© Ayo Omolayo
I walked her to the door and opened it as we both walked.
“So what are the blessings of an intercessor?” I asked.
“Haaaa! We are on our way to school, there’s no way we can start this conversation on the road like this.”
“That’s true! But I’m losing my patience!”
“Calm down ooo! A christian is not supposed to lose patience. Patience is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. So if you’re losing it, you better go and start looking for it.”
I gave her a mild punch on her arm.
“Ouch! What was that for?”
I giggled and ran off as we had both gotten to the spot where we were to go our separate ways.
“Don’t worry! We shall meet in the house. I’ll have my revenge! My Susan’s revenge!” She called out as I ran.
I slowed down and began walking. I was full of joy and laughter. My smiles was like a stamp on my face. It refused to fade, infact, I don’t want it to fade.
I have spent days crying endlessly. Now it was all over. My sorrow had ended. God had forgiven me and ended my misery. This I was grateful to him for.
I was still walking when someone grabbed me from behind and blindfolded me.
“Guess who I am!” Came the feminine voice.
“Do I have to?” I asked smiling.
“Yes!” She replied giggling.
“You know I already know who you are, so this guessing game isn’t much of a guess.”
“Haba! Juliet you are not encouraging at all ooo!” She said as she took off her hands.
“I’m sorry about that!” I replied smiling.
“I’m so glad to see you’re doing great today! It gives me joy! I was so worried about you.”
“Not anymore! We have so much to do now! So much to accomplish for Jesus. I don’t even know where to start!”
“Juliet! I know you are so eager to get into spiritual warfare, but do you think you are ready? If at all you are ready, is your team ready?”
I looked at her and my eyes expressed how shocked I was by the question.
“What do you mean by that question?”
“Soldiers are trained before they are sent into battle right?”
“Yes!”
“And besides, you just joined the army. You ran out of the barracks and joined again. And when you are a returned run away soldier. You go back to the spiritual class you ran from and start from the scratch.”
I was just looking at her like she was an oracle.
“Juliet! By the way, I have been noticing somethings happening around me. Though it hasn’t manifested yet. But I have been fighting the urge to masturbate these days.”
I looked at her and knew that my team was not ready and I wasn’t ready as well. We are all infants trying to challenge warriors in the spirit realm.
It was obvious that the best thing for us was to go into hiding.
But why? We are not cowards! So does that mean I would no longer preach anymore?
“DIDN’T YOU SEE THE WAY YOU WERE MADE A LAUGHING STUCK. THAT WAS TO ENSURE THAT NO ONE WOULD EVER GIVE YOU A LISTENING EAR IF TOU DARED OPEN YOUR MOUTH TO PREACH AGAIN,” Came the gentle whisper.
“Wow! Satan is seriously a battle strategist.” I said within me.
“BUT THAT’S NOT AN ISSUE. I’M NOT IN A HURRY TO SEND YOU INTO BATTLE. I WANT TO TRAIN YOU AND EQUIP YOU WITH THE NECESSARY THINGS YOU NEED. ALSO YOU NEED TO TRAIN YOUR TEAM MATES AS WELL. ESPECIALLY YOUR NEW ARMOUR BEARER!”
I looked at Ope. She didn’t look like Fejiro to me. She was more taller, about the same height with me. She was dark in complexion, compared to Fejiro who was fair and a bit short. And she was a senior student. I am in SS 2, but she’s in SS 3. It’s not as easy as it would be for me with Fejiro.
I almost felt like asking God to give me another armour bearer. This one is still struggling with the urge to masturbate.
“I CAN STILL BRING SOMETHING GOOD OUT OF NAZARETH,” Came the response to what was going on in my heart.
How quickly have I forgotten that the Almighty can see what was going on in my heart.
“I’m sorry for thinking that way!” I said within me.
“LOOK AFTER HER VERY WELL. SHE MAY BE A SENIOR STUDENT, BUT HER HEART IS NOT PROUD. SHE SEES YOU AS A LEADER AND SHE’S READY TO SUBMIT HERSELF TO YOU. SO LOOK AFTER HER FOR ME. SHE’S NOW YOUR NEW RESPONSIBILITY. AND I AM SURE YOU WOULD NOT WANT ANOTHER CASUALTY LIKE YOU DID WITH FEJIRO, RIGHT?”
“Of course not,” I smiled.
“Juliet! Will this feeling ever stop?”
“Lord! What do I tell her?”
“ASK HER WHAT KIND OF MOVIES DOES SHE WATCH?”
“Ope! Can you tell me the type of movies you watch?”
She looked at me and gave me that look which said what does this has to do with what I told you about.
“I usually follow a love series on TV. The story is so interesting, I really want to know what would happen to the lovers. They have faced and gone through so many challenges. The story is very interesting. You should watch it too!”
“Thank you! Are there romance scenes and love making scenes in the movie?”
She was quiet for a while.
“Ope! Are you there?”
“Is not that they make love on the scene ooo. But the camera doesn’t film their body completely. But by the movement playing on the screen, you can tell what is going on with the characters on the scene.”
“Wow! And you watch them?”
“Sometimes I look away till they are through with what they are doing.”
“And sometimes, you watch these scenes. Let me be more precise, you watch I most times and you relish or enjoy the feeling those scenes stir in you. Am I correct?”
She bowed her head shamefully.
“Yes!”
“Hmmmmm! No wonder you cannot be completely free! You still have what we call triggers around you.”
“I know!”
“You know and you still do it!”
“HAAAA! JULIET CALM DOWN! SHE’S A BABY! THIS WAS WHERE YOU MISSED IT WITH FEJIRO. YOU DON’T HANDLE SPIRITUAL INFANTS THE WAY SPIRITUAL ADULTS ARE HANDLED.
BE GENTLE WITH HER AND PATIENT. YOU’LL NEED TO TOLERATE HER MISBEHAVIOUR IF YOU MUST WIN HER COMPLETELY.”
“Juliet are you there?” Ope called me back to reality.
“What?”
“I was telling you I’m sorry but you weren’t saying anything.”
“I’m sorry about that! I was carried away! So sorry!”
“It’s alright! But what can I do? This movie is so interesting. I feel like I’m going to die if I stop watching it.”
“You’re already dead sef! You better stop it so you come back to life. You cannot have triggers around you and expect to live a purified life. You must deal with anything that triggers immorality in you.”
“Juliet, do you mean giving up my TV?”
“Not only your TV. Enter your android phone and locate every song that triggers immorality, every movie. Get them all and throw them out. You cannot give the devil any room in your life.
Satan is a very trickish personality. He can even beg to stay in your garage. Sometimes he can beg you to allow him stay inside your wardrobe. You may feel there’s nothing wrong with watching those movies.
But from those movies, you’ll proceed into so many different kinds of terrible acts and by the end of the day, you’re back into masturbation.
All Satan needs is just to say in your wardrobe. In a jiffy, he will become the landlord. He knows how to conquer territories. He knows how to penetrate into strongholds and break them.
So please, I’m begging you. Get rid of it. All of it.”
“But if I delete all these movies and stop watching that movie on TV, I’ll be bored. Those movies give me joy and satisfaction.”
I grabbed her and pulled her close to me.
“Ope, say error!”
“What?”
“I said you should say error!”
“I don’t understand!”
“Open your mouth and say error!”
“Error!”
“Yes! That’s an error! When you’re supposed to be enjoying the secret place and having angelic visitations. You’re busy watching people kissing each other on TV.
When you’re supposed to be seeing visions and dreaming dreams about your destiny. It’s is the buttocks of women you’re seeing. Instead of you to have dreams, it’s love you’re making with demons in the dream.
When you’re supposed to be using your mouth to prophesy, you’re using it to kiss serpents in human form in the dream world.
No! Things cannot continue like this. You cannot pray, but you can watch movies. Ever since you have been watching movies, how has it contributed to your destiny? All those movies you have watched, each of them, an episode is one hour. You cannot pray for one hour, but you can spend one hour watching movies even two hours watching movies.
I don’t understand that level of willingness to be free from immorality? Are you sure you really want to be free if you continue like that?”
“Juliet! It’s not as if I don’t want to be free. It’s just that the price for freedom is too much.”
“But the price for slavery is cheap, right?”
She didn’t say a word.
“Can you see for yourself? If you don’t pay for your freedom then what are you paying for?”
She lowered her face.
I placed my arm around her shoulder and held her close.
“That’s exactly what happens when you fail to pay for what you want. You’ll end up paying for what you don’t want.
It’s not easy, I know. It’s difficult, yes it’s true. But is it possible? Yes! How is it possible? With God, all things are possible.
I’m done struggling with myself. I’m done trying to please God. All I do on a daily basis is to appear before my maker and ask him to help me. Help me to pay the price. Help me to do what will make me a blessing to my generation tomorrow.
And as I’m asking for it, I’m making up my mind never to compromise when the going gets tough. No matter how difficult the road will be tomorrow. I will not give up on my prayers. Nothing will stop me from approaching the altar.
No matter how difficult, instead of giving up, I’ll tell God to help me and I won’t stop until he helps me. If he doesn’t show up to help me, I’ll die praying. But one thing is certain. Nothing and I repeat, nothing, will ever stop me!
Is that your statement to God?”
To be continued……
Believe me brethren, man is full of options and many of us are busy exploring these options. I can boldly tell you this. Whenever what God requires from us is too difficult, we give up and take the alternative, rebellion.
This was what happened with the children of Israel. Immediately they spied the land of Canaan and discovered that there were walled cities and giants there.
They forgot the God who defeated Pharoah and his army. They forgot about the God who defeated the Amalakites. They forgot about the God who fed them with manna on a daily basis.
All they kept on seeing was the giant that was greater than the God they served. Haaaa! All they kept seeing was the impossiblity in obeying the instructions God gave them.
Were they actually believing that the giants was greater than God and that they were nothing but grasshoppers?
No! Satan always wants us to feel intimidated and accept that we are nothing but powerless creatures in Spiritual matters. So we back out because by the strength of the arm of flesh shall no man prevail. He causes you to keep seeing your physical strength and continues to block you from seeing the spirit that will supply you strength.
Just as he made the children of Israel to keep seeing the giants and not the God who would strengthen them to defeat the giants.
The choice is up to you. Who do you see? God, the supplier of grace to obey, or the giant that will crush you if you dare?
