About Rev Dr Tunde Rowaiye

About Rev Dr Tunde Rowaiye
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; Before you were born, I sanctified [you]. I ordained you a prophet to the nations. ” Jeremiah 1:5

Glory to God for His mercies and lovingkindness.



God called me when I didn’t know Him. He called me when it was not fashionable to be called a God’s servant. I had just withdrawn from Ibadan Polytechnic in April 1973 as I was glad to be offered articleship with a firm of Chartered Accountants in Lagos where I would be trained to become a Chartered Accountant. I, therefore, moved to Lagos and was living with my father. And some months after I arrived in Lagos, I believe, it was late in July or early August and I heard the voice of the Lord telling me, “Go to the Seminary”. I was wondering where that came from? I knew within me that it was God but that was too much for me to bear. This was a time when every young person had an ambition of what he wanted to be in life. My own dream was to become a Chartered Accountant. So, I told God I would not go. I told Him that my life ambition was to become a chartered accountant and not a priest. I told Him that in my family I was the first grandson, and I was expected to lay a good example and become somebody the family could be proud of. And I told Him nobody would be proud of a priest or a minister of God so I told Him I would not become one. The Voice never left me alone and I kept resisting. After resisting for about one or two weeks I yielded to the Voice. I yielded partly because I did not have peace because the Voice persisted.




That time I was a member of the Catholic church, and I was worshipping at St Dominic’s Catholic Church, Yaba. I went to that Church one evening and knelt before the Statute of Mary which was outside at the right side as you enter the gate of the Church and I talked to God. I told Him again that I was the first grandson in our family and that I was expected to be a model for people coming behind me. I said I was submitting reluctantly because He would not leave me alone. I told Him I wanted to enter into a bargain with Him. I told Him that if I dropped out of the accounting training and went to the Seminary as He requested that the family would call me a drop out and a never-do-well. So, I told Him to save me from that embarrassment and allow me to finish my training as an accountant. I also requested that he helped me to qualify as an accountant and I would come back to serve Him when I qualified. I told Him that nobody would call a Chartered Accountant a drop out or never-do-well. I stood from that Statute and went home. And I believed that it worked. What worked? The “trick” worked. I mean the Voice stopped urging me to go to the Seminary. I never meant to fulfill the vow of gong to the Seminary, all I wanted was for the Voice to stop so that I would have peace. And God helped me to qualify as an accountant and I was making money. The thought of the vow came to me one day and I encouraged myself by saying I had already escaped that since I was already married with children and Catholic priests are not allowed to marry nor have children. I was not even attending the Catholic Church again at that time as I had become very “religious” and now become a member of a “White Garment” Church. (A syncretic church)
Then one day a friend who was a pastor with the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Pastor Raphael, told me that he saw God’s calling on my life. I told him that I loved God, and I did not mind serving him provided it would not interfere with my business operations. Needless to say that the Company collapsed shortly after that.




Then I went to a Pentecostal Bible School, Community Bible institute (CBI) Lagos, an affiliate of Community Bible Institute, Brooklyn, New York where I became born again in February 1993. One of my teachers in the Bible School told me that God said she should tell me that I should yield to Him that I was resisting Him and His call on my life. So, one day in October 1993 I set aside a day and fasted and prayed and told God I yielded to Him to do with me as He liked. And that night God came to me in a dream and said, “Your ministry is deliverance, to start after you graduate”. I thought the ministry would start as I graduated from the Community Bible Institute. I was wrong as the Lord urged me to acquire more theological training which got me enrolled at the Faith Christian Theological Seminary and other Theological Institutions. It was along the line that I understood that the graduation the Lord told me about was not from a formal training in Theological Institutions but graduation from His Own School. To Him be the Glory, Honor and Majesty in Jesus name.




About 10 years ago the Lord told me His intention when he urged me to “go to the Seminary” in 1973. He said He knew that I wouldn’t obey then, but He wanted me to enter into a covenant with Him so as to protect me from people in my family who had planned to kill me through diabolical means. And I believe that I entered into this covenant when I knelt at “Holy Mary’s” Statute at St Dominic’s Church, Yaba in 1973 and I promised to be His servant.




How wonderful the Lord is! Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!


His love for me was indescribable. It was RECKLESS love. I was running away from Him, finding every reason to distance myself from Him, yet He did not let go. People were planning to kill me and send me to hell, and He was seeking every legal reason to protect me from the devil’s three-fold ministry. (John 10:10). I can never thank Him enough for His love for me. Glory be to His Holy Name!




In 2002 The Lord told me to start a prayer group, and this later metamorphosed into the Church, Mount Zion Evangelistic Assembly.