- Jimmy Odukoya, the senior pastor of Fountain of Life church, asserted that God instructed him to not minimize his dreadlocks.
- Jimmy, who succeeded his late father Taiwo Odukoya, made a current sermon that has sparked on-line discussions.
Jimmy Odukoya, senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, has revealed that it was God who instructed him to not minimize his dreadlocks, a call that has stirred widespread reactions on-line.
In a current sermon, Jimmy—who took over management from his late father, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya—defined that earlier than assuming his pastoral position, he sought readability from God concerning his look. He stated that in his prayers, God clearly advised him to maintain his hair.
“Earlier than I got here again, one of many issues I requested the Lord was whether or not or not I ought to minimize my hair. And the Lord advised me to not minimize my hair,” he shared.
He added that even his sister, initially involved about his look, later confirmed his divine instruction after searching for God herself.
Jimmy additionally recounted a robust testimony involving a girl who traveled all the best way from Zimbabwe to Nigeria simply to attend a church service. The girl advised him a few vision she had in 2016 whereas in New York, the place she noticed a person with lengthy hair and a sword talking highly effective phrases that freed her from emotional burdens. Years later, in 2025, she stumbled upon a sermon of Jimmy on YouTube—and instantly acknowledged him as the person from her imaginative and prescient.
“She screamed when she noticed me preaching on-line,” he stated. “She had no concept I even existed again when she had the imaginative and prescient.”
What struck Jimmy essentially the most was that in 2016, when the lady had the imaginative and prescient, he didn’t but have lengthy hair—emphasizing that God had deliberate it lengthy earlier than he even knew his pastoral journey would start.
“The God who sees, hears and is aware of, knew in some unspecified time in the future in February 2025, one among His kids should see a person preaching. Guess what? If He didn’t ask me to maintain my hair, I’d have minimize it,” he stated.
Based on Jimmy, this is the reason he believes his dreadlocks are a part of a divine task—to assist save lives and ship messages, simply as that one encounter did.