“My life was completely frustrated. I tried juju or charm and it failed me totally. I even thought of taking away my life. One night, a sister living in the compound where I was squatting was singing and preparing to go somewhere with so much excitement. I asked her why she was so excited and where she was preparing to go. She said that she was preparing for Meet Jesus Live Night, that it was going to be great. Something said into my ears “follow her to the place”. For me, I was no more going to Church anymore because I was tired of everything but still told her I want to follow her. In the service, I heard so many wonderful and unbelievable testimonies of people. I said to myself if these people could get all these great miracles, I must get my own. I had no other choice because no option was remaining for me. For the first time, I learned that Jesus Christ is not a religious figure but a Living Saviour and this boosted my faith to meet Him.
I lived abroad and I came back to Nigeria. It was as if I was arrested by forces of darkness and I could not go back again. The embassy denied me a visa so I had to stay back in Nigeria doing nothing and was in terrible suffering. I did everything possible to see the man of God which was not easy because of the crowd. I followed up till I saw him and he told me things that baffled me despite that I knew I was under serious captivity from my family. He told me that the Lord will take me back to Italy in a mysterious way and make me very rich. I could not understand him because my papers were expired and cannot be presented anywhere. As I began to come for fellowship, faith grew so much in me that I could even touch the sky. The man of God makes Jesus so real in a way I have never seen. He told me to begin to prepare to go back to Italy. I told him about the papers, and he told me that Jesus will do it. I grew in that crazy faith and began to prepare. I came to the man of God and told him that I was ready to go. He prayed for me and I had a wood that I intended to look for the buyers there in Italy. I just picked it without really knowing the possibility of anything coming out of it. The man of God blessed it and told me that the just only need faith nothing more. It was all like crazy but like a drowning man, I had no choice than to hold on to anything within my reach.
I got to the airport here, and just passed unstopped. I remember what the man of God used to say that an eagle does not need a visa to enter any country. He says that a Christian is as unstoppable as an eagle. So I built my faith around that. When I got to a transit country abroad from where I will go to my final destination, I was arrested by immigration and police. They put me in detention for entering the country without adequate papers. Every day, they will come to the cell to ask me if I was ready to be deported back to Nigeria and I will say no that I am going to Italy. I held onto God’s Word that they that wait upon the Lord shall mount wings like an eagle as they renew their strength. I reminded God of so many promises including how He spoke through His servant that He will return me to Italy and make me rich. I even used other people’s testimonies I heard in the ministry to challenge God. I told Him that He said eyes have not seen, nor ear heard nor has it been perceived with the heart what He has prepared for those that wait on Him. These people were bent on sending me back to Nigeria and I was saying no way. The man of God taught us that God’s direction is only forward that was why in the presence of the red sea, He still asked the Israelites to go forward. My faith was really stubborn. What will I come back to Nigeria to do again after years of agony?
After some days, I was getting tired and the devil was telling me that these people will never let me go to Italy. On this day, I was lying down and feeling feverish. Something was now telling me to accept to be sent back to Nigeria when next they come to ask me if I am ready to go back. I was now thinking as I covered myself with a blanket sheet to agree to be returned back to Nigeria if they come again. This testimony can never leave my life. It happened to me and no one else. For the first time, I experienced that Jesus Christ is physically alive. As I covered myself with the blanket and thinking of what I will face again in Nigeria because I was ready now for them to send me back.
Somebody, I mean somebody physically touched me and said: “Boy, this is not the last word in your life”. In that room, I was the only person so I was shocked and in that shock I threw open the blanket to see who it was and when and how did the person came in. Normally before those immigration and police officers will open the iron gate, they will knock. But in this case, there was no knock. As I removed the blanket, I saw nobody. I now began to ask myself, who was this that touched me and what is the meaning of that statement: “this is not the last word in your life”? I was thinking about this when these people knocked as they usually do every day, opened the gate and came in. For me I was ready to go once they ask me this time because I was tired. But they were unusually friendly and said that they have never done a thing like this and do not know why they are doing so by releasing me to enter Italy without papers. I was listening still and they said that they were going to let me go to Italy now that I should dress up. I dressed up very quickly. They took me like one special ambassador to the airport and put me inside the aircraft and off I went to Italy from Holland. As I was in the aircraft, I was only thinking of what happened. Who touched me, who spoke to me, what is this all about, how come these people changed their mind to let me go? The questions were more than the answers. So this Jesus is physically alive in this way? Just touching me and speaking the word I was a free man to move to where I wanted to move to. My confidence went to the sky immediately. On getting to Italy, I was arrested again and they asked me how I managed to move from Nigeria, pass through Holland and to Italy without adequate papers. I said it is the doing of the Lord. They were like “is this person normal at all”? When they left me there to go and attend to other people, I reminded the Lord that what He has started He must perfect. After, they came back to me and said that they will send me back to Nigeria and I said God forbid, that I am not going to Nigeria after all I came in from Holland. They said then that they will send me back to Holland and I said no, I am going to Italy and here I am. You know how Italians can be but when I remembered the touch the Lord gave me inside the prison, and what He told me, I was fearless. They went away, came back and handed a letter to me and said that they will leave me to enter the city for the reason they do not know. But that as I am going into the city, if the police caught me, I should tell them that I have this letter to report to the next police station. But if no police caught me, I should go into the town and when I get to where am going that I should tear the letter. I thanked them and left and no police saw me. I got to where I was going and tore the letter. After some days, I went to a company with that wood and when they saw it, they shouted that they have been looking for who can be supplying them this wood on contract from Africa. We signed a deal, and they paid me a major part of the money right there so I can travel and get the wood for them which will be done on a constant basis. This was how Jesus met me to live. I came back to Nigeria very big and people could not believe it. I give God praise, Jesus is alive.” Brother Daniel.