I was preaching in Jacksonville Florida for one of my sons, a Bishop.
He started the work and it all began to grow, American style. So they did the first convention, the whole hall, where we were doing the final service was about twice the size of this hall.
That is the truth; as narrow as this altar is. Now, (this) altar is not narrow as an altar but for this to be a church, it’s narrow, but about twice in length.
So I was preaching, and then the Spirit of God came on me. I said, “there is a property that God is giving you close-by. I will return by the word of the Lord, this time next year and you will be holding this convention in a cathedral”.
The Bishop said, “haa”. He was looking that “this Baba has come again”. Listen to this..In 24 hours, 24 hours, an elder in the Church was driving to work and he saw a property and he saw “For sale”. He said he parked and went through and said “this is good for our church” and he called his pastor. The pastor said, “come, come, come. Can you turn back and see me?”, he said “Yes, of course”. Anyway to cut the long story short, they called the people that were involved, Jacksonville, Florida.
The property belonged to the University of Florida. The owner of the property was an alumnus of the University. When he was dying, he left a will that this property, I give it to the University of Florida. If they don’t need it, they should sell it, and that when they sell it, if there is a church… it was in the will.
God orchestrated it. If there was a church that wanted to buy, that should be the first one they give it to and that if it is a church, whatever price they say, they should give it to them. Written.
You see, God is so organized. He knows the end from the beginning.
Pastors, are you there? The property you need, God is not about to create it. It’s already there. God is not looking for it, you are the one looking for it. If you see God, you will see it.
O boy, help me tell your neighbour. Tell him, “if you see God, you will see it”. I don’t know what the “it” is. The ‘it” is what you are looking for. Maybe you are looking for a wife. Tell him again, “if you see God, you will see it” or you are looking for a husband. Tell somebody again, “if you see God, you will see it”. So the realtor or the agent, like we call them in Nigeria, they appointed a meeting; the Church leadership, the University, the Registrar and all that and they said, this is the drawing, this is the size of the property. You are a church? …and the Registrar made a mistake….The property was worth about 3 million dollars, by value, market value. They said okay, what are you going to pay?. An official that was beside him was tapping him..don’t say that. My pastor said we are going to pay $300,000. And the registrar said, we are committed. In the will, it is written, whatever the Church says they will pay. They got a $3,000,000 property for $300,000.
2 Chronicles 20:20
Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
“I wonder how people who don’t have faith actually survive the world because the world is such a cruel place to be. But then because of my exposure to the tenets and discipline of my faith, I survived my childhood better and I’m surviving life better. I am able to forgive easier because of my faith. My faith gave me guidelines on who to marry. My faith helps me choose the right schools for my children. Even to my business, my faith helps me run my business (House of Tara). We are going through a time in Nigeria where the economy is very bad and as such people are depressed but I look at Elijah and how God made provision for him during a famine through a raven and a widow and that’s how God works, He operates in strange ways. This has been my experience of God, this has been my faith experience, it is my ability to take biblical principles and apply to my everyday life.”
Tara Fela Durotoye, (formerly Tara Sagay) was born in Lagos on the 6th of March 1977 into a polygamous family. She was however raised by her friendly and now late step mother who did her best to take care of her. Her Dad, a Federal Commissioner in the Civil Service fell ill later putting paid to her dreams to study abroad…she remained close to him despite the separation from her mums till his departure sometime in 2000.
“Growing up, I used to go to church without my parents, The Ikoyi Baptist Church was just down the road from where we lived. I felt like I was being called by something to go, I didn’t understand it but I kept attending the Church. I had a very spiritual experience on my first day in secondary school. A senior who was a prefect invited all the new girls to her room, actually that’s how people get initiated into all kinds of things but fortunately here I was. She talked to us about the gospel and that night I committed to becoming a Christian not just in terms of a religion but by having an intimate relationship with Jesus and that experience shaped who I am today”
Tara studied Law at the Lagos State University. While in School she would make her friends up for Law dinners and they commended her for it so much so that they were willing to pay for the service. After she graduated, Tara decided to take up make-up as a profession at a time when make-up wasn’t really a thing and thus she founded the popular House Of Tara. She purchased her first make-up kit at #15,000 and made the same amount from her first official job. A daughter of Bishop Oyedepo, she attended the Word of Faith Bible Institute (WOFBI) 1998 October Special (BCC) at Winners Chapel, Raji Oba where the likes of Bishop Oyedepo, Faith Oyedepo, Bishop Abioye and Bishop Aremu taught. A few months after WOFBI, she launched the first bridal directory in Nigeria in 1999 and set up international standard make up studios. Tara has gone on to empower thousands of women through the Tara Beauty Entrepreneurs Initiative. A regular speaker at conferences and rated by Forbes to be one of the 50 most powerful women in the Nigeria. Tara got married to Fela Durotoye, who she met at the Pastor Adefarasin led House on the Rock (Muson Centre), in May 2001 and their 19 year old marriage is blessed with 3 boys.
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Founder and CEO, Cindy Trimm Ministries International Empowerment specialist, visionary, revolutionary thinker, and transformational leader. With a distinguished reputation as a catalyst of change and voice of hope to the nations. We thank God for the opportunity to celebrate you on this special day. You are an exceptional example that dynamic and bold faith in God, coupled with the actions of a relentless visionary can change the fabric of humanity. We pray for strength, good health, continuous prosperity and longevity. May all your desires in Him be granted and may the peace that passes all understanding be yours always. Congratulations Ma and God’s Multiplied Blessings
Some trust in horses and some trust In chariot I put my trust in the name of the Lord He never fails and He is my God I put my trust in the name of the Lord x2
El Shaddai, Elohim Yahweh You never fail x2
You never fail You’re not a man You never lie You’re God Your covenant is sure (x2) He never fails what He says He will do He’s God, He’s faithful till the end (x2) Oh uh uh..
El Shaddai, Elohim Yahweh You never fail (x4)
All of the Angels sing All of creation shout In Awe of your power and might To bow and worship (x4)
You never fail me Never forsake me You’re always there my El Shaddai You never fail me You never leave me You’re always there My El Shaddai
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One of the Gospel groups that served hit gospel songs in the early 2000’s was the Resonance group. The duo artiste, Esther Abigbo, now Esther Olaedo Oyizibo and male singer Uche Gucheano were resounding at every home, street and corner with their popular songs, especially their major hit “Holy Ghost Fire” which became an anthem on the lips of everyone.
Chinwe Ike, Lee Lee, I don die, Nna Anyi, Judgement day, are other songs by Resonance. In 2007, the Resonance group parted ways, deciding to start their solo music careers. Esther popularly known as E-Star has gone on to release other songs like Ije love and Riding on the clouds.
In the euphoria of throwbacks, here is reminding us today of RESONANCE
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President Trump will ‘lead America back to God,’ according to 1983 prophecy Tom Zimmer said in 1983 that ‘right now, in the United States, there’s a man who has the hand of God on him…and God is going to use him in the future…his name is Donald Trump.’
What if I told you that there was someone who prophesied in the early 1980s that Donald Trump would bring America back to God?
The other day a close friend came over and mentioned such a prophecy.
It was actually contained in a somewhat viral video from a few years ago done by a Catholic priest.
That video was viewed over half a million times, and it recounted the story of this Catholic priest’s visit with a holy Catholic man in Loreto, Italy. He called him the “hermit of Loreto.”
The prophecy about Trump, however, was told not directly to the priest by the hermit, but to the priest’s friend — and he relayed it in his video.
When I heard this, I remembered the story and actually thought we already covered it at LifeSite at the time. When I looked in our archives, we hadn’t.
Now, when I reviewed the video I noticed that it was secondhand information. And, as things happen sometimes, the news cycle moved on, and we didn’t publish a story on it.
In the wake of the historic letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to President Trump and the president’s own recognition of it, that prophecy has taken on new significance.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano had published an open letter to President Donald Trump on Holy Trinity Sunday. The letter expressed support for the President, especially his defense of the right to life and freedom of worship, as well as the denunciation of Christian persecution worldwide. The letter also addressed the formation of two groups of people, one of light and one of darkness, and of the spiritual warfare between them.
As Providence would have it, I was able to speak with the original source of the story — Dr. Claude Curran.
In 1997, a video by Fr. Giacomo Capoverde from Rhode Island went viral with over half a million views.
The video is Fr. Capoverde talking about his friend Dr. Claude Curran, a psychiatrist who encouraged him when he was going on a visit to Rome to travel to Loreto, Italy to meet a holy man who spent all his life praying in churches.
And in the video, he told the story related to him by Dr. Curran about the holy man’s prediction about Donald Trump.
That video was posted on February 17, 2017.
A few weeks later, on March 6, 2017, there was an intriguing confirmation of some aspects of the story.
An American living in Loreto working as a tour guide was barraged with emails asking him to check out the veracity of the story.
So Bret Thoman, who runs St. Francis Pilgrimages, began an investigation, since he had never heard of the so-called “holy man” — whose real name is Tom Zimmer, a World War II veteran.
The tour guide, although a devout Catholic, described his reaction to the video as “somewhere between skepticism and suspicion.”
Knowing the friars who run the Church where Tom Zimmer was said to have spent almost all his time, Thoman spoke to one of the friars who remembered him as “L’Americano” (the American).
Thoman recounts that the friars “found him to be courteous and polite, if not a little ‘particular.’”
Tom purportedly attended upwards of four or five Masses every day and spent the rest of his time praying.
Thoman was directed to another friar — Fr. Sanatarelli, who had been at Loreto for decades — and as soon as Thoman began describing the American who prayed, Fr. Sanaterelli cut him off, saying “Ah sì, Thomas Zimmer, si chiamava…certo che mi ricordo…” (“Ah yes, Thomas Zimmer was his name, of course I remember him…”).
He went on to say everyone in Loreto knew of him.
Although Fr. Sanatarelli didn’t know anything about the Trump prophecy made by Tom, he could confirm that Tom was in Loreto going to Mass and praying most of the day before he returned to America in 2008.
The friar actually had a photo of Tom Zimmer, which he showed Bret Thoman, who included it in his blog post.
Bret Thoman concluded his investigation into Tom Zimmer this way: “I have no reason to doubt Fr. Capoverdi’s statements that Thomas Zimmer communicated to his friend that he received a ‘premonition’ that Donald Trump would ‘lead America back to God.’”
With regard to the Trump prophecy’s accuracy, he said, that remains to be seen.
I was able to track down Dr. Claude Curran, the original source of the information Fr. Capoverde shared in his video.
Dr. Curran is still a practicing psychiatrist in Fall River, Massachusetts. He too is a devout Catholic with five children.
Dr. Curran met Tom Zimmer while in St. Peter’s Square when John Paul II was elected pope.
Several years later, in 1983, Tom told Dr. Curran in St. Peter’s that “right now, in the United States, there’s a man who has the hand of God on him. He has the I.Q. of a genius. And a first-class education. And everything he approaches he attacks with blinding efficiency…his name is Donald Trump.”
Dr. Curran informed Tom that the man he was speaking about was actually known to be a high-flying, jetsetting millioniare who dated models.
“No, Claude,” he said, “I’m telling you, the hand of God is on him, and God is going to use him in the future.”
“Claude, I am so convincd about what I’m telling you,” Tom continued, “that I have bought a memorial brick for Donald J. Trump, I put his name on it, and he will now benefit from all the masses and prayers in the Vatican for as long as that brick remains in the Holy Door.”
In 2017, Fr. Capoverde already believed that the prophecy of Tom Zimmer was fulfilled in President Trump because Melania Trump led a huge public meeting by praying the Lord’s prayer.
Just think how much more see we’ve seen Trump bring America back to God since then.
And there is no one better to describe that than the former apostolic nuncio — that is, papal representative to the United States of America — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
…we were privileged to be asked by Archbishop Viganò to publish his open letter to President Trump, and when the president himself retweeted it and spoke of his thanks and admiration for Archibhsop Viganò, it was tremendous.
It is in fact in the archbishop’s letter to President Trump that the fulfillment of that 1983 prophecy of Tom Zimmer can be seen even more clearly.
Archbishop Viganò wrote:
For the first time, the United States has in you a President who courageously defends the right to life, who is not ashamed to denounce the persecution of Christians throughout the world, who speaks of Jesus Christ and the right of citizens to freedom of worship. Your participation in the March for Life, and more recently your proclamation of the month of April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month, are actions that confirm which side you wish to fight on. And I dare to believe that both of us are on the same side in this battle, albeit with different weapons.
Mr. President, my prayer is constantly turned to the beloved American nation, where I had the privilege and honor of being sent by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Nuncio. In this dramatic and decisive hour for all of humanity, I am praying for you and also for all those who are at your side in the government of the United States. I trust that the American people are united with me and you in prayer to Almighty God.
Tom Zimmer was real, and saintly. He did make that prophecy about President Trump in 1983, and, if it has at least in part been fulfilled already, maybe with Tom’s intercession for America — his homeland — and for President Trump, we’ll see the president do even more to bring America back to God in the future.
