Prophesy

When I was in 200 level, a random guy walked 
up to me
His name is Shola Michael Okelola, he was 
the best graduating student of Bowen 
University, 2007 set
A mathematics prodigy
He said “I saw you in a vision, you were standing 
on top of a mountain and you were sharing bread 
with a lot of people”
The message made no sense to me
I thanked the guy and walked away, I didn’t give 
the prophecy a second thought
I didn’t even regard it as a prophecy
The guy was not one of those spiritual guys 
who could give prophecies (In my opinion)
I wasn’t born again at the time and all I 
wanted was to make my first class and 
become a Nobel Laureate like Wole 
Soyinka
I got home after that session, my mother 
called me into her room and said “I saw a 
vision, I saw you in a huge camp with a 
lot of people around you. 
You were sharing bread”
I cannot ignore my mother’s prophecy
She was very spiritual but as her son 
I have a right to take her words for granted 
and so I exercised that right!
I had plans
Crazy plans
My short term goal at that time was to 
graduate and catch up with all the fun 
I missed as an undergraduate
I couldn’t date any lady in school due to 
lack of funds
I didn’t have the clothes or the resources 
to be taken seriously
Of course, even in my poor state at the time, 
I had some ladies that wanted to be with 
me but I didn’t want to be with them
They were poor and not too fine
I may not have money, I knew I 
Could do better once my circumstances 
changed and those girls will now start 
saying someone broke their heart as if 
I was ever interested in their heart in 
the first place
So I stayed away from relationships
There was a UI student with whom I was 
having steady sex (don’t tell anybody pls)
She was in a relationship with another guy 
so I only get a go when the other guy
had gone to Lagos (he lives in Lagos) or 
whenever she was bored
I was her first boyfriend but I went off to 
school and she met somebody else so 
she decided to rotate the two of us!
I knew she was seeing somebody else 
but I pretended not to know
I knew I won’t marry her
It was a relationship that had become a 
travesty
So I knew I had to look for my own wife 
somewhere down the line but while she 
was available, I saw no reason to rock 
the boat.
I went to visit this babe in school
She said “You’re going to become a man 
of God, I have had this strong conviction 
about it for a while, I just felt I should 
tell you”
I almost fell off my chair with laughter
Imagine the audacity, a cheat and 
steady fornicator claiming spirituality!
Gerrattahere!
We got to her room
I remember walking her from her 
department in Education to her room 
in Abadina
She had my time and I had hers, thirty 
minutes or so later I was on my way 
back to campus
I got to Iwo and realized I still had four 
hours to play with until 6 pm
I walked into a bar to drink
I started at about 2 pm
I had friends in Iwo since my secondary 
school days 
A phone call or two brought them to me
We began to talk and drink
When it was 6pm, I got a phone call from 
school
It was the chaplain
By the way I was a Sunday school and 
Bible Study teacher on campus
I joined the chaplain workforce because 
workers paid ten thousand Naira less in 
school fees
So it wasn’t anything spectacular
I was a fairly good teacher too (even if 
I am the one saying so, students like my 
fellowship and flocked to it in droves)
I wasn’t a spiritual guy and
I think the students like that
Some of the 100 level students even 
call me “senior Samuel” or “Uncle Samuel”
They did this fondly, the way some call 
Late Bola Ige “Uncle” without having 
any blood ties to him
Anyway, the chaplain said “Lolu had an 
emergency and had to travel! 
Are you on campus yet, I’d like you to 
handle the fellowship service at the 
New Lecture Theater”
I was tipsy already and I was reeking 
of cigarette smoke
I got some water, washed my face
Ate some groundnut
Sprayed a cheap perfume
The trick was not to get too close 
to anybody
No hugs
No handshakes
Just keep your distance until the smell 
dies down
Lest I forget, the smelly hand goes into 
the armpit
The armpit kills cigarette smell instantly
I got on campus
Praise and worship had started
All I was required to do was teach from a 
manual
Ladies and gentlemen, Something happened!
The power of the Holy Spirit came down for 
the first time in a way that still makes me quake
I was standing on the altar with a 
microphone in my hand
I was about to say “In Jesus Name we worship”
The Holy Spirit struck like thunder!
It was crazy!
It was mad!!
A lady called Temilade who was born 
whole but got some of her hands burnt in a 
fire incident as a child got healed!
Healed like “The burnt hand stretched out 
and the fingers grew/straightened out”
People began to scream everywhere
It was as if fire was poured over my head!
Oh my!
I cried and cried and cried
I was scared
I never knew God was real
Sincerely!
When I read a book titled “Before our 
very eyes”
A book written by friends of Wole Soyinka 
after he won the Noble Laureatte I learned 
some things about that man(he was my idol) 
and I made up my mind there
Can be no God
I was wrong
The drink and all it’s effect were burnt out 
of my body in a breeze
I began to tingle and shake from head 
to toe
I thought I was going to die
I thought judgment had come
I wasn’t born again and I was pretending to be
I was doing all sorts while fooling
the people around me
It was terrible
I mourned my own life
That was the day I became born again
That was the day I gave my life to Christ
September 17, 2007
Prophecy is a force that propels its bearer 
in the direction, he or she must go!
My life changed that day
All my plans died!
Here I am today, on that mountain 
sharing bread…
In that auditorium, sharing bread…
Are you out there and your life seems to 
be going in the wrong direction?
Prophesy!
Begin to direct the course of your life 
by the word of your mouth
It is called Forth telling
Is there a word of
God coming to you and leading you into 
the future, speak it boldly!
It is called Foretelling!
When you agree with the word of God
you're already on your way to fulfilling
your destiny