An evangelical pastor claims he met with a senior Republican Congressman who told him of a plot to "remove Trump suddenly from office".

During an appearance on Revival Ministries International, Rodney Howard-Browne said he spent three hours "from 9:30 in the evening until 12:30am with one of the senior ranking members of Congress".

The pastor said he related the same story on the CBN network but "they cut it out" and that he had decided "to go public with this because we have to."

"He said there is a plot on Capitol Hill to take the president out, I said you mean by impeachment or by indictment – he said no, to take him out, he will be removed suddenly from office," said Howard-Browne, before adding, "you can read between the lines".

The Congressman, who the pastor revealed had been in office since 1996, went on to tell Howard-Browne "there's nothing we can do to stop it."

Pastor Howard-Browne said the deep state had "started a war" against Trump because he has been more amenable to the evangelical community than any previous president stretching as far back as Reagan, and were trying to "set the president up in every way".

The South African pastor called for people around the world to "pray around the clock for the protection of the president".

Howard-Browne was responsible for taking the photo of pastors laying their hands on President Donald Trump and praying over him in the Oval Office earlier this month, an image that went viral.