THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO PITIED US. THEY LOOKED AT ME AS A SMALL BOY AND THEY LOOKED AT MY WIFE AS A SMALL GIRL.
SOME SAID: “YOU ARE A MEDICAL DOCTOR BY TRAINING AND YOUR WIFE AND YOU WANT TO SUFFER YOURSELF AND CALL YOURSELF A PASTOR, LET’S SEE HOW FAR YOU CAN GO?”
BUT IN THIS CONFERENCE, GOD TOLD US THAT WE HAVE JUST STARTED.
-Pastor Paul Enenche at the 25th Special Anniversary Service, Testimonies and Thanksgiving Service.
Dunamis International Gospel Centre.
Combined Service, Glory Dome.
Just Give Him the praise, only Him is worthy of our praise. We came for two basic things:
- To give God the praise for all the things He has done.
- To receive our anniversary gift from God.
Anybody ready to receive his anniversary gift from God? You know when you go to the birthday of the President or the President’s child, you go away with a package, a souvenir. Church Gist. We have come to celebrate the birthday of the President’s baby; the King of kings, the Lord of lords. His baby Dunamis that is celebrating 25 years and somebody will leave here with a package!
For 25 years, we have not seen a year that was worse than the previous year, we haven’t seen one in any realm. We have not seen a better yesterday. If anyone here today is trusting the Lord for Jehovah God to give you a path that is a shining light where you don’t see a better yesterday, you will shout the loudest amen!
Please everywhere you are, outside, ensure that you are seated right now and let something enter you. Church Gist. Take your seat very quickly.
1 Thessalonians 5:24
“FAITHFUL IS HE THAT CALLETH.”
That is the theme of my charge this morning. Our objective right here is to understand why we are here or rather understand the reason for our celebration.
WHY ARE WE HERE? WHAT ARE WE CELEBRATING?
- The privilege of life (Psalm 150:6, Acts 17:28). There are many people who saw the year 2021 who are not on earth now.
- The privilege of knowing God (John 6:44). Not one of us can be a Christian successfully if God does not pull us to Himself (1 John 3:1).
- The privilege and honour of serving God (Hebrews 5:4). Serving God is a privilege, it is an honour (1 Corinthians 1:26-28). Church Gist. He chose people that people looked down on. It is an honourable thing to serve the Lord.
- The faithfulness of God to the called. It is important for you to note three things from 1 Thessalonians 5:4
a). God is faithful.
God is faithful means God is reliable, God is dependable, God is trustworthy.
b). God is the Caller. No man can call himself and succeed. Ambition cannot take a person into the Word of God and he is successful. Nobody can make himself a pastor and make himself a preacher. Church Gist. It is God who calls. I am a Medical Doctor by training and my wife too. I never dreamt of being a full-time pastor. I had the passion to serve God but not to become a full-time pastor.
Faithful is he that calleth. So, God is the Caller.
c). The Caller is the Doer of every good thing. The things we are here seeing today, we are just standing by and watching God doing His things.
One of the topmost chief executives of one of the topmost engineering construction companies in Nigeria, he came here during the construction and looked around and he said, “This structure, even an earthquake cannot shake it”. When he saw the integrity of the construction, then he said, you must be spending nothing less than 150 million per week on this construction. Church Gist. That is in his own estimation as a professional engineer, the volume of construction that was going on. Well, I didn’t have an idea of what the amount was at that time but it wasn’t far from the truth and there was not a trace of stress because the Caller is the Doer.
If you call yourself, you will have the headache but if He calls, He will do it. Not a naira overdraft from any bank, not a begging, not a borrowing. Faithful is He that calleth, who also will do it. God who has called you, is going to do it in your life!
God is forever committed to everything He has commanded.
- We are celebrating the multidimensional acts of God. Is it churches planted, is it the crusades, the miracle, the signs, the wonders, the infrastructural development in our cities, the widows, the orphans? Multidimensional that only God could have done.
- The fulfillment of promises and prophecies. At the beginning of our ministry, God told us that this Church will be a fire exportation center where the fire of God and the anointing of the Lord will be exported to nations of the earth. People will come here, catch fire and take the fire to nations. Church Gist. At that time, I did not know that on a day like this, 41 nations including Pakistan will be a recipient of this fire. God spoke to us, “nations will come”. Now, they have come from United Arab Emirates, we have people coming here at times from Saudi Arabia, from every single continent of the earth. This is fire from here affecting a nation in far Asia that is dominantly of the other religion.
Joshua 21:45
I don’t know what God has spoken to you, if God kept His promise with Dunamis, He will keep His promise with your life!
- Today, God shall fulfill His promises in someone’s life!
- We are celebrating the frustration of the expectations and orchestrations of the enemy. He said, I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18, Job 5:12, Isaiah 44:26).
When we started ministry, People looked at us. I don’t know what makes people to look at the person and conclude that they will not succeed. You don’t know where they are coming; you don’t know where they are going? There are people who pitied us. They looked at me as a small boy. They looked at my wife as a small girl. One day, somebody invited her relation to the Church. The person said, “You want to invite me to that small boy’s church? Church Gist. That same had come here since, looking for help from the small boy’s church. It is only in Africa that they call a 28-year-old young man a small boy. In the Western world, by 18, you are already an adult. But here, even at 40 in Africa, they will still call you small boy. As I am now, some people still call me small boy at 53. But which one is superior; grace or age? Mantle or title? They just conclude that nothing can come out of you.
One looked at me and said, there are already established churches. He was calling the names and they were just watching to see us fail. But who is he that saith and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commanded it not? Church Gist. Today, presidents of nations, I was speaking in a broadcast the other day and a nation’s president with his wife, they were glad that the broadcast was delayed so that they could watch it when it was been broadcast. Maybe, some colleagues were watching us, “you are a medical doctor by training and your wife and you want to suffer yourself and call yourself a pastor, let’s see how far you can go?” Some people from family, some people just watching. But in this Conference, God just told us, we have just started; we are just about to start.
Everybody here today, who is a member of Dunamis Church, they are showing you some ancient pictures. Members of Dunamis Church, everyone watching from all around the world that is a member of this church, we are just foundational members. Something is just about to start.
Acts 12:11
- God will deliver you!
You know there are people who leave church and they thought God left with them. In fact, they may even tell you, “We have left that church. In fact, God has left”. Not knowing that only them left and not knowing that as they left, seven people came. Church Gist. People that are better in attitude, better in character, better in every realm. As they stepped out, they just gave room for more to come. The only person that must not leave church is God. For as long as God is still in church, calm down.
Papa Oyedepo said, somebody sat in an aircraft and was talking to one of his sons in the Lord unknowingly. Telling that person, how that ministry doesn’t have a future and was pointing out reason 1, 2, 3, 4… Why he doesn’t think that mega ministry, Winners, why he thinks it doesn’t have a future. When the man finished talking. Church Gist. He said, you’ve been talking to me about my spiritual father. He is my father in the Lord, there is nothing you can do about it. The person talking is supposed to be the bosom friend of…
He said, “That ministry, from the way I’m seeing things…” Who are you to determine the future of what God started?
Nobody can even predict your future as you are now. As we now, you can’t predict our future. For some people, they will think that Solomon was a goner, his mother was an adulteress and he doesn’t have a chance. Church Gist. But God was thinking differently; “If you think that nothing can come out of Solomon, I will show that I can make something out of nothing”.
Is there somebody here at all? If there is something you are going to celebrate today, celebrate the frustration of the expectations of your opposition. Stand up on your feet with a shout of praise.
If there is nothing to celebrate, the frustration of the altars of your father’s house. From where I have come from, nobody is permitted to reach this level, from my own village, from my clan. Who are you? You can be everything but a pastor and come this far? No way! Church Gist. Either you are dead before your time or you are alive without relevance. The devil just renders you useless and God said, “I will pull you and cross the boundary. I will take you and cross the limit”.
The young man we were following in 1979, Brother Victor, very fire brand young man. He was killed brutally, murdered overnight, left on the railway. Isn’t that enough to scare a young man away from following God? I followed the dead body all the way to the village. Those were the kind of ways that the people were going. Church Gist. I will not mention names, many along the line, just keep on going and going and God said, “I will raise you and show the altars that not everybody is wastable.
- You will fulfill your days!
- Where others stopped, that is where you are starting!
- What they say others cannot achieve where you have come from, God will use you to disappoint that devil!
One day, the ministers conference was coming and I saw a devil in the dream. When you see a devil, you know them by their presence. It’s like the way you see God and feel His presence. A devil with green eyes and he looked at me and said to himself, not to me, “By so, so and so time, He gave the date when he will die, not me”. Church Gist. When I woke up in the morning, I hissed. If we come to the time where the devil is more powerful than God, then we’ll drop the Bible and that day will never come!
To show the devil that what he said was inconsequential, I didn’t tell my wife the dream, I didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, Kia, my dear, I saw something terrible last night. Please join your faith with me oh… I don’t want to die before my time. The devil said on so and so date.” And the date he gave was just before the Convention. Can you imagine? You have publicized that a conference was going to happen and then… That devil is a bastard!
So, I said, “me and you devil, let’s watch who will give way.” So, I continued, brutally praying, doing my schedules as if the devil didn’t exist. When the date passed, convention passed and I preached in that convention with a sense of vengeance. Church Gist. I was so angry with the devil who said I was going to die. I preached with fire and vengeance. I was looking for the devil to kill in that convention.
When the time passed, I told my wife. The devil gave himself a date, I am telling you because that date has passed. The date in which he will die. I didn’t pray about it. Listen, any expectation, as we celebrate today, any expectation, the devil has for your life and family that is negative, even so-called opponents, people who take your name…
How many of you who are here today can confirm with me that if what the devil planned for you happened, you will not be here now? Church Gist. Some will not be alive, some will be alive but they will be in the hospital, some in jail. If what the devil planned came to pass, you will not be here.
There are people here now that I know, if what the devil…, you will not be alive now for example. Your father died at 46, immediate elder brother died at 46. At 46, he died too and I called on the phone. His spirit had already left. No pulse, nothing. Hands were cold, blood is already black, they were already rushing and then I called and his wife put the phone on his ears and I said, Joseph!” No sound, “Joseph!!” No sound. “Joseph!!!” He heard the voice from afar and he answered and said, “Sir!” What killed his father and his elder brother was also going to kill him at that same age until the power of God says, No!
- God is frustrating the expectations of the wicked!
One thing that is happening to all of us is that, we are changing levels today!
Bring out your phone light and on it.
The Bible says the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. As a Church, as a Commission, our path is as a shining light that is shining more and more unto the perfect day. Church Gist. On your light. Look around you and see the beauty of the light. That is how beautiful your life shall be! How beautiful your destiny shall be!
On your light and see your path shining, a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Father we give You the praise. Go ahead and pray in the Spirit. Wave it to the King of kings and the Lord of lords in the name of Jesus.
- Every trace of darkness on your pathway, every trace of darkness around your destiny, I declare; it is arrested, they are arrested!
- A new day, a new season, new help, new mercy, new interventions, in the name of Jesus!
Say;
“Father, my light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon me”
Give the Lord the praise. For the next ten minutes, we shall be celebrating. While the dance is on…, you see, this is a prophetic day for us. As we celebrate today, we have a total of 130 families dedicating children and we have vehicle, houses dedication (151 of them altogether). Church Gist. This celebration shall go on massively and while these dedications are on, I want the front to be filled with celebration, no restriction.
Go ahead and celebrate like you have never done before and let’s give the King of kings the praise.
Let’s go!
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