© Ayo Omolayo
“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.
