INSPIRING STORIES

I got this from a colleague and a friend, Pastor Otitoju-Teidi. A young boy was going home after a vigil at a Church, he walked into the midst of African traditionalists who were performing sacrifices. They were surprised at the boy’s boldness walking at that odd hour. They commanded the boy to stop where he was, he did. They were contemplating what to do with him when one of them said. “Let us sacrifice him. He will be good for sacrifice.”  The boy said “What do you mean?” Then, one of them was enraged and said “are you still talking here?” The boy said yes because He knows the WORD and asked them if they know the Word. So they asked him “what is the WORD?”. He started from John Chapter 1. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God, by Him all thing were made and without Him was nothing made that was made… ” As the boy continued, they were terrified and concluded that the boy had an “incantation” greater than their own and they asked him to go. God is greater than all. He can protect us by any means, let us know what the Bible says.

This was shared at the morning devotion which I attended last December. Some members of staff somewhere were praying for a raise in their payments. One of them went to tell their boss about the prayer and the boss said “I will prove to them that prayers don’t work”. This particular boss would ultimately sign the paper to that effect. At the meeting when the paper was to be signed. He received a call from his wife, who was in another country. The wife told him several joyful new. He was so overwhelmed with joy that when he came back to the meeting he asked for the paper and just signed. Later, he wondered why he signed it. God taught him a lesson: Prayer works.  

This story was shared by Mr. Uri, an excellent tour guide in Israel. A wealthy man took a poor man home, clothed him, fed him and made him comfortable as much as he could be without requiring any form of labour from this poor man. The poor man stayed with this rich man for a considerable period of time so the rich man built some trust in him. But one day, the poor man stole an expensive possession of the rich man (can’t remember the item now, forgive me) and escaped with it. The Police arrested this poor man and took him back to the rich man but to their amazement, the rich man said that the item did not belong to him and that he never knew this poor man. The Police were taken aback because the stolen item was so expensive and they knew that it belong to this rich man and they were aware that the poor man had been living with him. So later, the son of the rich man asked him why he said that, and the man replied that as long as the poor man loved the stolen item more than him (the rich man). He can go with it. What has the Lord given us that is more worthwhile to God who has given Himself to us? Let us reflect.