05/06/2025
We were poor as a family. We were suffering. So when I graduated from the university and was preparing for my Youth Service, I took time to plead with God to send me somewhere better. I wanted to serve in a city where I could hustle and make some money to take care of my mother. After that Prayer, my mother came and said to me that her elder sister had some connections in NYSC, and she would call the DG and they'll send me to wherever I wanted. I was so happy that I thanked the Lord. I told them that I want to go Lagos. I knew if I hustle hard in Lagos, I'll make it.
So 2 weeks to NYSC posting, I laid down in that same floor to pray, then I heard the Lord say ‘I'm sending you to the North’. I was furious about that but when the Lord didn't respond again, I began also to plead with Him to send me to places like Jos. The Lord said “I'm sending you as a missionary to the North”. Meanwhile they had already given me their confirmation that I'd been posted to Lagos and I was rejoicing. Some days later, I received my call up letter and found out that I was posted to Adamawa State.
I got to Camp and saw the Place and became worried. I was wondering how I was going to survive in Adamawa 🤦🏼. The Camp was in Yola. Because I didn't like it, I made up my mind that I wasn't going to attend NCCF, I wasn't going to attend church. In my own words I said to the Lord “ This Mission work that you want me to do, you cannot force me, I will not do it, I won't enter there ”, so throughout my stay in Camp, I didn't enter there.
I'd get to my room, kneel beside my bed and prayed. I was doing my own fellowship there but I never entered there.
3 days to pass out, they said they were going to do drama night and I used to act drama when I was in the university, so I was working with the drama team. I came back from lunch and a brother on my top bunk was talking to me, I didn't know when I said to him ‘ I play keyboard too’, so the guy started pleading with me to come and play keyboard for them there. I told him I wasn't going to enter that NCCF fellowship centre with them. He then said I should just come and play the song with them and after their ministration, I'd go back and I obliged.
So that day, I entered into the chapel, played the song and when I was about to leave, I heard the voice of the Lord “Sit down” and I know that voice. Everything that I've become in life and destiny came from that voice, so I sat down.
In less than 5 minutes of my stay there, one guy was called upon to share something with us. He walked to the pulpit and the first thing he said was “God sent me here to recruit missionaries”, I was weak. I began to shake like a man in the freezer. Then they began to show pictures of Mubi in Adamawa State, a village called Lainde, a village called Lila and ichuluvu people, as they were showing it, tears began to fall from my eyes and I knew that God had orchestrated one meeting just to put me back on destiny and that's how this Journey started.
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The biggest joke I see about Christians today is that they think they can amount to so much before God outside of His government. Your life is regulated, Governed and Overseen by the Lord. Just incase you think you can do whatever you want with your life, let me remind you that He created you for HIS OWN PLEASURE!
Sermon By Bishop Kesiena Esiri
Transcribed By Believers Update.
