Bishop David Oyedepo has said that the continued shutting of churches are a ploy to stop their explosion.
The founder and pastor of Winners Chappel said it was illogical that government had allowed people to go to markets but continued to keep them away from the church.
He said during the Covenant Hour of Prayer programme of the Church held at it’s headquarters in Otta, Ogun State today May 6, that devil was at work but its ploy would not prevail:
“There is something wrong, for people to be allowed to be in the market for six hours and cannot be in church for two hours, it is an upside down way for looking at things.
“Which one is more orderly? The market or the church?
“I can smell a rat. The Lord spoke to me on it strongly on it yesterday. I can smell a rat behind all this. It is how do we stop the church from exploding.
“The voice of darkness are influencing people at various levels targeting the church because the growth and expansion of the church is the greatest headache of the devil. But the gates of hell shall not prevail.
“The devil and his agents shall surely pay for this.
“I don’t know what hospital that records the kind of healings that the church of God records. And now hospitals where people die everyday is open but the church is closed.”
