© Ayo Omolayo
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…..
There was a period my father had this health challenge. He almost collapsed in church one day. It happened almost every week. We would run around looking for drugs and who to call.
That period, God started teaching me about spirits during my quiet time. My understanding was opened. The next time it happened. We surrounded my father and started rounds of aggressive prayers.
I didn’t want to lay my hand on his head, so I laid it on his shoulder.
“You spirit of INFIRMITY I command you, get out of this temple of God!” I shouted in anger.
As I gave that command, my eyes opened. I saw a dark being. It had hands and legs, come out of my father’s body and walked out of the house.
That was the last day my father experienced that challenge.
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.
