Thread by @GbengaWemimo

She insisted she did everything she did for love
She said "If i was as wicked as many are claiming now, I could have used the opportunities I have to help myself, to make some money, to travel abroad, to achieve great feats but I didn't. All I did was defend my territory, all I

did was protect my turf from being invaded by strangers
All I did was fight to keep what was mine"
She was in her later fifties when her children dragged her to the office of the brother in Jeans and T-shirt. She had five children, four boys and one girl
Her first son, 43, had

been married for 13 years without a child, her second son 40, had been married for 15 years without a child, her third child 38, had been married for 10 years without a child, her only daughter 36, was not married and the last child 34 had been married for two years without a

child
The children had called a meeting at the beginning of that year among themselves wondering how they had all been struggling to move forward in life generally and specifically in the area of childbearing
How can a mother have five children and none of the children was able

to start a family
They decided to fast and pray
They needed a revelation and a direction
On the third day of their fast, they all had a similar revelation
They saw a pregnant woman, lying in a pool of blood, calling their mother's name and cursing their mother's children with

bareness and all sorts of maladies before dying
It was strange for two people to have the same revelation of the night at the same time but four of them had this revelation and could describe the details vividly.
The only one of them who didn't have the revelation that night was

accosted by a pregnant woman on her way home from her office on the evening of the same day
The woman walked up to her and said "Lady, you desire to be pregnant, to carry a baby! You're praying for the fruit of the womb but the blood and cry of the innocent will not allow you and

your brothers to hear the patter of little feet in your home. Too much blood, too much wickedness, too much evil! you need to talk to your mother!"
Later that evening during their 9pm prayers on the phone, the oldest brother shared the revelation and they were all struck by fear.

They decided to had to see their mother and find out how she was involved in their plight
The traveled to their mother's location the following Friday and told their mother what they had seen, they begged their mother to shed some light on the issue
Their mother smiled and said

she didn't know anything about their inquiries
The children were shocked
Their father died at the age of fifty and only witnessed the wedding ceremony of the second son, so he was in no position to answer their questions
Their mother had decided not to say a word (They were sure

she knew so much more than she was claiming to know)
So they decided they would all abandon her because she was a witch
She was working with the sanitation department in her state as a street cleaner at the time
She was earning some money but they supported her with a stipend

every month.
After three months, she called her first son and told him he should hold himself and his siblings responsible for anything that happened to them from that day as a result of their silent treatment
The children called for another meeting and travelled down to meet

with her
This time they tricked her that they wanted to take her somewhere for medical treatment and brought her to the office of the brother in Jeans and T-shirt
They were convinced once their mother confesses to witchcraft everything would be resolved and they would be able to

move on to the next level of fulfilment in life
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt berated them for their tactics, he found it disrespectful
He met their mother and apologized to her on behalf of her children
Then he told the mother why the children did what they did
They had been

provoked to wrath
He asked the family to join their hands together
He joined his hands with them and prayed for unity and a turnaround
As soon as they finished praying, their mother started to cry
She said she did what she did for love
What did she do?
She heard from a friend

that her late husband had married a second wife secretly and that the woman was pregnant
She couldn't believe her husband would betray her that way
They started with nothing and were still struggling to make ends meet
She confronted her husband with the facts she had gathered and

her husband told her that was the instruction he got from one of the spiritualists he went to for spiritual consultation
Her husband said the spiritualist told him that until another woman delivers a child for him, he would never have a breakthrough in life
She couldn't just make

sense of it
They were so poor that their children had to hawk groundnut and palm oil every day for her to put food on the table
The children were practically wearing rags to school and in all that the little he was making from his waste disposal business was being shared with

another woman somewhere
How does that make any sense?
Her husband had always been one of those people who would rather work for today and believe in sudden wealth for the future
He always wanted to be rich but he was neither prepared nor equipped for it
She knew all about his

spiritual consultations with all sorts of people all in the name of making money but the one thing she didn't see coming was another wife with children
From the moment she confirmed that fact from her husband, she became restless
It was the one thing she couldn't accept for what

it was
She didn't bargain for poverty but she had accepted it with hope but accepting the other woman was too much for her to take
She found her own spiritualist and explained her dilemma
The spiritualist gave her options and she chose the one she felt would teach her husband

never to take her for granted again
She was given an a doll made in the shape of a pregnant woman with instructions
She followed the instructions and threw the doll into the fire she was using to make dinner for the family
Three weeks later, the other wife died
Seven months later

her husband fell sick and died too
When she returned to the spiritualist to ask why her husband died, she was told she shouldn't have thrown it into the fire within the household
She should have followed the instruction given to her and journey far into the bush to start th fire

she would use
By burning the enchanted doll under a roof, all those under that roof had become afflicted
That was their mother's secret
She said she had done everything within her power to correct the wrong that was done but it was all to no avail
The children, hearing the story

for the first time started to cry and lament
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt just laughed
He said, "Wow, I thought you guys were all born again, Holy Ghost-filled habitations of God"
The children nodded
"Why are you crying and lamenting," He asked them
They just looked at him...

James 1: 22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he

looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do."
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt said "You guys are oscillating between your human

reality and your reality in Christ
You have to choose a side and stay in it
The day you gave your life to Christ, you walked out of darkness into the light, if this is the truth, then walk in the light!
Darkness cannot have a hold on the light
There can be no accord between light

and darkness.
You have given the devil a foothold in your light by walking in the flesh after yielding your life to Jesus and getting filled with the Holy Spirit
You have to renew your mind and walk away from this wrong mindset"
The oldest son, who also happens to be a pastor

said "How do we do this sir"
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt said "Your mother just told a fantastic story that directly affects your human spirit.
The Bible also told us the story of salvation in Jesus that directly affects your reality in Christ
Which of these stories would

you believe and walk in with conviction
The Oldest son said "The story of my salvation in Christ"
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt asked the other children the same question
They all said they would rather believe the truth of the gospel and its eternal salvation
They prayed for

some days together via a phone call where they read the scripture and prayed in the spirit
Three months later, the first three brothers recorded pregnancy in their marriages for the first time
The first of baby was born on the 23rd March, 2019 and named "Jabez"
His birth was

followed by other births and a wedding for the only daughter in April 2020.
The entire family's reality was turned around by the understanding of their realities in the light and the right fellowship that nurtured the right mindset
Their mother is still alive and enjoying the

blessings of the gospel
She has also given her life to Christ and now lives with the first son and his family
This event happened in Jos and Lagos state, Nigeria!

PS: Some Christians are taught that after they had given their lives to Jesus, demons still have a say in their

realities
It is like a slave that got adopted to become a son but in his mindset was still a slave
He will only always act as a slave in reality
You are the light now, shine!
You left a location and its ills for another location and its blessings
You cant be in two places at once

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