Popular prophet, Bernard ElBernard Nelson-Eshun, has opened up about how God helped him escape jail during his youthful years.
Speaking in a recent interview on Accra-based Kingdom FM, the preacher disclosed that growing up as a young man, he had an explosive temper, which could have landed him in jail.
Narrating his past challenges with anger, the prophet recounted an incident in secondary school, where he wanted to kill his headmaster, after being denied a deserving scholarship.
According to him, the situation made him furious; causing him to start saving to buy a weapon to send the headmaster to his grave.
Sharing the experience, ElBernard said his savings were, however, not adding up, and so he decided to exact his revenge by first burning one of the school's science resource buses.
'I had petrol in my hand around 3 am and was on my way to set the school bus ablaze. However, I was met by the security man who quizzed me on where I was going. I lied that I was going to fetch water, and that's how my plan was disrupted', El Bernard explained in the local Fante dialect.
He added that if not for God's intervention, his anger may have pushed him to commit an offence as a young man, which could have put him behind bars like one of his friends, whom he said is currently serving a life sentence.
He, therefore, attributed his freedom to the 'grace of God', which he said has saved him from the obvious consequence of his untamed anger and other defining weaknesses.
Some of his followers have since described his account as 'humbling'; while others have praised his honesty in sharing his struggles in the past.
Meanwhile, the prophet and General Overseer of SpiritLife Revival Ministries says even though he hasn't fully overcome his anger, he has learnt to channel it into more productive ventures.
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