Pastor Enoch Adeboye, general director of the Redeemed Christians Church of God revealed that he came from a very poor background.
In a Sunday sermon, Adeboye, who spoke of the perfect gift that was broadcast live on his Facebook page, said that during his childhood his parents were so poor that for the first eighteen years of his life he didn’t have shoes.
Adeboye talked about how things get better when people accept Christ. He used his own example to illustrate how God can transform the poor into rich.
The renowned cleric said, “Some of you who know a little bit about my background, you know when they talk about people coming from a rocky background, that means from a background of hardship. My own rocky background was rock among the rocks. My father was so poor, (that) poor people called him poor. The elders have a saying, when there is hardship for the husband, and hardship for the wife, there must be hardship for the children.
“The hardship rubbed off on me. For the first 18 years of my life, I had no shoes. My father was so poor. The day he bought an umbrella, we were rejoicing, but look at me today, look at what Jesus can do, He can change the poor to the rich; change the unknown to the known.”