Thread by @GbengaWemimo

The story his mother told him was outrageous
How could anyone be that desperate to have a child?
Of what value is delving into the den of darkness all in the name of erasing the shame of barrenness?
Why didn’t his mother adopt?
Why didn’t his mother wait?
His problem started when

He turned sixteen!
He would sleep in his bed at night and wake up on a refuse dump somewhere around the city!
It always happened in the night!
He was never conscious of what he was doing
He usually came to himself just as the cocks begins to crow
He would become aware of who he

Was and where he was!
He would be smelling of filth and he suspected that sometimes he fed on rotten food and other things on the refuse dump!
His parents were quite wealthy and he was their only child!
They tried very hard to help him come out of the problem
At first they locked

The doors and the gates!
They got security men to watch over the house and gave them the power to arrest him if he ventured out of the compound!
It failed!
He always got out of the house mysteriously!
So his parents changed their location.
They moved from the heart of the city

To one of the estates on the outskirts of the city
His parents wanted to keep him far away from refuse dumps
They had become an object of pity in the neighborhood they were living in and his parents felt a change of scene would do everybody some good!
It didn’t work for him

As soon as they moved to the new house, his disappearances intensified and this time he would have to walk for many miles before he got back home after he had regained his senses!
Before he would get home within 30 minutes and only the early risers saw him but this time everybody

Would see him walking home early in the morning smelling of refuse, dirt and waste all over his body and his eyes blazing like fire!
He got committed to the psychiatric hospital at least three times a year!
Nobody could diagnose what was wrong with him!
They kept him and release

Him
Yet the problem persisted!
He hated it
He hated what he was
He hated being looked at by many like he was a mad man who could go off the rails at any moment!
Somehow he gained admission into the university and was able to get a degree!
The tricky thing about that was the fact

That his parents deliberately rented an apartment close to a refuse dump for him!
They made an allowance for his condition, hoping he could dash to the refuse dump, do his thing and then return to his apartment to freshen up in the morning before going to school!
It was the only

Way they could help him and it worked!
He kept to himself and made sure he kept human contact as the barest minimum
He did this so that nobody can care enough to spead rumors about his condition on campus!
He was a weird guy and only a few people knew about his dilemma on campus

His mother confided in the landlord of his one bedroom apartment and some other people!
His mother just wanted them to keep an eye on him and not panic when they notice his pattern!
Academically he had a photographic memory
He was very sound
He graduated with a second class upper

His parents insisted he would not observe the NYSC
They got him an exemption on health grounds
His father got him a job in a bank
His parents just kept managing him
He had his good days
He also had his terrible days
He was as human as others except for the refuse dump visits

When he turned twenty-five his mother started shopping for a wife for him
His mother was sure there was no hope of a happy marriage for him
She just wanted to milk children out of him
The children would be her compensation!
His father, encouraged by his mother, drove him to a

Brothel at least once a month to sleep with prostitutes!
It was the only treat they had to give him for being a good boy and he looked forward to it eagerly!
Somehow his mother got a young lady, she was a local girl who hawked cooked beans and bread!
The lady got pregnant for him

His mother took the lady in and cared for her like a daughter
He was not allowed to live with her in his apartment
She comes to him during the day and plays the role of a wife but at night she slept with his parents in their apartment upstairs
This was to prevent her from being

Exposed to his dilemma
She delivered a son
It was his happiest day in life
The boy grew quickly and normally
Until he clocked six and he started eating dirt!
No matter what food they gave him, he wouldn’t eat it until he got some dirt or sand and mixed it with the food!
It was

Terrible!
His wife couldn’t understand it
She started going from clerics to spiritualists
Doctors definitely didn’t get it
The clerics told her she should ask her problem what the source of the problem was
She asked him on her knees, in tears
He told her to follow him
They went

To see his mother!
His mother told them her story
How she desperately needed a child and had to eat seven types of convictions on the most stinking refuse dump in their town while she was stark naked!
She said all she did was in a bid to be a mother!
She said she was never told

Her child would have issues or that it would also affect her grandchild!
They resigned to fate
A friend told her about the brother in Jeans and T-shirt
She called him and told him her story!
He asked her if they were believers
She said No!
They were non-Christians
He told her the

Case was not hopeless!
Her family came to see him in Lagos!
He told them the devil was not given the power to create human beings!
The notion that he and his son came from the devil was not only a lie but an hoax!
God made man in his own image!
Going by the characteristic of the

Devil, if he made anything, it will have to be in its image and not in th image of God
They got it!
He led the couple to Christ!
After they had given their lives to Christ, he filled them with the Holy Spirit
Then he rebuked the strange spirit of malady over him and his son!

He blessed their family!
The young boy started crying, his mother brought out his food!
(The one they had carefully mixed with some brewery waste)
The boy sat down to eat
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt prayed in tongues
His parents prayed in tongues
They watched him as he

Took a spoonful of the food!
He ate it and spat it out immediately
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt laughed!
His parents cheered!
The yoke of affliction was brokenness!

Ps: They now live in Lagos
He works with a new construction project on the Island as a consultant!
Their son

Attends a school on the Lagos Island
He is eight years old now!
Both father and son were completely set free and set in Christ
His parents came to see the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt on their way to the airport as they went on a deserved vacation!
The Holy Spirit restored Eden

The devil has an image
If he wanted to make anything
He would make such in its own image!
You are the image of God as a mankind
But when you came into Christ, you became a Christkind!
A citizen of Zion!
A member of the assembly of the saints in light!
You are of God and in God!