The Appeasement

The Appeasement

There were five of them from the
beginning
They met when they were assigned
to the anti-robbery gang
They took to one another quite easily
They did a lot of assignments together
and recorded major successes
They were the best of the rest
They were called the scorpion gang
They were daring, tough and crafty
By the nature of their jobs, they were
all exposed to the supernatural or
the spiritual at varying degrees
He was the one from a family where
being in the military or the police
seemed in their blood
Their great-grandfather was a retired army
officer who fought in the Burma war!
There were things that His grandfather
used for his safety that were passed down
from generation to generation
He inherited some of those things
Things he couldn't share with anybody
But on the surface, he was a "believer"
who does not engage in fetish things
That was the impression he gave his
team members
He told them God was sufficient to
keep him from harm
Of course, the others have strong 
spiritualists backing them
They were always in the line of fire
The criminals they were dealing
with always had spiritual backing
of all kinds
It would be foolish of them not to
be fortified spiritually too
His teammates tried very hard to
get him to come with them to
certain places for prayers, rituals
and sacrifices for spiritual protection
He always told them no!
They had worked him him closely
for several years and knew he
only attends his church and lives
his life as he desired to
The problem began when a crimminal
was apprehended by another 
team
A lot of money exchanged hands
and some of that money came to
his team members
He was also given something
substantial
Two days after he got the money
the head of their division sent for
him
The HOD said an investigation has
been opened into the criminal matter
and he has been fingered as the one
who was engaged in bribery and
coverup!
There HOD said it was nothing formal
yet but it might blow up in a few days
They had known each other for some
time, the HOD was just giving him a
heads up
When he left the HOD's office, he went
directly to see two of his team members
He wanted to know what was going on
One of them was living in Akobo
Estate, Ibadan
He got to the teammate's house by 8pm
The teammate didn't mince words
The teammate said the deal went sour
and they needed a fall guy
He was the only one that was expendable
Spiritually he had no weight
He refused to hang out with the others
and blend in
He was the least connected
Wow!
When he left the teammate, he went
home
The next morning, as early as 5 am, he
went to see another teammate at home
The teammate told him almost the same
thing, except this time he got a lecture
on taking one for the team
"Don't spill any beans, we are with you
but if you do and you get alienated from
us things will only become more terrible
take this one for the team and you will be
out of it in no time"
Something in that light
His head was spinning while the teammate
was speaking
Everything he had known was about to be
taken away
He had been betrayed
He had been thrown under the bus
When he got to the office later that
morning, he went to make inquiries
about the case
The criminal died in custody and
all the money in his bank accounts
both local and foreign had been
cleared out
The criminal's lawyer raised a stink
The criminal's family raised a stink
The governor and a judge got interested
An investigation was ordered
The money had been shared by as
many of those involved in the case
as possible
The money sent to him was a trap!
The case had been doctored to look
like he was the culprit
He was the only traceable link
to the account
The only one!
He knew it was a matter of time
The case was being built and he was
being watched
He was expected to be the vulture
The bearer of the sacrifice of 
appeasement
for the crimes of many men
The sacrificial lamb
It would mean the definite end of his 
career 
He would most likely be dishonorably
discharged and then charged as a
criminal and imprisoned
He had enjoyed the silent protection
of his late grandfather's gods
He felt it was time to unleash its wrath
He branched at the market that
evening and bought a ram
He took it home
When it was midnight, he  told the
ram everything and demanded for
justice
Then he punched a hole in its neck
did some incantations and hung it
upside down in his room
It blood started dripping down into
a bowl in trickles
By 10AM the next morning, the HOD
had died
He woke up, fainted, was rushed to the
hospital and he kicked the bucket
Just like that
By midnight that same day, the leader
of the Scorpion team slumped while
with a prostitute and died
By 10 AM the following morning, 
another senior officer fell into a ditch
while jogging and died
Everybody paid attention 
The cycle of death was every twelve
hours or so
Those who were spiritually sensitive
started running helter-skelter
Nobody suspected him
Two other people died the next
morning including the teammate he
spoke with as soon as he was informed
that he was being set-up
By 6AM the next morning, they were
at his doorstep
Nineteen of them!
Someone had told them to come 
to him and apologize
The big guns came with them
They told him the case had been 
dropped
They told him they were sorry
He had been promoted to a higher 
position
They want his forgiveness
He told them he had nothing to do
with the deaths
But he forgave them all the same
Immediately after they left
He unhooked the dead ram and 
poured palm oil into it through
its mouth and then rubbed palm
oil all over its body
He reversed the spell he cast and
commanded the spirit of death to
cease it's work
He had been vindicated!
When he resumed at the office the
following Monday
He was met with an air of reverence 
and fear
He would take those over helplessness
and hopelessness
He knew no one would ever dare to
think he was lightweight after that
episode
Two years later, at the age of 33
He met a young lady who was studying
to become a teacher
She got pregnant for him
They were planning to get married
She died suddenly in her sleep
She was neither ill nor weak
They slept together that night
and when he woke up in the
morning, she was dead!
He took it as one of those things
He met another lady two years 
later
She was a nurse
She also died in his house a few
weeks after they became lovers
It was weird
It shook his confidence badly
Rumors started flying around even
in his office
Nobody said anything to his face
but people alleged that he was
using the ladies for sacrifice
He traveled after that for his
M.Phil in Human Security and 
Conflict Resolution
When he was forty, friends and relatives
started urging him to try again!
"You need a woman in your life"
"You need a wife"
"You need to start a family"
The same people warned those who
were of marriageable age around them
to keep away from him
He worked his transfer to the East
He met another lady
This time around he told her his
challenge
She went to pray
She told him he cursed and needed
some spiritual atonement or appeasement
He suspected as much but he had 
been severely warned since he was
young never ever to visit any 
Spiritualist for help or listen to any
counsel from anybody who claims 
to be spiritual
He was told the consequence would
be very dire indeed
The lady sensed his reluctance
and walked away
He also restricted his dealings
with the opposite sex to one
nightstand and paid for services
only
He resolved never to get married
It was a cross he had to bear
He also hoped to get someone
pregnant, just so that he could 
have a child in this world
world
He met the Brother in Jeans and
T-shirt at an album launching at
a Church in Magodo
He had never seen or heard of him
before them
The musician whose album was being
launched shared a testimony about
one of the songs 
She said the Brother in Jeans and 
T-shirt helped her out of a reality
she had struggled with for so many
years
The story resonated with him
After the launching, he approached the
brother in Jeans and T-shirt and booked
an appointment to see him
They met two days later at a popular
restaurant at Magodo Phase 2
They talked
He told the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt
his family history and the circumstances
surrounding his birth and being
He said he had been a christian but had
never allowed a pastor, prophet or any
believer join hands with him in prayer
anoint his head with oil or have any
spiritual contact with him
He attended church to pray and leave
by himself
He explained his dilemma
He said he doesn't want to be touched
in any way through the laying on of
hands or anointing
He just wanted the Holy Spirit to heal
him
He wanted to know if this was possible
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt told
him it was
They prayed
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt led
Him to the Lord and committed him to
the Holy Spirit
It was like any other meeting
Nothing spectacular happened
When he got home, he decided to take
a shower
As soon as he got under the shower
The power of the Holy Spirit overwhelmed
him
He spoke in tongues on and on and on
He slept off in the bathtub
He saw a vision
In it he stood on top of a mountain
of blackish dust
He was full of fear and trepidation
There was a fire inside the mountain
but a light came out of nowhere and
he walked into it
When he woke up, the bathtub was
full and there were scales all over 
The scales were blackish and brownish
He didn't know where they came from
He left the bathroom around 3 AM
He had spent five hours in the bathroom
The next day, he reached out to the
Brother in jeans and T-shirt
He wanted to know if there was anything
else he ought to do
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt told
him he now has the eternal guide and 
teacher
of every believer dwelling in him
He will be fine
He was posted to an area in the South-south
for election duty a few weeks later
He met a lady
She was an INEC officer
A single mother of one
They talked and reasoned together
He struck the match
Her candlewick took it and brightened
She got pregnant
They got married four months later at
a quiet ceremony
She delivered a baby girl in December 2017
Today, she delivered another baby
A boy, in Vancouver Island, Canada

PS: The Holy Spirit is not bothered by
the realities you are grappling with
He is from above and He is above all
Once you give your life to Jesus and
get endued with power, you are
translated
Yesterday's realities fade away
You pave a new destiny for yourself by
His spirit in the Lord Jesus
Always remember this!

GSW's note: Kindly reach out to friends
and loved ones during this lockdown
and be of assistance to many
The Lord has prepared us ahead for such
a time as this