In June 2020 I had an encounter with an unknown Apostle. He said many things to me that day but the one that most captured my mind and which later proved true is that God wants to use me to bring healing to others. He said God was going to commit a ministry into my hands. It was the third time I was told that by two different prophets and at separate times. I never paid attention to that particular prophecy because at the time it didn’t pacify my desire and none of those two prophets attempted to explain what the call was about and how it was to manifest, and so I was unperturbed until this stranger repeated it. According to him, it was his assignment to help me discover my call, and he would only leave when it is done. True to his words he kept a constant weekly visitation with me. He gave me prayer assignments on weekly basis and told me to be sensitive in my spirit. For months he would ask me if I was getting anything. I did early morning cries but later got tired and stopped when I wasn’t sensing any difference. In January this year when he visited I told him I wasn’t getting any revelation and that I feel am just wasting mine and his time. The expectation for a revelation was mounting pressure within me and I needed to take a break and move at my own pace. He agreed for me to take things gradually but before he left me that day he said I must never doubt everything he told me that all will happen as he said. I went back to God to help me understand what was happening in my life. I have lost a true sense of purpose, no job yet, no marriage, or even a promising relationship and now a call upon my life that I could not understand. I prayed with these scriptures Isaiah 43:7 and Rev. 4:11b. I didn’t feel like my present life was glorifying him and if it wasn’t why am I still living it. It was either he took my life away or changed it so that his glory would reflect through my life.
God is indeed faithful because I had an encounter that proved his words to be true. On Wednesday, the 10th of February, 2021, I attended a church programme. This would be my first time attending this particular programme. All through that day something within me kept telling me that I should attend the programme. So I did. The programme is a weekly prayer for the sick. The scripture that was read that day was Genesis 1: 26-31, talking about being fruitful, multiply and subdue the earth.
The priest started by reminding us that we are created in the image of God. He asked us to pray to God to redeem anything that has affected our image and to examine our lives with the purpose of our existence.
That programme and this particular scripture was God’s response strategy to me. My life has been unfruitful, I wasn’t doing anything purposeful and I am subdued by frustration.
