Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has stated his thoughts on how long he wants to live and has flatly rejected pleas for a life expectancy more than 100 years.
During a speech, the celebrated monk recounted that some of his followers prayed for him to live to varying ages. In response to their prayer for him to live to be eighty, he answered, “Amen.”
In addition, he accepted their wish that he would live to be ninety years old. But when the number increased, his response changed.
According to Pastor Adeboye, he remained silent when someone prayed for him to live to be 100 years old. He fiercely disagreed, wondering why God would grant him another fifty years of life when another ardent disciple requested him to live to be 120.
The preacher laughed as he related how a woman, in her devotion, prayed for him to live to be 140. Adeboye responded to the prayer by saying that he completely disagreed with the idea, emphasizing the reality that the world is full with issues.
The reasons behind Pastor Adeboye’s desire to live to be 100 years old;
“When I was 70 years old, some children of mine began to pray for me. And they said, ‘Daddy, you will live to be 80,’ I said Amen. ‘You will live to be 90,’ I said Amen. They said, ‘You will live to be 100,’ I didn’t answer them.
“And then one fellow got excited and said, ‘You will live to be 120,’ I said na lie! What will God say I have done wrong? I have been here for 70 years, He will now keep me here for another 50 years? In this world?
“Where today you have electricity, tomorrow you don’t have? But there was one lady who got really excited, and said, ‘You will live to be 140,’ I said no be me.”
