The Gospel

About a year ago, I embarked on a journey to London from Manchester

I had with me two travel bags and two phones

I was to take the train from where I was in Manchester to Sheffield and then from Sheffield to London

Somewhere on the trip, my iPhone 13 got lost

I didn’t even notice it was lost until I got to my hotel in Woolwich

I didn’t have an iPad or a Mac device, so it was impossible to track the phone

I forgot about it and moved on

About a week later, we went to the GSWMI London Bridge CSR event.

During the CSR event, I saw a shop where they were selling iPhones, and I bought an iPhone 14

When I got back to my hotel, I set the phone up, and I went into the "locate my device" setting

Lo and behold, I located my iPhone 13 on the app

A week later, on my return journey to Nigeria out of Manchester airport, I travelled by train back to Sheffield 

The phone literally led me to the “Lost and Found” office at the Sheffield train station.

I told the woman in the office I had lost my phone and would like to pick it up

The woman checked through the pigeonholes and located my phone; she turned on her computer and asked me what I used as my screensaver

I told her it was my picture 

I was wearing a white hoodie and blue jeans and holding a microphone 

She smiled and gave me the phone

A few months later, I was at another hotel in Gatwick; I was due for a flight to Aberdeen the next day

I went to have lunch at the restaurant, and the lady at the reception looked at me intently

She said I remember you

I said, “Me? I just came in from Nigeria yesterday 

She said, “You were the one with the miracle phone.”

I said, “No, I am not; you must have mistaken me for somebody else.

She said, “No, you are the one, the one who came looking for your phone at Sheffield in March this year

(This was the last week of July)

I said, “Oh, yes, that was me.”

She said, “The day I returned the phone to you, I was wondering if you were an MC or a comedian or a musician because I saw your screen saver and you were holding a microphone in the picture.”

When I got home, I started telling my husband about my day in the office, and I mentioned you. The moment I mentioned you, my husband began to shiver, and he started feeling chills all over. The next thing I knew, he was being rushed to the hospital. He had always been frail in health due to the tumour he had in his brain. 

By the time they tested him at the hospital, the tumour had disappeared.

My husband would later tell me the man on the phone touched his head and took the tumours out while I was talking to him.

It was all so strange.

We moved to London when he recovered his health because he was working with the London Fire Brigade before he fell ill.

It was his illness that made me decide to move us to Harlan Sheffield so he would be close to our family members.

He resumed full duty in June. I got this job, and I resumed just last week.

And I am seeing you again today; how much of a coincidence is that?

I told her I came in with a brother and sister, and while we were waiting to check into the hotel, I told them that I had a vision some months ago in which I saw the three of us in that hotel.

I didn’t remember the details of that vision, but it was a deja vu moment for me.

She said, “Is this normal for you? Do you get this kind of reaction from people all the time?”

I said, “Yes.”

She said, “Please give me a minute”

She dashed into the hotel and returned a few minutes later with an envelope, in it was £200

She said, “I want to give you this: I am not a Christian; my mother told me the Bible is a storybook and a fairytale, but meeting you has changed my life and that of my husband.

We are Christians now, and we attend a church at Horley

Please accept this, don’t reject it. I just feel like blessing you with it.

I accepted it and blessed her.

The next day, as early as 6 am, I heard a knock.

It was this lady and her husband

They came to say thank you and take pictures with me.

Later that day, I checked out and found my way to Scotland

The gospel changes lives!

-GSW-