‘Order
my steps in your word everyday, lead me, guide me everyday and let your
anointing fall as I pray’
-A popular Gospel Singer
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magine that all those who
perished at the Dana plane crashed were alive today after the incident on
Sunday and you had the privileged [Yes I said privilege because they were
dignitaries!] to ask them if they knew they were going to die. Believe me! They
will humbly tell you that they knew. How? You might ask. How would they see
their accident and decided to have their necks bent on being a victim? Simple!
They would tell you that they had signs, feelings, dreams and strange warnings about
the journey they embarked on which they simply ignored. This article below will
guide you on how to avoid untimely accident and also help understand how God
works with human beings when he wants to communicate a message to us. Read on
if you want to learn timeless lessons that my mother taught me which hardly
would any one tell you!
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| The aircraft just before it left Abuja airport |
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| The Dana Girls before the crash |
Considering the whole incident
that slammed Lagos on Sunday, I kept asking myself some daunting questions. I
was curious. I wanted to know if there was a way those people could have saved their
selves from that dead trap. Questions like these surged within my mind ‘What
actually went wrong?’ ‘Was it God’s will for over 163 people to lose their
lives prematurely? The more I realize that what happened on Sunday could have
happened to me the more my mind thirst for a soothing answer to my disturbing
questions. So I decided to ask my mother.
I asked my mother ‘Why did those people die? ‘Was it that they did not
pray!? My mother in her wisdom began to teach me timeless lesson which I could
have not learned from anywhere in this world. In response she said to me ‘It
wasn’t that they never prayed; it was just that they did not listen well’ she
said withdrawing her word ‘In fact it is by grace’ she began to educate me.
Let suppose all those people
who died in the plane were to be alive today, I bet you they would tell you
that they had the ‘feelings of reluctance’ ‘a sign of warning for the incident ahead of
their journey’. Many of them would have strange dreams which they ignored
because they wanted to catch up with one thing or the other. In the news I read
on line someday ago I found out that five NUC [National Universities
Commission] staff were also killed in the plane crash amongst known dignitaries
of this country. According to the reporter, they were said to be on official
assignment to review some proposed private universities in some parts of the
country. So they would leave with only that assignment brothering their minds
and nothing else.
My mother recounted how my
father was salvaged by a dream my sister had. My Father had planned to leave
Lagos for Imo State for a burial Ceremony which was to come up in barely two
days. [Thursday precisely since the burial hold proper on Friday] He had made
all his arrangements for the next two days only for my Sister Linda to wake up
on Wednesday morning with a dream she had. She called us together and told us
her dream. In her dream, she saw my Dad die. There was sobering and weeping in
our house and according to her ‘It was terrible’. In fear, my mother encouraged
my Father to decline from going to the Village due to the nature of the dream.
My father never wanted to. He said ‘I believe strongly that nothing will happen
to me. Don’t worry I will be safe’ he said to us. So we all agreed and went on
with the days chores.
At about noon that very day, a
message got to us that our Father was knocked down in a motor cycle accident
and that he had a dislocation between his joints around his knees. To cut the
long story short, my Father did not travel instead my Mother decided to travel
since my Father had a dislocation and could not walk not until 4 weeks later.
Do you what happened when my Mother came back? My mother said the burial went
well but that a woman who she did not know approached her and asked her ‘Did
your husband came with you?’ My mother replied ‘No, he is not feeling well’.
The woman began to praise God and began to sing and call God various names. In
curiosity my Mother asked her ‘Why are you doing this?’ ‘Are you happy my
husband is not feeling well’ The woman replied ‘Yes I am happy your husband is
ill and above all that he is not here today because they have proposed that he
is going to be poisoned today!’ ‘Thank your God’.
What lessons do you learn from that true life
story above? God never wanted my father to die. Though my Father must have
prayed but he was unable to listen to the signs God was giving to him. So He
decided to communicate it through my sister Linda in form of a dream. My sister
was attuned to God’s sign. Above all my sister has this gift of prophesy that
was the major reason why my Mother never takes her dreams for levity. Whatever
she see in her dreams always come to pass.
How to avoid untimely death:
In December, year 2005, my
mother was prepared to travel for another burial ceremony in her home town in
Delta State. Due to the fact that a few of my siblings had never had the medium
to go to her home town to see her old mother [Our grand mother], she decided to
take along with her our firth born by name Chukwudi, whom was just a few years
old and our fourth born Sandra who was about 9 years old as at then. So my
mother set out for this journey which could have been the end of their life! My
mother had prayed for safety all through the journey but she never paid so much
attention to the signs God was signaling to her. By then my mother was not as
strong as she is now. She was a ‘budding Christian’. What was the sign which
God was throwing at her?
As she narrated the story to me,
Chukwudi, which was about a year old, was crying bitterly from the house but it
the intensity of his cry skyrocketed immediately they got to the Bus Park.
According to her ‘I have never seen any of my child cry like this’ she told a
woman who got interested with the fine boy. My mother was more annoyed when
Chukwudi ‘pop poed’, she almost missed the bus but she was determined to go as
she was late. In fact many people began to insinuate ‘Maybe your pikin no won
travel with you’ they said humorously but God was trying to pass a message to
my mother. So fortunately for her, she left with the bus.
My mother continued ‘Prior to
the time we got to Ore; Chukwudi stopped crying and was playing with his sister
Sandra. The woman who was earlier interested in Chukwudi was amazed at the fact
that a boy who could cry as loud as that could also play like this. So she volunteered
to carry Chukwudi and they played all through. Another man decided to carry
Sandra in order to ease the heavy load my mother was carrying. When they got to
Ore, something happened; the driver lost control of the steering, his brakes
failed and what happened within a twinkling of an eye was a mystery. The car
somersaulted four times recounted passers by before it came to a stop. The next
place my mother found her self was in a hospital. Was my mother wounded? Did
she die and resurrected again? Hey! What about Chukwudi and Sandra? Did they
die? Do you want to know what happened to them? Read on!
About 10 people were discovered
dead. The vehicle was seriously crushed and folded together. The driver died
also. About 6 people had deep cuts and seriously wounded. The woman who carried
Chukwudi had her ears sliced in two halves! The man who carried Sandra broke
his arms and ribs. My mother was slightly injured. Chukwudi and Sandra were
unharmed! They were shinning their eyes like little stars! What a miracle!
Praise God. If not for God that was how I could have lose my mother and two of
my beloved siblings!
As the Dana plane crash
happened on Sunday, 3rd of June 2012, it reminded us of all the
accidents we would have lose our lives not just because we never prayed but because
we could not listen well to the leading of the spirit of God!
My mother gave me six indispensable laws God uses to give
us direction when we want to engage in a journey and to avoid untimely death.
1. Be clean!
Read my article: The dangers of sin
2. Understand yourself!
3. Pray!
Some one said ‘I never begin a
day which I have not conquered’. That I am living today is not by my own
workings, desire, or strength, it is solely by God’s saving grace. We get that
God’s saving grace by communicating to God with via prayers. And the more we
pray to him the more of the saving grace God makes available to us. Somebody
said ‘Maybe the plane crash was God’s will’ but I totally disagree with that
statement. God has never had it in his plans to waste the lives of 167 people
just like that. God is not a member of the mindless BOKO HARAM. He is a loving
God, kind at heart. He said through Isaiah ‘Fear
not for I am with you’. God has
given each one of us a freedom of choice whether to serve him or to ignore him.
Whether to call on his name through prayers or to cast him into the trash can
4. See the end from the beginning:
Even Jesus Christ said ‘I can
of my own self do nothing; as I hear so I judge’. Jesus in spite of his
magnanimous powers and wisdom had to get a ‘go ahead’ from His Father before he
does anything. So we can learn from this
timeless wisdom my mother has unleashed to me. ‘But mummy what if I pray and I
see nothing. What if I do not dream about anything’ I asked my mother. That
would lead us to the next law.
5. Pray Again!
When we pray and do not see the
end from the beginning, the advice my mother would drum into your head is ‘pray
again!’ It might be that you never conducted your first prayer well. It might
be that there are still some sins locking inside our hearts, it might be that
we have not used the right words. Just pray again and ensure that at this time
you are violent in the spirit and God will have no option than to show you or
give you a sign that will lead to your answer. Remember that only the violent takes it by
force.
6. Step Out
Blessings!
MY CONDELENCE TO THE BEREAVED
My heart goes out for
all those who have in one way or the other have shared in the pain of the
ghastly air accident that struck in Lagos within a suburb town around Agege
which killed at least 163 people on Sunday. I
personally shared from that sad chapter in the history of Nigeria. My cousin
who got married lately was killed with her husband in the plane crash. What a
great loss! This is the same reason why I decided to write this note to you
all.
May the souls all the faithful departed through the mercy of
God rest in perfect peace. Amen!
CYPRIAN UDEBUIKE
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