Pastor Adeboye turns 82, thanks God for keeping him alive

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), says he is alive because God is wonderful to him.

Adeboye said this while celebrating with congregants at the Redemption Camp, off Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State on Saturday as he clocked 82.

He narrated the incident of an auto accident, which many years ago, could have claimed his life, if not for a miraculous intervention of God.

He referred to an earlier narrative by his former driver of an accident in which the cleric and his wife escaped death in Ilorin.

Adeboye said that the most frightening incident was the one in which their vehicle came face to face with a trailer that was coming at full speed on a narrow path, by a bridge which had a river by its side.

“Somehow we passed,” he said, noting that it was a miracle that they escaped unhurt in the incident, which left both him and his driver shaking.

Adeboye said the escape amazed his driver, that all the way to Ilorin, all he was repeating was ‘wonderful.’

“That I’m alive today is because His name is called wonderful,” he said.

Adeboye prayed that God would be wonderful in the lives of the people.

He appreciated the church members for celebrating him, praying that none of them would die young, and that they would be greater than him.

The RCCG General Overseer said his 82nd birthday anniversary also marked the 38th anniversary of the annual Special Holy Ghost Service organised by the church.

Adeboye thanked God for the lives that had been touched through the programme.