The forner member of the House of Representatives, Joan Onyemaechi, said she was released from the grip of her kidnappers when she obeyed God’s divine directive.
She disclosed that while she was with her kidnappers she was praying to God to release her from captivity when God redirected her prayer point.
She said she became worried when God intercepted her midway and gave her a different prayer point but had no option than to obey the instruction.
Onyemaechi, who represented Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, spoke on Tuesday September 3, 2024, at the resumption of worship at King Jesus and I Ministry in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
According to her, God told her that she wasn’t the only one in captivity that needed to be freed, but that her abductors were equally in the captivity of the devil and so equally needed freedom.
She recalled that in 2010, when she faced political challenge, God led her to the land where she planted the church, King Jesus and I Ministry, and called it the alter of return, from where she was kidnapped on 30th July 2024.
Hear her: “As I went on that journey, I was asking the Lord. I said father, they took me from the alter of return, and I said you who returned me to the House of Assembly for the second tenure, return me to this alter where they took me from, today, I have returned.
“At a point when I was praying, O Lord, release me from this captivity. God said I should change the prayer to O Lord, release us. I then wondered who were the ‘us’.
“At that point, I then calm down. The Spirit of God then told me, they held you captive, Satan held them captive.
“As I died for you, I died for them likewise. They are my children. So, change the prayer to O Lord, release us. I then started praying, O Lord, release us”, revealing that God told her that her abductors were not the enemies.
She then read 2 Samuel 11:1-17 and 12, questioning those behind the death of Uriah in the Bible, her driver and police inspector before she was kidnapped on that fateful day.
“Is it the kidnappers who don’t know me? Is it the kidnappers who don’t have my address? Is it the kidnappers who don’t have any business with me? Or who related my story?
“They came prepared as a result of story or stories from certain persons. I am not a Bible scholar but our fathers are here. I didn’t read any place where God required the blood of Uriah, from Joab, he required it from David”.
She tasked the congregation and other guests to stop spreading unfounded stories about people as such could lead to their death or mishap.
Giving glory to God for returning alive to her family and associates after spending 10 days in their den, she said, “glory be to God, I am here”.
In a sermon, Pastor Emmanuel of Living Faith, aka Winners Chapel, took his reading from Psalm 124:1 with the message titled: “If it has not been the Lord”.
He noted that “the freedom of Onyemaechi, is not just for her but for the body of Christ and for Delta State.
He pointed out that people “thank God because it is the Lord’s doing. Thanksgiving is the will of God and one must be thankful because God expects it”.
He revealed that thanksgiving brings about preservation, perfection and multiplication.
Meanwhile, before the main service, the former Commissioner for Technical Education, led Pastor Emmanuel and others on a memorial service for the dead aides, inspector Musa and Isaac, his former driver to the spot where they were shot with the burning of two candles and laying of a wreath in a solemn with a brief ceremony.