Mike Bamiloye share picture with wife and his elder sister as he celebrates his 56th birthday on 13th April,2016 with his story!





I am a solid testimony of Grace. Everything about me is about the
authenticity of Grace. It was Grace of God that brought me thus
far. And it is His Grace that will take me all the way to where He is
taking me.
Whatever the LORD IS DOING PRESENTLY in my life, is as a result
of His love and mercy and Grace. He just chose to use me. He just
decided to pick me and make SOMETHING out of this
NOTHINGNESS. That is why I am grateful to Him that His Grace
has not been in vain over my life or rather, I am trying by His
power not to let His grace be in vain over my life.
David was no body in the house of Jesse, but the Grace of God
made him Something. Gideon was the least in his father's house,
which was the least in the House of Israel, but the Grace made him
a Force to reckon with in his father's house. I ought not to be this,
But His Grace made me What I Am and will make me what He
wants me to be.
The earliest time I could recollect of my life was several years back
to the earliest moment of my life I could recollect. Beyond that
time, I could not recollect anything about my earliest moment. I
can still remember I was on the back of a woman, who had carried
me and was heading to the market. May be I was two years old or
three, I can now not tell. And who the woman was, I can now not
tell. Next earliest moment of my life I can still recollect was when I
was siting on the bare floor in the passage of our house, eating
pieces of boiled yam, while I saw a lot of people walking in and
passing me to the back of the house where a lot of people were
gathering. People were coming in and going out. What they were
doing at the back of the house, I did not know. Why they were
coming in and going out, I did not know. But I thought I was in the
age range of three or four years old.
Later, I got to understand, probably, that was the day my mother
died, and while people were either coming inside the house for
condolence visit and going out, I was kept busy on the floor of the
passage of the house with eating pieces of boiled yam. I knew
nothing.
I was told my mother died while I was four years old. I was told my
mother was terribly sick the moment she was carrying me in her
womb. I was told the devil became angry with her through out her
pregnancy and kept me in her womb far longer than the normal
none months. I was told I was in her womb while she did not know
I was there, and she thought she had swollen belly. I was told she
went to hospital several times and they did not discover the
pregnancy, all what the doctors were seen was that her belly was
swollen with what they could not discern. It was far later, a white
doctor checked my mother again and told her, she was carrying a
baby and the baby would be a great man.
So, I was told that my mother was sick through out the pregnancy
that stayed longer than normal time. I was told that after I was
eventually delivered, the sickness lingered in her for another four
years before she passed on.
THE DEVIL WAS MAD AT MY COMING AND STILL VERY MAD UP
TILL NOW.
He afflicted my mother for carrying me in her womb.
So, I had to live with different relatives at my up growing, because
my father had many wives, though my mother was the first wife.
She gave birth to just two of us, while my father had many other
children. Usually, in a polygamous house, "everyone wife to herself
and every child to her mother". Therefore, I became the
responsibility of my Elder Sister who was a student at the time.
Because she could not sit down with me yet, she placed me with
different relatives while she was struggling to find her footings.
Therefore, my beginning was a very bad one. My up growing was a
very rough one. I schooled in many schools, depending upon
where my Elder Sister felt I would fair better. I had my Primary 1
and 2 in Ilesha, I read my Primary 3 and 4 in Awe, Oyo where she
was teaching; I had my Primary 5 in another school, living with a
male teacher friend of hers when she was transferred to another
far place. And I had my Primary 6 in Agege, Lagos, living with a
family relative. My Form 1 and 2 was with another close relation in
Mushin, Lagos and my Form 3 was in the city of Ile-ife, when she
brought me closer to her after she had gotten married. So, I
completed my secondary education in Ile-Ife.
Because of the circumstances of my up growing, I can recollect
that I was very bad right from the age of 7, while I was in Primary
1. I was living with an old woman who was a close relation at the
time. My Primary 1 and 2 at the age of seven and eight was a very
bad one. I walked about the streets uncontrolled. I used to leave
the house and follow masquerades for two or three days without
anyone in particular searching for me. I used to hawk things sold
by the old woman. I used to search all the loads in the house for
things that was not lost. I used to steal and pick the pockets at the
age of 7 and 8. I ought to have been poisoned or killed because I
was a very very very bad boy. BUT HIS MERCY AND GRACE KEPT
ME.
It was at the age of 15, I came to know the Lord while in
Secondary School Form 4. I grew up in the Lord very fast and by
age 16 I was already preaching in the school Chapel. Towards the
end of my secondary school days, I was already leading an
Evangelism Team to various villages and we were missing classes.
It was in the end of the Year Variety Activities, while I was in Form
5, that I had my first presentation of christian drama.
My life got stabilized after I gave my life to Jesus Christ while in
school. Every evil occurrences that grew up with me ceased. My
annual terrible sickness every month of April ceased. In the
Teachers' College, I had my first experience of what drama
ministry was. I saw altar calls through presentation of evangelical
drama. I saw miracles performed by drama ministers. We stopped
rain because we wanted to have our drama night, and we released
the rain in the midnight after we were sure every student had got
back into their hostel. But it was in the College of Education I was
introduced into the ministry of Drama Evangelism. It was there, I
knew that was where the Lord had called me to serve Him.
Today is April 13, 2016. I am a year older today. Last year I was
55. Several people the Lord used to bring me to this point of my
life. Both family relations and ministry members and friends. BUT
TWO SPECIAL PEOPLE I WOULD WANT YOU TO CELEBRATE AND
GREET ARE MY TWO MOTHERS.
The FIRST MOTHER was that woman who the Lord used to raise
me up and carry me about while she was trying to find her
footings. She took me as a responsibility while she was still a
student, when our Mother died. The Lord has kept her alive for us.
When our ministry began in 1985, she still carried us all in the
ministry. It was true, she stood against me when I entered into full
time and withstood me while I went to visit the people who would
be my in-laws. It was true she warned them that I had no jobs,
because she could not understand the meaning of my being in
"Full-Time". But whose mother would behave and think differently?
She acted naturally, she wanted me to be a law graduate, but I
wanted to be a drama minister. So, she could not understand that
type of calling. But, shortly later, ever before the ministry had any
meaningful direction, she queued up behind us and supported us.
She cooked for us when we had the first failed film project in 1984.
She hosted us in her house and prepared elaborately. She carried
me as a responsibility till I got married. She got the house we first
lived in as married couples. She stood by us in MOunt Zion,
because we were all living around her house. We call her Mama
Mount Zion.
The SECOND MOTHER is Mummy GLORIA, who took over from
Mummy Adesiyan; or who my Elder Sister handed me over to.
Mummy GLORIA is a very supportive and understanding wife and
mother. She has been taking care of me since Mummy ADESIYAN
handed me over to her.
Interestingly, my Elder Sister still treat us as children, while coming
to greet us, she would load her car with different fun things:
coconut, corn, vegetables, pepper and tomatoes, Eko (solid Pap)
and a lot of funny things. She would buy petrol in keg and travel all
the way from Ile-Ife to Ibadan to deliver it to us, during petrol
scarcity.
She loves my wife and get used to her freely. I thank the Lord He
has given me a wife who is loved by my entire family, especially
my elder sister. A wife is also a mother. She is submissive and
understanding.
Do you now see what the Grace of God has done to me. He
preserved my live and soul. The Grace of God shows me Mercy
and Favor. Grace gave me my wonderful Wife and useful children.
The Grace of God put me in the midst of consistently relevant
ministry members. I am what I am today by His Special Grace
alone. HIS GRACE KEEP ME.
THEREFORE, BELOVED BRETHREN, ON THE OCCASION OF MY
56TH YEAR BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY, HELP ME APPRECIATE and
CELEBRATE MY TWO MOTHERS:
Mummy Gloria OLUSOLA BAMILOYE (08038323367)
Mummy FELICIA Adepeju Adesiyan (08037872071)
Thank you for celebrating with me.
- MIKE BAMILOYE

that's too long na but hbd to him and many more healthy years

Too lengthy joor!

The poster below me..summarize pls..
Happy Birthday Pa isawuru

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