Melchizedek

He was always missing wonderful opportunities
He didn't pay attention to the trend at first
He counted it as one of those things
When he was sixteen, he wrote JAMB
He wanted to Study Law and he had a very
good result
He was offered admission on a platter of gold
His father was extremely happy
His mother went shopping for him
He paid the tuition fees
Suddenly there was a cult strike in the
school
His mother said he was too young to
leave home
His father agreed
He missed the opportunity
He wrote JAMB again and again after then
He never met the cut off for Law again
When he was twenty
After spending four years at home
Helping out in his mother's shop by day and
roaming the streets drinking and smoking
with his friends in the evening
He passed JAMB again
This time his mother approached a professor
in their church and begged the professor
to help in whatever way he could to make
sure he didn't miss the admission
He had applied to study law but didn't
make the cut off mark but his mark was still
very high
The professor drove him to the University
They went from faculty to faculty
Eventually, they got to education
Somebody told the professor there was space
in a department for him
He rejected it himself
He wouldn't miss out on law to settle
for something in education
It was his parent's fault
While his mates were getting to final year
He was still roaming the streets and begging
for admission
He was angry and bitter
They had misguided him
They had sabotaged his destiny
He became obnoxious and rebellious
He sold stuff from his mother's shop and
spent the money drinking and smoking
He was punishing them for their wickedness
He waited at home for another three years
He was offered admission to
study Mass communication
He got to school and did the best he could
to graduate with a good grade
He tried out relationships
Nothing worked
The ladies he wanted would tease him
and walk away
The ladies that came to him were the ones
he would have to settle for
He was tired of settling
While he was in school a Public relations Firm
offered him a freelance editing job
he was very good at it
The company paid him well even as a
student
He graduated
The company offered him a job and promised
him his NYSC posting would be taken care
of by the company
Foolishly, he turned it down
He graduated with a good grade and
believed he was a hot cake
Other companies would come calling
He was posted to the north
He had a terrible time coping with
the weather
He regretted not taking the job
By the time he changed his mind
about the job
The company had taken someone else
He searched for a job for three years
It was a case of missed opportunities
everyday
He was always either too late, too old
too qualified, not connected enough or
not good enough
He got into the door of three PR firms
He got to the final stage of the interview
The companies offered him a job
He actually got letters
Only for the companies to change their
minds
On one occasion, he was told to write a
Diagonal Thinking test
He even had an insider who promised to
take care of the test internally so that he
would secure the job
Nothing worked out
That was when he met a girl
He was twenty-six, tired of life and 
contemplating suicide
She was an "I just got back" from
Australia
They met at the mall that December
He went to look for a job at the mall
he was willing to do anything to make
ends meet
His life was at a standstill and there 
seemed to be no cure to his problem
She had returned from Australia a week
earlier and went to the mall to unwind
They met at a famous bakery in the mall
She was the one that approached him
She said he looked like an old friend
He wasn't the old friend
She felt like talking
He had nothing better to do
They talked for a while and later got drinks
at a fast-food restaurant
He spent all the money on him on the two
bottles of coke they drank
They exchanged numbers
She called him and somehow something
started to develop between them
She liked him
She didn't have many friends
They spent a lot of time together
Inevitably, she told him about Australia
and asked him if he would like to come over
She was a citizen
She was an artist (works with oil and canvas)
He said Yes
They did the processing
She sponsored him
Within a year
They both left for Australia
His jinx continued even in Australia
It was as if he was marked with a "Not you"
mark
He couldn't hold down a steady job
He got a job at the wharf which paid him
stipends and was way beneath his level
Nothing really changed
His babe had a decent job and was virtually
feeding and taking care of him
After three years, she cut her losses
She had spent so much on him and he had
not been able to bring anything to the table
No marriage proposal
No good job
No money
No connection or opportunity
No business idea or deal
He was a parasite and she had to tell 
herself the cold hard truth
She told him she was going to Nigeria
She got him a ticket and all 
They got on a plane to Dubai
She waved him goodbye and returned
to Australia
He cried his eyes out at the airport
She had broken up with him several times
in Australia only to take him back out
of sentiment
She took him there and he had no other
place to go
In order to get rid of him
She went to the trouble of buying him a
ticket back home and buying herself
a ticket all the way to Dubai too
The flight from Dubai to Abuja was the
worst experience ever
He was returning home with nothing
It felt so much like being deported
he knew he needed help desperately
He landed in Nigeria on October 2019
He went to his parents' house and told
them all sorts of stories
He was thirty
He was angry, tired and broken
A week after he arrived, he approached a 
company for a job
The company told him they had an opening
in Port-Harcourt
Without thinking, he said "No"
The manager of the company told him the 
company will be responsible for his feeding
and accommodation for the first three months
until he settled in Port-Harcourt 
He said "No"
When he got home, it dawned on him
He was actually doing nothing at home
He needed the job badly
Why did he say no?
He went back to the company the next day
They told him they had hired another
person
It was the story of his life
A pattern that became obvious at sixteen
and had remained until he was thirty
That night, he was scrolling through twitter
when he heard the Brother in Jeans and 
T-shirt would be in Abuja to fellowship
with The Hang-out team
His babe had been an ardent follower of the
Hang out team on Instagram and introduced
him to their handles
He decided to attend and seek help
He was born into an irreligious family and
had sworn never to dabble into spiritual stuff
But he was desperate
He attended the programme and met with
the brother in jeans and T-shirt after
the service
They talked for about five minutes
The brother in jeans and T-shirt listened to
him and said 
"Do you know you can leave that reality
behind and pick up another one?
Do you know you can leave that pattern
behind and deliberately create another
pattern for yourself in life
Do you know you can change your life
just like that?
"Tell me what to do, I will do it" he replied
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt held his
hands and prayed in the spirit
The Brother in jeans and T-shirt said
"Would you like to Accept the Lord Jesus
Christ as your Lord and saviour?"
He said "Yes"
And just like that he found himself
floating through the air and landing
on his back
Right in front of the altar
People were still in the church premises
It was as if he was lighter than air
Electric vibrations were running through 
him
By the time he opened his eyes, the brother
in Jeans and T-shirt had started ministering
to somebody else
There was a long queue and people wanted
the brother in Jeans and T-shirt to pray with 
them
He waited until the brother in Jeans and T-shirt
was through with all the others
Then he approached him again and asked him
"What more do i have to do?"
The Brother in jeans and T-shirt said "You have
received the gift of the Holy Spirit! Go home and
read the gospel of John four times from chapter
one to the last chapter!
The fifth time, read it aloud for your ears to 
hear you
Pray in the spirit for at least one hour a day
The next time you see me
You will be dancing and rejoicing"
He got it
He went home bubbling and bursting
He did everything he was instructed to do
He did more than that
The scriptures and fellowship with the Holy
Spirit gave him great joy
Something he couldn't explain had happened
to him
He stayed indoors most days
Just praying, fellowshipping with the
Holy Spirit and holding deep conversations
with God
On December 20, One of the firms he had
reached out to for a job while in Australia sent
him a mail asking if he would like to work outside
of Australia
They had an opening in the France-Germany-
Belgium axis
He would be in charge of their operations with
a three years contract
The pay was very good
He took the job immediately
Three days later, his babe arrived Nigeria from
Australia for the Christmas break
She came to check on him
See if he arrived safely and all
He told her of his encounter and what it
had birthed
She changed her language
Suddenly he was a "dear" and a "darling"
She saw the transformation
He was no longer a burden
He had become an asset!
He still loved her and he understood
why she did what she did
They had their introduction on the last
weekend of December
They moved to France on January 3rd
He resumed his job on January 6
She was able to secure a gallery a few 
days later for her works
They got married on February 20, 2020

Ps: 
Do you know you can change your life
Just like that?
Do you know you can leave your past
behind and head off in a brand new
direction in life?
Do you know one decision can translate
you out of darkness into the Light
Do you know you can evolve from a 
mankind to a Christkind within a minute?
The name of Jesus was given to us as
a key to change our realities
If you come to Jesus today and receive
the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
You will be changed!

GSW's notes: I have met many Christians
who say "Things didn't change for me after
i gave my life to Christ"
This happened because they didn't understand
the gospel
Their pastors or teachers taught them religion
When they talk, you will see this reflecting
in their conversation
Instead of them being like Melchizedek
A "man" without a past
They become like Jacob
A man with a bitter past who dragged his
past with him into his future
They will say "This has been the pattern 
since i was a child...
Ask them when they became born again,
they will say... "Three years ago"
They had carried darkness into the light
The word of their mouth is not consistent
with the reality, they profess
They didn't become new creatures
They were the old ones cloaked in a 
religious garb!
A believer has no business with the
reality he or she experienced before
meeting the Lord
All things must become new!!
Hope you got it!