Winners Chapel International, Luton, UK is a branch of the Living Faith Church. Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners Chapel International is an end-time liberation Ministry presided over by Bishop David O. Oyedepo with worldwide headquarters in Canaan Land, Ota, Nigeria. Our primary objective is the general development and liberation of mankind by stirring up the God-given potentials embedded in people of all races and nations through the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
“On May 1, 1981, I travelled to two towns in the Southwest of Nigeria, Ondo Ilesha. My mission was to check up on two sets of friends who were both young couples because I had not heard from them in a while. I drove first to Ondo, where I met wale and Yinka Ogundare. I was privileged to lead Wale to Christ in 1974. Afterwards, I left for Ilesha but did not meet the Adenibas who left a note on their door reading, ‘Away for the weekend’.
Rather than being disappointed, something gracious came out of me. I said ‘All things work together for good to the advantage of them that love the Lord.’ Then the Holy Spirit said to me, ‘Look for a quiet place, I want to talk with you.’
That was a timely instruction because I had quite a few other friends in that town that I would have visited and had a good time with. However, I obeyed the voice of the Holy Spirit and asked a passerby if there was any hotel on the outskirt of the town, where I could lodge and that was how I met with destiny.
The quiet place I found was one ‘International Hotel’, Ilesha. it was a ‘great’ hotel and I disliked the state of both the building and particularly the room but I knew from my inside that I had to be there. Behold, as I knelt down to give thanks in that wonderful room, an encounter began that lasted for eighteen hours!
I saw a roll of afflicted, battered, beaten, tattered, deformed and all that one could ever imagine, groaning and agonizing, as a result of pains and pangs, crying as it were for rescue. I was so moved with compassion that I began sobbing profusely asking, ‘Why Lord?’ I heard the Lord say to me.
But from the beginning it was not so.
May 2nd, 1981
I questioned further, ‘but why Lord?’ and then came the mandate,
The hour has come to liberate the world from all oppression of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith and I am sending you to undertake this task.
May 2nd, 1981
This mandate was further confirmed from the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians where God said, ‘Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.’ (Eph 6:16).
This was the genesis of this global ministry today and according to this mandate, the Word of Faith is the key to triumphant living.
Shortly, thereafter, a weekly teaching programme took off popularly known as the Faith Liberation Hour. Alongside, a caucus was put in place, tagged The Power House which was involved in prayers and fasting among others towards the actualization of this heavenly vision. “
– Bishop David O. Oyedepo
The word of faith is working like fire for the liberation of mankind across the nations.
Today, testimonies of liberation as a result of our messages, books, tapes, magazines and other periodicals are most humbling. We have diverse proofs to date that the task is enjoying tremendous success by the grace of God, through testimonies of dramatic changes and improvements in the quality of life of the people, everywhere these churches are represented.