Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), Dr Paul Enenche, has said his recent successful mega crusade in Pakistan has reassured him that nothing is impossible with God.
Enenche said this while narrating the event to church members during the Sunday service at the Glory Dome headquarters of the church in Abuja.
The church organised the crusade, tagged “Pakistan Healing and Deliverance Crusade” in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, between March 19 and 20.
It drew participants from different parts of the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, UAE, France, Angola, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Over 20 people attended the crusade from Nigeria.
Some DIGC pastors and the entire media crew at the headquarters of the church also accompanied the senior pastor and his wife, Dr Becky Enenche, to the crusade.
About Pakistan
According to Wikipedia, Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world with over 241.5 million people and having the second largest Muslim population as of 2023.
It is bounded by the Arabian Sea on the South, the Gulf of Guinea on the Southwest, and the Sir Creek on the Southeast. It shares land borders with India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast.
It shares a martime border with Oman in the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan in the northwest by Afghanistan’s narrow Wakhtan Corridor.
As of 2023, Pakistan had 96.3 per cent Muslim population, 2.2 Hindus, 1.4 per cent Christians and other religion account for 0.1 per cent.
God’s mercies
Enenche, who excitingly told the story of the crusade amid cheers and clapping from members of the church, said he saw another level of God’s help, faithfulness and mercies in Pakistan.
“In Pakistan, we saw the possibilities of God like we never saw before. And in Pakistan, I saw that it is possible and in time to come, God will send us to a nation under 24 hours.”
He added, “Pakistan showed me that a nation can be literally born in a day, that under 24/48 hours, a nation can be set ablaze. Because of the shortness of the time, God just step us into the nation.”
The medical doctor turned clergyman said the crusade was the major topic of discussion in the country officially known as Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
According to him, the country’s social media platforms were abuzz with the news of the event.
“Under 24 hours, their social media, their Tiktok was aglow, the only news of the country,” he said.
He said the crowd was so massive that on the first day, his wife (Dr Becky) was almost confused and wondered if the attendees were aware of what the event was all about.
Reception
Enenche narrated that the Pakistanis accorded him and the church’s team unexpected warm reception as soon as they arrive in the South Asian country.
According to him, virtually everyone they met wanted to take a photograph with him and his wife.
“But as we arrived, we got unbelievable reception. They received us straight into immigration, no question like ‘what are you here for? What do you come to do? Like they were waiting for us.’ Stamped visa.
“When we were waiting for immigration, they started rushing us for pictures. They want to snap, they want to snap, they want to snap. One woman snapped almost five times. She will go she will come back to snap, she will snap and then join other persons. (We asked her) are you going to be in the programme? she said she is not sure but she’s snapping. That was the kind of reception.
(There was) government security. It is as if there was an instruction that these people must go and come back safe. So, here we are in the street where they were pouring us flower, from here to the hotel, from the hotel to the evening session,” he said.
Massive crowd
Enenche said during the evening session of the first day (March 19), the crowd was so massive that his wife (Dr Becky) got confused as she stepped on the altar.
“(During the) evening session, Dr Mrs Enenche said as soon as she stepped in the altar, and she saw the crowd, for a second or two, she was almost confused. ‘What is this? What am I seeing? Who knows us here?’ She finished and went, see the way they were excited. They couldn’t sit down,” he said, adding “This is Pakistan where you are seeing crowd like endless, and people on the ground, sitting on bare ground. “
Miracle healing, deliverances and salvation
Enenche said God wrought incredible healings and deliverances during the event while many others gave their lives to Jesus Christ.
He said, for instance, paralysed hands and feet were healed, growth and tumours disappeared while breast cancer was handled by God.
Why crusade held only one day
Enenche said after the success of the first crusade on the first day, there was a security alert on the part of the government, which prevented the event from holding on the second day.
He said from the information he could piece together, there were attempted terror attacks about 1,500 kilometres from the venue of the crusade two days before the event.
“We announced the second night. On the next day, we were meant to go for the welfare that you saw. After we had done Commanding the Day Midnight Prayer at 3 a.m., we were meant to go for it and then the security told us that we should hold on.
“Exactly two days before our arrival, there was a terror attempt I,500 kilometres away from where we held our crusade. There was security alert in the country before we arrived. And then they gave, in addition to the visa, a no-objection certificate, that is ‘we don’t have any objection to these people coming to do what they came to do.’ No objection!
“And then they approved two days of crusade. In this history of that country, you don’t do crusade for two days on one spot, No. But they approved for us. What a favour!
“And then when the first night happened, people were sitting on the floor, people were standing, people were hanging everywhere. We announced to come for the second night. By the next day, the security came to us to say we shouldn’t hold it and they needed to be sure that everything security is cleared,” he said.
Enenche said when there was no guarantee for the afternoon session on the second day, he decided that the ministers conference should be held in its place.
“So, I told myself, if this afternoon session, which is a smaller meeting in the daytime, they cannot guarantee our going, is it the evening they will guarantee us……. if this kind of large crowd showed up the first night and they saw the things they saw and we say come the next day, and the crowd multiplies two or three times, we will be incapable of controlling the crowd.”
He said just before the church team left Pakistan, there was a message informing them that they could continue with the crusade but not at the same venue.
“But we said at that time it was too late……We told them that were going to come back, come back in a more drastic manner. That was the level of favour, the level of help, the level of mercy. If what you saw there is possible, I can tell you anything is possible around your life,” he told the enthusiastic congregation.
He said the ministers conference was held despite the short notice of about two hours, while welfare materials were also distributed to the needy before the church team departed Pakistan.
Thereafter, the cleric asked the congregation to join him to praise God for five minutes before dismissing the service
“I like you to join me for only five minutes and let us celebrate God just five minutes,” he said.
