Episode 100

“Good morning ma!”

“Good morning!” I replied looking at the lady and the guy standing next to her.

“How may I help you?” I quickly asked.

“Mrs Harmony sent us here to drive you home. She said we should get you home safely”, the lady replied.

“Mrs Harry Harmony?”

“Yes ma!” The lady replied.

I chuckled as I dialed her number.

“Harmony!” I said immediately she picked.

“Are they with you already?” She asked.

“Oh! Forgive my manners! Good morning mummy! My mummy my mummy! Your baby is singing!”

“Which baby! This matured Mama with a son and a lot of spiritual children around!” I replied admist laughter.

“Ha! Mummy! They used to say that no matter how tall the okro grows, the owner still knows how to bend it when it’s proving stubborn. Mummy Mummy! I’m still your baby girl na!”

“Baby indeed! Come and suck then!” I teased.

“I go suck ooo! Spiritual milk! Where is it! Oya give me make i drink spiritual Hollandia yogurt!”

I burst into uncontrollable laughter.

“Na me you want bite abi? You no dey fear sef!”.

” Is mummy that said I should come and suck na!”

“Keep quiet jare! See your mouth!” I replied and we both burst into laughter.

“So what did you send these people to do here?”

“To carry my mummy home na!”

“I don’t know how to drive car again or what?”

“No oooo! Have you heard of what happened to mummy Susan? It was only God that rescued her husband ooo! I don’t want you driving after such a stressful program. Please! Allow my mentees bring their spiritual grandmother home”.

“Oh my goodness! So we now have spiritual grandmothers in the body of Christ abi?”

“Yes na! You’re my spiritual mother and they are my spiritual children. So that’s the same thing as being their spiritual Granny. Hi grandma!”

“Mrs Harry, go and sleep jare! Which one is my trouble you are busy looking for this morning?” I said laughing so hard.

“But I’m right na! You’re their grandmother”.

“But I’m not stressed out like Susan’s husband. I am fine and I can still drive myself home”.

“Please mummy! Give these children the privilege of driving there mentor’s mentor home!”

“Mrs Harry!”

“Please!” She pleaded.

“Fine! But don’t do this next time”, I warned.

“I can’t promise you that ooo! You know this your daughter can be troublesome at times. So look forward for more troubles from my end”.

“Then you go chop punishment na!”

“No ooo! You don’t flog a grown up daughter!”

“I don’t understand you ooo! One minute you are my baby girl, the next minute you are a grown up!”

“I’m a shape shifter! I shrink whenever it’s needed to save my head!”

“Get away jor!” I said laughing so hard.

As soon as I ended the call, I gave them a nod of agreement. My stuffs were already set, so they only had to grab them.

The pastor and the leaders of the church were waiting for me at the reception of the hotel building.

He stood up and the leaders did the same as I appeared at the staircase.

“Good morning ma! They all started showering me with greetings.

I responded cheerfully to everyone of them.

The pastor handed me an envelope and told me it was my payment for ministering at the program. I felt like giving him a punch.

“Payment for ministering?” I asked because it was obvious I wasn’t taking a dime from him.

“Yes ma! Although you didn’t charge us, we decided to give you the exact amount other Minister’s have been charging”, he replied.

“Thank you so much sir! But I won’t be taking a dime from you! I’m sorry about that”.

They all looked at me as though I was a creature from another planet.

“You mean you won’t take anything?”

“I don’t like saying the same thing twice”, I replied with a frown.

“Okay ma! But what do you want us to give you?” He asked.

“I need you to follow the instructions in those teachings I gave. That’s the greatest joy I’ll ever have. And lastly, any minister charging you for money before ministering must be avoided. Is that okay?” I asked.

“Yes ma!” He replied.

I signaled to the lady standing next to me and we started moving. They rained prayers on me and thanked like over eleven times, before I was permitted, yes let me use the word permitted to go. Because those guys would never have allowed me return to my charming. I’ve missed my Charming so much. He always kept me company once I was done praying and studying. Throughout the period of the program, we were in constant communication.

A smile appeared on my face as my eyes held my family house. Oh! I forgot to tell you, those guys Harmony assigned to drive me home, really kept me company. Except for the fact that hat they had so many questions to ask that time would not permit me to answer.

The gate opened and the beeping of the car horn and we were finally home. Juliet, Kunle and Samuel ran out to welcome me.

“Mummy!” They screamed and dived on me. If not for the fact that I braced myself properly, I would have landed on the floor.

My charming walked up to meet us with his cool smile. Just the smiles along gave me 2 seconds of blurry vision. Man! This guy was charming me. Please who wants to deliver me?

“Charming!” I said and ran to meet him.

He hugged me and lifted me from the ground.

I squealed in laughter.

“Daddy is carrying my mummy like a baby”, Samuel said pointing at us.

“Yes ooooo! I’m daddy’s baby girl!” I replied and chuckled.

“No! Mummy you are big! It’s we daddy should carry!” Kunle said.

“Charming! Can you hear your children?” I tapped him and pointed at the kids.

We both burst into laughter.

“Mummy don’t mind them jare! They don’t know that before Abraham was, I am!”

“Oh my goodness! See Rhema! Where did you get that?” My Charming asked.

“Yes na! They don’t know that before they came, you have been the only baby girl daddy had”, she added and I almost fell off my Charming’s arms out of laughter.

“This girl is growing so fast ooo! I can’t believe she understood that scripture accurately”, My Charming whispered in my ears.

“Can we all go inside?” My Charming said to the kids and we all headed inside. My Charming carried me all the way into the sitting room.

“Daddy! Drop mummy na! Mummy can walk ooo!” Kunle said grinning.

“Kunle by the time I get into the sitting room, make sure you find a good place to hide yourself! What kind of jealousy is that?”

“Don’t mind him more mummy. Ever since you left, he has been the one climbing daddy’s back”, Juliet reported.

“And today that my Charming is carrying me, you’re still dragging him from me?”

“Yes oooo! I cannot hide my jealousy!” He replied.

We all burst into laughter.

“Mummy! While you were away, Kunle would lock himself up in the prayer room and stay there for one hour everyday. He said he was interceding for you. He never stopped till today”, Samuel said.

“Wow! Kunle you mean you did that for me!” I said feigning a baby voice as my Charming sat me on the sofa.

He covered his face with his palms and started blushing.

“Yes mum!”

“Oh my goodness! What inspired you to do that for me?” I asked.

“Because I don’t want anything to happen to my mom. I love her so much! Infact, I told God to always reveal to me anytime the enemy wants to attack mummy so I can stand in the gap”.

My head was swelling already. Wait ooo! Am I speaking with children or spiritual adults? I don’t understand myself anymore. Who taught this children how to stand in the gap?

“BE ASKING OOO!” Came the gentle whisper.

“Daddy! Ha! They’re still young na!”

“HOW OLD WAS SAMUEL WHEN HE HAD AN ENCOUNTER WITH ME?”

“Sir! What I mean is they should still grow small!”

“CRIS! HOLD ON! I WANT TO TELL JULIET TO TELL YOU WHAT I TAUGHT HER TWO DAYS AGO!”

I was still looking at Juliet when she suddenly looked up at me and smiled.

“Mummy! The Holy Spirit taught me something 2 days ago”, she announced.

I was just smiling sheepishly.

“Daddy, you Ehn!” I whispered grinning.

“I also read about standing in the gap and I begged God to help me to always stand in the gap for my spiritual parents. You guys are both biological and spiritual parents to us. So while I was praying, the Holy Spirit told me there was something in the realm of the spirit called SPIRITUAL SPY GLASS!”

“Daddy! Na wetin I hear so?” I asked within me, as I could not contain my shock.

“VERY SOON! THESE CHILDREN WILL BE MY INSTRUMENTS OF UNVEILING NEW MYSTERIES TO YOU. IT’S MY LATEST STRATEGY TO KEEP YOU HUMBLE SO YOU DON’T FALL BECAUSE OF TOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE”.

“Thank you Jesus! To be honest, too much knowledge is dangerous ooo!” I whispered.

“I WON’T GIVE MY CRIS TO THE ENEMY TO DESTROY. I MUST SURELY KEEP HER SAFE”.

“Daddy! I’ll give you high five when I leave this place.

“I WANT MY HIGH FIVE NOW OOOO!”

“The children are here! It would look ridiculous!”

“JUST DO IT”.

I raised my hand and did a real high five in the air. Only that no one touched me physically.

“Why did mummy do that?” Samuel asked.

“She’s giving the Holy Ghost a high five! Can’t you see him standing beside mummy?” Kunle said.

I almost fell off the sofa. I looked beside me to confirm if there was anyone standing beside me. I looked at my Charming and confirmed he was as shocked as I was.

“HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! CRIS CALM DOWN NA! SHEYBI YOU WERE THE ONE TELLING ME IT WOULD LOOK RIDICULOUS?”

“Daddy! I will faint ooo! You shocking me ooo!

“YOU NEVER SEE ANYTHING! ASK JULIET WHAT IS SPIRITUAL SPY GLASS?”

“Juliet! Can you please tell me what spiritual SPY GLASS is?”

“Mummy remember when the David sinned against God and covered it so well that nobody knew? But only one person with spiritual spy glass saw it. Prophet Nathan. That’s what spiritual spy glass looks like. It helps you see secrets about other people. It helps you spy into their privacy from the realm of the spirit.

It helps you sit down in your room and you’ll be hearing what the king of Syria is planning against Israel like Prophet Elisha. You just tell God show you whatever you want to see about a particular person and boom, you start spying on the person. And the person will not know that God has revealed anything to you.

Spiritual spy glass is an intercessor’s weapon that helps the intercessor see clearly the situation of the person he or she is interceding for. It helps you to stop praying amiss. It also helps you to call the person to order whenever the person is going astray.

So how can we actually got it? Simple! Ask God to give it to you. Two! Avoid all x-rated movies or immorality of any sort. Pornography and immoral contents kill the spiritual sight so fast. I mean, it blinds your spiritual eyes so badly that instead of seeing visions, it’s unclothedness you’ll be seeing.

Lastly, be a consistent fasting giant. Fasting once of twice a week, helps strengthen the spiritual sight of a Christian. Even when you don’t have any specific reason to fast, make sure a week doesn’t pass without you denying yourself from eating. And please, I know we all have fasting ability, but you see that breaking of fasting 12’o clock, that one no be fasting again ooo. God has upgraded.

The lowest in the realm of the spirit now is 2pm. A day fasting is supposed to end in the evening by 6pm. But if you are not feeling capable, no wahala! But as you grow up in the faith, make sure you leave that realm of breaking fasting by 12pm.

And please, fasting is not looking at the clock to know when it’s time to start eating. It’s called fasting and prayer. If there are no prayers attached to it, then you only succeeded in starving yourself. That’s all about spiritual SPY GLASS mum! I mean for now!”

“Wow! This is awesome! Silas said grinning.

“So who’s hungry? Juliet announced.

“I have prepared spaghetti and fried chicken. My irresistible delicacy!” She said grinning.

“Hulala! I am so hungry!’ I said rubbing my stomach.

She stood up and walked into the kitchen to get the food.

We all moved to the dinning table and sat down.

Silas pulled me close and whispered into my ears.

“I missed you so much! My Pretty Christy. You’re looking more beautiful than you ever did before”.

“God! I will faint here ooo! Emotions wan finish me!” I said within me grinning.

“FAINT NA! NA THERE YOU GO KNOW SAY YOU GET PRAYER WARRIORS!”

I chuckled.

“Here we go!” Juliet said as she came back with a tray and started passing the food to everyone.

Soon, we were all set, ready to devour what was set before us.

“Can the mummy of the house please pray for us?” Silas announced and took my hand on the table.

He also took Juliet’s hand as well. Juliet took Kunle’s hand and he took that I’d Samuel. Soon, we were all holding hands.

“Mummy! Before you pray! I just wanted to say thank you!” Juliet said.

“For what?” I asked.

“Thank you for surrendering to Jesus. Thank you for marrying daddy! You gave us the best daddy in the world. And lastly, thank you for not failing our generation!” She said and I could see the sincerity in her eyes.

I shook my head as I remembered how the journey began. When a multitude gathered around me telling me, ‘Give us the bread!’

I remembered how my mentor told me to let go of Christopher and I was so adamant. I remembered how I fell into sin with him that faithful day. I remembered telling my mentor she was a crazy woman on the phone. I also remembered how I met her at the hospital and she told me she would never let go of me.

I remembered also, when God pointed Silas to me as his will. How I fought against it and landed in the psychiatric hospital as a mad woman.

So many things happened! So many battles were fought. So many obstacles faced me. So many impossiblities all around.

But God was so merciful. He never gave up on me. He loved me unconditionally and spoiled me with his underserving love.

I looked at my Charming and smiled. I looked at my children and smiled. Then I looked at him that cannot be seen with the physical eyes. He was already smiling at me.

“Thank you sweet Daddy!”

THE END

It’s been a wonderful journey so far. I can’t remember the month I started writing this story. But I must say it has been God all the way.

So many lessons. So many mysteries were revealed! Many spiritual lives were revived. Many were inspired to love God more than ever before.

I am so grateful to God for this wonderful piece. MY BABY HUSBAND is officially completed.

Episode 99

Today was the last day of the program. For the past two days, the Holy Spirit had been the one taking charge of the meeting from the starting to the end. One way or the other, we have experienced the dramatic manifestation of the power Holy Ghost. The power of God had visited us for the past two days just like it did in the bible that the priests could no longer stand to minister. Yes, was the perfect description of what happened.

I stood up to begin my teaching when the power hit a woman at the back of the congregation and she started to scream. Everyone around her were taken by the sudden reaction and brought her to me at the front. Immediately they were bringing her, I was hearing in my spirit, deaf and dumb spirit. I was like, how could a deaf and dumb person scream like this in a meeting? But immediately, I had to cast the spirit out and that was how I was told it was the first time her voice was heard in the congregation. She had been deaf and dumb for over 6years.

I felt the healing anointing so strong on me that evening that I had to pray for all that were sick that night. That was how we spent day 4 and day 5, because more people came the next day with a lot of sick friends and relatives.

So today, I was really begging the Holy Spirit to allow me teach what I had to teach, because the crowd was becoming too much. I had so much to teach and so little time to do it.

We had been taking series of testimonies on how God had been touching many lives at the conference. A woman with paralysis on her right arm testified of a miraculous recovery when I touched her hand. A lady with partial blindness also testified. She couldn’t see clearly. She had to strain her eyes in order to see. Even glasses were not helping. And at times, she went totally blind for a few minutes and then start seeing again. She got healed when I waved my hands over her and she fell under the anointing.

A man with a fractured leg testified of a miraculous healing. He said immediately I touched the leg and left, the bones began to make strange sounds. Angels from the anatomy department of heaven started resetting his broken legs. Hallelujah!

A man with lungs infection also testified of how he got healed at the meeting. He struggled with his breath sometimes and had difficulty in breathing. But when I touched his head and walked pass him, he noticed his breathing became normal.

Wonderful things were happening. So numerous that I cannot narrate them all. We are about to learn the last of the 3 things that stops spiritual growth, INDISCIPLINE.

“Today, being the last day, we are going to look at the last thing that stops spiritual growth. I want us to turn our bibles to the book of Proverbs 23:21. I need the goodnews translation please”, I said and it was projected immediately.

“Drunkards and gluttons will be reduced to poverty. If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags.

My focus there is not really the drunkards and gluttons there. Look at the B part of that scripture. It says, If all you do is to eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags.

I hope you know there are people putting on rags in the realm of the spirit? Oh! You don’t know! Let’s look at the bible again. Turn with me to the book of Revelation 3:14”, I said and it was projected on the screen.

“And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

Verse 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Verse 16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Verse 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Verse 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy unclothedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

These people, most of them are stinkingly rich. They don’t even have prayer points. They are so loaded with the necessities of life. Some of them are not working sef. They have one daddy and one elder brother spoiling them with money. Broda! My airtime has finished oh. Broda will send. Broda! I ran out of pocket money! Broda will send.

They don’t see a need to pray. They are so comfortable and have everything they need at their finger tips. Take your spiritual life serious! No! Build your prayer life! I’m too tired to pray. If I want to pray, I need a very quiet place. My house is usually noisy, and I cannot pray in a noisy environment. So because my house is a noisy place, I will not be able to build my relationship with God. Just look at that kind of thinking.

I need a conducive environment to pray. A place where I will not be disturbed. A place that is not hot where I won’t be sweating because of prayers. A place with enough ventilation. And God would just be shaking his head. I’m not saying desiring a conducive place to pray is wrong, but using it as an excuse to go back to bed is horrible. There is a saying that where there is a will, there’s a way!

A lot of us don’t understand the meaning of that scripture which says, If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags. It simply means that If all you do is eat and sleep, you will soon be wearing rags in the realm of the spirit.

No fasting! No time to pray! No time to study the word of God! But there’s always time to sleep every single day. There’s always time to eat 3 or 4 square meals a day and even snack in-between. It won’t take you long. Remember I taught you all on how God uses phone battery to describe your spiritual strength.

That’s the same thing we are describing here. The more prayerless and inconsistent you become, the more powerless you become towards sin and the less you grow. Because even the little height you climb up into, you’ll fall from it and start all over. Pity that Christian too lazy to pray. Pity that Christian who says prayer is too difficult to do. Pity that Christian that cannot sit down to read the word of God by herself. Pity that Christian that cannot maintain a consistent prayer life for one month.

He will live a defeated life. Sin will ride him like a horse. Use him and dump him and use him again and again. Such a Christian will continue to live in sin every single day of his life and will keep crying that the road to heaven is too difficult. It’s not that the road is not difficult, but prayers makes it easy.

Christians are expecting God to do something for them which he will never do. They want him to turn then into robots. Cause them to do his will like a programmed machine. Suddenly, they see themselves praying effortlessly. Suddenly, they find themselves reading the bible like magic.

I’m here to disappoint you that you will never change. You will remain like this for the next twenty years, if you don’t rise up. You will get married and have weak children like you and also end up transferring the kind of spiritual deficiency you carry into them.

That same anger you struggled with as a young man, you begin to see your children struggling with it. That same immorality you struggled with as a teenager, you begin to see your children masturbating as you did when you were a single. Everything you refused to rise up and deal with now, you’ll end up transferring to them.

I would love to talk more on this growth process. I would really like to talk about mentorship and it’s importance to the life of any christian who seriously desires spiritual growth. Mentorship is seriously important to anyone who really wants to grow. The truth is you will still be able to grow without a mentor. But those who grow up under the watch of a spiritual parent, grow with speed.

I have said it over and over again. Spirituality is discipline. I’m not denying the fact that we do not get to experience dramatic energy that helps us to pray. But in the spirit realm, there’s something called THE LAW OF ATTRACTION. It means you doing something consistently over time which draws the attention of a spirit. The same thing happens in the kingdom of darkness.

When you start watching porn, it may not be a problem at the beginning. You just watch it once in a while and the next time it happens may be two months time. But the more you keep doing it, very soon a time comes when you don’t want to watch it, you find yourself watching it. That’s what the law of attraction does.

Every action here on earth has the backing of a spirit or should I say, it has a spirit attached to it. The more you do it, the more you are sending an email to the spirit responsible for the action. By the time the spirit arrives that action moves from occasionally to addiction. So pornography becomes an addiction in the life of that person. Even when he wants to stop, he cannot stop.

The same thing goes with prayers. The more you keep forcing yourself to pray, the more your are emailing the spirit of prayer. By the time the spirit arrives, prayers become an addiction. You just cannot stop praying again. You have moved from struggling to pray to addiction to prayers.

How many of you would really love to become prayer addicts?”

Almost everyone in the congregation stood up.

“The spirit of prayer is going to descend tonight, if only you can pray. A lot of things that happened to you and your family would never have happened. That’s the reason why indiscipline is so dangerous. The more disciplined you are, the closer you are to being possessed by the spirit of prayer. From 30 minutes prayers to one hour. From one hour to 2 hours. From 2 hours of prayers to 3 hours. Before you know, whenever you hear, ‘let us pray!’ You get excited. Prayer becomes your hobby. You enjoy it.

You cannot go a whole day without spending at least, one hour with God in prayers. Infact, when you kneel down to pray, you won’t realize when one hour will pass. You’ll be like when did I spend one hour? I thought it was 5 minutes ooo! And after that, you open the bible. You become so addicted to the word of God. Bible starts making you go crazy like someone on hard drugs. Your friends will ask you, ‘Why are you looking somehow?’

You will say, ‘I have not read my bible today, the thing is doing me somehow!’ That’s the realm I want you to enter tonight. That’s the realm where your consistency has attracted the spirit of prayer to possess you. You sit down with the bible and you get lost. You kneel down to pray and Holy Ghost will be the one dragging you to get up and start preparing for work. While you’ll be the one telling him you are not leaving yet.

Who’s ready? Go ahead and cry to the Lord this morning!

Allover the auditorium, the congregation cried to God passionately for the visitation of the spirit of prayer.

“Let my heart be the temple
Of your spirit
Let my spirit feel the warmth
Of your embrace
Let me be a holy habitation
Where your spirit is pleased to dwell

Oh Lord I long to know your glory
I want to offer, the sacrifice of praise
Fill this temple Lord!
With your spirit once again!”

A lady screamed under the anointing and fell down. The building was electrocuted. I felt the energy within my spirit man.

“Ha! Spirit of prayer! Where are you? Descend upon these hungry vessels! One, two, three!”

You need to see how people were screaming and landing on the floor all over the place. Ushers were running around to hold down some people slain under the anointing.

To be continued……….

Your discipline and consistency in the place of prayers will make your spiritual life easy as it draws the spirit of prayer to your life.

No wonder you have been struggling all these while. You are not consistent with it. The more you do it, the closer you are to this encounter.

The bible says in the book of James 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you….

That’s the principle, spiritual encounters are a product of consistent fellowship with God. That was what happened to Cornelius in Acts 10:1. NOW [living] at Caesarea there was a man whose name was Cornelius, a centurion (captain) of what was known as the Italian Regiment,

Verse 2. A devout man who venerated God and treated Him with reverential obedience, as did all his household; and he gave much alms to the people and prayed continually to God.

He prayed how? Continually! That was what sponsored the angelic visitation he experienced. No encounter without consistency! Even if you have an encounter by the mercy of God! It’s consistency that will keep that encounter.

Acts 10:3. About the ninth hour (about 3:00 p.m.) of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God entering and saying to him, Cornelius!

Verse 4. And he, gazing intently at him, became frightened and said, What is it, Lord? And the angel said to him, Your prayers and your [generous] gifts to the poor have come up [as a sacrifice] to God and have been remembered by Him.

How will God remember you when you are not consistent with what you have been doing?

Galatians 6:9. And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.

The conference has ended! We thank God for using our woman of God greatly! Can you please pray that God would refill this vessel and replace every lost virtue?

Episode 98

“So today being the 3rd day of the program, we would be looking at the remaining two. Yesterday, we looked at the things that stops spiritual growth and we mentioned 3. We looked at compromise and the ways through which it stops spiritual growth.

Today, we would be looking at WEIGHTS. What exactly are weights? Before I give a definition, I need to establish the fact that weights are not actually sinful actions we do in our day to day lives. So if that is what you’re thinking, remove it far from your mind today. Weights are the things you do from day to day which makes you too heavy in your spiritual journey and slows you down. Weights do not stop you from praying, but they stop you from having prayer points. Weights do not stop you from reading your Bible, but they make you want to rush it and run off.

Weights do not stop you from observing your quiet time, but they make you doze off while observing it. They don’t stop you from fasting, but they make you keep checking the time to know when your fasting period would be over.

You need to understand that weights slow us down. Now how many of us can run 200 meters race with a bag of rice on our shoulders? I guess that explains why a lot of Christians are nothing but spiritual babes. When everyone has taken off. Climbed into heights and deeper dimensions, they are still behind. Way behind! They’re still dragging that thing that is so precious to them. That thing that they find do difficult to do away with. That thing that looks so harmless and is not a sin, but distracts them when they pray.

They are still lagging behind, dragging that idol in their heart. That thing that has the ability to make them even cancel their appointment with God. They can schedule to meet with God by 8pm and that 8pm happens to clash with Chelsea versus Manchester city. That’s it! Lord, I’ll see you after the match! This is a very important match I cannot afford to miss. And the best part is that after the match, they will be true to their word. They would come back to pray, but it’s a kind of hurry up prayers. They are more interested in rounding up than praying the prayers.

Some don’t even border coming back. They just climb their bed and doze off for the night. These are the little secrets that the Devil uses to slow us down without our knowledge. That’s why Apostle Paul said that we should not be ignorant of the devices of the Devil. Satan has so many devices and weapons and we are to guard ourselves against them.

Please give me Hebrews 12:1”, I said and immediately, it appeared on the screen.

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

Now, Apostle Paul tells us to do what? Lay aside every weight. Lay them aside. Take off that bag of rice from off your shoulders. Take off that weight and run this race the way you ought to run it.

Yours may be friends. Friends that always show up at your door steps whenever it’s your hour of prayers. Friends that have no passion for God or the things of God. Friends that don’t want to pray with you. They don’t love prayers. All they have for you is gossips and gist. Gist that add no value to your life.

Yours may be movies. You keep watching and watching and you’re trilled by the talent of the actors or the creative imagination of the script writer. You just can’t get off that chair or turn it off to pray. One more episode and I’ll turn it off. Soon, you want more and more and more. You won’t know when your desire to pray will keep diminishing. By the time you are done with the movie and kneel down to pray, you’re extremely tired. You just cannot do the prayers the way you should do it.

You just mumble the words and are more eager to see yourself taking a nap than enjoying the presence of God. Let me tell you one thing about weights that you don’t know. Weights are passion killers. What did I say?”

“Weights are passion killers”, the church chorused.

“If you have passion for God, you better do away with all those idols in your life, because they will make sure anything passion for God in your life dies.

Now the question is HOW DO WE LAY ASIDE OUR WEIGHTS?

That should be the question on your minds right now. Yes! Weights are to be laid aside. Now understand what the Apostle Paul said, lay aside. He didn’t actually say these things are not important to you. Sometimes these things that are weights to us are very important to us. But the word lay aside is a spiritual statement.

To lay aside means to bring under subjection. There are some things that are so important to us that we still need them in our lives. Like sleeping, eating, sometimes social media, based on the spiritual benefits we derive from it.

But just as Apostle Paul taught us, we are to lay aside so we can run when it’s time to run. Understand what we are saying. Laying aside is a statement of controlling. Remember what I said earlier. Weights are not sin, but they have the ability the slow you down on one condition, if you do not learn how to lay them aside.

Is football match wrong? No! But if you cancel attending an alnight in order to watch a match, then it becomes an evil thing. Is eating a sin? No! But if you cancel your fasting program because of your eating appetite, then it becomes evil. The fasting was supposed to give you a spiritual boost. But the weight or should I say idol of food, slowed you down and stopped you from moving at such great spiritual pace.

I don’t know if I’m confusing anyone this evening?”

“No ma!” The congregation chorused.

“There are nine fruits of the Holy Spirit and each one of them are unique. But the last fruit is what I want to call your attention to here. It’s the fruit of the spirit called self control. That’s exactly what we need in order to handle these idols and weights. Weights are just the same thing when Jesus said that no man can serve two masters. That’s exactly what Jesus was teaching everyone of us.

We must lay aside that phone when it’s time for prayers. We must lay aside that food, when it’s time for fasting. We must lay aside that mattress, when it’s time for prayers in the night. So it’s not necessarily no more sleeping, no more television, no more social media, but laying it aside when it’s time to be with God.

It’s the key word Apostle Paul is bringing here. But if you can go the extreme mile and say no more to certain things in your life due to the lack of control you have for them, you’re still not wrong in doing so. But when you finally get a control over yourself as you grow spiritually. Don’t see it as backsliding when you are picking it up and using it again. A man on fire for Jesus uses whatsoever he lays his hand upon for the glory of God.

So that social media that once controlled you and ate up your time with God, is now under your control. You pick it up and use it to hunt souls for God. That’s how the weights or should I say idols become your servants. The bible says ye are gods. So if you are truly gods, creation, both man made and God made are supposed to serve you, not you becoming a slave to your phone.

Food is supposed to serve you not you serving food, or should I say your belly. Sleep is supposed to serve you, not sleep grabbing you like a master whenever it feels like. Whether you want to sleep or not, it forces you to sleep whenever it wants. No!

But only the person who has spiritually developed himself that can fully manifest the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Because as you grow, these fruits start manifesting in your life. People start getting to see the newness of life you carry. Because the baby Jesus inside of you, is gradually turning into an adult.

So when you first received the new life in Christ, don’t forget that the life you have received must grow. Yes it must! That’s the reason why the scripture says in John 15:8. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

God is serious about your spiritual growth. He wants to see the fruits germinating. The fruits of the Holy Spirit or should I say, the character of Jesus. That’s what the fruits of the spirit are. The character of Jesus! The behaviour of Jesus. How Jesus behaves when he is provoked. How Jesus behaves when he is insulted by men in his place of work. How Jesus behaves when a seductive lady makes advances towards him. How Jesus behaves when someone oppresses him and disgraces him publicly.

That’s what germinates in you. The more you grow, the more you begin to see yourself loving people so easily. The more you grow the more you begin to notice how kind you are. The more you grow, the more you notice you are always happy. That’s the fruit of the spirit called joy. No matter what happens, a smile never disappears from your face. You are always smiling no matter the circumstances. You see smiling as a normal thing. Happiness as a feeling that you cannot explain. Why are you excited? I don’t know why, but I just noticed I’m super excited these days.

As you grow, you start noticing you can endure hard stuffs. Pain doesn’t frighten you anymore. Long-suffering or should I say endurance. It’s a fruit of the Holy Spirit, one of the character of Jesus. No matter happens, you can bear and smile have that cool smile and joy in your heart. Nothing like pain, can take you out of the mood. Pain cannot stop you.

As you grow, soon you discover you have this inner peace within you that is beyond human comprehension. There’s chaos out there. Everyone is fidgeting and screaming in terror. But there you are, calm, peaceful, quiet, not a single iota of fear tormenting you.

With time, you start seeing you are a completely different person. That’s the great change that happens with being born again. That’s the great change that follows a believer who allows the baby Jesus in him to grow. That’s the experience of the newness of life in Christ.

But we must understand that all these would not be possible if we do not lay aside every weight or idols in our lives. What is that thing you love so much that is competing with God in your life. That thing that has the ability to shut down your prayer life and make you skip your appointment with God. That thing that has grown so much that it can make you miss bible study and you will deliberately watch it eat down the time you’re supposed to spend with God.

This is the time to lay them at the feet of the master. Come and put him back on the throne. There’s a throne in the heart of every man. Every man on earth have something so special to them. So much important to them. So special and when touched, they flare up. That’s the thing sitting on the throne of your heart.

God wants to be the only one sitting down and there. He wants to be the one occupying the throne of your heart. Why not give it to him tonight. Why not allow him be the ruler of your life?

Go ahead and begin to surrender all to him tonight. Go ahead and begin to tell him he can have your all. Can you begin to cry to him this evening?”

All over the place screams of groaning could be heard as hearts were surrendered to God.

To be continued……

Here I am
All my intentions
All my obsessions
I wanna lay them all down

Into your hands
Only your love is vital
Though I’m not entitled
Still you call me your child

God you don’t need me
But somehow you want me
Oh how you love me
Somehow that frees me
To take off my hands off my life
And the way it should go
Oooo! God you don’t need me
But somehow you want me
Oh how you love me
Somehow that frees me
To open my hands up
And give you control”

Go ahead and let Jesus have the control button. Don’t allow anything take his place in your life. Give him the throne and dethrone every idol or weight sitting on God’s chair.

Episode 97

Today is the second day of the program. I sat down at the Minister’s seat, waiting to be called up to the pulpit by the man of God. So many rounds of hot prayer sessions were going on.

Soon it was time for the word and I was called up to the pulpit. Everyone stood up and applauded as I took the mic from the pastor.

“Can we clap those hands for Jesus?” I said and the crowd cheered the more.

“Can we all say a word of prayer to God? Just go ahead and pour out your heart to Jesus! Go ahead and tell him what’s in your heart”, I said and prayers went on.

“Like the woman at the well, I was seeking.
For things that could not satisfy
But then, I heard my saviour speaking
Draw from my well that never shall run dry.

Fill my cup Lord!
I lift it up Lord!
Come and quench this thirsting of my soul
Bread of heaven
Feed me till I want no more
Fill my cup
Fill it up and make me whole.

Go ahead and tell Jesus to feed you tonight! There are secrets to be revealed. God worked so many wonders at the revelation of his word yesterday. He is here to do more. Go ahead and tell the Lord to feed you”.

Aggressive prayers were heard from different corners. I made sure we had spend up to 30 minutes in prayer, so their spirit man could be charged and awake, before rounding up the prayers.

Soon the congregation were on their seats, ready to be fed.

“Yesterday, we talked about the baby Christian. Today, we would be talking about the growing christian. The christian that is already in the process of spiritual growth. Let’s look at the scriptures once again.

Now before we talk about the spiritual growth, I want to call your attention to something. Let’s look at the book of Luke 14:26”, I said and immediately, it was projected on the screen.

“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Verse 27. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Verse 28. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Verse 29. Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

Verse 30. Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Verse 31. Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Verse 32. Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

Verse 33. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

Spiritual growth is never possible without the decision to move from being an ordinary christian to becoming a disciple. But look at the first thing the Lord said should take place before you can start building your spiritual life. Jesus said you must sit down and settle in your heart if this is truly what you want. Sit down and count the cost first.

Yes! Count the cost! Don’t rush! Yes! Don’t rush! Because the world will call you a fool for following Jesus and turning back at the end of the day. Look at that scripture

Verse 28. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Verse 29. Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

Verse 30. Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

Excuse me! Sufficient to do what?”

“Finish!” The congregation chorused.

“Are you sure? Sufficient to do what?”

“Finish!”

“Sufficient to start! Right!”

“No!”

“Sufficient to lay your spiritual foundation?”

“No!”

“Please help me! Sufficient to do what?”

“Finish!”

“Any fool out there can start something. Any fool out there can start a foundation. But the question here is how many of you have what it takes to finish it?

Now the reason I why Jesus asked that question was because of the fact that he wants to be sure of you. The bible says that if a man lays his hands on the plough and look back, he is not fit for the kingdom of God. A man that looks back according to God’s marking scheme is an unfit man. I mean unfit for the kingdom of God. Please! Give me Hebrews 10:38”, I said and it was projected on the screen.

“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Do you know what that pleasure is? The Message version of that scripture”.

It was projected immediately.

“Hebrews 10:38 But anyone who is right with me thrives on loyal trust; if he cuts and runs, I won’t be very happy.

I love that translation. That’s the meaning of pleasure. I won’t be happy with that person. God would not be happy with that person. So the first assignment you have is to sit down and count the cost. Count it very well and let us know if you are ready to get to the end of the journey.

Let us know your stand. Let us know that we are not pouring water into a basket. Let us know that all the bible study and bible classes are not in vain. Let us know so we won’t bother you too much. Let us know so that we can be safe with you. Let us know so that we won’t be afraid if you would not run off and waste divine investment.

Who would love to send a child to school who doesn’t want to go? You’re telling him to go to the university, but he’s telling you he is not interested. I hope you know forcing him to school is a waste of time? Even if he goes, he would pull out and go out to do another thing in school.

Now let me tell you something. After you have begun your journey as a disciple there are 3 things that stops spiritual growth like nothing I’ve never seen. I mean they are so deadly. COMPROMISE, WEIGHT AND INDISCIPLINE.

I’ll talk about the other two tomorrow. But today, I’ll take my time to explain what compromise is. After today, whenever temptation comes knocking, you will never dream to fall into sin. I mean, the urge to commit sin and later repent which is now a trend in the body of Christ will disappear completely from your head.

What exactly does compromise do to you as a child of God? Now before I go further to explain, I want buttress on the point that compromise is one of the deadliest weapon that has caused a lot of Christians to be spiritually stagnant.

Now in the realm of the spirit there are spiritual realms and heights. I mean it’s like you’re a student in JSS 1 and God wants to move you to JSS 2. Before every spiritual promotion is a spiritual test. God must test you before you are promoted to the next class.

In schools before you are moved from JSS 1 to JSS 2, what happens? Examination! Right?”

“Yes!” The crowd answered.

“That’s the same way it happens in the realm of the spirit. Now this is the stupidity in compromise. Especially those of you who tell themselves that I would sin now and repent later. This is what happens to you.

You are in a spiritual exam. Please give me the book of Daniel 3:28”, I said and immediately, it was projected on the screen.

“Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Verse 29. Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

Verse 30. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.

Take note of verse 30. What did the king do after Shadrach Meshach and Abednego passed the test? So when God wants to promote you from one class in the realm of the spirit to another realm, he gives you an exam. A test! A trial! That was the same thing God gave Abraham when he said go and offer Isaac as a burnt offering to me.

The moment Abraham passed the test, he was promoted. That’s what is happening in the realm of the spirit.

But this is what the compromiser does. He sits in front of the exam question and tells the lecturer that he will answer the question later. He decides to commit sin and ask God to forgive him later. Truth be told, God will forgive him. He is not willing that anyone should perish. But this is what happens. The guy was in JSS 1 and he was supposed to be promoted to JSS 2 but failed the exam. Will he be promoted?”

“No!” The congregation chorused.

“We use to pray this prayer. God do not allow me to suffer from what I don’t know. I’m sorry to announce to you that what you don’t know is the reason why you’re suffering today. You will suffer for what you don’t know. In the spirit realm, ignorance is one of the greatest weapon in the hands of the devil. He loves it so much. Through ignorance, Satan oppresses God’s children.

Please can I ask you a question. If you went for an exam and you’re given the question paper. You look at all the questions you were given and honestly, you don’t know tye answers. You call your lecturer and tell him, ‘Sir! I don’t know the answers to any of these questions’. Does that means you will pass the exam?”

“No!” The congregation answered.

“I thought you prayed that God should not allow you to suffer from what you don’t know? You mean you will fail that exam abi?”

“Yes!”

“So your ignorance is the reason why you will be repeating the class while the others are being promoted to another realm spiritually.

So the compromiser tells himself that he’s going to fail the exam to pass it another time. I’m going to collect this bribe. After today, I will not collect again. I need money now, my mother is sick. I need to accept this bribe and I’ll make sure this is the last time I ever take a bribe.

And do you know what Satan will do? He will do everything in his power to make sure you collect a bribe again and again and again.

What just happened to you in the realm of the spirit is this. If it took God 3 months to qualify you for a spiritual promotion. Perhaps, you were consistent with your spiritual life for 3 months and God says it’s time to take you into another realm or class. That means you will have to wait for another 3 months for another exam.

So another 3 months in the same spiritual level. And if you fail in the next exam that happens, you remain in that same spiritual level for another 3 months. And when another test comes and you still collect bribe again, you remain in that same spiritual level for another 3 months. Before you look, a year is gone, no spiritual progress”.

“Jesus is Lord!” A woman screamed and stood up with her bible in her hands.

“How many of you have noticed this? Maybe you told a lie and you feel remorseful about it. God I’m so sorry! I will never lie like this again. Lord I’m so sorry. Please give me another opportunity. I promise to tell the truth next time.

You are so sorry that you are just looking for another opportunity to tell the truth whenever the temptation to tell lies come. But did you notice that the opportunity never came at the time you expected it. Have you experienced that before?”

“My God!” The pastor exclaimed and stood up as well. Most of the members were on their feet already.

“What happened to you was that exam was over. Till the next time we would have another exam. You wanted to reseat for the exams, but God had taken the question paper and left. In the realm of the spirit, it’s possible to reseat for an exam. It’s another dimension of God’s mercy for those who are desperate to grow.

But sometimes, he refuses to set another exam for you and keeps you in the class you are repeating for another 3 months. He would be expecting you to pass this second time. But don’t forget Satan will also be planning how he’s going to stop you from observing your quiet time. Start skipping your quiet time and your spirit man will be getting weak and weak awaiting the day of adversity.

So you have been consistent in your quiet time for 3 months. Suddenly, you discovered you started skipping it. Hahaha! Your spiritual life is under serious demonic attack!

Can we rise up and begin to pray right now?”

I was still saying it when the prayers sounded so loud that it almost blew off my ears. Screams from every different corner filled the air.

To be continued…….

Please go ahead and cry for mercy! Every area where you compromised! Lord show us mercy!

Yours might be anger! That day when you flared up and insulted that person. The Holy Ghost was standing beside you. Please keep quiet! Don’t retaliate!

But you said no. You said her own was too much! You said you wanted to prove to her that you are not stupid.

Immediately you finished insulting her. It was as if the ground should open and swallow you. You felt like the worst person on earth.

Your apology to God that day was out of this world. You even cried physically. You even went ahead to report yourself to your mentor and he or she told you to reconcile yourself back to God.

You apologized and apologized that day and it took you a lot to finally accept that God had forgiven you.

But did you know that day was the day you lost your spiritual promotion? That was the day God was supposed to take you into a higher dimension in the spirit realm. But you compromised!

Can you go ahead and cry to God for a reseat?

Tomorrow is the 3rd day of the conference. Please invite your friends! This is a 6 days class on spiritual growth! If you love your friends, tell them to come and attend.

Episode 96

“Children of God! Give the Lord a shout! As the woman of God mounts the pulpit. Come on celebrate Jesus!” The pastor ordered his congregation and screams filled the hall.

I followed the usher who lead me to the pulpit and took the mic from the pastor. I bent my knees slightly in greeting as I took it.

“I’m so glad we’re celebrating Jesus here and not a mere mortal! Please if it’s Jesus you’re celebrating, you can do better! Go ahead and celebrate this God!” I said and the noise in the hall was doubled.

“Can we sing a song to glorify this God?”

“Yes!” They all chorused.

“Holy words long preserved.
For our walk in this world.
They resound with God’s own heart.
Oh, let the ancient words impart.

Words of Life, words of Hope.
Give us strength, help us cope.
In this world, where e’er we roam.
Ancient words will guide us home.

Ancient words ever true.
Changing me and changing you.
We have come with open hearts.
Oh, let the ancient words impart.

Can you all sing that song with me?”

The congregation sang in unison and the choiristers backed us up. Soon, we were all worshipping God with this song and I told the congregation to resume their seat.

“I was given a topic to speak on and that is what we’ll be working with tonight. Spiritual growth! From infant to adulthood.

Seriously, this topic is so broad, so I’ll do my best to teach you the basics.

In order for us to learn about spiritual growth, we must start with the grassroot. The baby Christian. Who is a baby Christian? What makes a Christian a baby Christian? And why are there so many baby Christians in the body of Christ today?

I think that’s 3 questions we have there. I don’t know how many I may be taking tonight because of our time. But let’s see how the Holy Ghost will lead us in tonight’s class.

Number one, who is the baby Christian. A baby Christian is a new born child of the kingdom. That’s one definition. Two! A baby Christian is a spiritual infant. Three, a baby Christian is a reborn child of the kingdom.

Note the 3 definitions. I pray the Holy Ghost helps me to be brief in exploring the meaning of these two definitions.

When a man gives his or her life to Christ, something happens in the realm of the spirit. Your spirit man is reborn. A lot of us don’t understand the meaning of I am born again. Let me show you the mystery behind born again.

When you were born physically, your spirit was also born as well. As you grew, your spirit man grew in sin. If you’re 32 years old, your spirit man is also 32 years old in sin. I mean in total slavery to sin. So the man had already become an adult in sin and iniquity. He knows how to explore sin and rides on doing it. But the moment he asks Jesus to come into his life, this is what I’m born again means.

He becomes reborn. What that means is that the spirit within him his taken out and a baby spirit is placed within him”.

“My God!” A woman in the congregation exclaimed.

“Oh! Looks like I’m talking too much! Let’s open the bible then. You’ll see I am born again in the bible. Sometimes, we think mysteries are not found in scripture. Let’s open to Ezekiel 36:26”, I said and immediately, the scripture appeared on the church screen.

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

A new heart and a new what, please? A new what?”

“Spirit! The congregation chorused.

“A new what?”

“Spirit!” They all said loudly.

“A baby spirit! An infant spirit. When Jesus entered the womb of Mary, he didn’t enter as a grown up man. He came as a babe! As an infant. He came into Mary’s womb as a baby. That’s the same thing that occurs here. The new spirit is a baby within you. Jesus doesn’t enter your life as a fully grown man. He enters a baby, just like he did with Mary. So he grows within you. The God life you have been received must grow.

Now open to the book of 1 Peter 2:2” I said and immediately, the scripture appeared on the screen.

“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.

So the first recommendation the bible gave us for spiritual growth is not prayers. I’m not saying prayers is not important here. Infact, prayer is so important to you that you cannot go a single day without it. But according to scriptural prescription, the first thing the bible recommended for spiritual growth is what?”

“The word of God!” The congregation chorused.

“Can I here it again?”

“The word of God”, they repeated.

“It went further to explain to us that the bible is our spiritual milk. The same way babies have to suck their mother’s milk and grow, that’s the same way your spirit man had to suck the milk of God’s word everyday and grow.

Now let me ask you all a question. How many times does a baby eat in a day? Come on, 3 square meals! Am I correct?”

“No!”

“Are you sure? What about once in a day?”

“No!”

How about babies who eat only in church on Sundays? Once a week”.

“No!”

“Are you sure? Sometimes babies need to eat once in a month to grow. Am I correct?”

“No!” They all chorused.

“So if babies do not eat once in a day, what makes you think your spirit man will grow when all you do is eating spiritually once in a day? Are you sure you want to grow?”

“My God!” The pastor exclaimed and stood up to listen.

“Listen to me. Let me tell you the mystery behind spiritual malnutrition. But before I talk about spiritual malnutrition, let me tell you how so many of you have killed your spirit man countless times.

If babies do not eat 3 times a day, then that means one thing. The eat 6 or more than that daily. So if you feed the baby in the morning, before 9am, the baby is already crying out of hunger. But you wait till afternoon to feed the baby.

But a lot of Christians feed their spirit man once in a day. So when they eat in the morning by 5am, it’s hunger till the next day. Kai! The spirit man will cry and cry for food throughout the day, but nobody will answer him. And when the baby is allowed to starve, it won’t take long before the baby dies.

Now remember, what is spiritual death? Sin! Sin is spiritual death. So if the baby starves for the whole day and dies in the night, that night, you’ll fall into sin. That’s the reason why a lot of Christians keep rising and falling. Because after the baby dies, this is what happens.

The moment you ask God to forgive you after you finish commiting sin, the baby is brought back to life. But remember, the baby was starving before he died, so what he first thing baby would need is still that spiritual food you denied him.

So those of you who are in habit of skipping your quiet time, forget about spiritual growth. Spiritual growth is not for you. How can you feed your baby once in a day and the next time you’re feeding him is two days later. No wonder you’re not growing. You have been in the church for over seven years now, yet no growth.

You have not even started considering spiritual growth. See what you’re doing. You’re at the stage of DEATH & RESURRECTION. Your spirit man will die today and resurrect tomorrow. You starve to death and come back to life tomorrow. So your spirit is only at the stage of dying and resurrecting.

That’s the reason why you are not growing. You read bible once in two days. Today you read it, tomorrow you miss it. Your spirit man will get weak and die, which is fall into sin. And when you come back to God and ask for his forgiveness, your spirit is brought back to life. But after that restoration, what do you do?

You go back to that life of skipping your quiet time and die spiritually again. And after you notice you had fallen into sin, you cry to God for mercy and your spirit man is brought back to life. Then you starve him to death again and fall into sin. And the circle continues. Inconsistency is a dangerous lifestyle. You’re not growing. You’re just hovering around a particular spot. No spiritual progress.

You’re just up and down. Life and death every single day. Your spirit man will starve to bed. Starve to work. Starve to death. The circle continues! If you know you have never been consistent with your walk with God, you better look for a good place to cry tonight. You have been wasting serious time. You’re going to cry to God for that staying grace. Grace to stay with God forever and ever. Grace to always remain disciplined and observe your quiet time consistently.

So what’s the bible prescription for feeding your spirit man? How many times a day should I feed my spirit with God’s word?”

Open to the book of Joshua 1:8″, I said and immediately, it was projected on the screen.

“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success”.

“Jesus is Lord!” A lady screamed.

“How many times did the bible prescribe?”

“Two times!” They answered.

“When and when?” I asked.

“In the morning and in the night”, they chorused”, they replied.

“That’s the spiritual balance diet. 2 meals a day. That’s how it works. Meditate in the word day and night. So that you would be able to observe and do all that is written in the book. Because, if you only read it once in a day, you’ll do some, not all. The bible says that you will be able to do according to all that is written in the book if you study it day and night. But if you study it only in the day, you’ll end up doing only a little.

Two times a day is the spiritual growth feeding timetable. Read the word in the morning and in the evening, every single day. That’s the spiritual eating timetable.

The body of Christ is so full of dead men on the pulpit. Dead choristers singing. They finish singing powerfully and the next minute, we are gathering around to settle quarrel for them.

Dead workers among the church of God today. They are so used to living in death and darkness. They rise and fall every single day. Why? They don’t have time to read the word of God. They’re very busy people.

I preached this message one day and a woman asked a question. What if you close late from work and come back home tired? You open the bible and sleep is the only thing that comes to your mind. What do you do? Will it be possible for such a Christian to read the bible twice a day?

I asked her a simple question. Perhaps you came back late from work and meet your baby boy crying. I mean, you know he has not eaten and that’s why he’s crying. Do you tell him to manage and sleep till the next day and starve him to bed?

If you cannot watch your infant starve till the next day. What would motivate you to starve your baby spirit till the next day? Spiritual life, spiritual growth is not an important topic to many of us. We are not interested in paying the price to grow spiritually. We love our comfort. We love our mattress. We love our food and soft drinks. We don’t want anything pain. Just make sure everything is easy. Once it’s not easy, I’m out!

I wake up to pray when it’s easy for me. I study my bible when it’s easy. I fast, only when it’s easy. What is happening to your spirit is not only spiritual stagnancy. It’s death and resurrection. You have not even started considering growth ooo. You have only been dying and resurrecting for the past 8 years of getting born again.

Spend time with the word, you said there’s no time. I am always busy. No wonder you’re still like this.

There are so many things I would really love to teach you, but I want us to cry out to God this morning. Many of us do not have this particular spiritual ability called THE STAYING POWER. The staying power is the dimension of grace that activates consistency in our spirit. The staying power is what gives us the ability to pray every single day for 20 years. The staying power is what makes you a bible addict.

Can we go on our knees and give God the biggest cry of our lives. I have wasted so many years. My spirit man had been starving to death every day. No word of God! No prayers! Flesh has been enjoying himself. He has been watching TikTok videos. Watching season films. Eating 4 to 6 times a day. Fasting, we break by 9am. Dead men walking.

Dead and empty men. Little provocation, you will almost think he never knew God. Your anger has graduated from anger to rage. Can you cry to God this evening?”

The congregation went on their knees. Some stood and prayed aggressively.

“Lord! I need the staying power! Give me the staying power! The power that kept Moses in the presence of God for 40 days without feeling it. I am tired of this on and off quiet time. One day on one day off spiritual life must end in my life. A part-time Christian cannot defeat a full time devil.

The devil works full time. Why should you pray part-time? The demons are into full time assignment over your destiny. Why should you study your Bible part-time? Go ahead and cry to God!”

To be continued…….

Can we all go ahead and pray that prayer? Enough is enough!

Holy Ghost! Give me the staying power! I want to be consistent with my spiritual life. I want to grow spiritually! Enough is enough to dying in sin

If you fail in the day of adversity, your strength is small. When you don’t feed your spirit, how will he have the strength to withstand temptation when it comes?

How will a starving man have the power to fight his enemies. No wonder Satan doesn’t want you to read your Bible. No wonder Satan doesn’t want you to pray. He knows what he’s doing. He’s not stupid when he was telling you that you’re too tired to pray, go back to bed.

He knows what he was doing. As long as he can keep you weak, he can defeat you at any time he wants. Stop them from eating! Stop them from praying! They’ll remain weak for life. And when they’re too weak, they’ll fall into sin and die. Spiritual death! Even when they get restored, as long as they keep sleeping when they’re supposed to pray and study the bible, they’ll still fall back into sin.

Remember the keys. Study the bible twice a day. In the morning and in the evening.

Lordpablo231:
You see. This is where BDB comes in, I have seen brodas who lost there jobs nd were able to secure a matter job through a fellow broda, I have also seen when brodas pay bills of fellow brodas having some challenges or d other. Dis is what we call brotherly love BDB something one may not get from d untside world.

Recently d families of some of our members who died (may there souls continue to rest with God) were giving some amount of cash around millions raise by d organization through our global president to assist d families. We also offer loans without interest to our members who want to engage in one business or d other nd don't have much money to start, giving a period of time to pay back depending on d amount.

Many more we do for d betterment of our members nd society. One tin we all must know is dat we are no cult nd we are not known to be buccaneer cult, alora cult/confraternity or fineboi association of nigeria as many social media platforms nd imposters portray us we are Brodas Across Nigeria aka Buccaneers Confraternity.

And mind u. In dis adventure of our's u have nothing to gain but something to give. It's not what u can get, but what u can do to make d buccaneer vessel keep sailing. I will stop here. Gp is wise

Mi Brother in this forum, you can never convince everyone here. But I as a whole knows that BAN is a way of life, you have some that will stay with you and some that will be against you.

The Flag of Buccaneers is crest higher and we practice and connotes that BDB(Brother Deliver Brother) is still the pillar and motto guiding the confraternity.

Episode 95

I sat down in the room where I was told to wait. I placed my Bible on the table and looked around.

The meeting was about to start anytime soon and I was getting prepared to speak the word to God’s people.

I whispered a few words of prayers and picked up my phone which was ringing silently. I had put it on silent I could see the the screen displaying I had a call. I took the phone and swiped the green bar. It was Mrs Harmony Harry calling.

Yeah! Harry got married to my Harmony.

“Hello! Mrs Harry”, I said.

“Hi! Mrs Akande!” She replied.

“How are you doing?”

“I’m fine”, she answered.

“How is my boy doing?” I asked referring to her son.

“He’s doing great”.

“Good! I’m about to minister anytime soon. So I need you to pray for me as I step out to minister”.

“Actually, I called to confirm how your journey went. I’m glad you arrived safely”.

“Yeah! Glory be to God in the highest!” I replied grinning.

“So please start raining prayers on me right now. The heavens must come down upon this congregation”.

“Yes ooo! Infact, you don’t need to say it. I’m here with two of my mentees and we’re about to start some round of prayers for you concerning the conference. Virtue is going to be flowing out of you endlessly for the next 6 days. It’s not going to be easy on you. You know what that means. Everytime you lose virtue, your spirit is partially weak. That’s why, you need to be recharged.

A lot of ministers are not aware of this that the spirit of man can be drained of spiritual energy after ministration. No wonder Jesus would leave the crowd and climb a mountain to go and kabash. He is recharging his spirit man.

So we are right here. We’ll be running prayers over here for you. The heavens must open in Jesus name”.

“Amen! Please ooo! Harmony, I need clarity. You said I need to recharge after ministration because my spirit is weak. Please explain this mystery to me.

“Mama! Do you remember Samson?”

“Yes I do!”

“The spirit of God descended upon him in a higher dimension and he picked up the bone of a dead animal. With that bone, he fought against principalities and powers. He was like a god of war on the pulpit. He was killing and killing God’s enemies and sweating heavily. He ended killing over one thousand men, singlehandedly.

But look at what the bible said in the book of Judges 15:15. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

Verse 16. And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

Verse 17. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.

Verse 18. And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

Verse 19. But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

Verse 20. And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Can you see why some ministers of God fall into the hands of their enemies after they finished preaching? The same pastor that finished preaching against adultery, will later be found with another man’s wife.

Samson’s spirit man had finished ministering to his generation and came back exhausted. He could have also died if he had not been rescued by God. I hope you know spiritual death is sin. So when a man of God dies Spiritually, that means he fell into sin.

And the bible says, if you fall in the day of adversity, your strength is small. It is the level of your spiritual energy that determines if you would stand or fall. So Satan will be waiting for that pastor as soon as he comes down from the pulpit. The powers of darkness are waiting for him.

That’s why a church that doesn’t pray for their pastor is really a wicked church. Pastor, pray for me! He will pray. Pastor come and teach me the word of God, he will do so. But when you finish praying for yourself, you don’t remember to include your spiritual leader in your prayers. You pray for yourself and your family alone.

Soon, when the pastor starts misbehaving tomorrow. You’ll be the first person to say, ‘All these men of God sef! They are disgracing God!’

The body of Christ has criticized this man of God called Samson so much. But I always ask myself a question. Who was standing in the gap for Samson in the place of prayer? Who was interceeding for Samson? Everyone saw him as a superman. Nobody knew he almost died after killing one thousand men.

Who was telling God on behalf of Samson, ‘Lord keep him standing’, who? Everyone saw him as a superman. That’s why he fell. No Intercessor. We have this mentality that our spiritual parents are supermen.

They cannot be weak. They’re always strong. Infact we use that language. Daddy be strong for us. Mummy, we’re counting on you. But don’t spend quality time to pray for her. I kept asking myself that question. Who was praying for Samson?

Everyone talked about his exploits. How he killed a lion without a weapon. How he entered Askelon and killed 30 men all by himself. Our papa is highly anointed. Our papa can handle those demonic philistines Ehn! Our papa can handle the lion of family curses and command demons, I mean stubborn demons and they’ll bow. That’s all everyone was talking about concerning that anointed man of God called Samson.

He’s too powerful to need our prayers. He should be the one praying for us. We, we are still coming up. Papa! Hope you prayed for me. No! I forgot. Ha! Papa! You forgot to pray for me! Why na?

We don’t understand that after Samson finished ministering deliverance to the nation of Israel, he almost died from spiritual exhaustion. If any demon had come for him at that vulnerable state, or should I say philistine demon of adultery. He would have fallen into the hands of the enemies.

And immediately the man of God falls, we will not year word again. All these men of God disgracing the name of Jesus. All these general overseers and state coordinators dem. Fake fake men of God.

I used to think most men of God commiting sin are from the pit of hell. But when I studied the life of that anointed man of God called Samson, I understood that most of them were really called by God. The only thing that happened is that they missed it along the way and settled in sin.

Look at Samson, he just finished sleeping with a harlot. As he was stepping out of the ashawo house, the gates had been locked. He carried the gates and put it on his shoulder . He even climbed a mountain with it. Mummy! When climbing a mountain, do you carry something heavy on your shoulder?”

“No!” I answered.

“For you to know that as heavy as that gate was, it was nothing but a pillow on Samson’s shoulder. That kind anointing!”

“Kai!” I screamed.

“But he just finished committing sin ooo! Yet the power was still functioning. The gift of God is without repentance. That’s why when the bible says, don’t judge and don’t condemn, make we hear word. Everyone who saw Samson coming out of the ashawo’s house and see him climbing the pulpit and waves his hand and people are falling under the anointing. They will say he’s using diabolical powers to perform miracles.

If you’re trying to judge, you go miss road ooo! No wonder the bible says that if you judge others, you will be judged. And if you condemn a man of God, you’ll also be condemned. Just leave them in God’s hands. He was the one who called them into the ministry, he knows how to handle them. Instead of judging and criticizing them, why not kneel down and beg God to save him?

Love is seriously missing in the body of Christ. I mean genuine love for the brethren. We tear each other apart, criticize each other, look around for who is the fake man of God and who is the original and start condemning them.

The spiritual leaders need more of your prayers and words of encouragement than your criticisms.

I’m not denying the fact that the bible didn’t say that by their fruits ye shall know them, but most of them at the beginning, were genuine. Called by God and sent by him, just as the man of God Samson was.

God taught me this through my phone battery. I charged my phone to 100 percent and kept it in my bag throughout the day. I didn’t touch it or use it for any activity. It was even on silent. But when I picked it up the next day, it was 87 percent. I was like, I didn’t use it na! Why is the percentage reducing?

The Holy Ghost told me that, this is how spiritual life power percentage reduces everyday. That’s why the bible says we should renew our strength by waiting upon the Lord. Spending time with him everyday is like charging your phone battery. Whether you use the phone or not, power drains out of it. And as a Christian, we use our spiritual energy everyday. So we must go back to our quiet time and plug ourselves into the spiritual electricity of the Holy Ghost.

“Ayayayaaaaaa! Karimalataya!” I screamed as I felt the spirit of God heavily on me.

“And as you are Kabashing, the power percentage is reading. 20 percent, not enough for the day. 30 percent, no no. Keep praying! Power to overcome anger is entering. Keep praying! Power to look away when that seductive lady sits beside you in the bus as you’re going to work, is entering you. Keep praying, power to smile when that your collegue at the place of work insults you is penetrating your spirit.

The Holy Ghost told me. What about power draining activities? Watching movies, browsing the internet, listening to audio messages or songs, carrying out transactions on the phone. Activities that drain battery percentage faster. That’s where your spiritual leaders need prayers. They have finished drain themselves to feed you. Their battery is already 15 percent. How do you expect such a man to withstand the devil at such a vulnerable energy percentage? If you fail in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Virtue has gone out of him, like Samson. He is already weak. Many of us joke with that prayer we do pray for our leaders after they finish preaching in church service. Some of us pray it casually. This is the mystery behind that prayer. The spiritual electricity of the Holy Ghost.

That was same thing that happened to Jesus during his ministry. That woman with the issue of blood touched him and virtue left immediately. Jesus sensed power was tapped out of him. It’s not because of her menstrual flow that made Jesus notice her touch. It was because that was how he usually felt whenever he was ministering healing to God’s people.

He was not ministering in healing at that time. He was passing through the crowd and the people were pressing on him. It was push your way out of the crowd that was happening. When everywhere is crowded and you’re trying to pass. That was exactly what was happening. So he wasn’t praying for the sick at that time.

That was why he was able to sense that someone had tapped from the healing anointing he was carrying. That’s why Peter was telling him that the multitude was pressing on him and he was asking after who touched him? But Jesus told him that he sensed something had left him.

That’s the same thing with every servant of God. That’s why they need our prayers. The spiritual electricity of the Holy Ghost.

Mama I pray for you that as you mount that pulpit. Higher dimensions of anointing will rest upon you in the name of Jesus!

To be continued…….

I believe this message is for someone. This is the mystery behind the fall of alot of men of God today. Most of them are genuine. But Satan came for them at a point went their spirit man was weak. That was how he tempted them with the love of money and they fell for it.

Soon, anytime they want to preach, it only prosperity. God will bless you! God will make you a millionaire! If you want to be blessed run to the altar now with ten thousand naira in your hand.

The man of God just finished ministering. He doesn’t have food at home to eat, but he’s putting on a fine suit. By the time he finish ministering, hunger sets in. Nobody is sowing anything into his life. All they want is pastor should pray for them.

After ministering and his spiritual energy is down, Satan tempts him and makes him see how he can extort money of his members through sweet mouth gospel and he applies it.

And when we notice it that papa has fallen. Instead of us to pray for him that God should have mercy on him and restore him, we start criticizing him. He needed you, but you were not there to help him prayerfully or financially.

Stop the criticism. Stop seeing them as superman. They need your prayers every day.

That’s why you notice sometimes, papa will disappear for 3 days. No food no water. Where is papa? I’ve been looking for him but I can’t find him. I’ve tried his line it’s saying it’s switched off.

Papa went to go and recharge ooo! Waiting upon the Lord to renew their strength.

Abeg, you guys should stone me with your prayers this morning. Not only stone, bath me with prayers! Pour me water of prayers. Virtue leaves me everyday. And tomorrow, you guys will come with plates to come and eat. 😁

Please I want to use this opportunity to appeal. If you have been following this story and I have not become a prayer point in your daily prayers.

Make it a commitment to always pray for me. God will keep revealing alot to me for his people and keep me from the enemies that are angry at the spiritual liberation happening through this story.

Oya, I’m on my knees. Come and pour me waters of prayers. Tomorrow is day one of the conference.

Episode 94

“Can you imagine? I wonder what the body of Christ is turning into!” I replied.

“It’s not their fault. Everything that went wrong in the body of Christ today is a product of the careless actions of believers. The bible made us to understand that while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. That’s what happens when we believers become careless and sleep off when we’re supposed to be in duty”.

“Hmmm! Christians are nothing but soldiers on duty post”.

“Exactly! And any failure on your part to guard and perform their duties properly is an advantage to the kingdom of darkness. The bible says that as believers we should watch and pray so that we don’t fall into temptation. But not just that we do not fall into temptation. Look at what Jesus said in the book of Luke chapter Luke 22:31”.

There was a bible on our dinning table. Anyway, there was always a Bible at every corner of the house. Because that our house na military barack. Rhema dey hit us at anytime of the day. So we kept bibles everywhere incase of emergency. We were all used to such experiences.

My kids who were at the dining table, were already paying attention to the word coming out of my Apostle Paul’s mouth. Rhema na our second food for that house.

“And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:

Verse 22:32. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren”, I read.

“Can you notice something. Satan was after Peter, but Jesus was telling Peter that after you has recovered from the fall, strengthen your brethren. That was the remaining disciples he was referring to. I was shocked to the bones by the statement Jesus made here. What exactly was the King of kings saying?

Coming after Peter, was as good as coming after all the disciples. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. So, Peter was like a covering to all the 12 Apostles. If he goes down, all the others go along with him. When Peter stands us and say, ‘Brethren, I go a fishing. 6 out of the remaining 11 disciples will say, ‘We’re going with you sir’. When seven out of eleven disciples went back to fishing, who has the highest number gone?”


“The Devil!” I answered.

“So can you see for yourself? That church had a watchman. That church had an Intercessor whom God had placed in that place to stand in the gap a prevent things from becoming that bad. But they failed to take that assignment seriously.

The spiritual watchman, not just the leaders but the Intercessors failed to defend that Spiritual territory and darkness took over the land. That’s why till tomorrow Jesus will keep folding his hands.

Recently, there was something I discovered in the bible”.

“And what is that?” I asked.

“The bible says, arise oh Lord and let thine enemies be scattered. I was like, was God sleeping? Then it dawned on me that Jesus was asleep on a pillow while the storm was going on in the sea. And while men were busy using their calculative brain to solve the equation. Jesus was like, ‘When you’re done using your brain, come and call me’.

So the storm was destroying the boat, turning things upside down. Men were busy throwing things away. In order to keep the ship light. Throwing some of the cargoes out into the sea to lighten the boat. And Jesus was like, ‘Ah! Instead of this people to call me, look at the loss they have to suffer!’

They’re loosing souls to the devil. They’re loosing holiness in the congregation. They’re trying their best to keep the church, when all they could just do was to tap me and call me to put an end to the raging storm.

So as long as we don’t border God with our problems, he becomes inactive and makes use of his Spiritual pillow. That’s why the bible says, let God arise and his enemies be scattered. God had been sleeping if you ask me. It is when he arises that his enemies, the storms of life get scattered.

That’s how it operates. The Intercessors must take interceeding for the land seriously. Interceeding for the spiritual leaders is a must. Stop complaining about the proud attitude of Christian leaders and start praying those stubborn attitude to get out of their lives. Believe me when I say this. Every failure on our part as Christians, is an advantage for the he kingdom of darkness to take over and oppress the land, the family or the church of God.

When you don’t pray for your family, Satan will be opressing your mother with sickness and you’ll be so blind to know. It’s medicine you’ll be running Helter skelter to go and buy.

You won’t understand that through your prayerlessness or your unseriousness with building your prayer life, you had sent God to sleep. And awakened demonic activities in your life and family. So in no time, this one is sick. The other one is has an accident. The other one that got married is filing for a divorce. And you’ll not understand what is happening in the realm of the spirit. Demons have taken over the land, the family and the church of God. But you’ll be busy complaining why did God allow the devil to do such a thing?

God will be like, ‘Me? What did I do? Sheybi I said men ought always to pray and you said men ought always to sleep. Sheybi I said pray that you enter not into temptation. But you said, sleep so that you can enter into temptation and fall very well. How is this any of my fault?’

Who allowed the devil to mess things up? Was it God or you?”

“You!” Juliet answered.

We both turned to her and smiled.

“Daddy can I say something!” She said raising up her hand.

“Go ahead darling!” My Charming said.

“Daddy! There was this friend of mine who always bullied me in class. He made me feel like a piece of trash. He was so strong. He could search my bag and take all my pocket money, warning me that I would be dead if I dared report him. I had to suffer in silence.

But one day, I one on my bed crying when the Holy Spirit starting engaging me in a conversation. He said that there’s a particular song we sang in children church that he wants me to sing.

I was like, what song? Then the lyrics came to my head and I started singing.

What a friend we have in Jesus!
All our sins and griefs to bear
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayers

Oh! What peace we often forfeit
Oh! What needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer”.

We were both wowed by the revelation in that song, but my angel was done done. Truth be told, she had contacted the same spirit in the life of her parents.

“The Holy Spirit made me realize that I was only being oppressed because I do not tell Jesus all my problems. I try to solve some of them on my own. While the ones that were too tough, I took to him in prayers. He said he’s not happy with the way I don’t tell him everything. He said I should talk to him about all the things troubling me. That was the first time I spent one hour praying.

I was just telling God all the things going on in my life that I don’t want to continue. My request list was full and I was telling the Holy Spirit that my request was too much.

Do you know what he told me?”

“No!” We both chorused.

“He said he was still waiting for more. I was so shocked. I was like, so you never get tired of our talking? He told me he enjoyed every moment we spend with him. I asked him what if I stayed here with him for the whole day? He said he was fine with that. He went further to tell me about Moses who stayed with him on the mountain for 40 days.

I was wowed! Where can we find that in the bible?” She asked.

I looked at my husband and he looked at me with the same expression on my face.

“Julie angel, please wait! Let me get this straight. You mean you never knew about Moses on the mountain for 40 days?” My Charming asked.

“Yes! I almost doubted it. But since it was not the first time I was gisting with divinity, so I believed it. I planned to ask you guys to show me where it is in the bible but it slipped my mind”, she answered.

“Wait! What were you gisting with?” I asked.

“Divinity! I mean the supreme being! That’s God!” She answered.

My Charming and I gave each other and a shocking glance.

“What?” Juliet asked.

“Nothing! Just that I thought you didn’t know the meaning of what you were saying”, I replied smiling.

“Come on Mum! You say that almost every time in TV. Propensity, divinity, Menurah, Holies of holies, Proponents of immortality, Spiritual genetic mutation, Spiritual Navigation…..”

“Hold it please!”

“Mummy, I want to go on”, she teased.

“Please ooo! Don’t finish us abeg!” I say admist laughter.

“But mummy can I ask a question?”

“Go ahead!”

“Does God really sleep? Like when Daddy said that God should arise and let his enemies be scattered. Does that mean God slept?”

Kunle answered.

“God never slept. It was our prayerless that made it look like he was sleeping. The word arise is used to call your attention to the fact that God was not supposed to be inactive. We had made him sit down to watch, while we go about solving our problems with human calculations.

There was something Mummy said that I would never forget. Whenever something is wrong, never asked God where are you. God never fails man, it is man that failed God”.

I looked at my 7 year old son, awestruck.

“Kunle, did that just came of your mouth? You’re talking like an adult”, I said.

“Mummy! We may look like children physically, but spiritually, we’re grown ups”, Juliet answered.

“Mummy doesn’t know we have caught fire!” Kunle replied.

My husband and I raised an eyebrow at that statement.

“Last night I was in a meeting with some angels and they were telling me the reason why my classmates do not love Jesus. They said that the god of this world has blinded their eyes. They told me to pray for them for the next 7 days. They said if I can do that, revival will break in my classroom. Mummy what is revival?”

I didn’t know what to say. I looked at my husband who was grinning at me.

“Daddy! They’re just kids please!” I said within me.

“MYSTERIOUS KIDS! FROM A MYSTERIOUS MOTHER”, He replied and started laughing within me.

“This is not something to laugh about. They’re speaking mysteries”, I replied.

“DON’T YOU KNOW THAT THE ANOINTING YOU CARRY IS ALWAYS TRANSFERRED TO YOUR SEED, BOTH SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL. THAT’S WHY THE COVENANT BETWEEN ABRAHAM AND WEALTH OF ABRAHAM BECAME ISAAC’S EXPERIENCE”.

“Revival is the reawakening of the consciousness of God in a generation. It means bringing God back to the scene”.

“Mummy what is scene? Juliet asked.

“Do you mean commiting sin?” Samuel asked.

“And what’s the meaning of consciousness?”

Silas quickly came to my rescue.

“It means, making people to come back to God. It means bringing people back to God when they have forgotten about him and live in sin”, he answered.

“Daddy you need to be helping me na. This is Spiritual vocabulary is too big for my kids”.

“NA YOU GO SHOPPING IN THE SPIRIT REALM GO BUY SPIRITUAL DICTIONARY AND ENCYCLOPEDIA. NO BE MY FAULT!” He replied and I chuckled.

“You should have warned me na”.

“WARN WHO? NO BE YOU TALK SAY YOU WANT AM? SO THAT WHENEVER YOU READ THE BIBLE, YOU CAN EASILY GO TO THE DICTIONARY AND LOCATE THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURES”.

“Hmmmmm! Spiritual dictionary for better understanding of the word of God”, I replied smiling.

“SO GET READY, WE’RE HEADING FOR THE PROGRAM TOMORROW. SATAN IS IN TROUBLE”.

I grinned.

To be continued……

Cris don turn to spiritual giant ooo. Spiritual dictionary! It is as if I have not started

ZUBY77:


I am redeveloping the site. small time

MR Zuby sorry for disturbing you but just wanted to know, how about your Ghanaian Lady that married in London.
And how is the beautiful daughter she gave birth to, hope you do hear from her.

Best regards to your family, we your fans can’t stop wishing you the best in everything you are doing💛

Episode 93

“So after the wedding, I started school a few months later. Barrister Obi and his wife volunteered to sponsor my education. My wife wanted to sponsor my education. My wife’s uncle wanted to sponsor my education and a particular company my wife was into business with, gave me scholarship.

Infact, I was so blessed. When the bible says he that findeth a wife finds a good thing and obtaineth favour from the Lord. That scripture became real to me. All around were open doors. Everyone were so interested in my story. How the CEO of Kolapo production company decided to become the wife of her company gateman.

It was an intriguing experience for me. I studied what had always been my passion, medicine and today, I’m happy to announce to you all that I am a medical doctor”, he said smiling.

The crowd applauded and cheered.

I was just smiling from where I sat. My ten year old Juliet sitting beside me and my 7 year old Kunle. I guess you have an idea of how we got the names of our kids. I named my first child after my mentor. She really deserved it to be honest. Anyway, we also have our 4 year old Samuel. God blessed our union with 3 adorable children.

“Today is our 10th year marriage anniversary. Brethren! The once despised gateman is now a PhD holder”, he announced.

The crowd cheered and applauds rent the air.

“This is the story of how God can humble a man. This is a testimony of how God can make a man from nothing to become something. I have never seen a lady as humble as my wife. I have never seen a wife so devoted to God and her family. She put her flesh to death and lived a life that inspires me to hunger for more of God.

I never knew God could be this loving to me, in giving this package of blessing called Christiana. Please can everyone join me and celebrate her as she joins me here on the stage”,

I stood up all smiles as squeals and applauds rent the air. My little group of single sisters had turned into a large congregation of both single and married women. Even men were now in attendance. I made sure I never turned the gathering to a church. God never told me to open a church. He only told me to feed my generation with his word.

I walked up to meet my husband on the stage and lowered my knees slightly in greeting. He pulled me close and hugged me. The crowd cheered loudly.

He handed me the mic and stepped back.

Smiling, I faced the congregation and beckoned for silence.

“You guys were clapping for the wrong person. If there’s anyone that worths applauds, that’s the Lord Jesus. So please! Point of correction, that applaud was not meant for me. That was meant for the one who picked up this stubborn girl and made her the most humble wife on earth. So can we celebrate that personality? That Lord over principalities and powers! The one who sits in heaven as a throne and makes the earth his footstool! The one who was, who is and is to come! The one that turns a shepherd boy into the king of Israel! The one who turns a stammerer into the greatest Prophet the world has ever seen! Children of God! Celebrate Jesus!”

Musical instruments and shouts filled the hall.

“Sometimes I keep asking myself. What would make a CEO marry her gateman? Sounds humourous! The world would hear it and think I’m crazy! That’s true isn’t it?

But the peace! The love! The joy I always dreamed about in marriage! Far beyond my expectations! Beyond human comprehension! I smile like a fool everyday. Indeed, when the bible says God has chosen the foolish things of this world to make the wise man more confused, that scripture became real to me. I looked like a fool for marrying my husband. But I would have been the biggest fool if I had not married him.

I enjoy everyday of my life. It’s as if I’m living in heaven. God has been so wonderful. There was something God taught me recently.

There’s a common saying that the truth is bitter, am I correct?”

“Yes”, they all chorused.

“If the truth is bitter, then lies is sweet, am I correct?”

“Yes!” They chorused in unison.

“This is how it all happens. When you’re sick, you need medicine to get healed, but sometimes as a kid, I preferred a bottle of fanta than medicine.

That’s how the realm of the spirit operates. Those things that you really need to help you become what you ought to become, do not look palatable and attractive to your eyes.

It’s like junk food. They look as attractive and tastes super delicious, but are very useless to the body system. That’s how the things Satan has to offer look so beautiful and harmless.

A lot of Christians struggle with one thing. That is what I call trusting God. They struggle with it so much. They want to see the end first. They want to see the cars and the money now. They want to see the wealth and the handsomeness first.

They always want to see before they can believe. So when God points the man he has prepared for them they snap their fingers and reject him. They don’t know that the slave in the house of Portiphar today, can become the governor of Egypt tomorrow.

God does not owe you an explanation. If you cannot trust him, then you’ll make mistakes. A lot of ladies have missed it maritally because they concluded on that brother based on the cash he has in his account. This one is poor and this one is rich. Let me go for the rich dude. It’s time we throw our human calculations aside and follow Jesus’ leading.

My mentor once told me that a wise man cannot serve God. I was like, what kind of mystery is this?

A wise man cannot serve God. Only fools can serve him. If you’re not ready to be called a fool by the people of this world because of Jesus in you, you will compromise. The world must call you a fool! Mumu! Idiot! Useless brain! Can’t you use your brain?

The world must bring your life into their archives of worldly wisdom and check if it corresponds with what they see as wisdom. If it doesn’t match, they hiss and call you a fool. A wise man cannot follow Jesus. Because God will tell you to greet that small girl that insulted you yesterday. Say hi or how are you, to that lady that persecutes you.

And when the people of the world meet you greeting the lady that insulted you in the presence of everyone yesterday. They’ll hiss and say that you don’t have brain.

You want to follow God and you’re afraid of what people will say, you’re not serious. Yiu must be ready to recieve insults. Jesus cast out demons of our a people and they said he was using demonic power. They said he was casting out demons through Beelzebub the prince of demons. If they could treat the master himself that way, is it you that is just a follower that would not receive the same treatment?

People will not follow you to live with your husband. People will not be there to cook for your husband. They will only be hauling insults from a distance. You’re the one that heard from God. Follow him like a fool. You will never regret it”.

The crowd applauded.

“Let me tell you something. If I was reborn again to this earth, which is not possible. But if I come back to this world 20 times. Is Oga Silas I will still marry ooo!”

Everyone burst into laughter and applauded.

Our thanksgiving was completely awesome. My husband, my kids and I all took pictures together.

We were all in the car and ready to leave when a man approached us.

“Mrs Akande, can I please have a word with you?” He requested.

I turned to my husband and he gave me an approving nod. If he didn’t I wouldn’t give this guy face.

I stepped out of the car and bent my knees slightly in greeting.

“Good afternoon ma!” He greeted.

“Good afternoon sir! Please how may I be of help?”

“Please don’t be offended. There’s a conference coming up on the 18th of next month”.

“Okay!”

“It’s titled, SPIRITUAL GROWTH: FROM INFANTS TO ADULTHOOD”.

“Wow!” I exclaimed, trilled by the title.

“So please, we would really love you to be speaking on the topic during the conference”.

“How many days would the conference last?”

“4 days!”

“4 days?” I said in surprise.

“Yes ma!”

“That’s too much oooo! I don’t know if I’ll be attending first because I need the approval of two people. First my Dad and that of my husband”.

“CRIS, YOU’LL BE THERE!” The voice came interrupting me.

“Please ma! We have prayed about it and God has given us the go ahead. Please we are really looking forward to being fed by the bread of life God has placed in your care”, he said.

“Okay! I’ll be there! But I’ll have to discuss with my husband first. Expect my call today”.

“Thank you so much!”

“Don’t mention! We thank God always”.

“Yes ma!”

I turned to leave but paused when he called me.

So how much do you charge for ministration?” He asked.

I turned and gave him a sharp look.

“I don’t understand!”

“I mean, how much are we going to pay you for ministering at the conference?”

“Do you pay ministers for ministering at your church?” I asked.

“Most of the ministers I invite, always ask for money before they minister. That’s why I decided to pray to God before knowing who to invite next. Maybe this one won’t be charging too much. The last one we invited was so demanding. So I prayed to God to lead me to a minister who would only charge me little”.

I shook my head, unable to lash at him anymore. I knew he wasn’t spiritually grounded himself. He was able to discern that he should have fled from such ministers.

I looked at him and realized God was really at work here by leading him to me. Because, even as a spiritual leader of that congregation, he was still a baby.

“It’s alright sir! I’ll call you later. But for your information, I don’t charge for ministration. No minister is supposed to demand money from you before coming to minister. Give the minister of God according to what God has laid in your heart to give or according to your financial ability.

Please, anyone who demands payment before service should be avoided. The bible says freely you have received, freely give. You’re free to give to God’s servants, but according to what God lays in your heart, not according to the amount the minister requested for or asked you to pay him for ministering.

Do you understand that?” I asked.

“Yes ma!” He said.

“Don’t worry. I’ll be here on the 18th of this month. We’ll do alot of learning. I’ll give you a call today. Good bye sir”

To be continued………

Congratulations to the latest couple in town once again. Ten years of heaven on earth marital bliss. Hulala😁

Silas is now a PhD holder ooo. A medical doctor. If you’re not feeling fine, Silas is available to shuk you injection.

God does not owe you an explanation. If you cannot trust him, then you’ll make mistakes.
A lot of Christians struggle with one thing. That is what I call trusting God. They struggle with it so much. They want to see the end first.

Do you trust God completely, or you’re keeping your options open for the next opportunity Satan presents as a shortcut to that thing you’ve been expecting?

Anyway, Cris is coming to invade that church ooo.

How many of you would really love to learn about spiritual growth, from infant to adulthood.

It’s going to be an awesome class.

Hope you will be attending?✋

Episode 92

I closed my bible and stretched my arms. A smile appeared on my face. I went down on my knees and began to worship God in songs. This is the day that the lord has made. Thank God for the journey so far.

I don’t need to start explaining to you what that means. I’m so super excited. God has been so faithful. It’s not been an easy journey. I was just so excited. I had been receiving series of calls and text messages from a lot of people around the country. Soon, I was just staring at my ringing phone.

I was just worshipping God when I saw a phone call I could not ignore. I would love you to guess who it was, but you’ll guess wrong.

I picked up the phone and swiped the green bar.

“Hello!”

“It’s your wedding day!” She replied cheerfully.

“Thank you so much! I feel like today should never end”.

“You’re not serious! Today is just starting and you’re there saying it should not end. You’re not serious. Today must end oo! Because I also have a goodnews to share with you”.

“Wow! That’s wonderful! Please give it to me”, I said curiously.

“Try and guess first”.

“Abeg talk na!”

“Okay! I’m pregnant”, she announced.

I guess you now have an idea of who I’m talking to. I squealed in excitement and leapt for joy.

“Congratulations!” I said.

“Thank you! Congratulations too! I’m so happy for us”.

“Yeah! Me too! I’m so happy too! At last, we would be having the first baby of the family. This is wonderful!” I said smiling.

This was a confirmation of what mummy Silas told me the day we went to visit her and her family. She told me Sharon would get pregnant. So she really meant what she said? It’s not that I didn’t believe ooo, it’s just that I wasn’t expecting it so soon.

This is awesome! God is so wonderful. I felt like breaking the news to her, but felt restrained in my spirit.

“THERE’S NO NEED FOR THAT” Daddy said.

I smiled and nodded.

“Cris! After today, you’ll no longer be known as Miss Kolapo. You’ll become Mrs Silas Akande. Such a wonderful name!”

“Sharon! I’m really bordered about something right now”.

“What is that?”

“I was really wondering how you got to get uncle to approve your marriage? It is still a shock to me. Mine was completely different. He was really set out to stop me and he meant it. But yours was entirely different. He just approved your marriage in a single day. How did you do it?”

She giggled on the phone, but I was putting on a serious face at my end.

“All I did was to ask God for wisdom. That was the strategy I applied. And luckily for me, or should I say, God arranged everything. I was already praying for days before I presented my request to him.

That was the period uncle fell sick and was almost dying. He could not move for days. Everything he needed to do, he needs someone to do it for him. I quickly took the opportunity and became a housemaid in his house. I helped him with the food. Fed him in the mouth and preached to him several times.

Why he no go gree approve my wedding? He want make he conscience kill am?”

I burst into laughter on the phone.

“He recovered in no time and my services were no longer needed in his house. A week later, I was back with my man. He cannot misbehave na. That was how I handled him ooo”.

“This is awesome!” I replied smiling.

“I can’t remember hearing the news that uncle was sick ooo!”

“Big sis, you know yourself back then na! It’s not now that God turned you into a completely different person. Back then, the Olamide we know? She doesn’t need to hear about it at all. Uncle was dead person to you. He was a the one that usually calls you and you guys would haul insults at each other Ehn, no be here.

Sometimes, I wondered if you were really born again. You were carrying Jesus inside of you, but the light of Christ was not seen outside you. You still went out with the old gang and did all the old stuffs. You still treated uncle like a piece of trash and had no iota of respect for him.

How would you know that uncle fell sick when you never saw him as a person? He was always trash to you. I was so glad God transformed you. It’s a wonderful transformation big sis. One I’m so proud of”.

I smiled and shook my head.

“He’s such a wonderful potter. He really worked so hard on me. It wasn’t easy for him. I was a very stubborn clay. Melting me sef was a problem. Just to melt me was enough sweat. Then moulding me was a huge struggle. I was not yielding at all. There was a time I saw myself fighting with a potter in the dream. Can you imagine?”

“Wow!”

“It was such a shocking experience! I dragged the potter out of that seat and sat down to mould the vessel all by myself”.

“My Jesus!”

“You can imagine that audacity! That was enough to finish me, right? But how he spared me is still a mystery. This is beyond love. It’s more than love. It’s! It’s! I don’t even have the right word to describe it”.

“Excess love!”

“Excess love is an understatement. Maybe the dictionary is yet to produce a word that fits my expression. That’s the conclusion of the whole matter”.

“That’s it ooo”, she replied and chuckled.

“Sharon! I have to go now. My charming is calling my second phone”.

“Please go ooo! Today na two of you! I don’t want you to enter trouble. And I don’t want to enter trouble as well! Why did I steal the bride? I no dey ooo!”

I burst into laughter and hung up.

I reached for my second phone and swiped the green bar smiling to myself.

“Hello Charming!”

“Hi pretty Christy!”

“Today is our day oooo!”

“I can’t wait! I just received a call from mummy Susan! She’s here already”,

“Wow!”

“She arrived last night. She’s here to celebrate with us. I must confess, I’m the most luckiest man on earth. To finally scale through all the hurdles that faced us from the beginning of this journey.

Satan shot so many arrows at us. He tried so hard to stop us, put God saw us through. God was so faithful. He never delivered us into hands of our enemies. He protected us from the arrows that came for us. This journey has been awesome. I’m so grateful to God for all the things he had taught us. Mostly the spiritual navigation. It really made me realize that all hope is never lost in God.

When man sinned in the garden of Eden, immediately, God switched to plan B. This God is too good”.

“Charming! You can say that over and over again. I’m just smiling sheepishly over here. I never knew I was in a wrong relationship. Chris was only exploiting me and I was too stupid to know. God in his mercy, came to rescue me through my mentor, but I was proving stubborn.

My mentor was so unrelenting. She never wanted to give up on me. She was such a great intercessor. She prayed me out that deceptive relationship and prayed me into God’s will for my life. I don’t know how to thank her enough. She was such a blessing to me”, I said admist tears.

“Christy, this a day of joy, not for tears. So wipe those tears away”.

“Okay Charming!” I replied smiling and used the back of my hands to wipe my tears.

“My Pretty Christy! The angel that was worth waiting for. I remembered when I was 17 and I was telling God one day when I woke up that I wanted to marry the most beautiful girl in the world”.

I started laughing.

“You’re such an answer to my prayers. Your beauty is so enchanting. It would be foolishness to resist your spells. When you smile, the baby in my womb leaps for joy”.

I burst into uncontrollable laughter.

“Charming! Which one is baby in your womb? Are you pregnant?”

“I am pregnant with love. Just a smile on your face, makes my love to leap within me”.

“I love you Charming! I love you so much! Everyday, I keep telling God to break me very well. Make me the most submissive wife on earth. I want to submit myself to you with everything in me. I want to spend the rest of my life loving you. You made my life and my world heaven on earth”.

Soon, the door opened and Maggie with my bridal train entered.

“She’s on a call with her Charming. You guys should get ready to wait for at least one hour”, Maggie announced.

They all started giggling.

“Maggie! Stop looking for my trouble ooo!” I said holding the phone away.

“Christy! Call me 15 sweet pet names right now!” Silas requested.

“Ha! How will that be possible?” I asked with shock written on my face.

“With God all things are possible”.

“I’m not looking for trouble. Both of them can call themselves all the romantic pet names in the world”, Maggie replied.

“My Charming charmer. The spell that turns my head upside down. My healing balm. The criminal that stole my heart. The one who locked me up in the prison of love and sentenced me to life imprisonment. My Apostle Paul. My second mentor. My one and only among many. The Silas that silenced all liars. The love of my life. The CEO of my heart. The man that holds2 the keys to my heart. My gateman without controversy. The man that is more than ten sons to me. The man the makes the world think I’m crazy. The enchanter of my heart. My Silala Silas!”

“Christy! It’s sixteen ooo! It has do! My legs are shaking over here!”

I burst into laughter.

“See what I said”, Maggie announced.

The girls roared in laughter. I can’t believe Maggie predicted me and that was exactly what happened.

The day was entirely awesome. Smiles hugs, pictures and everything.

My uncle hugged me and whispered.

“I’m so glad I had you as a daughter” he said and took my hand as we walked down the Isle.

My Charming was waiting at the altar, with his best man Prince Emmanuel. I was thinking it would be a brother called bro Ayo that would be his best man.

Harmony was my chief bride’s maid. She held the train of my gown and followed behind me.

We stood before the altar and said our vows. Pastor Kunle smiled and took our right hands. He fixed our fingers into each other and raised our hands in the air.

“I hereby pronounce you both, husband and wife”.

The crowd screamed in excitement. Applauds rent the air. Keren Kinkin and her musical team began to sing. My mentor and her husband, Mummy Susan and her husband, George Oluwagbade. Came to congratulate me.

We all took pictures together and prayers were made for the latest couple. Silas’ parents prayed for me with all their hearts.

A lot of people, both the ones I know and the ones I don’t know came to celebrate with me. I made sure the gifts and food got to everyone as that was assigned to one of my friends, Miss Grace. She did a perfect job beyond my expectation because of the crowd.

Reception was awesome. I never knew my Charming was such a good dancer, but trust me. It’s always ladies first. He tried, but I made sure the award went to me. How I go lose dancing competition na? E no possible!

Barrister Obi and his son, Doctor Francis were present. Even someone I never expected to see, Harry. He came and wished me well.

Gifts poured like water. Cars, items, cash and lots more. Mummy Susan and her husband prayed for us before we finally left to begin our honeymoon in Dubai.

To be continued…….

Happy married life to the latest couple in town.

Episode 91

The third and final ingredient is grace. That’s the last thing that we all need. That’s what helps us to finally accomplish all what we are learning today.

There are two ingredients that makes man live above sin. Number one is your will. I mean the desire in you to have nothing to do with sin and then the grace of God. Those two ingredients help a believer stay strong in God. They are the keys to consistency.

Briefly, I would love to talk about grace. The bible says in the book of John 4:23. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Verse 4. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The opposite of that scripture is this. If you do not worship God in spirit and in truth, you’ll end up worshipping him, in flesh and in lies, or should I say hypocrisy.

That’s the reason why we have hypocrites in the body of Christ today. Christianity is full of people trying to serve God with the flesh. People are trying to serve God in the capacity of their flesh.

One thing you need to understand about the flesh is that, the flesh has one characteristic called WILLPOWER. What exactly is Will power?

Will power is the ability for a man to do what is right for a short period of time. That’s the definition for willpower. The reason why the will power of man cannot last is because it fall under the 3 dimensions of the manifestation of the flesh.

What are they? The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. Willpower is a subdivision under the pride of life. And remember, the bible says that God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. So willpower only makes you more and more proud of yourself. Because the good you accomplished are products of your disciplined lifestyle. So that’s enough to make you feel high about yourself.

And as the bible says, God will always resist the proud and give grace to the humble. So he’s going to withdraw anything grace around your life and watch you struggling with your human strength and keep failing. Grace is only available for the humble.

So willpower is only able to carry a man for a while. That’s the reason why alot of Christians struggle with consistency. When they hear the word of God, they make up their minds to obey what God is asking of them. But immediately they leave the church, they are themselves doing that thing they planned to repent from.

Some, their repentance only lasts for two weeks. After two weeks they return to masturbation. They return to their vomit and start living a defeated life. This is the result of serving God in the flesh, which will end up leading you into hypocrisy. That’s how it works.

Some of you might be confused right now. Some of you might say, ‘ What then does it mean to serve God in the spirit? What does it mean to rely on grace and not willpower?’

Good question. Now, willpower is the first thing that gets you to the door, but grace is the key that opens the door. Every man that will serve God or do his will must first be willing, which is very important. But after that, you must be able to accept the fact that without God, this decision I have made will not be possible. So dear Lord! I need your grace.

He must be willing to accept that fact in his heart and hold on to it. Because, even when grace is at work in the life of a man, Satan comes and begins to tempt the man. He begins to praise him for all his efforts he had put into building his spiritual life. And at the end of the day, if the man is not able to discern that this is an orchestration from the pit of hell, he’ll end up giving in and conclude that he was responsible for the turn around on his spiritual life.

Pride is enough to make him crash and start afresh again. That’s the reason why alot of believers struggle with rising and falling. The bible says, ‘Keep your heart with all diligence’. We need to be careful with the kind of thoughts we allow into our hearts. If we are not watchful, we’ll end up finding ourselves rising and falling often.

Because even after God helps you to get back on your feet, Satan will come with his deception. Soon, you start seeing yourself as the most spiritual lady in the church choir. You start looking around for the most spiritual person and conclude there is none like unto you. Soon you start seeing yourself as the most important and prayerful person in your family. You’re not far from your spiritual grave. This is one of the biggest reason that had made rising and falling among believers so rampant today.

Now, we move to the next thing. How can we receive grace from God? Very important. Let’s open to the book of Hebrews 4:16″.

I quickly wrote down the scripture and picked up my Bible, flipping the pages at a quick pace.

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need”, I read.

“Do you see the key?”

“Yes sir”, I answered.

“What is the key?”

“Quiet time”.

“Exactly. Now let’s read Mark chapter one, verse 35”.

We both flipped our Bibles and soon, Silas read aloud.

“Mark 1:35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed”.

“Can you see the secret to Jesus’ sinless life here on earth?”

“Yes”, we chorused.

“Many believers have this mindset that the reason why Jesus never committed any sin while he was on earth, was because he was God. A big lie! Read the bible very well. Jesus almost committed sin in the bible”,

We were both shocked. What was he saying?

Apostle Robert stood up.

“I’m feeling like I’m on fire right now. The word of God is burning like fire in my bones”, he said and spoke in tongues for a while.

“Listen to me! The day Jesus was about to be crucified, what was going on. Christianity was under attack. Both Jesus and all his disciples were shot arrows and crashed. The arrow struck Jesus and he almost went down.

He said, ‘ Father, if it is possible, take this cup away from me’. Was that a good prayer?”

“No”, we answered.

“Jesus was getting weak that day. The flesh was vibrating. He wanted to save his life. He wanted to escape. The flesh was already making suggestions to him on how he can hide himself and no one will find him when Judas arrived. You think Jesus never struggled the way you all struggle today?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha! The bible says in Hebrews 4:15. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

A high priest that when he looks at you struggling. He will smile and say, ‘ I can relate! I also struggled like that too’. Yes! He struggled with women. He struggled with pride. He saw his flesh longing for everything that can satisfy his carnal appetites.

He was faced with everything you all face today. Satan shot arrows at Jesus and all his disciples. All the disciples fell. But, the question you should be asking is, that man that did not fall, what did he do that made him not to fall?

Jesus prayed! He groaned! He prayed and prayed aggressively. Baba! I cannot fail you. Daddy! Nevertheless! Ha ha ha ha ha! Nevertheless! You think that prayer was an easy prayer. Jesus was kabashing. Sweating and telling God! My flesh oooo! Daddy! My flesh is killing me! Daddy come and help me!

And the bible said that while he was praying, angels appeared and what were the angels doing?”

“They were strengthening him!” I answered.

“Jesus!” My mentor screamed and landed on the floor, bursting into tongues.

“Ha ha ha ha ha! Pity the Christian that doesn’t have a prayer life. Do you know that prayerlessness is pride?”

“Jesus is Lord!” Silas exclaimed and placed his two hands on his head.

“Yes! If grace will be given only to the humble and you can only get grace by praying, then how will the prayerless Christian receive grace?

Prayerlessness is telling God, I can do it myself. My willpower will carry me through. I don’t need to spend time praying everyday. Allow me to sleep. I can handle anything. My willpower is so strong. Don’t worry God! When I have something I cannot handle, I’ll ask you to help me out in prayers. But for my day to day life, I can live without sin, by my willpower. So allow me to skip my quiet time.

And God will only give his grace to the man who will appear before him every morning. Daddy! On my own! On my own! I can’t make it! I can’t make it. Daddy! Right now! I’m so tired right now! Yesterday’s work was so much that it made me so weak. But if I don’t pray, my human strength! My willpower will fail me! On my own! On my own! I can’t make it”,

“Argghhhhh….!” I screamed and landed on the floor blasting in tongues.

“And while the prayer is going on. Behold, angels appear in the room. You will not be able to see them physically. Sometimes God gives you the privilege to sense their presence in the form of having goose bumps. Sometimes he allows you to feel certain sensations in your body as soon as they arrive.

And as you’re praying. Grace to overcome anger, grace to conquer lust, grace to look away when that half naked girl passes, grace to be offended and forgive easily, grace to see your husband that offended you before going to bed last night and instead of hissing at him, you smile and greet him good morning.

Grace enters you as you start kabashing. And you yourself, you’ll be wondering what is happening? Normally, you should have rained insults on that useless boy. On a normal day, you would have cursed your husband whenever he did something to make you annoyed. But you’re even looking for the anger and you can’t find it to start with. You’re trying to be angry, but it’s not working. The way the love and forgiveness is flowing out of your heart, you don’t understand.

Pity the prayerless Christian! How many times have you heard pastor preach on a topic and immediately you left the church. You found yourself doing that thing pastor said you should not do. Yiu think you can serve God in your willpower?

Good luck to you! Keep trying! Don’t go and build your prayer life ooo! Be skipping your quiet time! The way you will be commiting sin will shock you. If Jesus could kneel down and sweat in prayers, I don’t know that person that is snoring on the bed and is telling me he wants to be holy like Jesus! You’re a joker! A big joker! Sin will eat you like breakfast, come back for lunch and use you as dinner.

And you will keep crying! God why? Daddy why? I want to live a Holy life. I want to be consistent in my walk with you. Continue sleeping! Continue skipping your quiet time. That anger you’re struggling with has just started. That masturbation you’re fighting everyday is just warming up.

Grace! Grace! Grace! Can we tell Jesus, on my own! On my own! I can’t make it! And because I cannot make it on my own, my quiet time is a must. I must not miss it for one day”,

I screamed admist tears. We were all blasting in tongues all over the place. The presence of God fell heavily on us. I could feel the spiritual energy in my body.

To be continued…….

You want the grace of God to locate you on your mattress abi?

Keep snoring!

Peter and all the disciples crashed and fell. They abandoned their faith and went back to fishing.

Only one man stood that day. That was the only man that wasn’t sleeping when everyone was sleeping.

This sleep you have been sleeping for how many years now. What contribution has it made to your spiritual life? How is it contributing to your destiny?

Your alarm will ring and you’ll put it off to continue sleeping. When will you arise?

You’re waiting for magic. For someone to lay hands on you and you suddenly start praying like a machine.

I know a brother who was masturbating. He attended Apostle Mike Orokpo’s meeting and came back a masturbator.

Don’t pray ooo! Be turning around for the next visit of Apostle Joshua Selman.

Today, this brother followed those principles of building your prayer life in episode 89 and has never masturbated again.

You think it’s about man of God? Your deliverance is in your hands. Go and build your prayer life. The sleep is too much. That was how Peter slept and ended up denying Jesus.

Go and build your prayer life.

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Episode 90

“So how can one maintain consistency in his or her spiritual life?

I want to teach you the one last ingredient. There are 3 things that makes one consistent in one’s spiritual life.

Number one is discipline. This is the basic or should I say the foundation. If you are not ready to discipline yourself, don’t cry when you see your prayer life dying right before your very eyes. Spirituality is a product of discipline. It’s your ability to always discipline yourself and show up in the place of prayers that attracts the spirit of prayer to you. Remember, whatever you consistently do, invites the spirit attached to it.

Discipline is one of the greatest way to be consistent. I heard about a great Apostle of the faith. His name is Apostle Babalola. According to the story, he usually went to the mountain to pray. That man is a praying machine. He can pray like there’s no tomorrow.

I was told he went to the mountain to pray. While he was praying, he discovered he was dozing off. I was told that the next time he came to the mountain to pray, he went with stones in his pocket. Once he discovers he’s dozing off. He brings out the stones and kneel on them”.

“Oh my God!” I exclaimed.


“He meant business!” Silas said.

“But that didn’t last. Kneeling on stones was not enough to drive sleep away. He discovered he was still sleeping while kneeling on the stones. He decided to do something that shocked me. The next time he was going to the mountain, he went with fresh pepper in his pocket. So when sleep started disturbing him, he brought out the pepper. He would break it and rub it on his eyes”.

“Jesus is Lord!” I exclaimed.

“When the bible says that no man can give excuses to God, it really telling us the truth. Look at the extreme of discipline this man applied in order to maintain his prayer life? That was so much sacrifice. But he did it. He disciplined his flesh and put it through tough training.

I’m not saying we should try what he did, but we should never pamper our flesh. When the flesh wants to sleep, oya sleep. When the flesh wants to eat, oya eat. When the flesh wants to watch movies, oya watch. We don’t discipline it at all. We allow the flesh have whatever it wants and this is the root of it all.

Number two is called, self denial. In the process of building your spiritual life, you’ll encounter the next phase of temptation. It’s what I call, distraction. The day you want to pray, that’s the day your friend will be in a serious conversation with you on Facebook. To end the conversation and start the prayers will become a serious problem.

Sometimes, it’s the day you want to study the bible. That would be the same day Chelsea would have a final march against Mancity. What an interesting game you wouldn’t want to miss. The day you want to fast, that would be the day that mummy would cook delicious, sweet and tasty jollof rice.

Jesus said something in the book of Matthew 16:24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

You need to come to a conclusion that following Jesus goes with a cost. There’s always a price to pay if you must follow Jesus completely. Following Jesus is not going to be a convenient journey. You would have to do a lot of stuffs that will make you uncomfortable.

A lot of Christians are not ready to deny themselves, yet they want to follow Jesus. It’s not possible. That’s not how it works. It’s denying yourself, taking up your cross and then follow.

Look at what Jesus said in Matthew 11:28. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Verse 29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Verse 30. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Take note of what Jesus said. He didn’t say you’ll drop your heavy load and walk away without carrying another yoke. You drop the yoke of sin and carry the yoke of the cross of Jesus.

There’s no vacuum in the realm of the spirit. It’s either you’re carrying God’s burden on your back or you’re carrying the burden of the Devil, which is what we all call the load of sin.

The only difference between the two is that verse 30 of that chapter said, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

God’s burden is easy and his yoke is light. That’s the only difference. You must have a master in the realm of the spirit. You cannot be in-between. Once you say no to God, the devil automatically picks you up. He doesn’t need your consent to do so. Once you say no to the Devil, he becomes your enemy automatically. That’s how the spirit realm operates.

We are all under a yoke. Either it is that of the spirit of God or that of the Devil. But make no mistake, we are all under a yoke.

You have to accept that following Jesus requires carrying a cross. A lot of believers want to follow Jesus without carrying a cross on their shoulder. It’s so impossible.

Because, if you refuse to carry that cross. You’ll end up following Jesus, with a luggage of sin on your shoulder. That’s the reason why alot of Christians serve God, but live a double life.

That’s why Jesus said that it’s either you’re for us or you’re against us. That’s how the spirit realm operates. You must carry someone’s property. Every human being here on earth is carrying something. Nobody’s back is empty. As you stop your load of sin, Jesus gives you his cross to carry. You put it on your back and begin a new life completely”.

“Wow!” I exclaimed.

“That’s what your bible said. My yoke is easy and my burden is light. I’m not the one who wrote the bible. I wish I was, so you could accuse me”, he said grinning.

“I mean, now I understand what was happening to me all these while. I now understand why life was so frustrating for me back then. This is amazing! I wish I knew all these earlier. I wouldn’t have made the mistakes I made earlier”, I said as if I was talking to myself.

“What mistakes?” He asked.

My mentor, her husband and Silas were all looking at me now.

“I’m sorry, but it made me realize something. You said there is no man with an empty back in the realm of the spirit, right?”

“Yes!”

“What if a man refuses to carry the cross of Jesus? It would be just as you say. When you reject the authority of Jesus over your life, Satan claims you immediately without your consent. Everyone here on earth must have a master. You must carry someone’s property on your back. Either the load of sin or the cross of Jesus Christ, right?”

“Yes”.

“No wonder! That was why I was struggling back then. That was the reason why I couldn’t do what I wanted to do. God wanted me not only to accept him as my saviour, but also as my Lord. All I thought was to give my life to Jesus and continue living my life the way I always did.

Continue my relationship with my old boyfriend. Party and drink alnight with my old friends. Live like I own everything. But as soon as I accepted Jesus, he started demanding alot from me. He started seperating me gradually.

I discovered he wanted more than what I was willing to give him. He was demanding and I was unyielding. But I discovered the more I fought to have my way, the more I fell into sin.

I remembered how I tried to accept Chris back after the breakup. Immediately, I fell into immorality. Because, I rejected the cross, which was giving up that man I loved so much to follow Jesus. And because I rejected Jesus’ lordship, I fell the lordship of the devil. He made me do his bidding. He made me carry his luggage of sin and iniquity on my back.

That’s why alot of Christians cannot walk with God. They want to follow Jesus without carrying a cross. They want to follow Jesus without having to deny themselves. They want to satisfy themselves and satisfy Jesus at the same time. No wonder why Jesus said that no man can serve two masters. God and self are the two masters.

If you’re not ready to give up what you love. That thing you love so much in order to follow Jesus. Then you’ll never be able to follow him. You’ll keep finding yourself struggling and getting more and more depressed”.

“Wait! What made you say that the person will keep getting depressed?” Apostle Robert asked.

Silas answered.

“It’s just another answer to this particular scripture. Psalms 16:4. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god.

Those who willingly disobey God. I mean people who God spoke to them and they refuse to give God a listening ear are really in for serious depression. A lot of Christians are sinking in depression today just because of their disobedience to the instructions God gave them. They want to obey God, but they want to do it at their own convenient time. They keep telling God they will obey him later and that later never comes. Because Satan will make sure you never obey God.

And the bible says something about them when it says in Job 9:4. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

You can never harden your heart against God and live a prosperous life. Everything you will do will keep getting boring and uninteresting. Your smile will only be occasional. You’ll find yourself struggling with everything. Struggling with your parents. Struggling with your relationship. Struggling with your husband. Everything you turn to will only get you more and more depressed.

Untill you go back to God. And the funny thing about it is that whenever you go back to God, that same thing you ran away from is what he will still call your attention to”.

“Exactly!” I concurred.

“Just like he did with me. Everytime I went back to him and asked for his forgiveness. The first thing he’ll say is to remind me of my relationship with Chris. Sometimes I would run away again. But when things get more and more messy, I’ll come back crying. Then he’ll say, ‘Arr you ready to do my will? Are you ready to obey me?’

I’ll be like, Lord, it’s too hard! But today, I’m enjoying the cross on my shoulder. Life is really much easy for me. Because his yoke is indeed an easy yoke. I’m so grateful to God that I let go of Chris. This wonderful gift from. God called Silas, would never have been mine. I was such a fool, fighting God for that pretender. Only God truly knows what’s best for us”.

“Wow! I never knew you were both teachers of the law”, Apostle Roberto said.

We all burst into laughter.

” Now look at what Apostle John said in the book of first John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not a burden.

What you’ve just said was a confirmation to this scripture. Life became more easier for you the moment you surrendered your back to carry the cross of Jesus Christ and follow him. Yes cross looks difficult and scary at the sight of it. Many run away, like you did as well. But those who bent their backs and accepted it, are not regretting it today.

So now, number 3.

To be continued……

Self denial does not look palatable. Self denial looks so scary and unpleasant. But it’s the sure way to that spiritual growth you desperately want.

You’ll have to deny yourself alot of things. You’ll have to let go of a lot of things. Friends, possessions, relationships, comfort and so on.

Are you willing to surrender?

Peter asked Jesus a question in Matthew 19:27. Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?

Verse 28. And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Verse 29. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Self denial, is not a decision you will regret.

Many of you are struggling with alot. God asked you to spend time with him everyday, but you keep giving him your excuses.

Now depression have taken over. Go back to God and surrender completely to his easy yoke.

Episode 89

“Apostle Paul said something in the book of Romans 8:1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Verse 2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Cris! Silas! Hear this! THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. I don’t understand. What does the law of the Spirit of life mean? Is it another ten commandments or something.

But Apostle Paul said the law of the spirit of life was what set me free from another law called THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH”.

I was seriously writing down a lot of things. Thank God I came with my jotter.

I don’t want to talk about the law of sin and death. But what does this experience looks like. Before that scripture. Apostle Paul described spiritual rustiness in the previous chapter. He spoke of the situation where he wants to do good and finds himself doing evil. He wants to pray and finds himself sleeping. That’s spiritual rustiness.

I’m just trying to show you spiritual rustiness from the bible. Now he went further to tell us that there’s something in the realm of the spirit called THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. Interesting. Another word for that is what I call, THE PRINCIPLE OF SPIRITUAL LIFE.

That’s the remedy to Spiritual rustiness. Life! The spiritual rusty man is not completely dead. He’s still breathing a little bit, but he’s spiritually weak. His spirit man is so weak.

The bible says something in Proverbs 24:10. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

It’s not because you didn’t read your Bible or hear God’s word. Infact let me be more detailed. Even after hearing a message as powerful as this, you will still remain the same. It’s not an evil prophecy. It’s a principle and you know the results of a principle before it arrives.

You failed in the day of adversity because your strength is small. Your spiritual energy is small. Your spirit man was completely weak.

Looks as if I’m getting you confused. Looks like I’m not giving you the answers. But the answer can be found in one simple word PRAYER.

Isaiah 40:31. But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Sir I don’t understand you. I’m telling you I struggle to pray. I’m telling you I cannot pray these days. Instead of telling me the solution, you’re telling me to go and pray? I said I tried to pray and it’s too difficult. Instead of giving me a better solution, you’re telling me to go and pray?

You need to understand one thing I have always said about prayer. I have said it and I’ll keep saying it. A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian. If you live by this Christian proverb, you have solved half of your spiritual problem.

Peter told Jesus that he was ready to enter prison with him and to die with him. But when it was time to pray, what was he doing? He was sleeping. And when it was time to die for Jesus, he could not do it. He was seeing Jesus right there and was telling everyone in the presence of Jesus that he doesn’t know him. The flesh will always overpower the man that cannot pray.

Brethren, God is not a magician. Grace is there. The power of God is there. The spirit of God is there. But the last thing that is missing is the man to pray. Prayer is discipline. Prayer is not magic. You discipline yourself to pray. You fight against your flesh to pray.

The LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE, is consistency in prayers. Prayers weakens the flesh and energizes the spirit. That is why the flesh will fight tooth and nail to ensure it succeeds in keeping you from praying.

So the question is HOW CAN A CHRISTIAN BUILD HIS PRAYER LIFE?

I want to pray but it’s too difficult for me, here are the steps.

Number one. Pick the most convenient time for you to pray. A time when there would be no distractions or whatever. A time you would be able to be consistent with. Anytime at all is okay. As long as it’s convenient for you, it’s fine. It can be in the night or daytime. Once that is accomplished, we move to the next step.

Number two. Set an alarm. That’s the next thing to do. And please, for those of you who set alarms and never wake up to the sound of it, here’s what to do. Before going to bed, pray this simple prayer. Lord, wake me up when it’s time to begin my quiet time. Let the angel watching over me, tap me out of my sleep once it is time. Believe God, that prayer works like magic. You won’t know how you would wake up suddenly.

Number three. Beware of extra time. A lot of Christians fall victim to this. Immediately your quiet time alarm rings. They look at the time and frown. Oh no! I’m too tired. Let me give myself extra minutes to sleep. 5 minutes more. Some put it off and don’t move an inch from the bed. The first thing I do when my quiet time alarm rings, is to wave my bed bye bye. I tell myself I don’t have anything to do with the bed anymore. So immediately I hear my alarm, I discipline myself by not wasting time on the bed. Immediately, I jump out of the bed. I don’t even dare sit on it. I avoid it like a plague. Don’t waste time on the bed. Don’t tell yourself 30 minutes more. That’s deception. How is 30 minutes sleep supposed to make you feel better?

At least when you lie down, you know that sleep comes and it’s intention is to stay longer than expected. There’s this popular proverb that says, ‘What you don’t want to eat, don’t bring it close to your nose to inhale the smell. Because in the process of inhaling it, you might put it in your mouth’. Stop the extra time sleep. You’ve had enough sleep for hours. How is 5 minutes sleep going to make you stronger?

It’s only a deception from the pit of hell to lure you back into sleep and cause you to miss your appointment with God. Or don’t you notice that after telling yourself you want to sleep for 5 minutes, you end up sleeping for one hour. For you to know that it was Satan that was decieving you.

So whenever you hear the sound of your alarm. Please, jump out of that bed immediately. Don’t wait to sleep small sleep. Don’t entertain the thought of a little sleep, a little slumber a little folding of hands to sleep. So shall thy spiritual poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. Proverbs 24: 32 and 33.

Number four. Beware of your prayer position. The first attack from the flesh is about your prayer position. Some of you want to pray and you lie on the bed and cover yourself with the blanket. You put your head on the pillow and close your eyes. Good morning Jesus! Good morning Lord! You won’t finish that song before sleep will finish you.

That one is not sleep was disturbing me. It I’m disturbing sleep. In other words, I’m looking for trouble. There are five praying position. The laying down position, the kneeling position, the sitting position, the standing position and the walking around position.

For those of you who are just starting quiet time. Please only two positions are the best for you. The standing and walking around position. Don’t go and sit down to observe your quiet time. Sitting down is enough to activate sleep on its own. Kneeling down and leaning on a chair to pray is a risk. You won’t remember when you’ll rest your head on the chair and continue the prayers in the dream world. If at all you’ll kneel, don’t lean on anything.

And laying down, that one na abomination. Be it on the floor to worship God or on the bed in adoration, don’t try it. You’re just a beginner. And one thing you must understand is that your body is not used to it. Your body is used to sleeping. So once you assume a comfortable position, sleep is activated. It doesn’t take time.

So beginners, stand up and discipline yourself to pray. The truth is that, anything about spirituality is first of all discipline. It’s your consistency that attracts the spirit of prayer to you.

Number five. Don’t entertain the pride of I’m doing fine. That’s another form of attack from the pit of hell. You’re so widely awake as a starter. You been using the standing position for a while and it has been helpful. But today, you decided to sit and pray. A few minutes later, you almost fell off the chair out of sleep. Immediately, the Holy Spirit will tell you to stop sitting down and stand up.

Many of us are in habit of telling him we’re doing fine. Don’t worry! I won’t fall asleep. It won’t take long, you’ll almost fall off the chair. Stand up and do this prayer! But you would keep decieving yourself that you’re doing fine. These are some of the habit of people who struggle with sleep and tiredness. Instead of them to discipline themselves and stand up to pray, they remain seated and decieve themselves they won’t fall asleep again.

Number six. Pray fervently. The trending prayer pattern in the body of Christ today is so overwhelming. I call it the gentleman prayer. Very gentle, not a single sweat. I’m not saying you should scream and disturb the neighborhood. But it’s possible to pray fervently without shouting. You can lower your voice and also pray aggressively. The bible says in the book of James 5:16b that the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Fervent prayers has a bigger effect than the gentleman prayer. So don’t pray like Mr Cool. Pray the way Jesus prayed in Gethsemane. You can’t pray like Mr Cool and be sweating. Pray with action, not necessarily screaming.

These are the steps. I know you were expecting me to say something that would not be difficult, but sorry. The road to heaven is a narrow road. And God is not planning to change it anytime soon. It has to be the hard way, nothing but the hard way.

The man that wants to serve Jesus must be ready to do what he must. You will continue to live in depression until you rise up and pray. You will continue to get frustrated and frustrated untill you wake up and tell yourself na prayer go kill me.

I mean, since prayer is the only way out of this struggle. Then I will pray and pray till everyone around me will say that I should not kill myself with prayers.

When Jesus was on earth, he was asked a question in
Luke 13:23. Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

Verse 24. Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

The Amplified version says, ‘Strive to enter by the narrow door [force yourselves through it], for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able’.

Here’s what the goodnews bible has to say, ‘Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able’

And here’s what the pidgin English bible says, ‘Make una struggol well-well so dat una go fit pass di small door, bikos many pipol go try to enter God Kingdom, but dem nor go fit.

It’s the hard way. I know you love comfort so much, but you have to let go. It’s going to cost you pain, but that’s the only way.

Let me tell you something. Attending fire programs will not solve this. How many Apostolic meetings have you attended and you’re still like this? How many revival meetings have you attended and your life is still the way it is?

Keep reading fire books. Nothing will happen. Apostle so and so is coming to minister at so and so place. You will roll on the floor at the meeting, get up and go back home the same way you came. Untill you learn to arise and force your flesh to pray, nothing will change.

So what are the secrets to a consistent spiritual life?

To be continued…….

When are you going to arise?
When are you going to pay the price?
You have been sleeping since you were born 20 years ago. You have used 20 years of your life here on earth to sleep. When are you going to give God just one hour everyday?

Don’t be surprised, you will finish reading this story and your life will still remain the same. It’s not an evil prophecy. It’s a principle.

Untill you get angry and tell yourself that enough is enough. Is it not prayer? Shey it’s to be praying everyday? I will pray till God begs me to stop.

Nothing will ever stop me from praying. Even sickness will not stop me. Sleep will not stop me. Tiredness will not stop me. Pain will not stop me.

Those principles in this episode were taught to me by the Holy Spirit. They are the keys that made my prayer life consistent.

Write them down and read them over and over again. Let them stick to your mind. If you can follow each one of them without giving up.

You’ll be the happiest soul on earth. They are the keys to building your prayer life.

Episode 88

“So I’ll be handing over to my Apostle Paul. He’ll be teaching us on the topic HOW TO REMAIN SPIRITUAL IN MARRIAGE. Robertic Roberto, over to you”, my mentor said to her husband.

He looked at her and shook his head in a playful frustration.

“You’re such a trouble maker”, he said grinning and she returned the smile.

“Silas and Cris. There’s a common trend in the body of Christ today. I call it THE EXCUSE MECHANISM. This what I’m here to help you deal with.

The truth is marriage is full of responsibilities. Infact, when you get married, your workload gets doubled. Children will come and believe me when I say this. It’s more easier to take care of an adult than a child.

From zero to seven years of age, they are alot of work. When you want to pray, they cry in the night. When you want to sleep, they need your attention. When you want to read the bible. That’s when they want to read the bible too.

I remembered how many times Tina tore my Bible because she she was zealous for the Lord. She really wanted to know mysteries at the age of 2. So whenever I wanted to read my Bible, she will come and sit on my laps.

And you know what happens when children read the bible. They prove to you that they are incredible readers. They leave their footprint or should I say, handprints there”.

We burst into laughter.

“So much to do and so little time to do it. But there’s a saying that whatever you find the most important thing to you, you would always create time for it.

That’s absolutely true. You would always create time for that thing that means so much to you. When I first got married. I mean when we first got married. Alot of things tried to bury our spiritual lives. There was a particular scripture I held on to back then.

With God all things are possible. So instead of seeing the obstacle or the excuse why I won’t be able to make out time for God. I think outside the box and begin to finds ways on how to make out time to spend with God.

Don’t allow the things of this world to take over your love for God. The truth is this. The road to heaven is a narrow one. A lot of us have forgotten that even Jesus himself said it while he was on earth. He never said the road to heaven was going to be easy or smooth.

He said it was going to be really hard. Many of us so jot want the hard life. We want the easy life. The life where there is no stress, no pain, no struggle, no sacrifices. Just too easy. We want to get closer to God without having to follow the narrow road.

So we observe our quiet time when we feel we can. When it looks so easy for our bodies. And when it seems difficult or when our flesh complains to us. We immediately pamper our flesh and make sure he is well taken care of.

We have forgotten that the road to heaven is a narrow road. A road of physical pain. A road where if you are not a disciplined person, you’ll give up and turn back. How is praying everyday ab easy thing to do? How is studying the word of God day and night an easy thing to do?

But we don’t realize it’s a must. One if the biggest problem with Christianity today is indiscipline and laziness. I’m sorry to use the word laziness but that’s the truth in plain words.

We don’t want to follow the narrow road. Sometimes we even go as far as complaining to God that it’s too difficult. Why is Christianity so hard? Why does building our spiritual lives have to be this hard? Why is it more easier to live the normal life than to be a Christian?

Matthew 11:12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

You cannot grab your spiritual life if you’re not ready to go after I bought force. You must learn to go for what you want and not stop until it is yours and completely yours. If you’re not ready for war, you’ll end up a prisoner of war.

A lot of Christians want to grow spiritually. But they don’t like the rigours and difficulty growing up in Christ will cost.

Let me show you something in the book of Revelation 3:17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Verse 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy unclothedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Excuse me, who is the speaker in that scripture?”

“Jesus”, we both answered.

“What did Jesus advice them to do?”

“To buy”.

“Imagine, Jesus telling you to come and buy. Cris! He said com and buy from me. He didn’t say come and collect it’s free. It’s your bible ooo! Thank God I wasn’t there when the bible was written.

Sheybi we are used to this popular saying. Jesus paid it all. Everything is free! Everything is free! No more price to pay.

Now the same Jesus is telling you that I am selling gold. Cris come and buy. It’s not free, it’s for sale. Come and buy.

You pay through your prayers. Your sacrifice of time and energy. Your sleep and your comfort. There is a price that must be paid. It’s non negotiable. It’s either you pay the price to get it, or you don’t get it.

It cannot be exchanged for something else. The narrow road remains the narrow road. It’s the hard way Cris! It’s nothing but the hard way. And untill you’re ready to accept it’s going to be hard. Untill you’re ready to live a hard life. You’ll never be able to live the Christian life consistently.

We have two types of Christians. The civilian Christian and the Military Christian. The civilian are so rampant in the world today. They are the easy going Christian. Anything rigorous or difficult in the body of Christ. Count them out. Fasting is a no no. Prayers, just five minutes. Bible study, just one verse.

Movies, five hours. Playing amazing Spider-Man on Android, 2 hours. Unnecessary chatting on social media, ten hours. Gossiping and gisting with friends, two hours. Eating, 4 to 5 square meals a day, lowest is 3 square meals. Sleeping, don’t go there. The minimum time they give for sleeping is 7 hours.

I cannot fast, my stomach will be doing me as if I want to die. I cannot pray, I don’t know what to pray about. No prayer point. When I start praying, sleep will be disturbing me, so I will round up the prayers and go back to bed, instead of disciplining myself and asking God for the grace to continue.

I cannot read the bible. If I’m reading it, I don’t use to understand what it is saying. It’s as if I’m reading novel. So I close it and open Facebook to read comedy. Instead of asking the Holy Spirit for interpretation or taking what you studied to people who can explain it for you.

These kind of Christians are so many in number. They are spiritual babes who are comfortable in the spiritual cradle. Putting on pampers in the realm of the spirit. They cannot do anything by themselves. Spiritual food must be served to them by an older Christian.

That means the only time they hear God’s word is when it is being preached to them. Whether on TV, social media, radio and in the church. They can never eat Spiritual food by themselves. That is to open the bible by themselves and feed their spirit man.

It is someone that must feed them with God’s word. The only thing they know how to do is play with toys.

What are toys in the spiritual realm? Toys are all those things or activities that are unnecessary and have no benefits to your spiritual life that drain your time.

Another name for it is idols. So you see them driving motor on their android phone. Watching Money Heist for hours. Sitting down with people who have no ambition to know anything about God and spend hours gisting with them.

The truth is, evil communication corrupts good manners. So if all your friends are unserious people who do not care about their spiritual lives. You will end up becoming like them. Just give yourself a little time.

In a short while, all your passion for God will die a natural death. It’s passion for movies, football match, and how to argue about Nigerian politicians and Yahoo boys that will take over your heart.

There’s something called SPIRITUAL RUSTINESS. Any person suffering from this always happens to enjoy movies, football matches, social media, sleep and eating more than anything that has to do with God.

These kind of people can watch season films from 10pm to 5am in the night and go to work the next day without dozing off. Even at work, they will never doze off at all. But tell they person that we’re having alnight by 12am to 1am. Just one hour. He’ll doze and even fall off his chair during the alnight.

They can chat in the night on social media and their eyes will very sharp like that of an owl. But 5 minutes of reading the bible, they’re already pouring saliva on it. They have used their bibles as pillows countless times and tore it into shreds.

These people can spend their last money on subscription of one thousand naira. But cannot buy Sunday school manual of two hundred naira.

Anything about God is difficult for them to do. They don’t understand that their spirit man is rusty. What does that mean?

Spiritual rustiness is a state where flesh is active and incharge of the life of a Christian. It is a state where the will of the man has been consistently obedient to the desires of the body to the point where it has become an demonic programming.

Normally before the flesh can fulfill it’s desires, it has to persuade you and make suggestions. It has to plead with you and speak with you to allow him to sleep when prayers are going on.

But in the case of these people, the flesh doesn’t beg them to stop the prayers and go to bed. He just comes and stops the prayers without your consent. He doesn’t ask for your permission to fulfill it’s desires. He is the boss. He decides when you fast and when you don’t. He decides when you pray and when you don’t.

It’s like when a wicked mother gives food to her daughter. Let people not say I am a bad person, oya let me allow you to pray small. Just small! Five minutes! Oya stop! Five minutes prayer is enough. Turn on the TV for me. It’s television I want to watch.

And the Christian has no single control over himself. He finds himself doing what he doesn’t want to do. His flesh does not make suggestions, it makes decisions for him, whether he likes the decision or not.

Such Christians are the type that will want to fast from morning till 3pm or 12pm. But by 10am, the flesh will come and drag them to where they are selling popcorn. The aroma will be so enchanting and irresistible as if you have never eaten popcorn since you were born.

How you will eat the popcorn, you will not understand. These are the kind of Christians that are fed up with their spiritual lives. They cry day and night to God for intervention. Because in the realm of the spirit, they are slaves. Slaves to their own passion.

God I’m so useless. I need a change. I want to pray but I cannot! I want to fast but I cannot! I want to read the bible, bit it’s too hard! God please rescue me.

Do you want to know the remedy for these people?”

To be continued………

Brethren, the flesh is oppressing alot of Christians out there.

Many of them cry in the secret. When am I going to be free?”

Come with your pen and jotter tomorrow. The class continues tomorrow morning

And please keep praying for me. I appreciate the prayers of all those who never round up their quiet time without mentioning my name.

Praying for God’s servants is not a burden. It helps you get the best of what God has for you through them. Also, it makes you a blessed person.

Believe me when I say this! God is set to resurrect the spiritual lives of a lot of people reading this story. Don’t look at the length of the story.

Look at what God is doing through it. Personally, I have been stylishly asking God to stop the story. But when I start typing, how I arrive here, I don’t understand.

God I’m so useless. I need a change. I want to pray but I cannot! I want to fast but I cannot! I want to read the bible, bit it’s too hard! God please rescue me.

Who’s ready to experience a breakthrough?

Episode 87

“Cris, you are welcome. Please take a seat”, my mentor said and we both sat down.

“It’s been a while ooo! You must have been so busy”, she said grinning.

“I’m sorry ma! I was supposed to be in touch. But I”.

“Was busy”, she interrupted grinning.

I knew she was only smiling to make me feel better. I was really feeling guilty for not keeping in touch with my mentor.

“Mummy, I’m sorry!”

“I have goodnews for you”, she said as she sat down.

“Mummy Susan will be attending the wedding”, she announced.

“Are you serious?” I asked.

“Didn’t you say you wanted to see her at your wedding?”

“Yes ma! But, it’s such a long distance”.

“Leave that to the mummies to worry about. She will be here live”.

I stood up and dived on her. I pecked her more than seven times. Showering her with kisses allover her face.

“Madam Cris! E don do ooo!” She said admist laughter.

“I just started”, I said and continued.

She broke out of the hug and ran out of the sofa. I got up and chased after her. Her husband was on his way to the sitting room. She ran and held her husband’s arm.

“My sweet Roberto! Look at this small girl. She’s disturbing your Julie angel!” She said in a mimicked childish voice.

She rest her head on his chest like she was his little girl and stuck out her tongue to me in mockery because I couldn’t come close.

Laugh wan kill me abeg. My mentor can be playful that you would almost call her a carnal person. And she can be so Spiritual that you’ll almost call her a demi god. She’s just a balanced Christian.

“Who is disturbing my Julie angel? My Julilah! My most treasured possession! My number one best friend. The Juliet that made me a complete Romeo”.

My head was already swelling. Silas hope you’re learning ooo! Please finish me like this after our wedding ooo! This Apostle Paul is a full package. Chai! Spiritual and romantic! Silas are you seeing them?” I asked inwardly.

I turned to Silas and saw him reading a Bible.

“Ewoo! This one is not time to read bible”, I said in my heart and rushed to his side.

“Wow! He said smiling and watch the couple in admiration.

“Hope you’re learning?” I whispered and started giggling.

“You’re my Robertic Samson with seven spiritual dread locks. Your spiritual hair is so long that I have woven it into seven braids, like that of Samson”, she said as they both sat down in front of us.

“That’s my Julie angel!” He said and placed his arm around her.

“Mummy, why were you reporting me to Daddy as if I was going to hurt you?” I asked because I was still enjoying the romantic display. I knew as they both sat down, it’s counseling that will follow.

“These cheeks are only meant to be kissed by one person alone”.

“Exactly”, her husband said and gave her a peck on the cheek.

“I love you my sweet Roberto”, she said and pecked him back.

“I love you my sugarly Julie angel! My pride and my world”, he replied.

“Daddy! You people are spoiling a virgin brother”, Silas said and playfully covered his face.

“Virgin what?” My mentor frowned playfully.

We all burst into laughter.

She tapped her husband.

“Can you imagine what is coming out of his mouth?”

“Don’t mind him jare. Instead of him to sit down and learn, he’s there claiming virginity”,

“Daddy! Why is it that nobody values virginity among boys? It’s only girls that talk about virginity. Nobody is interested in male virginity. That’s not fair!”

We all burst into laughter.

“You know the ladies carry the bigger effect on the first time of copulation. So yes, they deserve special attention. Men can copulate and walk away, travel out of the country. Continue with the running of their business. But the lady is still stuck with something he has done and forgotten completely.

So it’s a fair treatment. We deserve to be on the news headlines. So, stop being jealous of us”, I replied.

“That’s a good one Cris”, my mentor said and gave me a thumbs up.

“So can we go straight to the main reason why we are here?” Her husband asked.

“Yes!” She answered and cleared her throat.

“Cris! I invited you and your fiancee here so I can teach you some of the tips for a successful Christian marriage. But I decided to invite my Apostle Paul. My one and only fire fire Apostle! My Robertic Roberto! Please put your hands together for my husband”,

“Please stop that”, he said as we started clapping.

“If you continue clapping I am going to leave this meeting”, he threatened.

“Please stop the clap oo. The clap is do!” My mentor said quickly.

We had to stop immediately.

“It took me a lot to invite our guest minister. Our Apostle’s itinerary is fully loaded. It’s a great privilege he was able to sacrifice his time for this meeting”, teased and her husband started laughing.

“Julie E don do! No finish me abeg!”

“Okay! Serious mode activated”, she said and made a playful serious face.

We all burst into laughter.

“Okay! So Cris, I ant you to succeed in this marriage and that’s the reason for this meeting. Marriage is a lifetime commitment. It’s not a job where you tender your resignation anytime you get fed up with the attitude of the boss. It’s a lifetime commitment.

You must be ready to love your man no matter what happens. Be there to cook for the family as a mom. These are responsibilities that tend to cause alot of positive or negative effects.

But before I go further, I want to talk about the love in the family”.

I quickly brought out my jotter and pen and began to write.

“Love in the bible is represented as heat or should I say, fire. When love is strong the bible says it is hot. why the bible says in the book of Matthew 24:12. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

The cold there is referring to the love of God in the lives of believers in the end time. The increase in sin will make the love many have for God to go down.

And that’s what the bible described as cold. So the love you have for your husband is regarded as heat.

I don’t want to go to that of the lukewarm. Not cold not hot kind of people. Theirs is a big topic on its own. I just want to tell you that you must understand one thing in marriage.

There must be a balance. You must maintain that balance. When it’s time to be with God, be there for him and when it’s time to be with your husband be there for him. That’s the balance that keeps the couple romantic and also spiritual. Not lacking in any area of their lives. Do you understand?” She asked.

“Yes ma!”

“Don’t get carried away with your spiritual life and neglect your spouse. And at the same time, don’t get carried away with romance and neglect your God. Let there be a balance”.

“Yes Mummy!”

“Now there’s another thing I learnt about spiritual enchantment that I want to teach you. It’s one of the recipes that spices up love in your marriage.

I call it, ENCHANTED MEALS”.

I looked at my Charming and then back to her. I also saw the shock on her husband’s face.

“Enchanted meals? You mean meals with spells of prayers on them?”

“Exactly! You’re such a fast learner. When I cook meals for my husband, I speak into the meal. I command my husband to become what I want him to become. I enchant him to love me like crazy. I speak into his ministry. I speak into his attitude.

Anything I want to correct, I say it in the meals. At times, when my husband acts in a certain way and I notice my words are not going anywhere with him. I switched to the meals.

All of a sudden, he loves me so madly. People would start saying that our love is too much. I have a secret recipe. Enchanted meals”, she said grinning.

“Oh my God! So you have been poisoning me?” Her husband asked.

We all burst into laughter.

“Cris! Many years ago I think about ten years back. There was this strange woman that came to our church. She was so active in church and was almost a worker in every department in the church.

You know how such people draw the attention of their spiritual leaders. My husband was not as fire fire as this back then. So he fell for her spells. I knew it was spells she was using on him.

She could call my husband anytime of the day and he would leave me and the kids to answer her. They would be on the phone for hours, talking about so many unimportant stuffs.

I tried to tell my husband to stop answering her calls, but he saw me as an enemy to his ministry. That’s how spells work. Anyone who sees the danger ahead and tries to help you escape is tagged an enemy.

I had to act fast. I stopped talking about the lady and started enchanting my meals. I commanded the love that was growing between my husband and the lady to die and turn to hatred.

I started cooking all his favourite meals and casting my spells on them. Soon, I would pick up my husband’s phone and tell him that he has a call from Victoria. He would say he’s not in the mood to talk to her.

It was not too long that the lady left out church complaining the pastor doesn’t have time for his members. After she left, a member came to our house and confessed to us that the lady was from their kingdom.

She was sent to destroy my husband’s ministry through adultery. She said they were both sent and the lady was undergoing serious punishment for failing in her mission. That very soon they were coming to get her. She cried to us for help, confessing she was ready to leave the kingdom.

I knew the lady was making advances towards my husband, but she was using spells as well. My husband, out of carelessness fell for her spells and couldn’t discern what was going on.

That was how I used the technique of Enchanted meals to save our marriage and win my husband back”.

“Wow!” Was all I could say.

The wife is seriously the gatekeeper of the house. If not for my mentor’s watchfulness, wisdom and Intercession. A general in the faith would have been struck down.

“My Julilah! The woman who prevents spiritual Delilahs from shaving off my anointing!” Her husband said.

“Please! It was God that stopped them. Not me! Let all the thanks go to God”, she replied grinning.

“Silas! I love this woman with all my heart. It as if my love for her gets stronger than before everyday”, he said.

“Christy, hope you’re hearing?” Silas asked.

We all burst into laughter.

“I’m not Juliah na!”

“You’re my Christilah!” He replied.

Everyone laughed so hard.

“What did you call me?”

“Christilah”.

“What kind of name is that? It sounds like stealer to me”.

“Julie angel! I’m cooking tonight ooo!” He announced.

“I don’t want to see you near my kitchen”, she replied.

“No ooo! I must cook tonight whether you like it or not. Enchanted food na him you go chop today. Chai! So I no know say na food them dey use control me for this house!” He said

We all laughed so hard.

To be continued……

This is another pattern of Spiritual Enchantment. Not just night prayers and commanding the spirit of the person.

You can speak into the food they eat, the water they drink or the clothes they put on.

Command them and watch them work for you.

I have been receiving testimonies on people who commanded the spirit of Infirmity and got instant results. They received their healing after commanding the spirit of Infirmity to leave.

By the way, Mummy Susan will be attending the wedding.

Planning committee! Please arrange a befitting honorarium for the woman of God.

Episode 86

“Can’t she talk?” I asked.

“She can, but you’ll barely hear a thing. She’s struggling with her words. Struggling to use her tongue”, Doc answered.

“CRIS TELL SILAS TO START PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT. YOU GO AHEAD AND TALK TO HER”.

“Okay sir”, I replied and turned to Silas.

“Dad says you should start praying in tongues right now. He said you should be doing that while I speak with the woman”.

“Got it”, he said and started praying immediately.

I turned to the lady and exhaled.

“Mummy, I want you to know that there is nothing God cannot do. I’m not here to remind you of all the sins you have committed. As long as you have asked God to forgive you, they have been forgiven.

I’m not telling you this so you can jump into sin and jump out whenever you feel like. I’m telling you this so that you will not abuse the grace God has given you.

You may have done horrible stuffs in the past, but I’m here to tell you what God has to say.
In the book of second Chronicles 7:14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

God is here to hear your prayers. He is here to answer your requests. He is here to help you. To heal you and set you free. I just want to announce to you that your period of living on the sick bed is over. Do you believe that?”

I touched her arm gently and she closed her eyes and opened them. I guess that was her own style of saying yes.

I smiled and gave her fingers a gentle squeeze.

“Lord, you said in your word in the book of Jeremiah 32:27. Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

Indeed, there is nothing too hard for you. Piece of cake daddy! That’s what I’m see here, just a piece of cake. Now let me address you, spirit of Infirmity. Hear the word of the Lord.

The bible says that God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

So I command you in that name that is above every other name. Get out of this body in the name of Jesus.

“Amen!” Doc said.

“When Jesus entered the temple at Jerusalem. The first thing he did was to drive out all those illegal occupants in his father’s house. He drove out those who were buying and selling in his temple. He said that his temple is a place of prayer, not a place for sickness. That means the more you use your body for prayers, the more sickness cannot stay there.

This body is a temple for prayers. Sickness you are an illegal occupant. This is not your house. This is a house of prayer, not a house for sickness to dwell in.

Therefore, I command you come out in the name of Jesus!”

“CRIS LAY YOUR HAND ON HER TOMMY”, Came the instruction.

I quickly placed my hand on her stomach and immediately, it was like there was an electric force that transferred. She jumped up immediately and fell from the bed.

She made groaning sounds and bent over to vomit. Before we could get something or move get to the toilet, she had spilled everything on the floor.

“Whatever you swallowed in the dream is out of your system”, Silas said grinning.

She stood up and walked into the toilet to wash her face. We had to get a mop and a bucket quickly to tidy up the room. While she was in the toilet, we did I quick job in tidying up the whole place.

By the time we were done, she came out.

“Mummy, how are you?” Doc asked.

“I’m fine!” She replied as she walked to the bed and sat down.

We all looked at each other with excitement on our faces.

“Mummy, you mean you can talk?”

“Of course I can talk, why wouldn’t I be able to talk?” She replied.

“Oh my Jesus!” I said with my hands over my mouth.

“It’s supposed to be oh my God!” Silas corrected.

“Charming! Leave protocols oh. Are you seeing what I’m seeing? Sawest thou what I seest?”

“Christy you don come again with this grammar”, he said admist laughter.

“Mummy are you hungry?” I asked.

“Very hungry”, she answered.

“Get something for her to eat”, I said immediately.

Doc rushed out of the room immediately. Soon, he came back with a tray of apples. He quickly placed them on a stool beside her and stood to watch.

Mummy devoured an apple in two bites. She went for her second opponent on the tray. She devoured him with 3 bites. Soon the 3rd and 4th opponents were so scared that they had to run out of the tray. They actually fell from the tray. Probably due to mummy’s speed.

But to me, na run them run ooo. See the way Mummy was eating. You would be scared if your name was Mr Apple. She didn’t even wait for us to pick it up for her. She picked it up herself and used her wrapper to rub it. That was enough cleaning to continue the combat.

We all stood watching.

“Why are you all looking at me? Don’t just stand there, get me water!” She requested.

Silas and Doc ran to get the water at the same time and bumped into each other.

I was just holding my laughter inside my belly.

“Sorry”, the apologized to each other and quickly went to get the water.

Both of them poured water for Mummy to drink. I was excited when she took Silas’ cup.

She was still drinking when someone entered the room. I was shocked when I turned and saw the face.

“What in the world are you doing here?” He shouted on seeing me.

“How did you get into my house?” He asked in anger.

I was still looking for how I will answer the JAMB question, when another elderly man walked in.

I felt like the ground should open and swallow me.

“So we meet again”, he said grinning.

You can guess who it was, but the first person was barrister Obi. Wait a minute! Doctor Francis is barrister Obi’s son?”

What a small world! So we have been in Barrister Obi’s house all these while without knowing. I felt like jumping out through the window.

“What are we going to do?” I whispered to Silas.

“Start talking to Mummy”, he whispered back.

“Hi mummy! How are you?” I asked and quickly sat down beside her on the bed.

“I am fine my daughter”, she replied immediately.

I love the way this my mummy was playing along.

“Are you still hungry?”

“What is your name my daughter?” She asked.

“Mummy God will bless you”, I replied inwardly.

“My name is Cristina or Christiana. Anyone you feel like calling me”, I replied grinning.

“Cris what?”

“Okay, just call me Olamide”, I said in a jiffy.

“Is now you mentioned name ooo. All what I was hearing was all these oyinbo names. What made you forget your Yoruba identity?”

“No mind me Mummy! To travel go America dey hungry me”, I replied and she burst into laughter.

We all watched her as she laughed so hard and beyond ordinary.

Barrister threw his briefcase on the floor and rushed to his wife.

“Yemisi! What happened to you?” He asked in curiosity.

“Your daughter prayed for me and immediately, Jesus healed me”, she replied smiling.

“Jesus?” He asked.

“Yes! Jesus”.

He turned to look at my uncle who was equally shocked. My all knowing an smart uncle had nothing to say.

Barrister turned to me. I quickly went down on my knees.

“Daddy, I’m sorry for stepping into your house. I’m sorry for….”

“Get up! Get up!” He shouted.

I quickly rose up. He stood up and made to kneel down to me, but Silas and I quickly stopped him.

“Daddy! How will you want to kneel down for the wife of a gateman?” He asked.

“You’re not a gateman. You’re a man of God! Jesus! I can’t believe I insulted the solution to the millions of naira I have been wasting on a monthly basis.

What kind of healing grace is this? Please find a place in your heart to forgive me”, he said as tears rolled down his eyes.

“Daddy! Please don’t embarrass us. How would you be begging we your children? Daddy please stop this!” Silas said.

“I have wronged you and your wife. Please find a place in your heart to forgive me. Please I beg you”, he said and made to kneel down.

Silas and I grabbed him this time. The baba was so heavy ooo. I have never lifted someone as heavy as that, but thank God for the emergency strength he gave me.

“Daddy please! I will leave this house if you try this thing again”, I threatened.

“Please don’t leave. Gabriel! Talk to your daughter. You have been silent and I don’t like your silence. Please say something.

We turned around and saw our uncle standing behind us. His eyes were looking blurred with tears. He stood transfixed, unable to utter a word.

“Chai! I once read in the bible where Jesus said I have come to give sight to those who cannot see and to take sight away from those who claim they can see. Today na, I come to make the dumb to speak and to make the talkative to become dumb.

See my uncle ooo. You no fit talk again abi?

“Cris! You’re a good woman! I have been a bad man. I have been a wicked father to you”.

I quickly threw my arms around him and hugged him.

“Daddy, I love you so much! Please accept my Jesus! You knew me very well before I met Jesus. You knew the kind of girl I was. I was just as bad as any spoilt brat out there.

I had no iota of respect for the elderly and you know it. I was as terrible as a witch. So rebellious!

But Jesus came into my life and transformed me completely. He took away my sins, my guilt, my shame and made me brand new.

That Jesus is the one I’m introducing to you. He can change the heart of a man. He can turn your life around. He can make you brand new as he did with me.

All you have to do is to accept him as your Lord and personal saviour. Please Daddy”,

I pulled out of the hug and held his two hands.

“Will you serve this God with me? Will you say yes to Jesus?” I asked and stared into his eyes.

“Yes!” He answered.

I squealed like a girl who had won a championship match.

“Hallelujah!” Silas said smiling.

“I am ready too”, barrister said.

“Wow!”

This’ is amazing. Two souls at a time. God! You’re so wonderful.

I quickly led them to say the sinner’s prayer. Immediately they were done, we shook hands with them.

“This was seriously the Lord’s doing and it’s beyond marvelous. It’s awesome! I mean, I don’t know the right word to use to describe it”, Silas said as we left the house.

“Wait!” The maid shouted from the door.

We both turned.

“Your uncle wants to have a brief word with you”, she said and made way for my uncle as he came out to meet us”.

“Cris! When is your wedding date?” He asked.

I felt like I didn’t hear him correctly. Can you please repeat what you have just said?

“Sir?”

“I said when is your wedding date?”

“Daddy! We don’t have one yet. We were patiently waiting for your approval before choosing a date for the wedding”, I answered.

“Then your waiting days are over. You have tomorrow to give me feedback on the wedding date. If I don’t get your feedback tomorrow, I’ll pick a date myself.

I want you both wedded within two weeks from now. Infact, two weeks is too long. I want you in your husband’s house by the end of this week”, he said smiling.

Wait ooo! Na my uncle dey talk abi na me dey sleep too much con dey see wetin dey shock me?

To be continued…….

At last! The wedding has been approved.

Jehovah na you dey reign oo

Oya wedding planning committee! Your work has been tripled. First is bridal shower. Second, traditional marriage and wedding in just one week.

No sleeping abeg! Do quick! I no want uncle Akinyele to change his mind.

See grammar!

Please if you have always been a Ghost reader, please come out of your hiding place for today.

It’s really been a privilege dear friends. You have all been so wonderful and encouraging.

I thank God for each and everyone of you. Oya stone me with your prayers.

Episode 85

We entered the office and sat down on the sofa. I was so much taken by the interior decoration I saw. I took a long time looking around as the maid left to get her boss.

Soon, he appeared.

“Miss Kolapo, it’s so nice to see you!” He said and walked up to meet me.

I stood up and lowered my knees slightly.

“I’m so happy to meet you”, I said as I shook hands with him.

“And who is the handsome one beside you?” He asked pointing at Silas.

“Meet my fiancee. This is Mr Silas Akande”,

“It’s nice meeting you Mr Silas”, he said as they both shook hands.

“Thank you sir!” Silas replied.

“Please take a seat”, he said and we both sat down.

Oh! Sorry I didn’t tell you his name. It’s doctor Francis. The guy from the psychiatric hospital. He called me and asked if I could meet with him for a brief discussion. So we fixed a day and he invited me to dinner with his family.

The first thing I did was to tell Silas about the invitation. He told me he was fine with it, but we had to go together.

I quickly agreed and here we are in the guy’s house.

“So you said you were going to see me a long time ago. Now you’re not only seeing me, but my fiancee as well”, I said smiling.

“Thank you for bringing your man of God along. I’m so honoured to be in his presence”.

“Please ooo! He’s not a pastor. He’s just a brother in Christ!” I quickly corrected.

“That doesn’t matter. What matters most is that he functions in the office. Whether he’s ordained by the church authority or not. In the spiritual realm, he’s already an ordained minister of God”.

“Thank you so much. But can we switch to the reason why we are here?”

“I’m sorry about the diversion. All I wanted to say is that he’s truly a man of God”, he said.

“No he’s not! He’s just a brother in Christ”.

“Wait a second. I have noticed something recently”, he said.

“What is that?” Silas asked.

“Why is it that alot of Christian ladies hate to marry a pastor? What makes them run away from pastors? Why is it that if you tell a sister that God will make her a pastor’s wife. Immediately, she will say God forbid?”

“Brother, I noticed that too! I don’t know why sisters are like that? Thank God there’s a sister here. She will tell us why?

Oya! Sister Christiana! Can you tell the house why the percentage of Christian ladies who do not want a pastor as a husband are on the increase?” Silas asked and both men stared at me for an answer.

“Please, why are we here?”

“Answer the question jare”, Silas said.

“Madam, we are waiting”, Doc said.

“You guys should leave me alone. Let’s go to the reason why we are here. Please, tell us what brought us here?”

“Christy! I want to know. Please tell me? What’s scary about marrying a pastor?”

“Well, alot of ladies believe that marrying a man of God means more responsibility. More prayers and serious spiritual battles to fight. So we want to stay safe. We want a quiet and easy life. We want our man to ourselves.

Marrying a pastor could mean alot of work to do. So we want to be on a safe island withe our husband and children. Let the other women do the marrying of pastors, not me”.

“But I have a question? If you Christian ladies do not want to marry the men of God, who will marry them? Is it those ladies out there that are prostituting themselves in club houses?”

“I don’t know for them ooo. They are the ones pushing men of God into wrong marriages na!” Doc said.

We all burst into laughter.

“Oh ye man of God! Thou art inexcusable”, I said admist laughter.

“It’s true sha! It’s just like Mordecai said to Esther. If you reject the assignment God has given you, out of another place shall arise deliverance for the Jews. But you and your father’s house shall surely perish. For who knows whether God has brought you into the kingdom for such a time as this?”

“When Saul rejected the assignment God gave him, God raised David. But Saul and his family were destroyed in the process. If you reject God’s will or assignment for your life, it’s really a path to destruction. It takes only the mercy of God to save such an individual”, Silas said.

“That’s my Apostle Paul talking”, I said grinning.

“Please stop calling me that”, he said and made a playful frown.

“You are a man of God na!” I replied.

“And so? Do you know what it means to put on the spiritual mantle of the great Apostle of faith? Please, stop calling someone I am not worthy to stand side by side with”, he replied.

“That was the humility of John the Baptist. He was so humble to the call. He said that the person coming after him is so mighty that he is not qualified to untie his shoe lace.

God decided to exalt him. He did not only untie Jesus’ shoe lace, he baptized the Messiah. What a great privilege was that? God knows how to honour humble people. A man who kept saying he dared not touch Jesus’ shoe lace, touched him and dipped him into the water. What a humble God we serve!”

“Hallelujah!” Doc said, all smiles.

” I just wish this bible class to continue. I feel like I’m in the presence of God already. No wonder Jesus stayed in the temple for three days without feeling it. His parents were looking for him, but he was lost in the atmosphere of the word of God”, Doc said.

“Yes! But it’s not good that we have spent almost an hour and we are yet to know what we are here for”, I said.

“That’s true”, Silas concurred.

“So can you please tell us why we are here?” I asked.

“I can’t forget what you told me at the office that day we met. You spoke on how you disobeyed God and it resulted into the mental challenge you had. You also said that the moment you repented. You were healed without the help of medical doctors.

I know God can use you for my mother. She was once a Christian like you and I. But she allowed her strife for fame, money, power and most especially politics, sweep her away.

Everything about her devotion to God and spiritual life died. She abandoned the church completely. She stopped coming to church and stopped spending time with God like she used to.

The conclusion of it all is that, she’s very ill right now. Her condition is getting worse every passing hour. She cannot digest meals faster. It takes her body a long time to digest whatever she eats. So she hardly had strength in her body. It could take her two days to digest what she ate in the morning.

Her stomach gets bigger than usual. She is so weak and lives on a sick bed. I know this sickness is more spiritual than physical. I know that very well. So we have been praying for her. The only problem is, nothing has happened so far.


She can barely talk as I’m talking to you. She struggles to open her eyes. I don’t know what is going on in her mind right now. It’s almost as if she’s dumb. I don’t know what she’s saying to God through her mind that is hindering the answer to our prayers.

When I heard you speak of God healing you when you repented. I knew you can show her the way back to her maker. So I invited you here to help me. I don’t know why my work had prevented me from getting back to you all these while. Please, help my mum!”

I looked at Silas whose eyes were shut. He opened them and looked at me.

“Where is she?” He asked.

“Please come with me. She’s upstairs”, he said and stood up.

We all followed him to the room and met his mum. I felt pity for the woman. She looked so sick. Her tommy was swollen like that of a pregnant woman. Her eyes were shut like someone who was asleep.

“What’s the name of her sickness?” I asked within me.

“IS THAT A QUESTION YOU SHOULD BE ASKING? SICKNESS IS A SPIRIT.

Matthew 8:14. And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever. Matthew

Verse 15. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

“EXCUSE ME! THE FEVER DID WHAT?”

“The fever left her”.

“WHY WOULD YOU SEE THE BIBLE GIVING A HUMAN ATTRIBUTE TO SICKNESS? IF I SAID COME OUT OF THIS HOUSE AND YOU WALKED OUT. CAN’T I SAY THAT YOU LEFT THE HOUSE?”

“Yes!”

“IS’NT IT SOMETHING THAT HAS LEGS THAT CAN LEAVE A PLACE?”

“Yes!”

“SO FEVER IS A SPIRIT. AIDS IS A SPIRIT. MALARIA IS A SPIRIT. TYPHOID IS A SPIRIT. THE GENERAL NAME FOR IT IS WHAT WE CALL SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY”.

“But daddy! I thought if you receive mosquito bites, it causes malaria. So how is that the work of an unclean spirit?”

“GOOD QUESTION! NOW IF YOU AS A CHRISTIAN TELL YOURSELF THAT GOD CAN DO ALL THINGS AND STOP READING YOUR BOOKS AS A STUDENT. WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. YOU STOP READING YOUR BOOKS AND YOU WANT A MIRACLE TO HAPPEN WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GIVE YOU EXPO.

YOU WILL FAIL YOUR EXAMS RIGHT?”

“Yes!”

“WHO INVITED THE SPIRIT OF FAILURE?”

“Me!” I answered.

“YOU DON’T HAVE A JOB, BUT YOU KEEP PRAYING THAT GOD SHOULD BLESS YOU. YET YOU’RE GETTING POOR AND POOR. WHO INVITED THE SPIRIT OF POVERTY?”

“Me”.

“YOU’RE NOT A PROSTITUTE BUT YOU DRESS SEDUCTIVELY AS A CHRISTIAN AS IF YOU PASS, BOYS LUST AFTER YOU AND START COMMITING IMMORALITY WITH YOU IN THEIR HEART. SOME OF THEM START USING THEIR BRAIN TO CALCULATE KISSING YOU IN THE COMFORT OF THEIR BED. WHO INVITED THE SPIRIT OF IMMORALITY?”

“Me!”

“THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT CALLED THE LAW OF ATTRACTION. IF YOU WANT TO BUILD YOUR PRAYER LIFE. YOU KEEP WAKING UP BY 4AM EVERYDAY TO PRAY. YOU DOZE OFF WHILE PRAYING. SOMETIMES YOU STOP AND CLIMB YOUR BED.

BUT EVERYDAY, YOU KEEP RISING UP BY 4AM TO PRAY AND STUDY THE BIBLE. DO IT FOR 3 DAYS, 7 DAYS, 14 DAYS. WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS EMAILING THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER. YOU ARE ATTRACTING THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER TO YOUR ROOM.

BY THE TIME HE COMES AND POSSESSES YOU. PRAYERS BECOME SO EASY FOR YOU. YOU DISCOVER YOU DON’T STRUGGLE TO PRAY. SOMETIMES YOU WAKE UP BEFORE YOUR ALARM. AND WHENEVER IT IS TIME TO PRAY, YOU GET EXCITED.

THAT’S WHY CONSISTENCY IS SOMETHING SATAN WILL ALWAYS FIGHT IN YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE. HE ALWAYS WANT YOU TO GET DISCOURAGED AND TAKE A BREAK. BECAUSE HE SEES WHAT’S AHEAD OF YOU.

“SO IF YOU KEEP SLEEPING AROUND WITH GUYS AS A LADY AND COME IN CONTACT WITH A PERSON HAVING AIDS, YOU INVITED THE SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY.

THE SAME WAY YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH MOSQUITOES AND INVITE MALARIA.

BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT, THE SPIRITS ARE SUBJECT TO YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS. YOU CAN ACTUALLY ADDRESS THE SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY AND TELL HIM TO GET OUT AND HE’LL GET OUT. BECAUSE AT THE MENTION OF THE NAME OF JESUS, EVERY KNEE MUST BOW.

“So I can actually command malaria and he’ll obey me?”

“IF YOU HAVE FAITH YOU SHALL SAY UNTO THIS MOUNTAIN. BE UPROOTED AND CAST INTO THE SEA AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN?”

“It shall be done! Wow! This is awesome. There’s so much in God”.

“EXACTLY! ETERNITY IS TOO SHORT TO KNOW ME!”

“Thank you so much sweet Daddy!”

“YOU’RE WELCOME MY PRETTY EBONY. NOW WE’VE GOT A SICK LADY TO ATTEND TO”.

I turned and faced the woman on the bed. I was ready to do this.

To be continued…..

Since that day, I learned how to speak to sickness as if I’m talking to a person and give it commands.

The bible says in Mark 16:17. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

Verse 18. They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Healing of sick people, is a gift for every Christian. Although, some people are called into it. It is just a sign that follows the person who believes in Jesus.

The same way you get baptized in the Holy Ghost and you receive the gift of tongues. The same way, you receive the ability to heal.

This message is for someone.

Episode 84

My phone kept ringing. My office line ringing at the same time. I don’t understand. I can’t do this. The press were here to see me. ‘LOVE BEYOND ORDINARY’ Was what they tagged my wedding to Silas.

How did the news get to the public? I don’t know who released it to them. They came to interview me. I knew this day would come, but I never expected it to come this soon. Especially when our marriage was yet to have my uncle’s approval.

I had to tell Silas to leave the company premises so as to avoid the crowd.

Maggie and Harmony were at my door, knocking.

“Cris! Open up! Why are you running?” Maggie asked from behind the door.

“We have spoken to the press. All they need is a few minutes with you. Probably half an hour.

I opened the door and let them in.

“What am I going to say?” I asked shutting the door immediately.

“It’s simple”, Harmony said.

“Just tell them Silas was so Charming and charmed you”, they burst into laughter.

“Girls this is not a time for jokes. What am I going to do?”

“Just tell them God said he was your man. Tell them you ran mad when you tried to reject him as your husband. You had no choice than to obey God”, Maggie replied.

“The press are not as understanding as the body of Christ. My message must be passed in a careful manner.

I want to pass a message that would look so beautiful to the world. Something that stir up hunger for God in them”.

Maggie look at me with that look of confusion.

“I guess I’m lost”, she replied.

“I have a suggestion”, Harmony said, raising up her hand.

“Why don’t you ask God? You’re trying to figure out what to say and you’ll keep trying. But when you table it before God. He’ll show you the way to do it”.

I was so amazed by that suggestion.

“MADAM CRIS! HOW ARE YOU?”

“Daddy?”

“HOW IS THE THINKING GOING?”

“Daddy! I’m sorry I failed to ask you for direction. I allowed my emotions get so high”.

“REMEMBER WHAT I TAUGHT YOU. YOU CANNOT HEAR FROM GOD WHEN YOUR EMOTIONS ARE SO HIGH. THAT’S WHY YOU COULDN’T HEAR A SINGLE WORD FROM ME. I HAD TO SPEAK THROUGH HARMONY”.

I exhaled.

“Thank you so much for coming to my rescue”.

“YOU’RE WELCOME!”

“So how do I handle the situation one ground?” I asked.

Luke 21:12. But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

Verse 13. And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

Verse 14. Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

Verse 15. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

That was the scripture that came to my heart.

“Daddy, what are you trying to say?” I asked.

“Do you mean I should go unprepared?”

“WHAT HAVE I ALWAYS TAUGHT YOU? OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND I WILL DO WHAT?”

“Fill it”, I answered.

“BEAUTIFUL! NOW GO OUT THERE AND MAKE ME PROUD”.

I smiled a smile of confidence. I was ready to do this. I was no longer scared of what I was going to say. I was not going to type down my answers. I didn’t need to do a rehearsal. All I needed was to open my mouth and watch God fill it up.

Soon I was face to face with some reporters. A smile of confidence beamed on my face.

“We’re speaking with the CEO of the Kolapo production company and we’re having an important session with her. Recently, your uncle, Chief Akinyele Gabriel was interviewed and he made mention of his niece in a relationship with her gateman.

This love story seems to capture the attention of everyone. How would the CEO fall for such a guy? What would make the boss say, ‘yes’, to her employee?”

I was surprised to find out it was my uncle that gave the news. But again, I wasn’t surprised he did it. I was just smiling confidently. Everyone who saw me seated thought I had all the answers in my head. They didn’t know I was telling God to help me.

“We are eager to know what actually led to this relationship. Was it love or something more? A lot of people claim this was nothing but spiritual manipulation. But, what say you?”

“Daddy, e don reach ooo! No fall my hand”, I teased within me.

“OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND I WILL FILL IT”.

I breathe in and exhaled.

“First, before I answer your question I would really love to say this. Gold is not found on the surface of the earth, but is found when we dig down into the earth. And when did t is found, it is not beautiful and shiny. It looks so ugly and unattractive.

If you were told that this black, ugly looking object is gold, you would never believe it. The most important thing is all you ever wanted can be found in this personality called gold. That’s the most and valuable treasure.

You need to understand that alot of things must never be taken for granted. A lot of women out there are after already made men. They are not ready to build their men into what they dream and desire to see. All they want is something that doesn’t has any work to be done on.

So yes, they would reject the man. Because he’s not looking like what they pictured their dream man to look like. But yes, they don’t know he’s revolving. He’s turning into a man that she would desire to marry tomorrow. The only price she had to pay was just to marry him now. But she never wanted to pay that price. My reputation, they claim as an excuse. What will people say about him?

So to answer your question. There’s no magic here, neither is there any need for curiosity. I have found a treasure and everyone will be shocked at what he will turn into tomorrow as I keep getting busy on him”.

“Wow! This is awesome Miss Kolapo. Thank you so much. I believe this is a lesson for the single ladies out there. The only price you have to pay now is to marry your man the way he is now. Don’t push him away because he’s not looking like that lanky and rich dude you’ve always pictured in your mind.

But pay the price and marry him as he is right now. And tomorrow, you won’t regret you ever did. Thank you so much”.

“You’re welcome”, I replied with a warm smile.

“So the next question, Do you struggle with respecting him as a man? I mean, do you sometimes see yourself struggling to respect him due to his financial status?”

“Before I answer that question, permit me to say this. Money must never be the reason why a lady must respect her man, or any man out there. They used to say that once you want something, you can do anything to have it. Yes, I found a treasure. One that is so rare and difficult to find.

You won’t expect me to throw it away with my attitude. I can see my future clearly. I can imagine my children thanking me for marrying their daddy. I can see young women calling me the luckiest lady in the world for getting married to this man.

So you don’t expect me to start acting weird. A lot of ladies have created an idol in their minds. A man with money, respect. A man without money, spit in his face. That’s foolishness! You don’t know what he’ll turn into tomorrow! Let’s be more interested in building our future with the love of your life by your side. Thank you! I guess I’ve already said the answer”.

“That was completely amazing Miss Kolapo! You have done it again. Now, your uncle said that ever since you became a Christian, you started taking foolish decisions. He said that you always do stupid things all because you are now a Christian. Please we need clarity and what do you have to say about your uncle? This is your opportunity to throw his insults back at him. The world is watching you. Girl, this is your opportunity to revenge”.

I smiled. Just look at this people. They’re expecting me to reply an insult on TV. Holy Ghost go shock them.

“My uncle is such a wonderful man. Can you imagine a man who looked after his brother’s children after their demise? Such a man, I cannot take him for granted. Anyway, my uncle has not being happy with me recently. So I guess any negative word he said about me was out of his emotional state.

There’s no need to come out here and insult him back. Uncle Akinyele, you’re such a great man! That is what young CEO calls you?”

“Wow! Thank you so much for your time madam”.

“Before you leave, permit me to say this”.

“Okay”.

“I know you all have a way you have pictured God in your mind, but you need to understand one thing. He makes life so sweet and easy. I struggled with a lot of things in the past. But today, I’m just one happy lady, completely different from who I used to be. Jesus is sweeter than you can ever imagine. Thank you”.

“Wow! So he’s responsible for all the changes we’re seeing in you, right?”

“Yes!”

“This is awesome! Thank you once again Miss Kolapo. We are so grateful for your time”.

By the time I met with Harmony and Maggie. We squealed and hugged each other.

“Girl! You were so amazing! I can’t believe you handled information with so much wisdom”, Maggie said.

“People wouldn’t see the stupidity your uncle wants them to see. They would see the wisdom in not chasing men because of their possession. They would be reminded about building your man into the financial giant you’ve always wanted him to be”, Harmony said.

“Hmmm! That your uncle Ehn…..” Maggie started.

“Shush…..” I immediately interrupted her.

“He’s such a wonderful man. Please, don’t allow the devil fill your heart with negative thoughts towards him”.

“Okay ma!” She replied.

My phone started ringing. I picked the phone and checked the caller’s ID. My eyes widened with surprise. Uncle Akinyele Gabriel.

I gulped immediately and cleared my throat.

“Hello sir”.

“Cris what is wrong with you?” Was his reply.

“Sir?”

“Are you mad?”

“I’m sorry sir”, I replied as shocked as I was.

“What would make you say all those nice stuff about me when you know very well that I am a wicked man? Cris! Stop being a good girl! You are better than this? How can you keep hurting someone and the only opportunity they have to hurt you back they throw it away?”

I was just laughing somebody in my mind.

“You never see anything oooo! Holy Ghost go pepper you die!” I said within me.

“Cris! Are you a human being at all?”

“Daddy! I’m sorry if I disappointed you. My intention was to honour a man who never gave up on me and helped me in his own way, to bring out the CEO in me”.

“Shut up! You know very well I never did all these things for you! I was never there for you. I was a terrible father to you and your sister and I still am”.

“Daddy! I see a great hero in you. A father who loves deep within. I know you really love us, but you’re struggling to be who you really want to be. It’s because there’s no one who can receive anything here on earth, except it is being given to him from above. Jesus can make you more than what you want to be.

If only you can accept him?”

“Cris! That Jesus that gave you a gateman to marry is not worth serving. I just want you to know that you cannot make me change my mind. I will never approve the wedding and that is final.

“Who is he that speaketh and it cometh to pass when the Lord has not commanded it?” That was the scripture that came to my heart, but the Holy Spirit restrained me from saying it.

“Daddy! I will be praying for you. I will continue to love and respect you no matter what. I know you love me too. Deep within you, I see a father I can be proud of. I understand you are not happy with your daughter right now.

But I won’t stop loving you. I will always respect you. Thank you so much for being the father I can count on”.

“Cris stop this!” He said as if he was choking.

“You never see anything oooo!” I whispered to myself.

“I love you so much Daddy!”

“I said stop!” He screamed and hung up.

I burst into laughter. I never knew my uncle could be this emotional.

Proverbs 25:21. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

Verse 22. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

That was the scripture that came to my heart.

“God! You’re such a wise God. I can’t believe my hard hearted uncle can feel the heat of his conscience like this”.

“THAT IS THE SECRET TO BRINGING A DEAD CONSCIENCE BACK TO LIFE. MEN WHO ARE SO WICKED AND CANNOT FEEL GUILTY WHEN THEY DO EVIL. THAT IS HOW TO BRING THEIR CONSCIENCE BACK TO LIFE”.

“Daddy! What can I buy for you sef? Will you lick ice cream?” I teased and I could hear him laughing within me.

To be continued……..

Tell Uncle Akinyele Gabriel to stop wasting our time. He should do quick and approve the marriage ooo before we go take conscience finish am.

Episode 83

“Christiana! What happened?” Maggie asked as I entered the house.

Everyone could tell that my mood had changed. Although Silas had spoken alot of kind words to me to cheer me up. He spent not less than an hour talking to me. I had to wipe my face very well to hide from everyone that I was crying.

But it couldn’t last. Soon, my face was reflecting everything. I wasn’t too good when it came to hiding emotions. The thought weighed so heavy on my mind.

Evelyn and Maggie were in the sitting room having a Bible class. Evelyn was teaching her about God and lots more to learn as a Christian.

It was seriously humility on display. There’s no way the Maggie I knew would sit down with a house maid and allow the house maid talk to her, not to mention teach her the word of God.

She’s a top or should I say, big girl. She has her clique of girls that she moves with. You needed to do a lot to meet her standards or else, she no go give you face.

I looked at them and managed a smile.

“Stop it Cris! That’s a fake one and you know we won’t take that. Tell us what happened?” Maggie asked.

“I guess it was about her visit to her uncle”, Evelyn answered.

“Your uncle?” Maggie asked.

I sighed and gave her a sad smile.

“He didn’t approve the marriage?” She asked.

“Maggie, it’s well. God is incharge”, I answered.

“In charge of what? You know your uncle very well. He’s a wicked man. He’s such a bad man. That man is a very stupid and foolish man”, Maggie cursed.

“Ha! Maggie! No ooo! You cannot do that! That’s my Dad you’re talking about. Don’t call him that. You don’t insult my father and expect me to smile at you”, I replied with a stern look.

She looked at me with a confused expression.

“I don’t understand? I thought you were angry and sad because of him. You are still going to defend him?”

“Yes”.

“Why?”

“Because I respect him and part of my respect for him, is not allowing someone else to insult him”, I answered.

Evelyn and Maggie exchanged glances and then, turned to look at me.

“Why would you respect a man that doesn’t respect you?” She asked.

“Because respect is a product of my obedience to God. God commands my obedience to him and that includes respecting the elderly. I don’t need to wait for them to respect me before obeying God’s word. All I need to do is to obey him, irrespective of who is trying to make me disobey God through their attitude towards me.

The bible makes us to understand that God will never and I repeat the word never, accept excuses. So because my uncle refused to respect me doesn’t mean I would join hands with him to commit sin.

The bible says that we should not render evil for evil, but we should overcome evil with good. Now remember what I taught you about the word of God. What is life? What is the word of God?” I asked her.

“Life is a battlefield and in order to survive the battle against the soul of man, we must follow the instructions of our Commander. Who is our Commander? Jesus. And what are his commands? His words.

So in order to survive the battle against the soul of man, we must follow every single instruction the commander gives. No matter how stupid or insignificant his Instructions may seem or should I say look like”.

“Maggie, you’re such a wonderful student. Come here let me hug you”, I said and spread my arms for a hug.

She stood up and walked up to me. I threw my arms around her and hugged her.

“Cris! I used to see this Christianity stuff as foolishness. I never knew that it was only because I was on the other side of life. I now see through the eyes of God and I can see rye door emptiness of what I called life. I see in a different perspective now.

What I once called foolishness is now wisdom to me. The word of God is such a life transformer. I can’t believe it is seriously working on me so much.

But I have to admit, I have not been perfect. I can’t imagine I was speaking like an unbeliever a few minutes ago. I was raining curses on an elderly man. As a Christian, we’re not supposed to curse people with the mouth God gave us”.

“That’s right”, I replied.

“One thing we need to understand about God is the, his word is like a principle. Like I was somehow worried last week. I was thinking on what to do inorder to get more money and take care of a huge budget at hand.

The Holy Spirit told me that the answer to everything lies in the bible. So I told him to lead me to where in the bible that I could get an idea of how to get more money.

I came across a scripture in Matthew. Was it Matthew or Luke? I can’t remember, but what it said made no sense to me at first sight. I mean, the old me would have looked at it and hissed.

Give and it shall be given back to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over. I was like, how does this help me get more money?

Then the Holy Spirit reminded me of how I used to go market to buy rice when I was a teenager. First, they would measure the basket of rice, press it down in the cup, shake the cup after pressing it. Then pour more over it till it runs over.

I was like, so the bible took details of how market women sell rice in the market”.

We all burst into laughter.

“Chai! Maggie! You don dey swallow Rhema oooo. I never noticed the bible was referring to how market women sold baskets of rice in that scripture ooo”, I said admist laughter.

“Me too! I’m surprised as well. I never realized it was talking about baskets of rice”, Evelyn remarked.

“Maggie! You have become an Aunty Rhema oooo!” She added.

“What do you expect? The daughter must resemble her mum. When na Aunty Rhema disciple me, why I no go dey get rhema like her?”

We all burst into laughter.

Also, remember what I told you about curses. The bible says in the book of Matthew 5:22. But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

As a Christian, we do not use our mouth to utter curses. Rather, we bless. So please, don’t curse my father again”.

“I’m sorry about that”, she apologized.

“It’s alright. So is my uncle a foolish man?”

“No”.

“Is he a good man?”

She looked at me with a confused expression.

“We both know he isn’t. So what am I supposed to say?” She asked.

“He’s the best uncle in the world. Say it through faith. Believe it and speak it. Life and death are in the power of the tongue. So, you say what you want to see happening in the life of your uncle, despite the negative manifestation.

So is my uncle a good man?”

“Yes! The best uncle in the world”, she answered.

“Maggie! I’ve got to admit, you’re one of the fastest learner I’ve ever met”.

She smiled and was about to say something when my phone started ringing.

“Sorry, I have to start leaving now”.

“You’re going upstairs right?”

“Yes”, I replied smiling.

“That means, it’s Charming that’s calling you na”, she said grinning.

I made to hit her, but she ducked and ran away.

I brought out the phone and began my way up the stairs.

“Hello Charming!”

“Hi Pretty Christy! Why have you been putting on a long face?”

“Me? Put on a long face? Why?” I asked smiling.

“Stop pretending, even Evelyn knows you’re not happy. After I did all I could to cheer you up”.

“Evelyn?”

“Yes! Tell me I’m wrong?”

“Wait! Did she text you?”

“No! My spirit went with you”, he said and burst into laughter.

“I don’t understand? What do you mean by my spirit went with you?”

“Christy, by now, you ought to understand that we are already connected. If one of us is not feeling fine or has something bordering her, the other person will begin to feel it as well. I mean, I will begin to sense it over here.

Anyway, It was your Dad that told me his baby girl needs her man right now. So I had to call”.

“I’m blushing already”, I replied and he burst into laughter.

“Anyway Christy, can we do a video call right now?”

“Really?”

“Yes! I want to see your face. I’m tired of guessing what kind of funny smile you’re giving me right now. I’m gonna hang up and call back”.

He said and hung up.

I quickly opened the door of my room and positioned my phone on my table, pulled a chair and sat down.

Soon his call came.

“Now I can smile. My Christiana is smiling for me!” He said grinning.

“You have started Charming me again oooo. Soon everyone around me will start thinking I am crazy again”.

“Christy, the reason why I called you was to remind you about something”.

I switched into a serious mode. What could that be?

“Remember when I asked you to pray in the car and you said something really daring. What was that?”

“That I was going to kiss Jesus and get you jealous”

He laughed.

“No! Not that one”,

I started brainstorming. What could that be? I can’t remember anything I said apart from asking God to grant us favour when we met my uncle.

“Please Charming, can you remind me?”

“You told God that we were coming back for proper thanksgiving after meeting your uncle. You said we were going to thank him for answering our prayers”.

“Oh! Now I remember!” I said grinning.

“Can you believe we are owing God? We made a promise and we are yet to fulfill it”.

I was a bit confused now. I was telling God we would come back to thank him if he made our uncle to approve the marriage. But since the marriage was not yet approved, we were not owing him.

“Charming, that was if God made us come back with my uncle’s approval”, I said.

“Christiana! You don’t know how happy I am. Your uncle has already approved the wedding. I can see it through the eyes of faith. So I want us to actually thank God for everything”.

I was more confused.

“Charming, but my uncle said he doesn’t want to see you again. He shouted at me to get out”.

“All those are manifestation of the MYSTERY OF NEGATIVE REACTION. This marriage has already been approved in the realm of the spirit. The bible says in the book of Numbers 14:28. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you.

So we are going to use our mouth to speak the approval of our marriage into the physical realm. Life and death are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

So can we sing to the Lord a song of thanksgiving?”

“Wow! We’re going to see our marriage approved through the he eyes. And praise God like it has already happened”.

“Not like it has already happened. It has happened. Joshua told the children of Israel after marching around Jericho seven times to shout for the Lord has done what?”

“For the Lord has given them the city”.

“Was the wall still standing physically?”

“Yes!”

“But what did Joshua say?”

“The Lord has given them the city”.

“Is that present tense or past tense?”

“Past tense”,

“So we’re going to shout our shout of praise and watch our walls of Jericho crash before our eyes”.

“Hallelujah!”

“Christy, I want to see you dance today. The kind of dance you will dance on our wedding day. I want to see you shake your waist for Jesus. Get up from that chair and sing for us”.

I stood up immediately.

“There is nothing you cannot do
Protocol breaker!
There is nothing you cannot do
Jehovah overdo ooo.

I have tasted of your love
I have seen your mighty works
Mountain mover my lover
Onyeama nne mema.

Silas was already with his guitar, playing and singing along.

“Dance Christy! Shake that waist for your sweet Daddy. Go ahead and dance. That evil princess danced before the king and the king told her to ask for anything she wanted, even to the half of his kingdom. That was how the head of a general in the faith went down.

Today, we are going to dance more than the princess and ask for your uncle’s head on a platter.

Go ahead and dance. I want to see you moving your body”.

I was not a good dancer. But I guess the spirit of David fell on me that evening. The way I danced that day was out of this world.

To be continued…….

Weldone Christiana. Please come and teach me how to dance oooo!

Many of you think it’s only prayers. If dancing for an ungodly king, not singing ooo. Please, singing is different from dancing.

Just dancing for King Herod was enough to make him tell a small girl that he was ready to give him half of his kingdom. How much more God?

A lot of us sing and I’m happy we have wonderful singers in the house. But how many of you dance for God?

You are shy abi? Continue to shy to be shy ooo. Jesus said that whosoever shall be ashamed of him in this adulterous generation, he will also be ashamed of that person before God.

Oh! You think dancing is not part of it. Stop telling me you don’t know how to dance. Most of you that don’t dance in church can shock us very well in the house.

You better go and start learning how to dance and throw away that garment of shame.

Tomorrow is Sunday. Let me see who will beat me in church.

Christiana sef dey learn for where I dey.

By the way Cris, good job with Maggie’s mentorship.

Episode 82

“This is it!” I said and exhaled.

This is the last bus stop”, I added as I turned off the ignition.

“Are you scared?” Silas asked.

“No! But, I don’t understand my uncle. He’s one thing this minute and the next minute, he starts behaving somehow”.

My Charming started laughing which got me curious.

“What’s funny?”

“You’re worried aren’t you?”

I exhaled.

“I hate to admit, but yes! I am worried. I don’t want any sort of delay. This wedding would have happened by now if not for the arrows Satan threw at us. I just don’t want another set back”.

“So being worried about it is the best solution to the problem, right?”

“No! Just that! Yes, I mean. I just want this to work out smoothly. I don’t want any further complications”.

Silas reached for my hand and took it in his. He’s such a Charm.

“How is worry going to solve anything? Jesus told us not to worry about anything. But in everything, through prayers and supplication, make your request known to God. We have prayed and we’re trusting God to favour. So don’t entertain the spirit of fear of worry.

They are of no use to us. Their services are not needed here. So we’re going to pray one more time before we go in. And believe me, God will take charge of everything that will happen. Can we do that right now?”

“Yes please!” I said in a jiffy and bowed my head.

He held my two hands and bowed his head as well.

“Pray for us”, he requested.

“I thought you wanted to pray for us”.

“No! Your Dad! I mean, our Dad told me he wants to hear your angelic voice”, he replied.

I shook my head in a playful frustration and shut my eyes. I don’t know why I had to be the one to say the prayers, but I knew better tht to argue.

“Lord Jesus! Thank you so much for your mercies. You have been such a darling. I just wish I could kiss you so someone here would be jealous”, I said.

My Charming chuckled and squeezed my hands tightly.

“Lord! We’re about to meet my uncle to get his approval for this union. Please be our guide. Grant us favour in his sight. Let his heart be made soft towards us. Daddy you said in your word that the expectations of the righteous shall not be cut off.

Lord, do not allow our expectations to be flushed down the drain. Let them come to pass in the name of Jesus”.

“Amen”.

“Thank you in advance Lord! We know you have done it for us. And infact, we’ll be back to do our proper thanksgiving when we are back from this meeting in the name of Jesus”.

“Amen!”

“Blessed be your holy name Lord, for in Jesus mighty name I have prayed.

“Amen”.

We both opened our eyes and gave each other a smile.

“Let’s go”, Silas said as he opened the door and stepped out.

I followed and came out of the car. Taking my purse with me, I held his hand and led him to the entrance of the building.

In no time, we found ourselves sitting down on a sofa, waiting for his arrival.

“What can I offer you while you await his arrival?” The maid asked.

“Anything you would love to drink?” She said smiling.

“Who wan drink anything under this kind tension?” I asked within me.

“No thanks. We’re okay”, I replied and she left.

“We’re okay with our saliva”, I said within me.

Soon, my uncle’s foot steps could be heard. But I noticed he was not the only one coming downstairs. He was chattering and laughing with two men. They were dressed in their agbada. They had wine glasses in their hands.

“Did my uncle bring his colleagues here to mock us? Jesus have mercy! Be with us!”

“CRUS CALM DOWN NA! WHAT’S THE MEANING OF ALL THESE FEAR YOU’RE EXHIBITING?”

“I’m sorry sir! Please help me stay calm”, I replied.

Silas took my hand and gave them a gentle squeeze. I turned to him and smiled.

“ARE YOU FEELING BETTER NOW?” Came the gentle whisper.

“Wait, you mean you squeezed my hand through Silas?”

“I CAN USE ANYBODY”.

“Oh my sweet Daddy! You’re too much. I believe you have everything under control”, I said all smiles.

“YES CRIS! THERE’S NO NEED TO FEAR. EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL”.

I exhaled and smiled.

“Barrister Obi, meet my niece. The CEO of Kolapo production company”, my uncle said immediately we were in sight.

I quickly went down on my knees to greet the elderly men. Silas stood up and bowed.

“Oh! You must be Olamide Christiana Kolapo. Your uncle had said much about you”, the one I presumed to be the barrister, said.

“Yes sir”, I said all smiles.

“Please have your seats”, he said and we both sat down.

The three men also sat down and took a few seconds to look at us.

“Is she the one who suffers mental challenge?” The other man asked.

I looked up and couldn’t hide the shock on my face.

“Yes, she’s the one Chief”, my uncle answered.

“Wow! She’s really trying her best. Leading a production company despite her mental health challenge. Takes a brave woman to do that”, he said and patted my shoulder.

“And who is this man?” Barrister asked.

“Her gateman”, my uncle answered for me, when all I wanted to say was my fiancee.

“Oh! Is your gateman your P.A. or something?” The Chief asked.

“No! She brought her gateman here because she wants to marry her gateman”, my uncle answered for me.

Chai! Uncle why na? This is humiliating! I have rehearsed the lines. What to say and what not to say in front of him. All the words that needed to be put in place, so we can create the right impression. I never knew my uncle planned something bigger. What kind of thing was this?

“Gabriel ooo!” The barrister called my uncle.

“How is her health now? Does she still experience partial madness?” He asked.

“I think so!” There have been records of psychiatric doctors visiting her often”.

I opened my mouth and wanted to say he was wrong. But Silas noticed and tapped me to stop.

“I have to say the truth”, I whispered.

“Keep quiet”, he replied.

“But they’re lying against me”.

“Let them lie. Your job is to respect the elderly by keeping silent when they are talking”, he replied.

I had to keep quiet for my Charming’s sake. It was a bit painful sha, but I had to endure it.

“What’s the challenge? Did you give up all hope on her? Or is the money that is the problem?” Barrister asked.

“She’s right there in front of you. You can ask her whatever question you have for her”, he said.

The barrister turned to me and gave me an awkward look.

“Sometimes, her mental illness comes and goes”, my uncle added.

“Madam, how old are you?” He asked.

“I’m 33 years old”, I answered.

“No wonder! You must be feeling you’re running out of time. Although, women of your kaliba, can have a man at the snap of their fingers. Hooking you up with men that matters is not an issue.

Please send the gateman away, let’s talk. Return him back to his duty post. I want to talk with people that matter”, he said.

“Gateman”, he said to Silas.

“Please excuse us”.

I was like, ‘What’s the meaning of all this? Look at how they looked down on Silas?’

“Daddy, I have something to say before I leave”, Silas said, holding up a finger.

“Whatever you have to say, you can say it to the gate. Leave my honourable presence”.

“Jesus! What humiliation!” Anger welled up inside me.

“It’s about my fiancee’s mental health”, Silas said as though he never heard a single insult.

He looked interested now. My uncle and the other guy, gave him their full attention.

“What about it?” Barrister asked.

“She’s not mentally ill as you presumed her to be. What you’re actually seeing here, is love”, he said.

The three men burst into laughter. This is so humiliating. Jesus please help us!

“Gateman! Please leave us”, he said and pointed at the door.

“Okay sir!” Silas said and stood up.

I expected God was going to put something to say in his mouth. Something that would make these men softened towards us. Now Silas was leaving. I was already struggling with anger. Silas had squeezed my hand several times to calm my nerves.

Now they had sent him out like a piece of trash.

“I’ll be praying for you”, he whispered before he left.

“God please help me not to bring you shame again. Help me! You know how weak I am. You know I can be dramatic sometimes. Please don’t allow me ruin everything. Please put the right words in my mouth. Take away this anger in my heart and give me a meek and quiet spirit”, I prayed inwardly.

“Olamide! You are better than this! First, if what your gateman says is true, then there must still be something wrong with you”, Barrister said.

“Daddy my fiancee is correct”.

“Correction, your gateman”,

“Sir, he’s my fiancee”, I said as my eyes got more blurred with tears.

“My gateman! Say it before this conversation can continue”, he said, giving me a cold stare.

“Sir, I cannot disrespect the love of my life. I can’t call him that. He’s my fiancee”, I said and my tears dropped.

“Love of your life”, the Chief repeated and laughter filled the room.

“This girl used to be a smart girl ooo!” My uncle began.

“She became a CEO at the age of 21 abi 22. What age was that sef? Nevermind! I thought she was going to kill herself. As a good mentor and uncle, I coached her and gave her the tips. She’s my girl oo! A very smart business minded girl. If you know how I made this girl wealthy through my mentorship and training, you won’t believe it.

After investing so much on this girl. She wants to handover everything I laboured on her to a company gateman. Can you imagine?”

Wait oooo! Did I hear my uncle correctly? My uncle that did everything in his power to make sure I failed as a CEO. My uncle that we barely spoke to each other, claiming he mentored me. Ha! This is wickedness! I need to expose this man and tell them all the truth.

“WILL YOU KEEP QUIET?”

“Daddy! How will you expect me to keep quiet when someone is lying against me? Everyone here would believe his false reports. At least, let me clear all the wrong impressions he had created about me”.

“Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Verse 12. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you”, was the scripture that confronted me.

“But Daddy, this is not kingdom business na”.

“THIS IS KINGDOM MARRIAGE. TAKE NOTE OF THE WORD. THEY SHALL SAY ALL MANNER OF EVIL AGAINST YOU, HOW?”

“Falsely!”

“ARE THEIR ACCUSATIONS THE TRUTH?”

“No!”

“WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?”

“Rejoice and be glad for I have a great reward in heaven”.

“THAT DOESN’T MEAN IF THEY GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK, YOU SHOULD NOT DEFEND YOURSELF. BUT THIS IS A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE TO RESPECT YOUR UNCLE BY NOT PAINTING HIM A LIAR BEFORE HIS TRUSTED FRIENDS”,

“Jesus Christ! Respect and submission is as deep as that?”

“MORE DEEPER THAN THIS! YOU’LL LEARN MORE ABOUT IT. YOU HAVE TO RESPECT YOUR UNCLE BY NOT STAINING HIS REPUTATION. ALLOW GOD HANDLE THE JOB”.

“Thank you Daddy”,

“YOU’RE WELCOME MY PRETTY EBONY”.

“Olamide, I said call him gateman or this conversation will be closed”, barrister threatened.

“Daddy, I’m not disrespecting you. Forgive me if that is how you see it. I will always respect you as a father you are to me. But to disrespect my husband is not possible for me. Please I’m sorry! I cannot do that to the man I want to marry. I love him and will respect him”, I replied and went down on my knees.

“Then get out of this place!” He shouted.

“Daddy please!” I said admist tears.

“Get out!” He shouted.

Slowly, I rose up and lowered my knees slightly in respect and took my purse.

“Thank you Daddy, for making outside my time to see us both. Once again, I apologize for all the wrong I did. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to do what you said. Please find a place in your heart to forgive me”,

“Shut up!” My uncle shouted.

“You are a disgrace! I don’t want to ever see you and this man in my house. Do you hear me?” He said furiously.

I turned and hurried out of the sitting room. My tears refused to stop as I met Silas at the spot where my car was parked.

To be continued……..

Please all intercessors in the house. Start praying for Cris oooo.

I have been trying to console her since morning, but she’s still crying.

Which kind wahala be this? Chief Akinyele Gabriel went to get his gang of friends to humiliate our baby.

Cris stop crying Ehn! It is well.

But I really admire her level of respect for her fiancee and even her uncle sef. If it’s some girls, they would have started shouting at the men.

No! You don’t raise your voice on an elderly person. That’s disrespect. Even anger is not an excuse for raising your voice at an elderly person.

Even when it’s obvious the elderly person is wrong, don’t disrespect him. It’s not stupidity. It’s obedience to that scripture which says, do not pay evil for evil, but pay evil with good.

There’s this mindset in the world that says, respect is reciprocal. You must respect others before you can earn respect. You must deserve respect, before you would be respected.

I’m here to tell you that, that is the wisdom of the world.

We don’t respect people because they deserve our respect. We respect them because it is first of all a command from God. We don’t respect people based on how they treat us. We respect them because we have no choice than to obey God’s word.

Hmmm! Looks difficult. Especially when the person is so wicked and don’t want to understand us.

My advice is, obey God’s word and see if he will not fight for you. Stop those heated argument with your husband and raising your voice at him. Stop raising your voice on your parents. All you have to do is to obey God’s word and watch him do the rest.

Please don’t be a Ghost reader. Come out and console our baby girl.

Episode 81

“Good morning sunshine!” I greeted smiling.

She groaned and winced in pain.

“I was almost forgetting you here”, I added with a smile. I was so happy to see her.

“Somehow, we got so busy with a lot and almost forgot our unfinished business”, Silas said.

“She didn’t had a strong body though. I would have survived and recovered on time if it were me”.

“God forbid bad thing!” He replied and I started laughing.

“What kind of statement is that? I should allow tugs throw punches on you or what? God will not allow such an evil thing to happen to us in Jesus name”.

“Charming I was only joking ooo!”

“Say amen before I sieze your phone!” He said as he snatched my phone from my hands.

“Charming! Give me back my phone”, I squealed and stood up.

“Say amen first”,

“I said I was joking!”

“No phone for you”,

I made to grab his hand, but he moved swiftly and I missed.

“Stop na!”

“You’re the one lingering. Say amen and your phone is yours”.

“I’m not saying amen!” I said sulkily.

“Let me enjoy the phone while it’s in my hands”, he said and unlocked it. Of course he knew my password.

“Hmmmmm! Let me snap a picture of angry Jemima!” He said and raised the phone to my face.

I quickly blocked with my palms and attempted to snatch it again, but he was too swift for me.

“Pose well na! I’m trying to take a picture”.

“Give me my phone”, I said and made to grab him. He raised his hand, taking it out of my reach.

I jumped in attempt to reach it, but couldn’t.

“Charming! Stop! We’re in a hospital!” I reminded him.

He placed his arm around my shoulders and held the phone up for a selfie.

“Pretty Christy! Say Charming!”

I smiled and held up two fingers.

“Charming!”

He took the picture.

“Hurray! Does it look good?” I asked.

“Beautiful!” He replied.

“Let me see”.

“No no! You owe me an Amen!”

“Amen my Apostle Paul”.

“What? Say it again”.

“Amen my Apostle Paul. Can I please have my phone?”

“What did you just call me?”

“Give me my phone”, I said and grabbed his hand.

He raised his hand up, preventing me from reaching it.

“Charming please na! I will kneel down for you ooo!”

“Don’t try it!”

“Hmmmmm! You know I’m still studying you. I’m beginning to discover the secret to your strength. It’s like you don’t like when a lady kneels down for you. I’ll see if my discovery is correct very soon”, I said grinning.

“Happy discovery pretty Christy. So back to the question, what did you call me?”

“I don’t know”.

“You don’t know?”

“Yes!”

“Okay”, he said and tried to keep the phone in his trouser pocket.

“Give me my phone! I will shout oo!”

“Shout na!”

I let out a threatening scream and he quickly covered my mouth. I laughed uncontrollably.

“Oya give me my phone”, I said immediately his hands were off my mouth.

“Just say amen and we’re good to go!”

“Okay, let me shout another shout”,

He quickly covered my mouth.

“Okay! Okay! Amen!” I said in muffled sounds.

He released me and gave me my phone.

“You’re not a Charm anymore. You’re a Spell!” I replied as I unlocked my phone.

“Charm or spell. I’m still the best thing that happened in your life”.

“Look at you! Proud man! Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to me in life”. I said admist laughter. He laughed too and held up his hand in surrender.

“Please, I’m not a proud man ooo! I no want trouble ooo”.

“You are! You are taking the place of God”, I said in a mocking tone.

“Okay. Let me rephrase that. Apart from Jesus, what’s the best thing that happened to you in life?”

“The Holy Spirit!” I answered, giving him a mischievous grin.

“Okay fine! After the Holy Spirit”.

“The love of God”.

“After the love of God”.

“The word of God”.

“After the word of God”.

“The Anointing of God”.

“After the Anointing of God”.

“The promises of God”.

“After the promises of God”.

“The revelations God showed me”.

“I give up”, he said and sighed in defeat.

I laughed so hard that my stomach tightened.

“Come and see our pictures!” I called and we both stood looking at them.

“I love this one!” I pointed at one of them.

“I’ll use it as my screen saver”, I said.

“Look at this one. It’s so beautiful and Maggie’s sitting up looking at us…..” Silas said and we both realized that Maggie was still in the hospital ward with us.

How could we have gotten so carried away? Was my Charming this charming? We both got carried away and forgot about her. Not to think of it. Playing in her presence, especially when she’s so much against our relationship. And the painful part was, she’s here in the hospital because of this same relationship.

It must be seriously hurting to watch what she laboured to destroy flourish in her presence. It was as if the love fot more stronger, instead of weaker.

We both turned and saw Maggie watching us.

“Maggie! Sorry to have disturbed you”, I quickly apologized.

“It’s okay!” She said and looked away from me.

I looked at my Charming with that questioning look of, ‘what should I do?’

He shrugged and said nothing.

“Maggie! How are you feeling?” I asked.

“I’m much better”, she said in an unfriendly tone.

“Christy girl! I’ll leave you both. Take it from here. I’m getting the message that she’s not comfortable with my presence”, Silas whispered into my ears.

“Please don’t leave me. I need you by my side”, I whispered back.

“No you don’t. Who’s the best thing that ever happened to you in life!”

“You!” I replied swiftly.

“Big liar!” He replied.

I giggled in low tones and held his hand.

“Oya, I’m sorry! Please stay with me. Tell me how to handle this situation. Give me the tips”.

“Sorry Christy! You have a better tips giver. He wants me to step aside for him. It’s going to be you and him. Just allow him guide you”, he replied and squeezed my fingers gently.

“See you soon. I’ll do a backup prayer as soon as I’m out of here”, he whispered and left.

As soon as the door was shut, Maggie turned to look at me.

“Cris! What’s the meaning of all this? How can you still carry that riff raff around as a husband?

I fought for you and it got me here! Cris! I tried to help you and this is what I get in return. Bruises all over my face. Cris, please I don’t want you to make the biggest mistake in your life. This guy will ruin your reputation. The media would soon be at your doorsteps. Please turn around, now that there’s still time”.

I smiled and placed a hand on her shoulder.

“Maggie! You’re indeed a good friend. You have stood by me and fought for me like a friend should. You went the extra mile just to help me. I really appreciate everything you have done for me.

But there’s one more thing you can do for me. Promise me you would do it”.

“What is it?”

“Stop fighting against my God. You’ll only end up hurting yourself more”.

“Wait! Are you saying Silas is your one true love? That you’re really in love with him and not that he didn’t charmed you?”

“Yes!” I said and have her a warm smile.

“Cris! You mean you did this out of your own freewill?”

“Yes”.

“So you weren’t charmed?”

“Yes”.

“And you said I should stop fighting against God. You mean God is involved in this relationship?”

“Yes”.

“Hmmm! Cris, I was just watching you and Silas as you both were out of this world. All my life, that has been the kind of relationship I dream of having. I was somehow jealous of the two of you.

I saw love. I saw friendship. I saw humility beyond description. You are seriously a rich but humble woman. You know this guy doesn’t deserve you. But you are so humble enough to call him your head. That’s humility. I really wish to enjoy what you’re enjoying.

I’m tired of all my relationship failures. I have failed enough. I want to see myself succeed. Not just in business, but in relationships. I’m tired of all the relationships that never last. Look at your own. Despite all attempts to ensure it doesn’t last. Yet, it’s getting stronger and stronger everyday.

Please, give me this power you carry. This power that makes love look so real and beautiful. I never believed there can be anything like true love. But what I saw today defied my thoughts and conclusions. Please, show me what made you, you”.

I smiled and sat beside her on the bed.

“Maggie! It’s Jesus. Jesus is the secret to this power. But I don’t want you to give your life to him out of your hunger for a happy relationship. Because the first thing to do after surrendering to him is to spend time knowing him.

I want you to accept Jesus for who he is, not for what he can give you. I want you to open up your gates and let the king of glory come in. Yes he can give you true love. Yes he can make life so beautiful for you.

But I don’t want you giving your life to him based on the goody goody he can give. I want you to accept him because you want a relationship with him. I want you to accept him because you love him.i want you to open up your heart and let the King of kings come in.

What do you say? Are you going to say the usual? This Christianity stuff is nonsense. Only fools have time to become Christians. Or will you throw away your garment of pride and humble yourself before God! Will you say you want to think about it? Or grab the bull by the horn.

Now is the accepted time. Tomorrow may be too late. Why not accept Jesus right now and let him give you that satisfaction that boyfriends cannot fill”.

She looked at me with curiosity. I guess she was shocked I mentioned that.

“Yes! There’s a satisfaction that comes only from God. No boyfriend can take his place. No human being can take his place. Nothing in this world can satisfy, except Jesus.

You keep changing boyfriends, but that’s not the solution. The more new boyfriends you have, the more you need a new one. The more you have a drink of immorality on the bed with a new guy, the more you want another guy.

You never get satisfied. Jesus is the satisfaction you have been searching for. Open your arms wide and recieve him. Maggie are you ready?”

“Yes I am! I am tired of becoming a laughing stock among men. I want to be completely different. I want to serve this God that made life heaven on earth for you”.

“Then let’s take the bold step. Give me your hands and repeat these words after me”, I said and stretched my hands towards her.

She gave me her hands and shut her eyes.

I led her to say the sinner’s prayer and she became a born again Christian that very day.

To be continued……

Congratulations Maggie!

At least she’s out of the way. It’s uncle Akinyele we’re coming for now.

Please marriage committee. Is the bridal shower ready?

Episode 80

My phone rang aloud. Should I say it was ringing louder than I thought it usually did? I was so disturbed by its noise. I had the most beautiful sleep and here was a phone call to ruin it. This is unacceptable.

I got up and picked up the phone. It was Mummy Silas. I froze on the spot. What was she going to tell me? What was on her mind? How was she going to see me now?

I exhaled and swiped the green bar. Sooner or later, this conversation had to take place. And I was trusting the Holy Spirit to help me do the right thing.

“Hello Mummy!” I greeted.

Hello dear! How are you?”

“I’m fine ma! I’m much better than I was yesterday night. I was so depressed after the call yesterday.i just didn’t know what to do. I was……”

“It’s alright my daughter. I shouldn’t have left you the way I did. It was so wrong of me. I must have really gotten you worried. I’m so sorry about that! Please forgive me!” She apologized.

“Mummy! I should be the one apologizing. I really let you down. At the point where you counted so much on me, I fumbled. I made a fool of myself and made you commend a hypocrite. I was so proud on the phone that I spoke of how careful I had been. Instead of speaking about how the Lord had helped us to stay pure.

I guess God taught me a big lesson that day. Forever in life, I will never forget that God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. It’s a lesson I will never forget in life”. I replied.

“Olamide! There’s one thing you did that really got me happy. You didn’t hide your failures from me. A lot of people would have played along and allowed me to praise them falsely. But you admitted your wrongs and stopped my accolades. That’s a genuine and sincere person.

That’s one thing you did that really struck my heart. I was overwhelmed with joy that you could be this sincere. Olamide! You’re a rare gem. You’re indeed a virtuous woman. The kind of wife who will not fail her generation”.

“Thank you ma! Once again, I’m sorry! I apologize for all the pain I must have cost you. I’m sorry for disappointing you”, I apologized.

“It’s okay! It’s completely fine. Stop the apologies, okay?”

“Okay ma”.

“So have you heard from my son?”

“No ma! Actually, I’m waiting for him to call me. We had not spoken since the incident”.

“No! Don’t wait for him to call you. Call him and apologize to him. Stop waiting for him. You may not have an idea of what Satan is putting him through. It took the grace of God to help him reconcile himself back to God last night.

Thanks for the airtime you sent. It really served it’s purpose. I exhausted it in a conversation that lasted more than an hour. Please call him! He really needs to hear from you.

He’s making alot of false assumptions about how you feel about him. You know Silas very well. Even when he’s innocent, he’ll still be the one to apologize. He’ll always take the blame and accept responsibility. It’s funny sometimes. But that’s how he is. I would really love you to call him, so his mind can be at peace.

“Okay mummy! Thank you so much!” I replied.

“We bless God for everything. Just call him please!”

“I’ll do that immediately I end this call”, I replied.

“I’m ending it already! Bye!” She said and hung up.

I smiled as I entered my banking app on my phone and recharged her line again.

“What a mother indeed. I am so proud to be a member of this family!” I said to myself as I dialed Silas’ number and waited for him to pick.

It rang three times, before he finally picked it up.

“Hello!”

“Hi!”

“How are you?” I asked.

“I’m fine. I’m glad I’m really doing okay. How about you?”

“I’m good! I mean not that good a few hours ago but really really good now. I was so depressed and felt like dying sef”.

“Ha! Die and leave me alone? How will you do that to me?”

“I can’t na! That as why I told God to do it himself. I told him to kill me. But you know how daddy can do sometimes. He does more than your expectations. He gives you way more than you can ever imagine.

I’m so grateful to God for giving me a mentor like Mrs Juliet Thompson. She’s such a blessing to me and my unborn children. They are going to really thank her for everything”.

“Yes that’s true! God was so merciful to us”.

“Indeed he was!”

“Charming, I’m so sorry for everything. I am the reason why you had to go through all those depression and thinking. I mean, God was trying to teach me a big lesson and you had to go for it.

You were too innocent and should have been spared”.

“Shush! Christy! Keep quiet! Will a man judge God?”

“No!”

“Can the clay tell the potter why are you making me like this?”

“No”.

“Forget about the past. We have a bright future ahead of us. We both lost guard and gave in to pride. I was not excluded. I was proud of the purity in my relationship. I started comparing myself with some brothers in my church.

It wasn’t just you Christy. I was also taught a lesson. I just thank God for his mercies. Now I see clearly. Psalms 127:1. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

It’s God that kept me all these while. It was God that kept us all these while, not our own willpower or human strength. But pride comes and makes us start sharing God’s glory with him. And because God will never share his glory with anyone. He is forced to withdraw his grace and watch us struggle to be holy in our human strength.

That’s what happened to us. We started talking as if God was not the watchman. Those times when we were tempted and he restrained us. Those times when he told us to stop. We forgot about everything and acredited everything to ourselves. He will never share his glory with anyone”.

“That’s true! Thank you so much for being an understanding Charming!” I said beaming with smiles.

“Please! I don’t want to charm an innocent girl this morning”, he replied.

“Please I need your charms ooo! It’s been a while I heard this lovely voice. I really missed you. I mean, I missed us”.

“Yes! Me too. I’m so glad God is still our number one team mate. We’re moving and Satan will not stop us”.

“Amen!” I replied.

“So how was your meeting with your uncle?”

“Wow! It’s almost as if we forgot about our wedding”.

“You were the one that forgot ooo! Me I was the one that reminded you. So don’t rub your forgetting our wedding on my innocent memorious capturing supersonic brain”.

I burst into laughter and threw myself on the bed.

“You’re not serious. Have you forgotten that once Eve has eaten the apple, her Adam don chop am be that”.

“No ooo! Dr Mrs Lot look back no mean say Oga Lot go look back oooo. The race na personal!”

I laughed.

“But Sarah doubted God and automatically, Abraham join her by following her advice to get a child from Hagar”.

“No ooo! Abigail had a useless husband does not mean she go dey useless. She use her brain save her life from David’s army. When she knew David was going to destroy her husband Nabal and his family, which included herself. She quickly went behind her husband’s back and gathered food items. She took them to David and pleaded with him to spare her family.

She even saved that man Nabal, through her wisdom. But later, God struck Nabal by himself and he died. So can you see say na personal race we dey so?”

“But I really envy the wisdom of Abigail!” I replied.

“Please envy it very well ooo! You’ll be needing it in our marriage. A woman that knows when to talk to her husband and when to remain silent. She knew her husband was drunk, talking to him about the attack David planned would not enter his head. So she waited for the right time to speak to her husband.

When his spirit will be calm. When he’s not angry. When he’s weak and will be able to reason properly. Chai! That woman was a wise woman. It takes wisdom to live with a husband that is not born again. But Abigail lived with such a man and there was never a record that Nabal beat her.

She knows how to speak. She knows when to keep quiet. She knows when her husband is angry and how to bear all the insults without replying him back.

1 Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Verse 37. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

She knows how to get him through her words”.

“Wait! Did you say, she knows how to get him through her words?” I asked.

“Yes!”

“Wow! How can I get you through my words?”

“Chai! See Christiana ooo! She’s acting like Delilah. Tell me the secret to your strength. Jesus! Women are dangerous ooo! Well, they are still good when they are Jesus angels. Because if they know the secret of your strength, they will use it to get you when you’re going astray. Like Abigail did to Nabal and got him.

I noticed something Christy. Men are beings of power and strength. But women are beings of influence. That’s why the bible calls them weaker vessel. They are not weaker vessels because they are inferior to men. They are weaker vessel because according to the physical, they are weak in a perspective though.

But the power of a woman is just as strong as that of a man. It’s the woman that fails to realize her powers. Her powers is not is physical combat or arguing with her husband. Her powers is what we Christians called THE WISDOM OF A SERPENT.

Satan doesn’t use force, yet he controls the earth and the people in it. Stop using force, use your influence. Submit to the man, respect the man. Say yes sir like a fool. It’s not stupidity. It’s wisdom and influence.

There is a principle in the spirit realm called THE LAW OF ATTRACTION. When you consistently obey a person, the heart of the person will gradually soften towards you and be attracted to you. That’s how it works.

That is how to bring out the love on a man’s heart. Your husband will love you Ehn! You will be complaining the love is too much.

You don’t shout at your husband that he doesn’t love you anymore. Even when he’s not doing enough, you are praising him like a president. You bring out the love in his heart. You bring out the king in him and like Esther he will say, ‘Ask for anything you want and it shall be granted, even to the half of my kingdom’.

That was the mistake Vashti used. Silence treatment. My dear please come and she will tell him I am not coming. It’s true her husband offended her, but she was not fighting with the strength of a woman. She was fighting a man like a fellow man. And when a woman tries to be a man, it’s a loss.

Look at Esther. She and the king had been in the palace for good 3 months, yet they never saw each other. Yet, she went to the king and instead of accusing him of abandoning her and the children. Instead of shouting at him for being so busy at his place of work. Traveling for one business trip to another. She threw him a welcome party.

Just imagine! Women can control their men if they master the art of Attraction. Men command, ‘Come here’, and the woman will come. But when the woman uses her influence to command the man, he will not only come, he will sleep there.

What attracts the man to the woman is how the woman submits. Not necessarily her beauty. It’s her submission that unlocks the love in the heart of the man and he falls in love so badly that he cannot recover from it”.

I was seriously enjoying the marriage seminar, when the call ended abruptly.

“Ha! Airtime!”

To be continued………

Oya oooo! Ladies in the house! You guys should come and buy airtime for Oga Silas oooo.
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Please I am not a marriage counselor ooo. I only wrote as the Spirit inspired me.
Nobody should call me marriage counselor ooo. I will tell my mummy for you ooo!
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Please apply these Principles. And watch your marriage transform.

So Uncle Akinyele, we’re coming for you! We are back on our feet.

Episode 79

I sat down on the floor one of my hand in my head. My hair was just a complete mess. Who cares about the hair? It’s completely glaring that God wasn’t going to kill me. So what’s the new plan? I don’t know what exactly is going on with me?

I had to do something to help myself. I remembered how I used to get myself out of my senses in the past. How did we do it back then? Alcohol! Yes! That’s how we did it. Whenever I and my friends were so depressed, we would drink to stupor to knock ourselves out of our senses.

But how do I get some of that stuff? There was no trace of alcohol around my house anymore. I guess I’ll have to send Evelyn to get some for me. No, I can’t! She would be so shocked such a request came from my mouth.

If I need some acholic drinks, I’d better go get some myself. What was the first step? I had to get myself dressed as soon as possible to go a nearby bar and get drunk.

I don’t know where I got the energy from. I waw struggling with my prayers, but immediately it was time to go back to sin, energy came. I rose up like a lady ready for action. I had to at least do something to my messy hair. So I spent sometime to pack it and hold them together with a string.

What about my bath? Nah! I’ll do that later. I was in a hurry I cannot explain. Who was rushing me to go and drink alcohol? Who? Why was I in such a hurry? This is something I don’t understand. I sprayed perfume on myself to make myself smell good. I just needed to taste alcohol as quickly as I could.

I rushed out of the room and told Evelyn to prepare something light for breakfast. I got into my car and drove to a bar. A classic bar around my area. I was sure no one there would recognize me, so I sat down immediately I entered.

“Miss Kolapo!” I heard someone call.

I turned to look and tried to remember where I saw that face. Obviously, I couldn’t remember the face. He came closer and sat down with me.

“Wow! I never thought I would meet you again. I was surprised!” He said smiling.

Yes I remember him now. He’s the psychiatric doctor Maggie called to treat me at my office. What’s that his name again? Yes! Doctor Francis!

“It’s so nice to meet you again woman of God”, he said as he said as we both shook hands together.

“So what do you need, let me get it for you!” He asked.

As badly as I wanted to taste my alcohol, I dared not tell him what I wanted. I was not supposed to be seen in a place like this to begin with. So how did I get here? What must he be thinking about me right now?

Perhaps he’s trying to confirm his doubts by asking me what I wanted. He’s going to figure out I was here to get drunk by ordering what I want. I may have gone so far to bring myself here, but my reputation as a child of God was more important than anything right now. I can’t lose that now.

I stood up immediately.

“Actually! I came here hunting for a guy!” I started a line of made up lies.

“Hunting? You hunt for drunken men and take them home for the night?” He asked.

“God forbid! I’m engaged to a man I would be getting married to. How would you think such negative thing about me?” I said expressing my displeasure.

“I’m sorry about that! Please forgive me!”

“Why would you think I pay men to warm my bed? What kind of imagination is that?”

“I just said I’m sorry!”

“And you expect me to forgive you because you said you were sorry?”

“What else do you want me to do?”

I exhaled. Cris! I don’t like this version of you ooo! What’s happening? Control yourself please!

“It’s alright! I’m out of here”, I said and took my purse.

“Wait!” He called and I paused.

“So you came here hunting for who? I need clarity, so I don’t have the wrong impression about you!”

I turned to him and gave him a cold stare.

“Think all you want. I don’t owe you an explanation. I don’t care what you think about me. We were supposed to meet again, but you never called since the day you left my office. I don’t know what kept you from calling me but it’s fine by me. Whenever you are ready, feel free to call me. Just wanted to remind you”, I said and walked out of the bar.

I can’t believe he would take me for a harlot. I was so angry, but I couldn’t blame him for thinking that way. I was not supposed to be seen in a place like that. I entered my car and drove back to my house. I had lost my appetite for beer. I don’t know who I may meet at the next bar I would step into. I don’t want to lose my temper and make a fool of myself.

I sat down on the sofa in my master’s bedroom. I had to eat something, but I just wasn’t ready for anything yet.

I noticed the room was hot. I was already beginning to sweat. I was feeling too uncomfortable in the room. Did I turn off the AC?

I quickly stood up to turn it on. But from where I stood, I could see it was working. Ha! What kind of heat was this?

My air-conditioning was on the wall at the other end of the room, so I had to go around my bed to get to it. I moved around and saw a human being on the floor of my room.

I jumped back in fright.

“Jesus!” I exclaimed.

I had left the TV on the news stations and the sound system overpowered my ears. I rushed to get my remote and turned it off.

Then I started hearing the voice of that one person I never expected here. What was she doing here? How did she get here? How come no one told me?

She was blasting in tongues on the floor. How could she leave her busy schedule to come here to pray in my room? Perhaps she came to see me and when she discovered I wasn’t in the house, decided to spend her time wisely.

I had tears in my eyes as I watched her groaning passionately for me.

“Kings shall arise from you and nations shall arise out of your bosom. Satan knows what he’s up against and will never stop fighting for the thinest loophole.

But Lord! This daughter of mine will not be sacrificed as meat for Lucifer. I call her spirit out of the cage where the enemy had locked her up. Cristina! Hear me clearly! You don’t have a choice! You will serve this God till you die!

No power will be able to hold you down. No power will keep you bound. You shall continue to wax stronger and stronger in the Lord. Your back will never touch the ground in defeat”.

I broke into tears and cried loudly. Sure, she heard and stood up immediately. She was dripping out sweat as she walked. Her sweat rained on me as she picked me up from the floor.

She placed my head on her chest and patted my back as I wept in her arms.

“Cris! Jesus would never had sent me here, if he was done with your life. He’s arms are widely opened. Going to the bar is not the solution. It’s going back into the waiting arms of Jesus!

That’s the reason why many people are going into masturbation, pornography, casual intimacy with strangers, alcoholism, drugs, gambling. Anything to distract them from the pain they’re feeling.

Jesus is the answer for the world today. Above him there’s no other. Jesus is the way! Jesus is the answer for the world today. Above him there’s no other. Jesus is the way!” She sang.

“Mummy! I’m a failure! God had invested so much on me. He had taught me so much that my generation would be shocked at what God has done in me. But look at what a failure I have been?

I’m such a waste of divine investment. Mummy! I’m no use to God! I have sinned so many times. I have hurt him so often. I don’t deserve his forgiveness”. I wept.

“Cris! If God were to grant us salvation based on how much we deserve it, no one would be saved. If God were to save the lost on the grounds of who was more deserving of his forgiveness, we would all be lost.

We never deserved God and will never be. He came to us out of love and mercy. He offered us a new life not because we deserved it, but because he loves us. So who told you that you must deserve God before he can forgive you?

The bible says in Hebrews 8:12. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

He’s ready to forgive you and accept you. Despite all you have done and do you know what?”

“What?”

“He’s not just going to forgive you. Here’s the best part. The bible says we are justified by his blood. Do you know what it means to be justified?

“I don’t think I do”, I answered.

“In the court, when the judge forgives a man, he may be released. But he will have to lower his face around people and walk in shame. Because he was guilty but forgiven.

But in the court, when a man is justified. The judge announces to the court that this man is hereby declared innocent of all the charges laid against him and stamps it.

Can you imagine Cris? God has not only forgiven you, but he calls you an innocent baby girl! His harmless little dove”, she said and squeezed my nose.

I didn’t know how a smile appeared on my face.

“Oh my God! Satan is such a big liar! Satan is such an accuser! Satan really takes advantage of the ignorance of a Christian. No wonder! Ha! No wonder God said that my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. The bible is such a gift to man. Many of us fail to read it. Ha! Satan! You have really done alot of damage through the ignorance of many of us”.

I wept in my mentor’s arms, but they were not tears of regret, they were tears of joy.

“Cris! God takes away your sins and place them on Jesus. Then takes the righteousness of Jesus and places it on you. So when he looks at you. He doesn’t see that fornicator. He sees a beautiful and harmless baby girl. A righteous and wonderful Princess of the most high.

No he doesn’t see that masturbator, that liar, that cheater, that alcoholic, no! He sees a righteous and innocent lady. Abba’s love! The love of his life!”

“Sweet Daddy! I’m so sorry for everything! I believe you have forgiven me. There’s no sin on earth that is too powerful for the blood of Jesus to wash away. There’s no power that is greater than what is written in your word. Your blood is so powerful. It turns a masturbator into a saint. It justifies me and declares me innocent.

Thank you so much sweet Daddy!”

Immediately, the peace that flooded my soul was out of this world. Joy took over me in such an overwhelming way.

“He touched me!
Oh he touched me!
And oh! The joy that filled my soul!
Something happened and now I know.
He touched me and made me whole!” My mentor began to sing.

I joined her in the song and we both began to sing it together.

“WELCOME BACK MY PRETTY EBONY!” Came the gentle voice I had missed so badly.

“Daddy! Where have you been?” I asked within me.

“I NEVER LEFT. YOU WERE THE ONE THAT LEFT ME. DO YOU REMEMBER IT WAS THE PRODIGAL SON THAT LEFT THE HOUSE AND NOT THE FATHER LEAVING THE HOUSE FOR HIM?

YOU LEFT, BUT I RAN AFTER YOU.

Song of Solomon 3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Verse 2. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Verse 3. The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

Verse 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

I AM SO HAPPY I FOUND MY LOST ANGEL! MY BABY GIRL!”

Overwhelmed with joy, I laid on the floor in gratitude.

“Thank you Jesus! Thank you so much!”

To be continued…..

You may be Christiana Kolapo. You may have risen and fallen so many times. And all you think about is how much of a disgrace and disappointment you have been to God.

Here’s what God has to say to you.

John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

The Message translation says John 6:37. Every person the Father gives me eventually comes running to me. And once that person is with me, I hold on and don’t let go.

Here’s what the Amplified version says.John 6:37. All whom My Father gives (entrusts) to Me will come to Me; and the one who comes to Me I will most certainly not cast out [I will never, no never, reject one of them who comes to Me].

He says he will never reject whoever comes to him. Why do you keep allowing Satan tell you that you don’t deserve him?

Is it Satan you will spend the rest of your life with in hell?

Run to Jesus now and watch him throw a welcome party for you.

Please don’t be a Ghost reader! Say a word of gratitude to God for his endless love for all mankind.

Episode 78

I laid on the floor in my room in tears. It dawned on me that I was proud. I had gone too far. I was so confident in myself and lost everything. I guess God decided to have pity on me if not, I don’t know what would be happening right now.

My phone started ringing. I checked the caller’s ID and sighed deeply. It was Mummy Silas. I picked the phone and swiped the green bar.

“Hello! Sorry my battery went flat. That’s how my phone behaves these days. Even if the battery is full, in the twinkling of an eye, it will display battery low and go off. I had to charge it as quickly as possible.

I know you must have called and called several times. I’m really sorry about that that”.

“It’s alright ma!” I replied trying my best to ensure my emotions are not reflected in my voice.

“So you were saying that you and Silas have always been careful and will never stop being careful. You said you had never entered my son’s house and he has never entered your house as well.

You also said I need to see how careful you and Silas have been. You told me today, was the first time you both hugged each other. And that before you even hugged him, you had to ask God for permission to do so. Is it people that have not hugged since the relationship started that will start misbehaving? Just hugging alone, you don’t, not to mention immorality.

Olamide! I want to really commend your efforts. You have really been a watchful woman. You’re a good wife for my son. The kind of wife everyone out there is praying to have. Not all Christian ladies can be like you. Many of them have used the excuse of we would soon be getting married to start living in sin.

But as a Christian, you have not only stood your ground, you have kept yourself from all appearance of evil. Many Christians think because they will soon get married, they can start commiting immorality. If you’re not married you’re not married, period. Stop using I will soon get married to excuse your sinful lifestyle.

The word of God says in Hebrews 13:4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

The message translation of that scripture says, honour marriage, and guard the sacredness of carnal intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a firm line against casual and illicit copulation.

The Amplified version says, let marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge and punish the unchaste [all guilty of immorality] and adulterous.

There’s this latest trend of sin. I don’t know how Satan managed to invent it, but alot of Christians are buying it. They lock themselves in a room and begin to kiss like husband and wife. They do all kinds of pre-intimacy and stop there. They keep telling themselves they are waiting for when they would get married.

That’s a deception from the pit of hell. Untill you’re married, stay pure! Stay undefiled. Stop soiling your white garments with sin”.

I didn’t know what to say. I was seriously fighting my tears right now. It was as if God was speaking directly to me.

“But I thank God for you. You’re not like those people. You stood for God and remained pure. You have not allowed Satan to decieve you to start kissing your fiancee”.

Oh my God! Please tell this woman to stop tormenting me. She’s just calling me everything I am not. I’m such a disappointment right now.

“Mummy please stop! You have no idea of what happened between us right now!”

“What happened? Did you break up?” She asked.

I began my story on the phone with her. Thank God I had recharged her line as I had earlier promised. I narrated everything that happened to her and by the time I was done, she ended the call immediately without saying a word.

I wept till I had no strength left in me. It was tears all through the night. I managed to find sleep that night. It was really a struggle for me. I had barely slept when my quiet time alarm rang to wake me up.

I pushed myself into a sitting position and looked around. I sighed countlessly.

“Daddy I’m sorry! I’m so sorry I had hurt you so bad!”

I sat on the bed and tried to pray, but I was just too depressed to say anything. In simple words, I could not pray. All I could think about was how useless I had been to God. Even my mentor is mad at me. She gave me instructions to guide me. But what did I do with her instructions? I threw it away and did things my way. Because I was super smart.

“Daddy I’m such a worthless and unprofitable servant. You have showed me mercy beyond human comprehension. You have taught me so much. But look at how I wasted your investment upon my life. I almost committed the sin against the body. It was your mercy that prevented me.

I’m so worthless and empty. I don’t even know why I’m still alive. I don’t know why you created me? I’m trying to pray, but I cannot. I’m just struggling over here. I don’t know what to say. I just…..I just….”

I broke into tears and threw myself on the bed. I felt like God should kill me himself. That would be exactly what I deserve. I really deserve that very well. God should take away my life. I was such a disappointment to him.

“God please kill me! I’m tired of living like this! Just take my life. What’s the need of my existence if all I bring you is pain and disappointment? Just take my life and get rid of this unfaithful servant”, I said weeping.

My phone started ringing. It was my mentor calling. I quickly picked up the phone and swiped the green bar.

“Hello mummy!”

“Yes! How’s your quiet time going?”

“Mummy! I cannot pray ooo! I just don’t know what to do. I’m trying to pray but nothing is coming out of my mouth. I’m just too…. too……”

“Cris! Who told you that you cannot pray?”

“Mummy! I open my mouth and all I’m seeing is struggle. I struggle with my words and I am feeling so weak. I don’t know what is truly wrong with me.

“James 5:13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray”.

“Mummy! I can’t pray!”

“Why?”

“I’m struggling with my words!”

“Listen to me very carefully! There’s no demon in this world that can stop you from praying. That’s a deception from the pit of hell. They keep getting at you through your emotions and you accept.

They are only following a Bible principle which is written in the book of Proverbs 23:7. For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

As long as the devil can make you believe you cannot pray, you will never be able to pray. Cris, what did I say?”

“As long as the devil can make me believe I cannot pray, I will never be able to pray”, I repeated.

“Emotions are nothing in the spirit realm. How you feel when it comes to spiritual matters is non of God’s business. Don’t get me wrong. There are times when you feel the Holy Spirit physically and enjoy emotional satisfaction in his presence. But there are also times when you kneel down to pray and those feelings are not there.

You will say, ‘chai! The heavens are closed!’ Who told you heavens are closed? So because you didn’t feel those sensations. Those goose bumps and cry in the place of worship, you conclude something is wrong.

What was wrong was not God, but your description of God as a feeling. God is not a feeling. God is a spirit and you must worship him in spirit and in truth.

And one thing that drives the spirit is called faith. You have to believe that God is always present and ready to listen to you whenever you kneel down to pray. You have to believe that God is listening to your prayers, even when there are no emotions to confirm it.

Following God is an act of faith. Walking with God is by faith, not by sight or feelings. There are times when you spend time with God and you feel his presence around. Soon, you start telling yourself that whenever that feeling comes, it means God is there. That’s idolatry.

You’ve made an idol out of that supernatural experience and God who will never share his glory with anything is forced to withdraw that experience from you. He does so, so you can focus on him again.

So because you had a feeling and cried during worship section that means God was there? What a limited perception of God’s presence. So whenever there are no feelings, no screaming, no vibrations or sensations in your body, it means God went on holiday?

You have to first of all believe in your heart that God is right there with you, whether you feel him or not. Because the only thing that attracts God more closer to you is your faith.

Hebrews 11:6. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Another interpretation for that scripture is, without faith, it is impossible to make God happy. You have to believe that God is there with you. You have to believe that he is listening to your prayers right now.

He that cometh to God must first of all feel him, right?”

“No!”

“He that comes to God must first of all do what?”

“Believe!” I answered.

“That’s the requirement Cris. When God asked Abraham to kill Isaac, do you think Abraham did it with a smile on his face?”

“No ma!”

“I’m sure he must be crying while laying his son on the altar. But God never asked him to stop because he didn’t feel like doing it. An I correct?”

“Yes!”

“You cannot do spiritual exercises based on how you feel. You pray because you don’t have anything else to do rather than to pray. Men ought always to pray! Cris ought always to pray! Whether she feels like praying or not! Whether she’s struggling to do it or not!

Sometimes I tell the devil, that as long as he cannot hold my lips together and stop my mouth from opening and closing, he cannot stop me from praying.

Satan is always a deciever. The bible says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Cris what did the bible says?”

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!”

“Can you pray?”

“I can pray!”

“Why?”

“Because Jesus will strengthen me!”

“Will you struggle with what to say?”

“No!”

“Why?”

“Because Christ will strengthen me”, I answered.

“So who is that demon that is telling you that you cannot pray? Who is that liar telling you that you will never be able to pray?”

I bowed my head and whispered.

“She doesn’t understand! I’m such a failure! I don’t deserve God’s mercy! I just want to die”.

“Cris! Start praying let me hear your voice”, she demanded.

I opened my mouth and wanted to pray, but I felt so heavy. I just couldn’t open my mouth. I was so depressed and hung up immediately.

I switched off the phone and threw it on the bed.

“I am tired of struggling! I am tired of rising and falling! All I want is to die! I just want to die! God please kill me!”

To be continued……..

Who told you that you cannot pray?

Who told you that because that feeling was not there God is not there?

Don’t conclude on God based on your feelings. Conclude on him by what he says in his word.

CALL UPON ME AND I WILL ANSWER AND I WILL SHOW YOU GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS YOU DO NOT KNOW.

Please, you guys should pray for Cris oooo! I don’t know what happened to her that she wants to die.

Episode 77

I sat beside the hospital bed and held Maggie’s hand gently. She was taken to the hospital for treatment. Her condition was so worse that she had to be taken to the hospital immediately.

I looked around and waved at Silas who was on the phone with his mother. He smiled and waved at me.

Soon, he beckoned on me to join him.

“Mummy wants to talk to you”, he whispered and handed the phone to me.

“Hello mummy!” I greeted her.

“Hello Olamide! How are you?”

“I am fine ma! Mummy I’ve missed you ooo!”

“I’ve missed you too my dear! I was just asking Silas when the two of you would come to see us again?”

“You would need to ask him very well ooo! He’s the one that has been keeping your baby here ooo!” I replied and we both laughed.

“Olamide! So how far? What about your family? Have they given us the date to come and see them?” She asked.

“Mummy! We are trusting God ooo! My family is not really in support of the marriage. I have been praying that God should touch their heart. I don’t know what is really going on. But we are not going to stop praying untill they give their consent”.

“Amen ooooo! I don’t like the way they are delaying the two of you. The way love dey catch two of you, I don’t want anything funny to happen between the two of you. Please, take the prayers seriously and be watchful. Satan is such a dramatic personality.

I know he cannot do anything. But when we allow him through our carelessness and pride, he wrecks a lot of havoc. I just want the two of you to be careful”.

I exhaled.

“Mummy! You were the one who dressed a room for both of us to spend the night. And we refused so that we can stay pure. Is it now that we would start messing around? You knew all these but you dressed a room and asked us to sleep on the same bed”.

“I did it on purpose to test the two of you. And I was so grateful to God that you both remained firm and chosed to stand pure. All I’m saying is that this delay can lead to some unexpected occurrences. A situation where you both lose your guard and get carried away. I just want you both to be careful”.

“I get it mummy! We have always been careful and will never stop being careful. I have never entered your son’s house and he has never entered my house. God who started this journey for us will help us complete it in Jesus name”.

“Amen!”

“By the way, you need to see how careful we have been. I mean today, we had our first hug. And before I was able to hug him, I had to ask God for permission to hug him. Is it people that have not hugged since the relationship started that will start misbehaving? I mean, just hugging alone, we don’t, not to mention immorality”.

The call ended.

“Ah! What happened?” I asked Silas.

“Maybe her airtime got exhausted”, Silas answered as he took the phone from me.

“Oh my goodness! I was wasting mummy’s airtime? I owe her one thousand naira recharge card”, I replied.

He smiled and patted my shoulder.

“I hear you!” He said and squeezed my nose gently.

I hit him playfully, smiling.

“Let me call her back!” I replied and brought out my phone. I dialed her number, but the service replied me that her number was switched off. After three more attempts and the same response, we concluded on calling her later in the evening.

“Christy, I have to leave now. I have rehearsals in church very soon. Please look after Maggie very well”.

“Charming! I’m tired! I’m feeling sleepy sef? Can’t I go home to rest and come back later? I’ve been here all day. Besides, I’m hungry”.

“You’re tired and hungry?”

“Yes!”

“I’m almost late, let’s get to my place first, from there we’ll split. You take the car home and I’ll find my way to rehearsals.

“Sounds like a good idea!” I replied and took my purse.

We got out of the hospital and drove in my car to his place. He actually drove the car, while I enjoyed the ride. Soon, we arrived at his place and he told me to wait for him in the car so he can get what he needed and we leave.

I sat in the car waiting. His house was unlocked by Maggie’s criminal expert. Wait does that mean his door knob had been destroyed?

I came out of the car and walked towards the door. He opened it and smiled.

“Come and see this!” He said.

I quickly entered the house. It was my first time and I felt a little bit uneasy.

“This is bad, but funny! They stole my curtains”, he said pointing at the window.

I laughed and tried to look for a place to sit.

Sensitive enough, he quickly told me to sit on the bed. While he searched for the things he needed.

I looked around the house and picked up a book on the bed and started slipping through the pages.

“CRIS! I THOUGHT YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO ENTER THE HOUSE? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?”

“So because I entered the house, the next thing is to start fornicating abi? What kind of mentality is that?”

“CRIS WILL YOU GET OUT OF THIS PLACE. DON’T YOU KNOW AS A LADY, IT’S WRONG FOR YOU TO SIT ON A MAN’S BED. THAT ACT ALONE IS SHAMEFUL. IF HE CANNOT OFFER YOU A CHAIR, YOU HAVE TO STAND OR CARRY THE CONVERSATION OUTSIDE.

BEING IN CLOSED DOORS WITH THE OPPOSITE GENDER IS DANGEROUS. EVEN IF NOTHING HAPPENS, IF SOMEONE WITH A WEAK MIND OR CONSCIENCE SEES YOU, THEY’LL START JUDGING YOU FOR COMING OUT OF A MAN’S HOUSE. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DISCUSS WITH YOUR MAN THAT YOU MUST ENTER HIS HOUSE TO SAY IT?”

“Daddy don’t worry! Nothing will happen. It’s not everyone that enters a man’s house, ends up fornicating. That is a wrong mindset”, I replied within me.

Silas turned to me and smiled.

“Christy, close your eyes! I have something to show you!” He said and pulled me up to my feet.

I stood up and shut my eyes. What was he going to show me? Excitement welled up within me. I smiled and waited for when I would open my eyes.

“Now!” He said.

I opened my eyes and almost squealed in excitement. It was a portrait of me.

He held it up and asked me if I liked it?

“Is that a question? I love it”, I said and took it from him. I looked at the painting several times and back to him, all smiles.

“So you can draw?”

“Actually, it wasn’t me! It was a friend of mine who I gave the contract”, he answered.

“Wow! So you did this for me? That’s so sweet of you!” I said and rushed into his arms.

I dropped the picture and hugged him tightly. That was my mistake. I don’t know what was wrong with that one hug. My hormones became charged. I found out my body was completely activated for more.


I wanted to pull away, but at the same time I wanted it. Our lips got closer and closer and locked up in a kiss. It was as if a bell rang in my head, but the more I wanted to stop, the more I wanted to continue and the desire to continue seemed to be more stronger than the will to stop.

Silas fell for everything, making no attempt to resist me. What’s happening? Cris stop this! You can handle it. Control yourself! Please!

The fire in the room and our bodies got so intense that we could not stop. It had been a long time I was like this with a man. This made it was so easy for my body to connect with my past. Everything in me was ready to see this to the end.

“Daddy! Please show us mercy! Please help me! I’m in such a big mess! Please, rescue me!” I prayed within me.

My phone which was on the bed started ringing. That was our saving grace. That phone call, called us back to our senses.

“Jesus Christ!” Silas exclaimed and moved back.

I stood like a bag of rubbish, unable to hide my shame.

I picked up my phone and checked the caller’s ID. I threw the phone back on the bed.

Guess who was calling? I’m in trouble ooo!

Silas had rushed out of the room and left me to myself. The phone started ringing again.

“Jesus! I’m so sorry!” I said as hot tears poured down my cheeks.

“PICK THAT CALL!”

I knew I had to face her and start my confession.

“Hello mummy!”

“Oh thank God! What happened to you? Where are you? Are you okay?” My mentor asked.

“Ma!”

“I was in a meeting when suddenly, I was feeling so restless and the Holy Spirit kept telling me to call you. I was telling myself I would do it later, but the restlessness was to hard to ignore. I had to leave the place and call you. What’s going on? Is everything alright? This restlessness is beyond uneasiness. I have never felt like this for a mentee before.

It means you’re about to do something that would destroy your relationship with God. So what is going on right now?”

I wept on the phone like a baby, unable to utter a single word.

“Jesus! Cris tell me what happened?” She asked panicking.

“Mummy! I’m sorry!” I apologized.

“Hmmm! I’m getting a clue to what happened. But tell me nothing happened?”

“Your call was what saved us!” I answered admist tears.

“So you entered his house, right?”

“I’m sorry ma!”

“Don’t tell me you’re sorry! Give me my answer! Did you enter his house?”

“Yes ma!”

“Very good! Have I warned you never to visit him all alone? Have I?”

“Yes ma!” I answered still sobbing.

“I told you never to visit him alone, but you went ahead to do so, right?”

“I’m sorry ma! It’s my first time of entering his house”.

“Yes! And Satan was present to make it your last time. What was your assignment in his house? You went there to cook for him or wash his clothes, which of them?”

“He wanted to show me something”.

“And you went there and saw something, right?”

“Mummy, I’m sorry!”

“Sorry for what? For going to his house to see something? Why should you be sorry for that?”

“I’m such an idiot!” I said admist tears.

“I guess the Holy Spirit was there warning you, but as a big madam you are, you told him you can handle it, right?”

“Mummy please! Your words are hurting me!”

“Yes! Let it hurt you very well. As a mentor, there are times we need to flog our girls very well. Let these words hurt you so that you can never forget today in your entire life.

Do you know the meaning of that scripture. God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Is like you don’t understand this God at all.

If man is fighting against you, who will you beg to help you?”

“God!” I answered.

“If God, plus Satan, who is always happy to destroy you, plus human being, join hands to fight you, who will you beg to help you?”

“No one!”

“God resists the proud. God fights the proud. You were given an instruction, but you waved it away. Why? You have a very smart and calculative brain. You’ve got things under control.

There’s nothing you cannot handle. You’ve got a better idea than God. The Holy Spirit warned you, but you sat down on his bed, looking at the something he was showing you.

He gives grace to the humble. Without grace, can your own strength carry you?”

“No ma!”

“You don’t know the meaning of that statement. That means, even if there is grace, God will take it away from you and watch you struggle and struggle untill you crash”.

“Daddy! I’m sorry!” I cried.

“Didn’t you notice you wanted to stop, but you couldn’t stop. Grace had left! It was willpower that was left. Will power cannot handle anything for long. You were telling yourself to stop, but the more you wanted to stop, the more the flesh overpowered you.

The day grace leaves a man. Ha! Cris! Pity the graceless man. He will tell you I will not do it! The next minute he will finish doing it and start crying. No power to do! Only power to talk and promise us heaven and earth.

When God becomes the enemy of a man? Ha! Pity that man! That proud man. The man God says go here and he says no to God! That man that God says , ‘do this’, and he says I have a better way to do it. That lady that God says, ‘End that relationship’, and she says, she cannot do such a thing.

Watch God bring you down. Watch him pluck off your feathers. Watch him take his grace away from you. Watch him allow Satan ruin your marriage. Watch him fight you till he humbles you completely.

Till all you have to say is, ‘Daddy! I will do as you have said’. A man whom God takes his grace from. Pity that man! Flesh will turn you to his slave.

I don’t want to do it ooo! But that’s what you will do. Because that grace that will help you overcome the flesh, has been taken away” .

I wept on the phone till I had no more strength to cry. This was indeed the biggest lesson of my life.

To be continued…….

Just a little bit of carelessness. Just a little bit of, “it’s alright!”

Was enough for the serpent to penetrate.

Whosoever breaks an edge, a serpent will surely bite.

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Episode 76

“So what do I do now?” I asked.

“I don’t know! The man on the phone replied.

“Jesus! Please help me!” I said admist tears.

“Madam! Please calm down. Crying will not solve all these you need to go to the court and prove the innocence of my your man. A weapon was discovered among his possessions. The police has taken him custody. Get a good lawyer. This case is going to be a tough one.

You have to fight for your husband or watch him sentenced for many years”.

“God! Silas is innocent! Where did they get a gun?”

“You can ask the police men when you get to the station”.

I woke up. It was all a dream. I gasped as I discovered my phone was ringing.

It was a Saturday. I had finished my quiet time and had gone back to bed after it. I was yet to hear from Silas and here was this scary dream.

I tried to picked up the call and swiped the green bar.

“Hello Charming! Where have you been? What happened?”

“Please start coming! Please come as fast as you can!” He said and that was how the call ended.

My heart started pounding heavily.

Lord what is going on? Daddy please, don’t allow the devil to prevail. Please!

I quickly wore whatever I could and rushed out of the house. I called Evelyn and told her and my gateman what happened, and they start praying for Silas and I.

I got into my car and drove out of the house. I was careful enough not to drive with too much speed.

In no time, I arrived at the place and what I met there was amazing.

Two police men had handcuffed my Charming and was trying to drag him away. It seemed they would have gotten away with him, there was a riot. The neighbours were resisting the police officers. It was a serious riot.

“Which kind nonsense be that?”

“We no gree! Na pastor he be! Na set up!” A man yelled.

“What’s the meaning of all these nonsense?”

“Una no go use una uniform oppress people for here!”

“Armed robbers dey road dey rob people, una no see them catch. Na our innocent pastor you wan arrest!”

I had no idea what was going on, but I was sure to find out very soon.

I looked for a woman standing by and asked her what was going on.

“I don’t know for these useless police men. They said they caught Oga Silas with a gun and came to arrest him. The compound boys no gree for them ooo! Which kind nonsense be that? Silas for that matter. Silas wey if you slap am, he no go answer you. They cannot carry him oo! Na the full compound them go carry. We can’t accept that oppression!” She answered angrily.

I looked around and saw the fight was getting intense. The boys had taken Silas from the police officers and had uncuffed him.

“This fight had been on since last night. We are not going to accept such nonsense!” The woman added.

I quickly brought out my phone and dialed one of my friends who was a police officer. I told him everything that was going on. He told me he was on his way.

I noticed the police officers were overpowered by the compound boys and their phones were taken from them. That’s why they couldn’t get back up.

I was completely quiet. I don’t have a loud voice or the strength to fight with anyone. I just stood in the crowd, waiting for my friend to show up. He was coming with enough men to calm the boys down. Then the issue would be addressed.

“Daddy! Why am I this quiet? I thought I was supposed to panic or try to fight like the boys”.

“CRIS! START PRAYING IN TONGUES RIGHT NOW. START TAKING OVER THE SITUATION”.

I knew I didn’t have time to waste. I started whispering in tongues. I stood quietly and whispered tongues under my breath.

I was still waiting when Maggie’s car drove into the compound. She came out and our eyes met. She was shocked at first, but was smart enough to change it into a smile. What’s going on?

I think I understand why the boys are shouting that it was all a set up.

Anger boiled within me.

“CRIS! KEEP PRAYING IN TONGUES! DON’T STOP! STAY CALM! DON’T LET YOUR EMOTIONS OVER POWER YOU!” Came the gentle whisper.

“Daddy please help me! I guess this was really a set up and I have just found the culprit.

“CALM DOWN! I HAVE AN INSTRUCTION FOR YOU!”

“Daddy, there’s no need for any instruction! I will make sure Maggie rots in jail!”

“DID YOU JUST SAY THAT TO ME? THAT I SHOULD GO AWAY WITH MY INSTRUCTIONS?”

Oh my goodness! Anger was having the best part of me.

“Daddy! I’m sorry!”

“CRIS! IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE SMARTER THAN ME! LET ME ALLOW YOU HANDLE THE SITUATION ACCORDING THE BULKINESS OF WISDOM YOU HAVE IN YOUR HEAD!”

“No daddy! I’m a stupid girl! I have no wisdom of my own. Please! I need your instructions”, I pleaded within me.

Maggie was now approaching.

“CARRY YOUR PHONE AND START RECORDING”, Came the instruction.

I quickly brought out my phone and started recording.

“Cris! I have done it. I have dealt with him. I was the one who got the guy who opened his door. He’s such an expert in criminology! He opened the door and hid the weapon in his house.

It was a smart operation! Cleverly done. I told you it was time to teach that gateman to know his place. He belongs at the gate, he should learn to remain at the gate”.

I was shocked. I wanted to scream, but I was still speaking in tongues, so my anger was seriously pressed down. It was fighting to burst it’s way out, but it looked as if the tongues had this ability that, whenever anger tired to take over, it was weakened immediately.

“What did you say you did?” An angry looking boy shouted.

“Make una come ooo! See the witch wey cause all the wahala. God don catch am. She don dey confess!” He shouted.

The boy grabbed Maggie like a criminal. By then, more than two slaps had landed on her face. Maggie also fought and shouted on top of her voice.

“I will get you arrested! You rat! Get your hands off me! Do I look like your mate?” She shouted.

The boy went to me and snatched my phone out of my hands.

“Everyone! Please keep quiet and listen!” He announced.

There was silence everywhere. He saved what I was recording and quickly played it.

Everyone heard all Maggie’s confession and screamed in rage.

The beating Maggie received was out of this world. Thank God my police friend arrived on time. His men took over. They were much in number, so they were able to rescue Maggie out of their jungle justice.

She was already bleeding with a battered and swollen face. I looked at her with pity, instead of the anger I was feeling earlier.

My friend asked for an explanation to what happened and the boys explained everything to him. He had to act wisely and do what the boys wanted. Maggie was handcuffed and taken into the police van.

Silas was set free on the spot. Wow! Was this a new kind of Nigerian court? Wow! God had given us a new court. Chai! It’s is serious foolishness to fight against God’s will. Look at how Maggie was disgraced.

“CRIS! CAN YOU SEE WHAT YOUR ANGER WOULD HAVE MADE YOU LOSE?”

“Ha! Daddy you have done it again! You’re my Superman! My hero!”

“SHEYBI YOU WERE TELLING ME THERE IS NO NEED FOR INSTRUCTIONS?”

“Ha Daddy! That was my flesh na! It can’t be me”.

“SO YOU ALLOWED YOUR FLESH TO TELL ME TRASH ABI?”

“Ah! Daddy! Daddy! No na! I’m so sorry my darling! I promise you to be a good girl next time?”

“YES! I REALLY NEED THAT PROMISE. BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE ALOT TO DO”.

“Really? That’s wonderful!”

“SO WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO MAGGIE?”

“Ha! Daddy, you’re asking me? Me that does not know anything!” I replied grinning.

“WHAT DO YOU PLAN ON DOING WITH HER?”

“She had sentenced herself by her actions. She got herself into the mess. She’s going to enjoy herself in jail”, I answered.

“I GUESS YOU PROMISED TO FOLLOW EVERY INSTRUCTION I GIVE, RIGHT?”

“Yes sir!”

“YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE SURE SHE’S FREED TODAY”.

“Ha! Daddy!”

“YES BABY! IS THERE A PROBLEM WITH THAT?”

“Yes! I mean no sir!”

“THAT’S MY BABY GIRL!”

I frowned and tightened my fists.

“WON’T YOU SMILE? I SAID THAT’S MY BABY GIRL!”

“Daddy! That girl deserves to be in jail. She’s being a pain in my…..”

“CRIS! YOU DESERVE TO BE IN THE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW. IS IT BECAUSE YOU WERE A GOOD GIRL THAT YOU GOT HEALED?”

I exhaled.

“I’m sorry Daddy! I almost forgot all what you taught me. I’m nothing but a product of your mercy. I must show mercy to others as well. Thank you so much Daddy!”

“YOU’RE WELCOME!”

The boys were around Silas talking with him. I smiled and walked up to meet them.

The moment he saw me, he stood up and rushed to hug me.

“Daddy! He wants to hug me ooo! You don’t like me hugging him”, I said within me.

“GO AHEAD AND HUG HIM. YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION!”

I squealed like a little girl and ran into his arms. It was our first hug in our relationship.

I held him so tight and never wanted to let go.

“Thank you for your prayers. The greatest gift God can give his sons, is a wife that can pray. A praying woman! She’s the covering of her husband.

He pulled out of my grip and held my hands. For a moment, we both forgot we were surrounded by the entire neighborhood.

“The moment you started praying for me, I received the signal over here. I knew you were praying wherever you were. Thank you so much for being my gatekeeper. The enemies would have destroyed me long ago, if not for your Intercessions.

Thank you so much. I want to kiss you, but I will reserve it for our wedding day. You are a package worth waiting for”, he said grinning.

“Charming! Stop thanking me. It’s God that answered all my prayers. Without him answering my prayers, there would be no us! I mean, Satan would have destroyed the two of us.

He showed us mercy! He never gave up on us. Even today, I almost messed up. But immediately I apologized, he came to the rescue. He gave me the perfect idea at the right time.

I never knew that boy kept an eye on me. He saw me when I brought out the phone to record her. How he knew I was tracking what Maggie was saying is still a mystery to me. He eavesdropped on our conversation and interrupted us. He exposed Maggie to everyone.

God is seriously for us. God is on our side. This marriage will stand. The gates of hell will never be able to prevail over what God has established. He has joined us together and Satan cannot stop it.

Jesus has been so merciful to me in particular. I don’t know what he saw in me. I don’t know what I did to deserve his mercy!” I said and tears rolled down my cheeks.

He wiped off my tears with the back of his hands and hugged me tightly.

“Wait ooo! Is that our pastor?”

“Me sef I come dey wonder ooo!”

“Pastor don get babe ooo!”

They all burst into laughter.

We had to return back to the real world.

“Pastor no fear! Just tell us to excuse you and we would gladly do so!” One of them said and they all roared in laughter.

“Pastor! Who is this angel in our midst?”

“She’s…” Silas tried to answer, but was interrupted.

“Don’t tell us she’s one of your church sisters ooo. Tell us that at last, you have found your missing rib”.

“Actually, I wanted to tell you she’s my fiancee”, he replied.

They all yelled like garage boys, and crowded me like I had just scored against Barcelona in a football competition.

To be continued…….

Please you guys should take it easy on Maggie. She’s a darling oooo
🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

She’s only being a good friend!

Maggie is a good friend, she wanted the best package for her friend

God has triumphed again.

Don’t mind Cris who almost blew things up.

Ha! The way this wedding has been delayed is too much. Please wedding planning committee. It’s as if you guys forgot about the wedding.

Episode 75

I drove in through the gate and parked my car. I was at my uncle’s house just as he requested. He said any discussion about my marriage would not be on phone anymore.

I thought it was an empty threat. So I called and called but never got a response. It was a text message from him that confirmed my thoughts.

I knew I had no choice. I called Silas and told him everything about my uncle. Not only about my uncle, but my horrible past. It was a refreshing moment. I had no idea of what awaited me at my uncle’s house. But I knew God was with me.

I was ushered in and made to sit down. I waited for him in the sitting room. Two minutes later, he joined me.

“Uncle! Good evening!” I said and knelt down to greet him.

He smiled and nodded his head.

“Call me daddy! I don’t want to ever hear the word uncle from your mouth. I have now graduated to the realm of daddy. I cannot accept the name uncle anymore”.

“Can you imagine? This man that destroyed your family and almost ate all the money in your father’s company. He’s so unremorseful and unrepentant. He wants you to call him daddy. Does such a wicked man deserve your respect?” Came that arrogant voice.

I smiled.

“It is written in Romans 13:1. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Verse 2.Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

He is the authority in my family. He doesn’t need to deserve respect before I respect him. I will respect him because it is first a command from God and because the bible says we should honour those with gray hair.

So I don’t need him to deserve my respect. I only need to obey God’s word. I am commanded to love my enemies and if I love him, I must respect him. I must respect a person I love. And I love him. Yes I do! Because God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power of love and of a sound mind. The spirit of love lives within me”.

“Okay! Good evening Daddy!” I said with a cheerful smile and made to stand up.

“Who told you to stand up?” He yelled.

I flinched and maintained my position.

“I’m sorry Dad!”

“As a humble wife, you don’t stand up until the elderly man gives you the permission to get up. So remain on your knees”, he said and sat down.

I remained on my knees and remained silent.

He picked up his newspaper from the table beside him and sat down. He smiled and took a look at me. I made sure I returned the smile and dragged myself beside his sofa.

“Daddy! I came here to ask for your forgiveness”, I said and touched his hand. He moved a little and then relaxed.

I drew closer and held it with my other hand.

“Daddy! I’m so sorry! I never should have treated you that way. It was so wrong of me to treat you that way. I was so arrogant, proud and unreasonable. Please find a place in your heart to forgive me.

“Cris! I’m feeling thirsty, get and fetch me water. Then when you come back, continue on your knees”.

“Is this man okay?” The negative thought came to my head.

“Get behind me Satan!” I replied.

“It is written in Ecclesiastes 10:20 Don’t bad-mouth your leaders, not even under your breath, And don’t abuse authority, even in the privacy of your home. Curse not the king, no, not even in your thoughts.

I cannot insult my uncle in my heart. It is a sin. It is also written in Psalms 19:14. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight.

Yes! Father! Only the thoughts that are acceptable in your sight are allowed in my heart. Cursing my uncle through my thoughts is a sin”.

I stood up and entered the kitchen. I went straight to the fridge and got a bottle of water. I got the glass cup and the tray.

“Madam, let me help you!” The maid who was mopping the place said as she saw what I was doing.

“Don’t bother! Continue with what you’re doing”, I replied.

“Madam no!” She said and rushed to grab them from my hand.

“Will you stop that?” I said authoritatively.

She paused when she saw my unfriendliness.

“I’m sorry about that my dear! I just need to do this for daddy!” I replied and gave her a comforting smile.

I took the tray to my uncle. I poured the water into the cup and set it on a stool beside him. As soon as I was done, I went down on my knees.

My uncle dropped the newspapers and stared at me like a ghost.

“Cris! Are you okay?” He asked.

I was now confused. What have I done to warrant such questioning?

I only followed the instructions my uncle gave. What else should I have done that I did not do?

“Sir! I’m sorry! What did I do?”

“You brought water for me and went down on your knees again? Is this Cristina?” He asked frowning.

“Sir! But that was exactly what you told me to do. You said I should get you water and I did. You said immediately I was done, I should kneel down. That’s exactly what I did”.

“I don’t understand Cris! This is not you na! Why will you be kneeling down to me? Why will you be getting me water to drink like a house maid? Have you forgotten you’re a CEO? What’s the meaning of that nonsense?”

I don’t understand my uncle again oooo.

“But that was what you told me to do”.

“If I tell you to do something stupid, why would you do it? Can’t you argue with me? Aren’t you a CEO? If I ask you to go and clean the toilet, why would you go and do it?”

“I did it because you told me to do it”, I replied calmly.

I was almost laughing. I was seriously struggling to hold myself from laughing.

“Cris! You’re not like this! What happened to you?”

“Jesus happened to me”, I answered.

“Snap out of it! And can you imagine, you’re talking to me, still on your knees! Will you stand up!” He shouted.

God, is my uncle confused or something?

“Cris! I said stand up! You’re supposed to be raining curses on me. Not kneeling down to talk to me”.

I stood up immediately and smiled at him. It was obvious he wanted me to behave in a certain way, but I wasn’t complying.

“Uncle, I’m fine! I’m here to apologize to you for everything I did to you in the past!”

“I have forgiven you already. Please go and bring your husband for me!” He replied frowning.

Was I dreaming? My uncle just agreed to meet with Silas just like that? This must be a dream I cannot wake up from.

“And for your information, don’t bring a gateman here for me. I have been hearing rumors of you getting married to a gateman. I don’t want to see a gateman in my house. Is that understood?”

I was almost dumb on the spot.

“Yes sir!” I answered.

“Good! You can go and bring your husband to see me. My door is always open. Bring your husband the next time you’re coming. You may go”, he said and turned his attention to his newspaper.

I looked at him for a while, unable to say anything. I turned to leave then he called.

“Cris, what happened to you?” He asked.

I turned and smiled at him.

“Jesus was everything that happened to me. He is the reason why you can see me like this. Daddy! He’s the reason for the change you can find in me. If it weren’t for him, all this changes wouldn’t have been possible”, I answered.

“You’re more dangerous now than you were before. I don’t like dealing with dangerous people. Just go and get your husband. As long as he’s not a gateman”.

I drove out of the house with that question in my heart.

“How was I going to take Silas to him! Especially now that he has known his occupation?”

“DO AS HE SAYS, LET ME DO THE REST”, Came the gentle whisper.

I smiled as I got into my car. I drove out of the compound and arrived at my house around 8pm. I was so tired and needed my sleep so badly.

I took off my shoes and threw myself on the bed.

“Good night Daddy! Thank you so much for today!”

“WILL YOU GET UP FROM THAT BED!” He replied in a harsh tone.

I quickly sat up. I was shocked by the tone he was using.

“HAVE YOU CALLED SILAS TO TELL HIM HOW THE MEETING WITH YOUR UNCLE WENT?”

“No sir”.

“AND YOU WANT TO SLEEP. FOR YOUR INFORMATION, YOU’RE NOT SLEEPING TILL 10PM”, he replied.

“Why sir?”

“CALL HIM! YOU’LL FIND OUT WHEN YOU DO!”

“Jesus! Please don’t allow anything happen to him, please!” I prayed as I picked up my phone and dialed his number. It was obvious my sleep had left me.

His number rang and rang but he didn’t pick up the call.

Jesus, please have mercy! Why is Satan fighting me like this? What did I do to him?”

“CRIS YOU’RE FUNNY OOO! DO YOU KNOW THE RATE AT WHICH SATAN FIGHTS GODLY MARRIAGES? YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING YET. ONCE A GODLY UNION IS ESTABLISHED DO YOU KNOW THE LOSSES IT WOULD BRING TO HIS KINGDOM?

WHY WOULDN’T HE FIGHT WITH EVERYTHING IN HIM? IN THE BIBLE PHARAOH KILLED ALL THE BABY BOYS AND SPARED THE GIRLS. DO YOU THINK THAT WAS A MISTAKE?

HE WAS WAITING FOR THE GIRLS AT THE JUNCTION OF MARRIAGE. HE KNEW THAT WHEN THERE WERE NO BOYS AROUND, THEY WOULD GO FOR THE GENTILE EGYPTIANS. AND DID HE SUCCEED? YES HE DID.

PICK UP YOUR BIBLE AND OPEN TO THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS 24:10”.

I quickly rushed to get my bible, opened it and read aloud.

“And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

Verse 11. And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan)”.

“CAN YOU SEE FOR YOURSELF? SATAN GAVE THESE CHRISTIAN GIRLS HIS SONS TO MARRY AND IN THE END, GOT REBELLIOUS CHILDREN OUT OF THE UNION. A LOT OF ISRAELITE GIRLS WERE FORCED TO MARRY EGYPTIAN CUTE LOOKING BOYS.

NO WONDER THE GENERATION OF ISRAELITES THAT LEFT EGYPT WITH MOSES COULD NOT MAKE IT INTO THE PROMISED LAND. THEY WERE A MIXED MULTITUDE. GOD HAD TO WAIT FOR THEM TO ALL DIE IN THE WILDERNESS, BEFORE HE BROUGHT ISRAEL INTO THE PROMISED LAND. ONLY JOSHUA AND CALEB OUT OF THAT GENERATION MADE IT INTO THE PROMISED LAND.

ANY LITTLE CHALLENGE IN THE WAY, THEY MENTION EGYPT. ANY LITTLE LACK OR NEED THAT ARISE, THEY MENTION IT WAS BETTER WE WERE SLAVES IN EGYPT. WHY? THEY WERE A MIXED MULTITUDE.

SATAN IS ALWAYS READY TO SOW TARES AMONG THE WHEAT. SO HE’S FIGHTING TO ALWAYS PENETRATE.

CRIS DROP THAT PHONE AND PRAY AGGRESSIVELY. PRAY AGAINST EVERY ATTEMPT FROM THE PIT OF HELL TO DESTROY YOUR MARRIAGE”.

I went down on my knees and began to pray with all the strength I had left.

“Daddy! I don’t know what is happening to my fiancee right now! But protect him! Satan you are a loser. You will not prevail in my family. You will not prevail in my marriage. You will not have your way in my life.

The bible says that on this rock, I will build my church and the gates of hell will never prevail against it. Lord! Hell will never prevail over my marital destiny

I shall not be unequally yoked together with the sons of Egypt. I shall walk into my marital destiny, yoked to God’s will for me.

My marriage is covered with the blood of Jesus.

Revelation 12:11. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.

Satan I overcome you!”

I began walking authoritatively around the room.

“You are a liar. What God has joined together, you cannot put asunder. Children shall arise from this marriage. Generations shall come forth from this union.

No power of hell will stop us. I cover my man with the blood of Jesus. The blood that speaks better things than the blood of Abel. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. When the enemy raise up as a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall rise a standard against them.

Every storm against my marriage, I stop you! In the name of Jesus! I trample upon every serpent and scorpion set against my marriage”.

To be continued…….

Brethren, Satan is destroying alot of Christian marriages today, but his plan is more strategic.

He’s destroying alot of God fearing brothers with glorious destiny. Leaving our sisters with no choice than to marry the sons of Egypt.

Listen to me carefully. You can be sixteen years old today. But It’s not a sin if you start praying for your future husband today. Soak him in prayers oooo.

That God should preserve him, keep him and protect him. A lot of future husbands in the body of Christ are facing series of attacks.

Sisters pray oooo! I remembered how my mentor told me he prayed against rape for his future wife while in secondary school.

When he finally met her, she testified of how she escaped rape many years back.

Your prayers today will go a long way to save that innocent brother you are yet to meet from those destiny hunters out there.

This message is for someone.