PART 15
“GHOST RUN!”
©?Opeyemi O.Akintunde
Three troubling days had passed.
Nonso had shut down about four times but the timely intervention of the doctors restored him back to life. I refused leaving the hospital, I wanted to see to the end of the matter. I prayed all the prayers I knew how to pray. I didn’t mind sleeping on the bare cold floor of the hospital. I felt my presence at the hospital would not let the Adegbile sisters or Bunmi finish their evil assignment.
“ Adenike, you need to go freshen up!” My mother had said
“ I am fine” I said
“ No you are not! You are oozing…”
“ Mummy, I cannot leave here!”
“ No one is asking you to leave here, just take a 2 hours break. Go home, freshen up and return here. Your father and I have been doing that for three days, likewise Nonso’s mother and his siblings!”
“ Nonso’s mother lives just across the street!”
“ Adenike!” My mother said raising her voice and I honestly did not have the strength to argue…
“ Ok mum!”
I left Nonso with my mum. My Dad had gone to the church, while Nonso’s mother had returned home.
On getting home, I took the much needed bath and out of exhaustion, I laid on the bed. I woke up 5 hours later..
However, in the course of my much needed rest, I had a dream.
I saw a land where I was a pastoring a church. The members were quite much. Suddenly, an odd religion surfaced and a man started referring to himself as the messsiah… Some of my members started following the new religion because the man was doing strange miracles and wonders. Although the miracles were not lasting miracles, many still fell for it… Almost all the members of my church fell for the new religion and I kept asking…
“ Why is it so easy for these people to backslide? Why is it so easy for them to throw their belief in Christ away?”
I woke up from the dream! The first thing I did was to check the time. On realizing I had slept for 5 hours , I dashed out of the house without giving my dream a second thought…
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I walked to the ICU, my parents were not in sight and neither was Nonso on the bed anymore.
My eyes were turning, I began to do a 360 turn looking for Nonso. And for the split of a second, I saw Nonso standing before me saying…
“ Adenike, I am sorry! I couldn’t fight it anymore”
I tried to stretch my hands to him but my hands caught nothing…
“ Adenike!” I heard my Father’s voice like an echo…
“ Daddy, Where is Nonso?” I managed to ask but my Father’s response of silence said it all…
I screamed so loud I knew the whole hospital would have heard me. I wanted to just die….
For days, I ate nothing. I cried all day in my room. I wanted to turn back the hands of time. I wanted to reverse back to that day, I made AdeYanju and I go to Mororo… I wanted to undo everything.
On the fifth day after Nonso’s death, I was alone in my room when I had an open vision. I was seeing Mororo in plain sight…
I saw the Adegbile sisters discussing…
“ Stupid girl, in her next life, she won’t dare the witches. This is Mororo, and it is under our guidance, Mororo must continually be in darkness and no light must come in…”
I saw Seun in his Living room…
“ God, I think I will be leaving Mororo. I have wasted my years here, hoping you will prove that you are God and more powerful than Evil, but instead every one that comes here to liberate this town ends up losing their lives or the lives of their loved ones… Is there no salvation in you?”
I saw the witch girl AdeYanju and I saw the first time we got into Mororo, sitting in the forest…
“ I thought they said you are more powerful than the witches, why are the witches winning the Christians… Will Mororo ever be free?”
As I laid on my bed watching , I heard a voice loud and clear…
“ Who will go for me? Who will go liberate my people from the claws of evil?”
“ I will Lord! Please send me!” I said crying …
I laid on the floor weeping and it all dawned on me…
“ If Mororo had received genuine salvation, they would have had the power to defeat the evil ones!”
Two days later, I had packed my stuff after saying a short prayer…
“ Lord, use me for Mororo in Jesus name”.
“I am ready to die and lose any member of my family for Mororo to be free!” I had resolved.
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“ Adenike, Where to ?” My father asked
“ Mororo! “ I answered “ And my advice is that you avoid any form of unrighteousness so that you don’t become a prey of the enemy, because nothing is stopping me!”
“ Are you crazy?” My mother said hysterically “Are you in your right senses!” My mother had jumped up at me
“ Solanke, Let her be!” My father ordered my mum…
“ Just one question, Adenike!”
I nodded in response…
“ Do you have the Strength to conquer?”
“ I will not glory in my own Strength, God will give me the Strength I require!” I replied
“ Do you know that God enough for HIM to supply you that Spiritual Strength you need to Work for Him?”
I didn’t understand my father’s question, but then he said…
“ Adenike,but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. Dan 11:32 New Kings James Version..Adenike, you can only do exploits, if you have the Spiritual Strength that only comes from Knowing God!
I was silent!
“ Adenike, I ask again, do you know God?”
To be continued
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