Pastor Uses Pilot Who Survived After Being Sucked Out Of His Plane To Preach Hope

Abuja based preacher, Rev George Ajemigbitse has enjoined Nigerians to envelope themselves with the hope that comes from God giving the harrowing experience of American pilot who survived by holding on to the latch of his plane door after being sucked out of the aircraft.

Speaking on Sunday, 22 June 2025 at the Hospital Chapel, National Hospital, George Ajemigbitse enjoined his audience to look beyond the economic and other travails in present day Nigeria to hang on to the hope that comes from God and His word.

He gave the example of American commuter pilot, Henry Dempsey who while flying from Lewiston to Boston within the United States in September, 1987 discovered that the plane’s door was not tightened. He said that while attempting to lock it there was a turbulence that led to pilot being sucked out of the plane without the co-pilot who was in control knowing.

Dempsey, however, held on to the latch and survived until the co-pilot made an emergency landing.

GWG.ng reports that the survival was described as a miracle only because Dempsey held on firmly to the aircraft and refused to give up hope.

Rev George Ajemigbitse as such urged his audience to hold on to hope, which he said is derived from the love of God directed towards the salvation of men.

Love, the preacher noted, is however, about the most misunderstood aspects of God.

He affirmed that love is not a feeling but a deliberate choice that God made in his dealing towards men.

“They talk as if it (love) is a feeling. It is not a feeling. It is a deliberate choice that God made and that you have to make.

“If you married based on feeling then those feelings would have disappeared. But if you married based on a deliberate choice thank God for you and that is why you are still sustained.”

Rev George Ajemigbitse, who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital Chapel cited the love of God like a coin that has two faces of John 3:16 and 1 John 3:16.

Speaking on the Christian hope, he said it is the “Confident expectation of future good that is coming with the return of Christ.

“You are so convinced, of the return of Christ. The world may not be convinced of this, but you are looking forward to it and do everything to keep yourself in the love of Christ.”

He as such enjoined his audience to endure, standing firm irrespective of the storms of life and looking forward to a city whose builder and maker is God.

Noting the early example of the Christian hope as manifested in the first century believers who mocked at Emperor Nero by smiling to death on the stakes, he said:

“What angered Nero was that while they were being taken to the stake they were singing and rejoicing and endured to the end.”

GWG.ng reports that Rev George Ajemigbitse subsequently took a study of Romans 5 dissecting the elements of Christian hope and character emphasising that Christian hope is built out of a character formed by an experience being with Jesus.

The service was interspersed with praise, worship and bible study.

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