09/18/2026
A painful story of how papa Uma Ukpai lost his four children the same day💔💔
"That was the day I lost four people in one day. God had said to me, "Uma, a day will come I will not answer your prayer, but it will only be for one day.
After that day, I will answer all your prayers." I'll give you 100 angels. And anything you ask me to do, I'll give it to you.
The funny thing was, that day, 12th day of September 1985, by 5 a.m., a young man stole my printing machines. I was shocked. God said to me, Dash him every machine he has stolen, don't fight.
I called the young man and said, every printing machine you have taken from my printing shop shall all be yours. The mother said to him, don't touch any of these printing machines. This man, is dangerous.
The young man said to his mother, what do you know? This man is a great man of God. He has given me eight printing machines. The mother cried and said, don't touch these machines.
He took the eight machines. That night, the euphoria of being given eight printing machines led him to organize a robbery that night. He didn't come back alive.
I said to my wife, Madam, come and drive our second car. Today is that day, God said, he will not answer my prayer.
She said, I am pregnant, I'm not a commercial driver. I'm not even a driver. Let the young man drive.
This was a brand new car, four days old car. The young man was enjoying the car and drove into a river. The car went in with the roof and the driver stood on top of the car, confused, weeping, crying.
I dived in to bring out the children. My wife, who has no interest in swimming, dived in also. And the river threw her up six times.
I had to abandon the children to save her. In my attempt to do that, the children died. I brought them out, put them in a car where I could pray for them.
A car from the opposite direction drove into that car, smashed the engine, the bumper, the bonnet, and ran over them again. And God said, Uma, I told you I will not answer your prayer today. But Men and brethren, you'll be amazed to hear me say, since after that accident, we have watched God replace each of those children five times over.
The vehicles we lost that day were about six vehicles. Now I have 18 vehicles. The beautiful thing was, after the children were buried, I went to conduct a service that brought me to my village.
People were asking me, you mean you have the strength to conduct a service? And I said, yes. Why? It's God who gave. It's God who has taken.
Glory be to his name. Stop being too emotional about things around you. Let God's decision be final."
Personal note: No parent wishes to lose even one child, talk more if four. Sometimes, God lets things like these happen just so he can see where our hearts truly are. Losing four children in one day was enough reason for him to be discouraged and abandone God's work, yet he instead abandoned his children's dead bodies and went to preach.
There are men, and there are men 🙌
Keep resting papa
