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Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 12:22pm On Mar 07, 2013
Reinhard Bonnke

Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke is principally known for his Great Gospel Crusades throughout the Continent of Africa. The son of a pastor, Reinhard gave his life to the Lord at age nine, and heard the call to the African mission field before he was even a teenager. After attending Bible College in Wales, and his ordination in Germany he pastored a church and then went on to start missionary work in Africa. It was there, in the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho, that God placed upon his heart the vision of 'the continent of Africa, being washed in the precious Blood of Jesus' - an entire continent, from Cape Town to Cairo and from Dakar to Djibouti that needed to be reached and to hear the proclamation of the signs-following Gospel.

He began holding meetings in a tent that accommodated just 800 people, but, as attendance steadily increased, larger and larger tents had to be purchased, until finally, in 1984, he commissioned the construction of the world's largest mobile structure, a tent capable of seating 34,000 people! Soon, attendance at his meetings even exceeded the capacity of this huge structure, and he began open-air Gospel Campaigns with an initial gathering of over 150,000 people per service! Since then, he has conducted city-wide meetings across the continent with as many as 1,600,000 people attending a single meeting using towering sound systems that can be heard for miles.

It has now been some thirty-five years since Reinhard Bonnke founded the international ministry of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), which currently has offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Nigeria, South Africa, Singapore, Australia, and Hong Kong.

Since the start of the new millennium, through a host of major events in Africa and other parts of the world, the ministry has recorded 55 million documented decisions for Jesus Christ.

As part of the discipleship-training program, 185 million copies of CfaN follow-up literature have been published in 103 languages and printed in 55 countries. Millions of books have been printed and freely 'seeded' in nations around the world. All this is in addition to the 'Reinhard Bonnke School of Fire,' an online, self-study course, aimed at inspiring others to Holy Spirit Evangelism and leading to either a certificate or university credits.

Reinhard Bonnke is also recognized for hosting 'Fire Conferences' in many different countries of the world, events that are aimed at equipping church leaders and workers for evangelism; for distributing over 95,500,000 copies of Minus to Plus, a profound salvation message, to homes around the world; and for seeking every opportunity to reach and to save the lost.

More recently, Bonnke has spent several years developing the 'Full Flame Film Series,' a series of eight inspirational films aimed at inspiring and challenging the church to Holy Spirit evangelism.

He is known as one with a burning passion for the Gospel, a vision for Africa and a message for the world.

Evangelist Bonnke is married to Anni, father to Kai-Uwe, Gabrielle, and Susie, and grandfather to eight grandchildren.
Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 12:24pm On Mar 07, 2013
Daniel Kolenda

Daniel Kolenda is a modern missionary evangelist who has personally led more than 10-million people to Christ through massive open-air evangelistic campaigns in some of the most dangerous, difficult, and remote locations on earth. As the successor to world-renowned Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, Daniel is the president and CEO of Christ for All Nations: a ministry which has conducted some of the largest evangelistic events in history, published over 200 million books in 146 languages, and maintains offices in 9 nations around the world. He also hosts an internationally syndicated television program.

Daniel is a gifted, fifth-generation preacher whose ministry is marked by a powerful evangelistic anointing and remarkable miracles after Jesus' model of preaching, teaching, and healing. The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear. Daniel has even seen the dead raised, but most importantly, the poor have the gospel preached to them. It is this purposeful focus on the Gospel message that makes the ministry of Daniel Kolenda and Christ for all Nations so unique.

Daniel is a graduate of Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida, and the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in Pensacola, Florida; but his greatest education has come from the years of ministry side-by-side with his mentor and spiritual father Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. Together they have circled the globe preaching the Gospel and continue to do so as a single-minded team with great effectiveness.

As a previously successful pastor and church planter, Daniel holds a tireless commitment and dedication to the Church. More than half of the cost of every evangelistic campaign is invested in a follow-up system to connect every convert with local churches so they can become faith-filled, fearless disciples of Jesus Christ.

Daniel with his wife Rebekah and their four children (Elijah, Gloria, London, and Lydia) reside in the Orlando area
Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 12:30pm On Mar 07, 2013
Curry Blake
Rev. Blake is currently President of The International Divine Healing Association (IDHA), which is a network of Christians involved in the divine healing ministry. Curry also heads the Divine Healing Institute (DHI), a research and development training organization specifically directed toward increasing the effectiveness of Divine Healing Technicians and members of the IDHA.

In 1997 Rev. Blake was given a copy of a manual used by Dr. Lake to train his Divine Healing Technicians (DHT's). Since that time Bro. Curry has been traveling and training Christians in how to minister healing to the sick. Thousands of DHT's have been trained around the U.S. and the world. Over 30,000 healings per month are being reported by these average men and women of God. Every type of disease has been healed and several dead have been raised.
Re: Meet God's Generals by ooman(m): 12:31pm On Mar 07, 2013
can you stop!!!??
Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 12:34pm On Mar 07, 2013
Enoch Adejare Adeboye
Enoch Adejare Adeboye is a Nigerian pastor and the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)

Pastor Adeboye has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Lagos, and worked as a lecturer in mathematics at the universities of Lagos and Ilorin; After joining the RCCG, he began working to translate the sermons of its then Pastor and founder, Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi, from Yoruba into English.

In 1981 Adeboye was appointed General Overseer the church, taking over from Papa Akindayomi, who had died the previous year. For three years he filled the role part-time, still lecturing at Ilorin, until giving up his university position to preach full-time.

The church, which was not well known before Adeboye took charge, now claims branches in over a hundred countries, including more than 14,000 in Nigeria. Adeboye has stated that his aim is to put a church within five minutes of every person on Earth. He is the national president of RCF (an interdenominational fellowship in all the campuses in Nigeria). In 2008, Newsweek magazine named Adeboye one of the fifty most powerful people in the world. He is married to Foluke Adeboye, also a pastor, with whom he has children.
Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 12:51pm On Mar 07, 2013
William Folorunso Kumuyi
William Folorunso Kumuyi (born 9 June 1941) is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church in Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of several books. In the early 1970s Kumuyi worked as an education lecturer at the University of Lagos.
Early life

Kumuyi was born into a Christian family in Erin-Ijesha, Osun State, Nigeria. He completed his secondary school education in 1961, and in 1962 started teaching mathematics at Mayflower School in Ikenne, near Ibadan. He then proceeded to the University of Ibadan and in 1967 graduated with a first class honours degree in mathematics. He became a born again Christian in April 1964.


Kumuyi remarried in October 2010 in London about 18 months after the death of his first wife.
Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 12:57pm On Mar 07, 2013
Andrew Wommack
Andrew Wommack is an American conservative Evangelical Christian TV evangelist, a Charismatic Word of Faith teacher and faith healer, as well as the founder of Andrew Wommack Ministries in 1978 and Charis Bible College (originally Colorado Bible College) in 1994.

Wommack has been preaching since 1969. He married his wife Jamie in 1972. Over the next six years, they led three small churches and completed their family with two sons, Joshua and Jonathan Peter.

Andrew Wommack is a Word of Faith preacher who teaches that human beings, by the authority of Christ and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, can miraculously heal and raise people from the dead; and he claims on his website and in his books that his younger son, Peter, was raised from the dead by the power of God on March 4, 2001. "My own son was raised up after being dead for five hours," Wommack said. He has also said, "I’ve personally seen three people raised from the dead, including my own son. He’d been dead for almost five hours, and had already turned black. His toe was tagged and he was lying on a slab in the hospital morgue."

Wommack states he has witnessed uncountable miracles and healings: "Although many people would like to see blind eyes and deaf ears opened, terminal diseases healed, the dead raised, and financial blessings manifest the way I have (by God's grace), they're not willing to spend the time yielding to and fellowshipping with the Lord in His Word, prayer, and obedience." "I don’t claim to have 'arrived' concerning prayer, but I've definitely left! I regularly see miracles of every kind happen in my life and ministry. My own son was raised up after being dead for five hours. I’ve seen many blind eyes and deaf ears opened, not to mention all of the cancers healed, people coming out of wheelchairs, and demons cast out."

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Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 12:58pm On Mar 07, 2013
David O. Oyedepo
David O. Oyedepo is the richest pastor in Nigeria, affectionately called "Papa" by members of his church congregation (born September 27, 1954) is a Nigerian Christian author, preacher and the founder and presiding bishop of Living Faith Church World Wide, also known as Winners Chapel, and its affiliated international churches known as Winners Chapel International, with headquarters in Ogun State, Nigeria. He is also the senior pastor of Faith Tabernacle, a 50,000 seat church auditorium reputed to be the largest church auditorium in the world by the Guinness Book of Records. The Winners Chapel network of churches is present in over 300 cities, in all states of Nigeria, as well as in over 63 cities in 32 African nations, Dubai, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Oyedepo has been seen as one of pioneers of the Christian charismatic movement in Africa and has been referred to as one of the most powerful preachers in Nigeria. He was named in 2011 by Forbes magazine as being the richest pastor in Nigeria, worth around $150 million.
Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 1:24pm On Mar 07, 2013
John Alexander Dowie shook the world at the turn of the century with his passion for truth and zeal for the work of the Spirit. He brought to the forefront divine healing and repentance by shaking up a complacent Church and slaking the thirst of a parched society. He is known as the Healing Apostle of the late 19th century. Untold millions came to a revelation of Christ and the living power of the Holy Spirit through his deep conviction, unwavering faith and expansive vision. Against hypocritical, opposing clergy, fierce slanderous tabloids, murderous mobs, and relentless city officials, Dr. Dowie wore his apostolic calling as a crown from God, and his persecution as a badge of honor. Dowie was a force to be reckoned with.
John Alexander Dowie
Born May 25, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Dowie displayed from an early age a brilliance and enthusiasm for learning and a hunger for the truth of the Word of God. At only six years old he read the Bible front to back and upon encountering a humble street preacher named Henry Wright, Dowie gave his heart to the Lord. As a young man Dowie found much success in business applying himself wholeheartedly to all he set his hand to, but could not escape the deepening call of ministry upon his life.

In 1875, Dowie began pastoring a much larger group of believers in a suburb of Sydney called Newton. While in Newton, a disastrous plague ravaged the area and filled the inhabitants with terror. Within weeks of his arrival, Dowie presided over forty funerals within his congregation alone. It was on one such night that he heard a loud knock at his door. Two messengers had come bidding him to pray for a girl named Mary who was dying. Dowie rushed to her house and when he arrived he found her lying there, grinding her teeth and groaning in agony. Something in him at that moment snapped and he began to cry out to God. Suddenly she lay still. When asked if she was dead, he replied, “No…she will live. The fever is gone.” 1

From that point the plague in Newton had lost its power. Not one member of his congregation died from the epidemic and Dowie’s healing ministry began.
Re: Meet God's Generals by God2man(m): 9:18pm On Mar 07, 2013
Thank you very much staggerman.

God bless you.

God2man.
Re: Meet God's Generals by TV01(m): 9:30pm On Mar 07, 2013
What of Frosbel?
Re: Meet God's Generals by ApostlePat: 9:51pm On Mar 07, 2013
God bless staggerman.
Re: Meet God's Generals by Alfamann: 9:54pm On Mar 07, 2013
But where is this god you all talk about?
Re: Meet God's Generals by Nobody: 6:55am On Mar 08, 2013
The generals of BABYLON the GREAT
Re: Meet God's Generals by Nobody: 8:25am On Mar 08, 2013
Tell us about jimmy swaggart,peter poppof,jim bakker,william branham,A.A. Allen, and d racist charles f. Parham.
Re: Meet God's Generals by Creatrixity(m): 11:27am On Mar 08, 2013
Beretta92: Tell us about jimmy swaggart,peter poppof,jim bakker,william branham,A.A. Allen, and d racist charles f. Parham.
Hehe...But as for jimmy swaggart,pity the man na..ko-nji na bastard!
Re: Meet God's Generals by Creatrixity(m): 11:31am On Mar 08, 2013
Segeggs: The generals of BABYLON the GREAT
Sharrapp!..As if your murderous jw cult is any better...
Re: Meet God's Generals by Zikkyy(m): 1:08pm On Mar 08, 2013
TV01:
What of Frosbel?

Lol! Good question grin
Re: Meet God's Generals by Nobody: 3:29pm On Mar 08, 2013
Creatrixity:
Hehe...But as for jimmy swaggart,pity the man na..ko-nji na bastard!
the guy was/is a real hypocrite.he now runs a small,malicious ministry with his son.BTW,@creatrixity,are u agnostic? Just curious.
Re: Meet God's Generals by boarnerges: 5:40pm On Mar 08, 2013
thank God for the grace upon my life.i wasnt a christian before but now i am. 'christaindoom has left christianity long ago without knowing'. I heard somebody mention william marrion branham. Am yet to see any man than this man whom God has confirmed even with the heavens.....i challenge any man to show me who else.
Re: Meet God's Generals by Creatrixity(m): 7:08pm On Mar 08, 2013
Beretta92: the guy was/is a real hypocrite.he now runs a small,malicious ministry with his son.BTW,@creatrixity,are u agnostic? Just curious.
was..now rather deist by the way..In other words there is a central body of creative energy called God not represented by this worlds religions..
And p.s he/it doesnt give a damn about humans and their petty affairs...
And why do you think jimmy swaggart runs a malicicious ministry..
The only thing i see him do is sing christian songs
Re: Meet God's Generals by Nobody: 7:25am On Mar 09, 2013
Creatrixity:
was..now rather deist by the way..In other words there is a central body of creative energy called God not represented by this worlds religions..
And p.s he/it doesnt give a damn about humans and their petty affairs...
And why do you think jimmy swaggart runs a malicicious ministry..
The only thing i see him do is sing christian songs
Deism is not a bad position.I roamed around its coast for a while before accepting I'm agnostic deep within me.As for jimmy,yeah he sings a lot now but the few times I watched a preaching on his tv,his son always castigated other ministers.Maybe they're trying to get back at the people who caused their fiasco.I dunno,just my observation.
Re: Meet God's Generals by Creatrixity(m): 10:03am On Mar 09, 2013
Well..i think the dude is trying to vent..jimmy swaggart was stripped of his position then..
Re: Meet God's Generals by Nobody: 10:22am On Mar 09, 2013
Yeah,he was an Assemblies of God minister back then.He exposed a fellow minister who later blackmailed n exposed him too.Do u knw dat after his initial teary confession before his church,he still went back to 'em harlots n was exposed again?Funny thing's dat he didnt have sex with these prostitutes.He just loved watching them doing their thing.W eird guy...
Re: Meet God's Generals by Nobody: 6:29pm On Mar 09, 2013
boarnerges: thank God for the grace upon my life.i wasnt a christian before but now i am. 'christaindoom has left christianity long ago without knowing'. I heard somebody mention william marrion branham. Am yet to see any man than this man whom God has confirmed even with the heavens.....i challenge any man to show me who else.
Branham was a charlatan,a prideful n ostentatious one for that matter.Go read his story well.
Re: Meet God's Generals by boarnerges: 10:56pm On Mar 10, 2013
dear bereta, i must really appreciate you for your comment. Am of the believe that your outpour is based on the book, The lord's generals: why some failed and others succeded. No doubt, i think thats the most widely circulated book on that subject. This are merely peoples opinion but have you tried to read facts by the very people who were with him? Men like oral roberts, t.l osborne, billy granham etc. No doubts his message was a break from the order of the day because he blasted the evil of the time and this made people to pitch against him and the cycle continues to this day. I still maintain my stand, am yet to see any preacher like him at least in the last hundred years. If he truly was ostentatious or whatever words attached to him are true, and yet still confirmed by God, i think we need more of them, i have his audio tapes and i must confess, they outclass our modern preachers sermon by ...far... Am not being confrontational,am only speaking via experience, no man can do these things except God be with him. Cheers and God bless you richly. Once agin thanks for your comment
Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 2:00pm On Mar 15, 2013
William Marrion Branham
William Marrion Branham was born to a fifteen-year-old mother, and an eighteen-year-old father, in a tiny, dirt floor shack up in the hills of Kentucky. They were poor and illiterate, and had no interest in spiritual matters. William grew up without any knowledge of God, the Bible, or prayer. Yet God had a special call on his life and would go to great lengths throughout William’s childhood to get his attention. From a young age, William heard God’s voice, and knew that he was being called to a different kind of life than those around him.

William Branham was beyond doubt a man of notable signs and wonders. From birth, supernatural manifestations marked his life. He truly walked with God for a time, but in the latter years of his life, began to err in doctrine and veer from his true calling. He did indeed have a divine impartation to minister healing and deliverance. A modern day prophet of biblical proportion, he healed the multitudes and delivered the afflicted from all kinds of demonic bondages and strongholds. He walked in the Spirit, guided by visions and angels: For a period of time the supernatural seemed to permeate his life and all he set his hand to.

During the height of Branham’s ministry, from 1946-1954, great men came alongside him to promote and partner with him; men such as Gordon Lindsey, F.F. Bosworth, and Jack Moore. Branham’s healing team launched what became known as the Voice of Healing magazine, which gave rise to the great healing revival of the early 1950s. This movement directly impacted T.L. Osborn, Kenneth Hagin, Oral Roberts, and others so that today the wider church has a firmer grasp on the truths regarding faith and healing.

In June of 1946 he conducted a twelve-day healing revival there where tremendous manifestations took place. The lame walked, the blind saw, the deaf heard, and the dead were raised. A woman who stood mocking outside dropped dead from a heart attack. Branham went out to pray for her and she revived praising God. The healings that took place were beyond count as Branham often stayed until 2:00 a.m. to pray for the sick.

From St. Louis he went on to Jonesboro, Arkansas, were 25,000 people attended the meetings.5 On one occasion, Branham went out to pray for a woman who had died in an ambulance outside the meeting hall. She sat up healed and Branham had to sneak out of the front of the ambulance under cover of disguise to return to the meeting.
Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 2:29pm On Mar 15, 2013
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is the Senior Pastor and Founder of the Christ Embassy Church also known as The Believers Love World (BLW). The church has its headquarters in Oregun, Lagos where Pastor Chris pastors over 30,000 members.


Chris Oyakhilome has been a pastor, teacher, healing minister, television host and best-selling author for more than 30 years.

He holds massive teaching and healing crusades with crowds which have numbered over 3.5 million in a single night’s event.

His television ministry, LoveWorld satellite television extends throughout the world with several Networks from South Africa, Nigeria, United Kingdom and United States of America.


He is the host of “Atmosphere for Miracles”, founder of the Healing School where many people have received healings and deliverance from various ailments.


Pastor Chris and his wife, Pastor Anita co-authors the Rhapsody of Realities a daily devotional used in most homes in Nigeria and abroad.


He currently runs a global prayer network using social network platforms to send messages to his followers regularly.


He has over 1 million followers on Twitter and over 1.2 million friends on yookoos.

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Re: Meet God's Generals by staggerman(m): 2:34pm On Mar 15, 2013
Benson Idahosa
Benson Idahosa lived from 1938 to 1998. He was the Founder and President of the Church of God Mission International Inc Nigeria, President, All Nations for Christ Bible Institute; President, Idahosa World Outreach Ministries; President, Faith Medical Center; Founder, Faith Mediplex; Word of Faith Group of Schools, and Founder Benson Idahosa University.


Benson Andrew Idahosa was born in Ewasso Edo on September 11 1938 to a poor pagan family of Pa John Idahosa. Benson Idahosa was a very sickly child, fainted very regularly and when he was eighteen months old his father ordered that he be dumped in a refuse dump-site about hundred yards away from their mud house because he no longer had hope that young Idahosa would live because of constant very serious illnesses.


Report says about three hours after he had been left in the dump site, there was great thunder and lightning, followed by a heavy downpour. Young Benson's cry, pleading to be brought back home, made his mother have compassion over him. She went to rescue the little boy, disregarding the instruction of his father not to bring him back to the house.

One afternoon while playing football with his peers, Benson Idahosa was preached to by a pastor who converted him to Christ. He became a member of the pastor's church and at 24 years he began his ministry work after his pastor one day preached to the members of the church about Jesus telling his disciples how they have the power to heal the sick and even raise the dead.


With great passion and determination to follow the instructions of Christ, Idahosa led by faith and enthusiasm and strong believe in God Almighty, willing to test his faith went about the city of Benin in search of any dead person to bring back to life. That day Benson Idahosa raised a dead three years old girl from dead following the procedure used by Jesus in the Book of Matthew in the New Testament of the Bible. The following week he raised an eight year old boy from the dead and that was the beginning of his ministry.


While preaching in Benny Hinn's church in Texas, Bishop Idahosa said, God has used him to raise 8 people from dead in his life time. He has since proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ until his death in 1998.

Before his death Bishop Idahosa is said to have established over 6000 churches throughout Nigeria and Ghana. Many pastors in the country today have sat under the teaching of this great man of God. His proteges includes:


Ayo Oritsejafor, David Oyedepo, Felix Omobude, Fred Addo, Chris Oyakhilome and many others.

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