Nigerian Facebook user and internet marketer Francis Vincent Olowu who denounced God and never believed God was the source of his strength has recounted his ordeal and retraced his steps..
The Sapele born husband and father who lives in Awka, Anambra state has revealed that he regrets his action.
It’s a long one but you will enjoy it. Read what he wrote below..
I was talking to a friend yesterday and he was like
“I saw your post on Facebook and I understand people do get emotional
when they are in trouble hence saying things… Hope it’s real”
Note: This is a long post but I will plead you read to the end.I made a post where I acknowledged God and lots of reactions came up so
I think I should make some clarification to what you don’t know yet.For my gist to make sense, I’ll quickly want you to know that I was a
Christian before I backslided into the world after taking the
WORD-POISON and I have realized my mistakes not to you but to my God and
find my step back to Him.
Things were going well through God’s
blessing and I was taking all the glory such as “I made it, I just
bought my car” instead of “God did it, I bought a new car”. Who I be to
take God’s glory?
Then the trials begin and instead of trusting
in God, I was trusting in my strength, knowledge and friends to help
out. Though I tried all my efforts and friends also did their best but
without the key ingredient; GOD, in the hustle, I was just running after
shadows and my friends best yielded no result.
Then I was
arrested for debt by Federal SARS to live with hardened criminals, the
likes of Kidnappers, Armed Robbers, Ritualist, Cultists just to mention
few, tortured, starved for 15 days and I have to beg for garri to
survive.
This man Jerry Akinbila
was my Cell Mate and the first to show me mercy by giving me garri to
drink and I will eat in tears everyday. Thanks for the love in there Sir
Jerry.
I was opportuned to be in a Cell where they preach and
pray almost all the time and 3 days after being in the cell the Man of
God in the cell preached using the Prodigal Son. I have heard the story
before but in that condition, I saw myself in the story. I had
everything, my Father was so kind to bless me with whatever I wanted
before I deviated and decided to start doing it on my own. I took my
portion and was living well until it all finish. I had the opportunity
of going back to Daddy (God) when things are going down, but no I was
adamant.
But I thank God, he decided to chastise me because He
loves me and I found myself in that situation, I cried bitterly after
God revealed those things to me as we prayed that day. Ask for His
forgiveness and found the Peace I have lost for a very long time. The
Cell becomes a comfort zone and revelation center for me as I grow my
love for God. Then he said “No one comes to me unless my Father draws
him”… Father drew me and kept me in there to stand firm before coming
out.
To those saying” Did he mention God?”, I wasn’t an Atheist
neither have I ever question the existence of God, the only things I do
is tackle and argue the word of God which I’ve been fed with all my life
by trying to disqualified its authenticity and purge it out of my
heart. I was only against bible teaching then just because I wanted to
run away from the truth I know.
But they say lies can live for years, but TRUTH shall always prevail.
So I am not just acknowledging God but also acknowledging Jesus as my Lord and Saviour and I am not ashamed of it.You can be whoever you want to be; atheist, moralist, agnostics, or
whatsoever. Things might be going proper for you, you might try to buy
yourself happiness and feel you are enjoying life than the so called
Christians.
You might even try as hard as you can to proof the
Bible wrong, the thing is, the Word had been there before you were
born,many people had tackled it from day one. They are gone and are
never remembered as we all will die but the Word still lives and
continue.
There is no risk in believing, forget the threat of Hell first, stop trying to proof its existence.
The world on its own is vanity, the happiness we find in it is vanity,
your folly is vanity so is your wisdom. Your smartness will die with you
so your brilliance.
What lives forever is your innermost peace of Good relationship with God.I have decided to follow Jesus… It’s my choice and there is no
turning back either in poverty or in riches. And I trust him to guide
and grow my love for his Words day by day.
Happy New Month.