Thread by @UyiDm2

Another Thread- 3 - How I met Edem Duke - An Angel helps me - And what Oyedepo had to do with it.

These stories are absolutely 100% true. There’s not an iota of false hood in any of these tweets. Which is why I confidently tag names. These are my deeply personal experiences.

Please don’t let my stories make you think I don’t pray without Oyedepo or Adefarasin. I do all the time. And God answers. Sometimes I don’t even pray. I just get up and do what I need to do and it gets done. I have a personal relationship with God.

But my tweets are about the times in my career I was lost. I couldn’t bring myself out of my own mess and failure , either through self help or my own prayers. Without meeting these men , in my house by myself they helped me. True talk.

I could tell you how I won all those accounts or created those campaigns. But that’s for business school. These tweets are for your dark days. God will lift you and sometimes he will do it through you or through someone else’s words.

I used to walk into pitches for ad accounts by myself against teams of 10 or more from other ad agencies and I’d win the job by myself. The Client would ask where’s your own team and I would reply I’m the team. I had immense faith in God being with me and he was.

Where did I learn this faith? From men. Faith comes by hearing. And you hear men who teach you to trust God and it brings results. I prepared my pitches but the extra miraculous sauce came from God.

I learnt a lot from Oyedepo, Adefarasin , TD jakes etc. esp Oyedepo and I’ve only been to his church a handful of times. He wasn’t there or doesn’t know anything about me. I remember Dbanj telling me how he lay on the ground totally lost at Winners Chapel and prayed to be a star

Dbanj told me he lay on the grass at Winners Chapel when he got back from London and he was so confused and he prayed to be a superstar and God heard him. My point is you can rise on the foundations of true men of faith.

So here’s the story & it’s the genesis of how I ended up with all those dusty CD’s. I’m about 16 years old and the year is 1999. I live in Calabar. My dads building our new home & reduces my allowance. I’m upset like 😡. I need cash to hang with my G’s more than I need house jo.

So my mum pities me & gives me an art sculpture to sell and make some money. It was worth about 10k. My 1st foray into business 😆 I’m excited , 10k is a lot at the time for a student. I shop this art work to every rich person I know, uncles, aunts, commissioners, Rich pple etc

I shopped the art work around for 4 months. Nobody buys it. Nobody wants it. Not even the closest people to me. I was super disappointed. I remember my dad saying to me once. You see how hard business is ? Even selling. Business is tough and you have to be tough. Anyway I failed

I’m broke. My father is focused on his new house. My new art business has flopped and I’m pissed. So I abandon it after trying again. I abandoned it so much I totally forgot the useless art existed. All doors were shut on that business.

So new to Calabar was a very wealthy man called Edem Duke. Who ended up later as Nigeria’s minister of tourism under Goodluck. This man was so rich and sought after by business men that as kid I only used to hear tales of his wealth. There was so much protocol to see him

So one Sunday morning. I had done some bad young boy things on Saturday night so I didn’t go to church. I was lying in bed lazing about. When I reach under my bed and there’s a book with the title “ Put Your Angels To Work “. I don’t how it got there or whose it is🤔

It’s just roughly 10 pages so I start flipping through it. And the book in summary is talking about how I have guardian angels and I never use them because I don’t know how to command my guardian angels. That they were made to help me and I needed to command them. 🤔

Hmm command an angel ?? What crap is this ? So I read the prayers about commanding the angel in the book and I think what should i ask my angel to do ? He has been idle all these years. Then it hits me 😮😮. Where’s that damn art work I couldn’t sell for almost 8 months. 😶

So I search for the failed art and I place it in front of me and I say the prayer and scriptures in the book. I’m basically commanding my guardian angel to sell the dead art work for me. As I was praying I felt a fire in my chest. I swear to you.

Then a voice says to me in my heart. Clear as day. The voice says. Take it to Edem Duke. Now understand, I don’t know this man. Never seen him. Don’t know anyone who knows him. Don’t know where to find him. Don’t even really know what he looks like. That’s just stupid.

But the voice is clear, take it to edem duke. Go to his new hotel The Mirage & ask to see him. Sigh!! So I have a shower and I walk to the Mirage Hotel and I ask to see him 🤣. The staff there look at me like is this one mad. Boy get out of here. So I leave dejected feeling dumb

As I’m walking home🚶‍♀️ head bowed. Feeling scammed by the fake angel prayer. The voice comes again and says go back in the evening. So I go home, ignore it. It’s rubbish. But about 7. I’m so disturbed to go back to the Mirage. So I get up and walk there.

I’m not expecting anything to be honest. This is like asking to see Mike Adenuga at Glo office with no appointment. That’s how ridiculous this is. Anyway I walk to the Mirage and when I get to the gate there’s a man leaning on the gatehouse wall all by himself. 👀👀👀. It’s him.

heart is beating fast. I walk up to him.I say my name. He says what do you want? I want to sell my art to you. He says , how much ? I say 48,000. 😂. (Yeah I’m a crook) He says whattttt? I say it’s nice Sir. He says bring it tomorrow. He drives off. He had been waiting for me 😮

Next day i take the art to his office. He is not there but he left instructions that a kid will bring art and he should be paid unfailingly. His PA counts 48k cash and hands it to me. 48k at that time for me was like 500k now in Buhari era.

I go back home with 48k. I’m 😳 stunned. I couldn’t sell this art for almost a year. Every door was shut. And I just sold it for 4 times the price because I read about asking my angel to do it. I search for the book and it’s the first time i ever see the name David Oyedepo.

That story. Is a microcosm of how I won ad accounts. Hard work , belief , and Gods help. I invested N140million cash in a business and it failed woefully because I kept saying negative things about it. Everything I said came to pass. What you say is what you get!

When you are lost , depressed , failing and the storms don’t cease. God is beside you. He needs faith from you to help you and you need to hear something for Faith to fire you up. That’s why I listen to certain people when I’m lost. Oyedepo Adefarasin TD jakes Joseph Prince

Nobody is paying me for this. Don’t be deceived. I have no agenda except to help someone who cannot find the strength to change a bad situation. I have been low and suicidal myself. I came out many times from drowning by listening and believing what was preached.

And this is the formula. Never considered your situation over the word you hear. Ignore the bad signs and hang on with all your heart to what you hear. The signs will give in to the word of God at all times. It’s programmmed. That’s how God saved me.

Ill tell you two ridiculous Paul Adefarasin stories in the evening.