“I came back from America and when the man of God saw me, he told me that the devil has laid an ambush for me. He said that if I do not take my time, that I was going to be stranded in Nigeria. I could not believe this because I had so much money with me and was going back to America once I am through with Nigeria. I was in the company of a girl whom I was sleeping around with that very day. She discouraged me from taking seriously the warning because she was a chronic sinner and a drug addict. Before you know it this girl deceived me into taking cocaine and all my dollars finished. Friends deserted me and I was left all alone completely stranded. I was now hanging around Fela’s shrine till one day that God saved me. I was sitting in front of Fela’s shrine, that is the old shrine and thinking about my life. My thought went to what the man of God told me when I came back from America. I was pondering over everything he told me and how I have messed up myself. At that time the girl was already mad and taken to her people in chains. All of a sudden, I heard my name from a car that just packed before the shrine. It was like I was dreaming.
I looked and it was the man of God, Witness Kenpaul. I had lost contact with him and was thinking where I can see him again. I ran to the vehicle and greeted him. He said, “what are you doing here”? I answered him that what he warned me about has happened that for the past two years, I have been hanging around shrine because I had no house and everybody has rejected me. I have not taken my bath for a very long time and was smelling. He asked me to enter the car which I did and he took me to his house. He said the Spirit asked him to take that way which he never knew the reason.
At his house, I took my bath after a very long time and he gave me a cloth to change with. I began to stay in his house and going through prayers. By the Word of God, I was constantly hearing, I overcame drug addiction and became a new person. One day, as we were praying the man of God said that Jesus came to him and told him that He will take me back to America in no time. I was not going anywhere but was always in the house. That week I wanted to go and see somebody that came in from abroad with a message for me. This was the first time in the years I was in this bondage that somebody could remember me. As I left the house, just behind where the man of God was living, I saw a group of old friends where they sat together and were drinking. They were surprised to see me and my new look. They offered me a beer and I said no that I am now born again. The man of God taught us never to hide our identity if we do not want Christ to deny us. They began to laugh and after laughing one of them said: “Are you joking or what?” I said, “do I look like one that is joking?” They now offered me malt and I began to preach Christ to them.
At this juncture, a friend of theirs was driving, by the way, all the way from Surulere and saw them and packed. We were all together and I told them that I was leaving that somebody has a message for me from abroad and I want to see how I can work out my going back to America. That their friend said that he has all the papers and even has changed money as in B.T.A for his travel and that he does not want to travel again at that time. He said if I do not mind that he will give everything to me. It was like I was not hearing him well and that was how it all happened. The Lord gave me that favour. Meanwhile, the big one was that as I was in the parlour in Witness Kenpaul’s house, I fell into trance and Jesus appeared to me and said: “If you glorify the glorifies, you will be basking in everlasting glory”. This was all He said and disappeared before I recovered. This was about three days before my meeting these people and the first time I was leaving the house to anywhere. I avoided all associations to escape any temptation. I went to the man of God and he explained to me what the Lord meant that if I will live to His glory, do things to His glory and the rest of it, He will glorify me forever.
The person that asked me if I was interested in that help never knew me before. I ran down to the house to tell the man of God when the guy promised to give me those things and he asked me to receive the offer that it is the Lord’s favour at work. I got back there and they were still waiting and I told the guy I was interested. One thing that surprised me was that this guy drove back to Surulere and brought everything and handed over to me. His friends were surprised and I told them to see what the Lord can do. This was how I got back to America after more than five years of wasting away in Nigeria. It was on eagle’s wing and the Lord began to bless me. Praise the Lord.”