Thread by @GbengaWemimo

She grew up in the farmsteads of Ijebu in Ogun state
Her father was a farmer and an herbalist
Her father inherited his father (Her grandfather's) herbalist practice when his father died in the 1950s
They have their family house in Sabo
Her father was married to two wives and had

many children
She was the seventh child
Since her childhood, she knew her father cared deeply for his family
Whenever her father went for his monthly meetings with fellow herbalists where the practitioners compare charms and share knowledge, he would come back home to practice

any new knowledge on his family
He would cook all sorts of concoctions for the entire family to eat at odd times of the day and night
He would prepare incantations for them to recite and fortify them against the powers of witchcraft, vehicle accidents, snake bites, scorpion bites

animal and human traps, food poisoning, spiritual attacks, and all sorts of afflictions
There were a lot of people in their community who had charms and used it for various reasons, every family had a way of securing themselves against the wiles of the devil and his agents. Evil

was real and everyone was scared of it, including her father
In spite of her father's best efforts, she remembered some tragedies that happened to the family while she was going on
These devilish events only made her father intensify his effort to seek power to protect his family

from evil at all cost
It was impossible to hear, or see any member of her immediate family getting bitten by a snake, scorpion or attacked by any wild animal
Even bees and wasps keep away from them
Her father's charms were very effective
The only caveat was that some of them do

expire and the rituals to renew them had to be done every year or every other year
Some of the concoctions were foul-smelling while some tasted as bad as they smell
As she grew older, she came to hate the incisions and incantations more than she feared being attacked by any form

of evil
Then she fell in love and married a Christian
That was her escape from all forms of fetishism
her husband introduced her to the God of the Christians and she embraced his God with all her heart
Even though her husband was a nominal Christian who attends church three times

a year, she didn't mind
She felt he had life so easy and as a result didn't know the horrors of darkness and therefore took God with levity
She had seen her father handle all sorts of cases and knew she needed to take God seriously in order not to be a victim in life
She went to

church as many times as there was a service which was thrice a week
Morning and evening worship on Sundays & midweek service
She was a baptized and dedicated member of the choir
She was sure she was safe and secure from all alarms but it was not so
One day, at 5am in the morning

she got stung by a scorpion which was hiding in her bathroom slippers
It was as if the scorpion was deliberately sent to attack her
She screamed in pain
The scorpion was killed and she was rushed to the hospital in time but the attack shook her
How can the Bible say clearly that

those who believe in Jesus shall tread upon snakes, scorpions, poisons and every attack of the enemy for nothing shall by any means hurt them and those words had no effect upon her life
Her family members who heard about the attack and visited her at the hospital all told her she

was attacked because she didn't go home to renew the fortifications which had expired
To her, it didn't make any sense that her father's demonic charms would be more effective than the Word of God
Was Jesus lying?
Was it mere words?
Is God really powerful?
She was confused & hurt

She stopped going to church after she was discharged
The Reverend couldn't answer her questions satisfactorily
She was sure something was not right and she didn't want to be a victim the second time
Then one Monday evening, an evangelist with his prayer bell came to her street

and started preaching about a Jesus so different from the one she met through marriage
She decided to give that version of Jesus a trial
She met with the evangelist and asked her questions about the efficacy of the gospel and the power in the name of Jesus
The evangelist didn't

say much
He laid hands on her and baptized her in the Holy Ghost
He told her to study the scriptures daily until the word comes alive in her by the power of the Holy Spirit
The experience changed her life
She had been a Christian but she didn't know the difference between Genesis

and Matthew
All that changed after her encounter with the Holy Spirit, she began to understand the word and walk in the reality of the Holy Spirit
She became an initiate into the assembly of the saints in light
Around this time, she got pregnant with her fourth child
Her husband

was a teacher
They were struggling to make ends meet as a family
She didn't know her husband had been considering other metaphysical options to their financial issue
Her husband was given some charms to take home in order to attract wealth
The only caveat was that the charm must

not be touched by a pregnant woman
Neither she nor her pregnant knew she was already pregnant
Her husband brought the charms home and she was the one who carried the bag in which the charms were placed to the house
Later that night she began to bleed & was rushed to the hospital

The doctor told her she had lost the baby
Her husband began to weep when he heard the news
He confessed to her what he had dabbled into in the name of making money
She rebuked him for not standing firm in his faith
Unlike before, she chose not to be a victim
She declared that the

devil cannot take anything that belonged to her
She declared that she was pregnant and her baby must thrive
She registered for ante-natal that same day by faith
One week later, she went for a scan and the scan revealed that she was carrying eight weeks old baby
Unlike the first

incident that happened when she was merely religious and powerless
The Holy Spirit made all the difference
The Word came alive in her and her reality shifted from sensory perception to the dimension of faith
She had begun to grow in spiritual stature through the knowledge of the

Lord Jesus Christ
She delivered her baby seven months later to the surprise of the doctor and her husband
Her husband had been told that the pregnant woman who handled the charm will never be able to conceive again & if she did, she would die in the course of delivering her baby

The prediction failed woefully.
The word had come alive in her and she was no longer living by her senses
From there she only grew to become a dispenser of eternal verities of the kingdom of God in Christ Jesus
Snakes, scorpions& other enemies of mankind avoided her like a plague

She was able to build her home and raise her children in the true knowledge of the Word
Not as religious practitioners but as true ambassadors of the gospel walking in the reality of the Holy Spirit and the Supernatural realities through the living word of God.
Knowing Jesus made

all the difference
Romans 8:6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot

please God.
9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is

subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life
because of righteousness.

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