REVEALED: Pastor Kumuyi Drops Shocking Message About Who Takes Over Deeper Life

Deeper Life Bible Church is one of the oldest Christian denominations in Africa, founded by Pastor Williams Folorunsho Kumuyi.

However, Deeper Life Bible Church is different from other churches. It distinguishes itself through a strong emphasis on deep holiness, strict biblical literalism, renunciation of worldly pleasures, and disciplined discipleship.

It is a ministry that emphasizes a “deeper” Christian life beyond initial conversion, with distinctive practices like simple living, fervent prayer, and a structured, systematic approach to spiritual growth. This differs from mainstream Pentecostal churches, which focus on worldly prosperity and miraculous events.

The founder, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, who is also addressed as the General Superintendent, is one of the most respected men of God in the world today. He is a highly principled man who has never been involved in any form of controversy. He started the Deeper Life Bible Church from the very scratch. Today, it has grown to become a globally recognized church from a small Bible study group he started in 1973 while he was a mathematics lecturer at the University of Lagos. Many do not know that Pastor Kumuyi is not just a brilliant teacher of the Bible, he was also a brilliant academic, a first-class math graduate who became a prominent global spiritual leader, impacting millions with his teachings on righteousness and evangelism.

In the last couple of years, there have been discussions, very quiet discussions as to who will be the successor to Pastor Kumuyi when he crosses to the other side of the divide to join his maker. He is currently 84 years old, he will be 85 years old in June 2026. He was born on June 6, 1941, in Erin-Ijesha, Osun State, Nigeria. He is one of the few men of God with First-class honors (Mathematics) from the University of Ibadan; Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Lagos. Not long ago, in a video posted on one of the church’s social media platforms, Pastor Kumuyi addressed the issue of who will succeed him and the possibility of a power tussle erupting among the senior hierarchy, He spoke candidly about the likely scenarios that might play out in the church when he passes on to heaven and how the church might be compelled to choose a new General Superintendent different from God’s choice and whose emergence might evolve new changes. But he warned that, whatever happens, the incredibly high standards that have held the church together for decades and set it apart from the rest, should never be changed.

He tells the members: “You know, it is possible if Jesus tarries. It is possible if it takes a very long time for the Lord to come.

And I leave to go to the Lord before he returns. And of course, if I leave, somebody has to take over. If it so happens that the message is being recorded, the case set will still be there.

If it so happens, you remember that I said so, if it so happens, you might discover, to start with, that the week, the month, the year it happens that I leave, there might be a power struggle. Who takes over? Who becomes General Superintendent? If I knew before leaving that I was leaving, I might know, I might not know, who knows? If I know, it may be that I might say that this is the next person to be the next General Superintendent. And God works in a way we cannot understand.

It might be that a Joshua will be chosen and Caleb will wonder, why not me? It may be a young David, very young, will be chosen, and Eliab, older, more experienced, trained in the use of adult weapons, not catapult, not youth, teenage weapon, trained in the use of adult weapons, will be wondering, why not me? And then, while the ordinary members are still wondering how they are going to do this or that, the burial, there is an undercurrent of, well, he’s gone.

Maybe when he put that David there, that David should take over, maybe he didn’t really, you know, sometimes maybe he wasn’t really prepared, this is a young fellow. And then Eliab might then begin to campaign, and you might be surprised, there might be a religious coup, that that little David that I might put there, if I knew where I was going, might eventually be sidetracked, covered up, thrown away, even sent away from the church, one way or the other, so that he will not even be ordinary worker, not to talk of being General Superintendent.

And the person who can talk, the person who can say, I am the one to do it, he might eventually be able to talk himself into it and talk everybody into it, and then eventually you have somebody there, but not somebody appointed from above. And then, changes will begin. And those changes might be so subtle, those changes might be so small, small, small, that the people will just be rejoicing, saying, we thank God.

See, things are becoming better. The government is giving us more recognition. We are becoming so accepted in the whole of the Christian body in the nation. Thank God. Before you know that the water is boiling, the church has died. And that’s why, while I am still in the body of the flesh, while I’m still in the clay, I know sometimes the things I say, no other person will say it.

And because no other person will say those things, I have to make up my mind and say them. Because time is going, the time is far spent, and who knows what’s going to happen tomorrow? And if there is any concern in my heart, and if there is any concern that ought to be in your heart, it is that these standards, these standards will never be changed.