Special seventeen

Born Again 🐣

  Change they say is constant.
  How true?
Don't be deceived, no one is ever in too deep to not be able to opt
out. Freedom of choice is the greatest gift God gave us.
Make the right choice.

I sat down in the pastors office sitting across him and my sentimental self couldn't control the tears that rolled down.

I and my family had met in church that wednesday and surprisingly the pastor's preaching was centered on 'curses'.

Not particularly on what had happened to me but he was preaching about 'inheritance'.

The things one could inherit from unknown ancestors. 

I was touched and shocked. One thing was sure, the pastor didn't know about my predicament.

My parents already planned to go with me to see him but that's supposed to be after the service.

Was this GOD's way of speaking to me, telling me it was not new and he's perfectly able to take care of me.

I had the urge to go out when the pastor had called out to sinners but i didn't go,  i couldn't bare to go.

The fear of how people will speculate all sorts of things about me didn't let me go.

But is it 'people' who is facing this challenge or me. I shouldn't care what people think.

That's why right now in my pastors office. I wanted so badly to give my life to christ.

To experience what it meant to give one's all and all to christ and watch him take charge of your affairs.

My parents had brought me here that wednesday and explained everything to our pastor who then said i should come the next day.

So here i am crying like a little baby.

Joanne, pastor john continued giving me the kind smile he always had on his face.

'Do you know tears do not move God, prayer does'.

I noded my head and cleaned my tears.

That's good, he said with a smile.

'Now for prayers to be answered, one needs to born again'

'Curses have been in existence since the time of adam and eve.
We became imperfect humans through them. Pain during child birth was gotten from eve the first woman to all women even today so curses being real is not something that should be doubted'.

On the other hand, God in his infinite mercies made a way.
Jesus Christ, his only begotten son.

Jesus Christ gave his life for us. Through him we are excluded from this curses.

He died so we can live and only by him can God answer our prayers.

That's why you need to give your life to christ. Believe in him, trust in him and try to live like him.

Never say you are too young to be born again.

The youth period, agile and strong is the best time to serve God.

If you're not too small to inherit a curse then you shouldn't be too small to fight the battle.

Yes sir, i want to give my life to christ and accept him as my personal lord and savior but it's hard, i said amidst another round of tears. 'i'm scared i won't be able to follow the footsteps of christ and if i give my life to christ now, no turning back, i stated.

All my life I've known about God's love,adam and eve  and Jesus Christ as a christain but hearing it so simply put precisely was eye opening.

Now that's where you are wrong joanne, being born again doesn't mean you have to be a perfect christain, pastor john replied,

'No!,it means you've decided to try and follow in the paths of Christ, what matters most is your heart being set on pleasing God and he'll help you through it all '.

I felt a sudden rush of relief fill me as i stated 'then i want to give him my all'

That's good to know, pastor john said excitedly. 'Before you make the confession, i want to let you know the vision i had while praying about you'.

''According to what the holy spirit revealed to me. Your forefather had collected dowry the day his baby girl was born from a man.

When she grew up, she pleaded with her father to complete her secondary before she's married off to the now elderly man.

Because of his love for his daughter he succumbed and beseeched the elderly man to wait.

But after her waec she ran away from home and funded herself to the university.

Your forefather was wrath and forced to pay back the dowry which was a huge amount of money.

And he laboured for it till his last breath then swore that none of his female descendant must study past secondary".

But by giving your life to Christ Jesus you are covered and saved in Jesus name.

Amen, i chorused, still bewildered by the story.

I confessed Jesus as my personal saviour repeating every word pastor john said.

Then he asked me to open to
ephesians 2:19

      "Now therefore, ye are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God ".

I was asked to say it repeatedly five times before he started warfare prayers.

I kept on saying i was now of the household of God therefore no curse is permitted to affect me.

My pastor laid hands on me and delivered me in the name of Jesus.

We parted with a scripture etched in my brain, prov 4;18

"The path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more until the perfect day".

I felt the holyspirit within me, something changed in me that day that i could never really explain.

The pastor said my sister should come the next day after school and my dad should call for a family meeting with his siblings so they can pick a date to gather and break the yoke.

Sure that will involve fasting.

But as for me i was free indeed.

  I sat down on the chair with
'the winning attitude', a book by john.c.maxwell on my legs ready to be read.

  Yesterday had been a blissful day, after the meeting I'd told my parents, they were so happy.

  We had praised and danced well during our evening devotion and this morning wasn't different.

I had prepared rice and beans which my parents and sister had scooped into their flasks before setting off.

I have decided to grow spiritually, to go after God's heart and that is why i searched scrupulously for 'the winning attitude' in dads room before finding it .

I'm used to reading romance, comedy and crime scenes soooo
in my bid to change I've decided to read more of motivational and christain books.