FACE TO FACE WITH THE "SEX PASTOR"

AHAMZIE: Beyond Sex…Purity, Power, Purpose

HE is tall, slim, sprightly and good looking. He has the voice and diction of a professional broadcaster and the dress sense of a fashion model. And he likes to talk sex. All of which makes him a complete ladies’ man. And he could very well have been one, had God not arrested him. But God did, and what the women of the world lost, Christian women, young and old, and their men have gained. Yes indeed, Rev Dr John Akachi Ahamzie likes to talk about sex. And he does it with a passion. No, not the animal passion of a playboy; but the purist passion of a man who understands God’s purpose for sex, and how satan has perverted it. He does with the passion of a man totally committed to saving his generation from the dangers of sex sins and the heartaches its poor understanding within marriages causes. So totally committed is he to this specialized ministry that, Ahamzie, who pastors Holy Fire Overflow Ministries with headquarters at Ogba, near Ikeja, capital city of Nigeria, Lagos, runs a weekly radio programme on it. The programme, “What’s All This Noise about Sex,” airs on Star FM 101.5 on Sunday mornings. In this excerpt from an interview with KINGDOMPeople magazine, he talks about how he came about talking sex; and the morality among Christians:

Kill me, God, if I continue in sexual sins

While growing up, I had some struggles with masturbation and some sexual sins. Two to three months after I became born again, the struggle still continued. So, I entered into a vow with God that if I fornicate or masturbate again, kill me. Now those days I belonged to a fellowship, a singing group of business men fellowship. In one of our meetings, our leader said he made a vow that he would not masturbate again, and if he did, he should fall sick. After about six months he broke the vow and he was struck with a strange illness. The people around him were trying to give him drugs but he refused. Instead, he went into a private place to pray to God, to forgive him for breaking the vow and promised to henceforth keep the vow. He became well immediately. This was the same day I made my own vow. So, from this man’s testimony I knew that I was in a serious business with God.

Sex on the Radio

Each time I shared this testimony with people the reaction was always the same: it is impossible for a man not to fall from time to time and God will always forgive. In the course of my encounters with different kinds of people, I started to receive revelations from God which I started writing down. That was what gave birth to my first book “Sex and Satanic Agenda”. When I finished the book, there was nobody to sponsor it. So, I hid the manuscripts some where. But there was this lady who travelled to America. While there she attended a programme. When she came back, she said “pastor when I traveled, I had a wonderful experience in a programme I attended. I want you to do something like that I will sponsor it.” Then the Holy Spirit said to me to ask her, “do you mind if I talk about sex on radio”, and she said, “just anything”. So, I went to Raypower but their rate was very high. I did not go back to her. But, she kept calling me back and forth until my wife told her “don’t mind him he is afraid of the cost”. The woman said, “never mind I’ll pay.” But God used that to save us from a situation; In the process I met a man who said I should come and pay N5,000 for fifteen minutes everyday on Star FM. I paid for three weeks and called the woman and told her I want you to listen to Star FM at so and so time and see if you like the programme. The people in the studio were laughing, saying among themselves “this man is crazy; what will he be saying about sex for three weeks?” But, it was a blast and she came and said it was interesting that I should have the money.

Sex is one topic that many people don’t want to talk about, a lot of people sneak in here to seek healing and counsel on masturbation, adultery and other sexual related issues. I have personal programmes for people to clean up and they go back to their churches. Also I discover that the devil was working in two ways. He is working in the life of the youths and singles to go into sex and drink from it freely when they shouldn’t. And in the life of the couples, who are supposed to be drinking from it 365 days a year if they have that kind of Solomon anointing, but the devil is working so hard to ensure they don’t. So even in the church you have a lot of adultery, lots of women come to me and they say “pastor, I know you are going to say the Bible say this or that, but, if my husband continue like this I’m going to get a boy friend”. I’m not talking of young Christians but the very old ones; women that have been married for seven years, ten years or even more. As more of such cases were coming up, I felt the Lord saying to me “balance the message; to the youths: ‘don’t; abstain’; and to the married, you have to find a way to help them get together.

Couple the Couples

The Lord began to give me revelations in that area and that is what gave birth to the book “Sparks of New Romance”. So, what we have done is to have a fellowship we call “Youth Contact.” I want every one to stay young. Once every month, singles and married come together. We have talk shows, we discuss issues about youths. We want them to learn from the married people. We have three objectives. One is ‘couple the couples’, refresh the romantic part of their marriage. Two, help the people who want to get married. It is a challenge in the church; a lot of people want to be married but they cannot, so we are telling them how to marry. Three, people have weaknesses, temperamental weaknesses, sexual weaknesses, financial weaknesses, so we talk about all these weaknesses and pray about them. And it has been awesome; as people come we are all blessed. (CONTINUES BELOW)

Salvation without Spiritual Life

The problem with the church right now is that people are hearing the message, but they are not being impacted with the meaning. They have the message, but it is not being put to practice in their lives. We have salvation, but we don’t have the spiritual life. In the book of Romans, chapter eight, the Bible say’s that; “Now there is no condemnation for those who is in Christ Jesus who work not after the flesh but after the spirit” which means there could be condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus who are working in the flesh. So the main problem right now is that there are a lot of messages flying around but the ministers and the people will need to begin to show a spiritual lifestyle with their own lives. I really don’t want to blame them. I have looked at both sides of the controversy and I think people should find out where the have gone wrong and change. The ministers for instance, I am always asking myself who made this monsters we now call pastors, members.

Sorry, No Sacrifices for us

A pastor was here the other day, and he was almost crying. He said, “do you know that we are having it rough in the church? I am trying to force God into the people and they are there sitting down cold and unconcerned.” He said he announced in the church that anyone that is willing to make a sacrifice should join him for a special prayer and fasting for some days, to trust God for a change, but to his surprise, nobody stood up, not even any of his pastors. Well, I have a similar experience too. I made a call for people to join me to form an evangelism club. We have evangelists in the church and they are doing their best, but the impact is not been felt. So I said “let’s have some people and do some deep praying and do a kind of out of box evangelism. Let us task ourselves, let us make sacrifices like the early church.” In the whole of the congregation, only five people stood up.

Pastors pressured to give the People what they want

For the pastors, I think when they have got to a point that the people are not responding, they will feel what the people want. The people just want you to bless them; they don’t want you to stress them. They already feel stressed enough with the society troubles. They don’t want you to give them heavy stuff from the Bible that will place a demand on them. You are the man of God, you are the one who hears God, they don’t want to hear God. They want you to hear God for them, see God for them, feel God for them; they just come and go with the blessings. So when you discover that is what they want to do and the bills have to be paid, your life has to be run as a pastor, and they are the ones who bring in the money, you have to play it their own way in order to keep them. That is what has turned pastors into what we are now complaining about.

Filled Churches on Sunday; No Christian in sight on Monday

For the members may be the pastors need to take some raps in the area of not showcasing their spiritual lives. All that some concentrate on is financial prosperity, which is just an aspect of the Bible. What about spiritual prosperity, character prosperity, inner prosperity, the prosperity. If you preach financial prosperity on, they will bring the money, but they will be shallow. And so, we will have our cathedrals filled every Sunday morning, but on Monday morning there are no Christians anywhere. Anyway you want to look at it, maybe; finally, ultimately we need to blame ourselves. I will not say those pastors, I need to blame myself, maybe we are not praying enough, not loving enough, may be we don’t even have enough spiritual life. Most of us talk about impartation; you can only impart what you have. Perhaps we have imbibed too much of the secular styles and practices that we are now teaching people gateway of success, dynamic ways of business increase and we are leaving out foundations.