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Encounter With Religious Fanatics
Authored by Dipo Toby Alakija
God told His servant in a clear audible voice to go to the northern part of Nigeria and hold a crusade there. The man of God quickly shook off that thought though it sounded like God’s voice. He had been in the country for many years and he knew the northern part of the country was packed with religious fanatics. There was no time that the place was free from religious riots that were always engineered by Christian antagonists. He had experienced series of horrors almost every time he visited the place. Apart from that, the news about the place was enough to frighten a normal human being. He would never forget the day some fanatics had cut off the head of a kid just because he innocently used a sheet of their “holy book” to clean his rectum after defecation. The act of using a sheet of the “holy book” like that cost the lives of the boy, his entire family and a large number of Christians in the place.
‘Go to the north and preach the gospel,’ the voice commanded him again. ‘I will back you up with signs and wonder if you obey me.’
‘But Lord,’ he said as if to remind God of what He could not remember, ‘the place is full of fanatics. Many believers who were not even preaching had been killed.’
‘I am with you always,’ the voice insisted.
‘Okay,’ he gave in at last. ‘If l am killed, it’s for my own good. After all, l don’t feel comfortable in this world that is full of much evils.’
He shared what God told him with some Christians leaders but no one – not even a strong believer encouraged him. Instead, they told him what to expect. ‘The people will come, especially those who had been denied of the gospel for a long time,’ one of them told him. ‘But I’ll advise you to keep your house in order before going there.’ One of the believers who had lived in the place told him that he must not expect to come back alive. ‘I survived in the place by the grace of God. My wife and one of my sisters were killed there.’
Since no one seemed ready to encourage him, let alone to support him, he stopped telling the people about going to the north to hold a crusade. He went to the place and met with some young converts who were zealous and ready to risk their lives to help him organize the crusade.
Within a few weeks, they had secured a field where the crusade would take place. They began to publicize the crusade through handbills and even on the radio.
The meeting began with large crown attending. Most of the people were starving of the word of God. Many of those who normally fed them with the real word had been killed or sent packing. Some of the Christian leaders were either afraid or too discouraged to share the word in a meeting like that.
Among the people at the meeting, however, were religious fanatics. They were holding sticks, stones, cutlasses and other weapons. Some of these fanatics have vowed not to eat until they have butchered the man that would preach about Jesus.
The man began to preach, excited by the number of people that turned up for the crusade. He soon became conscious of the fanatics. He needed no one to tell him that his life was in danger when he said, ‘Jesus is alive!’
ENCOUNTER WITH A KILLER
He borrowed some money from his friend who was a God-fearing person but instead of paying his debt, he sent hired killers to waste his life. The battle, unknown to the debtor was quite unpredictable.
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ENCOUNTER WITH A MIRACLE
He was the only one that survived the fatal accident that claimed many lives. When he was told that he was totally paralyzed by the accident, he felt it was better to have gone into the grave with the rest. He was bitter about life until a beautiful physiotherapist gave him hope that he could walk again and even marry her. What was the basis of her diagnosis? Even then, the question of the possibility made it unbelievable, preventing him from making the first move.
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ENCOUNTER WITH LIVING DEAD
She was poisoned on her wedding day. Instead of going on a honeymoon with her husband, her enemies made sure she ended up in the grave. The enemies thought that was the end of her story but God just began His own side. Can the dead that was buried live again? This hard to believe story will make you ask, ‘is this real?’ The truth is: this is a real life experience of a Christian.
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ENCOUNTER WITH WHIRLWIND
He ran to the pastor for deliverance from the strange whirlwind that seemed so determined to wipe out his entire family. Without the protection of God, he knew he would soon be the next victim of the whirl wind. The pastor could see that he had to stop the whirlwind before it takes the breath out of him. How to get victory over it is a matter of choice between life and death.
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