Thread by @GbengaWemimo

While growing up in Ibadan
I attended several prayer meetings
Only God knew what i was looking for
Looking back now I realized I went to
those meetings mostly out of boredom
Churches are everywhere in Ibadan and
Special programmes were a dime a dozen
CAC Oke Imole at Agbowo,

CAC Power line (Baba Olowere's church)
Christ's Pillar Apostolic Church (I have forgotten the name of the pastor but God blessed him with three sets of twins after 7 years of waiting on the Lord for the fruit of the womb
CAC Agbala Daniel (My neighbours at Alagbayun were members

Pastor Femi Immanuel's church at Sango (Bonfire Services of every Wednesday)
Pastor Olubi Johnson's church
Oritamefa Baptist Church,
Celestial churches (Especially during their harvest anniversaries)
I was in the choir, drama department, Sunday School department, interpreter at

youth church events and sometimes I was dragged to these churches by my zealous mother who believed in the power of prayer and the potency of anointing
You see, my mother was born into a Muslim home, her Father was a herbalist and a very important Islamic chieftain in Ogun State

As a child some Cherubim and Seraphim prophets came to Sagamu in 1949 and prophesied my mother's conception and birth
My mother was born in 1950 in the exact circumstances described by the C&S band of prophets
The prophecy was so apt that her father was convinced beyond a doubt

that she was a "daughter of prophecy"
The prophets also left two warnings
1) The child must be allowed to practice any religion she wants by her own will and 2) The child should live in a city close to the sea
My mother's parents sent her to Lagos to live with her uncle when she

was five years old
Her mother was especially convinced the prophecy must be followed to the letter so that God will not be angry with her
She was also a Muslim & had never had any dealings with the Christian God
My mother's uncle was a medical doctor who converted to Christianity

while studying in England
He built a hospital in Lagos and stayed away from his Islamic and fetish roots as much as possible
He and his wife had been married for 9 years without a child
When his sister arrived with her daughter and went on her knees pleading that he should take

the child, he had no option
Somehow he was able to convince his wife to take in the little girl
That was how the prophecy of "live close to the sea" was fulfilled
He had also been told not to take her to church or send her to the mosque unless she asked to be sent or taken to

either
My mother got to Lagos on a Thursday
Those days, the Bolekaja Lorry that Transports travelers from Sagamu to Lagos only plies the route twice a week
They had to leave at first light for her mother to return home with the same lorry later that same day
She settled in very

quickly
On Sunday morning, she was awake and dressed before everyone else in the house
Since she grew up in a Muslim home, she was used to waking up very early for the first prayer of the day
Her uncle and his wife attended the Anglican church
The church starts its Sunday worship

by 10AM
She had made her choice
Her Uncle's wife found something more presentable for her to wear
That was how she became a Christian
She was enrolled in school and in no time she became a Lagos girl
She finished her secondary school and was offered the opportunity to go into

nursing or secretarial studies
The chose the latter because she couldn't stand either the sight or smell of blood
Her mother got worried
The prophecy was supposed to lead her in a supernatural direction but her life was mundane
Her mother kept wondering what they did wrong...

Adewale Ayuba grew up in their community
He was already fulfilling destiny and he was not a child of prophecy
Every time her mother saw Adewale Ayuba singing at events, she would worry about her daughter
The Prophets said "Her voice would be heard all over the world"
And yet...

Eventually, she met a young man
He was a Christian from The Apostolic Church
She was nineteen
He was Twenty-one
Before they could ask what was going on, she was pregnant
She grew up in an environment where such is allowed and she was tired of not having her own home waiting for

whatever her mother kept claiming will happen to happen
Her mother was so disappointed
The pregnancy and subsequent marriage convinced her mother without a doubt that they had failed to do something right and the prophecy had somehow failed
Over the years, whenever her mother

came to see her in her uncle's house
Her mother would impress upon her heart, the fact that she wasn't ordinary due to the circumstances surrounding her birth
Her mother would say "I had given up on childbearing after having your two older sisters, your father had done everything

she knew as a herbalist and even consulted other herbalists with sterling reputation but nobody could cure my bleeding problem
After having your older sister, I bled nonstop for seven years
After the fourth year, I encouraged your father to take a second wife because I had not

given him a son
I had spent so much time on the sickness that it was affecting everything else
I decided to face my business & raise the two children I have been blessed with
Your father married the second wife and she started having children
I was not happy with it but it would

be selfish of me to ask your father not to have sex or have children again because i was sick
I took it as my destiny
I had just returned from the kola nut market that fateful year when these band of prophets came to our street at your father's house in Sabo
They usually came

around once or twice a year giving prophecies and acting like some weirdo
We usually ignore them
Their church was located in the outskirts of town and just like masquerades and other uniform wearing cults, they have a right to perform whatever tricks they had conjured up in peace

but on that day, they came straight to our house and asked for me by name
As soon as I saw their leader, i screamed and started stretching and retching until i vomitted a small pod
The whole community was there
Your father was an Osupa Adinni, do you know what that means? Do you?

For these prophets to come & heal me of a sickness the whole community knew about for years
There was no secret in those days
As soon as the affliction came upon me and your father started making inquiries, everybody knew
When your father took a second wife, everybody felt sorry

for me
Even though it is very true that he has a right to marry more than one wife, our marriage was only five years old when I got that affliction
I was still a young bride and your father had no plans of taking a second wife
All the herbalists and alfas have tried their best to

heal me
I had eaten concoctions and sat on all sorts of cooked herbs to no avail
The bleeding stopped instantly
Then they gave me the prophecy about you
So you can see you are not an ordinary child
You are a glory that cannot be masked
Remember that always"
She heard it but when?

This thread will be completed later today
I am trying to teach many of us with hanging prophecies all over our lives some things I know about prophecy fulfillment with it
It is not a story for entertainment
If you belong in this category please be patient

Patience is a virtue...

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As soon as I saw their leader,
something strange came over me
It felt like hot oil was poured upon
my head
I screamed and started stretching and
retching until i vomitted a small pod
The whole community was there