Once upon a time, there lived a very powerful man of God in the central part of Nigeria, pastor Raphael together with his wife Kate, headed the Gods will church together before death untimely took them away. Prior to their death, they were both very dedicated to the salvation of mankind unlike the majority of their counterparts who only preached wealth and riches without preaching salvation. Pastor Raphael founded the gods will church after he graduated the pastoral school and served diligently for years under his mentor pastor Dike of the glory reigns church.
Pastor Raphael and his wife were loved by every member of his church, reason being that he not only preaches salvation but also practices what he preaches. He took the footstep of Jesus who after teaching the crowd of 5,000 petiole decided to feed them with bread and fish. He was Very successful surgeon and with the money inherited from his business mogul parents, he was able to establish his own hospital. He was a very generous man, who often fed his members with food and treated those who could not afford their hospital bills for free.
In fact, he is well known all over the nation up till his death.
They had a daughter lovina. Lovina was the complete opposite of her parents for she was arrogant, proud, wicked and worst of all stingy. She would often bully people and take away their gifts after being gifted by her parents.
Her parents did everything to make her change her character but it seems all their efforts did not yield any visible result.
Lovina continued to grow up in her strange character and soon, it was time for her to go to the university. At this point, her parents were already planning to send her to school abroad to see if she is away from home. Her character might change for the Better, little did they know they were just wasting their time and resources because it was barely 4 months abroad and she was sent back home for misconduct.
Her character was really a thing of worry for the minister and his wife as they will often hear side talks on several occasions about their inability to train their daughter well yet wanting to train other people's children…it is safe to say most acclaimed members of the church were there for the sole purpose of all the free gifts they often receive from the church and not because of their salvation nor their love for the church.
Lovina would often party and club, dressing scantily and almost half naked, not worthy of a minister's daughter at all but in all these, her parents did not give up nor dispaird.
One fateful day, her parents traveled for a crusade they were invited for and never returned.
On their way back, they were met with a ghastly motor accident and none of them could survive. It was a terrible loss to the members of The Gods will church and the entire community at large because their kind gesture did not only stop in the church.
Lovina even though wayward, loved her parents the death of her parents really gave her a tough time. At this time, she was already in one of the universities in the country and so had to come home in preparation for her parents' burial.
It has been two whole years and everything has almost gone back to normal, the church activities continued since one of the assistant pastors was heading the church but of course, things can never be the same.
Lovina on her part, continued with her education and her lifestyle because even worse since her parents were no longer there to disturb her with advice according to her.
One fateful night, she and her friends were preparing to go to a party. Their intention for going to this party outside the school was for them to meet rich men whom they heard were coming in from other states. They already receive first hand information about getting hooked up with these men which meant more money for them.
But the afternoon before the party would be held, lovina was in her sleep when she saw one of them being killed and pieces. She woke up screaming and attracting the attention of her other friends in the house.
…what is the problem lovina, why are you screening from your sleep as if being chased by a deadly masquerade?
Are you sure you don’t need malaria drug, which one is to be having nightmare this hot afternoon Abi na afternoon mare we go call this one,
They all made gestures of her one after another and laughed treacherously.
See girls, I don’t think this party we are planning to go is safe, I may be everything bad but you all know I have this gift of foresight and I sure this is not just a nightmare or afternoon mare as you all are thinking. I think it’s a revelation and a warning, lovina said, looking worried and uneasy.
Girl come on, we understand you are a pastor's daughter but if you feel you are this holy, please go to a church and leave us to enjoy our lives the way we want, they thundered at her and went about in preparation for their coming party.
Lovina on her part became really scared as this was not the first time she would be seeing something which looked more like a warning.
She has on several occasions seen things which look like warnings and when she ignore them, often get into trouble. And this time around, it involved a life and she was not ready to risk it. What if the person to die before they could escape happened to be her.
Finally, it was late into the night and the preparation for the party was in Ernest, but lovina was seen laying on her bed casually.
Girl, aren't you going for the party one of her friends Sophia asked holding her makeup kit.
Why not leave her alone, she already said she wouldn't be going just let her be, joy chipped in.
Lovina ignored the mockery in their tune and once again warned them to forget about the party.
But they all turned deaf ears.
You are sounding like that because even though your parents are dead, they left you enough money that can last you a lifetime so it’s understandable for you to feel or sound the way you are sounding. What about us? Can’t you see that if we don’t work, there won’t be any money for us to feed, pay our school fees or take care of ourselves, Joy said and continued with her make up.
They all ignored her and went ahead to attend the party but like they say, the fly who refused to heed to advice, will follow the cops to the grave.
It was very early in the morning the next day when two of her friends came back banging at the door.
“Lovina open up” pls hurry”
They continued to bang heavily on their door.
Lovina, who was still asleep, was struck by the continuous bang on the door and rushed to open it.
“They are all dead lovina joy and Sophia are dead and while we were running, Cindy was also captured, we barely escaped with our life intact and can’t tell if Cindy is still alive or not, “
They narrated amidst tears the event of the night.
“How I wished we listened to you, all these wouldn’t have happened, they will all be alive today Nicole said amidst hot tears.”
Lovina couldn’t say a word as she was lost in deep shock. She was waiting to be proven wrong by her friends returning safely from the party and now that that did not happen, she became scared because it’s now very obvious that God was on her case.
After the death of her parents, there has been commotion as to who will succeed the late pastor and his wife in heading the church, lovinas name wasn’t even mentioned because one she was a woman and two everyone know about her wayward lifestyle not wording of holding such prestigious position in the church,
But on several occasions, she has received this revelation but in her sleep and in a dream that she would head the church.
Lovina cried and promised God that she would change her ways and do his will. She also apologized for all the years she had not behaved well.
According to her promise to God, Lovina began to make efforts to turn a new leaf, she now attended a fellowship in her school to the surprise of many. She will often hear whispers Of people making gestures of her new found life, she never allows any of those to get to her as she was determined to serve God. She really wants to make up for all the years she disappointed her parents. She wished they were still alive to see this day.
It has been five whole years and lovina was already done with her university education and also done with the pastoral school, it was time to take over the gods will church as instructed by God himself.
There were fights and disagreement from every corner as many felt she was just a woman and not worthy of such a position but at the end, the will of God prevailed.
Lovina's reign as the pastor of God's will church was a great one as she took over from where her parents stopped in their fight for salvation of souls, helping the needy and living an exemplary life. She would later get married to one of the pastors she met during her days in the pastoral school and together they were blessed with two children and they lived happily.
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