HARARE - Walter Magaya of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries (PHD) claims that some shadowy people are trailing congregants that would have testified in his church urging them to denounce him as a fake prophet who uses demonic powers to perform miracles.
Magaya said this during a big Sunday service which was attended by tens of thousands yesterday.
The Harare prophet, who is becoming increasingly popular with Zimbabwe’s prayerful society, said he had received seven cases of congregants who had been trailed after giving testimonies.
Magaya said his church would soon launch an investigation to unmask the people behind the smear campaigns.
“Who has ever fought God and won? Why are these people making an effort of fighting God?” Magaya said adding that; “They are after your testimonies, they don’t want people to testify.
“I am aware of seven such cases that have been brought to our attention.
We will require all the details so that we can make a follow up.”
The PHD leader said this after a 29-year-old woman had given a testimony about how she was taken by mermaids that gave her powers to seduce men when she was 13.
The woman identified as Charity Makurumidze of Harare said; “I was given powers to seduce men and beads to make them weak. I would target wealthy men and once they gave me money, I would take it to the waters every Friday and give it to the mermaids.
“We would then take all the wealth of the men and leave them broke. I only stopped doing this in 2008 when I discovered that the men did not have money anymore due to the economic problems.
“When I stopped, I was introduced to the apostolic sect and I started praying for people. However, I started bleeding because the Queen and King in water were not happy. I was bleeding for the past five years. I was using $200 for sanitary ware every month.”
Makurumidze said she has since stopped bleeding attributing this to God’s work through Magaya.
However, Makurumidze said after she testified in church and was placed on the holy ground some unidentified men offered her cash to denounce Magaya.
“They offered me $100 000 and to buy me a car and a house if I could just say I was in love with Magaya and what he was doing was fake. I refused their bait because I know Prophet Magaya is a man of God,” she said.
Meanwhile, Emma Chirebvu, 37, a former commercial sex worker testified that she had been HIV positive for two years but she was healed.
“I started using anointing oil and my cervical cancer and pain went away. I kept on using the anointing oil and I was healed of HIV. I am now HIV negative,” she said.
Magaya told his congregants that the big Sunday was meant to bring deliverance to born again Christians and others who had heard about all the miracles in the Bible.
“You have heard many miracle stories in the Bible but these miracles are not happening to you. I want you to be delivered today,” Magaya said.
Congregants from some southern African countries including Botswana, South Africa and Namibia gathered at PHD Ministries church in Waterfalls yesterday to receive deliverance and listen to Magaya prophesying during the big Sunday ceremony.
Popular musicians Nicholas Madzibaba Zacharia and Alan Chimbetu and the church band kept the bumper crowd entertained.
Magaya grew up in Chitungwiza and is married to Tendai Katsiga-Magaya who is a banker by profession and together they have been blessed with two children.
Magaya is Nigerian Prophet TB Joshua’s spiritual son.
Magaya insists that he is not the healer saying Jesus Christ is the healer while he is just a vessel being used to do God’s work.