Hidden Things

Husband was sick and on admission in the hospital throughout the month of January.

The doctors told him he had eaten poison and could have died if he had arrived at the hospital just five minutes later than when he was rushed in.

He was also told to thank his stars that the hospital had the right antidote that worked to reverse the effect of the poison.

He didn't know how he ingested the poison.

The hospital told his wife to bring the food he had eaten to them for tests.

She did so, and the food was found to be perfectly fine

The husband was told by the doctor that the poison he had eaten was not ingested by mistake

The doctor told him it was a rare poison made from a certain species of mushroom, which was cultivated locally by herb sellers.

The wife said she didn't know anything about the poison

The only food he was served that day was cooked for him at home.

The only thing that was different that day was the visit of his younger brother just as he began to eat.

He remembered walking to the door after hearing his younger brother's knock, opening the door, and collapsing

His brother was the one who took the initiative to rush him to the hospital immediately.

How can two people eat at the same table and one of them gets poisoned while the other remains healthy?

His wife insisted that if he was poisoned, she knew nothing about it.

The doctor insisted that he was deliberately poisoned.

The more he thought about it, especially through the pain as his intestines burned and felt like they were being cut by sharp razors for a week, the more convinced he was that something fishy was going on.

He reached out to the brother in Jeans and a T-shirt on X and asked if they could have a chat.

They had a chat on WhatsApp, and he explained the puzzle to the brother in Jeans and a T-shirt.

He said he would like to know what was going on with the help of the Holy Spirit.

He told the story of how he met his wife and how they had both been through thick and thin for over nine years. He shared the story of their struggle to conceive, and he swore with his life that his wife loved him more than life itself.

He shared the story of his family.

The usual struggles and the battle to become somebody of worth in life.

He said he was afraid to leave the hospital without knowing the source of the poison.

He was very scared for his life.

The brother in Jeans and a T-shirt told him that the secret of the Lord is with those who fear him.

He asked him to read some chapters of the Bible with emphasis on certain verses which must be read out loud over and over again in the place of prayer (Daniel 2, Jeremiah 33:3, Ephesians 1:18, and Psalm 36:9)

He asked the brother in Jeans and a T-shirt to join him on a call on the first night while he read the scriptures so that he would be sure he did it right. The Brother in Jeans and a T-shirt obliged him.

They read several other chapters of the scriptures together as they fellowshipped with the Holy Spirit for over one hour on WhatsApp call.

He calmed down a lot after the prayer and fell asleep.

He did not see any revelation or hear anything.

He read the same scriptures again the next day, in the morning and at night, yet he saw nothing.

By the third day, he was perfectly healthy (he had spent almost a month in the hospital by this time), and the doctor discharged him.

His wife arrived with his driver to take him home

Both of them walked into the room one after the other.

He was seated on a chair close to the entrance of his room instead of the bed, as he was eager to go home.

Just as they walked in, he caught his driver's eyes fastened upon his wife's waist as she walked majestically into the room.

If he had not been seated at that particular place, he wouldn't have seen it

It also felt to him as if time froze and his eyes saw the sight in slow motion.

The door opened inwards, and his wife walked in wearing a

short gown with a big belt on her waist.

She looked to the right, saw him on the single chair right behind the door, and greeted him with a smile.

The driver came in holding a set of keys in one hand while his eyes were glued to the rhythmic movement of his wife's bum.

He said it was the greatest moment of clarity he had ever had in his life.

He just knew that his driver was sleeping with his wife.

He said he just knew without a doubt.

He said he also knew that his wife had dressed up that day for the driver.

It was because of his driver that she wore what she wore that day, and they were both coming from somewhere where they had just had sex.

He said he just knew.

He couldn't explain how, and he had no evidence whatsoever.

He said he also knew it was tied to how he got poisoned, but he couldn't really explain the details.

He said, "All this came to me at an instant. not gradually, not increasingly. I just knew everything at once as if a light came on in my brain and I had illumination."

He said he watched as his wife and driver packed all his things into the car.

He just sat there, transfixed.

He said he even had a smile on his face.

He knew everything that was going on and instances of the interactions between his wife and his driver, which he had witnessed but had ignored in the past, also flashed through his mind.

When they were done packing, they came into the room to get him

He said by then the doctor had come around to see him, and with him were two nurses.

He said as soon as his wife stepped into the room, he looked at her and said, "So you and JJ connived to kill me."

He said his wife almost fainted

Her face went ashen with guilt and shame immediately.

He said the doctor immediately stood close to the door and waved one of the security men in the corridor of the hospital to come over.

He said that at that point, his wife began to shake.

The doctor told the security man to go and get the driver, and they both returned some minutes later.

When the driver came in, he read the room and knew their secret was in the open.

The driver, without being asked a word, said, "Sir, madam was the one who told me to get the poison after she discovered that she had gotten pregnant. She said she could not abort the pregnancy, and if you discover she had gotten pregnant, you will send her out of the marriage empty-handed after nine years of suffering with you."

Then the wife said, "I didn't poison him. I couldn't do it. You were the one who told me to leave the kitchen door open so that you could come in and put the poison in his food.

You cannot put that blame on me, you traitor."

It was the hospital's security team that took both the wife and the driver to the police station. The driver produced the poison (he kept the rest of it), and he also led the police to the woman who sold the poison to him. She was also arrested.

It turned out that the wife was truly pregnant.

Her husband, for that reason, didn't press charges.

He said he felt there was no need to drag the issue on and on.

She never returned to their home from the police station.

Her parents and relatives bailed her out and took her away.

He said he stayed in a hotel for several weeks because she was too scared to return to his house, even while the culprits were in the police station.

He eventually decided to rent another apartment and move as far away from his former location as possible.

He was able to do this with the help of his younger brother and some church members.

He remarried a year later.

He married a youth corps member who was posted to the Investment Bank, where he was working as a portfolio manager.

A year later, the marriage produced a set of twin boys.

Three years after the twins, they had another daughter, Mabel

PS: Today, the twins clocked seven.

Their father woke me up with a message of thanksgiving and gratitude

He reminded me of where he was when we met and how the word of God came alive in his spirit on that hospital bed

He said he learnt the secret of clarity in the place of meditation, which had stayed with him even as he made business decisions and life decisions after the Lord spared him from untimely death.

I prayed for him and the twins and their sister

I also prayed for his wife, the Achalugo of King Edward's Kingdom.

Sometimes when I write these testimonies, I cry for joy.

I serve a God who is powerful o, Hallelujah eh!

I serve a God who is mighty o, yo yo yo

This God is a good God o, Hallelujah, eh

You can call him a miracle, miracle papa!!!

-GSW-