Thread by @GbengaWemimo

He was a false brother
Of course, he didn't introduce himself as such
He came talking about the supernatural he had seen or read about and the ones he had done by the help of the Holy Spirit
He dropped a lot of big names, men of God with whom he had worked and ministered
It was a

very light conversation
"I believe we can do a lot together," the brother said
He merely nodded
He enjoyed their talk and soon after then they went to have lunch together
The brother didn't have a job and things were tight
He was the one who footed the bill for the lunch
The

packed a full plate and even got take away packs for his wife
He deduced the brother must have been very hungry
He even paid for the Uber ride that took the brother home
A week later, the brother was back
This time he came with a lady
The brother said the lady had some spiritual

problem and they had prayed together
But the problem persisted
The brother said he decided to bring the lady to him for prayers
He prayed with the lady in the presence of the brother
The Holy Spirit moved mightily
Right after praying, the lady asked to use the restroom
A few

minutes later she came out screaming
"Come and see what came out of me in the toilet"
They went to see
It was a lump of tissue, the fibroid that had been occupying her womb
It was the first time the brother saw that kind of miracle in his life
The brother told him he had a vision

A vision of the two of them running a ministry together
He told the brother he never saw such a vision
He didn't even know if God had called him to have a ministry
He was just a believer who the promised signs and wonders were following by the power of the Holy Spirit
The brother

told him to go and pray about it
When he got home that day he was troubled
They were both young men
He had a family and a good job
Could God be asking him to go into ministry?
Could God be telling him to go into ministry with the brother?
He couldn't sleep all night
Something

felt very wrong
The next morning at about 9am, he had to drive to Lagos Island for a meeting
He remembered the brother had told him he was living somewhere close to Adeniji
He parked and checked their WhatsApp chat record
He found the brother's address and followed the direction

given by the app to the street
As soon as he got to the street, he saw the brother standing on the balcony of a building
There was a lady beside the brother
The lady was the lady he prayed for, the one fibroid dropped out of
He saw them clearly
He had to drive down the street to

because it was a narrow street and there was no parking space
He drove on for about 2 minutes without finding any space
He called the brother
"Hello brother, I have a business on the island and decided to pop in on you, I am on your street right now"
The brother replied "Oh, I am

not at home at the moment. You should have called before coming around. I am in a meeting right now and will call you back in a few minutes"
Wow.
He knew what he saw but he got the message
Perhaps the brother does not want to be disturbed or had left home since he drove past the

brother's house
He found his way out of the brother's street and drove back to his office
He told himself it is possible that the sister with the brother was his wife
The brother's wife was working with a bank according to their previous discussion but he had never met her
The

following week, the brother sent him a message that he had traveled for some interviews in Port Harcourt
Three days after the brother traveled he got a phone call from a pastor in Port Harcourt
The pastor asked him if he would like to come to Port Harcourt for a ministration in

his church
The pastor said he met the brother and the brother told him all about the mighty miracles God was doing through him
His ticket and hotel details were sent that very day
He got to Port Harcourt that weekend and the ministration was supernatural
It was his first time

ministering outside of Lagos
By the time he got home, his parish pastor had heard the news and the workforce in his church gave him a standing ovation for being a good ambassador of the church
His pastor asked him if he would like to start a program in the church so that the

church members can be blessed by the grace of God upon him
It was a wonderful opportunity for him to come out of his shell and do His father's work
He said yes and started a once a month program
When he told the brother about it, the brother was elated
The ministry "vision" had

been confirmed
At the inaugural fellowship meeting, he gave the brother the altar for thirty minutes to lead some prayers
The brother's face was also on the poster and banners
The brother ministered
He ministered
The power of the Holy Spirit moved mightily
After the service, some

people went to meet the brother to get his phone number
(Christians do that, only God knows why but most believers do that thing)
They judge everything by the flesh and chase men of God even after praying
They have no faith in their own prayers and end up falling victims of the

wolves in sheep clothing
He was a member of the church but the brother was the novel one after that service
He couldn't stop people from fawning over the brother
They had ministered together for three months before the brother arrived at his office with his wife one morning
The

woman the brother brought was different from the one he saw the brother with the other time
He was sure of what he saw
He was sure of who he saw
He kept mum until they met later in the week
He told the brother to explain the relationship between him and the other lady
The brother

denied having anything to do with the lady
He had no option but to let it be but he was quite uneasy about the affair
Two months later his pastor called him on a Wednesday
"Please see me" was all the pastor said
He drove to the pastor's house the following morning
The pastor said

an accusation had been brought against the brother by one of the men in the church
One of the men had accused the brother he brought to minister in the church of taking advantage of his wife's condition sexually
The accuser said his wife had been desperate to have a baby for some

time and called the brother
The brother met with this man's wife in his house and told her there is a kind of prayer that is done only in the company of angels
The brother lit up fragrances all about a room and told the lady to strip while he summoned angels with supernatural

tongues
Then he gave the man's wife oil to rub all over her body after which he blindfolded her so that she will not be struck dead by the blinding light of the angel
The angel came and possessed the brother and the brother slept with the man's wife
The brother told the man's

wife the ritual had to be done seven times
She was also to pay Fifty thousand Naira per session
The lady had done five sessions before she ran out of money
She asked her husband for some money and explained what had been going on to her husband
That was how the man added two plus

two and called the pastor
The pastor wanted him to explain if he had gotten himself into a cult or had started dabbling into the occult
He was shocked to the marrow
The brother's conduct had destroyed his reputation in his local church
His pastor was having doubts about his faith

He told the pastor how he met the brother
The pastor told him to sever all ties immediately
He did more than that
He went to the police station and got the brother arrested for extortion and fraud
The man and his wife got most of their money back but there are things that cannot

be restituted
The brother came out of it three days later
The brother got bailed by his wife
A week later, he saw the poster of the brother
The brother had started his own ministry and was addressing himself as the General Overseer
Some of the people who met the brother through

him started attending the brother's church
He didn't know how he was supposed to handle it
Go about telling everybody the brother was a devil incarnate or leave things to God
The former would be petty and impossible to do
He kept as far away as possible from the brother and told

the truth to all those who cared to ask him why they were not together again
The only regret he had was giving the brother a platform of legitimacy
He practically launched a fraud into ministry and many people were deceived
A few months later, he started his ministry too

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