Now, last year, it was the end of last year, God placed this burden in my heart to go and take his word to my grandmother back in the village, my maternal grandmother
And the burden was so heavy that I could not resist. But what happened after I went and visited her shocked me and was beyond my expectations
Now I want to share with you what happened, exactly what happened, and the lessons that I learned from the experience that I had when I went and visited her
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here by an accident. So towards the end of last year, as I was doing about my business, I'm an
evangelist in my local church and we go out, we minister to people, we go door to door, fishing
out as this is the mandate, this is the call that God has given us. The Holy Spirit started talking
to me and he was telling me go and take my word to your grandmother i only have one grandmother
the maternal grandmother the the the paternal grand grandmother has passed to the next glory
so i have this one remaining grandmother the maternal grandmother who is turning 90 years
this year so i went ahead and started praying over it this was around november and from november
last year 2023 this when i received this burden and it was so heavy that each and every time i'll
be reminded to go and take his word to her so i purpose that when i go home during the december
holidays. I will plan and visit her. So I went home December, it was December, but it was after
Christmas. So I couldn't find time to go visit her. But on 2nd of January this year, I purposed
to go and visit her before I leave home. So I went and I found her and we sat down. And during my
I was looking for a way to introduce her this message that was on my heart
that had been placed in my heart for so many, for quite some months
And I asked her question Grandma do you usually pray And the response was a shocking one She told me she never prays
So I started talking to her the message that God had sent me
And through my conversation, she openly told me that she had not received the salvation of God
She had never been saved. She was a very good grandma. And she was loved by neighbors and everyone
But she had no relationship with God. So I told her that God has sent me so that you may know him
And you may give him your life. And you will never regret
And after a lengthy discussion, she accepted to surrender her life to Christ
So I led her into a repentance prayer. and she gave her life to Christ
Then I prayed for her. After praying for her, we joined hands together
She was so much happy. She was so much excited to know that God loves her
She had never heard such things. And for the first time, I saw tears linger from her eyes
She was so moved that God loves her. So after that, I left the compound after having a moment with her and assuring her of the gift of salvation that God had given her and the eternity that awaits her
And then I went home. I traveled back to where I worked
So a week later, I receive a call from home from my mother
And this is what my mother tells me. Your grandma has come looking for me
And this is what she says, that from the day you prayed for her, she sleeps like a baby
Her body used to ache. She was in pain throughout her life
For so many days, she has been under the boundary of pain and diseases
And she says, from that day, she slept like a baby. The pains disappeared instantly from that day
and again she says that throughout her life she constantly had bad dreams nightmares
when she sleeps at night and she says from that day the bad dreams the nightmares that usually
haunted her disappeared forever and she is now free and sleeps like a baby i was so much
and glorified God. And I'm sharing this testimony so that we give glory to God. As the Bible says
we overcome Satan by the word of our testimony and the blood of the Lamb. When you glorify God
for what he has done, the glory and honor goes back to him. So I'm so much happy that God was
able to use me to bring salvation to my grandma. And right now she's totally okay, she's totally
free and she is encouraged in the Lord. And I remember telling her now that she has only one
mandate She has no much to ask from God because God has given her everything Only what she needs to do is to thank God for what he has done in her life
And I remind her that from today, begin to pray before you go tonight
Each and every day, make sure you have time with your maker
And pray and thank him for what he has done for you
There are some lessons that I learned from this incident that I want to share with you
There are major three lessons. Now, the first lesson is God really intends us to reach our family members
In as much as you are out, we are all called go and fish, to go and work
But many a times we go out to strangers. Little do we remember that we have our family members who are perishing
and they need the salvation that the stranger so much needs. And it is a call that in as much as we in the body of Christ
we believers try to reach out to sinners and preach the message of repentance and salvation
We should also consider reaching out to our family members because there are so many members of our families
who have no one to preach to them, who haven't heard this message, this good news
who haven't had a sit down with a relative, with someone, and talked to him or her one-on-one about the love of God
the salvation that God brings through the blood of the Lamb. Until I began God talking to me and sending me to my grandmother
I had no idea that there was such a dire need. Yes, I was praying for my family members
But had I reached out to them one-on-one? No. I had not done that
So it is a wake-up call to us. Now, the second lesson I learned that it is upon us to heed the call of God
You see, when I started receiving this message, I had a purpose that when I go home, I'll go visit her and share the message with her
But one of the reasons why I took time was because I didn't feel worthy
I didn't feel worthy going to her. In fact, I was like, why couldn't God use maybe my mother to reach out to her
Why couldn't God use someone else who is mature enough? Because I'm a grand son to her
Why couldn't God use someone who is more senior, who is more closer to her, who is more senior
And I battled with this thought because at one point I thought like I should not go
I should tell my mother to go. But I remember that the message was given to me
It was not given to my mother. Had the Lord wanted to use my mother, he would have talked to her and she would have obeyed
So because he had used me, the message had been given to me
I had to take a bold step to go and fulfill that purpose
And I remember this verse where the Bible tells us that the least in my kingdom is greater than the greatest in the kingdom of darkness
In some cases we feel we are least. We shouldn't be the ones doing this or that
But when God calls you he has given you the power and authority to accomplish that which he has started in you And I learned that it is always good to obey the call of God to be obedient to his voice
Now, the third and the last lesson that I learned is that whenever you hear a call from God
whenever God gives you an assignment, it is your sole purpose to pray over that thing or over that
which God is sending you to do. When I received this call to go and visit her in the month of
November, I began to pray that Lord prepare her heart. And in fact, as I was going, I was praying
God go ahead of me. So I didn't know that throughout as I was praying, indeed God was preparing her
heart and God was setting the momentum for this to happen. And it was because of that, that we were
able to see great results. We were able to see a celebration in heaven. We were able to see success
in the mission and and everything brethren begins from a point of prayer i realize that if you want
to see any great success you have to begin from a point of prayer you don't just wake up because
god has sent you somewhere you have just to pray you have to wrestle in a prayer for you to be able
to walk under an open heaven for you to be able to go and become an authority because whenever
god is sending you there is a resistance and and and i see indeed there is a resistance because even
just taking a step and going i was almost giving up because i wanted god to use my mother and
whenever god asks you gives an assignment the enemy is all is always ready to interfere
because he doesn't want someone to receive salvation and i've learned this throughout
evangelism sessions that whenever we go out in the field we should have a time to prepare in prayer
that God will prepare people will make the mission a success and when we go out on the ground after
spending time in prayer we usually see the results so that was a testimony that I felt it was worth
this sharing and I know and I hope God is going to give in more and more miracles in the in the
near future in the coming future each and every day is a miracle to us and as they come I will
be sharing on this platform now I want you to write to me kindly reach out to us if you have
any question so that we may be able to answer in the next videos or when I make another video
But until next time, be blessed