Berachah

Beracah

His mother walked about the village
Head drooping in shame and worry
What has happened to her son?
Why hasn't she heard from him in so many years?
She knew what she went through before she could have him
She was the third wife in a very fierce polygamous marriage
The other wives took diabolical engagements to another level
The first wife especially was a known witch
Their husband deliberately married other wives to curb the first wife's excesses
He wanted the first wife to know who was boss
She couldn't afflict him because his own mother was a witch too
He had been fortified by the initiates
When he bought a dog and named it "Patience" in order to curb the first wife's excesses
The first wife poisoned the dog
He bought another dog and named it "Character"
The first wife poisoned it again
He bought a third dog and named it "Let me Live"
The first wife poisoned the third dog also
She was a war monger
The whole community knew her for who she was and stayed away from her
Once she kindled the fire of trouble, nothing can quench it
Their husband had no say in how the first wife came about being his wife
His mother and the first wife's mother were friends
They both pledged their children in marriage under oath
That was how the marriage came about
Their husband did not enjoy a day of peace
He was eventually advised to marry another wife
They believed it would mellow down the first wife's antics
His mother chose another witch for him
The daughter of a renowned voodoo man from the neighbouring village
The wives got on each other's throat
This was what their husband had always wanted
To get the first wife properly engaged in her warcraft 
As a cocoa dealer, their husband travels often to get merchandise from farmers
Sometimes he would be gone for as long as a month
While he was away, the first and second wife would fight each other to a stalemate
This was what the herbalist had told him would happen all along
He was then able to execute the second part of the plan
This was marry a third wife in secret somewhere far away from home
Since the two witches had no interest in siring children or being mothers
He had to find a way to start a family with another woman
That was how she came into the picture
The young easy going daughter of a carpenter
He courted and married her nine village settlements away from his own
He spends most of his time with her under the pretext of attending to business
The two wives at home knew nothing about her until she delivered her three children
After nine years of bliss, her husband's mother told him to bring her and the children home
She was dying and intended to secure the children from the attacks of the other witches after she must have died
She went home with him
Her husband's mother told them to give her the first child (A boy)
She made incisions on his head and pronounced him safe
She said she would do the ritual for the other two children the next day because she was tired
By the next morning, the other children had died in their sleep
They all knew what had happened
The witches had struck
That was how she was left with only one child
Her husband's mother would later confess on her death bed
That she made a deal with the other wives to give them one child each
While they agreed that they would keep away from the first child whom she fortified
The only child grew into a fine young man
He was extrememly brilliant brilliant in school and won a scholarship to study abroad
One year, five years, ten years, seventeen years!
She heard nothing, saw nothing!
She was no better than those who were barren
She decided enough was enough
She must do something about it
She went to consult the powers that be
She had only one request
"Bring my son back home"
They told her the possible consequences
Only a few of those drawn back home through demonic means remain normal or functional
Sometimes the demon would possess them and refuse to let them go
Sometimes the demon would turn them to vegetables
Sometimes the demon would make them seasonally insane
Sometimes, if they have a strong spirit that could resist, they would fight off the demon
But this was in very rare cases
And once you have given the demon permission to possess and bring such a child home
You cannot drive the demon out 
It is left to the young man's spirit to fight it off or be subdued by the demon
She agreed
She just wanted to see her son again before she died
She carried the ritual herself in the dead of the night
Within a week, she heard a knock on her window one night
Her son was back home
Looking like a ghost
She cooked for him, hugged him, danced and sang for joy
Her son just kept looking like a zombie
She gave him food and took him to the priest that did the charm
He was bathed and incisions were made on his head
They tried to call back his consciousness from whereever it was
It failed!
she returned home with his shell!
Apart from the basics like feed him self, use the toilet and bathe himself
Her son was useless
The picture she had in her mind of him getting married, having children and so on evaporated
No woman would marry him
He was like a walking dead!
The witches couldn't kill him but she did!
She was tired of living like a childless woman, she was tired of being lonely
She was tired of being mocked by other people
She didnt want to die without a child to bury her
How would she have known that his spirit was not strong enough to fight off the demon
How was she to know that?
She had thought the incission and ritual his grandmother did for him as a child was powerful enough to fight off any demon
She travelled all over to get help for her son
She spent everything she had
Until she was broke, broken and blue
She cried every night to God for his intervention
Surely God wouldn't watch her son's life waste away like this!
She cried at her husband's grave "Dont sleep, dont sleep she lamented, if you sleep your name will perish"
The church decided to do an evangelism drive into the villages
They sent three young men to scout the villages and get a location
The young men prayed and fasted
They wanted God to direct them to the right location
After three days, they all unanimously chose a village
It was located about seventeen kilometers to their church
The next morning they set off for the village
The road network was poor and at a point they had to walk
But they eventually got there at 4pm 
They went straight to the market and asked for the direction to the local chief's house
On their way to the local chief's house they saw a young man
They approached him speaking the local dialect
But they were wearing Jeans and T-shirts with the name of their ministry written on it
The young man looked at them curiously, as if he was tongue tied
His mother came outsidely and observed the scene curiously
The young man wanted to speak but he kept opening his mouth and closing it
Words were not coming forth
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt looked at him and spoke in English
"I command your eyes to be open, I command your intellect and will to be restored to you,
I command the fog to lift, I command the demon of darkness to leave you now, I command you to be free"
He laid hands on the young man
The young man screamed and took off like Ussein Bolt
Full speed ahead, screaming all the way!
Then he turned around and ran back to the brother in Jeans and T-shirt
He fell on his knees!
"Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!! Jesus! Jesus!" he kept screaming
He calmed down after some time
He was pulled unto his feet
He said "Oh my God, thank you sir" and he started weeping 
His mother fell on her knees where she was
She was also weeping
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt wanted to know what had happened
There was something obviously going on
His mother invited them into the compound
Under the sade of coconut trees
The story was told
The young man was 20 years old when he travelled to the USA to study at MIT
He was 37 years old when he was recalled by his mother
He was 43 years old when he was delivered from demonic possession 
He said "One morning, I was looking into the mirror while dressing for work when i saw a dark being grab me from behind
I fainted and when i opened my eyes, I discovered I could no longer control my body
I was somewhere in there but there was almost an insisgnificant residue of me in myself
This being had taken me over completely, it was like living in hell!
I couldnt taste, smell, feel, hear, talk, see, I was dead"
WOW!!!!
The news of the miracle had spread far and wide in the village
Everybody came to the compound
The local chief also came to the compound as soon as he arrived from the farm
Permission to hold a revival in the village was automatically granted!

This event happened in 2016 at Aje Village (located in Old Ibadan-Ogbomosho road)
The young man returned to the USA in 2017
He was a citizen already and after some investigation, the embassy issued him another passport
He was fully restored like King Nebbuchadnezzar was
He got his job back and was paid royalties from some of his projects which had been launched commercially
He got married in 2018 to another Nigerian lady, a lawyer
They have a son named "Beracah"