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Do You Understand What You Are Reading — A Call For Black People To Compete On The World Stage
I attended the West African Faith Believers Convention WAFBEC in January 2020, and Mensah Otabil’s sermon titled “Do you understand what you are reading” completely blew my mind and I posted on IG that he completely shattered and obliterated WAFBEC 2020. Throughout the year, I had been getting a strong sense to go back and watch the sermon on youtube but I kept putting it off until last night when I watched it again and was even more blown away — it was such a prophetic word that speaks to all that’s happened among black people and young people this year and I would like to write a summary of what he shared.
He started the sermon by narrating the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8:26–40 and how God asked Philip to leave Samaria where a strong revival was happening and go meet the Eunuch in the desert. According to him, Ethiopia in the bible did not refer to the current nation of Ethiopia but dark-faced people or black people. For God to ask Philip to leave Samaria where a great revival was happening to go meet one man in the desert meant that God had a great plan for that man. In the passage, the Eunuch was reading the part of the book of Isaiah about Christ being led to the cross when Philip walked up to him and asked him if he understood what he was reading to which he replied…
