On that fateful Sunday afternoon, I was about to leave church just as the pastor made announcements. But that day, he made a call for people who had been attending the church for awhile to join a group, he must have made this announcement a hundred times. But for some reason, it struck a chord inside of me that day so I made a mental note of the group I could join in church. “Not today, next week most likely” ,I said to myself. That was just me letting “Mr. flesh” do what it knows how to do best – procrastinate and do the opposite of what makes God happy.
I had probably forgotten about the promise I made to myself to join a group the next Sunday. Because I remember that as I made plans in my head to leave service that day the pastor announced again. The pastor must have been sent to me! So that day, I forfeited my free ride home with my dad and walked up to the Jireh’s team. Fortunately for me, the team lead told me I had to go through foundation class in order to join the team. Thinking about it now, that could have discouraged me from going ahead with my plan to join a group in church.
But I thank God that for some reasons that I cannot completely explain till date I joined Caleb’s foundation class at the MFM Youth Church headquarters in 2016. Lo and behold, my teacher was my junior in secondary school.
Every Sunday as I attended class after church, I’d stare at sister Taiwo with so much awe. There was something different about her, she was so shiny and I remember saying to myself, I would like to be like her, I would like to do what she was doing.
Unknown to me, as I was staring at Jesus inside of her and I was silently praying to become like Jesus inside of her and evident in her life. As often as I attended the class and listened to God’s word from her mouth, my life was being transformed. My parents and friends could see the difference, the things I did that did not please Jesus became irritable to me. Although I had attended church for 22years of my life, I did not understand the truths about Jesus Christ until I joined sister Taiwo’s class. She broke down terms like repentance, circumcision of my heart, redemption, salvation, baptism, Holy ghost baptism into bits for people like me to comprehend. Those 8+ weeks I spent in her class, I saw the Lord lifted high and like prophet Isaiah I saw how undone I was. And by His power and help, I made a 360 turn away from the filth that I fiddled with.
Those 8+ weeks led to the salvation of my soul, those weeks brought me out of darkness into God’s marvelous light. I am super grateful for the strategy and people God used to bring me back into His kingdom. I literally started to live after I gave my life to Christ, I began to gain insight into deep secrets about life. I began to understand that I could get answers from God myself. The very first time I heard God speak clearly was shortly after my salvation. My counselor told me to ask God for the group to join instead of going to Jireh like I originallyplanned.
After a couple of days spent asking God for the group to join, He spoke. He said, Goldmine. I indeed have been greatly blessed & have found purpose serving in Goldmine Outreach Ministry.
For these and all God has done in this past five years of my life, I am super super grateful.