(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 !