Watch the Zimbabwean pastor that talk to God directly with A Cell Phone

Pastor Paul Sanyangore is a pastor with Victory World International Ministries Church, an organisation he founded. In the video, which was published in its entirety on YouTube on May 22, Sanyangore holds a mobile to his ear, asking, “Hello? Is this heaven? Is it heaven?” A woman kneels before him with her arms raised. The congregation around him claps and screams after his pronouncements. He asks ‘God’ what he should ask the woman, asking, “What else, Papa God? What else, Papa God?” He tells the crowd that ‘God’ is saying that the congregation needs to pray for her children. ‘God’ tells Sanyangore that the woman has two children, one of whom is asthmatic and the other epileptic, and that they are currently in Bulawayo (a city in southwest Zimbabwe). When these details are confirmed by the woman, the crowd erupts into applause. 

During An Interview with Pastor Paul Sanyangore He Said:

It happened only once. I can’t remember the date. The Bible says in the Book of Numbers that God spoke through a donkey. If God can speak through a donkey, why can’t he speak through a phone? People don’t believe that God spoke in a phone yet they believe that the mouth of the donkey was opened by God, and that God spoke through a burning bush. The problem we have today is that many people call themselves Christians, but they are not Christians. They don’t believe. There are real miracles that happen. If you don’t believe that God spoke in a telephone, why do you believe that the blind man’s eyes were opened or that Jesus walked on water? What he did then he can do today. 
It’s not about the [telephone] number. It’s not about knowing a number. It’s about my relationship with God. Everyone can call God. 

I said to the woman, give me your phone, and had God speak to me through the phone. It’s not me that chose the phone [as a medium of communication with God]. It was God who chose me to use the phone.

At the end of the video, after having spoken with God on the telephone, Sanyangore shouts, “Heaven is online!” Sanyangore founded his church in 2014 and set up a television station in March this year so that followers could watch his services. The church has a large social media following, with a YouTube channel and Facebook and Twitter accounts. People can book their slots being baptised or “delivered” in the swimming pool in Sanyangore’s garden – known as Bethesda Pool, the “pool of mercy”. 

Sanyangore was unclear as to whether worshippers have to pay to have an audience with him, or to be “delivered” in the pool. He said that “the gospel of Jesus Christ is free”, but also said while the power of God is “free to receive”, congregants can pay “for the means for God to have the power to reach you”. 

The phone call is just one of the ‘miracles’ that Sanyangore has performed. He also claims to have walked on water (in aforementioned swimming pool), to have created new kidneys for a man equipped with a catheter, to have healed a child’s broken legs, and to have brought a dead baby back to life.