I came across Alex on Facebook a few years ago. His posts showed him preaching the gospel and healing the sick, it was inspiring and there was no reason to doubt he was genuine. I wanted to sow into God’s work and gifted him a large sum out of my personal savings as he needed it for him and his family to go preach the gospel in Europe for a week or two. He didn’t provide an account of their time there as I’d asked him to. He reached out to me a couple times afterwards asking for hundreds for ministry and personal needs, but I didn’t feel it was right.
I noticed early on a number of inconsistencies which were question marks for me. He would announce he was taking a break from Facebook the next 4 weeks to fast and pray, but then he would be back on Facebook again after only 1 week or so. This happened about 3 times that I noticed. Also announcing that they were going to start their own church, and start training courses, but then nothing ever materialised, and when I enquired as to the location, he was not forthcoming but only replied, “England”.
On his video lives, I noticed he increasingly talked about sowing a seed into his ministry eg. he would encourage attendees to sow £30 there and then, via PayPal before he prophesied to us.
The last time I reached out to him he acknowledged my prayer request then immediately followed with a request for £400 citing ministry needs, and saying he knew God would help me if I gave, (which was a strange thing to say). I stopped following him because I didn’t feel the way he went about providing for his ministry was Godly. If God is behind a ministry, provision comes, it doesn’t look like begging in my opinion.
