By ‘DIPO ONABANJO
Background details
Pauline Walley-Daniels, Ph.D. is an ordained Prophetic-Deliverance Apostle, who teaches the Word of God with dramatic demonstrations. She is the President of Pauline Walley Evangelistic Ministries and Christian Communications, the CEO of Overcomers House Institutes, and the Prophetic Deliverance Theological Training Institute, which includes the School of Intensive Training for Leadership Equipment, and the School of Deliverance in New York.
She is affiliated with the Vision International University/Vision International Ministries Network; the Christian International Ministries Network, the Association of Christian Educators Accountability, and is the Secretary-General of Faithful Ministers Fellowship of New York.
She holds a master’s degree in journalism and a Ph.D. in Pulpit Communications and Expository Preaching. She is a recipient of the United States President’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
She is the author of several songs: Gospel Music Albums and books on various disciplines including – Mentoring and Leadership, The Holy Spirit, Spiritual Warfare, Strategic Prayer, Deliverance Solutions, Tactical Evangelism, Prophetic Equipment and Empowerment, as well as many others.
The Beginning:
I was born to a Christian family and surrendered my life to the Lord Jesus at the age of 13, so I have always been a Christian. My parents were: Bishop Enoch and Felicia Walley. Both of them are late now.
Our home was very dedicated to the Christian Faith, as my parents were committed to the tenets of the Holy Bible for Christianity.
From the inception of our great grand-parents to date, our daily life started with the prayer of praise, worship, and adoration unto Jehovah God, as early as 4am. Irrespective of the times and seasons, we were woken up with the sound of music. My parents loved hymns and they sang all hymns as the seasons required. They could sing many hymn stanzas off head as they recited Bible passages like Psalms 23, 24, 91, 92, 121, 92. 119, etc.
The Scriptures were read from the Holy Bible and also memorized for practical usage in our daily endeavours. I grew up with the knowledge based on the fact that nothing must be done outside the Biblical and Spoken Word of God. The word of God is our eyes spectacle, walking stick, the rod of correction, and guidance in our daily lives, and endeavours. As the Scriptures declare, “the Word of God is a lamp to the feet and a light to the path” (Ps 119: 105 & 130).
Ministerial Destiny Encounters
I started having encounters from the Lord Jesus Christ about my ministerial destiny during my early pre-adolescent years, when I was in the elementary school. Then my parents were Anglicans, but had veered into the Jehovah Witness movement for a while.
The first encounter: How Christ Jesus picked me up as a little girl.
At the age of eight years, I was sitting in class, when I had an open eye vision. I was then in Class three at the Accra New Town Elementary School (ANT 6 & 8), in Ghana.
In that vision, Christ Jesus came to our School. All the children were excited. They ran towards Him as they shouted his name: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus…!!! Some jumped into his arms, while He picked up some, some others held on to his garment, some sat on his shoulders, some in His arms, and others sat at his feet. Everyone had a space to hold on to him. There were multitudes of children from everywhere, yet everyone got a place in Him (Christ Jesus).
As soon as he saw me, he beaconed to me to come. He opened his arms and suddenly, I also found myself wrapped in his arms. It was amazing how the Lord Jesus gave room to every one of the many children that came to Him in the vision.
The Second Encounter: A Ladder from Heaven
In the second encounter, which was also an open eyes vision while I was in the same classroom. I suddenly fell into a trance, during which I saw a ladder from the earth into the sky. The top of the ladder was covered with a beautiful cloud of glory, and I saw the Lord stretch out his hands and beaconed to me to come. Then I climbed up the ladder…
When I got home from school that evening, I shared the revelation with my private teacher who tutored me at home after school hours, and on weekends, as well as during school vacations. His name was Mr. Stephen Mensah. He was then a teacher at Quartey Memorial School, Accra New Town.
After narrating the vision to him, Mr. Stephen instructed me to draw an illustration of my vision on the black board. On seeing the illustration, he then requested me to go bring my Bible. Then, I had one of the Children’s Bibles that had illustrations of biblical stories. Interestingly, there was a similar illustration about Jacobs’s dream. He explained that God was calling me to come and be like Jacob (Gen 28:10-17).
From there on, the desire to be like the Virgin Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ filled my soul as the revelation was stirred up in me. That’s the desire to serve the Lord with my whole life filled my thoughts, body, soul, and spirit.
The encounters increased as I grew up in knowledge of the Lord, and felt the need to evangelize the human race for salvation, healing, and deliverance of souls. The burden to rescue the perishing and care for the dying was very crucial in my life.
When, how and why you established your Ministries. Why you left journalism and veered into evangelism. What was the motivation?
Hahaha… I haven’t quit journalism. I have rather advanced my journalism profession into evangelism. So, I am occupied with Journalistic-Evangelism and Evangelistic-Journalism. Both professions roll over each other in my daily endeavours.
As a Journalistic-Evangelist, I investigate the matters that need spiritual surgeries, deliverance, warfare, and devise solutions from biblical perspective according to divine authorization.
Based on the findings, I enquire the process of the solutions through prayer and fasting.
I engage the Lord in a conversation during which he shows me the root cause of a problem, what to do, and how to resolve the problem concerned.
Then I document the problems and solutions in manuscripts for publication into books, so that all would have access to the information needed to meet unmet needs around the world.
So, my professional endeavour as a journalist provides me with the skills needed to function as an effective evangelist.
Journalism is one of the powerful professions that enables you to articulate and understand revelations.
Revelations come in various forms and dimensions. Fundamentally, revelation is spiritual, yet, it has a place in various facets of human lives and endeavours. So, a revelation may be related to various facets of the human realms such as the physical realm, the emotional realm, the secular realm, the financial realm, the business realm, the family/marital realm, and other aspects of human existence.
The intellectual sphere of journalism demands a spectacle that sees beyond the ordinary.
This is where my professional intellectuality causes me to soar like an eagle with the eyes that see beyond the ordinary to dissect a problem, analyse the root cause, and secure a solution that aligns with the Scriptural Word of God, to fulfil destiny.
So, I am still a journalist, but a Journalistic-Evangelist with a Prophetic-Deliverance impetus.
The Revelatory Encounters with the Prophetic-Deliverance Dimension
In addition to my pre-teen encounters were the Pre-adolescent dimension that provides the Prophetic-Healing and Deliverance impetus.
I was about 13 years old when a burden for evangelism rested upon me. I would see myself wearing a white dress, standing before a crowd, and sharing the gospel. Then I felt the need to go out on the street to share the gospel tracts and speak to people about the love of Jesus Christ. I responded to this intuition as I was stirred up to go and share the gospel message everywhere. So during school vacation seasons, I would wake up early in the mornings and evenings when people were gathered at the Bus Stations on their way to work and returning home.
In those days, very few people could afford televisions and there were no social media devices. People gathered in their communities after their daily endeavours to socialize with families, friends, and neighbours. In addition to knocking on doors, and face-to-face evangelism, the community gatherings served as an avenue to share the gospel. It was an easy method of campaign that attracted attention and generated good response with respect to righteousness and the fear of God.
Furthermore, I also engaged in dawn broadcast. I went out early in the mornings at dawn to share the gospel by announcing the love and care of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Although it was an hour when people were sleeping in their homes, whenever they heard the loud call-out from a young girl inviting them to come to Jesus, some would open their windows to listen, some would come out of their rooms and stand or sit by their doors, while some would see it as an opportunity to start their daily activities.
Some would respond to the prayers and others would request prayers for healing, and other needs. In the process, I saw many miracles happened as the people came after me to express their appreciation for the miracles they experienced.
During School sessions, although I was in the boarding house, I would request permission from the school authorities to visit other schools to share the gospel message on weekends. Most School Patrons and Matrons used to include me in their weekly Chapel schedules so I could share the gospel. This enabled me to travel to various schools to advance the gospel of salvation and righteousness.
From my early adolescent age till date, I have always travelled to different parts of the world to share the gospel. Whether invited or not, I depended on divine instructions and directions to go and propagate the gospel.
Up to date, I am always ready to go anywhere the Lord sends me.
What informed the dramatization of evangelical messages which seems to be your unique selling point?
I discovered that Knowledge is power and wisdom is guidance.
Naturally, I am a dramatic person. I usually use illustrations to explain whatever I have to say and do.
More so, I usually see and hear the voice of the Lord in pictures like a movie scenario.
Even when I am reading and studying the Scriptures, it forms like an event in my eyes and mind.
Sometimes, I feel like acting a movie to demonstrate the gospel message that I receive.
So, some of the writings in my books open with scenarios of poetic and dramatic expressions.
Consequently, some of the feedbacks received from various audience confirm that people easily remember the illustrations that were dramatized to explain the gospel messages that I present.
So, the ability to impact knowledge through dramatization with poetic and musical expressions usually captures the audience attention. Many people remember me for the illustrations, the stories, the songs, and the dance presented along with my messages.
What factors really are behind your successes so far?
Attention!!! Obedience!!! Attention and obedience are important aspects of divine relationship, and every aspect of human life. Paying attention to instructions and directions help to establish a connection to divine plans and purposes.
Hearing, listening, and obeying instructions come by paying attention. When you develop the habit of respecting and honouring authority, it will never be difficult to walk with the Lord in the light of his word. Many people run away from rebuke, correction, and obedience, because they do not want anybody to instruct, direct, nor authorize them in anyway.
By the grace of God, I was born and raised by parents that believed in strictness and discipline at all times. As a family of educationalists and institutionalists, the instruments of discipline and corrections were never far away from my parents. These instruments were part of the tools that they used frequently to administer their occupational endeavours.
The frequency of discipline and rebuke helped everyone around to behave diligently, as we allowed the fear of God and righteousness to rule our lives and endeavours. We realized that those who ignored and run away from these fundamental instruments of instruction and direction suffered some ruins in their lives, as they could not meet up with the demand for destiny orientation.
The Word of God declares that Obedience is better than Sacrifice, and rebelliousness is as the sin of witchcraft. “So Samuel said: “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.”
Some Factors Behind my Success
I took a diligent note of Saul’s ascension to the royal throne established by the Lord himself. I also paid attention to his journey to and from the royal palace. Then, I purposed in my heart to be simple and humble, no matter what I achieve in life. Although many people take humility for stupidity, and try to frustrate, and suppress me, yet, I rather obey the Lord God Almighty than to submit to the pride that destroys divine destiny. I have suffered rejection and vulnerability in different aspects of life, yet I have decided to allow the will of God to be done in my life, rather than to allow the standards of the world to elevate me to a famous acceptability that moth and wroth destroy.
Firstly, when the Lord calls, He lays a burden upon your heart and shoulder, and also equips you with a package related to the assignments.
The package includes the instruction and direction on how to carry out the assignments. The Bible is the standard and basic instructional manual for the assignment.
That was the reason the Lord Jesus trained the disciples, and instructed them to wait until they are endued with power. The empowerment would enable them to do the assignment that have been entrusted into their care.
With Regard to your question, I realized that doing ministry is not all about preaching. Jesus did not only come to teach, but to show us the way of salvation by correction. He also had to shed his blood to wash away our sins, in addition to dying for us. The process of redemption is a thorough and tough job of cleansing, purifying, and sanctifying.
Moses was not a preacher but a teacher who had the burden to deliver the Israelites from their old ways in order to adopt a new life in the Lord. As he received the laws and the statutes, he had the command to write down the commandments and also teach it by interpretation for the people to understand.
Most often, divine instructions are simple, because the Heavenly Father likes to speak to his children as his own babies/children. Unfortunately, many people do not want to be corrected because they see it as being treated like babies, so they ignore and disobey.
Spiritual Relationship
I ask questions and enquire about everything from the Lord. The more I engage the Lord to find out or investigate a matter, the more he speaks to me. Sometimes, I face obstacles because the people around want me to do things according to the standards of the environment and the world. Pleasing people can be dangerous, if you do not apply wisdom. It is better to seek the people’s opinion while you try to manage divine instruction. Whenever you try to enforce your decision by quoting “the Lord said” or “the Holy Spirit showed me”, or “God told me”, you are likely to be rejected and frustrated. Some will quickly withdraw their support and live you to struggle with your vision and decision.
Instead of appreciation for the goodness of God, I usually see and feel an expression of envy and jealousy everywhere. People come around because they want their needs to be met. As soon as they are satisfied, they pull away. However, the genuine love of Jehovah God has kept me secured in his protective arms.
**Simple obedience has rescued me from shame, disgrace, and embarrassment. Hence, the miracle of success has continued. This year (2026) marks the 54 years of my evangelistic mission life. I have tried to obey every bit of instruction given directly by divine unction. Some of them were passed on by various leaders, and authorities. Irrespective of age, gender, and status, the Lord uses any available vessel useful for the kingdom to carry out different assignments.
I have survived different kinds of abuses, embarrassments, and challenges that stemmed from envy and jealousy as well as unhealthy competitions. But, the love and fear of God have been keeping me.
Encounter with Writing
The Dramatic and Poetic Expressions
I have always been poetic and dramatic in my life endeavours. I like to sing and demonstrate whatever I have to say and do. I did not realized it was a divine call and assignment until I got a divine instruction.
The Call to Write and Publish: I have always seen myself writing in similar patterns until when I received the divine instruction that assigned me to write and publish. So I used to write stories about situations that I gave to my teachers and colleagues to edit. Some were returned while others were never given back to me. However, I never gave up because I felt the burden to write until when it would be possible to publish.
Part of my preparation for ministerial equipment was the journalistic training. This training enabled me to learn how to investigate and write reports in a dramatic manner for easy understanding of Divine instructions and directions.
The training enabled me to pay attention to the details of what I hear, see, and receive in order to make adequate presentation in my writing.
One day while I was asking the Lord, for resources to carry out the mission of evangelism, he commanded me to stretch out my hands. When I did, I heard him ask me, “What is in your hands?” Immediately, my eyes were opened to see different kinds of writings and publications. Then he asked, “What do you see?” So, I responded by stating the different things that I saw. “These included manuscripts for books, poems, drama, and musical notes as well as songs.”
From there on, my senses became more sensitive to hear, to see, to speak, and to understand the things that happen in the spiritual realm. Whenever, I received a message, I would also receive the instruction to write what I hear, see, receive, with understanding.
Unless, I receive an instruction, it is not easy for me to write. As soon as I receive an instruction, I have to set myself aside with prayer and fasting to write down the message. Staying in the presence of the Lord is a discipline that requires attention and obedience.
The following terms/phrases feature particularly on your campaign posters: recovering destiny; spiritual surgery; prophetic treatment, etc. What do they mean and of what relevance are they to Christianity and humanity generally?
Some phrases and terminologies that are featured in my campaign can be described as frequent working tools. They are not just phrases but the actual guides to solutions. Sometimes, people are not able to describe or pinpoint the exact problem to which they require solutions.
When people request prayer, and make more request after praying, but they are still not satisfied, then they will keep making the same request in circles, and even go from place to place, from one prayer house to another, from one minister to another, and then end up losing some important phenomenon in their mind, as though the Lord God is not there for them.
This is where my assignment emerges to investigate the matter in different realms of life. The act of prayer involves asking, seeking, and knocking. Christ Jesus often asked recipients questions before praying for them.
He asked the blind man Bartimaeus, “So, What do you want Me to do for you?” The blind man said to Him, “Rabboni, that I may receive my sight.” (Mark 10:46-52)
Recovering destiny:
It is pertinent that some matters need a counselling session before prayer is offered. A medical doctor does not prescribe a medication without investigating the matter for which a patient require healing.
Although it was obvious that Bartimaeus was blind, Jesus still asked for the reason that caused him to cry for mercy. Sometimes we assume the need and we just offer the prayers. Until the requester expresses their need and pain, they will keep going round the circles of their request.
Destiny: Destiny is the plan and purpose that the Lord God has for us, which is usually a comfortable life of fulfilment.
Recovery: The acts of challenges, difficulties, and other forms of attacks usually interfere with our destiny. Certain attacks are elements of distractions that cause people to fall out of place. In the process, some may fall out of their divine destiny and become refugees and vagabonds.
Living and walking outside the path of destiny can be dangerous and fatal. Hence, there is need for recovery and restoration in order to return to the divine path of destiny.
Salvation is correction, and redemption is cleansing. The process of salvation fosters recovery of life and destiny. As a journalistic-evangelist, part of my mandate is to rescue the perishing and care for the dying. Falling out of the path of destiny by distraction or any other challenges may lead to some form of death. Death varies as there are different kinds of deaths – be it spiritual or physical expiration. So recovery is necessary to revive and restore the life that is rescued from perishing. The purpose of the evangelistic ministry is to save, deliver, and redeem souls from perishing under the powers of darkness, and bring them into the light to recover the joy of salvation.
Spiritual surgery
All matters do not require surgery, so we don’t always go through surgery whenever we visit our medical doctors. In order to ensure that our general health is normal, and to provide a quick intervention to dangerous situations, we are required to do an annual medical check-up.
Deliverance ministration is supposed to be an annual spiritual-medical check-up for every Christian/child of God. In view of lack of knowledge, the role of deliverance has been reduced to demonic cases and exorcism.
Spiritual surgery is a case comparable to the need for medical surgery, where there is need for divine intervention. Christ Jesus explained to the disciples, stubborn problem, bondages, and certain demonic obstacles, and deep rooted challenges do not go away except by prayer and fasting. Although these kinds of ministrations are usually referred to as deliverance, a thorough process is comparable to spiritual surgery where one’s challenge is totally cured and redeemed from reoccurrence throughout life. Evil spirits have a way of playing a return game from generation to generation or attacking some other areas of people’s endeavours periodically at certain seasons. (Matt 17: 21 & Mark 9:14-29).
Prophetic treatment
God is not a prophet, but His word becomes prophetic when it is spoken through a messenger or written. A message is prophetic because a messenger, a minister, or a prophet received it like a post master. The presentation from God to man is not prophetic. It is the presentation from man to a person or people that makes the word of God prophetic.
The act of prophetic treatment is a state of using the spoken word of God and biblical or Scriptural Word of God to analyse or solve a problem. Which means make the prophetic treatment, a biblical means of devising solutions by seeking divine wisdom and counsel according to biblical guidance – line upon line, and precept upon precept. (Isaiah 28:9-13)
Isaiah 28:13 But the word of the LORD was to them, “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little,” That they might go and fall backward, and be broken And snared and caught.
Why establish school of strategic prayer and training when theology as course of study embodies issues of prayer, etc? What really is strategic about prayer?
Interesting. Many people have quarried me on this matter of training people to pray and how to perform ministerial activities. It is better to ask questions than to condemn the works that the Lord has assigned some of us to perform.
From the beginning of the Old Testament to the end of the New Testament, various forms of education that include teaching, training, equipping, and empowering are mentioned. Education is a strong and formidable aspect of destiny fulfilment.
Education is a means of providing knowledge and wisdom to humanity. So the Scripture declares, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” (Hosea 4:6)
As I study the scriptural word of God, I have discovered that knowledge is power and wisdom is guidance. One of my major assignments and mandates is to educate by training to equip and empower people on how to live and walk with the Lord in the kingdom of righteousness.
A lot of people are spiritually obese because they are not feeding on the appropriate spiritual meals. Their diet is weak and their not feeding on balanced spiritual diet, causes malnutrition. That was part of the reasons that the disciple of the Lord Jesus discovered that their prayers were not effective. So, they requested to be taught how to pray by comparing themselves with the disciples of John the Baptist.
My call and assignment is to educate, teach, train, equip, and empower for destiny fulfilment. This assignment is done through the various School of Intensive Training that are organised periodically in various countries.
The Schools of Intensive Training are focused on preparing people to walk the path of their destiny.
The trainings are purposed to stir up people to discover the purpose of their lives and existence.
Each person is sent to earth on an errand to fulfil a destiny.
Unfortunately, many are copying others without seeking divine direction while others are resisting and frustrating the helpers who are supposed to assist them.
The trainings are for educating, equipping, and connecting people to their divine destiny.
For instance, the School of Strategic Prayer is for training people to understand spiritual communications and interaction. The practical usage of languages and certain terminologies are needed to gain access into the presence of the Lord. The legal court system in the realm of the spiritual demands certain legal terminologies. Without knowledge, one can pray amiss and finally give up.
Why did you establish training institutes in Ghana and not Nigeria, for example?
My decisions are based on divine instructions. However, I have tried to do a training in Nigeria, Togo, Benin and other West African countries. I have done some training in Togo and praying for a host to do so everywhere. I will bring the training to Nigeria as soon as we find a willing heart and ministry to host it. I am loking forward to a person or an organization that is willing to be a vessel in this path of destiny. There are great ministers in Nigeria and across the continent of Africa. We just need someone who is willing and available to work with us according to divine vision and mission assigned to us. The person may not be a minister, but like the biblical Cornelius, willing to be used of the Lord.
Editor’s Note: The interview was conducted online.
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