Timisire: The Golden Girl Part 30

©️ Opeyemi Akintunde

3 HOURS EARLIER…

Timisire had found her way to the hall, the hall was fully packed. Some people were dressed like they were on their way to work, others had their Pyjamas on…

” That was fast!” Vanessa said as Timisire approached her. The Praise Worship was ongoing.

“Why are some people corporately dressed?” Timisire asked

” They are going to work after the devotion. We call them the elders here. They are some of the founding teenagers that started Lighthouse. They live here. You will love it here.”

Timisire was intrigued, she was yet to discover what the place was all about ..

Fifteen minutes of praise and worship passed and it was time for the Word.

Madam Favour stepped forward and she read a scripture that pierced Timisire’s heart…

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. Numbers 33: 55”

“This scripture was God instructing the Isrealites who had gone through journeying from one town to the other before finally getting close to the promise land. God was instructing them on the need to chase out the inhabitants of the land , so that their evil ways will not contaminate the Isrealites… I want to liken this to us…Before coming into the light, there has been some form of darkness in our lives, darkness like immorality, things that have become thorns in our lives, habits that we are addicted to.

Unfortunately for most of us Christians, we enter the new life and bring in our addictions and habits, If God was saying to the Isrealites figuratively; Clean up the new house you are moving in, so that roaches and spiders can be cleared out for you to have a good stay, I believe the same applies to us, as we move into a new house, we must let go of baggage from the old house that made our old house ugly…

Your life was ugly before you found the light of Christ, Now that you are in Christ, you are still hanging on to rags from your old life…” Madam Favour preached.

Timisire felt naked!

This was her story!

This was her!

She had hung on to “Joy” though unseen by others. She had allowed Joy to thrive in her when she was living with Aunty Rere and Pastor Ife? She had substituted Sex with self-helping herself in the privacy of room.
And Just Yesterday, the “Joy” in her had slept with her helper’s husband…

” How was she going to let go of “Joy,” how was she going to get rid of “Joy” in Timisire…?”

” When God gave Jacob a new name; Isreal , he dropped his deceptive spirit… Now, you no longer bear the name the World calls you, begin to behave the new name you have been given”

Timisire felt more naked! How did the woman know about her change of name? How did she know her former name was Joy and now she had been given a new name “OLUWATIMISIRE”

” Before coming into the Light, you were called the Loose girl, but now that you are In the Light, you have been given a new identity called ‘The Redeemed’ …So why do you still let a part of the loose girl in you surface…Why let it become a thorn in your sides, not making you stay in one place. Thorns make you jump from where you ought to be, if you don’t chase out those strangers in your life, you won’t have a settled life, likewise if you don’t get it out , it will become barbs in your eyes, it will make you cry blood; simply put it will make you live a miserable life…”

Timisire broke down in tears. The hall was silent…

“You will be doing yourself a lot of harm , if you do not let go of habits that ruled your former life. Get on your knees this morning and cry out to God!”

Timisire laid down and cried…

” Detach the Spirit of Sexual immorality from my life , Oh Lord. I no longer want to be a slave to Sex. I enter this new life you have prepared for me without my baggage. I drop my baggage right here at your feet in Jesus name…”

To be continued…

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