Christianah

She grew up in the farmsteads of Ijebu 
in Ogun state
Her father was a farmer and an herbalist
Her father inherited his father (Her 
grandfather's) herbalist practice when 
his father died in the 1950s
They have their family house in Sabo
Her father was married to two wives 
and had many children
She was the seventh child
Since her childhood, she knew her 
father cared deeply for his family
Whenever her father went for his monthly 
meetings with fellow herbalists where 
the practitioners compare charms and 
share knowledge, he would come back 
home to practice 
any new knowledge on his family
He would cook all sorts of concoctions 
for the entire family to eat at odd times 
of the day and night
He would prepare incantations for them 
to recite and fortify them against the 
powers of witchcraft, vehicle accidents, 
snake bites, scorpion bites 
animal and human traps, food poisoning, 
spiritual attacks, and all sorts of afflictions
There were a lot of people in their 
community who had charms and used 
them for various reasons, every family 
had a way of securing themselves 
against the wiles 
of the devil and his agents. Evil 
was real and everyone was scared of it, 
including her father
In spite of her father's best efforts, she 
remembered some tragedies that 
happened to the family while she was 
going on
These devilish events only made her 
father intensify his effort to seek power 
to protect his family 
from evil at all cost
It was impossible to hear, or see any 
member of her immediate family getting 
bitten by a snake, scorpion or attacked 
by any wild animal
Even bees and wasps keep away from 
them
Her father's charms were very effective
The only caveat was that some of them do 
expire and the rituals to renew them had 
to be done every year or every other year
Some of the concoctions were foul-smelling 
while some tasted as bad as they smell
As she grew older, she came to hate the 
incisions and incantations more than she 
feared being attacked by any form 
of evil
Then she fell in love and married a Christian
That was her escape from all forms of 
fetishism
her husband introduced her to the God of 
the Christians and she embraced his God 
with all her heart
Even though her husband was a nominal 
Christian who attends church three times 
a year, she didn't mind
She felt he had life so easy and as a result 
didn't know the horrors of darkness and 
therefore took God with levity
She had seen her father handle all sorts of 
cases and knew she needed to take God 
seriously in order not to be a victim in life
She went to 
church as many times as there was a 
service which was thrice a week
Morning and evening worship on Sundays 
and midweek service
She was a baptized and dedicated member 
of the choir
She was sure she was safe and secure 
from all alarms but it was not so
One day, at 5am in the morning 
she got stung by a scorpion which was 
hiding in her bathroom slippers
It was as if the scorpion was deliberately 
sent to attack her
She screamed in pain
The scorpion was killed and she was 
rushed to the hospital in time but the 
attack shook her
How can the Bible say clearly that 
those who believe in Jesus shall tread 
upon snakes, scorpions, poisons and 
every attack of the enemy for nothing 
shall by any means hurt them and 
those words had no effect upon her life
Her family members who heard about 
the attack and visited her at the 
hospital all told her she was attacked 
because she didn't go home to renew 
the fortifications which had expired
To her, it didn't make any sense that 
her father's demonic charms would 
be more effective than the Word of God
Was Jesus lying?
Was it mere words?
Is God really powerful?
She was confused & hurt 
She stopped going to church after 
she was discharged
The Reverend couldn't answer her 
questions satisfactorily
She was sure something was not right 
and she didn't want to be a victim the 
second time
Then one Monday evening, an evangelist 
with his prayer bell came to her street 
and started preaching about a Jesus 
so different from the one she met 
through marriage
She decided to give that version of 
Jesus a trial
She met with the evangelist and asked 
her questions about the efficacy of the 
gospel and the power in the name of 
Jesus
The evangelist didn't 
say much
He laid hands on her and baptized her 
in the Holy Ghost
He told her to study the scriptures daily 
until the word comes alive in her by the 
power of the Holy Spirit
The experience changed her life
She had been a Christian but she didn't 
know the difference between Genesis 
and Matthew
All that changed after her encounter 
with the Holy Spirit, she began to 
understand the word and walk in the 
reality of the Holy Spirit
She became an initiate into the assembly 
of the saints in light
Around this time, she got pregnant with 
her fourth child
Her husband 
was a teacher
They were struggling to make ends meet 
as a family
She didn't know her husband had been 
considering other metaphysical options 
to their financial issue
Her husband was given some charms to 
take home in order to attract wealth
The only caveat was that the charm must 
not be touched by a pregnant woman
Neither she nor her husband knew she 
was already pregnant
Her husband brought the charms home 
and she was the one who carried the bag 
in which the charms were placed to the 
house
Later that night she began to bleed 
and was rushed to the hospital 
The doctor told her she had lost the baby
Her husband began to weep when he 
heard the news
He confessed to her what he had dabbled 
into in the name of making money
She rebuked him for not standing firm in 
his faith
Unlike before, she chose not to be a victim
She declared that the 
devil cannot take anything that belonged 
to her
She declared that she was pregnant and 
her baby must thrive
She registered for ante-natal that same 
day by faith
One week later, she went for a scan and 
the scan revealed that she was carrying 
eight weeks old baby
Unlike the first 
incident that happened when she was 
merely religious and powerless
The Holy Spirit made all the difference
The Word came alive in her and her reality 
shifted from sensory perception to the 
dimension of faith
She had begun to grow in spiritual stature 
through the knowledge of the 
Lord Jesus Christ
She delivered her baby seven months later 
to the surprise of the doctor and her husband
Her husband had been told that the pregnant 
woman who handled the charm will never 
be able to conceive again & if she did, 
she would die in the course of delivering 
her baby 
The prediction failed woefully.
The word had come alive in her and she 
was no longer living by her senses
From there she only grew to become a 
dispenser of eternal verities of the 
kingdom of God in Christ Jesus
Snakes, scorpions& other enemies of 
mankind avoided her like a plague 
She was able to build her home and 
raise her children in the true knowledge 
of the Word
Not as religious practitioners but as 
true ambassadors of the gospel 
walking in the reality of the Holy Spirit 
and the Supernatural realities through 
the living word of God.
Knowing Jesus made 
all the difference
Romans 8:6 The mind governed by 
the flesh is death, but the mind governed 
by the Spirit is life and peace. 
7 The mind governed by the flesh is 
hostile to God; it does not submit to 
God’s law, nor can it do so. 
8 Those who are in the realm of the 
flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the realm of 
the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, 
if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. 
And if anyone does not have the Spirit 
of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 
10 But if Christ is in you, then even 
though your body is subject to death 
because of sin, the Spirit gives life
because of righteousness.

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