hide your face? Then Moses repeated, “HERE WE ARE”. He had not finished when the song started again.
The words of the song are as follows (see our hymn book for the tune)
On the Mount above Jordan
I’m called, I’m called
By my favorites that had gone, that had gone
I like to enter eternity with them.
2. ORIMOLADE YOUNG COMRADES LOOK ONHIM AS AN ANGEL
Many people were now taking notice of this wonderful boy among his young mates. When Orimolade sang , his mates always looked highly on him and many Elders were thinking of what the boy would become in life, for he was now different from the way of his parents. Songs that had never been heard from anybody would be rendered by him. His brother OMOJOLA who used to carry him on his shoulder to the farm told the family that he would no longer go to the farm with the boy, for he always sang on the farm and he could one day sing himself to heaven like that; he didn’t want people to say he k!lled his brother.
3. ORIMOLADE’S PARENTS TRIEDD TO CUT HIS HAIR SHORT
Orimolade’s hair was becoming ABNORMALLY LONG and the parents decided to cut it short. After the usual customary ceremonies for cutt!ng the hair of NAZARENES they used the first razor blade and it broke, the second also broke. After using TWELVE (12) RAZOR BLADE and all broke they left the hair like that. It was this hair that always become POINT OF ATTRACTION AT HIS EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGINSIN LATER YEARS. The hairs would all rise on his head and be like umbrella when sermons reached the climax and after sermons they would come back to their position.
4. ORIMOLADE’S ILLNESS AT YOUTH
When Orimolade was still a young child, he fell seriously ill, to a state that the mother had lost hope. The brother did not even think that he could survive. He was ill for seven years. Water directly from the source was most common in his food. But when it was time for God to manifest His glory and to reveal to man what the boy had come for, that is the gospel and spiritual warfare with the world of darkness, the Lord showed Himself to Moses in his dream telling him that is was time for him to start his ministry and this the Lord in the same dream gave THREE GIFTS:
a. The staff of victory over satan and his disciples
b. Power and authority of prayers that whatever he wanted, he should ask and would be given to him
c. A crown which stood for the glory of God which was manifested in him and which made people see the greatness and fearfulness of this glory.
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