Thursday, April 10, 2025 - The Senior Pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, Jimmy Odukoya, says that God has instructed him never to cut off his dreadlocks.
During a recent sermon, Jimmy said he sought God’s guidance
on his appearance before resuming pastoral duties and God clearly told him not
to cut his hair.
He said that to confirm this message, he asked his sister,
Tolu Odukoya-Ijogun, to pray about it and she received the same instruction,
validating Jimmy’s experience.
“Before I
came back, one of the things I asked the Lord was whether or not I should cut
my hair. And the Lord told me not to cut my hair. I knew what God had said to
me so I told my sister to go pray and that God will speak to her. She goes back
and told me I wasn’t supposed to cut my hair, to which I replied, ‘I know,
because God already told me’'.
A couple of
weeks ago, someone had come to see me all the way from Zimbabwe just to come to
church. I said please bring the lady in and she begins to tell me her story.
She says,
‘People think I’m crazy. I told everybody I am coming to Nigeria for the next
three to four weeks. I’m just coming to church’.
She says,
‘It was 2016, I was in New York, it was Thanksgiving and I had a vision, it
felt so real. In this vision, I see you with your hair and you’re speaking to
me and I have been dealing with somethings in my life.
There was
this dog on my shoulder. I knew the dog represented the weight I was carrying
and you had this long sword. You began speaking to me and it looked like
thunder and lightning was coming out of the sword and it burnt the dog into
ashes. And you began to declare over me and gave certain instructions.
She said,
‘Fast forward 2025, after that vision I went through a tough break-up, I lost
everything in a divorce. My ex took the house.’ She said, ‘Everything I worked
for… It was a tough time. To compound issues, my mom got sick and I watched her
die in my arms’.
She said she
was trying to find God so she went on YouTube to hear sermons. And all of a
sudden my preaching popped up.
And she
said, ‘You don’t understand, because when I had this vision, I didn’t know you
existed. The person I saw, I did not know it was a real person. So when I saw
the man from the vision with a long hair I screamed. I didn’t know any pastor
would have long hair.
Here’s
what’s crazy, in 2016, I didn’t have my hair. The God who sees, hears and
knows, knew at some point in February 2025, one of His children will have
to see a man preaching. Guess what? If He did not ask me to keep my hair, I
would have cut it.
And when I
popped up on the screen, she would have seen me with no hair and it would have
meant nothing. God was making me keep my hair to save a life.”
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