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| Anayo Nwosu |
I had yielded to the pressure
from my very good friend to follow him to his power-packed church. He assured
me that his pastor was another Elijah and Moses in one man. We were to do an
all-night vigil. We did.
The pastor declared me enamored,
delivered, fortified and saved. Thereafter, I fell into a type of snoring
trance and something happened and I woke up. I felt duped. The Eldorado I was
promised had melted in my very eyes as two giant mosquitoes woke me up. Of
course, I pursued and killed the thieves, the bloodsuckers.
I was amazed at the volume of
blood these mosquitoes had stolen from my body and still dared to buzz with
baritone voices on my ears, causing me to wake up prematurely. Why my blood? My
precious blood! Why me, a new creature? How could this blood-sucking
"weapon fashioned against me prosper"?
Wait a minute! Have I just killed
an innocent fellow-creature depending on me for its "daily bread"?
But mosquitoes do not have good plans for me. They introduce malaria, yellow
fever and cerebral sickness into the body of their victims while feeding.
I was confused. I was
disillusioned that a blood-sucking enemy would attack a believer like me right
inside the Church where I was said to have been delivered. The mosquitoes
wanted to suckle the new me! After the
night vigil, I slept over in the Church and planned to leave about 5:30am for
my house. Even the pastor did not play with his security.
A coterie of fully armed mobile
police officers guarded the Church as we
prayed, decreed and demolished the principalities and powers. I needed to have
taken non-spiritual measures to protect myself. But, I thought that my pastor's
prayers would fumigate the place against all bloodsuckers.
After critical reasoning a day
after, I realised that the methods of preventing mosquito bites and their
consequences were not spiritual. They are scientific.
But, I expanded the scope to
metaphorical mosquitoes in my life, many of which are human. I have also noticed
that many natural and unspiritual enemies of man depend on him to remain alive.
There are others like thieves, politicians, prostitutes, boa constrictors,
Candida albicans, tapeworms that owe their survival to us, as long as we are
breathing.
I have now resolved to find
solutions to my physical, social and natural problems through research,
science, learning and hard work. No prayers, Church, or pastor can, on a
sustainable basis, solve the issues that depend on you for existence, the
problems like mosquitoes and others. Even if you are delivered from one, the
deliverance does not confer a permanent immunity on a similar situation or
different occurrence.
You can now see why the people
that brought Christianity to us pray less now. They have realised that “No Work
plus Prayer = No Result”. They think and do more while God blesses the works of
their hands. You can also see why Nigeria has not grown in wealth despite the
prayers of the zealous faithful.
I hereby preach to my "born
again" friends to please repent into hard and productive work.
It also saves and delivers
wealth.
Praise the Lord, somebody!
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