Evangelist Helen Ukpabio, founder and head of African Evangelical franchise Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries based in Calabar, Cross River State, has claimed that birthday pleasantries are devil’s language, urging followers to stop wishing her “happy birthday”.
Addressing the congregation during a church service as captured in a viral video, the woman of God cautioned her congregation against using the phrase “happy birthday,” claiming it is a language inspired by the devil.
According to her, she prefers to describe her birthday as “thanking God at 60” rather than engaging in what she called modern-day idolatry. She further explained that such greetings are spiritually misleading and not aligned with Christian doctrine.
Evangelist Helen also said
“I am not somebody that does birthday every year like Zombie”, stressing that she doesn’t “sell out my soul to devil like that, don’t use the language of the devil. You won’t see birthday there. You will only see “thanking God at 60”.
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“You see people saying happy birthday! Happy birthday!! Who is giving you happy and birthday? Those are pleasantries that people exchange in this modern day idolatry.
“You can even see a Christian singing happy birthday to you on pulpit. Then after that you say it doesn’t mean. It means. Energy you don’t vest spiritually, don’t say it.
“All these things are idolatry, Satan giving us a language and the Bible says we should not speak their language”.
Her comments have since sparked widespread debate online, with critics calling her views extreme, while some of her followers praised her for speaking out against what she described as worldly traditions.