By Fasuyi Tolulope Samuel
Senior Pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, Jimmy Odukoya, has revealed the spiritual directive behind his distinctive dreadlocked appearance.
The clergyman stated that God expressly instructed him not to cut his hair before he assumed the pastoral role. During a recent sermon, Odukoya recounted how he had sought divine guidance concerning his look upon his return to ministry.
According to him, God made it clear that his hair must remain untouched. For confirmation, he asked his sister, Pastor Tolu Odukoya-Ijogun, to also pray, and she received the same message from God.
“Before I came back, one of the things I asked the Lord was whether or not I should cut my hair. And the Lord told me not to cut my hair,” he shared.
“I knew what God had said to me so I told my sister to go pray and that God will speak to her. She goes back and told me I wasn’t supposed to cut my hair, to which I replied, ‘I know, because God already told me.’’
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The pastor narrated a remarkable encounter with a woman from Zimbabwe who traveled to Nigeria solely to attend his church. She shared a vision she had back in 2016 while in New York during Thanksgiving.
In the vision, she saw a man—whom she later recognized as Jimmy—with dreadlocks, ministering to her with a fiery sword that symbolically destroyed the burdens she was carrying.
“She said, ‘You began speaking to me and it looked like thunder and lightning was coming out of the sword and it burnt the dog on my shoulder into ashes,’” he said, noting that the vision profoundly impacted her life.
Years later, after enduring personal tragedies including a painful divorce and the loss of her mother, she rediscovered the man from her vision while watching a sermon on YouTube. To her astonishment, it was Pastor Jimmy—hair and all.“
Here’s what’s crazy,” Odukoya noted. “In 2016, I didn’t have my hair. The God who sees, hears, and knows, knew that in February 2025, one of His children would have to see a man preaching. If I had cut my hair, she would have seen me with no hair and it would have meant nothing. God was making me keep my hair to save a life.”
Jimmy Odukoya is the son of late pastors Bimbo and Taiwo Odukoya. A multifaceted individual, he is not only a pastor but also an actor and motivational speaker. He assumed the senior pastoral role of The Fountain of Life Church in 2023 after the passing of his father.
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