Misled

She said: I decided to leave my marriage because what I was seeing in the marriage was different from what we were told would happen when we went to pray.

I went to this priest with my mother, and he told me to brace up because I would be the one whose hand would be lifted in the marriage

The priest said my husband would not be poor, but he would not be rich too.

He said if I am counting millions, my husband would be counting thousands.

Apart from that he said we would have four children; two girls would come first, and two boys would come later.

He also said my husband will serve many great men but will never be great in life.

He said it is in my light that everybody will come to recognize my husband.

This means I will be greater, more powerful, more famous, more popular than him.

When people want to introduce him, they will say "He is the husband of so and so"

That will be how he will be able to gain respectability in public.

My father was like that too.

Everything the prophet said was the exact message this prophet gave to my mother when my mother was getting married, and everything came to pass exactly that way.

The pastor told me that this is the only way I will have a marriage that will last for a lifetime like my mother did.

I am the dominating character and with my success, I will govern the marriage as its captain.

I was emphatically told that I was not going to do very well in a marriage where the main is the main provider because of my nature.

I am a matriarch, a she king, a lioness that rules the pride of lions.

I didn't know this pastor before this day, my mother and grandmother knew him and vouched for him. It was through him that my mother was able to secure a husband and the right kind of husband. He Helped my grandmother, too, even though he was younger than her by several years. He was able to help my grandmother keep her home when my grandfather started misbehaving with another woman in those days.

In essence, the man has a reputation that my family has benefited from and could take to the bank.

All the things the man said about me were true. The way he described my nature, character, fears, and mindset toward marriage was too apt to ignore.

I was already dating a guy by this time. The challenge was knowing if he was the right man for me to throw all my eggs in one basket for. This was why my mother brought me to the priest. I heard everything he had to say and when i got to my boyfriend's house, I told him what was said and how it convinced me that he was the man for me.

As things stood at the time, we were already set in the manner the priest described.

I was the big babe. I had a thriving business; I had an upwardly moving career. I had my own apartment, I had money in the bank, quarterly contracts with a bank that brought me extra income every ninety days, I had everything but a husband.

My boyfriend at the time was a fresh graduate, he had nothing. I practically sponsored my own wedding and paid for most of the things he wore and entertained his guests with when we got married.

We settled into marriage and things went exactly as the priest predicted until my husband somehow became a born-again Christian. It was as if accepting Christ switched on a bulb in his head. He began to do well financially in an unexplainable way.

I warned him that he was not supposed to be rich. If he got rich, it would be going against the plan of God for us according to the priest. He said he couldn't help it, money kept coming to him by free course, even when he was sleeping.

He started getting international engagements at work, began to travel the globe, and suddenly, he became a household name. He became more popular, greater, richer, more famous, and somehow started counting hundreds of millions when I was still counting hundreds of thousands in terms of personal wealth.

He built mansions, set up several businesses and even owned a microfinance bank all in the space of four years.

I went to the priest for clarification. The priest said somewhere along the line of our marriage, he must have switched my destiny with his own.

It was the only logical explanation because we were experiencing the exact opposite of what the priest said we would have if we got married.

I went home and accused my husband of somehow stealing my destiny or glory or aura. He laughed at me and said If they offered him my destiny for free, he would throw it in the trash can. He called my destiny "finite" and "limited" because I do not know the Holy Spirit and therefore cannot walk at the level of greatness called the "Highway of Majesty".

I went back to the priest and explained to him that my husband laughed off my accusation. The priest said the only way to know would be to leave the marriage, If I left and he suddenly became broke, it meant I had taken my destiny back, but if he continued to be rich, it would mean his sudden wealth and success had nothing to do with me.

It was a tough decision. When I told my husband I wanted to leave the marriage, he told me he would never come looking for me nor would he take me back even if I came begging.

I was no longer happy in the marriage.

How could I be?

Who would sit by and watch someone else use his or her destiny to prosper? I left the marriage. He became even richer. I am still counting thousands and ten thousands and hundreds of thousands.

I had to take a second job and some other gigs just to cope with my rent and other bills.

I am still trusting God that the days of the She-king would come for me quickly because even though that is who I am, I didn't get to rule in my marriage for long before my husband overthrew me.

We didn't have four children as the priest predicted. We have two and they are both boys.

I am writing this to find out what happened when the prophecy came to pass for my mother but failed over me.

What did I do wrong?

Is it too late for me to fulfill that prophecy?

Was my destiny or glory stolen? If so, can it be recovered?

If not, was I wrong to insist that the prophecy not coming to pass meant I was in the wrong marriage?

-Anonymous-

PS: If you have answers for this lady, pls share them