Gospel musician Akesse Brempong says he hesitated to become a pastor when the voice kept calling him into the ministry.

According to him, the ministry was not appealing enough to attract him into entering it.

Speaking on a yet-to-be-aired edition of Joy Prime’s Celeb Biz with Amelley Djosu, the artiste said that most of the pastors he saw while also growing up did not influence his decision to take up full-time pastoral work.

“I was a funky young man, and at the time, pastoring wasn’t that funky. When you hear about pastors, you’ll see people in cassocks, some with long chains.

"I wasn’t so amused by the kind of pastors I was seeing. It wasn’t something I wanted to be until I came in contact with Precious Hayman,” he said.

The ‘God is Working’ hitmaker revealed that he realised that the hand of God was upon him and got to discover his purpose at the age of 17.

“My mother tells me that there were prophetic words that had gone ahead of me while I was in the womb about my destiny and all of that, but she was never keen about it.

"But when I went to Kumasi High School and had my encounter and started following the will of God for my life, it was not too long after conversion, after I had my encounter with God, that I started entering into leadership positions in high school," he indicated.

Akesse Brempong added that he started as a music professional in 2014, and five years later, the leadership of his church called him into the pastorate.

At this point, he felt the time was right to embrace God’s call into the ministry.

“Before I had my encounter with God in high school, I was. In primary school, I was the rowdy boy leading gangs in Kumasi. I was quite into it.

"I had done some karate, and of course, if you do karate as a young man, you have to show some skills and break some legs. We’ve done all that until my encounter in high school.”

Watch the full interview below: