He couldn't help but ask her why
He knew his question will sound intrusive& embarrassing but he couldn't help it so he braced himself and asked "Why are you cheating on your husband?"
She looked at him and said "I am very lost in that marriage. It isn't my first and I don't think
It will be my last
I had expected that once I got married, the gulf i feel within me will be filled
You know...
I had always felt this lacuna, this void deep within me
I don't know if you get it
I feel like I am a seeker and what I need is in a man's hand
For a moment after I met
my current husband, I had bubbles in my tummy and it felt as if the gulf has been filled but then after we got married and things settled down, the void returned
it was exactly how it felt in my previous marriages
It just felt empty
I am like a wanderer who couldn't settle down
I was just sapped and lonely
That was when I met this guy
A medical doctor who looked at me as my husband once did and the bubbles in my belly started rising again
It didn't stop the void but it made me forget it
Like a temporary reprieve
So you see I needed the two of them in my
life
My husband for the love and my lover for the distraction from the void I feel within me
He nodded.
Me: So why are you still depressed? It seems you have found the perfect solution to the crisis
She: No, the shame and the guilt is killing me daily
This is my fourth marriage
and it has failed
My husband will find out at any time and my lover has told me this is all fun for him
There is something within me that longs for a home and another that simply can't settle down
I feel so terrible within
Is it that I am evil and irredeemable?
I am confused
The brother In Jeans and T-shirt smiled
Many try to find a solution to void they feel deep within
Money, lovers, pleasure...
And yet, the more we clutter our lives with things the emptier we feel
After 700 wives & 300 concubines
Solomon lamented that all is vanity...

He told her
she was just being a sinner
Sin is the only thing a sinner knows to do very well
The more he or she tries to stop, the more burdensome and unfulfilling life feels for such
So what do I do? She asked
He said "Accept the Lord Jesus as your Lord and savior, and get filled with the
Holy Spirit.
The course of your life will be reordered and the emptiness you fill within will no longer need to be filled by guilt and shame
Out of you shall flow rivers of living water
Hmmm...
He could hear the clock of her mind ticking and tocking as she mulled over his words
eventually, she said, "Let me do this and see?"
She lifted up her hands and gave her life to Christ
She got filled with the Holy Spirit and she cried her eyes out as His love busted the dam of self-loathing and filled up the dam of her self esteem
She saw herself and Christ sees
her and shook with awe
For him, it was another day in the office
He didn't really see it as a big deal
Eight weeks later she was back with an elderly man
The elderly man was her father
He was a staff of a federal hospital, a medical doctor
He showed up in her house that morning &
demanded that she must bring him to the Brother Gbenga
The elderly man looked at the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt and shrugged as if to say "Really?"
He said "Can my daughter excuse us for a while?"
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt nodded
His daughter left the conference room
He said "I was initiated to a secret cult by my late Father
My late Father, was a very powerful herbalist, the type that local kings consult for help in those days
I combined my father's training with my orthodox medical practice and I prospered
When i turned 55, I was told
i had only a few months more to live
The leader of my cult for that year told me so
He said he got the info during his divination
I sought other opinions and found his words to be true
I asked them what to do to avert death and I was told that the only solution was to have sex
with my only daughter
I was told that if i did this, she would never be pregnant and she would never truly have a home but she will live a long and wealthy life
I was told I will also live a long and prosperous life
I did as they said when she was 17
She had no knowledge of this
because I hypnotized her
Since that time I had tried everything else i could to turn the verdict of bareness and "crownlessness" upon my daughter
I had consulted both far and near
All my efforts were futile until she told me she was pregnant over the phone three days ago
What!!!
it was impossible
She insisted she was pregnant and came to my hospital for the test
Since I saw the result I had been restless and found it difficult to sleep
It was impossible and yet it has happened
This is why I told her to bring me here
I wanted to know-how that table turned
The brother in Jeans and t-shirt was caught by surprise
The man was a Queens English speaking medical doctor and there was nothing about him that looked occultic
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt told her father about the power of salvation through Jesus Crist and the Holy Spirit
Her father also accepted Christ and was filled with the Holy Spirit
He started a fellowship at his country house a month later
The fellowship grew into a church within two years; a church where the undiluted gospel of Jesus is preached.
As for the daughter, she is still married
to her husband
She is currently pregnant with her second child after delivering Gideon, Jesufifehansimi on the 27th of October 2018
Jesus filled the void of sorrow with eternal joy
The lot of the family was turned around within eight weeks
Glory be to God!
PS: Is there a void
within?
Is pleasure losing its allure?
Is sin becoming cumbersome and self
becoming unsatisfying?
How far do you intend to dig before you stop digging?
It is time to walk in the realm of supernatural manifestation
It is time to be clothed in light and become one with Christ!

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