Let the stigma stop: Ministers who have been divorced but not destroyed

LET THE STIGMA STOP!
(Divorced but not destroyed)

This post isn’t intended to endorse divorce or encourage it.
I John Egah personal will never preach divorce as a sermon.
I have counseled countless pastors and saints against that move, who still thank me today for saving their marriages.

THE SAMARITAN WOMAN AT THE WELL
HAD BEEN DIVORCED 5
TIMES AND JESUS STILL USED HER.
DON’T LET PEOPLE COUNT YOU OUT BECAUSE
YOU HAVE A COMPLICATED PAST. JESUS PRESERVES YOUR FUTURE.

Divorce isn’t the death of a marriage. It’s the burial of a dead marriage.

Don’t offer advice to people going through a divorce on how to save their marriage. Sometimes, they have done everything humanly possible but all efforts proved abortive.

Don’t judge them – blaming them for the breakdown of their marriage. The truth is that divorce is deeper than what we think it is. Sometimes, it has nothing to do with what your partner did but who you or them have become. So divorce is connected to mutations in identity and not mere flaws in their characters.

1/. Kathryn Kuhlman

Married to a popular evangelist in a scandalous marital union for roughly six years. She later walked out the marriage and became one of the most powerful female preachers of all time.

2/. Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams

The founder of the famous Action Faith Ministries, Ghana
Got married very early in ministry, Experienced a turbulent home. (Certain info, I cannot share)
He divorced his wife, Mama Francisca Williams and later remarried her again.
Divorced her and remarried his present sweetheart. Together they’re shaking the world for Jesus unapologetically.
Safe to say he’s in his 3rd marriage.

3/. Richard Roberts

In 1968, Roberts married Patti Holcombe, a member of the university’s charter class in 1965. The marriage produced 2 daughters but ended in divorce in 1978. After 10 years.
“Critics came out of the woodwork,” he said. “My divorce made 300 newspapers. Feb 7, 1987
Roberts has remained chairman and CEO of the Oral Roberts Evangelical Association,

4/. Juanita Bynum

Bynum has been married twice. Her first
marriage was during the early 1980’s. She
turned to divorce due to domestic abuse,
vowing not to talk about what had
transpired. Her
second marriage was to Thomas Wesley
Weeks, Ill in 2002 and ending in divorce in
2008.

5/. Paula White

Paula White has been married 3 times.
Previously, she was married to Randy White. Their marriage endured for around 17 years (1990 – 2007). She has also allegedly been in 2 other relationships with Dean Knight and Benny Hinn.

6/. Chris Oyakhilome

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is the founder and Reverend of Loveworld Ministry popularly known as Christ Embassy.

The man of God and his former wife, Anita got divorced after 22 years of marriage after she filed for a divorce in London over alleged infidelity.

7/. Chris Okotie

Reverend Chris Okotie is another powerful man of God who’s the founder of Household of God Church.

The glamour man of God in 2012 divorced his former wife, Stephanie Henshaw after they were married for 4 years over irreconcilable differences.

8/. Chris Okafor

Pastor Chris Okafor, founder of Mountain of Liberation and Miracle Minstry is another man of God with a failed marriage.

In 2012, his former wife, Bessem who’s the mother of their 4 children left their home and hasn’t returned to it since.

In 2014, she accused him of assault and even shared photos of where she claimed to have allegedly been beaten by the man of God.

9/. Pastor Ituah Ighodalo

Pastor Ituah Ighodalo was one of the renowned provincial pastors of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).

Pastor Ituah Ighodalo was asked to leave the church for remarrying another woman over 10 years after he got divorced from his former wife who had gone on to remarry.

Ighodalo was earlier married to Lucy-Ann Summer whom he divorced. He later got married to former Miss Lux, Ibidunni Ajayi of blessed memory in 2007.

10/. Bishop John Egah

Another popular abuja based bishop and founder of the Hope and Power Mega Church Worldwide.
Bishop divorced his ex wife after a turbulent union and got remarried in 2019 to his wife Apostle Mrs Naomi Aderonke Egah G.O Flim.
As a couple working side by side together they have formed a powerful ministerial synergy and a global church network that’s reaching the unsaved, building the saved, raising leaders to fulfill their ministry. They lead a large team of ministers in and out of their ministry network and continue to influence millions of lives all over the world for Jesus Christ. Dr John and Apostle Naomi Egah both share a burden for the poor and needy around the world.
They continue to organize charity outreaches globally, reaching out to orphanages, homeless shelters, widows, refugees and the poor. They are the senior pastors of the HPMC & FLIM worldwid
Their marriage is blessed with children, they are based in the Uniates states of America.

11/. Victoria Orenze

Victoria Orenze is a popular Nigerian gospel singer, recording artist, preacher, songwriter, and stage performer. She is really a very good singer.
I have been married before some 14 years ago now, so I think I have my experience about that”, she stated in the introductory part of the video shared on YouTube.

She made a shocking revelation in an interview
“I Have Been Married Before”- Gospel Singer Victoria Orenze Reveals.

12/. Bishop Ben Enoch

Bishop David BenEnoch and Rev Esther BenEnoch.
Of the Communion Church Festac Town.

They are both divorced after 23 years of marriage.

The only explanation given was for Spiritual reasons.

✔️NEVER mock a pain you
haven’t endured. Because when life hits you, you might become
everything you ever criticized.

Don’t let any stigma or the bondage of religion keep you in a union that assigned to kill you and your vision.
Walk away from any union where you’re abused emotionally, mentally, physically etc.
When a problematic marriage gets to the point where you have to choose between Death and Divorce. Please choose to be alive.

Shall we pray:
Father of light, uphold christian marriages, especially that of your servants worldwide. May the staff of the wicked assigned against their homes be broken in Jesus name.
Grant that grace be released for everyone who is hurting or in pain, heal their wounds and make them strong again.