© Ayo Omolayo
“What?” Mummy shouted.
“I can’t believe this! You mean the 3 of you all missed your quiet time?” She asked furiously.
“I’m sorry ma!” Ella apologized.
“I’m sorry!” Susan said.
“Mummy it’s all my fault!” I said.
“I don’t care to know whose fault it is. Today, nobody is eating anything in this house till tomorrow morning! All of you ganged up together to do eating competition.
You know very well that gluttony is a sin and you went ahead to do it. Haa! That heart of stone you want to grow under my watch must die today.
Ella, I am so disappointed in you. You are the oldest among your sisters. They are looking up to you and what did you end up doing? You ended up misleading them. You allowed your flesh to take over. You yielded to the whispers of the spirit of gluttony and forgot you had an assignment.
Pleasure! You allowed the pleasures of sin to take over you! There are two things that destroy a child of God. They are unavoidable and we must be careful when dealing with them.
Number one is pressure and number two is pleasure. These two things are capable of draining your spiritual life of strength. When you’re under pressure, you give in to temptation easily and when you’re under pleasure, you easily forget all about God and what he has committed into your hands.
You get carried away with the present enjoyment in front of you and begin to drop some of your consecration. You begin to compromise your stands and beliefs, when all is well with your soul.”
Ella broke into tears and I felt so bad for having being the cause of the trouble.
She had always behaved her self so orderly. I was the reason why mummy was shouting at her. I have never seen mummy shouting at her like this. I was so sad and felt like I should be the one receiving all that heat, not her.
I stood and walked up to mummy.
“Please don’t take it too hard on her. I was the one who pushed her and Susan into doing it. Please, I should be the one receiving all this.”
“Juliet! You don’t interrupt me when I’m talking! Keep your mouth shut!” She said to me in a calm voice.
“I’m sorry ma!”
“Just keep quiet!” She said and turned to Ella.
“That heart of stone you want to grow must die today. That is the prayer point for today’s fasting. Until that heart of stone is completely destroyed, nobody is eating in this house.
Now all of you go upstairs and enter that room of prayer. You are spending the whole day in that place. Nobody is eating anything today. Upstairs! Now!” She ordered.
I touches my stomach. It was already making guru guru! Haaa! No food today! I go die ooo! I’m already hungry and they’re telling me that I will not eat throughout today. They should come and collect my dead body.
The girls turned to the staircase and were heading for the prayer room.
I suddenly turned around and ran to meet Mummy.
“Mummy! What about me? Am I fasting? You know I’m still on drugs. I have to eat so I can use my drugs.”
Mummy laid her hands on my head.
“You are healed in Jesus name! Say amen!”
“Amen ma!”
“I think that issue is now settled. You can go and join your sisters in the fast!”
“But Mummy!”
“What?” She asked with a tone that meant I would soon receive the next pounding if I don’t go and join the others right now.
“I’m sorry ma!”
“Don’t apologize to me! Go and apologize to God for treating his temple like a temple of idols. Tell him to take away that heart of stone and give you the heart of flesh.”
“But Mummy! What if I break down during the meeting?”
“Then I’ll break you up! Leave this place now!” She snapped.
I jerked in fright and quickly ran up the stairs.
I opened the door and met the two girls sitting on the floor. They looked so ad and it was boldly written on their faces.
I started feeling bad again.
“I’m so sorry Ella! It’s all my fault. I’m so sorry I put you all through this mess. You have always been a good girl, but being friends with me made you get yourself into trouble.”
“Yes! Evil communication corrupts good manners.” Ella replied.
I was shocked to hear that come out of her mouth. Did Ella just call me an evil person?
“Ever since you came here, you have been nothing but trouble. You have never contributed anything positive to my life or to this family. All you have ever done is to create problems for us to solve. We all always been the one taking care of you and looking after you. You have never been able to do anything for us in return.
All you could do to day thank you sis to get us more trouble to fix.” Susan said.
Haa! Are these my God fearing sisters talking or Lucifer speaking through them?
“Haaa! Ella! Susan! Why are you both talking like this?”
“Stop asking us silly questions. You have always been the bad egg on this house. You opened your dirty mouth to insult our mummy. A woman of God for that matter. Even your father also came and continued from where you stopped. You are your father are a bunch of wicked people.” Ella said.
“Hey! You can talk to me the way you want. I know I’m nothing but trouble, but you stepped on my toes when you bring my father into it. What did my father do to you?” I said as I took a step towards her.
“Your father is a failure! And he has also rubbed his failure on you. And you living in this house is bringing failure to me as well!”
“Jesus is Lord!” I shouted.
“Yes! You are beginning to infest us with your bad character. You are a bad influence to me and to Ella as well.”
“Don’t call my dad a failure! I don’t know why I am here! I don’t even know why I left my Palace of a house for this cupboard you call your house!”
“Them leave! Leave us alone and go back to your palace of failure. You and your failure of a father!”
I didn’t know when a slap left my hand and landed on Ella’s face. It was like magic. The slap was too quick.
I was so shocked by what I had done that I made to run out of the house I tried opening the door but it was locked from outside. Mummy had locked us in the room to make sure we don’t sneak out to eat.
But wait ooo! Sheybi mummy said we come here and pray? How come slapping each other is part of the prayer? Ewooo! Na who do us?
“Ella! I’m sorry!”
“Sorry for yourself!” She replied.
“Juliet! You are a devil. You can’t even behave like an angel for once in your life. You need serious deliverance,” said Susan.
“No you don’t understand! I think we are under serious spiritual attack. The devil is seriously fighting to spoil what God has assigned us to do. A house that is divided against itself cannot stand. How can we fight the devil if we are fighting ourselves?
“You’re the one the devil is fighting. Can’t you see he has turned you to a complete failure?” Ella said.
“Ella please stop! We are all children of God here!”
“Yes! All of us , except you!”
“Stop this! What has come over you? Are you under a demonic spell or something?”
“You’re the one under demons. You’re now pretending to be a child of God when you know very well you have finished slapping me! I won’t fight with you, I know that is what you want.
But right from my childhood till now, I have never fought with anyone. You will not be the first person. Fighting against a failure will also make her rub me with her failure!”
“Ella stop it! Stop calling me a failure!”
“But that’s who you are!” Susan said.
“Two of you are ganging up against me!” I said and broke into tears.
“Don’t allow her mislead you with her tears. That’s how she used to cry. You will think she has repented when you see her crying. No ooo! Her heart is very terrible. She will still shock you with the wicked things she can do. Her tears is a camouflage innocence.” Susan said.
“Stop! Stop giving the devil a chance! Gid had given us an assignment! Don’t you remember! Ella! Susan! Wake up! You’re listening to the voice of the devil! We are tye Jesus slay queens! Can’t you remember that?”
“God gave us an assignment, but bringing you to assist us was the mistake of a lifetime. I can’t believe why God would pick a failure like you!”
“What is going on here?” Came mummy’s voice.
We all turned to find the door open and Mummy staring at us angrily.
Trouble in the animal kingdom!
“Oh my goodness! Looks at how demons are entering my prayer room. Demons of bitterness, envy, jealousy, anger, hatred.
I was beginning to wonder hoe these demons were able to enter my house. Only to find out that you guys were inviting them to my house!”
I needed a place to hide. Please someone help me! I never knew the sin of gluttony was this powerful.
“Ella! Susan! Juliet! You three are wanted criminals in the kingdom of darkness. The small compromise you all did yesterday was a big advantage in the kingdom of darkness.
Immediately you sinned, they found the opportunity they were looking for and took serious advantage of it to keep you perpetually in bondage. So they started casting spells on the e of you throughout the night. That’s why you don’t understand why you are all talking like this!
Tye normal Ella, the god fearing Ella will never call Juliet a failure! Never! You know what you’re doing is wrong, but you don’t know how to stop it. You just lack the energy to resist the devil.
A believer who the devil has been marking for a long time should never dream of compromising with sin. If not! It’s only the mercy of God that will save you from the grip of the devil. Satan will seriously grab you and will never let you go.
Imagine if you had a goat you intended to slaughter for Christmas and the goat suddenly escaped. You try all you can to catch the goat, but the animal just keep escaping all your attempts. Just imagine the day you mistakenly catch that animal. Infact, that animal is a dead meat already.
You will double the ropes you used to tie it up. You will stand very close to watch it very well so it doesn’t escape. That’s exactly what the devil is doing right now.
Opportunity come but once. He is not ready to see you recover. He will push you from one sin to the other till you crash completely. Yesterday it was gluttony. From gluttony to skipping quiet time. From skipping quiet time to anger, bitterness, evil words and raining of curses.
Chai! Satan is such a strategic championship when it comes to pulling a Christian down. Ha ha ha ha!
But he picked the wrong girls!”
We were all on the floor crying while she spoke. We were all begging God for mercy.
To be continued………
Chai! Satan is a cunning serpent.
Ecclesiastes 10:8b …… Whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Satan will sit down and plot his graph very well. He will wait patiently for God’s children to swallow the bait. Once the hook is in their mouths,
He’s never going to let go! He will hold that person and continue to destroy tye person slowly, step by step! Little by little, untill the person cannot recognize himself anymore.
Can you cry out to God! Lord! My enemies will not see my downfall!
Go ahead and pray this prayer!
