If you have ever been faced with a situation in which the thoughts others have about you and what they say about you behind your back are exposed to you, you will find yourself humbled in many ways. The general manager of a company who believed himself to be fair and a darling of the staff members he was leading and mentoring, once invited a pastor to his warehouse and office premises to pray. He did this once every year on the anniversary of the company.
After the prayer session, some staff members who had personal issues were allowed to talk to the pastor in an office. The pastor would counsel them and pray with them Since that office was established, this General Manager has kept that tradition going with many testimonies from the staff members. Many of the staff members who had marital issues, conception issues, and other spiritual issues experienced a change of fortune after having the counselling session with the dear man of God. Some of the staff members, as a result of this, began to attend the church of the pastor, and some even became ministers under him.
One day, this pastor paid a visit to the General Manager at his house. He said he came across some information, and he felt it would be imprudent of him to sit on the information, as he believed the information could be a time-sensitive issue. The General Manager became curious. He asked the Pastor what he meant, the pastor asked him if he was planning to get married and if the person he was planning to get married to was one of their staff members in the office. The General Manager told the pastor he met a lady at a conference he attended earlier that year, and he and the lady had been talking about getting married. Nothing was set in stone yet, but the lady works as the Chief Accountant with a flour mill, and since meeting her, his company has been doing some serious levels of business with her company. So, in a sense, they were working together. The Pastor said he overheard two members of his staff who were also members of the church talking about the woman, and he felt he should not keep quiet about it in case there was any shred of truth in their conversation. The General Manager was all ears at this point.
The pastor then brought out his phone, signalled to the General Manager to be quiet, then he called the first staff member, the staff member picked, the pastor put the phone on silent, and said, “Mr so and so, please, I would like you to tell me everything you know about this woman that your General manager is planning to get married to.” Staff member: Sir, I must thank you for taking the time to call me on this issue, sir. We all want the best for our boss, but none of us could approach him directly as it is not our place to do so. He is our boss, and he did not invite us into his personal affairs. However, we cannot open our eyes and watch him fall into a ditch, sir.
Our GM is a very nice man, but he is way too gullible. Since we started working with him, we know how many women have come to him with sob stories, and he always falls for it. He has no discernment, no boundaries; all the women in the office know this, and they take advantage of him this way. Sometimes, some of the men who have beautiful daughters would deliberately bring their daughters to the office when they know the GM will be around so that the daughter can greet him and beg him to help her with her school fees or some other financial needs, and our GM does not fail to help such people. He does not render help to men; it is always the women, and he gives them a lot of money. They even gave him a nickname in the office, sir, among the women and the men, they call him “Bumbum Disciple” based on the story of one lady he carried to a hotel came to tell about how she used her bumbum to command him to follow her, and he did so sir. I speak from reliable sources, sir. He is a good man, but he is given to the fruit of the flesh, and his weakness for women is very well documented and global, sir. Everybody talks about it in the office, and we laugh and joke about it in the staff meeting.
This woman that he is saying he wants to get married to is even worse, sir. From what I have gathered, she used to be the side chick of the chairman of the flour mills where she works; in fact, they are still together. They have a soul tie, and all her previous relationships didn’t work because she could not be separated from that man, even though the man is married to many women and has children all over the world. It was that chairman who helped her career to this point, and she had been looking for any man that she would get married to as a front while she continues to date this chairman, sir. These and others were our concerns, sir. We were thinking that a combination of our GM and that kind of woman would only lead to disaster, and wondering who we could approach to help us with our GM, sir. Thank you, sir.” “Wow” was all the GM was able to say.
Everything that had been said about him was false It felt as if he was listening to the description of a total stranger The GM turned to the pastor and said, “Somebody fed him everything he has said word for word. These staff members joined our office less than three months ago. I have not even been related to him very closely, which is why I didn’t recognize his voice on the phone until you mentioned his name, sir. Is it possible to know who fed him all these lies about me? A few minutes later, the pastor’s phone rang. This time it was a lady. She greeted the pastor and mentioned that she was calling from the GM’s company. The pastor put the call on speaker.
The lady “Sir, good afternoon, sir. It has been a while. I hope you remember me. I am Miss So and so, I am calling from such and such enterprises. Sir, I was overhearing the discussion between you and Mr This and That earlier, and I felt I should call you before you have any conversation with the GM on the matter. Sir, I have worked in this office right from the moment the GM was posted here by the head office. In fact, it was five of us that were posted here when this office was just a container before growth came and we became what we have become today. I know you are aware of the story too, as you have been coming to share your fatherly blessings with us from that very first year. In truth, sir, I may not be able to say much about some other things Mr this and that talked about, as I am not with my ears to the ground the way he and some other staff members are.
However, I want to ask you if you think it is proper for our GM, who is your spiritual son, to be planning to get married without godly counsel and prayer. Several times in the office, I will talk to him about prayer because I am close to him, and we talk one-on-one several times. When he was going to rent his apartment, I was the one who suggested that he choose the location where he is now. Sometimes I will cook out of the goodness of my heart and bring him different soups so that he will have food to eat at home. He gives me money to shop and cook sometimes, when I ask if he still has soup at home. I sometimes collect his keys so that I can take my staff to his house to help tidy up the place. We do his laundry, ensure his life is comfortable. Whenever he travels abroad, I will be the one to receive him personally at the airport, I will see to his needs, and I will meet them naturally. I am single, and I never threw myself at him or anything like that.
Whatever I did for him to relieve him of any burden, I see it as doing it unto God and because of my love for him. I was not raised to throw myself at men, but if he is a more prayerful person, he would see the direction God is pointing him to and not make the mistake he is about to make at the moment. I had told him once that if God gave me a husband in the same office where we both work, I would be willing to resign and get a job in another company or even start my own business so that we won’t breach the company’s rules regarding marriage between members of staff. I have prayed, and God has revealed to me that he is the one for me, sir, but if he decides not to do the will of God, it will be between him and God. You are a man of the spirit, sir. I ask you to test the spirits at work here and help guide the GM in the right direction. Thank you, sir.”
The Pastor turned to the GM and said, “Can you see how God revealed the person behind all the negative rumors the first person was peddling?” The GM was shocked. He put his hands on his head and began to tremble in agony. The pastor said, “Don’t take it to heart, my brother. Our mothers had a ploy they employed in the market when I was young. If they see something they want, let’s say a tuber of yam or some fresh pepper, and they begin to negotiate the price. They will ask how much it is. The seller will give them a price, and then they will begin to mention all imaginary faults the yam or pepper has. It is tiny, it has this mark, it has that mark, it is not ripe enough, it is scrawny, it may not be sweet, it is not as good as the one they priced earlier, etc It is all a tactic in order to buy it at a cheaper price. The seller will listen to them and bring the price down a bit. Then they will talk some more, and the seller will also bring the price down a bit until they come to an agreement. They will pay and collect their goods. This is the tactic this sister employed here She lowered your value before me before asking to buy you for herself. You shouldn’t have to worry about all the lies or think I believe them. I don’t. I know the buyer’s ploy, and that was all that was.
The GM thanked the pastor. When he got to the office the next day, he handed the lady a letter of transfer to another branch far away from him and sacked the other man who willingly made himself the mouthpiece for the scheme of the lady. He got married to his intended six months later.
PS: My beloved ones are getting married back to back between now and October. To this I am saying Thank you Jesus I called to him and asked him to give us several weddings He did it back to back to back starting from last year I will be celebrating all of them on my timeline as we tie knots and bless homes. He did it back to back to back, starting from last year.