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As an undergraduate, I had a very 
strong following on campus, especially 
as a fellowship leader 
The Vice Chancellor's wife attended 
my Sunday School class and my 
Bible Study classes religiously 
I understood the gospel in a simple 
way and i have a way of teaching 
with simplicity
They usually gave us a Sunday School 
manual to teach with and we had our 
Sunday School preparatory class on
Saturdays but when i got to the class
i was given to teach on Sunday Morning
I would teach the same Sunday School
lesson in a different way 
I had this thing with doctrinal teaching, 
it didn't sit well with me so I pick through 
the manual and teach only the things i 
find relevant to the scriptures 
I was teaching undergraduates from 
different denominational backgrounds 
and it is not my duty to brainwash them 
to conform to some "faith of our fathers" 
Our fathers might be wrong and indeed
many denominations wouldn't want to
accept this or agree with it but their
founding Fathers or Mothers are very
wrong and the evidence of this is obvious
today because they have set a standard
very far from the purpose of Christ and
the Holy Spirit for the church
I prefer to adhere to the gospel as 
written
The Sunday School leadership usually 
sent some of the experienced hands to 
our classes then to listen to us teach 
and correct us when we err 
Some of the topics were about dressing, 
and laws and so on 
They looked good on the surface but 
they had never worked for me all my life
No matter how well you stated a 
"Do Not", it is exactly what I usually did 
The gospel was different 
It didn't have one "do not" 
All you find in it was liberty 
If your eye be single, your body will 
be full of light 
As many as are led by the spirit are 
called the sons of God
In the gospel lies the power to learn
God and be imitators of God without
the lens of tradition, religion, human
ideas of morality and codes
So I taught spiritual reality 
I explained how change can come 
into an individual's life effortlessly 
through the gospel 
I taught about the Holy Spirit and i 
stated clearly that "Holiness in the flesh" 
has nothing to do with spiritual growth 
or enlightenment 
It is better to change inside out than 
change outwardly by copying others 
or obeying rules while on the inside 
you are full of scorpions and vipers 
Jesus told the Pharisees and religious 
leaders the same thing when he compared 
them to a tomb (Outwardly Holy but 
rotten within) I had a freestyle approach
to teaching and mixed gospel reality with 
a lot of comedy 
My fellowship center was always overflowing 
When students heard i was somewhere, 
they trooped there 
Many lives and destinies were transformed 
by the Holy Spirit in those days 
The Vice Chancellor's wife loved my 
class so much that she told the female 
chaplain about me 
One day she and the female chaplain came 
to my fellowship to observe 
After the fellowship, the female chaplain 
called me and said "Don't go and join 
those pentecostal people o, the way you 
teach is similar to their way of teaching" 
Fortunately, i don't listen to any minister 
of God via tape at that time 
Most of my born again friends talked 
about Kenneth Hagin, Kathryn Khulman, 
Benny Hinn and all 
They bought tapes and bought books 
I refused 
I simply didn't want to pollute my reality 
with that of another preacher 
I have the Teacher of teachers on my side, 
whatever i needed to know, he teaches me 
The only book i read was the Bible 
I read it voraciously and sometimes 
journeyed into it with my imagination 
I visited many places and seasons and 
the experience helped me greatly
One day, i was teaching Sunday School 
when this lady called "Ayomide" suddenly 
started "manifesting" in my class 
It was not uncommon 
The Holy Spirit would sometimes heal and 
set many people free during a teaching 
session 
The demon-possessed would scream and 
be set free too but usually one of the 
ushers, Sunday school class assistant or 
Sunday School department team member 
would be available to help 
I cannot say exactly what happened 
that day 
Nobody was around to assist 
This lady was wearing a red kaftan 
She got on her feet and was knocked 
down over and over again 
I hurriedly finished my class and walked 
up to her 
The whole class was watching 
I bent down and laid hands on her HEAD 
I commanded the evil spirit to leave 
She shivered, screamed and went still 
I stood up and saw the Vice chancellor's 
wife looking at me as if I had just 
stoned Steven to death 
The look in her eyes was 
"What was that rubbish" 
She picked her phone and called the 
school clinic 
The ambulance arrived and the lady 
was carried off to the school clinic 
The Vice-chancellor's wife didn't say a 
word 
The following Tuesday, The Sunday 
School and Bible Studies team were 
invited to the Vice-chancellor's house 
on campus 
The Vice-chancellor stylishly said the 
Chaplaincy would be taking over the 
teaching at the Sunday School 
preparatory class and teachers would 
have to conform to the doctrines of 
the mission
He expressly forbade bringing in 
any strange or foreign doctrine
He said "There are things that we see 
other christians do that we might want
to experiment with or try out but these
things are not our way and we don't
want them on this campus"
The following Saturday, after the 
Sunday School Preparatory class, 
I was not given a class to teach
I wasn't even given the task of assisting 
or monitoring or observing during the 
classes 
I had been frozen out 
I took it on the chin but it was painful 
I had gotten used to my students and 
we were in the middle of an important 
topic 
I also loved to teach word (I still do)
The freeze went on for a month 
The fifth week, the lady that was 
delivered came to see me at the cafeteria
She told me she fell on her head as a 
two-year-old and as a result suffered 
from a fracture in her skull which didn't 
heal properly 
It also affected a membrane somewhere
and that was led to her struggle with 
epilepsy 
She was from a very rich home and the 
parents had spent so much on finding 
a cure 
The day she was knocked down during 
the Sunday School, she told her parents 
about it and they immediately came to 
pick her in school because the school 
clinic was not equipped to deal with 
her kind of case 
When she got home they took her to the 
specialist hospital where she had been 
a patient for many years 
They ran tests and discovered the fracture 
in her brain had been healed
It was as if she got a new skull and all 
the previous images she had taken from 
childhood did not align with the new one 
The test was done several times and the 
result was the same 
It was either she got a new skull or she 
had been miraculously healed 
She stayed at home for three weeks and 
wasn't on campus when i was frozen out
Then she returned to campus and heard 
that i had been suspended because of her 
(Please note: I WAS NOT SUSPENDED) 
But i had told one or two people what 
happened and the story had gone 
around as usual (God has helped me to 
be able to contain things better now, i 
was so emotional back then) 
She decided to look for me and share 
the testimony 
I was overjoyed 
What do I care about the opinion of the 
Vice-chancellor or His wife (I do care about 
their opinion, to be candid) but I had to 
weigh the pros and cons and conclude 
"I was right and they were wrong" 
It made me feel worse that i was being
victimized for doing something good
(Funny right? I felt much worse. I hadn't
cried until i got frozen out but after the
testimony I mentally tortured myself
until i cried and cried a lot. "LOL")
The Holy Spirit had done a mighty 
miracle through me and I should delight 
in that instead of mop about the unjust 
way I was treated 
I held her hand and prayed with her 
I got her filled with the Holy Spirit and 
my feeling of inadequacy was replaced 
by a feeling of great joy and peace
Ayomide told her mummy what happened 
to me 
She explained that it was the doctrine of 
the church that owned the school that 
I did what i did (Which was to lay hand 
on the sick in public to recover from 
illness o) 
The following week, Ayomide's parent came
to see her in school and also paid a visit
to the registrar
(apparently, Ayomide's father and the 
registrar had been friends for many years 
and he knew all about Ayomide's battle 
with epilepsy)
Ayomide told the registrar what happened 
to her and what happenedto me as a result
The registrar decided to introduce Ayomide's 
parent's to the Vice-Chancellor
The Vice-Chancellor met Ayomide's 
parents and they shared the testimony 
with him
Ayomide told me everything that happened 
the following day which was a Thursday
The following Saturday, i went for Sunday 
School preparatory class
The chaplains didn't show up to take over
The students and some lecturers did it 
as we had always done it
I was restored to my class
The Vice-Chancellor's wife stopped 
coming
I continued to teach that class and 
other classes until
I graduated in 2008

PS: It is very difficult to change some
mindsets
Indoctrination is, in my opinion, a form of
witchcraft, it robs the indoctrinated the
ability to process the truth unfiltered by
the lens of human ideologies, idea and
principles
We should not forget that human knowledge
and our ideas of good and evil apart from
the Holy Spirit is borne of the fruit of
the forbidden tree
All God really requires of us to know was
HIMSELF.
We must study Him to be like HIM.
God does not study demons or ancestral
spirits
God does not study sin
God studies and imitates God
Jesus said "Whatsoever I see the Father
do, I do!"
That is God imitating God.

GSW's notes: Over the years i have 
found the same scenario repeating itself
even after I graduated and joined the
Pentecostal churches i was counseled
to keep away from
I discovered many ideologies, belief
systems and assumed positioning
on the Holy Spirit and church 
management.
I was an asset and sometimes i was
just a thorn on the side of the pastor
I wouldn't do indoctrination stuff
Even as a Father, I led my children
to the Lord on the ride home from
church one day and began to open
their eyes to the reality of the Holy
Spirit
I made sure I didn't "LORD" anything
on them
The Holy Spirit is their teacher
He will teach them His ways and lead
them down the right path
I trust the Holy Spirit that much
and so should every believer.
Finally, some of us don't know how to
be born again Christians
We still talk fear, defeat, lack, sickness,
enemies and adversities
This is inconsistent with your mandate
of victory
No matter who or what is perceived 
against you, keep the overcomer's
aura and atmosphere in you alive
Be a light through it
Like Joseph who was thrown into the
pit and after becoming a prince made
no case against his former master
or his master's treacherous wife
Like Elisha, who was surrounded by 
the Syrian Army but only saw the 
Host of heaven
Like Daniel, who was thrown into the
Lion's den and yet made no case against
his adversaries
Like Jesus who was crucified and made
no case against His adversaries
When you walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, FEAR no evil
Those who are for you are more than
those who are against you
Let this mind be in you always