The Senior Pastor and Founder of The Master’s Place International Church, Warri, Delta State, Pastor Korede Komaiya, has shared how doctors once told him he would not live beyond the age of 35.

Komaiya, now 54, made the revelation in an Instagram post on Wednesday while sharing photos ahead of his 55th birthday.

“My gratitude knows no bounds. I saw bends that were like ends until God turned things around. I have escaped death over and over again. I was told medically that I wouldn’t live to be 35 years old, and now I’m just a few days away from 55,” he wrote.

The cleric described his survival as an act of divine mercy, saying: “I am a product of mercy. God always comes through for me, no matter the battle or my mistakes. No hatred, no betrayal, no siege of the wicked, and no assault of the evil ones has been able to stop my destiny.”

Reflecting on his ministry work, Komaiya noted that God had made him “a father to orphans, a succour to widows, an eye to the blind, hope to the hopeless, and light to those in darkness,” adding that all glory belongs to God.

Komaiya, who pastors alongside his wife, Esther, founded The Master’s Place International Church in Warri.