Thread by @GbengaWemimo

Her teen daughter stumbled upon pornography by mistake
Her daughter had an assignment from school that required the use of the internet
Her daughter told her about the assignment and she eagerly gave her daughter her iPad
Not being too technically savvy, she was unaware that some

Browsers had sponsored pop ups advertising pornography.
According to her daughter, something popped up and practically took over the screen for a few minutes while she was solving the assignment. She clicked on it and was taken directly to a pornography site.
She knew she should

Log out but she couldn’t!
She was curious and fascinated
It was like eve and the forbidden fruit, once you touch; you must eat
From that day she couldn’t stop visiting the site
Sometimes she would sneak the iPad into her room and wait until the dead of the night to open pandora’s

Box and experience all it’s attending consequences in her body
She simply couldn’t get enough of it
Weeks after she discovered this Bermuda Triangle, she went to church with her parents
During the Sunday school the issue of pornography came up during the question & answer segment

The Sunday School teacher answered the question by giving the students a vivid description of hell fire and announcing that anyone who watch such a content will roast in the fire from eternity to eternity
The response shocked her
She had never considered the consequences of her

Actions
She had never given it a thought
When she got home that day, the words of the teacher kept ringing in her ears
She was 13 and already on her way to hell without having lived the best part of her life yet
The thought of such a severe punishment plagued her mind endlessly

She slept that night by 9pm and screamed awake by 11pm
Her mother heard her scream and rushed to her room
What is the problem?
What is the matter?
She couldn’t talk
All she did was cry
Her mother held her and assured her that everything is fine
After a while, she was able to

Sleep
When she got to school the next day she couldn’t concentrate on her studies
What she saw in the nightmare of the previous night confirmed her Sunday School teacher’s verdict
She saw herself in hell being tortured by demons with whips of fire
It was a horrible experience

She wanted to pray, to ask God for forgiveness but she couldn’t
Her teacher had told her God does not hear the prayer of sinners and she was a sinner!
She was doomed
Her teacher noticed that she was troubled and tried to find out what was wrong but she couldn’t confide in anyone

She didn’t want them to know and judge her
She didn’t want them to know she was going to hell
That night the nightmare returned
This time she saw herself tied to a pole while getting tortured by dark being
The pain was intense
She screamed in pain and agony
When she opened her

eyes her mother was beside her again, soothing her and speaking softly to her
Her mother got worried
What could be plaguing her daughter that badly?
Where did the nightmares come from?
She was convinced it was an attack of the enemy and she resolved to pray more with her daughter

Every night before she slept
The prayers didn’t help
For two weeks, her daughter kept screaming in agony from her sleep
She confided in a friend who had teen children too
The friend said “Talk to your daughter, she may not be as young and innocent as you think”
The words of her

Friend stung her
It felt like an indictment
As a mother she made sure she devoted quality time to raising her children
She left her banking job to start her own business because she wanted to raise her children in a manner that will make God proud
But she knew her friend was

Right
Everybody keeps secrets, especially teenagers
That night she prayed with her daughter as she tucked her in bed and asked her what the problem was
Her daughter wanted to talk but then swallowed the words
She saw this and knew there was a problem.
She begged and pleaded but

Her daughter she not budge
When her daughter saw her crying, her daughter opened up and told her everything.
It was ironic that while watching porn, her daughter could sleep but after hearing the verdict of the Sunday School teacher her daughter became tormented!
She told her

Daughter the Sunday School teacher was wrong
The next morning she took her daughter to the office of the brother in Jeans and T-shirt
She wanted her to hear from an authority figure apart from herself, perhaps the damage done by one can be repaired by another
The brother in Jeans

And T-shirt listened to the mother and daughter
When they were done he said “Let me demonstrate something to you”
Then he called one of the ministers and said “Please get her filled with the Holy Ghost”
Few minutes later, while the brother in Jeans and T-shirt and her mother were

Still talking they heard her voice in the church premises, praying in tongues.
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt laughed, he said “Your daughter will no longer be tormented by negative thoughts, fear and nightmare. The Holy Spirit has taken her over”
Her mother said Amen.
An hour

later, after she had prayed and cried and felt the burden on her heart lifted, she was brought to the office of the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt
She was smiling and glowing
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt said “Do you know what has happened to you?”
She nodded and said “I was

Baptized in the Holy Spirit”
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt said “Who is the Holy Spirit?”
She said “The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God”
Then the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt said “If the Holy Spirit did not reject you but choose to dwell in you, can God reject you”
She said

“No sir”
“Can God condemn the Holy Spirit to hell fire?”
She said “No sir”
Can God condemn you to hell after you have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost?”
She smiled and said No.
She said “I have asked God for forgiveness

And I know He has forgiven me”
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt blessed her and her mother

Ps: That was the end of the season of torment in her life
Her mother had rest
She was delivered from from porn and whip of religion
The gospel sets us free from sin and the fear of hell

The gospel is the power of God unto salvation, not the power of God unto condemnation
We should know the gospel and be the gospel to the world
The devil has laid a lot of booby traps in the world to ensnare the innocent
Our job is to set the captives free in the name of Jesus

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