Unstuck

Unstuck

A glorious life seemed out of reach for the entire family

That life people kept yapping about as real and possible in Christ

It was a mirage

It was mere sweet talk

Pastors will say “come to Jesus, He will give you rest”

It was all sweet words!

Her mother was born again

Her Father was born again

Her Father was a tongue talking born again Christian

The type who will see a bird, an owl, a cockroach, a rat and know if it is ordinary or spiritual

The binding and loosing type

Her family was third generation Christian

They were all born and bred in the church

And yet they had found no rest!

Her father had a strange sore on his left leg

The sore had refused to heal for eight years

The sore rendered him “useless” at the age of 46

People said it was an arrow of the enemy

Some said it was elephantiasis

Doctors said it was a viral infection

He spent all his savings on finding a cure

The more he spent, the more the wound festered

He sold practically everything he had

Until he had nothing more to sell

He became bed ridden

Carried out twice a day to get some fresh air

Now at 54, all her father was waiting for seemed to be death

Her mother was a tongue talking Christian

She was the most spiritually sensitive of them all

She had a dream of dreams

She was the one who saw the attack a few days before it happened

She saw in the dream that her husband was collecting his promotion letter but a lady was unhappy that the promotion was not given to her and scratched her father’s left hand with her long nails

It happened exactly the way she saw it

Her husband got promoted

The day he resumed in his new office, he had a scratch on his left leg

The small scratch turned into a sore that defied every form of medical treatment

Pastors, Bishops, evangelists and prophets had all prayed

The demons were obstinate

They got anointing oil, mantle, holy water, Pool of Bethesda water, St. Michael perfume

Nothing worked

They had fasted and prayed for years

The bright light of hope eventually dimmed

They accepted fate!

Her mother was one of the saddest people she ever knew

If her mother was to be one of the books of the Bible

She would be the book of Lamentations

Her words and experiences were always about her unending realities of sorrow

How her business went from international to small kiosk

How her sunshine went down at noon

How her children had brought her no joy

In her mother’s head, the affliction her father ruined the family forever

Her mother was almost right

The three children she had were well educated but unproductive

None of them could get a good job

None of them had the capital or the idea for a good business

They graduated and returned home to menial jobs

Her eldest brother worked as a teacher in a private primary school

Her immediate elder brother worked at a local pharmacy while she worked as a cashier at a supermarket nearby

The combined salary of the three of them Per anum couldn’t rent a three-bedroom flat

Yet they were all born again Christians

Their cousins and other relatives were not faring any better

It was as if they had all been pegged

The realities of what her family was going through gave her pause when she was asked if she would like to give her life to Christ

What would be the point?

The Christian examples around her would most likely have to wait till they get to heaven before they will have a day of joy

Wouldn’t she be better off without Jesus than with him?

At least without Jesus her options wouldn’t be so narrowed down

She could do anything she wanted and enjoy her life

She didn’t want a mediocre life

She approached her mother and discussed her concerns

Her mother told her their ancestors were wicked people and even her own father was deeply into occultism before he died

The suffering of the whole family was as a result of the deed of the ancestors

She was shocked!

Even though her mother’s explanation seemed logical, it didn’t make any sense to her

The Bible said "even" in the old testament “   Jeremiah 31:29 “In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,and this has set the children’s teeth on edge.’30Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.…

And in the new Testament it says “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

No wonder her mother was always praying about ancestral curses, inherited curses, battle of father’s house, war of mother’s house, evil covenant, witchcraft coven, monitoring spirits, village spirits and all sorts

Her parents didn’t really become born again, if they did they would not see themselves in the light of the past life anymore

A friend invited her to a vigil

She was very weary of church but she went

After the vigil she met with the brother in Jeans and T-shirt

She told him her plight

She couldn’t reconcile the Christian reality with the promises made in the Bible

The brother in Jeans and T-shirt understood her

The next day by 4pm he was at her house

He called her when he got to their gate

She ran outside to meet him

She took him to her father

He told her to lay her hands on her Father’s leg

She reminded him that she was not yet Born Again

He said it doesn’t matter

He told her to say “Father, I thank you because every time I pray you always hear me. Leg, I command you in the name of Jesus, be healed! This sore, I command you to dry up and be made whole in the name of Jesus. I speak to you, nerve, bone, tendon, ligament, blood vessels, cell and skeletal structure of this body, be healed right now. I command every demonic activity operating in you to cease right away in Jesus name!”

He asked her father “How is the leg feeling”

Her Father said “I feel nothing”

He laid his hands on her shoulder, they repeated the prayer!

Suddenly, she felt an electric shock run through her shoulder, her spine, her hand into the leg!

She screamed!

Her Father screamed!

The leg started throbbing

“It is hot, the sore is hot, the sore is hot, my leg is tingling” her father screamed

She couldn’t believe it

Her father had not felt anything in the leg for a very long time

The brother in Jeans and T-shirt told her not to remove her hands from her father’s legs until he finished praying

He prayed for a few minutes

Then he told her to remove her hand and lay it on her mother

She did

Her mother screamed! Her whole body trembled before she collapsed on a sofa

The brother In Jeans and T-shirt blessed the house

He told them their mindset had limited the move of God in their lives

They needed to stop talking about the past and declare the future henceforth

“Frame your world with the Word of God in your mouth, do so every day, the tide must turn if you insist on it! Once it turns, ride the wind of the Holy Spirit with joy.”

Salvation indeed came into their home that day!

Her father started standing on that leg exactly three days later

The sore dried up

It was completely closed up within a month

Her Father got a job as an accountant in a private firm

She got a job with the Ministry of Tourism and had to relocate out of state

Her mother’s business boomed again

Her brothers got better jobs, moved into their own apartments and got married in 2017 (two months apart)

One year later, she gave her life to Christ

She had seen enough transformation all round to convince herself that the life is attractive and worthy of keying into

She got married in October 2018

 

PS: I think about the famous story of how they train baby elephants in the circus. They take them when they are still small and tie a strong rope around their necks and attach the rope to a secure pole. The baby elephants naturally try to walk away and are stopped by the rope. They pull and push and twist and turn and eventually figure out that they just aren’t strong enough to break free of their shackles, so they stop resisting and just stay where they are.

The next time they tie up the baby elephants they try to break away once again, pulling on the rope to see if they can go free. When they figure out that once again it is futile, they stop pulling and settle down and stay where they are.

The same thing happens over and over until eventually, when the rope is put over their heads, they no longer pull and push and try to break free because they know it is futile. That is why in captivity you can walk by a circus and see giant elephants standing passively with a rope tied around their necks that isn’t attached to anything at all.

The elephant becomes so accustomed to being held back by the rope, that merely the rope itself keeps the animal in check. If only they knew how powerful they really are. If only they realized that by the time they have grown up, even a rope “secured” to a pole can no longer contain them. Then they would know what true freedom is. But they don’t.

If you are in Christ and all you do every day is fight enemies (real and imagined), you are of believers most miserable.

You have been invited into a feast

The table has been set

The banquet uniform had been made ready

All you need to do is come into the Banquet hall, dressed in the banquet uniform and enjoy the buffet!

We have been called to peace!

If you don’t kill that warfare and negative mindset

You will never enter into his rest!

Enter into his rest now!