Ezekiel Guti

Children

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Academic Credentials

Guti held a number of degrees from different academic institutions. He held a Bachelor of Christian education and Doctorate from Northgate Graduate School, from Zoe College USA. He also had the following qualifications: BA; MA; D.D; D Min and PhD in Religion.^[3]

Life as a Religious Leader

Between 1948 and 1949, Guti travelled to the then Salisbury (now Harare) where he met a man he had been shown in a dream who explained and baptised him. He started to speak in tongues.^[3]

He preached in Mbare but was to be chased from the church after getting extensive press coverage. In 1958, he ministered in Highfield, in an Assemblies pf God church started by a South African pastor who had been chased from his own church. Guti too was later to be expelled from that pastor’s church as the leaders the pastor had left on his return to South Africa had not liked him.^[3]

The church is now a big empire, operating in 106 countries worldwide. It has diverse investments, including 120 dressmaking schools in Zimbabwe, bible schools, colleges and vocational training centres, hospitals and clinics, primary and secondary schools, and so many other properties in various countries.^[3]

Watch Videos

In 2010, ZAOGA FIFMI celebrated its 50th anniversary, where Guti addressed a crowd of over 50,000 believers in Zimbabwe at the National Sports Stadium in Harare.^[4] The event was broadcast live on Ezekiel TV, a Christian television network broadcasting from South Africa, found by Guti and wife.^[4]

On the international arena, Guti has accepted invitations to preach and teach in several African nations, Europe, USA, Asia-Pacific countries, and the Bahamas. He has spoken in Bible schools, colleges, universities, and on Television and Radio programs.^[4]

Success

Growth of the Church

Guti has founded bible schools in Zimbabwe, Ghana, Zambia, and Mozambique where he has trained over 4,000 pastors from more than 55 nations. He also founded the Forward in Faith Orphanage Center, F.I.F Children's Ministry, F.I.F College and High School Ministry, Gracious Women's Fellowship International, along with the Husband's Agape International Fellowship. He oversees over five thousand pastors and evangelists worldwide and is a great intercessor, a man of love and compassion, with a hunger to win souls to Jesus Christ.^[4]

Miracles

Guti is also well known for performing miracles, and in 2009, a prominent singer, visually impaired and former Jairosi Jiri Band member, David Mabvuramuti, who had only six per cent vision due to the hereditary illness retinitis pigmentosa, was able to see for the first time in his life after Guti prayed for him.^[3]

Farm Mechanisation Scheme

In July 2020, Archbishop Ezekiel Guti was listed, in the BSR of 18 July 2020, as a beneficiary in the 2007 RBZ Farm Mechanisation Scheme, as a result of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme.

The data is analysed by recipients origin:.

• Mashonaland provinces had the most beneficiaries, both in terms of numbers and value.
  

Mashonaland East got US$47,5 million,
Mashonaland West US$44,7 million
Mashonaland Central had US$34,2 million.

• Two Matebeleland provinces had a combined total of US$13,9 million.
• Masvingo US$26,4 million,
• Manicaland US$18 million
• Midlands US$14 million.

Archbishop Ezekiel Guti, is listed under the thematic group “The Clergy”. He is listed as owing US$116,693.00. ^[5]

Philanthropy

Guti was behind the establishment of Mbuya Dorcas Health Centre in Zimbabwe.

In December 2010, ZAOGA was granted a licence by the Zimbabwean government to set up the Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University in Bindura in Mashonaland Central Province.^[3] He has also funded a number of children;s homes, orphanages, old people's homes, health service centres and academic institutions including ZEGU.

Publications

Guti has written a number of books majoring on Christian life. Some of the publications are as follows;

1. A Wise Man
2. Lessons from Life and Ministry
3. Prayer of a Righteous Man.^[6]
4. The History of ZAOGA FIF.
5. The Book of Remembrance
6. Human Beings Cannot Change Without Pressure
7. Maturity Which Comes by Knowing the Ways of God
8. New African Apostle
9. Foundations
10. Two Ways of Knowing God
11. Effective Preaching that draws People to God
12. Church and Political Responsibility
13. Principles of the Doctrine of Christ
14. Understanding your Angels
15. Laws and Responsibilities of a Leader
16. Leaders Manual for Home fellowship groups or Cells
17. Defending your Blessings
18. Secret Wisdom in time of difficulty and the power of words
19. Why is it that Some Believe the Gospel and others Do not
20. Strategies for Saving marriages for this generation
21. Believers guide for Blessings
22. Pathway to Praise & Worship
23. Maturity, which comes by knowing the ways of God
24. My Yoke is easy
25. Charitable Deeds
26. Do you want to know what people expect when they come to church?
27. ZAOGA Sunday Morning Bible Study
28. So now I am an Elder what am I expected of?
29. ZAOGA Ushers Manual.^[7]

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