The Roar

She was one of those cases 
Born angry and thriving on anger 
Everyone was against her 
Her siblings were out to get her 
Her colleagues constantly plotted 
against her 
God hated her 
The devil wants nothing to do with her 
The church had abandoned her 
There was nothing to live for but
Misery! She was a sickle cell patient 
She also had leg ulcer 
She was always in constant pain 
Her hospital appointments are a weekly 
thing 
She had never enjoyed a season of rest 
in all her forty-three years sojourn on 
earth! 
She had cursed her birth date 
She had cursed her
Parents for giving birth to her so that 
she can suffer 
Nothing good comes to her 
Promotions pass her by 
Foreign trips pass her by 
She was civil servant and a trader
She was a mother too 
A chance she took when she was
Twenty-three years old 
She had hoped having a child would 
make her happy 
Give her some level of fulfillment 
But it all turned out to be an adventure 
that almost took her life 
The doctors believed and told her 
throughout the course of her pregnancy 
that it would be either her or
Her baby! 
It was neither Somehow she pulled of 
a miracle all by herself 
She survived and her little boy survived too 
The euphoria overwhelmed her for a 
while but like other emotions, it faded 
after some time 
Her baby’s father was a man she selected 
for the gene and genotype
There was no love whatsoever 
She found sex to be pleasurable but like 
other pleasures she couldn’t enjoy it 
without the constant interruption of pain 
and weakness in her bones 
She could hold a grudge for years, 
she thrives on negative emotions, 
they took her mind off her own pain
She was a mixture of pain and hurt 
She believed she was constantly 
misunderstood and easily rejected 
She reached out to the brother in 
Jeans and T-shirt 
She wanted someone to talk to 
about the void she felt in her soul 
About the emptiness and the pain 
He responded to her call
They talked He asked her if she 
would like to pray with him 
She said no “I don’t believe in a God 
that answers prayers! 
When my mother was ill, I prayed my 
heart out! 
God ignored my cry and took my 
mother away! 
He asked her if they could read the 
Bible together She said No!
They talked 
He asked her if she would 
like to pray with him She said "No" 
“I don’t believe in a God that answers
prayers! When my mother was ill, I 
prayed my heart out! God ignored my 
cry and took my mother away! 
He asked her if they could read the Bible 
together She said No!
She said she does not believe in the Bible 
either but she liked to call him and talk 
She would ramble on and on about her 
woes in life asking him to help her sneak a 
peek into her future 
She wanted divine help but she didn’t want 
anything to do with God, Jesus, the Holy 
Spirit and prayer
She said she made a vow never to visit 
a church after her mother’s burial 
He didn’t know what to do with her 
He prayed and fasted 
Asking God to meet with her, heal her 
and restore her into fellowship with 
the Holy Spirit. 
Finally, they met
The brother in Jeans and
T-shirt held her hand and prayed with her 
She had a lot of conditions as usual 
“I don’t want to get filled with the Holy Spirit” 
“Don’t do that thing you do to people that 
makes them speak in tongues to me” 
He kept quiet 
At least she gave him the opportunity to 
pray with her
After the prayer 
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt left 
She fell sick immediately 
She started calling him 
Sending him messages 
He ignored her 
It was a resetting process, a DNA and 
genotype recoding 
It took 48 hours! 
The sickle cells were gobbled up by 
the brand new healthy ones!
After 44 years of pain 
A testimony roared out of a desolate 
place 
What is impossible for the Holy Spirit? 
Who is too lost for the Holy Spirit to find? 
What is your condition 
What is your situation? 
Perhaps we can join hands together 
and pray 
Perhaps we can fellowship together
This Friday, by 11pm at Theiko Doxa 
Evangelical Ministries, (House of Glory) 
No 22, Funsho Williams Avenue, opposite 
Maldini Granite, Surulere! 
We will have our monthly vigil
Also on Sunday, 1st of March 2020
At the inaugural service of Theikos Doxa
Evangelical Ministries
The gift of God will be available to edify 
and bless you! 
All you have to do is come