“Do not fake the voice of God,” the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Professor Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, has said.
He has cautioned against what he describes as a growing culture of “deceptive prophetic phenomenon” in contemporary Christianity, following public fallout from failed prophecies linked to the just-ended New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential primaries.
In a Facebook post published on Saturday, 31 January 2026, Prof Asamoah-Gyadu, who also serves as Baëta-Grau Professor of Pentecostalism at the Trinity Theological Seminary (TTS), Ghana, lamented what he called the tragic extent of prophetic failures within global and local Christian spaces.
His intervention comes in the wake of the NPP primaries that elected Dr Mahamudu Bawumia as flagbearer for the 2028 general elections, an outcome that contradicted several widely publicised prophecies and forced at least one prominent Ghanaian prophet to issue a public apology.
‘Catastrophic prophetic failures’
“The extent of catastrophic prophetic failures in Christianity today is tragic,” Prof Asamoah-Gyadu wrote, situating the Ghanaian experience within a broader global crisis of credibility facing prophetic ministries.
The Daily Searchlight is of the opinion that the belief that the people who make these ‘prophecies’ are men and women of God (pastors, prophets, preachers) is a misunderstanding of the nature of the problem we have.
The Bible is clear when it admonishes at Deuteronomy 4:2;
“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you”.
It is even clearer and stronger when it states at Revelation 22:18-19;
“18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book”.
For any true Christian, ascribing words to Jesus and God is a truly horrendous offence that no true believer would engage in. It therefore becomes clear that these so-called “pastors, prophets, preachers” who have taken over our public spaces like lice, are no men and women of God.
Rather, they are extortionists and opportunists who hide among the innocent and unsuspecting flock called Christians, carefully sizing and eating up their unsuspecting prey with these ‘prophecies’.
We believe that going forward, Christianity as a body would do well for its image if it can begin to identify such charlatans among its members, with the view to exposing them and flushing them out of the body of members.
This will only clear up the image of Christianity itself.
(Editorial of the Daily Searchlight of 2nd February 2026).
