Pastor Sam Adeyemi, the esteemed leader of Daystar Christian Centre in Lagos, has shared a personal narrative of how unsettling dreams about Nigeria influenced his decision to relocate to the United States with his wife, Nike.

In a candid interview on Seun Okinbaloye's 'Mic On Podcast,' Pastor Adeyemi reflected on the confluence of events that led to his move: the COVID-19 pandemic, the EndSARS protests, and a series of disturbing dreams.

“When COVID-19 started, all our children were in the US, so everyone stayed with their families. We stayed with our children. The week services resumed was when EndSARS started, so we were preparing to return to Nigeria. When the EndSARS protests ended in violence, we stayed back a bit. When we were ready to return to Nigeria, a different experience altogether happened.

My wife had a dream in which she travelled to Nigeria and returned to the US, which was a bad dream. I told her I wouldn’t say I liked this dream.

Three days later, I had a dream. We both travelled to Nigeria in my dream, and I was in a big fight. I was being attacked violently, and I had to ask the Holy Spirit in my heart what to do. He said I should call the name of Jesus Christ. I shouted ‘in the name of Jesus Christ’ in the dream and didn’t realize I shouted out loud in real life.

My wife woke me up at 2am by hitting me and asking what was going on. We decided to take it seriously, especially considering a dream we had three days earlier. We prayed fervently, sensing danger. Three hours later, I fell back asleep and had another dream. We were in Nigeria this time, and I was in a fight,” he recounted.

Pastor Adeyemi described one particular dream where he was engaged in a violent struggle, prompting him to call upon divine intervention. This dream, coupled with similar ones and uneasy feelings expressed by family members in Nigeria, solidified his decision to stay put.

“A few days later, we called family members in Nigeria, and one person said, ‘I’m feeling very uncomfortable about you travelling to Nigeria.’ We called another family member who said, ‘I feel uncomfortable about you coming. What is going on?’ We just turned and looked at each other and were like what is going on. From that point onwards, whenever we fixed the date and booked our seats on the flight, I would have a dream and it would be a dream that something bad would happen to me in Nigeria.”

He convened a virtual meeting with the top 120 leaders of his church to discuss these premonitions.

“I then said I have been a Christian for 40 years. If God is speaking to me, I should have an idea that it is God speaking. Something is going on. I don’t know what it is, but I want to pray more. And at that point, we called a meeting of all the leaders in Daystar Christian Centre—the top 120 leaders on Zoom. They said you’ve never deceived us before. If God asks you to stay, stay as long as He directs. We’ll continue this journey,” he said.

Reflecting on the extended stay in the U.S., Pastor Adeyemi shared, "Being away from Nigeria for over a year has been challenging, especially when I think of our congregation of 40,000 members. Yet, this experience has reaffirmed my faith and the importance of listening to what I believe are divine signals."

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