Thousands stood still last Friday in awesome wonder of God at the Lagos area quarterly Holy Ghost Refreshing Vigil of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria.
At the vigil, which held at the International Conference Centre of the church in Idimu, several testified to divine visitations during previous editions of the power-packed service dubbed Night of divine intervention.
Pastor Gboyega Gbadeyemi, District Overseer, Egbe, of the church moved the congregation with vivid account of how he was saved from armed robbery attacks while returning home after the last edition of the vigil.
Gbadeyemi said he was locked up in the boot of his car by robbers who struck while waiting for the gate to the estate to be opened.
The robbers, he said, were ready to take him away to an unknown destination until they were distracted by divine providence.
According to him: “When someone started approaching from nowhere, they were distracted and fled with their guns.
“It took me several minutes before I could muster the courage to take to my heels. I thank God for that divine protection and salvation.”
Mrs. Ebere Samuel recalled how she attended several editions of the vigil with hot tears.
“I cried so much I lost my strength,” she began. Samuel testified she took in after one of the prayer sessions after years of bareness.
When she raised the baby named Miracle up, she was greeted with shouts of halleluyah and applause.
Mrs. Mary Haruna, who had been on drugs for years, said she was healed of ulcer completely during the last edition of the vigil.
Haruna also testified about her child, who had been missing for 22 years, returned home to a warm embrace after intense prayers during an edition of the service.
Ministering at the service, the General Overseer of the church, Rev. Felix Meduoye, urged the worshippers to draw closer to God.
God, he said, is ever willing to direct and lead those who will depend on Him.
According to him: “You need to have God as the director of your life and your shepherd. If God must intervene in somebody’s life, he or she must be a worshipper of God.”
Meduoye said those who want God to show up in the affairs must offer Him their first and best.
He stated that God will intervene if worshippers dare to trust Him with their lives.
When Meduoye called the worshippers to prayers, thousands raised their voices in desperate supplication for divine assistance.
The National Secretary of the church, Rev. Ikechukwu Ugbaja, said the service has become a reference point for divine interventions in human affairs.
“What we do essentially is to throw everything at the God who can do all things. That is what we have been doing for years and He has never failed us,” he stated.