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The Nigerian Pastor Called Dr Paul Enenche

July 24, 2024

The Nigerian Pastor Called Dr Paul Enenche

Paul Enenche is a trained Medical Doctor, called of God into full time ministry, with a heavy Apostolic and Prophetic mantle for the restoration of human lives and dignities.

His ministrations are characterized by deep insight of the Word of God, precise Word of Knowledge and the manifestation of the power of God in Supernatural healings, miracles, signs and wonders.

With more than 20 years in ministry, Pastor Paul Enenche preaches the power of Jesus Christ as the loving, living, saving, healing son of God.

Dr Paul Enenche Biography

Born on the 4th of June 1968 to the family of Chief D.E. Enenche. The Paramount ruler of Orokam district in Ogbadibo local government area of Benue state. Not much is known about his father but history has it that he was raised by his mother, Mrs. Titi Enewa Enenche of blessed memory.

Young Paul grew up in a family business of transportation. He was a bus conductor, learned driver-passenger relationship and learned how to fix attachment in buses. According to Pastor Paul, “I would have been doing transportation if I was not in ministry.”

According to some accounts, he was always a sickly child and faced many challenges while growing up but they all served to prepare him for his future. Young Paul had his primary education at St Francis Primary school and his secondary education at Wesley Methodist high school both in Otukpo, Benue state.

After which he proceeded to the University of Jos where he studied Medicine and surgery. While on campus, he was a part of the Deeper life campus fellowship and went out on evangelism from time to time. He graduated with an MBBS from the university and his search for his life’s purpose began.

His birth and sickest child of his mother

Dr Paul Enenche is the fifth child of his mom. When his mother was pregnant with his pregnancy 6 weeks. She had bleeding that threatened the pregnancy, the pregnancy could not come down.

At nine months she went to deliver, the midwife and others said, “you’re not in labor. All these women every small thing, they will say they’re in labor”. My mother said this is pregnancy number 5, I have delivered 4 times and this is the 5th one, I don’t know labor again?

She got angry and went back home. She vowed never to go back to the hospital. That was how she delivered infant Paul on the bare floor at home in the compound.

Nobody, no midwife, she delivered the child on the ground at home, delivered the placenta herself, cut the cord before others came. Paul Enenche could said to be a miracle child. Born at home, at the risk of tetanus, the risk of meningitis, the risk of bronchial pneumonia, the risk of dypteria, septicemia!

The devil didn’t stop there. He afflicted him with sickness. According to Pastor Enenche, “there were sicker people, but I was the sickest. At home playing as a child, all of a sudden convulsion will start. The black of the eye, would roll inside, and the white is all that his mom will see.” She’ll come back home and meet this child… febrile convulsion.

Three days dry fast at 11 years

According to Paul Enenche, he fasted for 3 days dry for the first time at the age of 11 in the year of 1979. At that time, a young man who was with them in the same camp meeting like this.

The camp meeting was Wesley High School in Oturkpo, in Benue State. And in those days, if you fasted, you broke the fast exactly 12 midnight on the third day. So after the first day, they asked the young man how did the fast go? He replied “I forgot, I ate.”

The boy continued eating and wasted the three days fasting. According to Pastor Enenche, he heard that at a point, this young man could lay hands on somebody, and the person will vibrate on the bed of sickness and the power will lift him and land him on the floor. He had such level of primitive power in the kindergarten stage. Where will he be now if that power grew.

The sad reality is that this young guy is not even in the faith at all today, he is not at all. He has Children from different women.

Testimony of Pastor Enenche’s mother

When his mother came to Dunamis one of the days, she sat in the healing and deliverance service, she watched all manner of signs and wonders. She looked at him and said no wonder the devil hated you so much. She said no wonder, he knew you were going to deal with him so terribly, so he wanted to stop you, she said no wonder! I understand now.”

Encounter with Jesus

Paul Enenche was raised up as a Methodist. But when he enrolled in the University of Jos to study Medicine and Surgery he joined Deeper Life Campus Fellowship. This was when he began to take his Christian work seriously.

Paul Enenche salvation experience is unique as he noted that he repented after series of inward convictions and questions about his eternity gripped him. He started really following the Lord hard while on campus with the Deeper Life Bible church, being the church he continued with.

Medicine and ministry

Paul Enenche has always been known to be a man with an unquenchable, unquestionable passion for God. As a medical student, Paul Enenche notes that whenever he hears of a patient’s death, he becomes miserable with thoughts about how he could have helped the patient to survive if he could.

Hence, evangelizing to patients while on ward rounds was something he always did. Praying for the sick and preaching to them while doing his job as a medical doctor. With numerous miracles attributed to those encounters.

Dr Paul Enenche Family

Dr Paul Enenche met his wife, Dr. Mrs. Becky Enenche while on campus. After they graduated from medical school, the duo eventually fell in love and exchanged marital vows on April 16th, 1994.

Their marriage is blessed with four children namely Deborah, Daniella, Destiny, and Daniel Paul-Enenche. Becky Enenche has been very supportive of her husband with many drawing inspiration from their exemplary blissful marriage.

The Call into Ministry

Three (3) days to the end of the month of May, 1996, Paul Enenche (a young medical doctor) found himself stuck at a point where he had to make a decision that will determine the course of his life.

In his words, “I had to chose to relocate to London with my beautiful wife who is also a doctor, to go and step up my medical qualification in a prestigious university, to take two other attractive medical appointments within the country etc”.

In his communion with God, he was directed to put his medical certificate out of the way and go to the city of Abuja Nigeria to start a gospel outreach. Whose mission would be to heal, save, deliver, and restore human destiny and dignity in God’s name.

On getting home, his young wife who was nursing their few-months old first baby (Deborah, “Debowa”) had also sought the face of God alongside her husband with a six-to-six (6-6) fasting and prayer for same purpose.

The spirit of God told her exactly what He told Paul, confirming this call. Six months after the call (precisely November 1996), Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche and his wife Dr. Mrs. Becky Enenche relocated to Abuja (Federal Capital Territory), Nigeria to establish his ministry.

That is the basis for the May convention of the church (The Destiny Recovery Convention). Characterized by Gods presence to set people free and help them through cross-roads of life.

His decision

More than 22 years ago, young Dr Paul Enenche quit his medical practice. Packed his bag, alongside his wife, Becky, who is also a medical doctor and our few months old baby, Deborah.

They left their 3bedroom flats in Jos and all the openings they had to work and further their education abroad, and moved into 1 room in Abuja, to answer God’s call to be fulltime preachers and teachers of the Word.

According to him, “people thought we were crazy for spending all those years in Medical school and dropping it for the Pulpit.”

Beginning of Dunamis International Gospel Centre

Dunamis International Gospel Centre is more than 25 years. It started like a mustard seed and has exploded to touch every single continent of the world.

The Church’s first church service was held at Abuja Centre for Arts and Culture. After two weeks, the church moved to Abuja Sheraton Hotel.

Six months after, in June 1997, the church moved to its permanent site and has since exponentially increased. The church has moved from the former headquarters to its current headquarters along Airport road Abuja.

On September 14, 2014, Dr Paul Enenche commenced the construction of the Lord’s Garden, the church’s moniker for its headquarters. Bishop David even arrived at the Dunamis International Gospel Centre headquarters to lay a stone in the foundation of the Lord’s Garden project.

Dunamis Gospel International Centre has the biggest church auditorium in Nigeria yet, Glory Dome with 100,000 seat capacity. The Glory Done dedication in 2018 was a massive celebration having dignitaries in attendance.

The former vice president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo was present to grace the occasion. Another massive structure owned by the church is the International Conference Centre and the church holds four (4) major conferences annually.

Influences, Teachings, and Doctrine

His ministry is influenced by God’s servants such as W.F Kumuyi, Pastor David Oyedepo, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and Pastor Kenneth Copeland. His teachings are focused on Christian Living, Character, Lifestyle and Living a life full of God’s power to fulfill destiny and impact lives.

As a preacher, he doesn’t shy away from preaching holiness and righteousness. Thanks to the background he had in the Deeper Life Bible Church founded by Williams Folorunsho Kumuyi.

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Paul Enenche is known to also preach prosperity and faith. Thanks to the influences he had under Bishop David Oyedepo founder Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel. Miracles in their hundreds and thousands are known to be a constant occurrence at Dunamis Church.

How Dr Paul Enenche met Bishop David Oyedepo

He was an undergraduate in the university when he listened to Bishop David Oyedepo’s message titled “Unveiling the Realities of the Supernatural Realms” It exploded something in him that made him ask “who’s this person talking so ruggedly like this?” Years later God brought Enenche and his wife closer to Bishop after a dream in the night where he poured oil on his head.

Bishop David Oyedepo happened to come to Jos for a programme, exactly where Paul and his wife, Becky resided. Dr Paul met Bishop and narrated to him what he saw in the dream and Bishop said no problem. Bishop anionted him with oil and gave him his contact. When Dunamis started, Bishop was there at the beginning.

Since then Bishop David Oyedepo has visited Dunamis –

Bishop visited Dunamis as guest minister of the covention around the year 2000 in company of his friend, Late Myles Munroe.
He visited on 22nd November, 2003 and dedicated the Area 1 church.
Bishop David visited in 2005 Convention, precisely on 10 November, the programme “7 Keys to Realms of Unlimited Progress.”
He came on the 10th anniversary of the church, 9th November, 2006 (Explosion of the Glory – How to Access the Dimensions of the Glory)
Bishop came in 2008 and ministered in the mid-week service.
On the 14th of September, 2014 where he broke the ground for the Lord’s Garden.
After visiting the church various times and stages during the construction of Glory Dome, Bishop visited on 24th November, 2018 for the dedication of the church.

NB: The above visitations do not include the numerous times that Bishop visited Pastor Enenche and his family.

Books by Paul Enenche

Dr Paul Enenche is also the author of many destiny-defining and life-transforming books, some of which include:

21 Foolish Things People Do
Who are You?
15 Kingdom Strategies for Survival
• 21 Uncommon Keys to Financial Overflow
• Thou Art My Battle Axe
• 30 Secrets to the Top
• Reason For Living
• 10 Principal Secrets of Principal people
• 22 Laws of Life (volume 1)
• Making Full Proof of Ministry
• Go in This Thy Might
• 22 Laws of Life (Volume 2)
• Career and Workplace wisdom
• Protocol Suspended
• Access to All possibilities
• Be Wise and Rise
• The Story of the Glory
• Principles and Power of Prayer
• Family Wisdom
• Riding the Storms of Life
• Unveiling and Dissolving Mysteries
• Eighteen Wisdom Keys from the Life of Joseph
• In His Presence Hymns and Songs (Vol.1)
• The Essence of Christianity

Some songs by Dr Paul Enenche

Owner of My Life
Nara Ekele
Keep holding on
Father in Heaven
I love you Lord
Lord, I’m in need of your hands
My eyes are upon you
I’m Alive oh Lord
He Arose
You can make me what you want
My life builder
My life is hidden in Christ
My life belongs to you
Your throne is established
I’m Blessed
You are always there to help
You never fail

Impact to the Nigerian Society and Beyond

As a man passionate about impacting his generation and others to come, Pastor Paul Enenche has established various organizations to ensure this.

He is the founder of Dunamis School of Ministry, which is a Bible training platform for spiritual growth. He is also the pioneer behind the Destiny College and Destiny Academy, a place where leaders and pastors are taught, groomed and nurtured.

In addition, he also founded Destiny Publications and his Church has its own satellite TV station. His wife, Becky Enenche is the visioneer behind the Seeds of Destiny, a daily devotional guide produced monthly.

Pastor Paul Enenche also has humanitarian services that his church renders. Occasionally, Dunamis Church offers relief materials to victims of natural disasters such as floods.

Children of widows also get the benefit of Scholarships to sponsor their education. In addition, various employment opportunities have been offered to people through him and his church.

Dunamis church occasionally donate relief materials to victims of natural disaster or terrorism. The church is also responsible for the direct and indirect employment of thousands of people.

Entrepreneurial and Ministerial Lessons from Dr. Paul Enenche

1. Vision and purpose

Dr. Paul Enenche’s journey from a medical doctor to a renowned pastor emphasizes the importance of having a clear vision and purpose. He sought divine guidance to understand his life’s direction, which led him to establish the Dunamis International Gospel Centre. This underscores the importance of seeking clarity and alignment with one’s purpose before embarking on any significant venture.

2. Faith and obedience

Dr. Enenche’s transition from a medical career to full-time ministry required immense faith and obedience to what he believed was God’s calling. We can learn the significance of faith in their vision and the courage to pursue it, even when it involves significant risks and changes.

3. Passion and commitment

His unquenchable passion for God and compassion for people are central to his success. His dedication to evangelizing and healing, even as a medical student, illustrates the impact of passion and commitment in any endeavor. This level of dedication is essential for both entrepreneurs and ministers to make a meaningful impact.

4. Overcoming challenges

Facing various challenges growing up, Dr. Enenche’s perseverance prepared him for future success. We often encounter obstacles, and the ability to overcome them with resilience is crucial.

5. Influence and mentorship

Dr. Enenche was influenced by prominent figures like W.F. Kumuyi and David Oyedepo. He also attributes his spiritual foundation to his mother’s devout upbringing. This highlights the value of mentorship and having positive influences in one’s life and career.

6. Impact and service

His humanitarian efforts and the establishment of various educational and relief programs demonstrate the importance of giving back to the community. You should focus on creating a positive impact on society, as this leads to sustainable success and fulfillment.

7. Consistency and persistence

The exponential growth of Dunamis International Gospel Centre from its humble beginnings to having the largest church auditorium in Nigeria is a testament to the power of consistency and persistence. Continual effort and dedication are crucial for long-term success.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Paul Enenche?

Pastor Paul Idoko Enenche is a Medical Doctor, a Christian author, preacher, Minister, Televangelist, Musician and Educationist. He is the founder and Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre World-wide, with headquarters in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. A ministry having hundreds of thousands of worshippers across the world.

How old is Deborah Paul Enenche?

Deborah is the first daughter of Pastor Enenche. She was born on 28 March 1995. She is married to Sam Uloko. Deborah’s wedding ceremony took place on 17 December 2022 at the Glory Dome Auditorium, Airpot Road, Abuja.

How old is Dr Paul Enenche?

Pastor Paul Eneche was born in Orokam, Ogbadibo LGA of Benue State, to a royal family. He was born into the Idoma tribe on the 12th of June 1968.

How old is Pastor Paul Enenche wife?

Born on 23 October 1970, Dr Becky Paul Enenche, (formerly Dr Becky Inyangbe Ibu) is married to Pastor Paul Enenche, a medical doctor and a preacher. Paul and Becky met at campus. They both studied the same course but were in different classes.

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