It takes Faith

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When we hear certain stories, they sound like Nollywood movies or stories for the gods and sometimes it takes faith to believe and accept such stories.

I was present at a Christian gathering and it was testimony time, I must say that this is one of my favourite moments  because I get to listen to people tell their stories.  

Some people should just give up on giving testimonies because they end up annoying their listeners.  By the time they finish,  you will struggle to make a meaning out of what they just said. 

Things like my head was paining me and paining me and my neighbour came and my head stopped paining me.  So did the pain go away because of your neighbour or because you prayed? 

This particular testimony was different. This young lady had been alone without her husband for five years and it wasn't planned.

He travelled back to base to return after a short while but due to a strange mix up with his documentations, an intended brief stay turned into a five year sojourn.

The lady went through a lot of difficulties being all alone with a baby who was just a few months old when his daddy went on that trip.

She was lonely and had missed her husband a great deal. She was also tired of explaining to her young son that he had a father and he did not live inside a phone.

She wanted a normal life with her husband and she also wanted more children. 

This young lady keyed into a seed sowing event in her church. (Seed sowing is a popular tradition in the Pentecostal churches where people donate towards a particular cause in anticipation of their prayers being answered). She emptied her bank account and sowed a seed of faith asking God to bring her husband home. 

Shortly after, there was a significant turn around of things.  Her husband gave her the good news that his documents had been rectified and he was ready to come home. 

Her joy knew no bounds,  she prepared a banquet on the day of his arrival and waited anxiously for her husband to come home but he never did. 

I have heard of the type of black magic where people are made to stay away from home and family. It's usually initiated by someone who intends to covert other people's property.

Such a force was evidently against the young couple and at that point the young lady was convinced that her husband was dead. If he was alive, he would have called to let her know that he was okay.

A few days later he got in touch with her and narrated his ordeal in the hands of immigration officers in another country that he was transiting through; he was delayed for seven days for no sensible reason and he had no access to a phone immediately. 

He told his wife the most shocking and unbelievable encounter he had with a Caucasian woman.  He sat quietly in church in the country where he was when this woman approached him and told him that he had  issues with his papers because someone had used black magic on him. (oturumokpo. Lol! ) 

This particular lady who was unknown to the man went on to describe the exact scenario to him.  She told him that an uncle of his to whom he gave the sum of five thousand Naira back in Nigeria used the money for some ritual.  His uncle also packed some sand that he had marched on for the same ritual. The intention was to keep him far away from home. The evil uncle had an eye on the many property that belonged to the young man back home.  

Coming from a Caucasian woman who should have no idea what black magic is, the information made the young man shudder.

He remembered the day his uncle asked him to take off his shoes at a certain site so his shoe would be damaged by the sand.  He also remembered that he gave him the amount stated by the white woman.

That wasn't the end,  she told him that the said uncle would be dead before he returned home. 

No price for guessing that the evil man died just a day before this young man finally returned to his family. 

What's more?  His wife is heavy with multiple babies which the doctor says could be up to three. 

Call it konji or call the guy a sharp shooter but I see a big miracle.  God let their enemy die and decided to give them all the children they could have had in the long period of seperation.

That's the power of prayer.