09/06/2024
IF THE SON SET YOU FREE YOU THEN ARE YOU FREE INDEED (John 8:36
Yes, this is the word that came out of the mouth King Saviour the Lord Son of MAN and Mar"yam.
Here is my testimony of what the LORD my Lord made me free from.
I cry everytime I remember that incident.
It was in the year 1986 in the capital of Ondo state, I was in need of accommodation and I saw a story build that seems vacant with no sign that people are living in it.
To make enquiry I saw an old woman and some people sitting in the front of the house opposite the story building and I went to them and told them my mission.
They asked me, "did you say you want rent accommodation there? "
I said yes.
A very old woman said to me, "ha! My daughter don't rent house there oo Don't you see that the house is deserted, that people are not living there?
Don't, for it is a bad house?
People loses their lives, children and jobs there".
I was just responding 'hum', but within me I was saying, I will go in there with my Father in heaven and I will loose nothing in the name of my Lord.
And she said, "a family packed in about a month and they want to quite".
I said, 'hum', but in my heart I was saying, 'I am coming there with my Maker.
I thanked her and still wanted to know how I can meet with the landlord.
She said, "at the back of the building there is a bungalow, there is the landlord living.
I thanked her and left for the landlord.
When I got to the landlord, after greets, I told him my mission.
And he said to me, "do you want to live in my house? I said yes.Can you live there? Don't you see that people are not living in the house? Even my wives and children ran away, because they said the house is an evil house".
I said, baba, I will live there, for I am coming in there with my Maker
And he said, okay, if you say you will live in it good luck. Thank you sir, I replied
How much is a room going for sir? (I asked that question, because we were financially handicap and had affording to feed two a day.)
He asked me, how much can you afford,?
I was shocked hearing such question from a landlord.
I said, please sir tell me so to know if I can afford it. He said, go and bring any account you can afford.
In a nutshell, I fixed the fee by/for myself. You know what that mean.
I asked, how many months should I pay for? I didn't want to mention year because we can't even afford six months.
So that if he say six months I will be pleading for three months.
Ha asked me, how many months can you afford? Quickly I responded, three months.
He said, go and bring it.
I ran to my husband and told him everything, and told him to give me N450 for two rooms for three months.
My husband told me that people, even his own people that knew about the house as labeled evil were warning him, and he told them, saying, if my wife say we will live in that house, we will live and nothing will happen for I know her.
My husband gave me N450, I went to the landlord and gave him the money.
The man took N150, which is for one month and returned N300 back to me and said, pay for one month, so that if after one month you can't continue , then you can leave.
I thanked him and left.
I remembered I told the wife of "our pastor" as I then a slave of Christianity, and she said, sister don't live in that house, for we lived there and lost one of our children, and my husband lost his job.
In my heart I was saying how will the power of the Good LORD my Lord be seen if we continue to be afraid of things like this?
The next day I went and selected the best room and parlor there, washed and sanctified them. I packed all the dirty and abandoned things inside compound out to the roadsidefor burning.
The whole street gathered around watching me as if I was committing su***de. We packed in and as we packed in, the family that was about to pack out concealed their decision.
They were upstir and we were down
The building have only one long kitchen of about 20ft by 20ft, one toilet, two bathroom, and all are downstairs at the backyard.
After about two to three months another family packed in occupying two rooms opposite ours.
The man was a taxi driver and the wife was a caterer cooking in grammar school Akure.
They had four children, two boys and two girls at of then when they packed in but later had two more children to make the children six.
I and my husband were very poor.
I was picking bottles and scrabs for our lively.
I and my neighbor, I mean the couple whose rooms were opposite ours, were very, very close, even though I was very younger to them, but my preaching of the Gospel earned me respect from the family.
Though that couple fights a lot violently and I normally settles them using the bible.
Before six months the whole house was occupied and the wives and children of the landlord returned.
One day the landlord, being a Yoruba, went out to the street, on his loud voice, saying, "people says and believe that Igbos are not good, but Igbo person had restored my house for me. I will renovate my house.
Thus he called all his family together and said, "in my life or death will this woman's tenant fee be increased as long as she lives in this house. The first amount they started with is what they must be paying until they leave my house".
And so it was.
In May 1987 I gave birth to my last born, and I stays at home as culture demands for a woman that gave birth will go nowhere for at least 1 mont as OMUGWO.
There were two spinsters in that house. One a co-tenant and the other living with her brother and family and her mother
One day my neighbor who was my friend met me at the backyard and said to me, "you are not a good person, and you call yourself my friend and you are at home seeing my husband taking in so so person into my matrimonial bed and having s*x with her and you didn't tell me (mentioned the name of the spinster living with her family to be the one her husband was sleeping with)
I was shocked and asked her who told her. She lied to me and pointed finger to another street.
And i told not to believe whosoever that told her that, for that is a lie and gossip.
Besides, do you think if I see such I will tell you, I asked her
No, I will not tell you, but I will fight your husband behind you.
So whosoever told you that is planting trouble and problem into your family.
Please don't ask your husband nor make case with him about it, for it is a lie, I said
But I knew who it was that told you that, I claimed.
Who, she asked me.
She is the co-tenant spinster.
She said, yes. I begged her, pleaded and pleaded to her never to raise an issue with her husband about that, for that is a lie.
She promised that she will not.
After about a week at about 8 pm we heard noise outside, they were fighting and the woman had already broken her husband's car wiscren.
As me and my husband were were eating then, I said to my husband that it may be that gossip that the woman was fighting her husband for. I told that I pleaded to the woman not to confront her husband for that, for if she confront her husband he will believe I am the one that told her.
As I and my husband ran out and I approached the man, he insulted me and said, you are the cause, for you gossiped to my wife.
When my husband heard the male said that, he was provoke coming to me in anger, and I said, I am not the person that told her, so so so person was the one that told her.
Since then the woman kept malice with me. I tried everything in my power to make her forget but all my effort yielded no fruit.
Then I made up my mind to keep it with her how she wanted it.
I became blind to her person.
A year later the LORD my Lord King Saviour blessed us.
My husband bought from the government forty two unserviceable electricity transformer, and we secured a three bedroom flat and we packed out of the house.
In 1996 I and my then friend met in the market and she greeted me and that was how we broke about ten years malice
But before reconciliation , something happened which is the reason for this writing.
As I said before, that I turned blind eyes onto her per when she didn't want to accept my pleadings, she was pregnant and I did not notice till she put to bed, because I hardly look at her.
One morning one of my children said to me, mummy do know that mummy so so had put to bed. I said Wow! When? I asked. And she said four days ago.
As I came out I saw her in the kitchen and greeted her. She kept silent I made sure I called her very well, and she did not answer.
I proceeded to say, I heard that you are put to bed, she didn't answer.
The next thing I heard was, emira oni yosi, emira oni yosi, bi ati fe ori bena lori, emira oni yosi. That's Yoruba language, meaning enemy is disappointed, for It came out victorious. Yoruba people can give spellings and interpretation to that.
I felt so bad.
I can't real translate it in English, I will be pleased if the Yorubas reading this will translate it for me.
I went and told my husband, and I said it will be very foolish of me to go into their room to see the baby. And my husband adviced to keep off her since she didn't want me at all.
When I saw her husband and told him what his wife did, and I told him I can't enter to greet the baby due to her behavior. And he said to me, don't mind her, for overdo is her problem
About two months later my husband took us to the village and went back to town leaving us behind in the village for a feast of new yam festival.
In two weeks later my husband returned to the village, and broke a sad news to me ,that the woman's baby died four days before we travelled. I first of all thanked my Lord that I did not enter their room to see and touch the baby. They would have accused me of killing their baby.
About a month later we returned to Akure.
When I came I saw the husband and the wife sitting down in the house frontage.I went to them to sympathize with them, they said to me, go, witch. You killed our baby. With dirty words that accompanied it.
I bursted into tears and cried to my husband, and said, I can't bear this. See what I taught I am freed from, yet still happened.I will go to the palace and report them.
My husband said, do you know to go and the rules to get to Oba place?
There was a very old papa opposite my husband's shop and the papa was the Oba (king) elder brother.
My husband said to me, go and meet the baba and inquire from him how you will make to the palace.
I left for the baba's house with a broken heart. When I got to baba I told him why I came.
The baba said to me, "my daughter, don't report them to the palace court, because if you do they will come after your life and if the don't get you, they will get you through your children.
I will GIVE YOU A CHARM. The CHARM is in powder form. When you get home at midnight you will take matchet and pour the CHARM on the matchet and brow it to their door with incantations I will teach you, and they will perish away (won aba lede lede lo) I don't know if I spelled those words correctly.
When I heard this from the Baba,I cried bitterly with heart broken.
The baba was consoling me think I was crying for the accusation of my neighbors without known that I was crying for what I heard from him.
I have never done any huMAN being evil? It had never happened and will never happen.
I told the baba and said, okay, let me go and tell my husband.
Thus I left baba and cried home.
As I came in to the house I cried my eyes out and told my husband tha I have forgiven them.
I leave it to the LORD my Lord Saviour, narrating what my ears heard from baba.
And my husband said,ha! Baba have missed it. He said that to a wrong person.
So after our reconciliation in 1996, I relocated to Lagos in January 1997.
In 1998 I think, as we were listening to NTA NEWS, the was a news about a family crushed by vehicle that lost control.
After some months I travelled to visit my people in Akure, and on the way I met the first born of that family and after greetings I asked after her mother, and she said, " Aa! my mother is dead and my siblings and my own child. Only my father and our last born ( that last born later) survived.
They were crushed in my father's car by a bus that had break failure, and nd she told me how it all happened.
That was how she made me to understand that the news on NTA was that family.
With tears and bitterness of heart I wrote this.
It is a pitty.
But you that is ready this, can you see how the Son set free.
If I am a person with a wicked and evil heart I would have accepted the baba's offer of CHARM for them to perish away, tell what manner of person I would have being today.
My Father, Lord, Master and Friend, my Maker thank You for the heart You gave to me. Amen
