A Sex-Starved Marriage Is Heading For Destruction – Bishop Oyedepo. Founder and General Overseer of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has warned married couples against sex-starved life.
In a post shared on his Ministries Facebook page, the clergyman stated that a sex-starved marriage is heading for destruction, as he urges couples to be available for each other.
”A sex-starved marriage is heading for destruction; spouses should be available for each other, otherwise there will be a tendency to go where they would be accepted because the burning must be satisfied.’ He wrote.
Oyedepo became”born again” in 1969, through the influence of his teacher, Betty Lasher, who took an interest in him during his high school days.
According to him, he received a mandate from God through an 18-hour vision in May 1981, to liberate the world from all oppression of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith.
This is the inaugural vision that led to the founding of the Living Faith Church World Wide (LFCWW), first called Liberation Faith Hour Ministries, in 1981.
Two years later, on September 17, 1983, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, ordained David and his wife, Florence Abiola Akano (known as Faith Abiola Oyedepo) to become pastors and officially commissioned the new church. Five years later, Oyedepo was ordained as Bishop.
Living Faith Church (AKA Winners Chapel International) started in Kaduna but moved to Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria in July 1989, to start a new branch of the church after Oyedepo claimed to have received instructions from God to reach out to the people of Lagos.
Oyedepo is the wealthiest preacher in Nigeria with a net worth of over US$150 million. The church owns four private jets and several buildings, including in London and the US.
Oyedepo is an author and publisher who has written over 70 titles apart from periodicals.
He is the chairman/publisher of Dominion Publishing House (DPH), a publishing arm of the ministry. DPH has over 4 million prints in circulation to date.
Through Oyedepo; Covenant University, Faith Academy and Kingdom Heritage Model Schools have been established to equip the youth for global impact.
The construction of a third university named Crown University is already underway, located in Calabar, Cross River, Nigeria.
In 1998, Oyedepo claimed he was instructed by God to build a new base for the Commission to accommodate the increasing number of worshippers.
This resulted in Oyedepo’s church’s acquisition of the initial 530-acre (2.1 km2) facility, known as Cannanland which serves as the headquarters. It is the home of the 50,000-seat capacity auditorium, the ‘Faith Tabernacle’.
This was a feat also recorded by the Guinness Book of Records.