He survived death

The year was 2012. I had gone to China, to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I preached at a certain church where a large crowd had gathered. As a result, many people were converted.

After that meeting, one of the believers in the church, a Chinese man, expressed the wish to take me to another place, to preach. I obliged and the next day, we left for a remote place deep inside Guangzhou Province. I don’t remember the name of the place, but it was deep inside, in the villages.
We travelled by car. When we approached the village, we had to leave the car at a certain home, because we could no longer use a car beyond that point. We also left the car keys with the people in that home. We continued for some time on a narrow dirt track to our destination.

Sold off
When we got to the venue where I was supposed to preach, I found the people gathered there boiling water in a huge saucepan and they were happy. We had travelled for most of the day and had reached the place around 3pm in the afternoon.

I could not speak or understand any Chinese. However, I noticed that they had given something to the man I had travelled with. I was able to decipher, from where I was a few metres away, that it was money.

That did not bother me at the time, because I thought he was probably going to buy a few groceries they were going to use to cook food in the huge saucepan. The man I had travelled with left. I thought he was going to come back and interpret my sermon to the gathered crowd.

At the mercy of God
The men in that place immediately got hold of me, tied me up and lay me on the ground. It was at that point that I realised my life was in danger; and that my guide probably was not coming back. I prophesied out loud, “Nze si liibwa wano!” I panicked. I started praying, but nothing happened.

Meanwhile the people were getting more excited by the minute. They reckoned they had got a lot of meat to eat. They had probably never seen a black man before. That is why they must have equated me to an animal.

I prayed and waited for God to help me, but there was no visible help that I could see coming my way. I prayed until I got tired, but I was still hopeful. I said, “God, I know you will send someone to help me.”

I hadn’t bothered to shout. I had seen that the town was small and remote. I figured everyone in that town probably had the same beliefs. If I had shouted, I would have wasted my time and much needed energy. I decided to concentrate on praying to God.

A miracle
The time came for them to slaughter me and I was not seeing any help coming my way in whatever form! It was evening, but it wasn’t dark yet. Then God created a situation where the sun disappeared and black clouds began to gather in the sky. Soon, it started raining, but it wasn’t heavy. It was a light rain.

Suddenly there were terrible peals of thunder and lightning lit the whole sky up! Then lightning struck everyone in that place, including me. I lay on the ground for three hours, not knowing anything that was happening in the world.
When I gained conscious, I saw everyone on the ground. I got up and sprinted out of that place as fast as my legs could carry me, in the direction from where we had gone. When I thought I could catch a little breath, I slowed down to a walk.

I walked for a long time, until I got to the home where we had left the car. The car was still there, but there was no sign of anyone near it. My guide had not bothered to get away using the car. Since we had left the keys with a man in the house, I went in, to see whether I could request for the keys.

I said, “I need the car keys,” but the man could not understand what I was saying.
I decided to use my version of sign language. He eventually understood what I wanted. He later drove me to a point on the highway, where I was able to get a taxi to Guangzhou City. I praise God for saving my life, in Jesus’ name!

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