I testify!

Hello!

I understand your priorities but I encourage you to settle down with this piece. You know why? Life’s countless brush-offs have hindered many from locating the gain wrapped up in every pain. Impressed? This is not why am here. There’s no life without a story, so I am not here to tell you mine.

I am here embracing the spirit of Bartimaeus. He had no voice and lost his title to his challenge but persistence earned him his desired health. Yeah...Persistence! I refuse to dismiss my age-long testimonies as mere coincidences.

August is noted for imposing visitations and mine was remarkable. The unseen forces of darkness tried to sentence me to an early grave and it was this day. Oh! Don’t bother about me. I’d like you to realise that there is a greater hand that can disappoint the devices of wickedness. 

August 24, 2003 witnessed the frustration of medical science as doctors could detect no form of sickness or disease after proper diagnosis. I was discharged from the hospital while pining away. No assumed prescription gave me cure but the scriptures brought me health as the Holy Communion was administered.

This death appointment became obvious as the enemy’s jinx manifested in form of a fatal accident on August 24, 2004. In the midst of the mist formed by flames inside the deformed vehicle, my spirit did not forget God’s promise of long life. I remembered that in His store, there is no evil but a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11). My tongue was an available tool (Proverbs 18:21) and I confessed, “I will not die in Jesus name.”

Indeed, it is not negotiable that a Christian will pass through storms. No doubt, the bible says “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.” (Isaiah 43:2).

Friend, afflictions in season have always strengthened a Christian. At such time faith comes to play. Time is a wonderful phenomenon that proves. No momentous difficulty can overrule the plan of God in one’s life. Real men use difficult times to actualize purpose.

You, whose lives have touched pain and witnessed loss, look beneath the rust and discover the gold. It is such life encounters that beckon to victory. Do keep this reality intact in your memory that every tick the clock makes is a departure/beginning of a valued moment. What are you making of today?

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