Learning Dominion

Some years ago, there was this family at a location in Lagos. The family is known for their masquerade which comes out twice a year. For the masquerade to come out, the Alagbaa, head of the Masquerade cult must make libations over the costume and bless it then the young guys would put on the costumes and do their thing all over the area. It was a very demonic cult and the Christian community found it offensive. A young pastor was given instructions to start a church in that area, he rented a place and the church took off.  After a few months, he also reached out to the leaders of the community and asked them if he could get a plot or two of land to buy so that he could build a proper church edifice. They sold him two plots of land, the land belonged to the Masquerade family.

After they had sold and shared the money paid to them by the pastor, they said it was on the land that they had their grove where the masquerade's costumes and other things for its rituals were kept by their forefathers and a church could not be built on the land.  

You cannot sell me your land and then dictate to me what can be built or cannot be built on it. The pastor had paid in full and he had his land documents and agreements which were duly signed by the family, he also had a receipt. Land clearing commenced.

On the day the Provincial headquarters was doing" Let's Go A Fishing" for the Easter period that year, they went to the Land with other pastors to bless it.  A crusade was held on the land. One week after the programme, the pastor went to report to the province that Masquerade people came and flogged him out of the place. He showed other pastors all the marks on his body as a result of the flogging.

The Pastor in charge of the province and others followed him, they got the police involved. It became a battle between the land grabbers and the church. The land grabbers doubled down and went diabolical, the day the pastor showed up with labourers for the church project they found all forms of diabolical charms and demonic sacrifices on the land. The labourers got scared and refused to step on the land until the diabolical totems and objects were cleared.

The pastor got frustrated, he reached out to the anti-crime department in the police force where he had a friend. Five police officers and five K9 units were sent to the Land. The dogs were sent to assure the labourers that they were safe and could go ahead to work on the land. The labourers got on the land and cleared out the fetish objects. The next morning, all the dogs were found dead in their cages and the labourers were all struck with mysterious illnesses. The police officers were not spared, they all got swollen feet. After this, the land became a nuclear site, nobody would work on it. The pastor was frustrated, the land grabbers had won the first round. Their leader sent a message to the pastor, we want our land back and we are willing to pay you for it. The price they were offering was a quarter of the price the church paid for the land. The pastor didn't like the idea that the church would be blatantly swindled by idol worshippers who would then go ahead and boast about it while he would have to hand his head in shame. The pastor called a meeting of the ministers in the church, they had a deliberation that lasted all day. Most of the ministers wanted to turn the other cheek. The board of trustees of the church wrote to the pastor from their national headquarters. We have heard what is going on, our mission is a policy never to fight anyone over land. As long as they are attacking you and making war over the land, leave the land to the grabbers and walk away. Know that we serve a living God and he will reward you. The pastor was unconvinced but he has lost the support of the church. Members were scared of being attacked by land grabbers and touts. Members did what anyone who is scared would naturally do. They tucked their tails and ran for cover. The pastor spent a whole week away from church. He had been posted to the rented apartment they were using as their church auditorium by the provincial pastor with a mandate to build. He had worked hard to secure two plots of land in a very congested area where land was gold. He had raised the funds needed and paid for the land in full, he did everything by the book and yet he had been cheated out of his hard work by a bunch of illiterate masquerade worshippers who not only took all his money and attacked the labourers he hired but now had the audacity to offer him a fraction of the money he paid them in order to legally get back the land. Nobody likes to be taken for a ride but one must know when to walk away. He decided it would be best for the church to cut her losses and sell the land. When he got to church on Sunday, he met a buzz. The assistant pastor had informed him that he would be inviting a minister to the church that Sunday to encourage the church after the issues the church just waded through. He had forgotten all about it, he stepped into the church and sat down at the back. The young man at the altar preached deeply and passionately about the efficacy of the power of God. He also boasted of some of his dealings with occultic people and he convincingly stated that they were all mouth and no action. It gave the pastor an idea even if it is one last push or something borne out of desperation, he just felt he should do something before throwing in the towel.

After the service, the assistant pastor introduced the young man as the brother in Jeans and T-shirt. After the service, he asked the young man if he could bless a property they had just bought which had been the subject of a discord between their church and some land grabbers. They went to the land, the brother in Jeans and T-shirt stood on the land and declared that Dagon shall no longer have a head in it's battle for superiority with the Ark of Covenant.

It was a strange prayer that lasted for a few seconds. The pastor chuckled when the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt turned towards him and said It is done, sir. The meeting between the pastor and the land grabbers was supposed to happen the next morning by 10 am. The pastor got to the church at about 9 am. News filtered through that the leader of the land grabbers died in his sleep overnight. Wow. The masquerade leaders chose another leader a week later. The new leader also died that very day, in his sleep. Another week went by, another leader was chosen he died too, overnight, in his sleep.

When the pastor heard he was shocked, three new leaders died in the space of a month. The pastor called the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt to share the news. The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt told the pastor to return to the site and continue the church-building project.

Confidence had returned to the church with the news of the deaths of the masquerade leaders. Enthusiasm was back and members were encouraged that God was on their side. They raised a lot of money the following Sunday, much more than the pastor had hoped. He and the labourers returned to the site, the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt was invited to witness the foundation laying ceremony. The church-building project began two months after the death of the first leader of the masquerades. By the time they started roofing the church project, eight leaders of the masquerades had died, all in their sleep,

all on the night of the very day they were chosen. It got so bad the masquerade cult decided not to choose a leader anymore. Most of their members left the cult out of fear. Those who didn't leave the cult moved its base out of that area entirely.

On the day the church was dedicated, the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt was the Invited Minister. When he got to the area, he visited the compound of the masquerade cult and invited everybody in the cult to the church. He told them to make sure to attend so that they can sleep soundly again. By the time he finished teaching the word, he made an altar call inviting those who are weary and heavy-laden to Christ. All the members of the Masquerade cult who attended the service gave their lives to Jesus Glory be to God.

PS: The church still stands in Lagos today. It is now the Provincial headquarters of a very popular Christian denomination. The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt witnessed all that happened and he has written this report by his own hands to encourage the saints. Idols are nothing and those who serve them are like them. A believer who fears nothing will be afflicted by nothing. Our faith is in Jesus, He is our anchor, shield and buckler. We are overcomers in him.

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-GSW-