Thread by @GbengaWemimo

After she got married and relocated to America
She kept an eye on the marriage of her first love
Not in a peeping tom manner but because of the prophecy from her pastor and his pastor that nipped the bloom of their relationship in the bud
She prayed for him and his home once in

a while
She really wanted him to do well
They didn't stay in touch
After the prophecy and her text message that he should stop coming around, he texted her three times
Once on her birthday, the other time on Christmas day and the third occasion was when she went to sing at a

church's jamboree festival
He was at the occasion to cheer her on but he didn't come around to say hello
He sent her a message congratulating her on the success of the ministration
After he got married, she didn't hear a word from him
Marriage does that to most old friendships
It

changes the dynamics of communication
You don't want to continue certain types of communications because it makes no sense to continue them
What would he say he wanted to talk to her about?
The one thing they had in common was love and he had given his heart to another
She sent

him a congratulatory message
She wished him and his bride well and prayed for them right after she recovered from the shock and returned to the studio to finish her album
He didn't reply to her message
Not even a "Thank you
but she didn't take offense, as much as it hurt her that

the door of his love had been effectively and firmly shut in her face, she bore him no ill will
It was God that decided two of his children wouldn't find joy with each other in His own wisdom and even though it was a bitter pill to swallow, she swallowed it!
After she got married

life happened
A pregnancy from the first week of the wedding, her husband's return to the USA to resume his job, and her relocation process
Her husband was an American citizen
It made things quite easy but she still had to wait until she delivered her baby before everything fell

into place
His thought barely crossed her mind
Three years after she got married, she got a message on Facebook
It was from him
He said he would have called or sent her a WhatsApp message but he had lost her phone number
He said he desperately needed to talk and went ahead to

pour out his heart
The crux of the matter was his mother
His mother was a witch
His mother had five children, four of them were married and none of them had been able to have a child
He was the third child and the first son
He said he had a dream on his wedding night
Right after

consummating his wedding with his wife
He said he saw his mother harvesting his semen from his wife's body right on their honeymoon bed
He said the dream was so real
In the dream he was on his knees, in tears and powerless to do anything while his mother told his wife to open her

legs and called the seed in her to come into the calabash she was holding in her hand
He said his wife couldn't resist too
She did as she was told and he saw with his eyes his semen pour out of her into the calabash
He said once her mother finished harvesting, she looked at him

and said "I have done you no evil. You didn't give me my due and I came to take it! I have pledged all your children to the initiates, it is in your sorrowful quest to become a parent that my ascent to the realm of greater power lies. So strive hard and fight hard, your struggle

is my crown"
He said he watched his mother walk out of the room afterward and immediately jerked awake from sleep.
He was in the same hotel room, his wife laid naked beside him but the atmosphere had become so dark that he couldn't even pray
He just found himself sunk in a pit of

despair
He said when his wife woke up, the first thing she did was ask him to change their hotel because she was suddenly feeling unsettled in that room
He had been scared she had the dream too and would give him grief about it but she didn't
She only sensed that the atmosphere

had become ominous
They changed hotels but the honeymoon had become "bitter"
He couldn't share with his wife what he saw and it was eating him inside
Every time he made love with his wife, he felt he was empowering his mother in witchcraft because his mother had said all his

efforts at having children will be the reason behind her ascent in wickedness
It made lovemaking lose its allure for him
His wife noticed his reluctance and felt she had done something to offend him
He wanted so much to tell her the truth but he felt it would do more harm than

good
When they got home from the bitter honeymoon experience, he reached out to his older ones
He told them what he saw in his dream
The eldest child, laughed and said "Why do you think i keep far away from your mother? On my wedding night, she came into the room and gave me a

portion to drink
The portion was as bitter and sour as water from the grave. She made sure i drank every drop, and then she said to me three times "Your cup of struggle is my cup of glory"
I told my husband about it - I cannot say if that was a mistake or not but he lost interest

in the marriage immediately and it showed in his mannerism
The marriage did not last up to a year after the experience
It was a shocking revelation
He wondered why his older sister didn't at least warn her younger ones
His older sister said, "Would you have believed me?"
Hmmm...

He wouldn't have
His other married siblings all confirmed in their own way their suspicion about the source of their affliction
They said they had prayed and fasted and cried to no avail
His marriage had become a nightmare by this time
His wife was constantly unsettled especially

around the time of the month when her expectations would be high regarding pregnancy only for her period to show up
She felt he didn't care about her getting pregnant and was too nonchalant about the marriage
Knowing what he knew, and his inability to tell her the truth was the

bane of the marriage
After five years of sorrow and despair, his wife finally walked out of the marriage
She said rather than the marriage adding to her, it was draining her
She didn't feel any joy beyond her wedding night
She was right
He couldn't even argue with her
He felt

letting her go was an act of love
It didn't seem fair to keep her in bondage especially when he couldn't bring himself to tell her the truth so that she can know what she was contending with and make her own choice whether to fight or to flee
His wife left on the morning of the

day he sent her the lengthy message on Facebook
It was while reading his message that it dawned on her what God saved her from when the message came that she shouldn't marry him despite being in love with him
At that time she was bitter and angry but she didn't want to live her

life in regret
So she grudgingly complied
She didn't know that there were battles beyond the emotion in a marriage
His message made her cry like a baby
In her reply, she sent him the phone number of the brother in Jeans and T-shirt
She had ministered at Night of Glory and seen

The power of the Holy Spirit at work
She urged him to reach out to the minister and see what God can do
He did.
He replied her message immediately after he did
He told her he had secured an appointment with the brother
She encouraged him to do everything the Holy Spirit tells him

to do

PS: On the day of the appointment, it was discovered that this brother was not filled with the Holy Spirit & had very little knowledge of what it means to be a believer beyond dying and going to heaven
He was taught that a joint heir with Christ cannot be afflicted because

Christ cannot be afflicted
He got baptized in the Holy Ghost and he began to correct his mindset by confessing and practicing the word.
21 days after he met the brother in Jeans and T-shirt, he went to Ibadan to see his mother
Immediately his mother saw him, she shouted "Korede"

and fainted
She was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed to have been afflicted by stroke
He told his mother he wouldn't let her die until she becomes a believer
He told her he would keep her on the bed of affliction for as long as it takes in the place of prayer and he would

also tell the Holy Spirit to make sure she does not recover
His mother resisted for 32 days but when the pain became unbearable she sent for him
He showed up with the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt
His mother said it was polygamy that drove her into witchcraft and the only way she

lived that long was by pledging the unlived lives of here grandchildren to the initiates
She gave her life to Christ and recovered from the sickness within seven days
It's been two years
Korede's older siblings, the ones that were married 7 the last child who got married in 2019

had all become parents
Korede is still trying very hard to regain favour with his wife and remarry her
Korede's oldest sister relocated to Ireland in 2020
The Lord restored the good fortune of the family
She said she wasn't sure she would have been able to cope if she married him

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