Thread by @GbengaWemimo

The sickness came out of nowhere
At first, he thought it was as a result of his diet
He cut down the rice and other carbohydrates
He started drinking water only
He adjusted the time he ate too
He had never experienced any serious sickness before that season, the pain was terrible

it started at the amusement park
The church had organized a day out for all members to do sport and share some picnic
He was there as a staff of the church
His boss (The pastor) was also there to lead by example
Suddenly this stomach upset got a hold of him
He tried as much as

possible to hold it but the pain was everywhere
At a point he went to sit down and discovered that his chair was covered in blood
That was when he ran into one of the mobile toilets and discovered his body was all messed up
It was a strange ailment
He sent a test to his boss's

driver to bring him the bag where he kept his emergency travel kit in the car (He was a personal assistant and the job demanded that he be ready to travel at short notice)
The driver did as he asked
He changed his jeans and boxers after cleaning himself up with all the toilet

paper he could find
Immediately he got out of the toilet, he went to his car and drove himself to the nearest hospital
Luckily, his wife's HMO was registered there
He saw the doctor and told him what was going on
The doctor examined him and asked him if he had been managing ulcer

before then
He said NO
The doctor asked him if he had been abusing any prescription medicine
He said No
The doctor injected some MISMAG into his veins and gave him some other injections for the pain
The doctor told him he would have to get a test called colonoscopy done in order

to ascertain what was wrong with him
The doctor referred him to a diagnostic center on the Lagos Island
He got the money and took the test
He was told he had holes in his intestine
five big holes
The doctor(s)advised him to fly to India immediately for surgery when he showed them

the test result
He said he didn't have the money for the operation
The doctor told him to open a gofundme account and reach out to friends and family members
The doctor told him he had to hurry
Prayer and fasting and tonguing cannot help him
If he wanted to live to see the next

six months he had to cough up 13 million Naira for the surgery
He took the news seriously
He was told to stop eating certain things with immediate effect pending when he would go for the surgery
The list of dos and don't was quite long
The sickness was a drag
He couldn't ease

himself without crying hot tears
He couldn't wear a belt
He couldn't sit for long without experiencing serious pain when standing up
He couldn't drive for long
He goes everywhere with mist mag and pain killers
One night he was in terrible pain while laying on his bed
He said to

himself
"I shouldn't be sick
I am born again and full of the Holy Spirit
I have the life of God in me
Why am I sick?
Why is the reality of this eternal life elusive in me?"
He didn't know when he began to cry
He was in his thirties and it seemed he was destined for an early grave

That night the Holy Spirit came to him in form of a whisper
It was in the voice of a popular pastor
The phrase was "If you eat sandpaper, you will defecate blood"
When he woke up, the phrase stayed with him
He asked the Holy Spirit what it meant
The Holy Spirit kept quiet
The

next morning, as soon as he got to the office, the assistant accountant came to see him
He said "I will be going to get the office impress in the next hour. I just wanted to give you a heads up"
That was the deal they had between them
The office gets an impress of 50K weekly
All

the staff members know this
Most of them come up with bogus claims just to get some part of the impress
As long you keep your claim below 5K, the impress covers it but the moment you have a claim above 5k, you have to raise a memo for approval by the admin officer
Because of his

friendship with the accountant, he gets a heads up so that his claim gets processed first once the accountant returns with the money
Often he would raise bogus claims of 4,500 in four places making 18K out of the impress
It was his way of "applying wisdom" and "getting by"
The

practice had been on before he joined the organization, all he did was create a strategy where he earns a constant 18K extra every month from the organization
As soon as the accountant left his office, he heard the phrase again
"If you eat sandpaper...."
He understood what it was

that brought affliction to him
When the accountant returned from the bank, he refused to present his claim sheet
When the accountant came to remind him, he told the accountant he was not interested in the impress anymore
He also announced to the other staff members that he would

no longer partake of the practice of "eating sandpaper"
When he got home he began to rebuke the seed of transgression that had laid claim to his body
He had eternal life
He was saved
If he died, he was going to heaven but the consequences of his ungodly practice had caught up

with him suddenly
He had conducted himself in a manner that was unbefitting of the status the presence of the Holy Spirit bequeathed upon him
He wondered why he didn't pay attention to the obvious pitfall for almost a year while he was indulging in that practice
When he was in

the University, he knew a sister who died of HIV/AIDS complications due to her lifestyle
He remembered being there the day the sister gave up the ghost and seeing to his amazement the supernatural light that surrounded her suddenly at that moment when she breathed her last
He had

assumed she would go to hell for her choices but what he saw doesn't in any way represent darkness
She sinned against her body and the consequences were quite dire
He made a promise then always to live the kingdom life and never to fall for the easy peasy poisons of the evil one

but he somehow forgot and as a result got into a practice that opened the door of his body to affliction.
He prayed persistently in tongues and declared the siege over
It took three weeks
One day, he was going to church for Sunday School review and discovered that he was wearing

waist belt without any pain
It was a miracle
He started screaming
"I am wearing a belt"
"I am wearing a belt"
He never went back to the hospital after that
The symptoms died totally
When he saw the doctor a year later, it was his wife that went to the same hospital to deliver a

baby
The doctor asked him about his health challenges
"I didn't hear from you again, have you gone for the surgery?"
He just laughed and told the doctor to please forget about the surgery because prayer and Tongues worked for him
The doctor was shocked
PS: It's been five years,

The symptoms were gone and he eats whatsoever he desired at anytime
The Holy Spirit taught him a vital lesson
"Let he that is joined unto the Lord depart from Iniquity"
After he stopped taking from the impress, he prospered so much that those still taking the impress envied him.

The Sandpaper gbengawemimo.com/post/the-sandp…
One day, he was going to church for
Sunday School review and discovered
that he was wearing waist belt without
any pain
It was a miracle
He started screaming"I am wearing a belt"
"I am wearing a belt"