(Welcome to the season of weddings)
Do you believe in revelations? Do you take them as said or do you pray over them and hope for the best? Let me joggle your mind and give you some clarity.
Anne and
Bryan had been dating since their secondary school days. They were the perfect
couple; best friends, lovers and all. People envied them, people admired them.
They were the couple you looked at and wondered about what you had. Their
relationship was in its tenth year. They were both done with school and working
in very good firms. Bryan decided it was time to make her his legally on paper.
He proposed and of course Anne accepted. Their families knew each other
already, there wasn’t supposed to be any problem. Bryan’s mum decided to take
him to her church for prayers before he took that big step. The pastor goes
into ‘prayers’ says he has a revelation that Anne isn’t Bryan’s wife that his
real wife is on the way. If he gets married to Anne he would never be
successful in life and she wouldn’t bear him enough kids. Bryan’s whole family turned on Anne when they
heard. Bryan was forbidden to marry Anne, he was made to see reason and he
gave up Anne. A perfect relationship died.
Segun always
attended church. He was a zealous member. There was this lady in church he
admired. One day he decided to fast and pray so the Lord would reveal his
future spouse to him in a dream. Guess whose face came up, this lady he
admired. He went up to her and told her he had a revelation from God that she
was his wife. She told him, she was engaged and didn’t get any revelation from
God.
Lola was
tired of the single life; she was thirty and was scared her birds would soon be
fried up. She met a great guy, Paul and they fell in love. Marriage bells were
ringing for Lola. Paul loved her to bits. She followed a friend to a church after her friend pleaded and she was told that Paul was a good man but Paul’s family was bad that she shouldn’t
step into his family meaning she shouldn’t marry Paul. How was Lola going to
step away after she had found love after searching for so long?
Phyllis took
her intended to her church and the pastor told her Uche wasn’t her husband that
her husband was in the church.
I could go
on and on. I have heard a lot. I’m not trying to judge the power of revelations
or shouldn’t I? How do these revelations come about? Are they based on
prejudice and bias; maybe the person is not a church member or is from a
different tribe? God gave us freewill. Isn't doing this like going to meet a fortune teller or diviner to cast lots for you? What happened to getting married to the person and letting God, lead you on your journey together, trusting in God? And if the revelation is true, doesn’t prayer conquer all, can’t
you pray and the problem gets treated by God via prayers? They just say it and
that’s it, what the hell happened to praying about it? How do you tell when God
says this is the person’s soul mate? Does that really exist in quote? Or do we
give these men of God so much power that they can say what they please and we
believe it’s from God? What happened to praying after you get the revelation, I
ask again?
Asides my
numerous questions, what do you really think about ‘revelations’? Have you or someone you know ever experienced
one? Do you believe these revelations? I’d love to hear your thoughts on the
matter and would you let a revelation stop you?
Merry Christmas !
Merry Christmas !
Like d write up,I don't believe in revelations,Most come as a form of betrayal,Like u said wat happened prayin about it,Or God dat made u meet sm1 4 yrs was waitin 4 u 2 seperate cos of a revelation...not fair.so leep ur revelation to urslf,
ReplyDeleteWe can't really throw out the revelations seen by these men of God but we should probe further than just accept it and of cos pray. Parents do see such and could come from a wise place especially in the area of marriage. If its God,his tots for us are of gud not of evil.
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ReplyDeletePersonally to me not all revelations are true depending the type of man of God you met. This revelation has destroyed many relationships and marriages. I had a relation who had such experience but she prayed over it and continued her journey of marriage and today she is happily married with two kidsand things are going on well with her by the grace of God.
ReplyDeleteRevelations are true you can't just pick anybody you see for a spouse, you can never know the person fully that is why you need to depend on God when choosing cos He alone sees the full picture of everything . But i'm of the opinion of personal effort in asking God for the right partner, not depending on the pastor for revelations, i believe if we faithfully and sincerely ask God, He is ready and willing to show us the right person. You can also ask the pastor to join you in prayers i don't see anything wrong in that. Some of us go to God praying but we already have someone, why asking if you have already made a decision on your own. This is not easy but it's worth the struggle cos marriage is a lifetime thing, could be sweet at the beginning but the latter no one can tell.
ReplyDeleteI think revelations r beta 4 a person wn God reveals it Himself 2 d fellow involved. Its easier wn anoda pastor confirms it bt let it not be bcos we on our own go 2 d pastor 2 'see vision ' 4 us. God talks 2 evry1 individually bt majority of us r so lazy dat we don't spend enuf time wit Him so we can hear wn He speaks to us. Wn God does d speakin 2 d individual involved, its so much easier and dat way, u wld av no doubts He actually said it, nt bcos 1 broda out der is eyeing d woman wey u say u wan marry and den dey 'bribe' d pastor 2 lie to dem.
ReplyDeleteRevelations are real. Manifestation of God's plan. However I believe in predestination. Wat is revealed is already wat is destined to happen.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe all those shit.I pity those who do & I think the writer needed to say "supposed men of God" and not "men of God"
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