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She was practically forced into marriage 
at the age of 20! 
She had no say in the matter, her parents 
decided that she was old enough 
Since she was a graduate and had all the right 
assets to be a wife and mother, it was the next 
logical step! 
She was extremely beautiful!
Her husband was a lecturer 
Their religion settled the union 
Her husband was a hardliner 
She was too beautiful to be exposed 
to other men 
She was tucked in the house as a full 
housewife! 
She was brought up in a very simple home 
and she knew how to manage a home! 
She got pregnant the very first month 
after she got married 
By the age of twenty-six, she had delivered 
her fourth child 
The problem they had was economic 
He was not making enough money to cater 
for the needs of the family! 
If she didn’t sneak to the hospital for family 
planning, they would have had more children 
and suffer even more! 
Things were so bad that she sometimes had 
to borrow salt and match sticks from her 
neighbours! 
The children were malnourished and lagging 
behind academically because they had to 
attend the government school. 
Her husband couldn’t afford the fees
for private schools! 
They were a charity case 
It wasn’t the life she bargained for 
It wasn’t the reality she desired 
She bore it patiently, hoping things 
will turn around 
Then the universities went on strike, 
her husband’s meager salary stopped 
coming 
Things got remarkably worse! 
She went to see her elder sister at her 
place of work 
Her elder sister was a banker 
She wanted to ask her elder sister for a loan, 
something to keep body and soul together 
Her elder sister introduced her to the staff 
members of the bank 
Immediately the manager saw her 
He offered her a job! 
He had some big fishes he wanted to 
land as customers of the bank 
He had been in the banking business 
for years 
He knew she would make a good bait 
with some training! 
She accepted the offer immediately 
When she got home she informed her 
husband of her good fortune! 
Her husband protested 
She didn’t say a word! 
Nothing changed that week 
Her children cried themselves to sleep 
due to hunger 
She couldn’t imagine turning down a 
job in favor of begging for money 
The following Monday, she dressed up 
and resumed at the bank 
It was the sensible thing to do! 
Her boss put her in the car and told her 
to act as his personal assistant for two 
weeks while she learned on the job! 
She was a head-turner and her boss 
took her to the whales! 
When they were done that week, her boss 
told her she would be given a ten percent
commission on every account she lands 
minus her salary! 
The whales were moving serious money! 
All she had to do was follow up all the 
people he took her to! 
She did the follow up 
She landed some accounts 
Things got better 
Her husband grew distant 
They were not in the union for
love and he believed she had dishonoured
him by getting a job
She was just determined to give her children 
the best! 
Within a year, she had landed several 
accounts worth billions 
The CEO of the bank asked her to be calling 
him by his first name 
She was that good! 
Of course, she had to make compromises 
She followed a billionaire to Dubai once 
just to close some deals 
She had to travel to the UK several times 
She moved to Abuja with her children 
Her husband remarried! 
The problem on the home front was inevitable 
She couldn’t go back to square one and 
her husband couldn’t deal with her 
newfound independence!
She was a money magnet 
Relatives and friends flocked to her for help 
She was extremely generous! 
Her children were placed in the best schools 
She gave them the kind of life she believed
 they deserved! 
Her life was producing the right fruit as 
she desired! 
It was her golden era
It lasted for fourteen years 
A week after she clocked forty 
She fell ill and was rushed to the hospital 
The doctors did a barrage of tests
It was discovered that she was HIV positive! 
It was a piece of shocking news! 
What! 
Her relatives saw it as her death sentence 
They rushed to her
House 
They looted and plundered! 
All her jewelry 
All the cash they could find 
Her cars 
They sold everything without as much 
as a thought for her welfare or 
the future of her children! 
The doctors had told her it was not a 
death sentence 
She didn’t believe them 
She just wanted to die! 
When her children came to the hospital 
and told her what her relatives did! 
She realized she would have suffered 
in vain if she gave up 
She evaluated her life 
She decided she had a lot to live for 
She braced herself 
She used her drugs and listened to the doctors 
She was discharged within a month! 
As soon as she got out of the hospital, 
she sold all her properties 
She opened a trust fund for each of her 
children and secured their future 
She kept the rest of the money for herself! 
She said she could understand the wicked 
behavior of her relatives
If she wasn’t there for them! 
But she was there for them, providing for 
families and even paying for their religious 
pilgrimages 
Since they chose to be slimy, she would also 
keep her fortunes to herself! 
In 2019, at the age of 45, she met a suitor 
A believer who got widowed
Some years before 
He really loved her and asked 
to marry her 
She told him her condition 
He told her about Jesus and the power
 of the Holy Spirit 
She believed! 
She accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord
and saviour and was filled with the Holy
Spirit
Sometime later that year, they registered
 to get married 
The church required that they submit their 
HIV test results!
They had the test done
When they got the test, she saw “non reactive” 
She wondered if the test result was a mistake 
She went to another hospital and did it again 
The result was the same! 
She had somehow been healed of the disease 
The Lord Jesus had visited her with a 
reset button!
She got to start all over! 

PS: Do not despair 
Do not lose hope 
In Jesus, we have eternal life 
Eternal life breaks the yoke of sickness! 
Adam didn’t have eternal life because 
he was in sin 
Jesus took away sin and gave eternal life 
to us! 
Eternal life is our guarantee of divine health!