SET-UP (PART 3)

By RCT Editor
1 year Ago

The Next Five Years

The following year, 2016, marked six years after my first encounter with God. I was preparing to leave for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program when I came across a book titled “Following God’s Plan for Your Life.” After reading it, I prayed that God would reveal my purpose in life. The following night, I had a dream where I saw myself in a strange land that seemed to be a Yoruba land, sharing sachet water. On it was written with red ink, ‘THE GOSPEL OF LOVE’. I didn’t get the message until my posting came out, and I was posted to Oyo State, which was not part of the four choices I made. And God, being God, made sure I had no money when my name finally came out, so I couldn’t live out my dream of enjoying myself during my service year.

When God’s Direction Meets Personal Desires

Here I was after camp, without money to rent an apartment in a land where I knew no one. So I ended up in a Nigerian Christian Corpers’ Fellowship (NCCF) house where everything was regulated. Prayer and Bible study were compulsory. I started having dreams again and strange encounters. One day, a man whom I suppose was an angel came to my window at about 3 a.m. He told me that my father had a chest problem and was coughing up blood. When I got up to see who was talking, he was already gone. I called my father the next day, and he confirmed it. He never intended to tell anyone.

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One day, I went to buy a sachet of water. On my way back to the house, I realised for the first time that the name of the water was actually written with red ink, just like in my dream. I also realised that I was standing at the same spot I had seen myself in that dream. Well, I just let it slide as I didn’t intend to do anything with what I had been shown because I had always said, “If God calls me, it will be a missed call.”

Falling Away

Again, the world came calling. But this time with a different tune – ‘Love’. Assistant Bible Study secretary and I caught feelings for each other, and since there was no room for expression in the house, we ended up leaving the house together. In our minds, it was a case of “us against the world.” Kai, foolishness is on levels. That was how we walked out of God’s path yet again.