Certain things go well together
Black and white
Bread and fried eggs
Key and keyhole
Heaven and angels
Hell and devils
You get the gist
It is also possible for two things that ought not to be together to somehow be together
Like the Ark of Covenant and Dagon
Like oil and water
He saw a puzzle a few days ago
He started mulling over it somewhere in his mind
Then He saw another puzzle similar to the first one
A man called him from another continent
The man said his life was in turmoil
In his own words "He feel like the engine of a Ferrari that has
been placed in a wheelbarrow
Like a certified surgeon condemned to washing toilets
He was not living up to his full potential in any way
He needed help and the help was not only physical
He need help to figure out his life
His life is a mess...
Wow.
He understood the man's plight
Some years ago he found himself in that same position
A young man overwhelmed by the inability to experience a breakthrough in life
He had been writing since he was 12
He represented his school in writing and debate competitions all over the country
He wrote his first novel at 16
and his first set of plays at 17
He wanted to be Wole Soyinka
He worked hard at it
Read many books and learned many things but it didn't translate into success
He got a lot of ohs & ahs from people
He got a lot of "We are not taking manuscripts now" from publishers
He kept at it
money and getting poorer without any help
Eventually, I gave up
He abandoned the "Wole Soyinka" project
and faced reality
He took up a mundane job
He accepted the fact that he was ordinary
The acceptance cost him his invincibility
It took a dent on his self-confidence
I tried to
hold on and keep up
It took him two years to fall into depression
He just wanted to die
There is no way you will have the engine of a Ferrari within and endure being a wheelbarrow for long
Something must give
He found himself having interactions about things that are far beneath
him intellectually
He found himself answering to a boss that apart from having money does not understand life beyond drinking alcohol, carry women, and boast of how much he has in the bank
A mundane reality was not his portion
He was born for glory
He had prepared himself for it
yet...
His enthusiasm had ebbed away and he was contemplating suicide when the Holy Spirit came to his rescue
He had nothing to live for
He was married with children it wasn't a good enough reason for him to live
His wife was doing well financially and would take care of the
children if he was gone
He was more of a liability in the marriage and It was killing him that he couldn't put anything worthwhile on the table
for his family
He had become a joke of sorts
Major decisions were being made without his input in his own house because he had nothing
to contribute
It wasn't pride or ego
It was the unfulfilled potential that was pulling him down into Sheol
What he ought to be and what he was seeing, in reality, did not match
It was indeed the engine of a Ferrari in a wheelbarrow
Was he a born again Christian?
Yes
Was he Spirit
filled?
Yes
His walk with the Holy Spirit took a nosedive because of the frustrations he was battling in his life
Nothing was working as advertised
Speaking in tongues was a dud
Confessing the word was a dud
He lost the zest to pray
He left nothing to hope
He had nothing to live
for
Then the Holy Spirit showed up and showed him His path
He said "This is your preordained path, walk in it and you will be satisfied all the days of your life! You will also please me and find my presence with you at all times"
That was it
After eight years of trial by error
He was shown the way
The rain of milk and honey started pouring
Many who were thirsty, hungry, and malnourished were drawn into that rain, and they thrived
It was the same rain that brought the young man to him
The young man said he needed help
He asked the young man what the
problem was
The young man talked extensively about his frustrations with stagnancy & unfulfilled potential
He told the young man about the Holy Spirit
The young man said "I believe in God but I don't believe in the Holy Spirit
I used to walk in miracles, signs, and wonders in my
university days
But somehow I read a book or heard a sermon and i was convinced speaking in tongues was not real
So I stopped speaking in tongues and I stopped praying for the sick or walking in miracles
I see the Holy Spirit only as the revealer of truth and nothing else!"
Wow!
He didn't know what to tell the young man
The Holy Spirit was the one that dug him out of a dunghill full of garbage when he had no hope
The Holy Spirit was all had as a minister of God
It is the same Holy Spirit that the young man said he no longer believed in
What was he to do?
He told the young man he had no other source of help apart from the Holy Spirit
The young man said he knows he does not have to pray in tongues for God to move in his life
That was technically true
But coming to someone who prays in tongues for hours every day for a solution that
wouldn't require praying in tongues was quite ironic
He expected the young man to find another person to talk to but the young man refused to go away
That was the first puzzle
You don't want what i have to offer and yet you insist i must provide you a solution to your challenge
The second puzzle came from a young woman
She was led to the Lord by her husband (She was a different religious background)
Her husband was a believer and he was full of the Holy Ghost
She received the baptism of the Holy Spirit through her husband and they were both fervent
believers
Then her husband's mother came to their house and convinced her husband to drop Christianity for Demon Worship
And her husband did so
Wow
It didn't make any sense
You left something to worship NOTHING
I had so many questions about the move in my heart
So many questions
Was it that He was not really filled with the Holy Ghost and power?
I ask this because If i walk into any place dedicated to idols (i have done this several times in the course of being a believer)
There was always commotion
I had assumed it is the same for every believer and yes
I believe that ought to be the reality of every believer
it is one thing to leave Christianity for a human ideology that does not involve idols and demons
It is another thing for a believer worship demons or
to have sex, and sleep in the same house with someone worshipping demons
He once went to his village and prayed with his cousins all night in tongues (2011)
People living three buildings away from their compound who had familiar spirits started manifesting
A woman who had never prayed in tongues before from four houses away started prophesying
So how
can a believer who is full of the Holy Spirit turn back to worshipping a demon or live in the same house with someone worshipping a demon?
The Ark of Covenant and Dagon in the same room?
The two are mutually exclusive
So what can be the challenge here?

-GSW-
Solving Puzzles gbengawemimo.com/post/solving-p…
The young man said "I believe in God
but I don't believe in the Holy Spirit
I used to walk in miracles, signs,
and wonders in my
university days
But somehow I read a book or heard
a sermon and i was convinced

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