Some years ago, a woman went with her friend to a church service.
It was a special programme held by the pastor of that church every Tuesday morning.
It was the woman’s friend who wanted to make a prophetic enquiry about the destiny of her last son.
The young man went off the rails after their father died and had recently impregnated a girl from one of the poor communities around their estate.
She had tried everything to move her son to the USA, but the embassy kept denying him a visa.
He tried Australia and Europe, too, but nothing she tried to do for him was working.
The young man went to the University but ended up getting expelled for joining a cult.
She was losing her mind, and she needed divine direction.
The service went on for three hours.
After the service, she and her friend went to sign up to see the pastor.
There was quite a long queue.
Suddenly, the pastor opened the door of his office, peeped into the reception where the crowd was waiting, and said, “Who is the mother of So and So here?”
Out of a crowd of over fifty people, only this woman, who accompanied her troubled friend to the church, raised up her hands.
She didn’t even want to see the pastor.
Her daughter, the one the pastor mentioned, was only eighteen years old and had just gained admission into the university.
The pastor said, “Tell your daughter not to bother dating or entertaining suitors.
God said he will bring her husband from America.
He will come when she clocks 28, and within a year, they will be married.
She will live in America from the age of 30 and bear all her children in America.
The marriage shall be blessed with male and female children.
The woman got home and called all her children.
She told them that a word of prophecy came for the first child, and she felt she should tell her because she was a young lady whom young men were already paying attention to
Ten years later, this young lady had graduated from the University and was working at an insurance company in Lagos when an American citizen walked into the company looking to sort out some payments.
She was the one who attended to him.
He liked her immediately, asked her out on a date, and within a year, they were married.
She got pregnant after the pregnancy, but delivered the baby in the USA.
The marriage, however, was hell for the two of them.
She discovered he had several undisclosed children in Nigeria, London, and the USA before meeting her.
She discovered he married her with the ulterior motive of training her to become a nurse so that she could be the cash cow after he retired.
He lied about his age; he was much older than he claimed to be
Because she saw him as “prophecy fulfillment,” she and
her family didn’t do any due diligence
She stayed in the marriage for thirteen years.
She was not a saint through all this, as she gave as much as she got from him in terms of toxicity.
Eventually, they had to get a divorce.
She said anytime they were having a disagreement, he would say, “God said you should marry me, that means if you leave me or refuse to obey me, you are disobeying God and God’s plan for your life will not be fulfilled.”
She said she was so trapped, especially because she was a stranger in America, and due to the prophecy, she held on to
He did anything he wanted to her, and she had to bear it in the name of “God gave him to me.”
At the hospital, one day, when she was treating an infection, he gave her due to his infidelity, the doctor asked her why she had stayed in an abusive marriage, which may lead to her death very soon.
She said she told the doctor she was holding on to prophecy, and the doctor and nurses began to laugh at her.
She said it was the conversation she had with the doctor that eventually opened her eyes to the truth.
She eventually braved it one day and left the marriage when she saw that their first son was beginning to give her attitude and side with his father against her as he beat and abuse her at the young age of 12
PS: She has remarried now.
He has also moved on with his life.
She said she did not believe God could choose such an unbeliever who had no fear of God but only relied on spiritual works from white garment churches, spiritual perfumes, the seven books of Moses, and so on as his go-to when it comes to fellowshipping with God.
She said the so-called prophecy blinded her to the truth and made her lose her faith.
She was recently restored to fellowship and introduced to the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
-GSW-