Spellproof

They were not supposed to get married 
Their families forbade it 
His family especially insisted they would 
wash their hands off him if he went ahead 
with the marriage 
He begged them with everything he could 
The lady had done nothing wrong in the 
matter 
She was his divine soulmate
She found him on the streets of Belgium 
He had found his way into Europe without 
telling anybody in his family 
His father thought he was going off to 
school to study civil engineering 
That was the lie he told to get his flight 
ticket money from his father 
He failed his WAEC exams woefully and 
knew if he took the exams ten times, 
he wouldn't pass 
His father was non-literate and so was 
his mother 
Both of them were determined to raise 
lawyers and doctors and engineers 
He was the fourth son, and the only one 
inclined to study 
His older ones gave up in primary school 
but he pushed till the end of secondary 
school 
It was a big deal 
He was the first-ever to achieve such in 
their family
And though he was two years older than 
his peers when he did it 
His father celebrated it with great joy 
His father was a relatively wealthy man, 
he sold car spare parts
That was how the battle to pass WAEC began 
He wrote it with and without help 
He always failed 
After the fourth attempt, a friend told him 
to get a pre-degree form to study civil 
engineering 
Before then his father had placed him as 
an apprentice with a local draughtsman 
to practice his passion 
He got the form and sat for the examination 
again 
He failed 
He was tired of writing the exams but his 
father refused to let him quit 
So he discussed with a friend and they began
 to make plans of traveling abroad 
Somehow they got the right connection 
and he got a visa
The problem was flight ticket fare 
He came up with a plan 
He forged a letter of admission and 
presented it to his father 
His father handed him the "Acceptance fee 
and school fees" within three days 
He paid for the ticket & left for "school" 
That was how he found himself in Belgium
He got to the airport in Belgium and 
managed to make it beyond the immigration 
officers in one piece 
He took a taxi to a hotel and checked in 
He had no plans beyond traveling 
He had just a few Euros to last for a week 
On day three, he checked out of the hotel 
It made no sense to stay on 
He got a job at a night club close to the hotel 
as a cleaner 
He didn't care about the pay, he needed 
somewhere to stay and the nightclub was 
perfect 
He worked all night and slept during the day 
One of the hotel porters told him about it 
The porter was an immigrant too
He worked in the nightclub for three months 
before he moved into a room with a boy 
from his village 
The boy robbed him of all his savings a week 
later and disappeared into thin air 
The boy also stole from the club 
The club owner didn't believe he was innocent 
He got the sack
He got evicted a day later
They paid their rent weekly and he couldn't pay 
That was how he started roaming the streets, 
looking for a job 
It was difficult because he didn't have a work 
permit 
He was an illegal immigrant 
He roamed the street for three days before 
she found him
She was part of a ministry that helped the 
street bums and drug addicts 
She was from his town but her folks lived 
in Lagos
It was too good to be true 
She took him to the church and helped him 
with food and shelter 
She later presented his case to the church 
and pushed for the processing of his 
immigration papers 
He was not a believer, he told her so 
She didn't seem to mind, her heart was 
made of gold 
She helped him get a job at a local bookshop 
She had been in Belgium for two years and in 
France for three years before then 
She was working with an NGO 
She was a very fervent Christian
She didn't preach to him 
She cared for him and other people with 
the sort of passion that he didn't have 
He was on the verge of committing suicide 
when he met her 
It was tough scrounging for food from 
waste dumps 
He had discovered people were more 
generous with cigarettes than food
When he needed to enroll in a skill acquisition 
workshop organised for the immigrants 
She paid for him and helped him with the 
language issues 
If not for her, he would surely be dead or 
imprisoned or deported 
He had considered all the scenarios, there 
was none in which he would
have survived without her 
Somehow, two years after he met her and 
had began to find his feet, he became a 
Christian 
It happened naturally 
Perhaps it was because of the love and the 
selfless care he was exposed to everyday 
Perhaps it was because he found his place 
in their midst
perhaps because he had fallen in love with 
her and somehow knew she would never 
marry him unless he was a believer 
It could be for one of the reasons or all 
the reasons 
He confessed Jesus as his Lord and saviour 
and ardently began to learn more about the 
Lord and the Christlife
He got filled with the Holy Spirit and became 
a Sunday School teacher 
In 2012, he proposed to her 
She said yes 
They decided to travel home and meet each 
other's family 
They planned and worked hard 
They saved and shopped 
They bought their tickets early 
They arrived home December 3
His father saw him December 5, its been ten 
years since he left the country 
He called to inform his family where he 
was after he settled down that first year 
His father was so proud 
The day after he got home, he told his father 
about her 
His father said NO! 
His father didn't give
a reason! He had joined the family to pray 
the way they pray in his father's religion 
since he returned home 
He knew it would be tough on his father if 
his father knew he had become a believer 
He planned to spend a month at home 
In that one month they planned to have 
the wedding introduction 
The next day, his father brought him a wife 
The daughter of his best friend, the leader 
of his father's religious group 
He was shocked by the move He told his 
father he couldn't marry the lady 
His father said he had no choice It became 
an issue, voices were raised
his mother cried His father placed a curse 
on him for daring to disobey 
His father said so much He left his father's 
house in anger He met his babe in Lagos 
and told her everything She told him to 
go back home and obey his father 
She has a knowing that there would be 
opposition
He stayed in Lagos for ten days 
He returned home he went to his father's 
friends and older relatives 
He pleaded with them to reason with his 
father on his behalf 
They set a meeting date for the following 
Saturday 
At the meeting, his father told everybody 
that he had converted to Christianity and 
only came home to make a fool of all of them 
There were a lot of pictures on the internet 
of him and his babe 
There were also pictures of him teaching 
Sunday school and preaching the gospel 
Someone had gotten all the pictures and 
fed his father's ears with bile
The meeting turned at that point 
The elders and friends of his father turned 
their backs on him 
The game was over 
He left his father's house for Lagos that day 
On January 3, when they got to the airport, 
the immigration officers suddenly discovered 
a problem with his passport!
He was referred to the embassy to confirm 
his visa
It was like a joke
His babe didn't have any issues checking in
He explained that they came into the country 
together
His words were falling to the ground
They missed the flight
They were at the embassy every day for two 
weeks
Eventually, his passport was collected
Then he was informed his passport had gone 
missing
He was stuck in the country
His babe had to return to work while he sorted 
things out otherwise she would lose her job
They had also gone low on money based 
on the  travel expenses
She was of no use to him in the country
She traveled back to Belgium on March 1st
The day she left, his father called him and
said he had closed all doors of favour 
to him
His father said "You will run and sweat in 
a spot until you come back home! 
You will never live again, you will just exist! 
I have taken meaning away from your destiny
You are lost now but if I am your father 
you will come home and do my bidding
Then you will live again!"
He called his pastor in Belgium
His pastor told him he should endure 
persecution as the Bible instructed
He didn't have anywhere to go
If he went home, he had thrown in the towel
and his father had won
He didn't have any money to stay in a hotel
He was broke 
He started sleeping in a church close to
the hotel where he had previously lodged
The pastor empathized with him after hearing
his story
He spent eight months like this
Calling the embassy and expecting his babe
to call him
His babe called and sent him money 
frequently but she had maxed out her 
credit cards before they traveled and had 
a lot of debts to pay off
Her family started mounting pressure on her
to let him go
It was obvious they belonged to different 
worlds
and he was just taking money from her 
without giving anything back
They were buffetted on every side
His wife wrote to the Brother in Jeans and 
T-shirt
She explained everything that had happened
and how it had become obvious that her 
man's father had gone diabolical against 
him
The brother in jeans and T-shirt told her the
persecution the Bible talked about was the
persecution we endure for the sake of the 
gospel
Not persecution by demonic or diabolic 
means
Nobody can persecute a Believer with 
witchcraft or demonic talisman or juju
It is totally impossible
The following day, he went to the office 
of the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt
They talked as brothers and prayed together
The Brother in jeans and T-shirt told him to
pack his bags
Nothing can be denied a believer whose
course had been charted by the Holy 
Ghost!
That same night, he got a phone call from
the Embassy
His passport had been found in a safe and
his visa verified
The embassy paid for his flight back to 
Belgium as a compensation for the 
inconvenience he was subjected to
His heavens opened by the power of the
Holy Spirit 
He returned to Belgium in December of the
following year
He had spent a year stuck at home
God preserved his space for him
He was somehow able to keep his job and 
his apartment
The church he attended in Belgium were 
of great help
He got married to his babe in July of that
year
It was a simple ceremony that was held
in France
They also had their honeymoon in France
The Lord blessed them with a son a year
later
He spoke with his father three years after
he left
His father called him to announce that he
was ill and needed medical attention
He sent his father all the funds needed 
for the surgery
His father recovered fully
They had remained in cordial terms since
then

The End

GSW's Notes: A Christian cannot be 
persecuted by diabolic means directly
People can make laws and take laws
into their hands to persecute a Christian
physically
If any man sat in a corner to cast spells
and enchantments against a believer,
such a person is wasting his or her energy
and effort
Unless the believer is ignorant of who he
or she is In Christ
There shall be no divination against Jacob,
No enchantment against Israel!
Always remember this