Lost

His grandmother died
His mother was put in charge of 
the “party uniform”
He was bored and needed some thrill 
Something to ginger the brain 
Something to shake away the idleness 
Something to make him feel alive and 
relevant 
He needed the thrill badly 
His mother had asked him to help her 
set up her banking mobile app some
days before that day
He knew her mother’s banking mobile 
app password! 
He took his mother’s phone 
He sneaked into his room 
He unlocked the phone and got into the 
mobile app 
He started transferring funds '
He transferred until the mobile app 
blocked him out! 
He had completed phase one of 
his mission
He returned the phone 
He did it stealthily 
Then he locked himself in his room 
He opened his online betting account 
He got to work! 
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He started betting right after he missed 
his admission into the polytechnic for 
his HND He was qualified for the course 
He uploaded his results as instructed! 
He didn’t know what happened 
The portal closed 
His documents didn’t get in on time 
He missed the admission 
It was a continuous sinking feeling 
He found himself in a dark place 
It was as if the portal closed out the 
sunshine 
His head was full of fog 
His heart was numb
He fell into depression 
Sometimes he felt like jumping in front 
of speeding vehicles 
His parents saw the sign 
They rallied to help him 
His friends joined the effort 
Even the church played a vital role 
Somehow he started getting better 
One morning he followed his mother 
to her
Shop His mother went to the bank 
He made some sales 
A customer transferred some money 
into his account 
A paltry sum of 75,000 
He ought to transfer the money into 
his mother’s account 
He went online and gambled with it 
He made 215,000 profit 
Wow! 
It was his first time ever
It was so easy! 
The thrill was out of this world 
His fortune had turned 
Luck was on his side 
He sent his mother’s money into her 
account and enjoyed the feeling of
 having so much money within minutes! 
He took his time spending the money 
He was not given to any other vice or habit
He gave some to his cousin and also 
helped a friend 
He always had some capital with which 
he gambled daily! 
At a point, visiting the gambling website 
was the highlight of his day! 
He had become a habit! 
The gambling demon had taken it’s place 
firmly in the depth of his heart
He stopped gambling for some time 
He didn’t know why but on this particular day, 
the urge cane out of nowhere and 
he had to get into it 
He started with the virtual dog race 
He lost some money 
He got into the virtual horse race 
He lost more money 
The more he played 
The more he lost
Within an hour 
One million Naira was gone! 
Wow! 
He started sweating 
It was as if the repercussions of his 
action only dawned on him after he 
had lost all the money 
Later that evening, his mother screamed 
in agony! 
Nobody slept in their house all night 
Her mother kept calling the
Bank’s customer care! 
By 7:30 the next morning, they were
at the bank! 
Her mother presented her case! 
The bankers told her the money was 
in her ledger account 
Blah! Blah!! Blah!!! 
He knew the money was gone! 
He kept quiet! 
Eventually, the bank figured out 
the money was moved into his online 
betting account! 
His mother fainted right there! 
They got his mother to the hospital 
just in time 
Her life was saved! 
His father arrived at the hospital and 
saw the damage! 
His father called the police! 
They arrested him and took him off to jail! 
He got the thrill!!!
They forgot him there 
Nobody came to the jail to give him food 
or water for three days 
On the fourth day, some people from 
their church came to see him 
They bailed him out Later that night, 
they brought him to the 
Brother in Jeans and T-shirt! 
He was in their church for a revival
meeting and was lodged in a hotel! 
His parents were too heartbroken to 
speak 
He kept looking at them like he was 
lost 
He knew the gravity of what he did, 
he just didn’t know how to stop! 
Already, right there, he was thinking 
all he needed was about 10000 to 
bet again and he would win it all back! 
He knew it made no sense and 
yet that was all he could think of doing 
to remedy the situation! 
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt spoke 
to his parents 
They got some relief 
Then the brother in Jeans and T-shirt 
told them to leave their son with him 
They departed!
He wondered what the Brother in 
Jeans and T-shirt wanted with him 
They got talking 
Until the desire to bet waned and 
he was able to trace the beginning 
of the habit to that period of darkness! 
They talked for about an hour 
They prayed
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt filled him
with the Holy Spirit! 
He cried his eyes out in repentance 
He returned home later that night 
The next morning, his mother took him 
along to visit a family friend who came 
home  for holiday!
The family friend was a friend of the family
for over twenty years, he was a surgeon
and he was based in the United States of
America!
The family friend saw him and asked 
him what he was doing 
He told the family friend he
was at home because he missed his
 admission into HND months before! 
The family friend asked him if he would 
like to go to a private University!
 He said “Yes” 
The family fried issued a cheque to 
his mother for four million Naira! 
The family friend said the money was to 
pay for his fees
Wow! 
He gained admission to the University the 
following week through direct entry! 
His life was back on course 
His mother was also able to recover the 
money he gambled away because his school 
fees per session was 600, 000
He will be in school for three years! 
Total recovery!
Ps: This event happened in Lagos, 2019! 

Gambling is not for the citizens of Zion
If you are reading this and you are a
gambling habit!
You can be set free right away!
Just call on the name of Jesus
I am praying for you 
By the power of the Holy Ghost 
All the mistakes you made that had 
become a snare unto your future and 
a blemish unto your reality, 
let them be turned around now in the 
name of Jesus!