Thread by @GbengaWemimo

Their mother gave birth to five girls
Their father wasn't particular about having a son but their mother insisted she must have a son
She said she had seen a vision when she was a teenager that she gave birth to a male child and was even given the baby's name
She married quite

early, so she had some time to relax after the fifth girl was born
They were living at a "face me I face you" apartment in Eleyele at the time
Her husband was a cook with IITA
She was a typist
They both attend a uniform wearing church where all forms of manifestations were the

norm
After she had the fifth girl, she went to church to pray one evening, asking God about the vision she had and why it had not come to pass
She really wanted to have only four children but she didn't want to ignore the vision because she was convinced that male child could be

God's purpose for her life
She told herself if having that male child was not important God wouldn't show his birth and naming to her in a vision
A prophetess came to her while she was praying
The prophetess said "Wait for five harvest ceremonies, after the fifth harvest you will

have this boy
That was exactly what happened
She got pregnant five years later and delivered the boy a few months before the sixth harvest
Her last girl was five years and ten months older than the boy
She named him Imole (Light)
Coping with six children was very difficult
They

coukd barely afford to pay their rent and feed three times a day
Her husband, who was an advocate of borth control and a man who didn't want to live a stressful life started resenting her and her children for the stress they were dragging him through
He had told her before they

got married that he wanted only two children
She had always been the "God will not make mouths he cannot feed kind of person"
Her husband had a piece of land he inherited from his father
When their landlord's impatience got to them, they both took loans from their offices and

started erecting something on the land
Help came from unexpected sources and they were able to put up the structure within six months
No windows or doors, no toilet...
They moved in like that
It was the best decision for their well being
The rent takes the bulk of their earnings

after moving into the house and paying off the loan, things were still very difficult
She encouraged her husband to go to their church for prophetic consultations
The prophet told her husband he must resign and become a Shepherd in their church in order to live a reasonable life

her husband resisted
Things became quite difficult
He got the sack and finally threw in the towel
He became a shepherd
After becoming a shepherd, he was given a parish in Paraga (Somewhere in Ondo State)
He had to leave the family behind in Ibadan for his place of assignment

A few months after getting to his place of assignment, he got the prophetess in the same church where he was posted pregnant
When she heard it, she ran to church for prayers
"Why did this happen? I have obeyed God and the instruction of the prophets all my life
I was not told my

husband would abandon his family and leave me to fend for six children"
While she was still speaking with the prophetess, the prophetess told her to be still!
Someone who understood spiritual work had done something spiritual against her and it was meant to make her go mad...

The prophetess dragged her to Ile-Anu (plot of mercy) beside the church and started praying and burning candles for her
She was also made to bathe and do some other things
She was kept in the church for a week
Her children (The oldest was eightteen at the time) had to move to the

church to be with her
After the seven days in church, she was declared affliction free
She returned home with her children
She was warned not to visit or talk to her husband until she heard a strange noise from afar
She waited patiently
Five months later, the prophetess who got

pregnant for her husband delivered the baby and went crazy afterwards
Her husband had nowhere to keep the baby
He brought the baby home to her
He apologised and admitted that the prophetess did something diabolical against his wife which boomeranged
He was seriously affected by

the whole scenario
As a wife she had always known her husband to be a cheat
It was a culture among her husband's people
The men & the women blatantly cheat on their spouses
The rule was simple
The concubine should avoid the main spouse as much as possible and vice versa
if a wife

or husband goes out of his or her way to attack a concubine while unprovoked, he or she would most likely lose the marriage
She had assumed her husband would stop all the nonsense after becoming a shepherd although it is common in their church for shepherds to marry many women

The baby her husband brought home was child number seven
Her husband spent a month with them, dropped some money and returned to his place of assignment
She knew he would still cheat on her and leave her to carry the baggage
The weekend after he left was a crazy weekend
She cried

so much from the hurt and the stress of caring for the new baby
Her first child had finished secondary school and they had no means of sponsoring her tertiary education
Her only son whom she thought would be doing signs and wonders like Jesus to make the family great was just an

ordinary child
She had done everything to test if he had any supernatural power
He didn't!
The new baby her busband brought home was fusy all night
The baby kept everybody awake
That night she told her self she was taking the baby to her husband's mother and dumping him there

Mothers are supposed to bear the consequences of the action of their children, not wives!
She had too much on her plate
As early as 5AM on Sunday Morning, she started dressing up to take the baby to her husband's mother when she heard a knock on the gate
She went to check who it

was with her oldest daughter
It was their next door neighbours.
Dr. M and and his wife
They were both quiet mind your business types
They were very rich too
The wife said they heard the cry of the baby while praying and the Holy Spirit told them to come over and help
Wow!
These

were people who consider her church and its members fetish and demonic
These are people who tried everything to shut neighbours out and live their life in secret
The doctor checked the baby and treated him
After the baby calmed down, she felt obliged to tell them where the baby

came from
They listened patiently
When she was done with her story
The doctor spoke with her children one by one before leaving with his wife
Later that evening when the doctor and his wife returned to check on the baby, they gave her a cheque
Something to buy some provisions for

the family
That was the beginning of a sceismic change in their lives
Two days after that day, one of her uncles in the UK who had left the nation for over 12 years called and offered to sponsor her children through school
Within a year, they had completed their house and had

some good money in bank
The baby attracted divine favour
When the baby was five, he started falling ill whenever he was taken to their church
The doctor and his wife came to check on them and she told them what she noticed
They told her to try changing church and see if the baby

will fall sick again
The following Sunday, she took all her children to a pentecostal church and the boy's face lit up
That was how they left their uniformed church
Her husband never came back home, he married another wife in Paraga and stayed there
The favour of God stayed with

her and her children
Three of them had graduated from the University and are already married
The fourth girl would be getting married on the 26th of December 2020 in Ibadan
The boy she gave birth to is in SS3
The boy she adopted is in Primary four

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