Thread by @GbengaWemimo

Have you ever heard the saying "Everybody lies"?
It is a saying that liars use to justify their unwillingness to tell the truth or to act the truth but it is not true
The liar expects others to be honourable and gullible, for a lie to fool anyone, it's victim must believe it

The moment one becomes wise to a lie, its hold on the person withers
It doesn't wither slowly
It vanishes the way darkness flees at the sight of light
The liar then expects his or her victim to overlook the lie or make unmasking the lie too expensive for his or her victim to walk

away from it.
He was a non-literate hunter who stumbled into Christianity because he found himself in a jam
He had a land dispute with some people
He was being cheated
He decided to put up a fight
To fend off the land grabbers
One of them hit him with a charm
The charm made him

dumb
He was taken to several places for help to no avail
Eventually, out of desperation, his mother took him to a church
They were non-Christians and had never believed the sweet words of the Kiriyo folks but desperate times called for desperate measures
The moment they stepped

on to the prayer mountain, he began to speak in tongues
Just like that
Nobody prayed for him
It was as if he was overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit
He struggled out of the company of those holding him and began to say strange things on top of his voice
They thought he had gone mad

but the prophet of God on that mountain rushed down to them with another young lady holding a pen and a big notebook
The prophet listened to the strange words being said and told the young lady the interpretation
It lasted for about an hour
When he was done speaking, he fainted!

They laid him somewhere on the mountain for about two hours, when he woke up he was no longer dumb
The prophet on the mountain told them what they saw earlier was an evidence that he had the call of God on His life and they should leave him on the mountain to be trained in the

things of the spirit
They were quite glad that he had been healed and they agreed
In all he spent two years with the prophet
He became a believer, he got filled with the Holy Spirit and he began to do greater works
The anointing on the Holy Spirit upon his life was undeniable

At the right time, the prophet that trained him sent him forth into the city to start his own ministry
Within a year, the community saw and acknowledged that God was with him
He became a kingdom asset
Like the Ark of the covenant
His relatives and friends started coming around to

identify with him
If there is one thing we all must know about the anointing, it is the fact that human beings pretend to love it but they loathe and sometimes envy the one that has it
They see it the way some promoters see talented artists and do everything to sign them and milk

their talents for commercial purposes
When people see the "real" anointing, their primary desire is to manipulate and control it
If they cannot do that directly, they end up trying to control and manipulate the one who has it
It is a natural reaction
The anointing is a guarantee

success for the wise
When it is given to a "fool" or an asset without much education or enlightenment, those around him become concerned
They say something like "If you know the value of what you are, you will no longer be poor"
"You are on the same level as this G.O and that G.O

if only you know how to manage what you have
They will do anything to organize religion around the anointing
Religion is the legal means through which the anointing is milked for the benefit of its managers
We see this in our world every day
G.O's surrounded by thieves and crooks

We all talk about it
Some of us will say "As anointed as that man is, how come he didn't know that those around him are doing all these evil deeds? Are we going to say God didn't tell him or show him?
I have heard people say things like this so many times about the popular men of

God in Nigeria
The evidence of the power of the Holy Spirit in their life is obvious and at the same time the handlers of the anointed one and those around him were profiting off it like a gang of thieves.
The anointed is the asset
Assets must be managed and owned for the sake of

profit
This prophet refused to be owned
He would often say that he had been warned by the Holy Spirit that His enemies are members of his household and friends
His church was doing quite well but he was not rich
He didn't have the sweet words that would open purses and bring out

fat checkbooks
He acted and lived like someone who would have a treasure within and die in poverty
His friends and relatives tried very hard to help him turn the anointing into a profitable asset
He fought them off
Eventually, they decided to get him a minder, a Delilah of sorts

They were sure he needed to get married
The argument was always that a man of God who is not married is vulnerable to temptation and a swift fall
Once people identify the anointing upon your life, they make it their duty to be pointing out the possible traps and holes to avoid

They needed someone in his ears
Someone who would control his bedroom and his heart
They found one eventually
They took the one they found to the prayer mountain for the scrutiny of the man of God's father in the Lord
They know if the Prophet on the mountain endorses it, the one

the city would fall for it
It was a manipulation of the highest order
People surrounding men of God are usually good manipulators
Deceit is never far from the truth
Men of God are often simple-minded and people take advantage of their simplicity to hatch wicked plots and schemes

The prophet was convinced by the argument that the man of God was vulnerable to a fall if he doesn't get married
Those who brought the lady sold the story as "We are looking out for his good"
The prophet endorsed the union
The man of God was invited
The prophet sold the lady to

him as a product of his prayers
"You know I want only the best for you. I have been praying for you and this morning your friends came to see me with this lady. They said God told them you are her husband. They said they prayed and fasted. When I spoke with the lady, i realised

had also been prepared by the Holy Spirit for you. She is a believer, she speaks in tongues, she is educated and she is enlightened!
She will be a good balance for you and through her doors to richer and more educated people will be opened.
They sold him a packaged lie and he

bought it
He told them he was going to pray
(This is another thing about people expecting God to tell the Man of God everything at all times!
It doesn't work that way
Sometimes a man of God with good intention will be led astray by the pressure and demands of those around him

This man of God felt everybody acted in his best interest and it would be an insult for him to tell all of them they were lying
He married the lady
On their wedding night, he discovered the lady had two surgery marks on her tummy
She claimed she couldn't remember how she got them

After another week, he discovered the lady was ten years older than she claimed
He had been duped but the lady expected him to be a honourable Man of God and stick with it
I wonder why many unfortunate ladies do this?
They assume nobody can have them if they told the truth, so

they package themselves as walking lies and expect the one who fell for their ruse to remain foolish or act honourable when they are found out.
Many men also do this...
Lie in order to convince a woman to marry them and then expect the woman they deceived to deal with it!

The prophet fainted for the first time three months after his wedding
His hair was all white and his ministry was shrinking
He had become overwhelmed by the fraud that was planted in his life
They went to the hospital for a series of tests
The wife kept claiming the doctor said

her womb was too small
She was also dealing with some mental health challenges which she didn't disclose before the wedding
What was the man of God to do?
God hates divorce
Society will see divorce as a huge fall from grace, a sign of irresponsibility
A blight
A but
A failing!

And yet the marriage was killing him
He couldn't pray
He started developing high blood pressure issues and the "Anointing" was no longer flowing due to the overwhelming cares of this world!
Fellow believers saw that the man of God had taken a one chance bus
They prayed for him

Within a week the deceiver packed her bags and left the marriage
She left the same way she walked in
Like a thief in the night
As soon as she was gone, the schemers returned claiming the man of God cannot remarry
If he decided to remarry, he must leave the work of the ministry

The man of God stood up and said "All those who had a hand in my previous fraud of a marriage shall not live to see the next seven days"
That was all he said
They all ran to the old Prophet to report
The prophet called a meeting and apologized to the man of God
He also warned

everybody to keep out of the affairs of the man of God if they want to live long.

PS: The man of God remarried in 2017
God blessed his home with a set of twins in 2018
His wife is a banker
A quiet and spirit-filled lady
The man of God said "Tell young ministers to pay attention"

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