“Oh! Can you boldly look into my face and explained how you prayed for eight hours” Lofe quizzed.
Faith gaped into her eyes
“Yes I did to the glory of God and I trust him for better” Gloria responded.
“How can a soul pray eight hours undoubtedly the person is jobless” Lofe amplified.
“I work with the bank and you know that so why formulate me as jobless, I only took a time survey schedule to help channel my time appropriately” Gloria grinned.
“Okay!”
“You can do it you know right”. Gloria
” Do what? I barely pray for ten minutes is it punishment? abeg (please)”.
“When did long hours prayer become punishment?”.
” Whatever”
There was an outbreak of hush before Gloria later spoke up.
“Dear, Let’s play a spiritual game”.
” What game?”.
“The dare game”.
” What about it?”
“Okay I will challenge you on a thing and you will do same for me”. Gloria responded.
“I dare you to pay for me a new book this new month” Lofe blurted smiling like she had just won jackpot.
“I will, I also dare you to pray for two hours everyday” Gloria concluded as she walked away.
Lofe stood like a log of wood, it was noticeable that the dare game was bigger than her capacity.
Let’s stop the story mbok you too like fictional content.
It’s new month pardon my habits though🤦‍♀️.
A happy new month to you, I am so sorry to wobble to your d.m but I have something for you.
Welcome to July 2022 oh! time truly flies this year January you had plans, visions, focus, blueprints, focal point for your spiritual life, marriage, relationship, finance, ministry, purpose etc.
None of these plans not even one has been accomplished.
I dare you that you are lethargic to your visions I dare you that you are totally unconcerned with the status of your prayer life I dare you that you are totally comfortable with the boredom oozing from that marriage I dare you that you are soothing about the devil operations in your life. I dare you that you feel pleasant with that business capital running down the ditch.
Okay!Am I sounding harsh or callous? Nay! it’s the Dare game.
Can I dare you that in this July your prayer level increases I dare you that your marriage gets better this month I dare you that your business thrive as you take step this month. I dare you to be a burning generation for God. I dare you read that book this month I dare you take that course this month. I dare you make that bold step this month and now. I dare you to do more….
I hope this challenges your lethargic drive to arising and fixing things this month.
The trio strolled down the aisle to have a hearty-dimpy conversation.
Rose, Praise and Faith had been good friends way back since 100l the bond they disseminated was like the three fold cord, the trio were in their final year and it was their norms to stroll out and have serious life matters discussion.
“God, I truly wish school isn’t going to come to a verge soon. This spiritual bonding that we share is one great thing”. Faith appraised.
“My sisters it has been nice encountering covenant partners like you days of deep confab and prayer labours. Kaii! I only wish we can all be deployed to same state for our one year compulsory service. This encounter has been a blessing to me personally” Rose interrupted.
“We thank God for shapening us thus far, the revelations of the scripture is always another hunger for more” Sisters God has helped us.
“Days when we had just cassava flakes to consume after severe fast, God please don’t stop yet with us” Praise alerted.
They chatted deeply to how God has been transforming their individual families.
They headed to the palm fronds man made chair to have their seat that was their regular locale for deep study and prayers.
The purpose for their meeting was to seek God’s counsel concerning their Nysc deployment if God was sending them to the same territory.
Trust baba God he always spoils the plan of man that his own prevail that’s why he is our father the one that knows the best location for every child.
Smiles! They began praying abruptly with ferocious actions and demonstrations.
“Pause” God came in a still small voice.
The trio went silent it was obvious that God was intentional about speaking so early with them but through which means they allowed the holy ghost channel them to the corridor of encounters.
Faith lifted her glabella to the sky but something caught her spirit in the process it was a tree.
“Sisters! Let’s look at this tree what do we see” Faith blurted with smiles
“I see a greenish part on the tree with beautiful fruits” Rose responded looking at the tree from her angle of view.
“I see a lemon like leaves on this tree like a very light green” Praise responded now confused
“That’s it sisters on the same tree how can we have different colour of leaves this isn’t a coincidence, I sense God sending a message across to us and here is the message. When we abide continually in God he makes us thrive, flourish, greenish, nourished and well cultured”. Faith began.
Rose reached out for her journal to pen words down Faith was a gifted vessel in the interpretation of nature to kingdom disposition.
” God is saying we won’t be posted to the same state he is shooting us strategically to territories so as to make him known to everyone we contact, First things first the lemon green is an example of what our lives we look like when we didGod somewhere and expect to thrive, our thriving becomes strivings”
“Jesus! Help us to abide so that we can thrive” Praise exclaimed.
“The green leaves are those that stay, dwell and live in God while they duly trust Him for their thrivings and nourishment, Psalms 1:3 And he will be like a tree firmly planted and fed by stream of water, which yields its fruit in its season; it leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does(education, business, purpose, ministry, relationship etc) he prospers(and comes to maturity”. Faith concluded.
Rose and Praise echoed it as if it was a planned dialogue.
” This is so rich and large”.
It was a message to carry beyond service year the trio worshipped God.
Few months later they were all mobilised and God brought his word to pass as he hath spoken it.
Faith got posted to Zamfara, Praise got deployed to Enugu and Rose was deployed to Sokoto………….
The trio held onto the word of God and indeed they thrived in a strange land…Just like Isaac.
Yes you can I mean you can do even more. You can thrive more than your limitations but you need to abide in God he is the keen factor that makes men thrive. Don’t forget he raises one from the dunghill and set him amongst princes🙏
“I love the red bag, it’s so beautiful omoh! I need to see the price tag” Sharon retorted.
She drew close to the bag to see the price.
“Fifty thousand naira, I assume this price is to acquire a land” she mumbled in desperation.
“So economical, In a day I spend over two hundred thousand naira(200k) on just fragrance and spray”. Dorris responded.
“Just on spray? I would preferably buy the northerners smell for #500 than buy two hundred thousand spray, Last I checked; I don’t have body odour so why I come dey stress myself(why the unnecessary tension)?” she managed to say as her voice faded off.
Sussie, Olivia, Rachy and Dorris had been pals way back the four gave their group an acronymn “SORD SQUAD” undoubtedly they were certainly big gurls.
Each of the girls has nothing less than four cars they shuffled cars like apparel. The biggest babes of all their four cars is a big bang..
Sussie drove the latest Range rover, Olivia drove the latest SUV sport babe, Rachy drove the latest Prado Jeep like Ooshara(brand new), Dorris drove the latest Benzenela(Benz). smiles. They rocked with the baddest(my way of making you know how bad this guys were, semantically wrong though smiles) guys.
Their ambition for the year is to get a jet, they needed to step up their games and rebrand their package.
Sharon a young spirited lady barely in her early twenties.She hailed from a humble background.She attended a private school during her primary school period where she learnt how to speak queens English. Hearing her speak will confuse you of her background plus she was also good looking, fair and smart.Feeding became difficult for her parent they couldn’t afford the fee to secondary her parent enrolled her to a government secondary. She performed excellently well but there was no money to obtain the Jamb form and fix her tertiary education.
One of her neighbors informed her about the chore job vacancy on the island, She obliged.
Sharon was on one of the regular errand when she bumped into the ‘SORD SQUAD’.
I guess the four girls were deceived with her spoken English and fair skin since then they picked her up but sharon was appearing not so tush Asap.
“Don’t worry just pick anything, all bills on us” The SORD squad chorused.
‘”Thanks” Sharon responded with a faint smile, she had thought the four girls were her heaven sent angels. She moved in with them but she showed them a big aunt respect.
January 21st,
“I think it’s high time we stop giving this fish a fish let’s teach her how to catch fish” Rachy vaunted impatiently.
“Haba, Rachy you just disappointed me you know this girl needs serious grooming why rush up the fish” Dorris responded.
“Am sorry gurls but time they go(The time is running out)” Rachy added.
” I will want us to reach an agreement on a day to truly let this fish down the deep” Sussie responded.
Did I remember to add that the “SORD SQUAD” fraternity needed a fresh blood that would handle matters related to fraud.
They were in need of a fair skinned young lady’s picture that would be used on all social media handles to help their boos fraud the white men.
“Yes, I would suggest February 14th next month by then the fish would have been well-fed, then we hit the bang”. Olivia the most calculative of the girls suggested.
“Wow! perfect, then we initiate her instantly” The squad said in unison.
Sharon kept going out on a regular occasion with the girls but anytime she asked about their jobs they try as much as they can to stay coded. She knew something was amiss but she decided to play along……Was playing along the best to do, kwantinue reading…….
Days grew to weeks and weeks to month.
February 13th The five girls went shopping they spent quality time together……
FEBRUARY 14TH
The “SORD SQUAD” wore the same designers they drove In a red coated limousine car. Sharon was also gorgeously dressed, Their car arrived at the Yanky beach along the island.The sandy side of the beach was crowded with young guys and ladies.
The colour red travelled across the beach beautifully. The five girls got to their reserved lodge to check-in. They awaited the arrival of their boos so as to execute their plans.
Ray, Kay, Walex, Presh were the “Sord squad” boos their net worth was more than $500billion(dollars) a whole lot of money. These guys were topnotch fraudsters, cheat and illegal business guys they also brought along with them a young technologist so as to make him build more website for their devilish enterprise.
Feb 13th(Yesterday)
The four guys successfully hacked a multibillion dollar company’s account : Unknown to them that the company had sound technologist they traced the source of the cyberpunk with serious monitoring and speculation.
“Hey gurls” Presh greeted the “Sord Squad” he was the spokesman for the other guys.
“My love, Awnnn! you cute” Dorris his bae responded swiftly.
“My knight in shining armour” Olivia appraised Ray.
The four girls lurked around their prospective boyfriend.
The guys had paid for all expenses they were celebrating their latest hit.They manipulated so much coded words amongst themselves.
The beach was so crowded, various odour travelled across the beach ranging from red wine,pepper soup, smoothie, beef corned pepper, suya, amongst many others.
Sharon was quite unstable with the guys around but she played along with them.
“Is this our new fish?”. Wale inquired.
“Yes our fish will be let out today, thank you for bringing the tech guy. It’s a perfect match” Dorris responded.
“Who is the fish and what is the meaning of fish?”. Sharon muttered in silence
They began by introducing one another, the guys brought out smoking equipment. They drank to stupor are to the fullest around 11:10pm the police invaded the beach unaware.
Sharon visited the lavatory to have herself cleaned up. The reason she had stayed with the “SORD SQUAD” this long was to see them as big sisters during her stay in the tertiary institution not for all these mess of clubbing, partying and cruising.
Presh was the first to see the policemen as they surrounded the beach.
“Kay, Ray, Walex guys lets pose” That was their usual way of telling each other to run from trouble.
“Bang! Bang! the police fired shots in the air..
Presh was shot on his right arms the other guys surrendered easily.
The police searched their belongings they found daggers, knives,blades all for the planned initiation.
“Let’s go girls” Dorris ordered the squad….
They all stood up at once to take their leave from the crime scene, It was too late to pose.
Rachy was shot on her left leg.
The other girls ranted with the police for stepping on their human rights….
Sharon heard noises and voices from the lavatory she hurried out to see what was happening, peeping to see through the storex pillar she saw as the police led the nine of them out of the beach.
The police siren sounded so intensely, everyone at the beach stood still trying to find out what was happening no one understood.
Sharon ran towards their seat to pick up her petite bag and the house key, she hurried out of the beach to pickup her bags from the “SORD SQUAD” apartment.
She suddenly bumped into the spare room in the apartment only for her to see her name boldly written on the wall with February 14th she read through the words attached to the picture.
“God! so I was to be initiated tonight by 12am on the beach without my consent, Thank you Lord”Sharon packed up her things she fled off.
She vowed never to go on any outing with anyone every February 14th.
The End…….
Sharon had a slim escape let’s thank God for having interest in her maybe her parent prayers and blessings but let’s be real with ourselves this beautiful day has repositioned a whole lot of lives while many lives have been been slained on the altar of immorality.
How about reaching out to the unreached about the gospel of Christ, how about putting smiles on the faces of the less privilege.
Nowhere is safe I tell you with Christ in your boat you can sail peacefully. He loves you. Always remember this your impact in life goes a longer way than your age let’s hijack our teenagers before the devil tames them…..
Make this a Valentine to remember. This Valentine be valid…..
Femi was young man in his early thirties, he is currently running his Post graduate programme in prestigious private university in town no doubt he was fair to look upon with big brain.
“Good morning sir ” The Female cafeteria attendant(Bimbo)in the university responded courteously.
“Good morning” He responded with a bon face
“Place your order” She emphasized.
“Please is Bunmi in? the other female attendant” He replied with contempt.
“No sir, she has stopped work here”
“Oh I see, what’s your qualifications cos I can’t allow a low degree person serve me food I believe by now the cafeteria director should have at least told you” Femi bragged in his tone.
Bimbo a smart, young lady she was also running her PhD programme in a Federal university her aunt owns the cafe due to laçk of staff her aunt had implored her to help out at the cafe that weekend.
“I be primary school leaver oga (I am)” she switched to Pidgin trying to see the drama the Femi guy was going to perform she had always heard about him.
“Bloody shit, Can you call out your manager before hell let loose here I can’t imagine a low life serving me with all my level of academc/ ceremonial award”. Femi blurted out in rage.
What’s happening here the manager came downstairs swiftly.
The whole scenario was narrated to him. The manager smiled, I know a day like this would eventually come ” How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war.. ” I think for this scenario that verse of the scripture should go like this “How are the proud disgraced and their back brought down low”.
At this juncture the manager’s phone rang it was the Director she was viewing all the dramatic display from the CCTV in her office.
“It’s the PhD man ma, he is speaking rashly to miss Bimbo because she said she’s a school leaver you know his problem with qualifications I doubt if the man is mentally fine” The manager said few metres away to the scene.
In a jiffy the director came downstairs..
“Mr. man what exactly is the color of your problem sir? why so pained on this issue of qualification who cares about who serves food at the cafeteria if not an insane person like, are you even sane? All this while you come with annoying questions to my staff and I try as much as possible to keep you coded but since you can’t take or surpress your pride I will help you do that without torture.”Mrs. Horlick sounded in rage.
Femi stood still with arms akimbo trying to see what the verdict of Bimbo would look like ..
“The young lady is my own biological sister, Mr man she is also running her PhD programme and if not, does that give you the audacity to mentally silence my staff with academic qualification?. Henceforth, I seek your indulgence that you stop patronising us. It appears we have given you too wide chances that you nag at every slightest moment losing you as a customer isn’t going to cost this cafe any loss. I will say this so everyone can hear the reason why we lack staff is because of your personal law code please leave so I can employ young people that needs to put food on their table” Mrs. Horlick concluded.
Mrs. Horlick hurried up the stairs it’s been decades she spoke rashly to anyone she was an introvert a highly rated phelgmatic..
“Professor Femi, please take your leave” Bimbo whispered.
Writer’s corner
Pride indeed goes before a fall, whatsoever position we find ourselves in life we should never see it as our legal right but as a privilege which is to be maximized carefully. No one has it all that which you have is someone else’s prayer point and vice versa.
Let’s look into what God’s word state about pride “When pride comes, then comes disgrace” Proverbs 11:2
Music minister, Teachers , political leaders etc check your pride level with the pridometer app before disgrace sets in.
Ignite 