Scores of passionate praying Ghanaians, who, hitherto, had met virtually for about an hour from Monday to Friday, stormed the Accra Sports Stadium on saturday, November 1, 2025.
The mission? For the New Season Prayer and Prophetic Declarations (NSPPD) Ghana Prayer Conference. It was a tour to Ghana by passionate worshippers from other West African countries, including Nigeria, where the leader of the Streams of Joy Ministries, Abuja, Pastor Jerry Eze, and his team come from.
By noon, the 40,000-capacity Ohene Djan stadium, where the event was to be held from 4 pm, was half full. About an hour before the start of it was almost full. When the programme started, more worshipers had to be accommodated outside the stadium!
Adherents of NSPPD, found in every country, started the programme themselves, with the help of the local team in charge, who churned gospel music from mounted speakers, for passionate adherents to sing along before the start of the programme.
There were vuvuzellas, shakers, all sorts of musical instruments, shaken, blown into and played in ecstatic expectation of the start of the programme.
It was a sort of pilgrimage, but not to watch Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak play; no, the passion and spiritual fervour were more than that! And the two main football teams could definitely not,have whipped up the type of crowd with their passion, as those who attended at Ohene Djan on Saturday, November 1!
It was in praise and prayers to the Highest God!
NSPPDians
Indeed, NDPPD has been going strong since COVID-19, when lockdowns resulted in Pastor Jerry or Pastor Eze (as he is known) deciding to begin services online.
Now, although there are four services on site, in Abuja, the online prayer services have stayed the course of time, dedicated to prayers, declarations and testimonies, with miraculous instantaneous healings and breakthroughs.
Those who follow this prayer movement have also developed terms to go with their devotion.
Thus, all adherents are NSPPDians. “What God cannot Do Does Not Exist” is their primary motto.
The term has been the subject of much controversy, getting interpretations from renowned ministers of the gospel both in Ghana and abroad, some for and others against it.
But for those who pray, it is a term that stands for our faith in God's ability to move mountains, on behalf of his people, couched upon the terms of Luke 1:37, “For with God nothing shall be impossible”.
Then, there is El Roi; a Hebrew name for God in Genesis 16:13, which means, “The God who sees me”, a prayer preached by Pastor Jerry in one of the morning sessions, it has become a battle cry of NSPPDians, signifying that the God of the universe sees us, in all our diverse situations and responds in our defence.
Pastor Eze was featured on the New York Times Square 7th Avenue Billboard in August 2021. He has more than eleven million people following his prayers across social media platforms. By his work, he teaches how Christians can recreate their world by faith and the declaration of the word of God within their spaces, whether work or home.
Ghana NSPPD 2025
There was much excitement at the Ohene Djan Stadium! Adherents prayed, praised, engaged in positive declarations and rejoiced at the testimonies of others.
All types and sizes of files (paper and plastic) with all sorts of documents, negative lab results, immigration/visa bans and refusals, negative documents from work (which might have included queries, disciplinary notes, etc.), photographs of family and other relations abroad, were raised high in prayers.
Other people also wrote down their requests and held them up, including one woman who had a sticky note pasted on her forehead with her request handwritten on it.
People carried luggage, symbolic of travelling, while the flags of countries were pinned to scarves and hats.
One NSPPDian had a hat or headgear of sorts made up of blue peacock feathers, matching her outfit, while carrying the Ghana flag.
There was a team for the Ghana Police Service, who were seen patrolling for security at the venue.
Then, there was also the collaboration by the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), who sent their team to, apart from seeing to the comforts of prayer tourists, also capture the moment on film.
Highlights
The numbers that congregated were surprising, with the stadium filling up and overflowing; the Ubuntu displayed by Ghanaians as they waited for the start of the programme was heart-warming.
They shared their meals; some shared umbrellas and pieces of cloth to shield themselves from the sun, but all shared a united spirit of praise and prayer to God.
It was interesting to see the Presidential Envoy in charge of interfaith and ecumenical bodies, Mr Elvis Afriyie Ankrah; it was heartening to see the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission,
Mrs Jean Mensa, fully embedded in the activities and supporting testifiers in sharing their instantaneous miracles.
I whispered silently, “Watch out, detractors, what God cannot do, does not exist!”
When the prayers began, we prayed from the south to the north of Ghana. We prayed, covering the east to the west. We prayed, declaring good for the country and ourselves!
Ghana has set the tone for a nice landing of 2024 and a smooth take-off for 2025. #what God cannot do does not exist!
Writer’s E-mail: features@graphic.com.gh
