The Sunday Mail
In John 1:45-46 we read of Jesus’ home town: “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” When Jesus commissioned the disciples in Acts 1:8 to be His “witnesses in Jerusalem, all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth,” was He making certain locations more important than others? Ruwa-born Prophet Adam Chawirira (29) of Dominion Ministries International (DOMI) says every place is unique and is fertile ground for doing the Lord’s work. Tendai Manzvanzvike spoke to Prophet Adam and how his ministry is transforming lives in Harare’s Mufakose suburb.
Q: DOMI is fairly new. When was it started and who is the vision behind?
A: DOMI was founded in September last year. It is a vision I got from God. I was moving through a rough patch then. My life didn’t have direction at all. I was asking God a lot of questions: asking Him what my calling and purpose in life was. That’s when He told me that He was going to use me and that I was going to have a ministry – DOMI.
Q: He also gave you the name?
A: He gave me the name and said I was going to run some television programmes, healing, deliverance and prophetic ministries. So, from that time, my life changed.
I started having visits at home in Hatfield where I was staying – people visiting me from all walks of life and coming to me for prayer and miracles began to happen. As you know, if God has sent you, He puts a stamp with miracles, signs and wonders. The first person I prayed for was Priscilla from Mutare. She is now in Chitungwiza. She had a mental problem, and God delivered her. That’s when God started to raise my name. However, during that time, I was still with Zaoga FIF.
Q: So, you started DOMI in September and you were in Hatfield…
A: No, when I was in Hatfield, I was still in Zaoga, but when we stopped, we started a prayer group in town at 90 Robert Mugabe Street. After that, we moved to Longlife College opposite the National Museum. We did our services there, but still, DOMI had not started.
After a while, God told me to start the ministry officially. We started DOMI in the Avenues in a very small house. As we started, the miracles began to happen again.
Unfortunately, the church was fought and we had to close, but God opened a door for it in Mufakose. We started at a house. We started with that family (name given), not as a church, but because of the miracles that happened at that place, the church started to grow. We started services there. That’s how the church continued to grow. As the church grew, we moved to a bigger venue.
Q: Any particular reason why God wanted you to minister in Mufakose?
A: Yes, although I picked it up well after. God told me that He wanted to change the place through me. We have started to encourage women to embark on projects, and some are well. It’s actually the uplifting of life in Mufakose that we are seeing through the hand of God.
Q: Mufakose has more negatives than positives. How is the word of God addressing those negatives?
A: What people don’t realise is that this place has got potential, and there are great people here, including myself because I am now spiritually connected to this place. Many gifted men of God would want to start a church in town or the northern suburbs because the gift is the crowd puller.
Q: The functions of contemporary prophets are confusing. How do you define yourself?
A: Indeed, people have misunderstandings on the prophetic. My definition of the prophetic in the New Testament is not to give personal messages, but to teach the word of God with power.
And, one of the things that a prophet has, are the eyes to see beyond what you can see. So, the most important calling of the prophet in the New Testament is teaching people to believe in God, so that they shall be established; and believe in their prosperity so that they can do things by themselves and they can be self-sustaining to their families.
We are praying that we realise this by the grace of God – because there is great potential in this place. The talent is here. Once you start being involved with the community, you see that there are great people in this place. So, we have come to say that the picture that you are seeing of Mufakose today is not what you think.
What you see outside is not what it is inside.
Q: You have been in Mufakose for how long?
A: About six months now.
Q: And the numbers?
A: They have grown – about 300 to 400 members.
Q: When there are economic challenges, people look for divine intervention. Are you experiencing that among your followers?
A: This is where the importance of teaching comes in. But the problem is that we currently have some prophetic churches without the teaching of the Word, where the prophets emphasise their gifts.
But, if the prophet is the teacher of the Word of God, and is teaching the infallible truth of the word of God, I don’t think that people would have problems. Whatever we do, we open it to the community, for the gift is not for me. The Bible says, “Freely you have been given, freely you must give.”
Q: What’s in it for you?
A: God’s calling is not pre-meditated, but divine. When He calls you, He directs you. There is also the issue of obedience. Some of the things that we do, we do them not because we want to, but because God wants us to do them. That’s why they say that God does not give you the pastor that you want, but He gives you a pastor that you have to love. He doesn’t give you people that you love, but people that you have to love no matter how difficult the situation.
If it was money I was coming for in Mufakose, then I could have closed the church a long time ago. But this is a divine agenda, a calling from God that I am obeying and I am doing it with gladness because I have found out that in people, there is so much that I have to learn. These are very important and I feel content.
Q: You have a prophetic conference from June 25. You are a young ministry, isn’t it too early?
A: This actually is the second conference, and we have had about five or six crusades. That’s why I said Mufakose has got potential. If you work with them and you really understand each other and build a relationship, they work with you. From the Mufakose church, we have already managed to plant three assemblies in Marondera, Cape Town and Johannesburg.
When God has called you, there is nothing that you cannot do. My family has joined the ministry as well. If there was something amiss about the ministry, I don’t think they would have come.
Q: Your conference theme is “Let the Prophets Speak.” What does it mean?
A: It’s from 1 Corinthians 14:29. The Bible says when the wise speak, someone must listen. That means God wants to speak to people, but the only medium that is there is the prophet. The prophet is the one that receives divine revelation and speaks what God is saying. We are trying to make people see and hear the voice and will of God over their lives. It’s a prophetic conference where we will define destinies and release Jesus Christ.
Q: The increase of churches. Your reaction?
A: Bottle stores are also increasing very fast, so too the cults, but people are not complaining. People must be happy that God is raising teachers, apostles and prophets. Thus we don’t plan to leave. This will be our base. Our dream is that we will one day launch our Christian TV station from Mufakose. This is my land, I have come to stay. We believe that God sent us on a mission and we will never turn back.
We don’t as the church have to fight over people because they are from God. No church owns people. As the church, we need to get to a point of unity, speak with one voice and promote the gifts that God is releasing in our time – not to fight over people or anything.
We also emphasise the teaching of the Word of God. When one is connected to God, they do not need any miracle. Miracles are for unbelievers. God performs miracles for them in order to believe. So, we preach the word of God followed by miracles.
We also have a privilege in this country that we worship freely. Our Head of State and Government has given us that floor that we should exercise our religious rights freely. We are thanking God for this and that He will continue to protect Zimbabwe.
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