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I remember resuming my work as the PA to a pastor on May 4, 2014. It was a new role that I had to take when my sojourn with journalism ended abruptly due to poor remuneration and the maltreatment of staff I experienced across several media houses where I had worked.

I desperately needed a job where toxicity would not be the motivation and the pay would come in on time. I resumed hoping to learn on the job. I met another PA on the ground, the PA to the Provincial Pastor. He was there during my interview and saw himself as my superior. He told me my boss didn't really need a PA, the office had been empty until my boss resumed there and for my boss, I was just a statement of his status and ego. He talked to me briefly about my boss and why his former PA left. He told me my boss was a go-getter who does not accept excuses from his staff. I said okay, I knew I would do well on the job, I had to.

When it was almost noon, a man walked into the office. Everybody in the office greeted him with deference. They called him Pastor Jegede. I had never met him and I knew nothing about him. Pastor Jegede walked into my office and sat down. He asked me what my name was and I told him. He looked at me and said "I used to sit in that seat where you are sitting. I was the PA to Pastor So and So who used to be the Pastor in charge of this Province. I worked for him with all my heart, I was not treated too well by him but I was dedicated to the job as I took it as working for God. Today, I am the CEO of my own company and whenever I come to this province I am treated like royalty. I promise you that there is something about the seat you now occupy. The previous PA didn't get it when I told him. He was always fighting for peanuts and complaining about nothing, I tried talking to him several times to look beyond the job and the disposition of his boss to him and do the job. God showed me a vision in this office some years ago and I know the word of God will not fail. I know there is something great coming out of this office. The man who worked in this office before me is now the MD/CEO of his own Bureau de Change on Lagos Island. The only person who didn't go on to make something noteworthy of himself was the last PA who insisted on being transferred away from here because he couldn't cope with the pace and mentality of your boss. If you put your head down and face this work squarely, you will most likely be the one who the Lord showed me would take the gospel all over the world under the wings of the Supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. He prayed with me, gave me some money and left. I didn't really know what to make of his gesture at that time. I know he came to the office solely to see me, the new PA and to give me the information he gave me before heading off to his office. In retrospect, I should have been puzzled by the importance he attached to me or the message he brought to me that made him drive to Magodo just to talk to me about my new job. This man was a multimillionaire businessman, I didn't see it that way at the time. I didn't read any meaning to it. I however needed the job and I did my best to keep up with my boss. This Pastor Jegede continued to pop in on me once every three months. He would ask me how I was coping and remind me to pray and ensure I keep my personal fellowship with the Lord. He really believed in the vision he saw and he made sure he watched over it from afar. One day he came around and I told him I had started praying for another job. The job of a PA was quite tasking I sometimes spend the whole day at the airport picking up my boss and his family members. Sometimes I would get home at midnight and resume back to work at 5 AM. Some other times, my boss will travel and I will be idle for weeks. The work was demanding and the pay was not that great. Pastor Jegede told me not to resign, he said "I will do whatever I can to support you and your family but I strongly advise against resigning even if you get a better job today. I am sure God has need of you and I am determined to ensure you don't miss it like the last PA did. I know what God showed me" That day he gave me a cash gift of one hundred thousand Naira, which was almost double my monthly salary. He also gave me a cheque of 50,000 Naira for the repair of my car which was at the mechanic workshop at that time.

Three days later, driving that car to the office early in the morning, I suddenly felt the presence of God so mightily in my car I could barely park the car before I began to weep like a baby while praying in the Spirit. From that one experience, things changed I began to experience the power of God so constantly that I didn't know what to make of it. The atmosphere around me would just be charged and the back of my neck and my head would feel surges of electricity constantly. Things moved rapidly I began to minister to people by mistake. One guy came looking for a pastor to counsel him, but there was no pastor on ground and the front desk officer directed him to my office, his problem got solved and he told another person about me that other person came and her problem got solved then that one told another person. At a point, I would have fifty or sixty people in the office waiting to see me. I was a PA, not a pastor I had to start meeting with people at the provincial hall at a point when the crowd took over the reception at the office and all of them were there to see me. Pastor Jegede still came around and encouraged me to keep it up. The move of the Spirit began in 2017, three years after my first meeting with Pastor Jegede I resigned from the province in 2019, when it became obvious that I was no longer doing the job I was employed for. I was honouring invitations to minister from all over Nigeria and that particular day, 19th November, I received an invitation to minister in Ghana. The other staff members in the office were already murmuring. The PA I met on ground when I resumed had reported me to his direct boss and they were already making plans to clip my wings. When I got to the office and I got a letter asking me to resume as the PA to the provincial pastor, I just resigned. There was no need to ask the Lord for a sign, only the blind wouldn't see that I had overstayed my welcome. Things worked out better than I imagined. My worry about where I would meet people to minister to them after leaving that office was taken care of, it was such a smooth transition from one level to the other that even now I wonder how I navigated that water so effortlessly.

The words of Pastor Jegede came to pass. He now lives in New Jersey with his family but he did the work assigned to him by the Holy Spirit concerning me without any blemish. I remembered him earlier today as I mulled over the Christmas story. The angel that went before Jesus even before his birth, the angel Gabriel, who went to Zacharias and Mary to deliver the news of the conception of both the forerunner of Christ and Christ himself. The angel that watched over the birth of Jesus to the point of protecting him from those who would rather kill him than allow him to fulfill his destiny as a King. The angel that watched over him and convinced Joseph not only to accept him but also protect him by travelling to Egypt with him. The angel that told Joseph to return him to Israel at the appropriate time. God is very deliberate about keeping us in the pursuit of destiny that he would often send a word or an angel ahead of us so as to keep our eyes on the goal and our feet from faltering. I remember this great man of God today and I celebrate the God of His salvation. He was convinced God showed him something and he was sure it would come to pass with me. Ironically, since I left that office, they did not employ another PA to take my place. That seat had remained empty. This only buttresses the conviction of this Pastor the more in my mind every day. He knew there may not be another, so he insisted it had to be me! May God bless all the "angels" he has placed in our lives and on our paths to ensure that we stay the course and do not miss our way. Amen.

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Thank you.

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-GSW-