The difference now was that, each time I fell, I was convicted of sin – I knew that what I was doing was wrong; and, each time I tuned in for church meetings, it felt like pastor was always speaking about my matter. I was even advised by one of the leaders in the church to drop forex and my immoral relationship, but I thought, “Why can’t I just do both?” Agreeing would imply leaving my best friend, and my girlfriend, and I did not want to because I considered them the only family I had on this earth apart from my nuclear family.
I continued to tune in for the church meetings, and on December 31, 2022, I worshiped in a pentecostal church around my house for the ‘crossover night’. I was given a sticker which had “Your year of divine re-alignment and transformation” and Romans 12:2 written on it. I claimed it and vowed to become serious in the new year
The Lord helped me to break off from bad company because we no longer had anything in common as I was talking about God all the time, and realigned me with godly company. A friend of mine, one day, said that I carried my radicalism in Islam into Christianity.
I sold my laptop and funded another account to trade with, but I lost that account again after all my preparation and effort. I was broken but I decided to continue following the Lord as I had learnt my lessons.
Of course, there was the persecution from my father, but my mother and siblings were supportive. My father caught me one fateful afternoon as I tried to sneak off for church meetings; and, when he tried to stop me from going, I told him that I had already made up my mind. I was expecting him to disown me, but the Lord showed me great mercy; but, still, during the early days of my conversion, he was always depressed; he even cried, and he refused to sleep or eat. This made my mother and my sister beg me to stop going to church, but I told them that I would not.
God gave me peace that was far more than I could ever imagine to the extent that I could pray in tongues while I was in the house with my family. For me, it was such a great liberty to be expressive about my faith.
Though the process was slow and hard, but the Holy Spirit’s convictions helped me to stay despite my hard-heartedness. I would not say I did anything spectacular, I did not dig too deep – I just read the scriptures and that is where I found light.
I encountered many deliverances which began when I started attending God’s Lighthouse Church; I started dropping things bit by bit. God delivered me from marijuana addiction, an immoral lifestyle, insomnia, anxiety disorder, anger and fits of rage.
I am really grateful that God brought me out of the darkness in Islam to the light that is in God. Today, I do not look like anything I was in the past. May the name of the Lord be praised, amen!
THE END
Miraculous Monday: 23rd September 2024
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