The founder and leader of Glorious Word Power Ministries, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah, cautioned the founder of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Dr. Mensa Otabil, against what he says is his calculated attempt to undermine prophetic ministry.
Addressing his congregation during a sermon on Sunday, March 16, 2025, Reverend Owusu Bempah accused the charismatic preacher of always attempting to degrade and malign prophetic ministry.
“Next week, I will go into prophetic, and I will let you see that false teachers are more dangerous than false prophets. So you cannot come and tell me that 95% of Ghanaian prophets are fake. I will prove to him that he is a liar. Now he even says no one should have vision, but he had a vision; there was a time he came to say that he had seen darkness engulfing the country.
“He says God does not reveal anything to us, but who revealed that to him? Papa, we respect you, but we won’t allow you to lift yours at the expense of collapsing prophetic churches. At times, you even call us cockroaches. The last time, he referred to followers of prophets as fools. Papa, we respect you a lot. But for the respect that I have, I would have stood on the word of God and told you my mind,” he stated.
The statement by Reverend Owusu Bempah is in response to a recent teaching by the founder of ICGC in which he questioned prophets and church leaders for elevating themselves above Jesus Christ.
In his preaching, Dr. Otabil alluded to some prophets attributing power to their altar instead of Jesus.
“These days, instead of us saying, ‘Jesus did it’, ‘Jesus is the way’, ‘Jesus is the healer’, ‘Jesus is the Saviour,’ we say things like ‘The grace of this house will deliver you’. Or, a man of God will say, ‘The grace upon my life will open doors for you’; ‘If you touch me, you’ve touched grace’. And then a new one that I’m hearing these days, ‘There is blessing on this altar’; ‘This is the altar I prayed, and God heard me,'” he said.
His statement has since attracted criticism from some Christians and leaders of the faith, including Reverend Owusu Bempah, who defended the power of the altar on Sunday.
“Wherever the presence of Jesus descends, there is power there. The place you, Dr. Mensa Otabil, stood to conduct your teaching, what shows that there is no power there? Maybe you do not possess the eyes to see, but if you do have the eyes, you would know that there is power there. So, Dr. Mensa Otabil, you will have to reconsider and start saying something else,” he stated.
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