2025 SPIRITUAL BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO THE WORLD

 IT'S MY SPIRITUAL BIRTHDAY TODAY : ANOTHER SPIRITUAL BIRTHDAY MESSAGE. - Alex Oguh

My dear Christian brothers and sisters all over the world, may you be happier and wealthier in 2026. 

I'm plus one today. This is not about my physical birth. My physical birth was around 70 years ago. Another birth happened 34 years ago. I was born into God's family. It was this day I had an accident at Ajaka, near Idah, Kogi State, Nigeria in 1991. My vehicle killed a young girl of about 13 years. She was one of the many girls selling firewood opposite the market in Ajaka. 

I was coming from Anyigba side, having been to Okene the previous day to give a promised bribe. I had just been paid for a stage of the contract I was doing around the area then. It was normal then and is still normal to give kickback on contracts.

Up till then I was a sinner by nature. Sinners don't use ladders to go up or down. They prefer jumping and other illegal methods. It was why Satan tempted Jesus to jump down (Mat. 4:5-7 or Luk. 4:9-12).

After the accident, I felt like the Earth should open up and swallow me. If I was given a choice, I would have chosen to die instead of the girl. I was already around 40 and I had done some things before then. It was in that dazed and confused state that I saw a Man in a compound to my left. 

It was as if He wanted to go, then He stood again, looking at mebHe said, "GET OUT AND START RUNNING".

I obeyed Him. I don't still know why I trusted Him. How could I go out? Two groups were struggling over my life right then. One was led by the junior brother of the dead girl's father, her uncle, a soldier, at home on Pass. 

The other group was spear-headed by Tijani. Tijani was our carpenter on most of our construction sites. I was in Ajaka some three or four months back when Bro. David Alfa's mother was buried and discovered that Tijani has already died. I normally branch, if I'm around Ajaka, to greet him.

I obeyed the Stranger's voice and came out of the vehicle. It was the only vehicle left of the company vehicles. I had had series of accidents before this one. 

The group helping me prevailed. They saw a motorcycle rider carrying an elderly woman and they pulled the woman off the Bike and put me in her place, and commanded the rider to take me to Idah.

Many in the crowd were shouting that I should escape to Ajaka Police Station. I didn't try that because, though the Man who had earlier spoken to me didn't mention where I should run to, it was clear in my heart that He meant that I should go to Idah. Idah, a bigger town was where I was living then. It is just a few kilometers away.

At Idah Police Station, I was weeping. My wife came there after a while.  They thought I was weeping because of the girl that died. I too thought it was why the tears won't stop.

It was later, as I couldn't hold back tears for most of the next two or three weeks that I realized that my tears were mostly because of my own sins. I have now discovered that they call it conviction in the Bible. 

John 16:8 (KJV)  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE ACCIDENT?

Many things happened. I began to enjoy being alone. I began to argue with my lawyers when they wanted to collaborate with the Police to tailor my statements. It was not the girl that died that was crossing the road. They said that tailoring it that way would make me win the case easily. 

Something had happened to me. Neither the lawyers nor myself knew what it was. It has become impossible for me to lie. We were all seeing the reality of 1 John 3:8-10 (KJV)  He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Upon my standing on the truth, I was discharged and acquitted after a few appearances in Court.. May be it was because the judge, Eld. Abraham, was born again. I learnt that later as I got into people of God.

Like a new baby, I was beginning to navigate in my new world. There was this time, in my guest room, when the Man who spoke to me at Ajaka began to speak to me again. It was becoming a regular pattern to hear Him. This time, I could sense where He stood and I could hear Him, but He was not visible to me. Somehow I had the courage to ask Him, "You that is talking to me, who are you?"

His answer changed my world. He said, "My name is Jesus".

Without thinking, I asked Him, "Are you alive?"

He didn't answer. I didn't know any Bible then to know this was His lifestyle. He doesn't answer foolish questions, except if the answer would make you wiser.

Proverbs 26:4-5 (KJV)  Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

It was good He didn't answer me. I had been in the Church for about 26 years by then (1965 -1992). It served me right. My legs began to shake. The reality began to dawn on me. How could I be talking to somebody who was supposed to have died some  2000 years earlier? I got up and knelt down and said to Him, "If you are alive, then I have mismanaged my life. If the remaining one is anything, take it."

He said, "I agree."

This agreement was ratified when the Lord sent Sister Queen (Now Mrs Igbeboh in Foursquare Gospel Church, Lokoja, Nigeria) to my house that hot afternoon. She came and said, "I don't know what you told the Lord, but He has sent me to tell you that He has agreed to be your Master".

I knew what I told the Lord. This agreement turned everything upside down for me.  See me calling it agreement. It was part of my problem for years. I thought I should have a say in the way things around my life are run. I didn't know that God deals with man on the basis of covenants. In a covenant, the bigger partner sets the terms and it's up to the lesser partner to agree or reject. I couldn't have imagined all the implications of asking the Lord to take my remaining life then.

My new Master was only interested in another type of 'architecture'. I happen to be an architect by profession. He calls human bodies His house, though the devil is occupying most human bodies on earth up till now. Even when we driven him out, he comes checking if the house is again free for him to occupy.

Luke 11:24

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

My work under the Lord was simply to teach men and women to allow Him live His life in them.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 6:19

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

It took Him years to own my own body. I was used to running the house (my body) myself. It took years of correcting me and correcting me. He had to teach me verses like

Romans 6:6-8, 11-14 (KJV)  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

I thank God for the years of intensive teachings. I kept falling and rising till I was weaned from satanic toys and from these temporary things the people of the world are pursuing and dying for.

The words, "GET  OUT AND START RUNNING" have never stopped hunting me. I have run from sin. I have run from approvals of men. I have run from pursuing anything for self glory. I have run from pursuing money, certificates or honours.

Time has come for me to run back to people I know - relatives, professional colleagues, neighbours, age mates, school mates, class mates, former colleagues at work, etc and ask each one of them to do what I have done.

WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Virtually nothing. I dared to believe four profound truths that the early Church believed:

1 Corinthians 15:1-8 (KJV)  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

Truths:

1. Jesus died for our sins, yours included.

2. He was buried. The devil will never want you to believe this. The people that were there when He died believed it. Who can stop you from believing the same?

3. He rose the third day. Why is that too hard for you to believe? Is there anything too difficult for God (Gen. 18:14)?

4. People saw Him. I'm going to see Him after death. Join me to go this way. 

Alex Oguh

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