Devine Glory Magazine Worshipper: Summer 2013 | Page 12

Submitted: Becky DeWitt

Former New York Mets Baseball Player, now Gospel
Recording Artist Todd Dulaney spent most of his life pursuing
a baseball career, playing 5 years of professional baseball.
Now, his joy comes from serving the Lord in every facet of his
life. He is presently the worship leader at Living Word Christian Center under the leadership of Pastor Bill Winston. Most
importantly, Todd considers himself as a worshipper and desires the anointing of God to rest on the ministry God has given

to him.
Being steadfast and sold out to God, his eyes are focused on ministry and fulfilling his purpose. Dulaney's dream is
to write music that ministers to the heart of God and touches the
heart of man. Not what's hot, but what delivers, what heals,
what re-stores God’s hurting people. Todd is not an industry
guy but a ministry guy. Todd has worked and shared the stage
with many award-winning artists. God has opened many doors
on his be-half allowing him to minister in song at churches
worldwide.
You are a worshipper who is focused on ministering to the heart of God. When I first set out to do this, I had
fallen in love with Jesus Christ. I want to make sure that that
stayed the focus of everything that I do throughout my career
and throughout my life. Because it is so easy to get caught up
with pleasing people and the industry and make music that they
know that the radio wants to hear. When I first started doing
this, I was doing it for Christ. I wanted to make a declaration
over my own life that as long as I was going to be doing this, I
am going to be doing it for Christ. My heart, my music, my
voice belongs to Him. I wanted to write music that ministers to
Him first, and then everyone else can feed off of what it does for
Him.
As a worshipper, the more you worship, the more
revelation you receive from God because of the intimacy. I
believe that it is for this hour. The declaration of my church is
that it is the year of praise. But there are some things that only
happen when you are worshipping and when you are intimate
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with God. It never happens in any other atmosphere. Only when
you are intimate with God, will you get fresh revelation that is a
continuous flow. , then I will never have understanding of without going in and being intimate with the Father.
Serving as a praise and worship leader at Living Word
Christian Center under the leadership of Dr. Bill Winston,
an awesome man of God, you are full of the Word and
much revelation. It has been on of the best Kingdom hookups
that God could have ever put me in. I am being feed so much,
so when I go out on the road, I am full of power and authority.
You know how the word of Pastor Winston is, you feel like you
can fly.
Is that word that Dr. Winston is preaching, provoking you into another dimension for a sound that is uncommon coming from heaven? It is pulling on me to come up
higher. Right now he is teaching on that type of stuff. Whenever
you get a minister or Pastor teaching that there are no impossibilities in Christ, it stirs up on the inside of the psalmist. Because now I am starting to pull down songs from heaven that I
never knew that I could pull down. In worship, my mindset is
there are no impossibilities. So when have no walls in our worship, we just pull from the Lord until the atmosphere is the atmosphere of heaven. Being under that word, has pulled that out
of me. He teaches that there are no impossibilities. And so,
when you are worshipping God like that, with that in mind,
songs and the river of heaven will flow because there are no
walls and no limits. You just keep going.
You gave up a career in major league baseball with
the NY Mets for the glory of God. Tell us about that transition moment. That thing was real for me. I think it is what people feel when they experience the ministry that God gave me. It
was real. It wasn’t that I was going to try to leave and become
a superstar in the gospel community. It was a real encounter
with God. It was like a Paul encounter with God. You can’t
even fake it. It was God saying, “I have called you and I want
you to walk away from this.” I was positive that I had to walk
away despite my parents and everybody who thought that I was
crazy. Everybody was like; you are walking away from millions
of dollars. Do you know what you are doing? I said that I didn’t. But I know that I heard God and I didn’t really even know
the voice of God, but I know that this is Him. It was one of those
things. It was the real thing and nobody could tell me otherwise. Because of that there is authenticity in this ministry.
In reading your bio, there is a statement that says
you are not an industry guy but a ministry guy. Yes, some of
these things the Holy Ghost said because I don’t think that I
would have said in my natural mind. Be