A time came when he had to sit himself down and admit the truth, he had totally lost the plot
He had derailed from the course the Holy Spirit set his feet on when they met and had an intimate discussion in 2007
He was in a religious setup but he was drained and always felt like
running away or doing something so foolish people around him will see his cry for help and do something to help him!
He needed help badly and he knew it
The only problem was how to get the help
The only problem was how to reconnect to the source where he got his assignments
Several years before
He started fasting and praying but it was from a point of panic and self loathing, he didn’t hear anything
He went to meet several spiritual leaders for help
“What is the Holy Spirit saying?” He asked
One said “Buy good gifts for three prophets you know” he
did it and yet the void persisted
Like Jacob, he had seen angels ascending and descending on that night when the Holy Spirit said “You are a teacher of teachers, you will teach and raise my children in my way, you will show them the path of the spirit and they shall walk in it!
He wrote it all down that year
September 17, 2007
He was still an undergraduate at the time
When he graduated, he didn’t bother doing NYSC
He felt it would be a waste of time, instead he spent the year working in a local parish for free
Serving the Lord.
Since the Holy Spirit
Said “Teacher of teachers”, he joined the Sunday School department
He was fervent and a lot of miracles were wrought through him by the power of the Holy Spirit
Within two years he was made a pastor
He hated it.
He did the work for 10 months and ran away
It was too draining
He
Returned to the Sunday School department
Another two years went by and he was posted to another parish as an assistant pastor
He still couldn’t cope
He was not called to be a pastor but the Sunday School department was guided with manuals which had contents that were religious
But not the gospel
Some blatantly taught works while some were just legalistic
Those topics made him cringe
They were a product of the doctrine of men
He began to dodge the Sunday School department too
Then came a job offer, he was offered the position of the personal assistant
To a big pastor
He felt it was the best way to learn the things of God
Unfortunately, it wasn’t
The pastor was a stifling character
He insisted everything had to be done in a secular way because people abuse spirituality
On the basis of administration, the instruction was valid
But as a believer yearning to grow in the Lord, the freedom to walk in the full expressions of the Holy Spirit are the greatest way to grow
That was when things got out of hand
He found himself losing interest in church activities all together
It was too much of a performance
Mindset rather than a spiritual mindset
The more he performed the more he came short of hitting the mark
Eventually he got frustrated and did what people too when they have tried their best without getting a result
He gave up
That sinking feeling followed, he had failed God!
He
Would sit in his office and cry
He would lock himself in his room and cry
He forgot how to pretend to be happy
The sun started smiting him by day and the moon started mocking him by night
He was lost
He was depressed
He was in a battle for his life
He needed help but God had
Hidden His face from him
One Tuesday morning in December 2017
He got to the office and started taking stock of his life
The vision God gave him had died
He was not even a member of any church at the time
He had started drinking and smoking again
He had started listing after
Carnal pleasures
He had started making worldly friends again
He had started changing his identity, hiding his Christian reality and accepting that he was just an ordinary man who had been walking in a delusion
He was officially a backslider in words and in deed
His wife noticed
But how do you help a man whose vision had died?
How do you console a man whose had seen his glory turned to shame?
How do you placate a man already buried in the grave of destiny?
She saw him crying several times and tried to console him but he was bereft of hope and gladness
He was a hollow ground, an empty shell, a shadow and a wraith!
His boss in the office saw his situation as pathetic and piled pressure on him to put up or resign
He began to contemplate suicide.
The light that was set on a hill has refused to shine
He was sinking into darkness!
He put on his laptop and connected to YouTube
He saw “Joshuaville-Worship and Warfare with Victoria Orenze”
It was supposed to be just music, something to play as he typed documents & raise memos
The lady started her ministration by reading the scriptures from the book of Isaiah
Then she began to sing
He was drawn to her light
He was drawn to the deep calling within her
The hair on his body rose in awe as she began to sing in the spirit!
And just like that “His vision became clear”
It was as if a switch was flipped and light came
He listened to that song
Over and over again for many weeks
Sometimes he would play it on the laptop all night while he slept
Within a year after that encounter he had started bursting with life and wonder again
His relationship with the Holy Spirit was restored and he had become a blessing to many
Ps: The story above is the story of @GbengaWemimo
Those who come across GSWMI and PSSBC today usually wonder how the ministry took life and started reigning effortlessly-It is by the spirit
When Victoria Orenze was ministering at the Incubator, she could have performed to get an
Honorarium
She chose not to
She chose to minister the Pneuma and not religion
Her decision led to how she ministered
Her ministration was the light that drew me out of miry clay that fateful day
So many others have been blessed because I was blessed by her ministration
That was
Am indelible mark
I never told anyone this story until yesterday @Jaelle_Mo brought Victoria Orenze to @TheikosDoxa for the live recording of her album @Jaelle_Mo said I inspired her to compose and release her album
I told @victoriaorenze1 that her ministration changed the course
life
Everyone who has read a thread, a tweet, gotten a prayer call or healing or any form of mundane or supernatural support from GSWMI should bless the name of the Lord and know this story.
If you do everything as unto the Lord and not to self, you will be a blessing indeed!
Please remember this.
We have an audience of one, the gospel is not performance or entertainment
It is spiritual
If you do your bit as led by the spirit, the fragrance you will leave behind will be powerful enough to change the life of people years or months after you have done
As sent.
Thank you ABBA
Thank you for the ones you stir up to stir others
Thank you Jesus for counting me among the ones you stir up as a watchman to stir others
Blessed be your Holy name
Glory
Glory
Glory
Glory
Hallelujah
They were at a vigil when the issue came to light
The pastor of the church heard the testimony of one of the men of the church earlier that week and decided to allow him to share with the brethren
The man took the microphone and explained how he had
survived for two years without a job!
As soon as he said "Without a job" the congregation gasped!
It was impossible to even contemplate that the man was out of job for a second
He always dressed corporately and drove a good car
Everybody saw him as one of the gainfully employed
members of the church
The man explained further that a week after he lost his job in a stock brokering firm, his wife found him crying and promised him she would ensure his shame was covered
The man said at the end of every month, his wife would hand over her ATM card to him and
Some years ago, I had to travel with my former boss to minister somewhere
We went with two other people
On our way back from the journey, one of them told my former boss he defied his pastor to travel with us
Apparently, his pastor had placed him under correction for an issue
The "punishment" was for him to be in church every Sunday for three months until the issues had been resolved
He damned the consequences and decided to call the pastor's bluff
He was an anointed minister of God and nobody had the right to place him under any form of punishment
My former boss was furious when he heard
He claimed the guy's move was foolish and all
I felt my boss was exaggerating
The ministration we went for was a success and the guy ministered very well
Five or six weeks later, a young lady came to see my boss at the office
She was a
On day two in Kwara, I was with @dafidimimo@eyitayofelix@ls_kpagih in the car when @bukola_adewuyi1 came to call me that something was going on in the Coaster bus the PSSBC ministers boarded.
We had all just left the crusade ground some minutes earlier where we saw many
miracles happen
By natural law, they should be tired
I was especially looking forward to some hours of rest before having an hour of teaching with them later in the night
I got alighted from the car and walked briskly to the coaster bus
When I got there, there was a deep stirring
I saw my brothers and sisters praying, screaming, crying, laughing, singing, jumping...In the bus!
I wanted to round it off and ask them to alight but i found myself drawn into the Ananah(cloud) and within a few seconds I started praying with them
We prayed on and on
When I felt
He had no say in who he got married to
He was born at a time when arrangements were made long before the bride and the groom were born
He was born at a time when couples stuck to it and cope
He was born at a time when it is unheard of that a couple got a divorce
His own mother
was a difficult woman
His father tried as much as possible to cope
When his mother's difficult nature got too much for his father
His father married a second wife
That was how men dealt with difficult wives in those days
Divorce was unheard of but polygamy was tacitly encouraged
His father was a nominal Christian
He was very fervent before he got married to the wife chosen for him by his parents
When his wife began to give him all sorts of troubles and sleepless nights
He stopped going to church
His wife didn't see it as a sign of things to come
She
In Genesis 15, right after God sealed his covenant with Abraham, God told him his descendants will spend 400 years in Egypt
God also promised that he would bring the descendants of Abraham out of Egypt with a mighty hand
Abraham didn't argue with God, he accepted God's verdict as
law
But he was smart
He told Isaac to keep far away from Egypt
As a young man, Abraham and Sarah had gone to Egypt in Genesis 12:8-13:2 to avoid the devastating effect of a famine
When they were about to get to Egypt, Abraham pleaded with Sarah to introduce herself as his sister
and not as his wife because of her beauty
(This was a half-truth but the intention was self-preservation and not faith)
When Pharaoh was told of Sarah's beauty, he immediately sent his servants to go and bring Sarah to his palace
He was in church one Sunday
He was teaching Sunday School
The topic was love
He told the story of a lady who drank Izal because her boyfriend dumped her (This happened when he was in the university)
The Pastor's wife looked at him and said "What sort of stupid love is that? Who
raised such a child?
It is bad parenting to raise a child whose self-esteem was so low that one heartbreak would make such consider death
He couldn't argue with her
She was the pastor's wife
But he had fallen in love so badly one time like that
When the girl left him he chased
the taxi the lady boarded from Mobil bus stop to Agbowo (On the Lagos Ibadan expressway) at 7am in the morning
All i wanted her to do was listen to me and perhaps change her mind
He didn't remember that he was wearing a short knicker and singlet
He was standing by the balcony of