HOW ADEBOYE SAVED ME FROM DEATH IN PLANE CRASH – OYEDEPO
HOW ADEBOYE SAVED ME FROM DEATH IN PLANE CRASH – OYEDEPO
Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith
Church Worldwide (LFCWW), David Oyedepo, has revealed how he almost died in a
plane crash recently.
Speaking at the church headquarters
on Friday, Oyedepo says before the trip, the General Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A Adeboye visited him unannounced and
prayed for him.
It was the third time Bishop Oyedepo
would be involved in near air mishap.
Narrating how this third and most
recent accident happened, a pastor in the church, Adebisi, read the report from
the aircraft’s pilot, Captain Samuel Adegoga.
“The main malfunction we had in the
Cyprus-Israel flight was a stabilizer twin-motor failure. During the said
flight that we had the twin motor failure, the auto-pilot could no longer exert
the desired pressure to keep the aircraft in the required altitude for
stability flight.
“The captain disconnected the
auto-pilot, took and returned the aircraft to the required altitude for that
phase of the flight. Because the aircraft was out of trim during this takeover,
the aircraft abruptly pitched off with much pitch force.
“The captain counteracted it with a
pitch down force. These counter forces caused turbulence and movement in the
cabin and cargo hold. Heavy items in the cargo section fell from their
compartment, making a loud noise, ” the pilot wrote.
“We thank the God of this commission
for making the pilot to react promptly. Similar failures in the past have
resulted in fatal accidents due to lateness of pilot’s reaction,” Adebisi
added.
However, while the pilot saw the
incident as mechanical malfunctioning, Bishop Oyedepo said the averted air
disaster was a spiritual attack.
His words: “According to the word of
God, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord will hit the earth, there
will be a restoration of sonship and fatherhood to the body of Christ.
“On Friday preceding the journey that
we made, my father in the Lord showed up at 6:30 early in the morning and saw a
vision and wasn’t sleeping, and said, ‘Lord, Lord, why seek the living among
the dead? No, no…’ So, he took off and landed here before 6:30am. No, there was
no idea that he was coming, and there was no discussion after it. The heart of
the father will be drawn to the heart of the son to defend.
“Understand what I’m saying. You
don’t have inheritance in a pastor; you don’t have in a teacher. Many of us
have teachers all our lives. Did they share anything with you when they died?
Did any teacher write your name in his will? You only have an inheritance with
a father. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children to inherit.
Fatherhood is not an accolade, it is a revelation. So, that was not technical
failure, it was a spiritual attack that Jesus averted.
“Every prophet sent to you is
ordained a father. Elisha shouted: ‘My father! My father!‘ He was the son of
Sherphat. Elijah was not his biological father, but he was a prophet sent to
him…Every prophet sent to you is sent as a father, not as brother, not as an
uncle, not as a friend. I have enjoyed this kind of covering all my life.”
