A look at the background of most great servant of God
doing great exploit for the lord in the ministry today, you will discover that
they had once laid down their lives to serve the lord. Dr. Abel Damina, the
President and Founder of PowerCity Int’l is a typical example of such servant
of God, traveling widely revealing and re-introducing the person of Jesus to
the world. An author of books, CEO of Kingdom Life Network TV, talks about his ministry
and the state of the nation in his interview with Emmanuel Clement.
Can we meet you sir?
Abel Damina is my name, am a pastor, I preach the
gospel of Christ, married to my wife Rachael Damina and we have 3 daughters
namely, Jemima, Jesimiel and Jeiel, called the triple J Plus Singing, they have a
music ministry and they are also into Movie.
Before the ministry what have you been doing?
I have always been in the ministry, born into a
Pastor’s home, I went to school from Pastor’s home, I started ministry from
school.
How long has your ministry been?
Power City Int’l has been on since 1993 till date,
we held the first service in the hall of the Old Apex Cinema Hall, Uyo, Akwa Ibom
State, but I have been in the ministry longer than that.
How did you come about the name of your ministry?
The scripture tells us that the kingdom of God is
in power, I always knew that everything about God has to do with His power to
save, healed and delivered, that is how we come about the name of our ministry
Power City Int’l.
How did you realize your calling into the ministry?
I usually say to people that I actually didn’t hear
a voice, nor see a light or see a vision, I just grew into knowing Christ and
my desire to make people know Christ got me to start preaching the message of
Christ, and from there I got into ministry, it wasn’t planned, I just go into
ministry and I have been a blessing to people all over the world.
How did you receive Christ and what prompt your
salvation?
I heard the message of the Good news that Christ loves
me and he died for me, was buried on the third day he rose to justify me from
sin which I didn’t have solution for. I believe that message and I got it.
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| Dr. Abel Damina and Pastor Gospel Johnson |
Have you ever thought of backsliding from the
faith?
I have not backslided because believers in Christ
don’t backslide, but sometime you can get overwhelmed especially when things
are not working for you the way you wanted them to, but since I have been into
the ministry, there were however some years ago where I got frustrated because what
was called the gospel as at that time did not sound like a gospel to me. I got
fed up with it and I began to seek God to find out what the problem was and the
lord opened my eyes to see what the true gospel of Jesus is. The gospel of
Christ is what Christ has done on the death, buried and the resurrection for
mankind. He died on our behalf to offer up his life and when I understand this
very well in details I cannot explain right now, it reshape and re-design the
faith of my ministry, since then it has been exciting as I traveled all over
the world preaching Christ, making Jesus known and revealing the mystery of the
gospel of Christ to humanity. Testimonies from everywhere on how the power of
God has changed people’s lives through the teaching of his word.
What is the core focus of Powercity Int’l?
To re-introduce Jesus to this generation, equipping
believers to know who they are in Christ, what they have in Christ and what
Christ handles through them. The greatest problem of mankind is identity
Christ.
When you don’t know who you are then you don’t know
what you have and when you don’t know what you have you don’t know what you can
do and once you don’t know who you are, you will become a victim of identity
Christ. Identity Christ is what produces jealousy, envy, competition,
wickedness, selfishness, etc, all this are the attributes of what I called
Toxic Emotion. You become a man of toxic emotion when you suffer from identity
Christ. And that is what the revelation of Jesus cures
through the gospel.
Apart from the work of God, what else do you do?
I am an author of books, I have written lots of
books that has blessed many lives in all kinds of dimension. I own a TV
called “Kingdom Life Network TV” – it’s a Christian Satellite TV Channel
covering Africa, Canada, North America and part of Europe. Also the president of
International Charismatic Minister Association (ICMF), a
body that provides covering and ministerial resources for ministers of the gospel
globally. I also host Daily TV and Radio Programs, Righteous Invasion of Truth
(R.I.O.T) through which millions are being transformed across the world. I am
the current National Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria Youth Wing.
Sir, you just rounded up a program called The
Revelation Of Jesus, can you tell us about it?
It’s a Word conference 2018, hosted by our Lagos
campuses. The purpose of this program is to unveil the person of Jesus from the
scriptures. I taught about Revelation that God reveals things by revelation,
there are no things of God that has not been reveal yet. The old testament is
Jesus Conceived while the new testament is Jesus revealed. I also talked about
knowledge, that the Holy spirit did not come to give us Power but knowledge,
that the believers does not have power problem nor any kind of problem but the
greatest problem of believers is knowledge. The believers does not need
anything, the believers has everything. The programs was so enlighten,
interacting and educating. It was held at Our Place Event Centre, ikeja. Our
Lagos campus can be located at TFC (upstairs) Caterpillar B/Stop, 44a, Ijaiye
Road, Ogba Lagos. 08088834866.
What inspires you to this program?
It’s my branch in Lagos; we called our branch
campuses and since when the campuses started I have not been here. People who
followed me up on TV and social media love what I was preaching, came together
and started campuses without me been there. So, it’s my first time of coming to
meet a number of them, preaching and answering their questions, get to know
them and get to know me.
How do you sustain the program?
All the member of the campuses came together, put
money together to organize this program and invited me. Courtesy of Pastor Gospel
Johnson, the coordinate of Powercity in Lagos and the whole of south west.
Let's look at the state of the nation. How
would you access the performance of Mr. President?
It’s a bit difficult for me to access his
performance, the reason is, if you are not wearing a shoe, you can’t tell how
the shoe feels. What I know is that we need leaders in this country and not one
leader, leaders who are for trite, who have the vision and who are sincere to
bring dividends of democracy that cut across for everybody to benefit.
Can Nigeria still be better?
Yes, it will be better, like I said we need leaders
who are ready and willing to take the benefit of democracy and provide
leadership also have a program for a common man so everybody will be able to
benefit.
What is the way forward to this country?
We need good leaders who are visionary, selfless
and committed to the vision of this country as a nation, who will be willing to
sacrifice so that Nigeria will become what it ought to be but firstly we must
have a national vision that gives us direction of where everybody is going to. The
bible says ‘where there is no vision the people perish’. So vision is Key and Leadership
is what will make the vision become a reality.
Advice for Mr. President?
I will tell him that so many Nigerians are going
through so much, he should look into his program again and see how to make life
easy and better again.
Do you have any words for Nigerians particularly or
leaders at this time?
It is people that determines who good government is
and I will advice Nigerians to get their PVC and vote in line with their
conscience.
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