Pastor Paul Enenche, the founder and senior pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, has delivered a stirring call to believers to engage in midnight prayers, describing the night hours as a time of intense spiritual activity, both divine and demonic.
Speaking in a recent YouTube-streamed sermon, Pastor Enenche highlighted the strategic importance of midnight prayer, stressing that this sacred hour carries unique spiritual weight in the realm of warfare and divine intervention.
Midnight is not a casual time,” he said. “It’s a season of high spiritual transactions and intense battles. The occult don’t joke with the midnight, why should we?
He supported his teaching with powerful biblical references, pointing first to Acts 16:25–26, where Paul and Silas prayed and praised God in prison at midnight, triggering a supernatural earthquake that shook the prison’s foundations and opened every locked door.
They could have prayed during the day, but they understood the spiritual atmosphere of the midnight. It was at midnight that heaven responded with a shaking,” Pastor Enenche emphasized.
He also drew insight from Genesis 32:24–28, recounting how Jacob wrestled with a divine figure all night and received both a blessing and a new identity:
Jacob became Israel in the night. That transformation happened during a midnight encounter.
Similarly, Enenche pointed out that the children of Israel left Egypt in the night, and that divine dreams and revelations, such as those given to Daniel (Daniel 2:19), often occur in the night when the spiritual realm is most active.
Midnight is when signals from heaven are strongest,” he said. “The voice of the Lord becomes clearer in the quiet of the night. That’s why Satan also targets that hour.
He referenced Matthew 13:25, where Jesus warned that “while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares,” illustrating how the enemy exploits moments of human spiritual unawareness to sow destruction. Pastor Enenche described the midnight as the enemy’s primary territory—one which believers must learn to invade with prayer and authority.
Thank God for the ‘Commanding the Day’ prayers,” he added. “It’s spiritual strategy, attacking the devil on his own ground and at his peak hour.”
Supporting his message with Isaiah 30:29–30, he spoke of the Lord’s voice being heard powerfully in the night, asserting that praying during these hours acts as a spiritual amplifier, increasing the effectiveness of a believer’s intercession.
Praying at midnight is not for show. It’s a divine tactic. It’s when you confront the devil while he’s fully awake and fully at work.”
In closing, Pastor Enenche urged all Christians, whether ministers, intercessors, businesspeople, students, or homemakers, to cultivate the discipline of midnight prayer as a core part of their walk with God.
