Testimonies

Saved From A Ghastly Motor Accident

 

"I believe in the Word and I believe everything that it says. If you believe you have to claim it. And it’ll come to pass." - Ernest Utuk

Ernest Utuk and his mother

My name is Ernest Kaboshio Utuk. On the 17 January 2013, I was to travel from my family house in Kafanchan to Kaduna. Before I left, I told my mother that I intended to travel to Kaduna. She prayed with me.

 

After praying with my mother and sister, something told me to go and pray again and commit myself to God’s care. I just obeyed the voice, because I do hear that voice sometimes. When it speaks to me, I do listen. I listen and it works for me.

 

 

 

I can’t actually define what the voice is. It comes from the inside. But it is something I cannot resist. Sometimes it comes like an imagination, sometimes it comes like a thought, sometimes it comes like a feeling. I do have such feelings about some things.

 

I can say that that voice is the voice of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes when good things are going to happen to me, I do feel it. The spirit will just tell me, “Ernest, pray about this good thing that is about to happen to you.” Sometime if I don’t pray about it, it delays, but if I pray, it happens without delay.

 

So I went back to my room to pray while my mom and other members of the family waited for me outside the house. I prayed to God and said my life is in his care, as I am going out, may his presence go with me. That was all. I didn’t even pray at the motor park. I had the assurance that I’ve committed my life to God and my life is in his care.

 

On my way to Kaduna, we had a mysterious car accident. Five people died instantly. Only three of us survived. I am glad to say that I survived without any broken bones or any life-threatening injury.

 

 

I was seated on the middle row of the bus at the right side. We were three on that row. The woman seated next to me survived with broken arms, while the girl seated next to her died. All the people at the back seat died. The driver died and the women seated at the passenger seat in the front smashed her knees.

 
 

The only thing I can remember about the crash is that our car collided with another car. It smashed into the side of the other car. Then I only remember waking up in hospital.

 

 

 

When I woke up in hospital I saw my mother and family members at the bedside crying. They all thought I was dead. They even believed I wouldn’t be able to walk again if I survived. So I told my mother not to cry; then she started laughing; laughing for joy.

 

When I woke up in the hospital I could not feel my legs from the waist to the toe. So I told myself “I will not sit on a wheelchair!”

 

When the doctor told my mother to take me for x-ray, I had the firm belief that there is nothing wrong with me, so when they raised me up to place me on a wheelchair, I stepped away from them and stood up. But I fell down. Then I stood up again and hit my legs on the floor. I said in my heart that I will never sit on a wheelchair and I believed it and it worked.

I believe in the Word and I believe everything that it says. If you believe you have to claim it. And it’ll come to pass.

 

I believe it is God’s hand. If God is with you and he wants you to do something for Him, He directs your path; He leads you. Sometimes we insist on doing things that the Spirit tells us not to do and we end up not finding happiness in it.

My advice to travellers is: believe in God, for he shall direct your path. Because the Word says, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (John 20:31KJV). The Apostle Paul also said, “From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus” (Galatians 6:17KJV). Therefore, when you bear that mark of Jesus Christ in you, you can go anywhere, enter anywhere with the assurance that the Lord is with you; no harm shall befall you.