Flip

Get Set!

I have certain friends and brothers 
that I am worried about 
They are believers 
They love the Lord 
They are faithful and yet they 
are struggling! 
The gospel has not become real 
to them 
What they know ought to be 
is not what is in their lives 
They are living from hands to mouth!
My friends! 
They are anointed and they try to live 
a Holy life 
One has registered his ministry for 
five years and is still sitting at home 
living off his wife! 
The wife calls me to complain and cry 
"My husband has become a permanent 
liability, I am the one bearing the 
burden"
His wife pays the rent 
Puts food on the table 
Caters for the children 
He refused to get a job because 
God called him 
He refused to do what God called 
him to do 
because he was waiting for further 
instructions from God! 
Nobody can counsel him In the end, 
we had to leave him alone
There is another who genuinely wants 
to work He had applied to so many 
places and it seemed as if he was 
operating under a closed heaven! 
Seeing his struggles and efforts is a 
comfort and a consolation! 
I know he will break forth soon! 
Zion is the land of the helped and 
blessed
Then there is this third one! 
He is laboring in another person's 
vineyard and has nothing to show for
 his years of labour! 
He is working hard as a pastor and 
the church is growing but he has refused
 to collect salary and didn't have any 
other source of income 
His wife is crying
Crying day and night 
She is working but her income is not 
enough to cater to the need of four 
children and her husband 
The church he is working with does 
not pay pastors any remuneration 
unless such indicates that he or she 
wants to be paid! 
He has refused to indicate as required
He says "God called him and God 
must bless him" 
There are many more 
I love all my brothers 
But you can be born again and lazy 
You can be born again and be naive 
You can be Born again and be ignorant 
The gospel does not breed fools 
It is the power of God unto salvation!
As we approach 2020 
I am asking my brothers and the 
body of Christ to position themselves 
for the blessings of God which maketh 
rich absent of sorrow 
You cannot continue to do the same thing 
and expect a different result 
It is time to walk into the reality of Zion 
on earth! Amen

Flip
I skipped work for two days once. 
I needed to rest! 
My boss was traveling to the UK 
and Dubai! 
He decided to go to a Bureau 
DeChange and convert some Naira 
into foreign currency! 
He was defrauded! 
By the time he got to the office 
he realized he had been given 
fake foreign currency! 
He went back to the Bureau DeChange 
to shout
Nothing came out of it 
It was quite a lump sum 
He called some of his friends who were 
in the police force 
Everybody blamed him for being foolish 
Why didn’t you use the bank? 
Why were you so greedy? 
Don’t you know these people by now? 
His wife heard it 
And they shifted the blame
Where is your PA? 
How come you allow your PA to do 
whatever he wanted? 
Was he not supposed to be the one 
to change the money for you? 
You are too lax with that boy 
He stayed away from work without 
permission 
He is irresponsible and 
He must be held responsible for this 
“Mummies” are the best..
Some of my colleagues got a wind 
of what had happened
 Our front desk officer called me 
Bro. Gbenga, you are being grilled here 
Why didn’t you come to the office? 
She gave me the full gist 
I couldn’t help it 
I laughed and laughed and laughed 
How was It my fault?
 What did I do?
I got to the office the next day 
My boss was looking and behaving 
like a chicken brooding over its eggs 
He was waiting for the opportunity 
to snap off my head 
His wife arrived and started the 
mohurumohuru dance 
“Gbenga, why didn’t you come to the 
office on Monday and Tuesday?”
I told them I had worked all weekend 
I needed to rest and I sent him a note 
that I wouldn’t be coming, 
he was the one who didn’t check his 
WhatsApp message! (He had that habit) 
He took over and told me what had '
happened 
I smiled 
I asked him if he knew the address of
the Bureau de change 
He said he did!
He gave me the business card of the 
Bureau de change 
He described where it was in Alade Market 
He showed me the fake currency 
I smiled! 
I took the fake currency and told him 
I was coming 
I got the office driver 
We drove to Ikeja 
I went to the Bureau de change 
Shook their hands and negotiated 
the rates
I told them how much I had 
They asked me if I wanted cash 
or if I would prefer a bank transfer 
I told them bank transfer 
They asked to see the money 
I gave them the same note they gave 
my boss which had been confirmed 
to be fake 
They took the money and counted it
They transferred the cash equivalent 
to my bank 
I got the alert 
I shook hands with them and we 
had some small talk 
They gave me their business card 
in case of future businesses 
I walked back to the bus 
The driver drove me to my bank 
I transferred the money to my boss 
C’est fini!
I got back to the office 
My boss was full of questions 
How did you do it? 
What did you do? 
His wife (Mummy in the Lord) was 
clapping her hand and rolling her eyes 
I told them I merely went to the same 
Bureau de change and changed the 
money back to Naira 
They were just looking like Neppios
My boss was generous 
He gave me some cash gift as a 
thank you gesture 
Please note this “I am a believer, 
I am not doing a mental faith thing, 
I am not faking my reality! 
If I bid night turn to day, the night must turn!” 
I stopped working with my boss recently 
We met today 23/12/2019 at the mall
He still remembered! 
He said “Gbenga! You have something 
I can verify to be true and real! 
Your walk with the Holy Spirit is on 
a different dimension! 
I have been a pastor for years, 
what you did that day was the greatest 
miracle I have ever seen!” 
I smiled! 
I too, I am Christ!

PS: One of my teachers says this often
"A believer can never be put in a
disadvantageous situation!
Throw him in the fire, he will walk
out unsinged 
Throw him in the lion's den
He will walk out unhurt
Imprison him and risk an earthquake
Try to cheat him and you find yourself
harassed and confused on every side
Being a believer is the greatest gift
Jesus gave to us
He made us His Kind! 
His Type, His LIkeness! 
Like Himself!
Many dont know this
What a pity?