02/09/2025
Before you judge, criticize or discriminate ask questions.
Like I shared in my previous post about my background and the moral decadence it resulted in me,it is worthy of note that life of course was never fair during my early days of Christianity.
Before I became a believer and joined a church,I was a hawker of (Fried groundnut). I would fry,pill,sieve,tie and hawk all the major parts of Ilorin,Kwara state in Nigeria.
That was the only legitimate work I could do perfectly at the time to cater for myself and my only brother as my mum was in another country(Niger) in search of a better life for us. I go to school(Secondary school),come back to fry and produce in preparation for other days of sales.
There after,one of my uncles got me and my two cousins a job that was presented as a very paying job(Timber 🪵 work). This involved going deep into the forest with operators, sleeping for days in the forest in search of woods. An entire long story of suffering.
I remember crying my heart out at midnight in the forest wishing life was better and more comfortable than the subjection of poverty and it's cruel opportunities to suffer daily. I sustained a huge injury as a result of the hard labor and almost lost in the forest while trying to escape as my oga refused to take me back to the city.
You needed to see me after I returned. Smiles 😁!
I returned to my groundnut business. From sachet groundnut to bottle supplies and selling in holdup junction (Taiwo- Unity junction).
In all this days of struggle I had no other option to explore and no help to enjoy. It was me,my mum who eventually returned to join us, loosing all her life savings to wrong financial advisor,then my siblings.
After I became a believer,there were days we ate once a day as a family after a long day of struggles because we were indebted to Microfinance banks. If you know about groundnuts business you will understand how tedious it can be. We worked hard but never having enough to feed after loan repayment. Many nights I stood to watch my whole family asleep on an empty stomach and with tears I'd say to God"I know You are not asleep". In all of this,my faith in God never failed, rather,I was actively serving God in every unit in church shamelessly.
In 2015,God asked me to prepare He will be sending me to school in 2016 because all through 2013 till this date, life's struggle didn't give me the chance of thinking about furthering my education because like many today,I didn't have anyone to help or see me through school. When God came to me about school,I concluded it was bible school but I was wrong. God by Himself gave me admission on December,2016.
There my world changed,my circles were enlarged and my views corrected but my relationship and lessons I learned never changed rather it helped me maintain a balanced educational and Christian life in campus.
While in school,He gave me businesses that allowed me study while growing financially. I got idea to brand and package my groundnut business and sold to both lecturers and students, started a pop corn and plantain chips production business,a financial cooperation and a bakery business with over 5 boys selling meat pie, egg roll, doughnuts for me while my studies were still on.
I took time to point all these not because I want to share my past life but because I want you to know that there is grace you find,gains you gain and lessons you learn in dark moments of life if you choose to wait with God till the end.
It was on this note that i encountered God in 2018 and He said to me"He has seen how committed I am to the business He has given me and He hopes I will be committed to the ministry of the youth He will be giving me ". This encounter was before Oct, 2019 when the mandate for a ministry came.
Waiting and serving God pays more than wishing. No life is ever helped beyond the level of his patience with God and service to Him.
From where you are now,wait on Him,hear Him,serve Him and watch what He makes out of your patience, service and obedience.
While you wait for God,serve Him shamelessly because the kingdom belongs to the servants not waiters!
