The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says he is alive because God is wonderful, recalling how he once escaped death by the whiskers.

He spoke at the Redemption Camp, off Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun, on Saturday as he clocked 82, with congregants celebrating him. He was born on March 2, 1942.

Adeboye narrated the incident, which many years ago, according to him, could have claimed his life, if not for a miraculous intervention of God.

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

Adeboye said that the most frightening of the near-fatal incidents was one in which their vehicle came face to face with a truck that was coming at full speed on a narrow bridge which had a river by its side on their way to Ilorin, Kwara state.

He recounts the experience: “The bridge was so narrow that only one vehicle passes at a time. But for whatever reason, the driver of the truck decided to climb the bridge while we were already on it and all was left to happen was a head-on collision with the truck and all my driver could do at that time was to shout JESUS!!

“Miraculously, there was no collision and once we got to the other end of the bridge, my driver who was visibly shaking parked the vehicle and asked me ‘Daddy, what happened?’, and I answered ‘God expanded the bridge.’

He noted that it was a miracle that they escaped unhurt in the incident, which left even himself 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, and prayed that God would be wonderful in the lives of the people.

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

He said that his 82nd birthday anniversary also marked the 38th anniversary of the monthly Special Holy Ghost Service organised by the church.

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

Adeboye preached on the theme – On Eagle’s Wings.

Preaching from Exodus Chapter 19, he said, “When God hears and takes notice of a person, the life of such a person changes for better.

“God can grab you from the lowest point on earth and put you on the throne.”

According to him, when one’s case is beyond any human assistance, the God who knows will send help.

The cleric said that God required faith and holiness from believers adding that only God can give ‘sweat-less success’.

Additional reports by NAN