Founder of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach, Dr Lawrence Tetteh has shared a very insightful history behind the origin of All-Night Service in Ghana.
It’s a very common practice where Christians gather and pray in small or large groups at late night, occasionally from Fridays to Sundays. There’s no exclusive explanation for this, but many believe it has some sort of spiritual gain.
Speaking on GBC’s 24 August episode of its Breakfast Show, Dr Lawrence Tetteh said the advent of all-night services in Ghana was a result of the lack of suitable worship space during the early days of the charismatic movement.
According to the renowned International Evangelist and Economist, the conservative Christian practice has no link to spirituality.
“You will be surprised a lot of people don’t understand why we do all night here today. All night has no spirituality. The reason why all night started was that, in the early days of charismatism, churches rented Halls. “They didn’t have a place to be able to do a church service.
“The only place you can do it is a school church building after they have closed, and it is only during Friday nights that you have availability. If you are fortunate to have a Methodist church, Presbyterian Church or Anglican church to use, the only time you can use it is in the Friday evenings, and that is how all nights began,” he explained.
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He further explained that the idea behind all-nights has unfortunately been misrepresented as having a spiritual meaning behind it.
“People think that all night is spirituality. In fact, the witches in the day are more dangerous than the witches at night. So today, you realise that a lot of people are into it. And I am not killing your spiritism, but sometimes it is just a religious thing people do, and they think it is only in the all-night…”
Dr Lawrence Tetteh noted that he had stopped holding All-Night Service because it often takes a toll on ones unproductive by the next morning.
“Trust me, I have stopped all night because when you go to the all night, in the morning, I cannot go to the weddings, I cannot go to a funeral.
“And you will be surprised, you are sitting in your clerical collar, and you are dozing, and people are noticing you because you look irresponsible. Because you’ve come from an all night and Saturday is the day that you do all these things,” he said.
