Pastor (Mrs) Mary Ochenjele
Co-Senior Pastor and Founding Pastor,
Believers’ Fountain of Living Waters Assembly International
“If you are born again and God has given you the call like He gave Abraham, He’ll begin to work on your mentality. You don’t think unbeliever’s mentality anymore, you don’t think your village mentality, you don’t think defeat mentality, you don’t think sick mentality, you don’t think frustration mentality: you think the thoughts of God.” – Pastor (Mrs) Mary Ochenjele
Pastor (Mrs) Mary Elakeche Ochenjele was born on the 4th of July 1971, in the cosmopolitan city of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. As an undergraduate Law student, University of Jos, she got born again at the age of 18, during her fellowship days at the Charismatic Renewal Ministry and her love for Christ has continually been on the increase.
With a call to preach Holiness, Consecration, Service and Love, she enrolled at the School of Disciples and Bible College under the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), together with her husband, who was an Area Pastor with RCCG. By August 2010, the Holy Spirit impressed it on her heart to start a Church based ministry, but she had her initial concerns. However, her husband’s encouraging words, “I know God has a work for you to do but I want the Lord to tell you Himself” was the needed catalyst required to spur her into action. The couple decided to embark on a 40-day fast from September to October 2010 and the Ministry, Believers’ Fountain of Living Waters Assembly International, was inaugurated on 16th October 2010 in her living room. Over the past decade, she has remained consistent in raising disciples who follow Jesus fervently with the Church having branches spread across Benue State, Nigeria.
In line with her Ministry of spiritual re-awakening, she recently posted on the calling of a Gate Watcher. According to her, “When these spirits walk into the church and begin to mount pulpits, it’s because the Gate Watchers that were supposed to watch at the gates of Holiness and Purity began to slack with other messages. When you are given the business of gate watching, there are things that you cannot indulge in: it’s a 24/7 job. If that’s the emphasis God has given you, you have no business looking elsewhere. Church GistBut we got distracted, for over 20 years, we got distracted; watch men kept crying and prophets kept crying, “awaken, take your place” and we say, “No, we are having a good time. God is blessing us so much. God is doing so much.” Until every ground was lost to the enemy, we lost all ground until we lost almost every ground. Show me one ground that has not been lost!
Every day, you see stories in the Media about one Man of God doing this and another Man of God doing that. If the Gate Watchers prayed and mount their places!
Sometimes, they know when daughters of Jezebel are about to walk into the Church and clear the leg of the Man of God. Funny enough, some of us will join and say, ‘Ehhenn, God don dey catch dem’ (God has caught them).
Where are the Gate Watchers? Church Gist Where are the Gate Keepers? There is war. It’s a place of war. A Gate Keeper is wired by the Lord for warfare. Anybody that is wired into gate keeping business, when you hear, ‘this so and so man of God fell’; ‘that so and so man of God fell’: when he is a true gate keeper, you’ll see the person pouring his heart on the altar…and saying, ‘Father, what is the problem? Baba, deliver our sons. Deliver our daughters, let Your Name not be rubbed in the mud.’
That’s the cry, until God does something!”
She got married to Pastor Dr Sunday Ochenjele on 5th November 1994 and they are blessed with six lovely children. Besides her Kingdom duties, she works as a Lawyer at the Ministry of Justice, Benue State and she is also the Registrar of Marriages in Benue State.
Sources: Believers Fountain of Living Waters Assembly Online, Mary Ochenjele’s Page
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