Special Edition Thursday with Ps Alice Halidu

Meet Pastor Mrs Alice Halidu

Pastor Alice Halidu was born in Nigeria. She gave her life to Christ at the age of 13 . As the firstborn in a family of six, she was raised by hardworking, illiterate parents who were farmers. Her father, a former military man, retired to focus on farming before his passing, leaving behind her mother, who is still alive today.
She pursued higher education at the University of Jos in Nigeria, where she earned a degree in Language and Linguistics. She later married Pastor Abraham Halidu, a medical doctor, and together they serve as senior pastors at Revival House Church in Lokoja. The Lord blessed them with four children. She is also the convener of the morning glory prayer network and her ministry has impacted countless lives across different nations and cultures.

• If you could have dinner with any biblical figure, who would it be?
  🌼 I’d like to have a talk with the wisest and richest man that ever lived, KING SOLOMON!
  
  
• What’s one item you always carry in your handbag, no matter where you go?
  🌼 Let me cheeeeeck now ! My purse!
  
  
• Tea or coffee? 
  🌼 Coffee
  
  
• Lip gloss or lipstick? 
  🌼 Lipgloss
  
  
• Earrings or handbag? 
  🌼 Earrings
  
  
  

• What are the 3 core values your parents taught you?
  🌼 1. The first one is , God at the Centre of everything. If things are to work then God MUST be the at the centre of everything.
  
  🌼 2. PRAYER. It should be at the centre of every man’s life. I learnt my prayer life from my mother. She is a great woman of prayer.
  
  🌼 3. Total dependency on God for everything. My mom just told me a few days ago
  

My daughter if you hear that l passed on, don’t come looking for who killed me because nobody can. I passed away because it’s my time and my turn.

• What are the 2 lessons you have learnt from your marital journey ?
  🌼 Okay, lesson number one

🌼Cont: So when you’re leaving say “Patience where are you? Come and enter this box!” The challenge with this generation is that they leave patience behind and they carry the love and butterflies but by the time reality stares you in the face since you left patience in your father’s house, you’ll carry your bags and move back there. So carry patience, then you can open your box and say, “Oya, come out now it’s your time!” 😂

🌼 2. Don’t allow anything to tamper with your PERSONAL and connection to God. Your personal relationship, your contact with God should never be tampered with.

• What drives your passion to keep serving God and the community?
  🌼 My Love for God. Passion dies when there’s no love. Genuine love for God will make you do ANYTHING for Kingdom. It will help your passion to find expression. That you will not only do ministry for ministry sake, or singing in the choir for the sake of singing but you just love God there’s no extent to which you cannot go.This is what is lacking today. People have gifts, talents and graces but if genuine love for God is not there, whatever you’re doing can become fake. Genuine love for God makes you serve Him whether it’s rainy or sunny, with and without the material things so it becomes like this:
  
  “I go to church because l love God. I sing because I love God. I do evangelism because I love God. I refuse to quarrel with my husband because I love God. I don’t want to do anything to grieve Him. My consciousness of the love l have for God makes me refuse to insult the person that just insulted me. I just love God!”
  

• As a spiritual mother to many, what do you think is an important lesson for young ladies?
  🌼 The Bible says the older women should teach the younger ones. I think the young ladies should have a teachable heart. I know you guys know more than us with technology and digital things but the wisdom of the old and the dynamics of the younger ones combined will make us an unbeatable force.
  

• How has your relationship with God changed from the time you were single into marriage?
  🌼 I loved God since I was young and so I’ve told my husband that l was on my way to heaven before l met him and I’m not planning to change my mind. A lot of times many of the things you knew will be tested, from patience, endurance to your love for God. You have to grow. Your heart will be stretched and your capacity must increase.
  I just increased capacity.
  

• Reflecting on your journey , is there a moment that made you think ,”Only God made this possible!”
  🌼 Oh l always talk about this. It was when my father passed on. As the first of six siblings, I don’t know if it’s like that in South Africa but in Nigeria burials are a big deal especially for the first child. You are the one carrying the whole load. My fear was how my father was going to be buried, the burial expenses. I remember that day I went to church and l pleaded with the praise and worship leader to allow me lead praise just for some few minutes . That praise l led that day was between me and God, that’s when l knew that praise is really a weapon. People didn’t know that my father had just passed on. I gave God all the glory and l led people to dance. I myself danced until l started wiping the floor with my body. One prayer request l had was, “Lord bury my father for me. Don’t put me to shame. Don’t let them ask me where is my God.” And Vanessa God did wonders for me. People came from all over, even people that l didn’t expect. My father was buried like a king. I came back and returned the glory to the same God who buried my father for me. God showed up for me. Praise became a practical weapon in my life. That’s an incident in my life I will never forget. There are many testimonies that l know that this one is just God, things you can’t deny even if they put a knife on your throat, you know that this one was done by God . Just like the disciples said
  

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—”
‭‭I John‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

• What are the challenges you’ve faced as an overseer of a church?
  🌼 One of the challenges is trying to do it by myself forgetting that Jesus Christ said that He will build HIS church. Another thing is trying to fix everybody and trying to make everybody fall in line. I wanted everybody to be this and that but it’s exhausting but I realised that all l can do is preach and pray and allow Holy Spirit to do His part.
  
  
• Who are the 3 people that you look up to?
  🌼 Well, God because He is the Author and Finisher of my faith. I look up to the fathers in the faith. People like Papa EA Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He’s 83 and he’s still fervent in his service to God. I listened to him live and I was wondering what is his driving force and motivation even at this age. He’s still passionate about serving God. I want to be like him. I look up to his wife, Mama Folu Adeboye. Her passion for missions! She does ministry to the body of Christ and has the heart of a mother. I also look up to my husband, Dr. Ps Abraham Halidu . The passion with which he serves God is amazing!
  
  
• How would you like to be remembered?
  🌼 Oh you just asked me a touching question. If you ask my children, l say it all the time. I said I want them to write on my tomb,
  

Mrs Alice Halidu, a woman who loved Jesus.

That’s my summary

I want everything l do to be motivated by my love for God. If I could l would go and buy all that love and print it in my heart. For example, as young single girl if a man comes and says , “Sleep with me.” You say , “It’s not that l can’t but l won’t because l love God.” I can’t taste this and that because God’s love has already intoxicated me. I should be angry with you and keeping malice but I love God!

“Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭22‬:‭37‬-‭40‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Love your neighbours too. If pastors love their members they won’t cheat them. If members love their pastors they won’t put them in tight corners. The world would be a better place. Husbands loving their wives, pastors loving each other even people would want to be Christians. Loving people will stop people from saying false prophecies. Just loving God and loving your neighbour will make everything so much better.

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