God and God alone. In Him we live, in Him we move and
in Him we have our being. God just helped me, l must say.
My earthly father had a problem. For many years he battled the problem
of insomnia, a form of sickness that makes one not to sleep.
Though, he
lived many years after before he died, he was a regular patient in a
neuro psychiatry hospital.
Not long after his death, l was visited in a dream by a person that
looked like him, passing the problem on me as if I was the next on line.
Some days after, l had some fever, went to a hospital and diagnosed of
typhoid.
I took all the drugs l was placed on and recovered so to say. Yes, l
went back to work that same week, though, l was still on medication.
However, the problem started from that time. l lost my sleep.
My eyes
could be shut, yet sleep would not come.
I would try to catch some sleep in the office when free opportunity came
. Zero !
Throughout the night, l would be awake, all alone.
I could not wake my husband, because l was considerate of his own challenges. Then he was working in Lagos island and had to leave home by
5am.He would wake up around 4am to get prepared.
In the nights between 9.00 and 10.00 he would get back home.
My children were small.
I would sit up in the bed looking out of the window, imagining how people
all around were enjoying their sleep.
My eyes became reddish for lack of sleep.l did not go back to the
hospital because l thought the effect of the drug would soon wane.
That was how for good two months, l lived without sleep.My head became
heavy and seemed bigger than my body.
I decided to go to my pastor, something in me resisted this.
There
were serious troubles in the church at that time.
Soon, my fingers began to shake, l mean serious shaking when l held
anything especially a pen.
I was praying all the while but solution seemed not to be near.l was afraid or do l say, l was skeptical of going back to the hospital.
One day, on my way to the office, l asked God Himself to heal me or take
my life if He was done with me.l told Him, l had trusted in Him so far,
the reason l did not go back to the hospital or any other one.l wept.
You may not believe it, l was working under a fan that was working in the highest speed,
still no dozing, not to talk of sleep.
I just called a colleague to join me in a prayer of agreement on my
case.l told her about it all.
I told God that l was fulfilling the Scriptures of prayer of agreement
with this sister, let Him prove Himself.
Thank God, HE did not take my life. He did it, not through a ‘ special’ man of God.He just
decided to honour my faith. I am not dishonoring the office of a man of GOD,I am only saying that when one man of GOD is not available when you need him,look for a believer who can stand with you;especially a more mature one.
To be frank, l least expected it to be an instant miracle. I was hoping in
the next few days l should begin to experience some changes.
Like the song says, ‘He touched me, yes, He touched me.l know that God
has touched my soul (my life,] something happened, now l know He
touched me and made me WHOLE’. To GOD be the glory. He did it, l want to tell everyone
that l sleep more, that my chldren now say ‘mummy, you sleep too much.
I am over 40years old now. If and when l take tea,
black or green, l sleep well.l am not disturbed by noise whatsoever.
This is because God’s work is perfect. What God does lasts forever. This
is now 10 years after. HE made me so as to depend on HIM.
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