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Amen! childofGod29: |
You are welcome in Jesus name. Please open page 15 of this thread, you will see how to do self enquiry prayer. Read it, if you understand, come back to request for grace to do it. Thank you peculiardamsel: |
It is God that delivers here, when you are ready to go through the process above, please let us know. Thank you and God bless you. slaypapa: |
Kindly follow the instruction above, that's is the power of backwardness fighting you. God bless youquote author=Veniscy post=83674921]good morning. I keep having this dream of seeing myself in my former compound in Lagos that I have left more than 10 years ago. I need help.[/quote] |
Amen!!! childofGod29: |
I started the everyday vigil in December 2017 and also participated in MFM evangelism outreach/march that took us hours and long distance trek at Akwa ibom. It yielded result but I couldn't confirm the pregnancy before they destroyed it in January. My period was late but I was waiting because I felt it that I had conceived. Even my RO too said I was pregnant and that he was so sure of it. As months went by and no news from me, he kept on asking, and referring to that particular time. When I told him that there was no pregnancy, he asked with firmly "are you sure?". This was what actually happened; I had a dream where I saw this my step sister again, my mom's first born. I told her in the dream that I was pregnant! Instantly and with a demonic look on her face, she stood to attacked me. I woke up immediately. Then I began to pray. The next day at midnight, in my dream, this my step sister came to meet me right on the side of the bed where I was actually sleeping in real life and started pressing my lower abdomen. I started shouting Momo! Momo!! Momo!!! as she was pressing my abdomen. That is what I call my mother and it's our dialect meaning mother. The moment I started shouting momo, she(my step sister) left me and walked away with speed and disappeared through our door, then I woke up. I was so surprised calling my mother in my dreams because I've NEVER ask her for help in ANY WAY. They all know that I am so self reliant in my mother's family and my mom uses it to praise me that I'm peaceful because I don't bother her for my needs like my other siblings do. When I have problems, I seek solution on my own. Therefore, it was strange that I was calling my mother for help in that dream when I don't call her for help in real life. So I was wondering and kept on asking myself why calling my mother and yet it was her daughter's face and image that I saw. Then I slept back, dreamt again and saw my mothers face. She sat beside my bed as a friend and with sadness on her face pointing towards my step siblings as if they were the ones troubling me. But the fact that I was calling her name in that dream baffled me. The next day my period came. Then I had another dream where something like a thick blood came out of my private part and scattered on the floor. I quickly woke up. When I woke up I knew it was the pregnancy. Second day of my period, I had another dream, a woman I couldn't see the face came angrily into my room. She has my mom stature but i just couldn't see her face. She forced tiny serpents into my mouth and gave me a very heavy slap on my face and then I woke up. I felt pains on my cheek from that dream slap all through that day. Then I said to myself that whosoever is doing these things to me really mean to destroy me. I am praying that the God who visited me and changed my story will visit everyone here also in Jesus name. To be continued.... READ MORE AT https://myhelpnewsorg./2019/11/14/dealing-with-the-powers-behind-barrenness-life-challenges-spiritually-part-6/ |
Amen! childofGod29: |
I want to give God all the glory for His healing power upon Miracle. We went for immunization on Monday after which she developed serious fever and pains. At night the temperature got so high that we were scared. We couldn't sleep at all because she was restless. I called mummy Vic yesterday morning because we were planning to give her medication, mummy advised we wait till 12 pm and advised against self medication, I chatted with the man of God, daddy gave me instruction that I should pray for her with the anointing on his profile picture which I did, I backed her after that. To my surprise after I dropped her from the back the fever disappeared completely and she began to play like her real self. Also at night I suddenly realized that the pains on her lap and legs had disappeared completely which surprised me. We return all glory back to Jehovah. Hallelujah! |
Amen! childofGod29: |
Amen! childofGod29: |
Hello blessed mothers in the house. Below is the link to my life changing testimony on how God delivered me from barrenness. I'm still on it. It's a long and deep story, but I will finish it by God's grace. https://www.nairaland.com/5458473/dealing-powers-behind-barrenness-life/1#83467608 |
I'm just seeing this. I will send you a message. ejinna: |
Happy Sunday to you. I sent you a mail yesterday. Igbaf: |
Amen. charity73: |
Amen! Ronnygold: |
Today's prayer
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The church I found when I searched online was MFM. I went to their regional headquarters here. I met one of the pastors who prayed for me. I explained my ordeals to the pastor and he advised me to pray and to be coming for programs. He also told me that there was a covenant that is affecting me. He told me I should attend their 3-day fasting and prayer program coming up 3 weeks to that time. At that time, my husband and I were worshipping at Dunamis. My husband had traveled around that time to Akwa Ibom for us to start a new business with the money we had left. I started attending MFM weekly programs on Tuesdays and Thursdays and prayers for people looking for the fruit of the womb on Wednesdays. When I started praying the MFM fall-down-and-die prayers. Then, the powers fighting me became more aggressive. That was in August 2017. The pastor I met advised me that my husband should join in the deliverance program. I started going for prayer meetings even though my house was quite far from the church. As soon as I changed my prayer patterns, the powers attacking me were also working harder and attacks intensified. I had a dream were 2 women I don't know came to me right in my room, they turned me face up, did somethings on my body, as soon as they disappeared I woke up and I felt that something had left my body. I later found out that week from a follow-up dream that they actually carried my womb. At the MFM church, a new Regional Overseer had just been transferred to the branch. His wife met and prayed with us during the program for those seeking fruit-of-the-womb and encouraged the husband to pray with us but instead he gave us 3 prayer points that I didn't take seriously. He told us to pray it for 3 nights. I only remembered 2 of the prayer points because those were related to my case. They are as follows: 1. "Wrapper of darkness tie around my womb, catch fire". 2. "Evil mother release my womb and die". Since I was part of the meeting, I prayed mine too. When I got to the "evil mothers release my womb and die" prayer, I prayed it so fervently to the extent that I was using it to sing. I became so conscious of my sleeping posture, avoiding to sleep face-up but then, I realized it was those powers that usually turned me to face up when I am fast asleep. After the above prayers, I slept and saw a woman. Her stature was like that of my mom but I couldn't just see the face. In real life, my mom has arthritis which caused one of her legs to bend but the leg of this particular woman in the dream was very straight with no pain. The woman turned me face up and returned something back to my body and disappeared. Immediately I woke up, I felt something had returned to my body again. My womb was returned. I continued going for prayers since I didn't even have a job again. Then the day for the 3 days dry fast came. The pastor asked me if I could do it and I said yes. He asked because I looked so fragile. He encouraged me even though I felt there was no need for any encouragement as the exercise is for my own good. We started the program. Right there on the deliverance ground inside the church, the evil powers still came and fed me in my sleep. I would eat and finish all the food offered to me in the dream before I woke up. That discouraged me, as I asked myself: "even in the church"? I continued the prayers, the first night when we had a break and I slept, I dreamt and saw myself in my mother's house where I grew up. I saw a pit where bathing water ran into from the bathroom. I saw myself with an elderly man. With my own hands, I brought out something that looked like a bunch of cooked spaghetti, plenty of it, out of my private part and said: "See what has been blocking my private part. How would I have conceived?" As I was moving with the man into my mom's kitchen I woke up. I actually thought that was all. Sleeping back again, on the deliverance ground they came in anger and forcefully fed me with what I don't know and did other things to me I couldn't remember. I woke up and cancelled it with prayer. I slept back and plenty semen came out of my private part. That was the first day of the deliverance. The second and third day of the deliverance was full of the activities of these powers fighting me that I became confused about Christianity. They were attacking back to back and as I was struggling to be free they were also working harder for me not to be free. As a Christian, I thought I could pray away any evil on my way, but this one got me so confused even with the kind of aggressive prayers I started praying. It was as if I went there to look for more trouble for myself but I never gave up. I did the program successfully and went home. I started seeing things. I slept and I had a dream where I divorced a man, the man was crying and I was crying but we had to go our separate ways. Again I had a dream where I walked into a place, I saw a mermaid seating on the edge of a round pit filled with water, the moment I walked in there the place scattered, they were all terrified and the mermaid quickly jumped into water, after sometimes when the place calm, they came out and began to ask me: "Where have you been? Where are you coming from?" Then I woke up. I don't know the meaning of the dream but one thing was clear, they knew me very well in that place. So I started praying: any marine kingdom where my spirit is held should catch fire, and I also prayed for God to release me. The following day, I had another dream. I saw myself coming unto the bank of an ocean to dry land. Then I woke up. All this revelations happened in the first week after my deliverance. Then I had another dream, I saw my mom and her elder sister. My step siblings usually accuse this her elder sister of witchcraft. So I saw my mom, her elder sister and a strange old looking man in the dream. They were telling me to marry the man. I told them that but they know I'm already married, that I cannot marry the man. When I woke up I remembered the covenant the pastor told me about so I concluded it was my mom's elder sister that covenanted me. My hatred grew for her but I was wondering if my mom knew about it. The revelation dreams continued after the deliverance program but the attack was also more. Then I began to pray more. I even went as far as mentioning names of people I was seeing in my revelation dreams and praying against them, which was one of the biggest mistakes I made. The attacks became more than I bargained for. Anytime I close my eyes to take a nap, they would appear in my dream, whether morning or night. I became so tired of the attacks and I was wondering if prayers don't work again. Then I began to doubt if I will ever have any child because it was obvious where my problem was coming from. In all these attacks, I refused to tell my mom who was already behaving as if we were quarreling. I thought she was behaving that way because I stopped giving her monthly allowances since myself and my husband were out of work. I had even managed to continue giving her the money for up to one year after I stopped working because I had hoped to get another job within a short time. I never knew it would take that long to get another job. I used to pay her 10k every month and as months went by without a job, it became too much for me to give. I refused to tell my prophetess step sister about these problems I was having. I only called her at a certain time when I saw the face of one of my mom's in-laws feeding me in the dream. I refused to tell anybody in my family my problems because I believed they had more problems than I did. My mom also refused to ask me about pregnancy after more than one year that I told her I lost my first pregnancy. It got me so curious, but I just ignored it. Then in October 2017, I called her to challenge her that she doesn't even call me anymore. Before this, I had been calling her for several months. She never reciprocated by calling me back and she would just greet as if I was a stranger to her. She then replied by apologizing and said that anytime she calls and I don't pick that it scared her. I asked her why she was scared now that I am married when she was never scared when I was single and far away from home. I had been alone and away from home for months at a time and nobody back home knew where I was most of the time. We just talked on phone sometimes. Yet, neither my mom nor anyone else at home was scared. So I kept on wondering what was scaring her about calling me. Weeks went by and the attacks continued and were even renewed everyday. What they did to me made me believe the things they depict in Nollywood movies. The attacks kept on and there was no sign of pregnancy. During one of the prayer programs for blessed mothers, the prayers focused only on serpents preventing us from conceiving. I prayed it like every other person. Then, I never even knew they had already projected serpents into my body. On getting home, when I slept, I dreamt and saw that there were 2 serpents in my body, I saw myself in the church auditorium, exactly where we stayed for the prayers, one of the serpents crawled out of my private part but the other was still there. I ran back to church and met the pastor who told me and my husband to go on 7 days fruit fast that it will be easier for me. My husband joined me, in the fast. On the fifth day of the fruit fast, my period came, looking completely black. I did not have energy in me again at that point. I became very sick and fainted for a moment. My husband who had no strength either because of the fasting had to carry me. I actually thought I was going to die. I told my husband not to bother about my family in case anything happened to me. He was scared even more. Then, he cooked for me and I broke the fast while he continued till day 7. On the day I broke this fast, I had a dream where I saw my mom's first born, the one without husband nor marriage. I stood in front of her, she carried my baby and was bathing the baby. She was staring at me with a malicious look on her face. She refused to give me the child. That was the first time I saw somebody from my household directly involved in the problem I was going through. When I woke up, I began to ask myself if she was a witch. I became very confused coupled with the fact that herself and other step siblings had always resented me since I was a child. It was strange to me because they were "Christians", die-hard, stone-cold, SUs(fundamentalist, extremist christians) for that matter. The revelation was becoming deeper and the attacks kept on increasing. I went back to the pastor to tell him what I saw and told him I couldn't complete the fruit-fast he told me to do. He told me that I was a weak Christian that I was supposed to collect the baby from her in that dream. He advised me to repeat the 7 days fruit-fast. I said to myself hope I won't die now. My husband said we should divide it 3,3 and 1. The first 3 days was not easy and we were breaking the fast by 12pm. Then I started accusing God that he created me in that family and I have tried everything within my ability and have prayed but He had refused to answer. Then I told God that I never knew devil was that powerful. I was almost comparing the power of God and that of devil. I almost concluded with what I had seen and experienced so far that devil was more powerful. Then I began to think who will help me since God was not answering me. I stopped focusing on having a child and became more concerned about how the evil dreams will stop. After that drama between me and God I slept off. Then I had a dream. I saw a tall fair slim man. We were eating white rice and vegetable soup together, while my husband was on a different table eating alone. When we woke up in the morning, I was thinking it was spirit husband. The following night my husband had a similar dream. He went to an office where a man recognized only me and began having official conversation with me without giving my husband attention. My husband said he became very jealous and woke up. The dreams bothers me and we decided to go back to the pastor at MFM. On getting there, we told him the dreams. Then he kept mute for some time. Then he said God has released an helper that will help me. I was a bit relieved when I heard this interpretation and thought the helper will come and give us money or help my husband get a good job but it was a man of God. I didn't meet him until 7 months after that time. We decided to relocate to akwa Ibom because my husband just lost huge amount of money in the first business we did. We thought it was because we were not on ground in Akwa Ibom to monitor the business so we packed our properties and relocated but just before we left, we went to the MFM pastor and he took us to meet the RO of that region. The RO prayed and said we needed to come back to see him. Then we told him we are relocating the following morning. He then advised that we should attend MFM where we were going because we needed serious prayers as he saw a vision that they have tied serpents around my waist. That was the first time I became aware of the serpents in my body even though I had a dream concerning it previously. I actually did feel the serpents moving in my body but when I go for scan I see nothing. When we relocated, we quickly locate MFM. We met directly with the RO there. He gave us prayer points regarding serpents. He prayed with us too. As he prayed, he would laugh as if someone was confronting him. He quoted the Bible and laughed while his eyes were closed. After the prayers he told us that they have been sacrificing my babies every month which explains plenty of menstrual blood I see everytime in my dream and with confidence he told me I will conceive. The RO told us to be coming for prayers in his office at the end of every Sunday service. Even when he was tired, he would pray with us. He wanted us to get our baby so fast that if he had the power he would have just put the baby in my womb. We kept on going for the prayers but the attacks kept increasing and became even more aggressive that sometimes I wondered whether we would ever be free someday, whether the we would ever win the fight and whether the fight is even worth it or is in vain. Life became tiring. Any day the RO prayed with us, I slept peacefully but by the next day, the war resumes. I started seeing my mom's first born every time in my dreams. She was the same person who carried my baby in a previous dream. She would frown and tell me that I have not seen anything yet, that she wants to see how I will have my own children. I saw her in the dream on several occasions, where we would fight while grabbing each other by the cloth. She would say all kinds of incantations. It baffled me when I woke up. When she was a teenager and was aborting, I was not even born then because she is 20 years older than me. I continued mentioning her names in my prayer, believing she is behind my troubles. I would call her name and also the name of her mother. I would command her to carry her evil load. After this, the dream attacks would come again. The blood I saw in the dream graduated to a new level. Each time I saw blood or ate in the dream. I would have serious pains in my lower abdomen. We kept on getting more and more printouts of prayer points from church to pray every night and I got exhausted and tired of it. I told my husband this attack got to this level when I started prayer, I was almost regretting praying. I had cut ties with this my mom's first born because in real life she doesn't hide her wish towards us that we who are not of the same father with her must not achieve anything until she has achieved. They saw me achieving that which they said I will never achieve. Having children of my own was the last phase of my spiritual war in that family and it was very tough. I wondered where she got that kind of stubborn power from. I wondered why she was suffering when she had such kind of demonic power until one day, I found out she was not actually the one. I found out that she couldn't even dare to face me at my previous level of Christianity before I started spiritual warfare prayers. I found out that there was a higher power I couldn't fight(because of certain commandment in the Bible) that was actually helping her. I turned to Google again since I found out it's household powers that were behind my problems. Then I read the testimony of a lady who had a similar challenge. Her mother was the one behind her problems. She confessed that after so much prayers, she decided to start every day vigil. I followed her instructions and copied her prayer points, I started my own every day vigil too. Earlier I talked about 2 strange women who come to me in my dreams. I dreamt and saw them again. This time both of them were tied together and set on fire but the fire was very little and they disappeared. When I woke up I knew it was because I didn't have enough fire in my prayer life then. Short demons that come in my dreams to lick my period when I am on in the physical stopped coming. Because of my every day vigil, those 2 women couldn't come at night anymore. Instead, they came in the afternoon while I was sleeping and fed me again. I became so angry with them and prayed to God to give me power to call them forth. I woke up at midnight, carried the biggest knife in my kitchen, with my stirrer for eba, anointed them, then called forth the two women in the spirit. I started using these weapons as swords of fire in faith. I was cutting them in faith, beating and fighting them seriously with the weapons. That was the last time they ever come. As I mentioned earlier, I later realized that there was a main power behind all these battles. The power came angrily as a single woman in the dream and set my womb ablaze. Fire was burning in my womb and after sometime ashes started coming out of my private part. The power was burning any baby that tries to grow in that womb. The power still came wearing one of my step sister's face. I was compelled to call my prophetess step sister who is of the same father as her. I called and told her to pray and ask God the kind of person her sister was. She then asked me what I had seen but I replied and told her that if truly she is a pastor she should ask her God and tell me. She said yes that she knew that the sister was envious and that she doesn't want anybody to progress. I told her to go and pray. I continued the everyday vigil and that month I conceived, that was December 2017. But something happened. I pray for everyone going through spiritual torment that the Lord that set me free from household wicked powers will arise and deliver you in Jesus name. To be continued... READ MORE AT https://myhelpnewsorg./2019/11/13/dealing-with-the-powers-behind-barrenness-life-challenges-spiritually-part-5/ |
Good morning. Our God is not wicked. I will send you a mail. Thank you Igbaf: |
Amen in Jesus name Austynodv: |
Amen! Austynodv: |
She is very fine. Thanks charity73: |
Alright ma. I will continue. It is very deep and long but I will try to be fast about it. charity73: |
Amen! childofGod29: |
I will continue. Please be patient omoleyeib: |
Amen! Ronnygold: |
Prayer for today
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Yes. I will include it in the next story. Ola17: |
Thank you very much giftfromGod: |
Amen! childofGod29: |
My mom came visiting. It was a long journey because we stay in the east, while my mom stays in the west coupled with the fact that she has arthritis. She forced herself and managed to come. After she left things began to happen. I resigned my job so I could move in totally with my husband because of the miscarriage that I had. 6 months later, my husband too lost his well paid job. All these happened within 1 year of our marriage. All kinds of demonic dreams started happening. Dreams like eating constantly in the dream and seeing menstruation in the dream. This particular one usually happens when I'm about to see my period so I will think that was the reason I had the dream. I didn't know that demonic activities against my life and marriage was happening in the coven. I would dream and see a woman whose face I don't know telling me they want to do pregnancy test for me. They would take my blood sample in that dream. There was a time my period was like 2 days late. I was happy and waiting to do pregnancy test. I slept and saw a woman that came angrily into our home and slap my lower abdomen. I woke up and was wondering what the dream meant but on the second day my period came and it lasted with severe pain for 9 days. Usually my period is between 3 to 5 days, but this one lasted 9 days. On the 7th day, I was afraid and went to hospital but unfortunately, the doctors didn't know what to give me except contraceptive. I refused to use it. Then I realized something was happening to me in the spiritual. Since we live in the east, I didn't know where to go to for prayers coupled with the fact that my husband lost his job which made him very sad and always moody at home. Then I told him we need to look for a pastor. I just wanted them to tell us what is going on because I didn't know what was going on any more. My husband and I went to a female pastor whom he knew and she confirmed that I am not barren, that I will conceive but before she can do any prayers we have to pay some amount of money. Usually, I don't like pastors that ask for money before prayer because it is not in the Bible, and that was the first time I encountered such pastor. We paid the money and she did her prayers, but the attack did not stop in any way. Rather, it was like the powers behind the problems knew we had started looking for solution. For every dream I had that I told the pastor, she would always need to collect money before she prayed. Yet nothing changed. It was even around that time just before my husband lost his job that his trouble at work increased. We needed to move to a new apartment, and we invited the pastor to pray and anoint the house but she said we have to pay again. That was when I told my husband that we should not give her money since she knew both of us are no longer working. She wanted to charge 4k for the prayer which was the least she ever charged us and that was even because she saw that we were no longer working (please, any pastor that charge you before or even after prayers are not true men of God). We had to leave our former apartment because we felt that since my mom came visiting, things we try to achieve in that house never worked out, plans that we discuss never succeed. We observed this trend and it got to a point whereby anytime we wanted to discuss anything important such as our career plans, we had to go outside far away from the house to discuss it. Since the pastor refused to come and pray in our new apartment we stopped going to her. My problems remained despite all the money we spent, they even increased. I was so confused on where to go for help because I was not familiar with the state we were living. Deep inside me, I knew I needed to see a good man of God but this was very difficult to come by. I started seeing constant menstruation in the dream. I saw short demons coming to lick my menstruation in the dream anytime I'm on period in the physical. Two women were always coming to me in the dream. They would stand in front of me while I'm laying face up and do some incantations on me and then disappear. Immediately they are gone I would wake up. This means they actually came to our room at that moment. They did worse things on me all because they knew I was looking for solution. My husband talked about a man of God at Itori, Ogun state. I went there all the way from the East. I spent a whole week on that mountain. We did prayers every 5hours including vigil. Right there after the prayers, when we took a break and every body went to sleep, they will come again and feed me in the dream. I became so tired because I believed then that as a Christian, I should easily pray away any problems in my life but this particular one is growing bigger. On the second night after I got to that mountain (Ori Oke), at a late hour, my mom started calling my husband and demanding to speak to me, saying that she has been trying my number but it was switch off. Since there was no light at the Ori oke, my phone was actually off. My husband was confused on how to get to me. He had to call one of the pastors he used to know who connected him to another pastor who was on ground at Ori Oke. The pastor came to our hostel and said my husband wanted to talk to me. I was surprised because I already told him my phone may go off until he told me my mom has been disturbing him that she wanted to talk to me. Still, I was surprised because she is not the type that would insist especially since she had already talked with my husband. My husband had to make conference call to connect with my mom's and the pastor's phone so I could speak with her that night. I spoke with her and asked her why she was disturbing us that late night. She said she was scared and only wanted to greet me. I told her I would call her in the morning. I wondered how evil powers managed to come to visit me at that Ori oke. It made me weak because the more I was praying, the more the attack. Previously when I was not praying, the dreams and attacks only came once in a while. Then I left the Ori oke and went back home. I continued seeing heavy menstruation in my dreams. Sanitary pads were filled with blood. Then, one night, I saw two women and a man. I was with them in our parlour. I was like his third wife in that dream. In the presence of the other two women, the man started having sex with me. It was like the one done in the physical because the man finished by releasing in my body. It was so real and after he finished, I stood up. That was when I woke up from that dream. Since that day anytime my period is near, something I don't know would crawl from my lower back to my womb area and move around my womb causing serious pain. I would feel like fainting, I would not be able to stand nor seat. I would feel like defecating but it will not come. I would be in so much pain and after some time which usually last for about 5hours, the pain would disappear and my period would come. This kept going on until a pastor told me they tied serpents around my waist to be eating up any baby that wants to grow in my womb. All these attacks continued, different demons coming to me at night and constant sex in the dream including two unknown women who come in my dream to do incantations. There was a time I dreamt and saw my mom, my prophetess step sister and my late step sisters husband. They came down from a bus in my compound as if they came to visit me. The more I tried to get solution, the more the attack. I wasted so much money traveling to get solution to the problems expecially for the evil dreams to stop but the more I tried the more the problem. Then I turned to Google and ask for where I can go for deliverance in this particular place I'm living because I was tired of spending on transportation. Then I saw suggestions on where to go. The church is a known center for deliverance in this country which we attend till date, so I trace the address and went there. To every woman looking for the fruit of the womb the God that did mine will answer you by fire in Jesus name. To be continued.... READ MORE AT https://myhelpnewsorg./2019/11/12/dealing-with-the-powers-behind-barrenness-life-challenges-spiritually-part-4/ |
Have replied you@peculiardamsel |
Amen!!! childofGod29: |
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