At Crusade 2025: Defiant Liberian preacher, Rev. Precious Dagadu, boos the devil!
…Says, “the devil wanted to take me out but God saved me!”
By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher
When Rev. Precious JL Dagadu, Resident Pastor for Christian Evangelistic Pentecostal Church (CEPC) took the podium Wednesday night, which was Day #3, of the ongoing Crusade 2025, at Jacob Town’s Football Field, it was her first public preaching in many years at a church crusade.
Of course, thousands of their Pentecostal church members and supporters all across Liberia and beyond knew why she had to stay away from making public appearances for many years. The reason was that Rev. Precious Dagadu got severely ill in much of 2020, at the height of the deadly COVID-19 epidemic.
Her illness appeared rare; quite uncommon, and because most doctors and nurses treating her at the time in Liberia, and in Accra, Ghana, didn’t seem to have spiritual eyes, they couldn’t find the sickness-it lingered on through 2021 and onward, and with periodic bolts.
The illness is believed to have had a link to spiritual warfare. In other words, this Woman of God, whom the LORD had been using so mightily and graciously-in line to the duties of her husband (Rev. Dr. Dagadu) in setting the captives free now came under systematic demonic attacks with no end in sight.
Both Rev. Christian Dagadu and Pastor Precious Dagadu remain a household name in Liberia and beyond for their fine works for the Kingdom of God. Their CEPC Church runs one of the most effective Deliverance Ministries in the country, and have done so for over 40 years.
Through the Power of Christ, CEPC’s team has succeeded in freeing hundreds, if not thousands, from demonic power. Besides, they train local pastors and evangelists here in spiritual warfare so that they can in term use such skills to help demonic captives go through deliverance and be healed.
Yet, like every powerful deliverance minister, Rev. Precious Dagadu and her husband, Pastor Dagadu came under a serious demonic attack in the summer of 2020, in spite of their dedication to serving the LORD. And although this wasn’t the first or second of such attacks, the warfare of 2020 was vicious indeed.
On Wednesday evening after she rose up to speak, CEPC members cheered off Rev. Precious Dagadu before she could even utter a word. She gazed towards Heavens, assuring an eager audience, and saying, “I will not cry!” Though the main speaker, she decided instead to devote her preaching time to giving personal testimonies of God’s goodness toward her family.
First, the kingdom of darkness hit Mother Precious with paralysis, then a stroke, and in one particular instance, she fell hard to the cement floor as she maneuvered to get to the bathroom or backyard of their Paynesville home. The fall crushed her jawbone and fractured her neck within moments.
The incident, she says, greatly affected her body mechanism thereby causing her to lose her speech and mobility. She was hospitalized multiple times, and became bedridden as well, and for the next 6 months she couldn’t eat or do anything, and had to be fed through a tube, her husband, Rev. Dagadu, who provided care during this period, told this writer Sunday.
In the middle of it all, local doctors at Liberia’s only Military Hospital in Margibi, found her with COVID-19-this rendered her case critical and complicated. In fact, she was reduced altogether to a vegetative state, and won’t talk apart from being able to eat food or breakfast.
“We had to feed her [Precious] through a straw,” said Dr. Dagadu, Sunday, during a conversation.
Mother Precious’ seemingly lingering illness no doubt shattered the Dagadus’ family life as they had known it to be. Needless to add it took a heavy toll on their entire household, mainly their elder son, and now preacher, Rev. Christian Dagadu Jr., together with his father who had to bathe Precious.
Doctors and nurses attending to Precious weren’t too sure if she could survive. They believed that if at all Precious did survive it was obvious that she could suffer from some type of disabilities.
As a result Precious’ medical doctors placed her on extensive speech therapy, whereby she had to learn all over to talk again. Similarly, she began to learn to walk on her own in order to better her mobility.
Now, five years after her horrifying experience, Resident Pastor Precious Dagadu-the woman who told her audience she had to carry a “plastic bag full” of medications with a neck brace daily for years, asked the jubilant crowd rather rhetorically, saying, “Where is the plastic bag? Where is the neck brace?”
Found in high spirit, a defiant Rev. Precious, booed the devil, sending her fist right into the air. And the crowd thundered after her!
“The devil wanted to take me out but God saved me!” she exclaimed, praising Jesus Christ of Nazareth, as she assured crusaders that “God still heals!” and they only needed to trust in Him. This was Mother Precious’ first time speaking nationally, or publicly, about her ordeal since those dark chapters of their life.
She also spoke about how powerful is the spirit that God has placed in us, Christians, saying that at the time she lied helplessly and couldn’t talk; she yet managed to pray silently in her spirit and heart, and God could hear her. “No matter how you may be sick, the spirit of God is in you.”
Since Crusade 2025 started last week it has brought many to Christ and delivered scores from the hands of darkness!
Meanwhile, the first phase ended Sunday evening as CEPC members including the media team and engineers prepared to remove the stage and equipment for their next stop, the Stephen Tolbert Estate, which starts from February 24th, to March 2nd, 2025.
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