A Global and Unifying Event: The Jesus Dream 2017
The Jesus dream worldwide worship hour 2017 is set to hold on the 30th of June, the annual gathering of believers all around the world for a one hour of worship and prayer is currently in it's 8th year since June 2010.
According to the visionary leader, Emmanuel Oje Ehimika a.k.a Preacherman disclosed how it all started ''When I was about to clock 50 years of age in 2010, I asked the Lord “What would you want me to do to mark this milestone?’’God said to me: ‘Call for Christians all over the world to pray for one hour for the unity of My ministers’, (John 17:11). That was the birth of THE JESUS DREAM (TJD) worldwide prayer programme, an event being observed on June 30, annually since 2010.
Ehimika recalled his experiences from inception ''Since I had closed down my church and was led to stop my motivational talks as well, I could not raise money for the first TJD adverts. So, I sold all I could sell including our former church building to raise part of the money to advertise the first TJD event in the media. It was a “crazy idea” to sell a church building and use the money for the advert of an event you are not even sure of the outcome. But I did because I was convinced that if Jesus could shed His blood for our unity, I could as well sacrifice all for that. My family and I had to move into my office building from our 6-bedroom bungalow and we converted it as both office and house temporarily. It was overly embarrassing and uncomfortable because we had enjoyed some level of comfort in the past but it was a price we had to pay. As God would honour His Word, many Christians around the world participated in the maiden edition. During the 2011 edition, focus was on praying for unity of ministers while in the 2012 edition the leading was on prayer of reconciliation and unity of ministers of the gospel worldwide. At this time I could not advertise TJD because I had no source of income but we began to receive a couple of freewill adverts in the newspapers. God began to raise people who used their influence to motivate more people to be part of this rising spiritual building of Christians in which God dwells (Eph. 2:21-22). A man in the USA, running a cyber-based ministry was inspired to send TJD message by e-mail to over 5 million people around the world to participate in the TJD 2012 edition. The vision continued to grow as the Holy Spirit began to enlarge my understanding, giving me direct insights for the vision. God said to me that TJD would grow like Jesus grew… (Luke 2:52); not grown overnight like Adam, and so I had to be contented with His pace. Then by the Spirit’s leading, I informed Christians to offer to God thanksgiving for reconciling us to Himself during the 2013 TJD hour. The response worldwide was awesome. Then, God began to stir up the hearts of media executives to promote TJD free of charge. The initial sacrifice of selling all that I could to pay for adverts began to yield harvest. In fact, it could be unarguably termed as one of the most publicized Christian events in Nigeria, and it began to spread from Nigeria to other nations of the world. Furthermore, God raised up women who took The Jesus Dream message to Israel, Austria, U.S.A, China, Ghana, U.K, Australia, even to the Fiji Islands in the uttermost ends of the earth. Back at the home front in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) threw her weight behind the vision when the President called on all Christians in Nigeria to observe TJD. Before the fifth edition of TJD on June 30, 2014, the Holy Spirit instructed me that henceforth we should declare the wonders of God and it became the foundation laying edition on which in subsequent years, we would only declare the wonders of God as it was done on the day of Pentecost in the book of Acts chapter Two. Then in May 2015, more media houses in some nations of the world began to promote TJD. Its spread thus began to increase across the world. In 2016, the spread was angelic while TJD had been translated into some other languages. Again more media houses came on board. Now TJD comes to its eighth year on June 30, 2017. God told me not to sell anything in the ministry, but to remain focused on the work and He will raise helpers to support. People whose hearts prompt them like it happened when He told Moses to ask for support. And really God has been faithful to His Word. God used me to birth this vision; as He usually uses one ordinary man or woman to start His great move on earth, but He would subsequently recruit others to spread the move for His own glory. In his final words, Ehimika said, his desire is that this gathering in the name of Jesus will bring God glory.
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