15/03/2025
Someone Needs this ๐
I didn't want to post today, but it's burning me inside and if you know me very well, you'll know I don't post by this time of the night...
So some time back, I was helpless and hopeless waiting for some contracts to materialize..my rent was long overdue and tiny tiny debts here and there, amounts I would normally use to subscribe data or buy meter units, I was owing some people.
Every time I thought about it, I get weak, distracted and resort to crying or praying. One of those days, I cried and prayed for help... Then I decided to go out for a walk.
Reaching outside, there was this old woman that would usually sit by the gate of their house, she called me "my daughter " and I called her "granny"
I loved to greet her with so much life and joy... But never sat down to gist with her.
On this day, I was already weak and decided to sit with her.
She started telling me about her Visa that was ready and she'd be going to Canada to see her daughter after which she'd stop in Lagos to see her other daughter then come back to Abuja to rest in her son's house... meanwhile, she was in one of her daughter's house playing with her grandchildren.
I said "wow" and she said "That's the reward of God to her for all those years she served him and suffered.
Eeh,?
She said she has been with God for over 35years now since her husband died and left her with 5kids. She suffered to raise them and raise them right.
That her salary used to be 1,500 in 1989 or so... And she was rich, but when her husband died it was like a fall from grace, she lost everything and had to start life afresh.
She kept emphasizing, God rewards his own... That she has long retired and just enjoying herself...that she cant even tell me how she survived her only testimony is "Na God , Na God"
Ah! I battled tears cause at that point I was no longer hearing granny speaking, I was hearing God reassuring me.
Then I asked her "Granny , have you experienced delay and disappointments plus debt before?"
Granny said "take your mind and eyes off your expectations and just praise and worship God...then ask him what his will is, concerning your expectations. That's all"
I started crying uncontrollably, she held my hands and prayed with me. I stood up, went home prayed and slept... And that was the turnaround for me.
I don't know why I am posting this at this hour, but if it meets the right person... I am telling you tonight.
It may look tough and impossible, but let go and let God do his will concerning the situation.
(C) Tanko Lahmi
Happy Sabbath ๐