The President of Women Ministers Online Platform, (WMOP), under the auspices of Kingdom Women in Ministry Gospel International, Evangelist Gideon Daniel Atso has called on church leaders to support women in ministry so that they can function excellently.
Daniel said this in an interview with The Nation last week at the Women Minister Online Platform Conference held at PRAISE ARENA, VGC Lekki, Lagos.
The programme tagged: ‘The Power of United Women’ featured song rendition, testimonies, corporate prayer and inauguration of the WMOP Lagos State Caretaker.
According to him, many know that women nurture children from their wombs till birth and afterwards. The passionate love with which they brought them up, if applied to the spread of the gospel will save many more souls and send the devil away.
He said that we live in a world where the devil is using a lot of people and they must endeavour to encourage those who are being used by God to stand firm.
Daniel said: “women are the end-time soldiers, they are the real soldiers. The devil is using a lot of women for his own advancement, but the mandate of this Platform is for the church to breed more female soldiers for Christ”.
“These soldiers for God shall take their stand in many dimensions with the sole purpose of breaking the kingdom of Satan to win many souls from captivity and damnation.”
He noted that there are lots of women preaching the gospel in unreached communities not minding the odds, while some are doing charity works in under-served areas, which requires our support.
He, however, warned women in ministry not to abandon their homes as they go about their ministerial assignment, adding that their family is their primary place of assignment and they have to nurture their children and act as helpmeet to their husbands.
“Women need to place their priority well; do not give 100% attention to the ministry at the expense of your home, because without peace in your family, you cannot do ministry effectively,” he posited.
“Focus is everything because when the enemies want to attack the church, they are determined and they never go with any form of negativity but positivity. Every woman needs to stand strong and be positive,” he said.
In her response as the new chairperson of WMOP, Lagos State, Pastor Mrs Funmilayo Adetoyese-Olagunju called for greater synergy among women ministers, stressing that the time has come for us to be kingdom focused and kingdom minded. The Gospel should take over the four corners of the World.
She said this meeting is the foundation of what God has set to do with us in Lagos on WMOP generally, the more we partner with God for Kingdom work, the more we grow and definitely this will also influence the growth of our Churches and Ministries.
“Make sure you always have oil in your lamp because the world is getting darker and darker. As women ministers, we are ready to work with God for Kingdom advancement”, she said.
Adetoyese-Olagunju, a marriage counselor and Senior Pastor of PRAISE ARENA noted that although what the people of the world know or see where women gather together is gossip and complaints; “but on this platform, we do it the kingdom way, adding value to peoples life and making the World a better place; so let us support, lift and pray for one another. There is power in synergy”, she added.
