The weather is cold and breezy such a perfect Sunday morning if you ask me. Although it makes the skin look dry and makes one sleep so much but I love it any way. I dressed up hurriedly to church. I was able to meet the Sunday School - a very interactive session that i like very much. At around 9am, the service was in full swing. A lot of people showed up. I was expecting the turn out to be low as it is mostly a student church but guess not everyone wants to go home after the strike.
The praise and worship session was on and everyone sang along and danced to the sweet melody and harmony of the song the church band sang. These set of people are really talented and I must give it up to them. You can't come to my church without shaking your body or nodding your head at least. After the praise and worship session everyone one clapped tremendously. It is a customary measure of appreciation to God and to ourselves.
The service director for the day announced that a certain person will be giving a testimony and that made me think so hard. He came up before the congregation and testified thus:
"He said he has been battling with an infection that made urinating frequent and painful. It was so bad that he cried each time he feels his bladder is full because of the pain he go through. He said this went on for 5 good years. In all these time he has been visiting different hospitals who prescribe drugs that never solved the problem. It got to a point that his family told him to forget about Christian doctrines and go with them to a native doctor in their village. He grudgingly obliged and went with them. After doing all the sacrifices, he was given a concoction to rub on the particular surface for a week or so, which he did and still yet nothing changed. The thought of living with the pain all his life made him to come to the conclusion of committing suicide. He was invited to a programme which he reluctantly went to and there the pastor preached about mindsets. That very day he decided to give what he heard a trial. He told himself that his situation will go away that i won't last forever like he previously thought. Although it sounded like he was lying to himself but he held on to the new notion. With that believe he bought 50 naira antibiotics and took it for a few days and that was how the pain stopped. This is someone that has spent Hundreds of thousands trying to cure the infection but just 50 naira drugs did the magic.
When he concluded, everyone including myself stood up from our seats and shouted in joy. We did a Thanksgiving offering and our pastor warned him never to go to any Native Doctor or risk being suspended.
The service went on but without me. Being the curious person i am, my thought was hovering around and asking questions. Questions like what made this trial different from all other failed trials? Why did it take 5 years before he discovered the 50 naira drugs? Is it the drugs or God that did it? And many other questions i asked myself.. while I was thinking of the answers to these questions, i remembered a book i read which says that "our subconscious minds lies the secret to all our desires be it good or bad". The verse Luke 10: 19 which says that God has given us the power and authority to tread upon lion and adder and nothing will ever harm you made sense. The book also defined that faith as believing to be true and correct even when your reasoning knows that it is actually false. The verse Matthew 14:22-23 where Jesus was walking on water and Peter walked half way but started drowning because his sense of reasoning got the best of him made even more sense and then i answered my own questions. This brother took this long to get his healing because he did not believe or had faith. Even the native doctor couldn't help him because of that too. It was not about the money or cost of the drugs. It was about his Mindset and Believe system. The healing he was looking for was right there but he didn't notice it until after 5 years!
Although I didn't get to listen to the Word of the day from the pastor but at least i was able to come to terms to a life changing Truth. I'd put this into practice in my daily and see what comes out of it.
I'll end with this question. What are your beliefs?
Happy Monday, everything in this life is mindset, when your mind is set on it, your faith will come alive and this would give you that ultimate determination to do all things