Sarah Omakwu, senior pastor of Family Worship Center in Abuja, has called out WhatsApp users who disable the app’s blue tick read receipts, describing the practice as a sign of insincerity.
Read more: Abuja pastor claims that disabling WhatsApp read receipts reflects a lack of sincerityIn a recent Facebook post featuring a clip from her sermon, Omakwu urged people to turn their read receipts back on, arguing that hiding them is a form of dishonesty.
Put the blue tick back on your WhatsApp. Taking it off is like lying—you’re keeping people in suspense, she said. Most of you who remove the blue ticks, it’s insincerity, just so you know. Let others see that you’ve read their messages. Would you want God to pretend He hasn’t read your requests?
Omakwu doubled down on her position in the caption to the video, saying that hiding read receipts is dishonesty dressed as privacy. She encouraged her audience to “start living in integrity” by turning the feature back on.
If you’re hiding your read receipts on WhatsApp to avoid accountability, hear me: it’s not wisdom, it’s dishonesty dressed as privacy.
God is looking for people who are faithful in small things. If you can’t be honest in a chat, how will He trust you with people, with money, with influence? Start living in integrity—the small place is where He tests you for the big place. Turn it back on; be a person of your word, she added.
