DONT LET THEM CELEBRATE YOU INTO SMALLNESS AND DESTRUCTION.
EVERY TIME YOU MEET WITH A TRUE MAN OF GOD, YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH ALL OF GOD.
- Reverend George Izunwa (Gateway
International Church) at Kingdom Power and Glory World Conference 2021
Day Four, Morning Session
Hallelujah!
I want to honour my father and my mother in the Lord, Dr Paul and Dr Becky Enenche for the privilege to stand here today. I got connected to Dr Paul at a time when I needed a shift in my life. Church Gist. I had started ministry and it looks as if God was helping us and gradually the work began to grow. But in the midst of the relationships I was having, I found out that some people began to make me feel as if I was doing well and there was this push, in fact at that time, we were not up to a thousand but there was this push to be ordained a Bishop and it just kept growing and growing.
I was much younger then, I was scared. Every time I would talk about seeing a small boy who they took a big cap and put on his head and it covered his eyes. That was my attitude towards that. But at that time, I have seen Dr Paul once and again about four times and he has come to places where I was, in meetings. The simplicity, I’m sorry to say this but, we look at him and look at other guys who are so puffed up and their works don’t compare. Every time he comes and goes, I just fall in love with him. I just kept telling myself, “this is the kind of person to follow”. So I spoke to a friend. Church Gist. When I got tired of saying, I don’t want to be a Bishop. I said, “Please can you tell him I want to see him?” At that time, I’ve only listened to his message once and I came to Abuja and I met him in the office and I shared with him how I was feeling, how I was losing my passion for God. How I was been distracted by so many things and he spoke to me first, on the danger of early arrival. He said to me, “Don’t let them celebrate you into smallness and into destruction.” He said that to me first in the office, many, many years ago.
He said to me that, ministry is not about comparison with other people. It is not about the size but, have you fulfilled the purpose of God in your heart? He kept talking and I told him about my fears. Church Gist. How I didn’t want to lose some relationships and all of that. He said to me that, he perceives that my challenge is that I am doing a lot of ministry sentiment. He rebuked that. He prayed with me and I told him, “Well, I’ve made up my mind to submit under this grace” and he welcomed me.
Believe me, the first thing I’ve enjoyed with him all these years is unconditional love and acceptance. He loves me passionately. He can do anything to see that my work goes on. Sometimes I feel like, why do you bother this person and yet, he cares for me and my family. When my daughter was schooling in the UK, I had an issue and my wife told him. He said, “Calm down”. She flew into Nigeria and the next thing I heard was my father in the Lord calling and he said, “thank you for the privilege of hosting your daughter.” Church Gist. I said, what? Hosting my daughter is a privilege?
I couldn’t understand that. I told myself and said, I wish that when I was young, I visited Pastor Kumuyi’s house once. If I did that, it will be written in my house. So, my daughter has had an experience that she can never forget all her life. Thank you for your care and love.
One thing that happened to me in coming in contact with him is restoration of passion for God, prayer, seeking and continuing in the presence of God. It just became normal with me and all those things of titles, all of that just went very far away and God became more and more real to me. Every time you meet a true man of God, believe me you come in contact with all of God and I know that since I related with him, my all of God, my reverence for God just kept increasing.
Secondly, I began to see exceptional favour and help. At that, somethings were still a lot of struggles. I remember one time, I came here and dropped a seed and left. Got back to Port Harcourt and went to dedicate somebody’s estate. Church Gist. Finished dedicating the place, walked out and the man called me back and said, “excuse me. While you were going to your car, God told me to give this to you” and the whole estate he built, he gave it to me. That was not the first, about three like that, giving without any form of prayer. All kinds of things just kept happening.
When we needed to build our hospital and all that, they said the land, less than 10 plots of land, about 8 or something was 150 million. Just like that, God brought the money, we paid and the hospital was built and we dedicated it. Church Gist. When he came, he spoke about caring for the needy and all of that and I gave them the first 100 surgeries free. In that hospital, we do an average of two surgeries free, every week. Now, we have done more than 400 surgeries free of charge because of the grace that he has brought into our lives.
Whenever I come here, the first time I saw widows all lined up crying and telling about what God did in his life, I went back home and it was like, something turned in my head. Why don’t you do this? I began to plug into that. I said, “God which area do I turn to” and God said, get into more missions. We started missionary work at that time and all of that. Church Gist. I thank God today, I can stand here and say that out of that passion, we came into the north and helped about 11 churches in Zamfara, start from zero and build their church. In the north, we have done about 26 of those churches that we started from zero to completion because of what he taught us.
Then, there was a transference of ease for the miraculous. I’ve prayed for people and all of that. In fact, I have one that was embarrassing, I will still share it. Normally, I come here to pick 80-90 CDs. The people working in the CDs office, they know every time and I kept listening and listening. One day I was watching one in which I saw him praying for a crippled man and I said let me go and try it. Church Gist. I got to church and made an altar call and people were coming. I saw a blind person and I said, come here. I said is there any other blind person here? Brothers and sisters, I didn’t mind. I laid hands on about 7 blind people, not one eye opened. I just told myself, it is still downloading. But to the glory of God Sir, the very next night, I did it again. I’ve seen it done before and I’m going to do it again. The next night, three blind eyes opened and two that were partially sighted. I was excited because everything I see, I try to repeat. Last three Sunday, a lady said, “I came to church on Friday for the Faith Clinic and then, I came from the hospital. They said, I had ectopic pregnancy and pastor just put hand on me and said you don’t have it and walked away. I went back to the same hospital, no ectopic pregnancy again”.
I want to thank the Lord for the ease of transference of grace.
When Dr Paul visited our church the first time, we were not up to a thousand. Things were just dried and then, he spoke. By the text time he visited, the hall was full. The next time he visited, there was overflow. The next time, overflows upon overflows and all of that. I don’t take that for granted. Thank you Sir for every of the impartation that shifted us. Church Gist. When I told him I wanted to plant some new churches because we are trying to build and our aim was to move to our new site but then we had some resistances. At a point I was bothered and said, “Lord, what is this?” And God said, go plant churches. I came to the office and I said, daddy. “I feel like, I need to plant about 50 churches in Port Harcourt”. He looked at me and kept quiet. I said to God before I came, if he says anything negative to that, I know this is not You. He said, okay. “I’m coming to Port Harcourt and when I come, we will talk about it”. He came to Port Harcourt with Mummy and the program he came for, he preached on Destiny Acceleration. Mummy preached the next day and then he spoke and prophesied and we started the churches. Today, we have about 41 churches planted in Port Harcourt City and we have overflows in all of them. It’s like God just began to take us higher and higher.
We want to say to you daddy, thank you for all you have done. Thank you for your love and care. Last year August, I spoke with him about when the devil came to take my life and my wife called daddy and mummy. They were like checking on us every now and then. One of the days when it was like every hope is lost, I remember the song “You are always there for me”. I grabbed my iPad and put the song on. Church Gist. By the time it was over, God brought everything back together. Daddy spoke against death. For the first time, I was sure I was not going to make it. It was so bad. But I thank God for spiritual covering. I thank God for a voice that spoke. People do ask me, “why are you wearing a beard” and I’ll tell them, “my wife asked me to put it on to celebrate resurrection. Because when I was in the hospital, I couldn’t shave, so when I came out, she said this is a mark to tell that one time, God raised you up”. I want to say thank you father for every help; caring for my family and giving me direction.
Please Sir, I need to say this, there are a lot of people who have been celebrated into obscurity, darkness and failure. They can’t submit to anybody. Church Gist. Just because they saw 500 persons, they become big men. I couldn’t imagine it; when I see this person walking very casually, entering into meetings and I’m looking at this other person who has 200 members, he is senior apostle so and so. This one, he is a great professor so and so, without submission. Believe me, even if God didn’t speak to me, I would have submitted to him just for that. Because his simplicity is beyond understanding.
I want to say thank you for teaching us that, “you can be great and not be arrogant”. If I didn’t come under this covering, my ministry would have stopped long again. But thank God for rescue and deliverance. I honour you my father in the Lord.
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