Feast of The Spirit

She was born with unique talents that had never been seen before in any child

She was ambidextrous

She could do practically anything with both her hands with ease

She was exceptionally brilliant

When she was in JSS 3 and needed to choose either to go to the science class or Art class, it was a big issue in her school.

All the teachers knew that she would be the best graduating student of her set because she had been the best from the moment she was enrolled into the school.

In primary school, she had two double promotions and was still the best graduating pupil of her set

In secondary school, she was a perfect score student in every science and art subject.

Teachers who give her less than 100 marks usually just did so just to prove a point

She was a genius

One of those rare prodigies that one encounters once in a lifetime or sometimes once in several lifetimes

She was extremely good with fine art, especially painting and sculpturing

She was good with Home Economics, interior decoration and baking

All her teachers want to keep her

They knew she would produce the glory and accolades they desired to see in their students with ease.

The principal convinced his parents that she should become a surgeon and so the decision was made that she should focus on science subjects

It was not a problem for her

She merely read her Art class books at home for leisure

She especially loved Geography, Government and Religious Studies

Nobody had the right to know and get so many things right at once

She did

They all knew she was neither being stretched nor tested by the academic environment they could provide for her.

They knew she would one day have to leave the shores of Nigeria for more advanced climes in order for her to be able to fulfil her potential in life.

It was obvious she was an eagle

Even the blind testified of it

She wrote her exams and passed both GCE and WAEC with distinction

She wrote Art subjects in GCE and Science Subjects in WASSCE

She had distinctions in every subject

The challenge at the time was JAMB

She could only write one sitting per year

So she opted to write JAMB and POLYJAMB

She chose medicine for JAMB

She chose Visual and Applied Arts for PolyJAMB

She gained admission into both institutions at the same time

She accepted both admissions

Her father, a Reverend, was determined to support her all the way

Within the first three years, she had bagged her Distinction from the polythecnic and scaled through her MBBS exams in flying colours

While progressing in her academics towards becoming a surgeon, she established her own Art Studio and enrolled for HND in Art and Design

She specialised in designing murals for churches, banks and other institutions

She was twenty years old and she had so much going for her that nobody could plot the graph of her success

By the time she finished medical school, she had been offered full scholarships to three Ivy league schools in the United States

Her father took her to church for a special thanksgiving service

This was where she met him

Him being a medical doctor from her tribe who had heard about her and came to see for himself who the beautiful high achiever was

He came to introduce himself to her after the service and asked if he could meet with her to discuss a plan he has pertaining to setting up a rural health center in their village.

She knew it was a ruse

He was the one

She felt it the moment she saw him

He was like a meteor that collided with her planet

By the time they met the second time, she pulled him aside and kissed him right behind the door of the corridor linking her father's sitting room to the dining area

She was not one to dillydally

She didn't achieve all she did in life by being slow and steady

He welcomed her overture with gladness

He wanted her from the moment he laid his eyes on her but she was too high profile and he knew he had to present his case with guile.

He just didn't expect her to catch on so quickly

That same day he told her father he wanted to marry her

It was her turn to be shocked at the speed of his proposal

It was only their second meeting!

They began to court

They also began to make plans to travel to the USA together after their marriage.

The church insisted they must court and have counselling for three months

He had already studied for some years in the USA and he still had a valid visa

She had gotten a visa too

Three days to the wedding, she woke up in the morning and things were out of allignment

She just couldn't locate herself in her own body

She said "At first, it felt like I was eavesdropping on some people's conversations from all over the places I go and then the voices grew louder and louder until I began to respond to them because they were loud and irritating and they were driving me crazy"

For those around her, it was a problem

She was acting like a lunatic

Talking to herself, shaking her head and pulling out her own hair

Sometimes screaming in agony while blocking her two ears, sometimes crying in pain

They tried prayers at the very beginning

Anointed her with oil, called pastors and bishops

When there was no relief, they had to lock her up in her room with two people waiting on her to prevent her from self harm.

Eventually, they had to rush her to a mental hospital

They thought it was nervous breakdown or mental stress

It wasn't

The doctors said it was psychosis

Of course, it could be the stress of the wedding that triggered it or the huge prospect of relocating abroad to a strange land surrounded by strange people.

The doctors who attended to her promised her fiance and parents that she would be fine.

Days became long and hard, weeks became months, slow months

Whenever she got a bit better and they began to hope she was out of the woods, she would relapse

Her fiance waited three years before moving on

Her mother and siblings took her everywhere they could for divine intervention and prayers

When she turned 29, she woke up one morning and left Ilorin

She didn't tell anybody where she was going

She had money in the bank and a lot of shares

She got to Lagos and lodged herself in a hotel somewhere in Ogba

she was there for a month

In that month, she found herself a job in the real estate sector as a marketer.

She didn't really need the money

She just felt she should keep herself occupied but not stressed

The company she worked for paid by commission

You get a client, convince him or her to buy a plot of land, follow him or her up until he pays and you will get a certain commission out of whatever he paid.

She began to learn the ropes of the job

She was a beautiful girl with nothing to lose

Getting handsome and rich male clients was not difficult

They want to talk to her and perhaps sleep with her

She found it flattering, given that they naturally wouldn't want to be with her if they knew the sort of ailment she was coping with

Their attention gave her a huge dose of self-confidence

Soon, days turned into months

Fast days and fast months turned into years

Three years sped past without any incidence

The real estate business was neither good or bad

She got clients sometimes, some pulled out, some delivered, some wanted to date her, and some didn't even notice her, she liked some and she loathed some.

She met another man on the job, a decent computer geek who lived all alone by the beach with all sorts of satellites and internet gadgets hanging from the roof of his mansion.

A recluse who saw her picture on Instagram and dived straight into her DM

She went to see him once and she felt they could both build their own world together in that safe space he had carved out for himself

A week after meeting him, she began to hear the voices again

She cut off all ties to him and the voices faded

That was how she noticed it was a pattern

It had nothing to do with her success as a person but everything to do with her emotional or love relationships.

It seems her hormones go into hyperdrive whenever she contemplates romantic or sexual engagements

She reached out via Twitter DM

She said "Dear Brother Gbenga, my name is Lolo and I would like to discuss

my strange spiritual observations with you"

They met and talked

Then they prayed

The Spirit of God was there to reveal the truth

He asked her if she knew her mother was not her biological mother

She laughed and said that was impossible

She reached out to her father for the first time in four years

She asked him to tell her about her biological mother

Her father said it was not something they could talk about on the phone

The next day, she found her way to her father's house in Ilorin

Her father told her the truth

Her father said he met her mother while they were both in secondary school

He said one handshake led to pregnancy between them

When his parents heard about the pregnancy they protested

He had been engaged to another lady since he was eight years old according to their custom at the time and the engagement could not be broken

His girlfriend saw that he was not going to fight for their love and went into depression

By the time she delivered the baby, she was totally out of her mind

In agony, her mother carried the baby and dumped her at their door

His mother nursed her for the first five years of her life until he got married and took her in

She then asked him if he made peace with the family after then

He told her he didn't get a chance to

The lady he impregnated committed suicide and her mother always cursed him and his lineage whenever they met.

So he just left town for them and relocated from Kogi to Ilorin.

Lolo returned to Lagos with the information

She could see where the lines became faulted

As she told her story she asked if God could turn her story around

He showed her a scripture 2 Kings 2:20

19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.

Whenever a land is cursed to the point where its fruitfulness is turned into barrenness, the scriptures showed us how such could be rectified...

John 4: 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

Religion does not turn barrenness into fruitfulness

The Holy Spirit does

He is the living water

In the Old Testament, Elisha had to pour salt into water as a symbol of preservation and purification so that the water could flow to the land and heal it after it had been healed

In the New Testament, Jesus declared in John 7: 37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”[a] 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.

She said "I want to give my life to Jesus and receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit"

They prayed and the power of the Holy Spirit moved in His full glory throughout her life and body.

She vomited a lot of things and with her two eyes she saw a clock being reversed backwards as she turned and turned until it got to her date of birth and time of birth, then it was turned to "RESET"

She was in a trance for about three hours, while the ministering spirits worked on her and reversed every predetermined reality of the evil one.

Dr. Lolo was married one year later, to Dr. Emmanuel

Yes, the one she was meant to marry at the beginning of her ordeal

He never married until she reached out to him that she was ready

They got married in Ikoyi and relocated to the USA three months later

All her documents that had gone stale at the embassy were renewed and granted to her on the O-1 visa

PS: I wrote Sister Lolo and Brother Emmanuel's story today because I got good news from them a few days ago.

Sister Lolo is pregnant.

She wanted to take some time to regain her health physically after the ordeal she had gone through and they only started trying to have a baby in March this year

She sent me the news that God had done it and I felt their story was due to sharing

I know the Holy Spirit, I do not know religion and I denounce all the works or ways of religion in its entirety.

I belong to the Lord and I am mentored by the Holy Spirit

On Friday 19th July, i will be ministering at SLA alongside @femioladehin, Taiwo Akinyemi and @arogunmaya on the church's Night of Victory service, I am inviting you especially to be there as we bask in the Realm of Glory

On Saturday, Pastor @eyitayofelix will be hosting us at the same venue for the Feast of The Spirit by 10am

Saturday 20th July (At Supernatural Life Assembly, Surulere

If you can come to Lagos, be at SLA for the Friday and Saturday's Event, do everything to be there

Ministers of the gospel and believers are seriously encouraged to attend

We don't collect offerings, or tithes or seeds or anything from anyone

We just gather to minister to the Lord and be ministered to by the Lord

We will not talk about the Holy Spirit, we will drink the water of life until we are drunk in the Holy Ghost

You can bring whatever the issue is, but not with the mindset of meeting a man

Come and partake of this feast and see how the fault lines of your reality will be made right

-GSW-