Solving Puzzles

Certain things go well together
Black and white
Bread and fried eggs
Key and keyhole
Heaven and angels
Hell and devils
You get the gist
It is also possible for two things 
that ought not to be together to 
somehow be together
Like the Ark of Covenant and Dagon
Like oil and water 
He saw a puzzle a few days ago
He started mulling over it somewhere 
in his mind
Then He saw another puzzle similar 
to the first one
A man called him from another 
continent
The man said his life was in turmoil
In his own words "He feel like the 
engine of a Ferrari that has 
been placed in a wheelbarrow
Like a certified surgeon condemned 
to washing toilets
He was not living up to his full 
potential in any way
He needed help and the help was 
not only physical
He need help to figure out his life
His life is a mess...
Wow.
He understood the man's plight 
Some years ago he found 
himself in that same position
A young man overwhelmed by the 
inability to experience a breakthrough in life
He had been writing since he was twelve
He represented his school in writing and 
debate competitions all over the country
He wrote his first novel at sixteen 
and his first set of plays at seventeen
He wanted to be Wole Soyinka
He worked hard at it
Read many books and learned many 
things but it didn't translate into success
He got a lot of ohs and ahs from people
He got a lot of "We are not taking 
manuscripts now" from publishers
He kept at it  spending money and                                                                                  getting poorer without any help
Eventually, he gave up
He abandoned the "Wole Soyinka" 
project
and faced reality
He took up a mundane job
He accepted the fact that he was ordinary
The acceptance cost him his invincibility
It took a dent on his self-confidence
He tried to hold on and keep up
It took him two years to fall into 
depression
He just wanted to die
There was no way you will have the 
engine of a Ferrari within and endure 
being a wheelbarrow for long
Something must give
He found himself having interactions 
about things that are far beneath 
him intellectually
He found himself answering to a boss 
that apart from having money does 
not understand life beyond drinking 
alcohol, carry women, and boast of 
how much he has in the bank
A mundane reality was not his portion
He was born for glory
He had prepared himself for it, yet...
His enthusiasm had ebbed away and 
he was contemplating suicide when
 the Holy Spirit came to his rescue
He had nothing to live for
He was married with children it wasn't a 
good enough reason for him to live
His wife was doing well financially and 
would take care of the 
children if he was gone
He was more of a liability in the marriage 
and It was killing him that he couldn't 
put anything worthwhile on the table
for his family
He had become a joke of sorts
Major decisions were being made 
without his input in his own house 
because he had nothing 
to contribute
It wasn't pride or ego
It was the unfulfilled potential that 
was pulling him down into Sheol
What he ought to be and what he 
was seeing, in reality, did not match
It was indeed the engine of a Ferrari 
in a wheelbarrow
Was he a born again Christian?
Yes
Was he Spirit 
filled?
Yes
His walk with the Holy Spirit took a 
nosedive because of the frustrations 
he was battling in his life
Nothing was working as advertised
Speaking in tongues was a dud
Confessing the word was a dud
He lost the zest to pray
He left nothing to hope
He had nothing to live 
for
Then the Holy Spirit showed up and 
showed him His path
He said "This is your preordained path, 
walk in it and you will be satisfied 
all the days of your life! 
You will also please me and find my 
presence with you at all times"
That was it
After eight years of trial by error 
He was shown the way
The rain of milk and honey started 
pouring
Many who were thirsty, hungry, and 
malnourished were drawn into that rain, 
and they thrived
It was the same rain that brought 
the young man to him
The young man said he needed help
He asked the young man what the 
problem was
The young man talked extensively 
about his frustrations with stagnancy 
and unfulfilled potential
He told the young man about the 
Holy Spirit
The young man said "I believe in God 
but I don't believe in the Holy Spirit
I used to walk in miracles, signs, 
and wonders in my university days
But somehow I read a book or heard 
a sermon and i was convinced 
speaking in tongues was not real
So I stopped speaking in tongues and 
I stopped praying for the sick or walking 
in miracles
I see the Holy Spirit only as the revealer 
of truth and nothing else!"
Wow! 
He didn't know what to tell the young man
The Holy Spirit was the one that dug him 
out of a dunghill full of garbage when 
he had no hope
The Holy Spirit was all had as a minister 
of God
It is the same Holy Spirit that the young 
man said he no longer believed in
What was he to do? 
He told the young man he had no 
other source of help apart from the 
Holy Spirit
The young man said he knows he 
does not have to pray in tongues for 
God to move in his life
That was technically true
But coming to someone who prays in 
tongues for hours every day for a 
solution that 
wouldn't require praying in tongues 
was quite ironic
He expected the young man to find 
another person to talk to but the 
young man refused to go away
That was the first puzzle
You don't want what i have to offer 
and yet you insist i must provide you 
a solution to your challenge 
The second puzzle came from a 
young woman
She was led to the Lord by her 
husband (She was a different 
religious background)
Her husband was a believer and 
he was full of the Holy Ghost
She received the baptism of the 
Holy Spirit through her husband 
and they were both fervent 
believers
Then her husband's mother came 
to their house and convinced her 
husband to drop Christianity for 
Demon Worship
And her husband did so
Wow
It didn't make any sense
You left something to worship 
NOTHING
I had so many questions about the 
move in my heart
So many questions 
Was it that He was not really filled with 
the Holy Ghost and power?
I ask this because If i walk into any 
place dedicated to idols (i have done 
this several times in the course of 
being a believer)
There was always commotion
I had assumed it is the same for 
every believer and yes 
I believe that ought to be the reality 
of every believer
it is one thing to leave Christianity 
for a human ideology that does not 
involve idols and demons
It is another thing for a believer 
worship demons or
to have sex, and sleep in the same 
house with someone worshipping 
demons 
He once went to his village and 
prayed with his cousins all night in 
tongues (2011)
People living three buildings away 
from their compound who had familiar 
spirits started manifesting
A woman who had never prayed in 
tongues before from four houses 
away started prophesying
So how 
can a believer who is full of the 
Holy Spirit turn back to worshipping 
a demon or live in the same house 
with someone worshipping a demon?
The Ark of Covenant and Dagon in 
the same room?
The two are mutually exclusive
So what can be the challenge here?

PS: You should give your walk with
God some thought today
If you can be convinced to deny the
power of the Holy Spirit or to leave
Christ for an idol
Sincerely, you can at best be considered
as a part of the mixed multitude
You really do not belong to Him
in the first place
Christianity for you is a mere activity
without any spiritual substance
If this is the case for you, please 
reach out and get help today.

GSW will be at Oakland Hotel Enugu                                                                                on Friday 6th November 2020 from                                                                                      12noon till 5 pm. If you stay around in                                                                                  Enugu and environs kindly make it a                                                                                date.  God bless you