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| Pastor Iheanyinchukwu Gilbert |
Pastor Iheanyinchukwu Gilbert, who is a street preacher, reveals how God uses him to perform miracles when he is ministering in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria.
In an interview with The Nation, Gilbert relayed his eight years of street preaching experience in Alimosho, a suburb of Lagos, despite going through various challenges.
While narrating how his ministration impacts the lives of street passersby, he mentioned how an unknown lady once dropped a letter, testifying about the miracle she received why he was ministering.
“I would be praying here and God would be touching those passing, I don’t know how. A lady was passing and dropped a letter here and stated what God did in her life while on a vehicle as I was praying here, she dropped N3,000, till today I don’t know her,” he said.
Speaking further, he mentioned that despite not having a physical Church, passersby will be urging him to prophesy to them, but he would decline the offer because he his not a prophet but a preacher.
“People have been coming for counseling and some even come for me to see vision for them and I do tell them I don’t see vision, I only preach the word of God and pray. I tell them I’m not a prophet. In Psalm 107:20, the Bible says He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from their troubles. I only preach the word of God and pray.”
Narrating his challenges before and after he became a street preacher, Gilbert revealed that he has to surrender to God and accept to start preaching on the street despite refusing to do so initially.
“To the glory of God this journey started the first day of June 2014 after a lot of torture, I had to surrender. I couldn’t walk, it was after one year of my paralysis, I cried to God. I couldn’t come out of my compound for a whole year. I was diagnosed with low blood pressure but to the glory of God, nobody treated me but God took it away after crying to Him and pleading for mercy.”
He narrated that it was tedious for him as challenges came his way, but God saw him through.
“I had to surrender to God after my wife returned from her second fibroid operation in 2014. The first one was in 2010 at Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. I used to preach like this when I was in the Anglican Church.
"When I heard I had been chosen, I ran to the Lord’s Chosen Church in 2010 but the voice was still disturbing me. I spent four years there and asked God what He wanted me to do but while in the church they were still telling me to go and do the work of God as if I wasn’t doing it. Then I surrendered to God and started, since then I had peace.
"The Lord has been good to me despite the fact that my wife passed on December 22, 2021. We were married for a long time but had no child. God later answered us in 2017, she was 50 then and in 2019 she had cancer, she died last December.
“God has been so wonderful. During my wife’s burial, God raised support for me, people stood by me. The child she left behind is five years old and God just brought a man who placed her on scholarship. What else will I say God has not done for me? So I have resolved to continue to be on duty for Him,” he said.
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