The Sunday Mail
Religion Writer
HEEDING the call drop everything and serve God is difficult. Perhaps it is even more so for someone in a lucrative trade such as a car dealership.
Emmanuel Mwale, now of Unity Apostolic Church International, was used to a life of hustling and selling cars until the call to do the work of God reached him.
“I started off as a fashion designer in 2007 designing shirts for Hifa (Harare International Festival of the Arts) and other prominent events. After that I began to sell cars, a business which was thriving when I started.
“I would go to the border having got orders from clients yet at the same time there was an issue I had laid aside. I had trained for three years as a pastor but had laid it by the way side.
“My father, an archbishop, and my mother would tell me that I had the calling of doing God’s work over my life. I wouldn’t understand what kind of God’s work because I used to play keyboards in church. To me that was God’s work,” Prophet Mwale said.
However, Prophet Mwale says he had dreams of events that would come to pass.
“I would only tell my father about things I saw in the Spirit but he advised me to also let the people I dreamt know and pray with them. I would see death, certain things happening, businesses going down and when we intervened in prayer things would not happen,” the 29-year-old said.
“That is when I started to change my gears in my prayers. I started going to mountains for prayer, then crusades where I would also pray for people who came on prayer lines.”
The third born in a family of six said things took a turn in 2014 when the church hosted a crusade in Mvurwi and a mentally disturbed girl professed to having been healed after he prayed for her.
But the demands of the car dealership left him torn.
“Car dealing has its own system but the things of God require humility and heeding the voice of God. God can tell you to turn right when you want to turn left. He can say go when you didn’t want to go. But for our business deals when you agree you don’t reverse deals.
“So it’s different because the spiritual do not require experience, books nor time. And the other problem was people began following me at our car sale premises requesting for prayer so I ended up not working. At the end of the day I made that hard decision and committed fully to the work of God.
“After that shift in how I was doing God’s work my rank was changed to senior pastor and prophet. Our church encourages pastors to work for themselves and help people rather than the reverse.
“Now I have surrendered the businesses to people who manage them while I pursue the work of God. So now I am heading a branch in the city working with my mother. We are spreading the Word of God across borders and we are aiming as far as Germany where I used to stay,” Prophet Mwale said.
Prophet Mwale’s parents began ministry in 1991 and all their children serve in church.
