09/14/2023
This is my story
I want to tell you a story of a lady who turned into prostitution to feed herself and survive. She had lost her parents a long time, while no one in her family was willing to help her. Her life became so miserable and bad that no one in the community wants to associate with her.
Whenever she is walking the road, people laughed at her and mocked her; there were times she had attempted to take her own life because she was tired of the very life she was living. She had spent nights weeping and praying that things might take a new turn for her but her case seems hopeless.
The guilt of sleeping with men to survive keep pursuing her away from God. There was even a time she decided to start attending church, but she could not sustain the decision because of the way people were looking at her, talking about her and mocking her in the church.
Anytime she wants to go out in the day, she had to disguise and cover herself so that no one will be able to recognise her. On this fateful day, her neighbour told her that a pastor came to town, and that this pastor is so anointed that all manner of miracles were happening through him.
This pastor had come to town to organise a crusade, to minister to the different needs of people. When she heard about this pastor, she decided to attend the crusade, with the hope that she can just hang out with people since no one wants to identify with her.
Then her fears came so strong, as she could not but face the ridicule of people as she walked to the crusade. She eventually went to the meeting and when this pastor started preaching, he looked at her straight in the midst of the crowd and said ‘I am here for you, because I love you’.
She looked around her to see if the pastor was talking to someone else, but the pastor took another step of coming down to where she was and holding her hands, he looked at her with so much passion and said ‘I came for you and I love you truly’. She could not believe herself because the moment people saw her, they started murmuring and gossiping, she tried to hide but this pastor held her hands and pulled her up.
For the first time, someone had cared about her and expressed it publicly. She could not understand why the pastor will tell her ‘I love you’. She could not understand why this pastor has to stain himself to move close to a dirty lady like her. As the service ended, she decided to run away, yet the pastor sought her out and took her apart and gave her money to eat and take care of herself for the week. It became the latest news in town that the pastor had fallen in love with a pr******te, but the pastor’s only response was ‘ i came for her, I gave everything up for her’.
At last, she left the hotel where she was living and became an evangelist following this pastor everywhere and started preaching to people how her life was changed and how hope was restored to her. What was her story? Her story is that she found love when everyone had written her off, she found hope when her lifestyle had condemned her to death, she told them how she was delivered of seven demons.
So many people believed her, they saw hope in their situations too. Do you know this lady? If you do, she has given me a message for you too. She said that there is a great lover that can turn your mess into a message, your scars to stars, your errors to wonders, your mistakes to miracles.
She told me to tell you how bad she was when she met this lover and that no matter how bad you think you have been, this lover wants to give you hope. Have you been disowned, rejected, mocked, scorned and cast out by people, by your parents, by your church, your community?Someone loves you and He is willing to give you a new start. He may not be able to undo what you have done, but he can close that chapter forever and give you a brand new story.
If you care to know her name, she is Evangelist Mary Madgalene!
Jesus loves you!
Aderemi Badru